and I'm not arguing against protesting in public spaces - that is also what they are for! - I was irritated by iatee saying that blocking traffic IN AND OF ITSELF is a good thing. it's not.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
I think it's pretty obvious that Occupy is past the point where overly combative/rhetoric tactics are going to win them any support
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
ugh i'm getting into an armchair argument i have no business being in and afaict HOOS does an awesome job of it day in and day out. what can i say, i'm in a people-suck Dr-Morbius type of mood, or a people suck Dr Morbius type of mood, whatever.
xpost oh yeah i don't think blocking traffic is inherently good at all.
― nuhnuhnuh, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
that's what ppl were objecting to/mocking, it kind of had nothing to do with OWS
― OH NOES, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
I hate cars. I don't drive to work. I take the bus - which uses city streets. Streets have long existed as the central organizing principle of urban space since well before cars were invented. people living/working in cities should absolutely feel entitled to using streets to get from one place to another, regardless of what vehicles are being used. I am a hardcore fan of public space, they are there for everybody to use, and they are funded by everybody for a reason.
I'm 'not gonna get into this' but the distribution of public space in a place like DC in the past 100 years has shifted radically towards 'cars and parking merit 80% of a street's width. it is, very much, a zero-sum game and one that isn't unrelated to OWS stuff as much of the country simply has no appropriate space to 'occupy' because most places don't have shared streets or very visible/centralized public spaces. that's one reason why it's much more feasible to protest in a european city and ps, they block traffic there too it just doesn't put the whole country into crisis mode.
― iatee, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
OWS didn't fuck up downtown traffic nearly as badly as the White House xmas tree lighting ceremony did last week. WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE???
― I have died., Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
at least Obama's visits to NYC to raise millions from the 1% drive ppl out of midtown
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
oh man i died has died
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
can somone please put anonymous' corny ass news reports with guy fawkes masks to bed? because really, turning reality into some kind of cartoony sci-fi max headroom shit makes the message CHEEZ AS FUCK.
― akm, Thursday, 8 December 2011 09:15 (twelve years ago) link
when we're getting live reports from the ground from "unknownvector" and "circleApunk" i'd say reality is already pretty sci-fi
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Thursday, 8 December 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
Occupy Snowcrash
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 8 December 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
thinking more
http://craphound.com/littlebrother/littlebrotheruk.jpg
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Thursday, 8 December 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
boston set to get evicted (again) tonight
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, watching those Anonymous video communiques makes me feel like I'm on a Johnny Mnemonic ride at a theme park, which isn't an entirely unpleasant sensation, to be honest. But probably not super helpful in terms of getting across the seriousness of what's in that defense bill.
― la mujer de spirea equis, Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
ha cory doctorow just tweeted "this is like a lost chapter from 'little brother,' except it actually happened: http://myoccupylaarrest.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-occupy-la-arrest-by-patrick-meighan.html "
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
^^ just forwarded that link to my siblings to read. Worth the time.
― Aimless, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/12/nyu-offering-occupy-wall-street-classes.htmlvs.http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2010/08/18/nyu-has-highest-student-debt-in-the-nation/
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
JoshHarkinson ·MoreLaw and Order Special Victims Unit has set up a replica of the occupation of Zuccotti Park at nearby Foley Square for a new episode.
#lol
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
@DiceyTroop ·MoreYup! Law and Order built us a new home, so we're moving in! See you all at Foley Square! Stay cool; treat it like it's ours. #Mockupy #d9
hahahahahah paging baudrillard
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
"They've delivered us this perfectly wrapped Xmas present with a bow on top.They rebuilt our camp. How could we not go and take it?"
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
meanwhile in boston
http://distilleryimage3.instagram.com/58a17222222111e19896123138142014_7.jpg
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.livestream.com/occupyboston
here we go
feels like a lifetime ago that i did this the first time
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
livestream: easily over a thousand people
http://yfrog.com/nxptfezj
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
@c_________ nowGoing out the way I came in- defending my media tent. #OccupyBoston
my fuckin girl
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
there's a marching band playing "which side are you on"
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 05:07 (twelve years ago) link
@diymediadotnet ·MoreSo two guys livestreaming from their phones run into each other at #occupyboston. "We just exploded the Internet," says one in greeting.
