Has anyone written about how macho conservative fashion is now identical to what was once broadly described as urban “hipster” in the early 2010s? Styled beards and mustaches, pomade hair, skinny jeans, chunky accessories.
Which is funny because that usage of “hipster” was mainly suburbanites making fun of people who flocked to cities after the GFC for the recovery, not the first wave of gentrifiers of 2000s who wore American apparel and listened to Matt & Kim. These guys listened to Stomp Clap Hey
Feb 24, 2024 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Also I’m gonna make a thread of every lift the bucket meme I could find:
“I won’t learn anything during the three month probationary period,” referring to the first three months of training at a factory job. Implication is you get hired, slack off for three months, then quit.
“Sooner or later, the workers on the assembly line at an evil factory will all become bucket lifters,” implying that eventually everyone will quit their jobs rather than continue working.
Jan 9, 2024 • 26 tweets • 10 min read
This is Chongqing, my favorite city in China. It’s a truly special place. Less than a kilometer from this area is a packed migrant neighborhood where people peddle their wares in a massive textile market or look for odd jobs. Most are legally second class citizens in the city.
One of the amazing things about CQ is the verticality, its like HK on steroids. The migrant textile market was itself a sort of labyrinthine maze built into a series of commercial and residential blocks built into the hillside, a rhizome between buildings and mountain
