Tweets of the Week: Vices during COVID, China's Grindr, Pokemon, Cultural Revolution, Warring States, and Tankies
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Air-Moving Device@AirMovingDevice
Vices in the Time of Coronavirus | 疫情中的黄赌毒
I analyzed police reports (administrative penalties 行政处罚) of prostitution, gambling, and drug use in Zhejiang province during the pandemic.
Nature is healing!
1:02 AM · Jun 27, 2020
35 Reposts · 110 Likes
Simon Rabinovitch@S_Rabinovitch
Hottest Couple of the Year, 2018
3:22 AM · Jun 26, 2020
546 Reposts · 3.8K Likes
Xeno³ 🛸🛸🛸@x3nome
New Pokémon Grandpa sighting in #Taiwan. Pure cyberpunk 🛰️
Photos by Ryan Hello via FB. m.facebook.com/groups/6478913…
4:02 PM · Jun 23, 2020
774 Reposts · 2.31K Likes
Eddie Du@Edourdoo
Talking about frenemies.
CCTV, knowing that CNN has more credibility than itself, posts an entire CNN report about Beijing's anti-coronavirus measures to its Douyin account.
2:02 PM · Jun 25, 2020
1 Like
Bill Kerr@william_r_kerr
A scary paper for our scary times … Kato and Sparber (commons.colgate.edu/econ_facschol/…) study the reduction in the number of #H1B visas in 2004 on NEW student enrollment into US schools
6:38 PM · Jun 23, 2020
39 Reposts · 92 Likes
tianyu m. fang@tianyuf
"Several times each year, Geng had to play a cat-and-mouse game with local authorities who often shut down his website, though there was nothing illegal about homosexuality — ironically, Geng was then a deputy division director in the Qinhuangdao police force." @RadiiChina
2:33 AM · Jun 24, 2020
2 Reposts · 24 Likes
Geng founded Blued, the Chinese Grindr equivalent. Full article here.
Tony Lin@tony_zy
Li Zhensheng, the Lucie-Award winning photojournalist who took over 100,000 photos during cultural revolution, reportedly passed away in New York. It’s impossible to revisit CR history without the massive archive he left behind while working as a reporter at Heilongjiang Daily
3:21 AM · Jun 23, 2020
533 Reposts · 1.12K Likes
Thread with more fantastic photos and Tony’s reflections on meeting him in person.
tine.@tineneil
tankies be like
3:58 AM · Jun 22, 2020
90 Reposts · 466 Likes
WarringStates@StatesWarring
If you're 25-30, and your main circle isn't frequently discussing:
~ Conquering Ba and Shu
~ Penal reform
~ Cultivating the wastelands
And is instead discussing:
~ Righteousness and benevolence
~ Universal love
~ Rites and music
Then it's time to elevate your circle
The Wealth Dad 💰📈 @thewealthdad
If you're 25-30, and your main circle isn't frequently discussing:
~ Stocks
~ Real Estate
~ Opening businesses
~ Committed relationships
~ Fitness
And is instead discussing:
~ Getting high/drunk
~ 1 night stands
~ The "good ol'e days"
Then it's time to elevate your circle
6:18 PM · Jun 21, 2020
54 Reposts · 239 Likes
Wenrui Wu@WenruiDonovanWu
How do you coerce drivers to slow down? Put a scarecrow in the middle of the road, of course. LOL
12:02 PM · Jun 23, 2020
1 Like
XIRAN, Chinese History Educational Shitposter@XiranJayZhao
people be like "sorry if my English is bad it is not my first language" and then proceeds to write a whole master's thesis on an internet post
9:46 PM · Jun 22, 2020
193 Reposts · 1.39K Likes
Lenny Bogdonoff@rememberlenny
“But what happens when things do not get better each and every year? What happens when the Americans suffer a stinging, public setback? What happens when the rest of the world reaches out and touches Americans on terms other than America’s”
From The Accidental Superpower.
4:22 PM · Jun 25, 2020
2 Likes
William Yang@WilliamYang120
It is equally bizarre that he was once a Knight fellow at Stanford, a “Freedom Forum Fellow” at @uhmanoa and a World Press Institute fellow. Yet he tweets out content like this in public.
4:37 PM · Jun 20, 2020
58 Reposts · 160 Likes
James Palmer@BeijingPalmer
@WilliamYang120 @uhmanoa he wasn't given those posts because of personal merit, it was because of the belief that we had to 'reach out' to Chinese media - there were a lot of shitty conferences where people would nod along to ideas like 'our idea of press freedom is different.'
4:41 PM · Jun 20, 2020
3 Reposts · 39 Likes
Mulboyne@Mulboyne
Japanese mascots, the early years.
11:47 AM · Jun 21, 2020
262 Reposts · 1.53K Likes
Chenchen Zhang🤦🏻♀️@chenchenzh
📢📢 folks! The first episode of #时差 #podcast is now LIVE! On race and racism in the Chinese context with @dikaioslin @tingguowrites @andyhanlunli. Apologies for the audio quality. I did my best.
其他几个人都还好，三土那边噪音特别多有点遗憾🥺
buzzsprout.com/1171871/424985…
buzzsprout.com
时差#01 中国语境下的种族话语和种族主义（上） - 时差 in-betweenness
10:51 AM · Jun 21, 2020
59 Reposts · 186 Likes
The Chinese-language podcast the world needs!