#lifeinbrooklyn — Public Fediverse posts
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Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-26-26
I have a rough three-day work-stretch ahead of me, but the weekday Pook-Emu Bee links streak must continue (I will however compromise on feature images today). 1. Brainless TikTok trend causes $2,000 in damage to SoCal home (Daniel Farr for the New York Post. August 26, 2026.) States and localities should consider sentence enhancement provisions for crimes committed for social media consumption. 2. EXCLUSIVE: US Investigators Have Proof That UNRWA ‘Social Worker’ Caught on Tape […]https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-08-26-26/
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Toothpaste Expiration Dates (NLJ Link)
This is the 59th entry in Nicholas A. Ferrell's long-running Justin and Justina dialogue series. Inspired by a true story (N.A. Ferrell, who is me writing in the third person, bought things at Lot Less), Justin and Justina discuss toothpaste expiration dates. Very exciting stuff.https://social.emucafe.org/newleafjournal/nlj-toothpaste-expiration-dates-04-03-26/
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Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-22-26
The daily Pook-Emu Bee links were off yesterday thanks to Newsletter Leaf Journal 272. But with no new newsletter coming until next Saturday, the Pook-Emu Bee returns. If you enjoy the (almost) daily links and commentary, you can also follow via feed. 1. Awesome Ghibli Howl’s Moving Castle figure is also a puzzle and an organizer (Casey Baseel for SoraNews24. March 22, 2026.) I saw Howl's Moving Castle back in high school after class one day when a friend brought it in and we used one of […]https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-03-22-26/
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Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-18-26
I continue my perfect daily Pook-Emu Bee links stretch. If you enjoy the (almost) daily links and commentary, you can also follow via feed. 1. Japanese onsen egg maker from 100-yen store Daiso needs to be on your shopping list (Oona McGee for SoraNews24. March 18, 2026.) It sounds like a great deal on paper but the hidden costs caution me, a resident of Brooklyn, New York City, from pulling the trigger. 2. Rune Factory, Story Of Seasons 20th Anniversary Site Updated With Illustrations, […]https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-03-18-26/
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Mid-March Snow in Brooklyn (2021 and 2026)
At about 4:00 PM on March 12, 2026, a friend of mine who lines nearby in Brooklyn sent me a message on Delta Chat: it's snowing. I turned my head to the right to look out my window. Indeed, it was snowing. The snow would stop and start again. As of 5:12 PM, it is not snowing. This snow in March reminded me of an article I published on NLJ five years ago titled A Brief Mid-March Snow in Brooklyn. Then, like today, snow unexpectedly fell from the sky in March. While I remembered writing the […]https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/mid-march-snow-in-brooklyn-03-12-2026/
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Things I Learned: Berlin’s Road Salt Ban
I am used to seeing road salt in New York City before and after it snows. A couple of years ago (definitely during the Eric Adams administration), I recall having noted remarkable amounts of road salt in the street near Atlantic Avenue in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. We are in the midst of what I would describe as a subpar snow clean-up, and perhaps coincidentally, I have observed less salt than in other recent snows. But while I have come to expect road salt, I learned from Brussels Signal that my […]https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/berlin-road-salt-ban-02-11-26/
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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/protecting-new-trees-in-greenpoint-brooklyn/
Mary Frost of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported that “[t]he NYC Department of Parks planted 200 new trees in Greenpoint and Williamsburg over the past two weeks, with over a thousand more will becoming to [Council] District 33 within two years…” [Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 11, 2025]. City Councilman Lincoln Restler, who announced the new trees, noted that the young new residents of northern Brooklyn will require maintenance:
Planting trees is just the first step, Restler added, urging locals to pledge to ‘adopt’ one to water and keep healthy and to check out a tree map showing the newly planted saplings.
I do not spend much time in either Greenpoint or Williamsburg, although I have written about both on The New Leaf Journal (see e.g., Donut Fender in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and BLOB DYLAN Seen in Williamsburg (May 2025)). But having granted that I do not spend much time that far north, I have enough of a feel for Brooklyn and areas like Greenpoint and the trendier parts of Williamsburg to note a curious omission in Mr. Restler’s statement. Mr. Restler wants residents to work together to water the new trees. I would be concerned about how residents water the new trees. The quality of dog owners and dog behavior in Brooklyn fell off a cliff beginning in 2020 and shows no sign of improving.
#brooklyn #dogs #greenpoint #lifeInBrooklyn #nyc #trees #williamsburg
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Sharing Handwritten Review of the Els Pet “Spaceship”
https://thenewleafjournal.com/sharing-handwritten-review-of-the-els-pet-spaceship/
I found a negative review of a “smart” automated litter box left outside in Brooklyn, New York. I re-print and share the review along with my review of the litter box’s website.
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Hip Green Smoothies For April Fools
https://thenewleafjournal.com/hip-green-smoothies-for-april-fools/
Justin has noticed that the “cool” people walk around with unappetizing green drinks in clear cups. This inspires in Justin a plan to have his shake and drink it too.
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Carroll Gardens Library Renovations
A short report on reports about the temporary closure of the Carroll Gardens Library with original photographs.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/carroll-gardens-library-renovations/
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Choosing to believe that the big fireworks display I hear going on outside my window is for the New York Liberty clinching a trip to the Finals 🤷🏽♂️ 🎆 🗽 🏀 #LightItUpNYL #WNBA #WNBAFinals #NewYorkLiberty #LifeInBrooklyn
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I saw a copy of Tom Cantor’s Changed, a self-published religion conversion story that makes the rounds through an unsolicited direct mail campaign, sitting on a step in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Why might I care? Over at The New Leaf Journal, I published what I hope was a humorous article on the cover design of the book after receiving a short-lived copy in July 2022. To my surprise, the article performed very strongly in terms of page visits in December 2022 and January 2023, which I inferred was a result of the direct mail campaign, before becoming a proverbial non-entity shortly thereafter. While I know that many people were weirded out about receiving Mr. Cantor’s strange book, The New Leaf Journal would benefit from his resuming his strange pastime with abandon.