They do. This is basically just for funsies and I have no idea why they’re reporting it.— Daniel Festa (@_danfesta) June 29, 2021
explain the world in one tweet
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
What’s the best concert you’ve ever been to?Curtis Mayfield at the Wingate Concert Series. At that concert there was a rainstorm and the lights fell on Curtis Mayfield and they actually paralyzed him at that concert. He died a few years ago, but it was an amazing concert before that happened. Just so unfortunate.― adam, Friday, June 25, 2021 8:01 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Curtis Mayfield at the Wingate Concert Series. At that concert there was a rainstorm and the lights fell on Curtis Mayfield and they actually paralyzed him at that concert. He died a few years ago, but it was an amazing concert before that happened. Just so unfortunate.
― adam, Friday, June 25, 2021 8:01 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah I saw this too. Pretty deranged stuff.
― treeship., Tuesday, 29 June 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
Go Go Garcia
― calstars, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link
Adams claiming the results look suspicious, sounding like another New Yorker I remember
― treeship., Tuesday, 29 June 2021 22:38 (two years ago) link
Huh. I don't remember if I ranked Garcia. That may have been a mistake.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:16 (two years ago) link
Tabulating the incomplete rankings when absentee ballots are not yet out is just a recipe for provoking more confusion and outrage when late mail ballots skew progressive, as they have done to a huge degree in Seattle for years. It allows headlines about a “comeback” in the days after Election Day but it’s just an artifact of which votes are counted when.
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link
The ranking complicates this logic, but if the 16000 vote gap were in a two-way race the person trailing would need 70,500 of 125k (56%) of outstanding ballots, which is within the realm of possibility. So whoever this fucker is could still lose.
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:25 (two years ago) link
Remember six months ago when we were all doing this for individual counties in Pennsylvania, good times
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:26 (two years ago) link
I can't do the math but I wonder if there's any chance the absentee ballots could put Wiley back ahead of Garcia.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link
*supposedly* the districts featured heavily in the absentee ballots lean garcia, but who knows. (not sure about wiley tho.) and yeah releasing results piecemeal like this is absurd
also why the fuck does this take so long? it's a million votes; entire european countries count this shit in a matter of hours, not weeks
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
Generically the issue in the US is late postal votes. In New York specifically the problem is that the boe is a patronage mill of people who get out of bed at like 2 in the afternoon and can’t count to 100.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:40 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyregion/nyc-voting-election-board.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:41 (two years ago) link
absentee ballots weren't even due until today (as long as they were postmarked by election day)
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:42 (two years ago) link
It’s always great when “bungling” is in the headline
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:44 (two years ago) link
Lmao
The Board of Elections appears to h ave taken down its ranked-choice tabulations from earlier today pic.twitter.com/xBjOuK3mhh— Dana Rubinstein (@danarubinstein) June 30, 2021
A lot of people have been blowing the whistle on NY's election administration for years, but this is the most botched election results reporting by an official agency I've ever seen in the U.S.— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) June 30, 2021
We are aware there is a discrepancy in the unofficial RCV round by round elimination report. We are working with our RCV technical staff to identify where the discrepancy occurred. We ask the public, elected officials and candidates to have patience.— NYC Board of Elections (@BOENYC) June 29, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
What was wrong with the old style of voting, like where everyone gets one vote
― calstars, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 01:07 (two years ago) link
Lots of things rly
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
pee after sex or you’ll get an rcv— vacation ember 🐺 (@embernic) June 29, 2021
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 01:23 (two years ago) link
Here's a treat of a story about being an NYC poll worker:
Oh boy. Gonna break my twitter silence for a hot minute to talk about this election. I was a poll worker at a site that will remain nameless because I'd like to be allowed to do it again. Buckle up, buttercups, we're on an express elevator to hell, going down... https://t.co/t4IJRpHvvU— every cop is a policy failure (@Dr_Memory) July 1, 2021
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 1 July 2021 22:03 (two years ago) link
oh god.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 July 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
made it about 10 tweets through that thread before closing my laptop in anger
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Thursday, 1 July 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
I honestly don't understand the commotion about RCV. I thought it was obvious and easy to navigate. Yes I know everyone says it will be harder for "the elderly" which I'm sure that's true for some but there are mentally alert elderly people too. What I *do* know is that elected officials who had been in office for multiple terms and had budgets for community outreach DIDN'T DO COMMUNITY EDUCATION early enough, probably because some of them were trying to stop it from happening.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 1 July 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
oof
Eric Adams: 50.5Kathryn Garcia: 49.5--Fin--https://t.co/qGzrF0xeVf— David Freedlander (@freedlander) July 6, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
Looks like Wiley's votes went 2-to-1 to Garcia, but still wasn't enough.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 22:49 (two years ago) link
Very annoying
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 23:30 (two years ago) link
That's an 8400-vote margin with 139,459 inactive ballots. Dammit.— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) July 6, 2021
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 23:31 (two years ago) link
New York has had a Black mayor. New York has never had a female mayor. This is a much closer result than I expected.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
Yuck
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 02:11 (two years ago) link
bleahhh.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 11:57 (two years ago) link
So you think there is a way to use stop-and-frisk that isn’t abusive?Well, there’s a word that’s missing in there. It’s called stop, question, and frisk. So 2 o’clock in the morning, you look out your door, you see a person standing in front of your house. He places a gun in his waistband. You go to call the police, I hope. That police officer responds. He needs to be able to question that person, “What are you doing with that gun?” If we’re telling police officers you can’t question people, we are jeopardizing the safety of the city. Police officers must follow the rules to be able to question if there’s reasonable suspicion that someone is carrying that firearm. That’s not what we were doing. We were stopping and frisking people based on their ethnicities and based on the communities they were in. That will never happen under my administration.
