Jens Wiëchers
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🗣️he/they
💼Herding Shibes
🧑💻information security, data science
📚int'l relations, IHL/LOAC, statistics
❤️ISO 8601 💜ISO 216 💛ISO 3166-1
This isn't even something I'm actually particularly interested in, but merely cultural osmosis and quickly reading up on what I sort of knew via Google and drivingfordeco.com/vanished-new...
I mean, okay, I am interested in this, in the "I'm interested in everything" kind of sense.
I mean, okay, I am interested in this, in the "I'm interested in everything" kind of sense.
Vanished New York City Art Deco: The Persian Room of the Plaza Hotel
The Plaza Hotel's legendary night club. The Persian Room would be remodeled after only eight years and completely renovated in less than twenty.
drivingfordeco.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This isn't even something I'm actually particularly interested in, but merely cultural osmosis and quickly reading up on what I sort of knew via Google and drivingfordeco.com/vanished-new...
I mean, okay, I am interested in this, in the "I'm interested in everything" kind of sense.
I mean, okay, I am interested in this, in the "I'm interested in everything" kind of sense.
And again, there's such a rich and interesting history even just in how these redecorations and changes take place, including in terms of cultural appropriation, orientalism, but also just hard business logic, favouritism as well as just pragmatics of space use.
November 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
And again, there's such a rich and interesting history even just in how these redecorations and changes take place, including in terms of cultural appropriation, orientalism, but also just hard business logic, favouritism as well as just pragmatics of space use.
Also, the (better) love interest dropping some history on the Persian Room cocktail room in the Plaza, which was a premiere night club in New York for decades and had substantial cultural (and thus now historic) significance.
November 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Also, the (better) love interest dropping some history on the Persian Room cocktail room in the Plaza, which was a premiere night club in New York for decades and had substantial cultural (and thus now historic) significance.
The movie obviously boils this down further, to something that seems even more trivial: finial d'arbre (Christmas tree toppers) — but honestly, that, too, is kind of an interesting microcosm of the overall subject, both in practice, and as a focal point in a movie
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The movie obviously boils this down further, to something that seems even more trivial: finial d'arbre (Christmas tree toppers) — but honestly, that, too, is kind of an interesting microcosm of the overall subject, both in practice, and as a focal point in a movie
Again, sure, it's not curing cancer, but most things aren't — & so many people pretend to be interested in social and cultural history & "the war on Christmas" and bla, bla, bla... and yet we far too rarely ask how these traditions get perpetuated and shapes by major actors. 🤷
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Again, sure, it's not curing cancer, but most things aren't — & so many people pretend to be interested in social and cultural history & "the war on Christmas" and bla, bla, bla... and yet we far too rarely ask how these traditions get perpetuated and shapes by major actors. 🤷
- Business logic behind seasonal labor, supply chains, and tourism draws.
- How iconic buildings participate in city-level branding.
- The role of large/iconic city institutions such as hotels in shaping (city-wide and global) holiday traditions.
Etc.
- How iconic buildings participate in city-level branding.
- The role of large/iconic city institutions such as hotels in shaping (city-wide and global) holiday traditions.
Etc.
November 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
- Business logic behind seasonal labor, supply chains, and tourism draws.
- How iconic buildings participate in city-level branding.
- The role of large/iconic city institutions such as hotels in shaping (city-wide and global) holiday traditions.
Etc.
- How iconic buildings participate in city-level branding.
- The role of large/iconic city institutions such as hotels in shaping (city-wide and global) holiday traditions.
Etc.
- How do luxury hotels signal status through holiday displays?
- How does that contribute to consumer expectations around decorum and spectacle.
- Standardisation of holiday imagery and commercialisation/repurposing of ritual.
- How does that contribute to consumer expectations around decorum and spectacle.
- Standardisation of holiday imagery and commercialisation/repurposing of ritual.
November 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
- How do luxury hotels signal status through holiday displays?
