Tweets of the week: Fireworks season has arrived

Plus, outrage and heartbreak for Uvalde

Every week we at Brooklyn Magazine curate (some of) our favorite or more poignant tweets from the previous seven days. This week was a particularly brutal one. But it was also marked by daily life trudging on with all of its absurdities. We’re all tired and heartsick. We also need to blow off some steam. These are our locally sourced tweets of the week ending May 27.

Growing up during the crack era in public housing in old Brooklyn, I endured violence, poverty, abuse, etc. Our safe space were schools. What happens when that is no longer the case. We are seeing that in real time! Children and teachers shouldn’t have to live in fear at school!

— Jack Monell, PhD, MSW (@jackmonell) May 25, 2022

Literally every mother I know in Brooklyn, NY is sending money to Beto’s campaign right now.

— Jaime Caldwell (@jaimecaldwell) May 25, 2022

man one day you’re swiping on tinder in brooklyn, next thing you know you’re living in oklahoma where you have fewer rights than a gun… life comes at you fast

— Ava Wilder (@AvaWilderWrites) May 26, 2022

it’s “why are they fireworks going off rn” season in brooklyn

— albanian shen yun⁷ ☭ (@pinqlips) May 20, 2022

’tis the season of checking twitter to see if there are indeed fireworks going off in brooklyn right now

— sophia mark itkin (@SophiaMark) May 20, 2022

Tough but fair sidewalk commentary here in Park Slope. pic.twitter.com/3pbVuLZaAj

— (@stribs) May 21, 2022

Walking around the Park Slope side of Prospect Park 6-8 AM on a Tuesday a perfect way to see the top 3% of Type A people in the country in their glory

— Matthew Perpetua (@perpetua) May 24, 2022

final boss of tinder is greenpoint possum girl pic.twitter.com/4FHoJTENof

— Ezra Marcus (@ezra_marc) May 22, 2022

I am so offended by this being correct.

Alt: A map of Brooklyn with Williamsburg to Bushwish circled and labeled “software engineers” and the Park Slope/Gowanus neighborhoods circled and labeled “product designers” https://t.co/VW7vliN8yn

— Tregg (@Treggify) May 26, 2022

Found the worst left turn in New York City: off Hamilton onto 2nd Ave in Gowanus. You’ve got three lanes of traffic coming down from that clusterfuck BQE on-ramp intersection on 3rd, plus an off-ramp from the Prospect, all sending a more or less constant flow of cars (con’t)

— willy (@willystaley) May 20, 2022

The most unrealistic thing about #broadcity is that Abbie lived in Astoria and Ilana in Gowanus and they managed to be besties. Like how? with that commute?

— EB (@Eatwithesen) May 21, 2022

All over Park Slope pic.twitter.com/BfYqnRycEp

— I wish he’d Nick Dougmore (@toomuchnick) May 21, 2022

Gowanus’in hard. pic.twitter.com/dXSbV9USnh

— (@MulletFarm) May 23, 2022

at a party in Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/AgiOJ2RbVc

— Deb JJ Lee @ IN LIMBO preorders 6/1 (@jdebbiel) May 26, 2022

Everyone who lives in Greenpoint knows “the Phil Collins In The Air Tonight guy,” the neighborhood guy who drives slow, opens the driver side door, and blasts Phil Collins’ “In The Air Tonight” from his van, and everyone loves him!

— Rick Paulas (@realrickpaulas) May 21, 2022

Gorgeous 1 bedroom in Greenpoint for just $600/mo. Most common solution to the whole “no shower” thing is just a membership at a local gym. pic.twitter.com/9UV8RSodxT

— Noah Goldberg (@Noah__Goldberg) May 24, 2022

I *will* be showing up to the opening of the Crown Heights Union Market today pic.twitter.com/8u81wK9W7p

— Daniel D’Addario (@DPD_) May 23, 2022

There’s a Thai restaurant in bedstuy called beds Thai and I’m absolutely going to order from there just cause of the name

— jiawei (@Weltyyy) May 20, 2022

I miss doubles. I miss roti. I miss rice & peas. I miss buss up shut. I miss proper curry chicken/goat. I miss tamarind sauce. I miss my beauty supply store. I miss the noise (sometimes). I miss you Flatbush.

— Relax. Relate. Retweet. (@KennedyKeyonce) May 23, 2022

I’m a little late but it’s still #AAPIHeritageMonth! Here’s my aunt, grandma, and mom in Williamsburg (Brooklyn) in 1965. My grandparents immigrated in 1948 from Guangdong province.

I am forever grateful for their difficult journey (by boat!) to an unknown land for a better life pic.twitter.com/rPycqxGbGX

— John Wise (@AstroAhura) May 24, 2022