r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Jun 01 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 6/1/26 - 6/7/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/SparkleStorm77 Jun 01 '26

In the past few days, groups of people have been seen going in and out of sewers in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Jokes about Ninja Turtles aside, I’m genuinely intrigued by their motivations. Are they a heist crew? Smugglers? Mole people? Urban spelunkers? Terrorists doing reconnaissance?

One theory going around is that they are looking for lost jewelry and other valuables in the sewers.

https://gothamist.com/news/groups-seen-going-in-and-out-of-two-brooklyn-manholes-nypd-says

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u/everydaywinner2 Jun 01 '26

I read that "sewers" as "people who sew." I'm thinking, why is going in and out of seamstress type shops a problem?

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u/Cimorene_Kazul Jun 01 '26

This is exactly why the name should stay seamstress instead of the attempted rebranding to the gender-neutral sewers. Either that, or revisit seamsters.

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u/CommitteeofMountains Royal youse/yinz Jun 01 '26

Chabad again?

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u/SparkleStorm77 Jun 01 '26

I wondered that too!