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
@nicoles ·MoreChants of "NYPD does not respect law and order!" as cops rush in. #mockupy Retweeted by #OCCUPYWALLSTREET
lmao <3333333333333333333333
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
boston:
"the police have said that they will not clear the camp tonight"
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 06:13 (twelve years ago) link
fuck yes
― screwy lobsters and mice blights (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 9 December 2011 06:16 (twelve years ago) link
in all seriousness though i wonder if it's gonna be a moot point when the students leave town in a week anyway
― screwy lobsters and mice blights (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 9 December 2011 06:20 (twelve years ago) link
no yeah i mean
i go out of town next thurs to the following tues and i'm terrified we're gonna get hit while i'm gone
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 06:26 (twelve years ago) link
and i have a sense bpd are just waiting til 4am or whatevet
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 06:29 (twelve years ago) link
@dailyrev ·More@OccupyWallStNYC Can you evict a fake idea? Can you fake-evict an idea? Can the occupiers at the perimeter move to arrest the NYPD inside?
seriously this is making my entire life
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 06:36 (twelve years ago) link
@jopauca 26sLivestreamer: "Are these barricades yours or the sets?" NYPD: "I don't even know. They don't look like ours. I don't know."
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 06:37 (twelve years ago) link
i am loling harder than i ever have in my entire life
robin is going home in boston--she would not go home if she didn't think boston was safe
boston is safe
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 06:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/2011_1207why_meninos_wary_of_ousting_occupiers/
this is actually kind of insightful from the boston herald (!):
“(The mayor) expects the judge to come down his way on this,” the source explained. “And when she does, he’ll do nothing. At least not right away.
“He obviously expects the weather to get brutal soon. And that will make it harder and harder for them to stay, especially with the ban on any winter tents.”
So, exasperated though he may be, Menino will wait on a judge and then wait for winter to start feeling like winter.
― screwy lobsters and mice blights (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 9 December 2011 06:41 (twelve years ago) link
also having lived in boston for as long as i did, i wouldn't put it past menino/the bpd to make a big spectacle of themselves even if the simpler thing to do WOULD just be to wait for the students to clear out for the holidays and take a bunch of occupiers with them (as the article alludes to, the bpd have also had some pretty prominent, erm, crowd control issues over the past decade or so)
― screwy lobsters and mice blights (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 9 December 2011 06:43 (twelve years ago) link
@JeffSharlet ·MoreSo it was all a ruse: @occupyboston head fake, NYC #mockupy, and meanwhile @occupyphoenix really is being raided. livestream.com/OccupyPhoenix
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 07:14 (twelve years ago) link
whoa boston getting raid now maybe
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
Remember to get you some sleep, hoos.
― Aimless, Friday, 9 December 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
boston evicted this morning, 46 arrested
― screwy lobsters and mice blights (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 10 December 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
tonight they arrested boston people FOR HAVING A GA IN THE PARK
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Sunday, 11 December 2011 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
so much for the 1st Amendment, RIP.
Our city council is voting tomorrow on whether to extend the camp's permissions.
― sleeve sandbox, Sunday, 11 December 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
deets?
― river wolf, Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
Staten Island vs Cheney tomorrow night:
http://occupystatenisland.org/content/protest-dick-cheney
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 December 2011 03:51 (twelve years ago) link
also there are some folks out west raising a ruckus tomorrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGqncu3wlEI
#D12 is the hashtag
http://westcoastportshutdown.org/
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
GA =?= general assembly?
Sorry, but I'm having a hard time moving this one into standard english.
― Aimless, Monday, 12 December 2011 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
yup, general assembly
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Monday, 12 December 2011 07:06 (twelve years ago) link
holy hell you guys the hashtag is on some speed-of-light shit
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link