Well, there’s a word that’s missing in there. It’s called stop, question, and frisk. So 2 o’clock in the morning, you look out your door, you see a person standing in front of your house. He places a gun in his waistband. You go to call the police, I hope. That police officer responds. He needs to be able to question that person, “What are you doing with that gun?” If we’re telling police officers you can’t question people, we are jeopardizing the safety of the city. Police officers must follow the rules to be able to question if there’s reasonable suspicion that someone is carrying that firearm. That’s not what we were doing. We were stopping and frisking people based on their ethnicities and based on the communities they were in. That will never happen under my administration.
Greeeeat
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
What a dumb answer. That's actually responding to a call, it doesn't have anything to do with stop-and-frisk, and the only reason to say it in response to that question is to avoid saying you're against stop-and-frisk.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
"Obviously we should be able to STOP someone who just fired gunshots and then FRISK them to see if they have a gun! So therefore I don't think we should completely end stop-and-frisk!"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
"stop, question, and frisk" = it's fine to stop and frisk someone as long as you interrogate them also
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
Which, i mean, they always do anyway
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
he was vocally against stop-and-frisk earlier in his career, maybe this'll be one of the many campaign promises he breaks en route to tammany hall 2021
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
Shahana Hanif, the councilperson i voted for appears to have won. https://www.shahanafrombk.comLander and Williams seem to have won handily as well. Adams seems a putz but generally the voting at the borough and district level seems progressive and positive. i have hope.
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
Eric Adams dined this evening at Rao’s with John Catsimatidis and Bo Dietl pic.twitter.com/bV0LPiPQc5— David Freedlander (@freedlander) July 9, 2021
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 9 July 2021 02:34 (two years ago) link
I read that for a moment as Eric Adams died this evening
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 July 2021 03:38 (two years ago) link
This guy is not good.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Friday, 9 July 2021 12:17 (two years ago) link
don't panic, he was just trying to negotiate a way to get vinyl back on hbo
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Friday, 9 July 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
That show is not good.
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Friday, 9 July 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
does kinda seem like a show that eric adams would like, though
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Friday, 9 July 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
I should watch one episode of that now that I have HBO Max. Just to see if it's really as bad as people say. (I already hate most "prestige TV," so I'll likely hate it even more than other people did, but my morbid curiosity is strong.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 9 July 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
People on Twitter are eulogizing the Astor Place Kmart. It never meant anything to me but apparently it was a very weird Kmart and people liked to rendezvous there before going out on the town.
― Josefa, Monday, 12 July 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
Lovely eulogy (from 2018, slightly premature) by ILM's own AlexInNYC:
Once upon at time, Kmart stood out like a cow pie on a prayer rug. Now it’s basically just a field of cow-pies, to use an incongruously rural analogy.
https://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2018/01/sunset-on-the-astor-place-kmart-.html
― o. nate, Monday, 12 July 2021 14:50 (two years ago) link
it was a weirdass kmart and everytime i went in there it felt like entering a retail tardis
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 12 July 2021 15:28 (two years ago) link
Alex otm, mosly. RIP. I didn't live down there but didn't mind it, occasionally had a need to go in there and enjoyed seeing it from the subway platform.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 July 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
Ha, forks.
My only time there was Christmas shopping with my wife and looking for legos for someone. Let's just say I've seen swap meets in rural PA with a less discarded and depressed vibe.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Monday, 12 July 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link