- How does that contribute to consumer expectations around decorum and spectacle.
- Standardisation of holiday imagery and commercialisation/repurposing of ritual.
- How does that contribute to consumer expectations around decorum and spectacle.
- Standardisation of holiday imagery and commercialisation/repurposing of ritual.
I'm 100% serious, btw. Sure, it's not curing cancer, but in terms of social history, it's a specific but interesting window in a number of questions, such as how public-facing institutions curate seasonal identity & how such identify shifts with aesthetic norms across decades.
November 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I'm 100% serious, btw. Sure, it's not curing cancer, but in terms of social history, it's a specific but interesting window in a number of questions, such as how public-facing institutions curate seasonal identity & how such identify shifts with aesthetic norms across decades.
This is probably what it will more usually look like.¹
*ducks and covers*
1 Okay, no, the trousers, shoes and shirt are terrible and from a time when I weighed ~40kg more (aka: 6 months ago :s)
*ducks and covers*
1 Okay, no, the trousers, shoes and shirt are terrible and from a time when I weighed ~40kg more (aka: 6 months ago :s)
June 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This is probably what it will more usually look like.¹
*ducks and covers*
1 Okay, no, the trousers, shoes and shirt are terrible and from a time when I weighed ~40kg more (aka: 6 months ago :s)
*ducks and covers*
1 Okay, no, the trousers, shoes and shirt are terrible and from a time when I weighed ~40kg more (aka: 6 months ago :s)
1. And that's before we start talking about wearing them like sports coats with different fabric trousers and polo shirts.
2. Forgot suspenders and dress shirt at home. 😅
2. Forgot suspenders and dress shirt at home. 😅
June 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
1. And that's before we start talking about wearing them like sports coats with different fabric trousers and polo shirts.
2. Forgot suspenders and dress shirt at home. 😅
2. Forgot suspenders and dress shirt at home. 😅
1. I know that models don't predict nuclear winters, but this is a joke.
June 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
1. I know that models don't predict nuclear winters, but this is a joke.
Er weiß, Perfektion ist Illusion, aber Gartennutzflächengestaltungsfreude ist gelebte Praxis.
June 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Er weiß, Perfektion ist Illusion, aber Gartennutzflächengestaltungsfreude ist gelebte Praxis.
"In Anbetracht des Gartenzwergumfallunfall suchte Herr K. im Geräteschuppenordnungssystem des Schrebergarteninstandhaltungsvereinsheims nach dem Multikomponentensekundenkleberbehältnis, welches er zuletzt im Rahmen des Terrassenverschönerungsprojekts nutzte.
June 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"In Anbetracht des Gartenzwergumfallunfall suchte Herr K. im Geräteschuppenordnungssystem des Schrebergarteninstandhaltungsvereinsheims nach dem Multikomponentensekundenkleberbehältnis, welches er zuletzt im Rahmen des Terrassenverschönerungsprojekts nutzte.
/me versucht jetzt gerade eine möglichst lange 98 Wort Geschichte zu schreiben. :D
June 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
/me versucht jetzt gerade eine möglichst lange 98 Wort Geschichte zu schreiben. :D
Waren es sehr lange Worte? 🤔
June 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Waren es sehr lange Worte? 🤔
Ah, someone took the time. Yeah, I looked into this briefly when someone posted this on Twitter and it's a completely absurd number making absurd assumptions.
June 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Ah, someone took the time. Yeah, I looked into this briefly when someone posted this on Twitter and it's a completely absurd number making absurd assumptions.
Catsplosion, but raccoons.
That's truly biblical.
That's truly biblical.
June 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Catsplosion, but raccoons.
That's truly biblical.
That's truly biblical.
(Mostly because: what am I even supposed to say... either nothing or a twenty page rant ... & I'm just tired... 😮💨)
June 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
(Mostly because: what am I even supposed to say... either nothing or a twenty page rant ... & I'm just tired... 😮💨)