Justin | ジャスティン

[桜理 @MutsuAnjin]

Westerners realising that Japan is a country in which people live and work and not just a tourist amusement park

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

Absolutely brilliant column from @duncanrobinson this week.

[Matt Grant @mattgrantsky]

I just want to be able to afford a house

[Colin Millar @Millar_Colin]

London is portrayed as a dystopian hellhole of lawlessness and no-go zones by people who have never set foot in it. A narrative turbo-charged by social media disinformation designed to create fear, division and hate (while ignoring actual issues of affordability & absenteeism).

[Hiroshi Suzuki @AmbJapanUK]

Boddingtons
Cream of Manchester
“By’eck, it’s gorgeous”!!!

[Fionn Viteža @fionnviteza]

FINALLY some Proper English Patriotism, none of that Woke Reform Nonsense 🚮

[Phelan O @Pwneill]

Bourdain did a tribute to Waffle House over Vivaldi. He talked about how In n Out is better than C*caine. He celebrated Michelin Stars and neighborhood joints equally. He despised food porn. Idk who "Snoozy Weiss" is but they sound lame and ignorant.

[Louis Theroux @louistheroux]

The Settlers, the doc I made for the BBC, is now available to stream in the US on BBC Select. It couldn’t be more timely with the announcement today that the Israeli govt has approved construction of 22 new settlements in the West Bank - which are illegal under international law.

[Guy Jincarde @jincarde]

Five years ago the "This is a pen" scientific demonstration was broadcast on TBS to highlight one reason for the spread of Covid across the Anglosphere.
https://t.co/86AXu74o1k

[Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind]

This is going to be pointed out again and again for the next four years. And then, when lots of people vote for them anyway, it’s still going to somehow be everybody’s fault but theirs.

[Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused]

It’s more Louis Theroux’s great signature move – pseudo-naïveté knowingly utilised to get people to say exactly what they think, or exactly how things are

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

omg the speech scroll actually says “garlic is my life” in german !!

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Wonder what Austin is doing differently than other cities, guess we'll never know

[Neil Hauer @NeilPHauer]

Visited the beautiful Armenian village of Kessab today, high in Syria's coastal mountains on the Turkish border. Kessab is essentially the last living piece of historical Western Armenia - of Armenian towns that existed across the region for centuries until the 1915 genocide.

[Stan's Account @tristandross]

remember to be kind to yourself today. keep looking at your phone, keep scrolling. keep neglecting your basic needs, descend further into the darkness. do not engage with the people in your life telling you to log off. they don't understand you like we do, they never will

[TasteAtlas @TasteAtlas]

Learn more about the best offal soups in the world: https://t.co/HyLwtZyGed

[Law in Japan @Colin_P_A_Jones]

Second High Court judgment holding that not recognizing same sex marriage is unconstitutional, this time from the Tokyo High Court.

Note that all of these cases are suits for damages alleging tortious legislative inaction. So the "unconstitutional" ruling is part of the reasoning leading into a decision as to whether the plaintiffs have suffered damages or not. That is the cause of action but seems so important that the news flash doesn't even mention where the high court came out on the subject!

Ultimately these cases will be consolidated into a Supreme Court case, but even if the court finds the lack of same sex marriage to be "unconstitutional" - the only relief requested is damages. More likely result is that the Supreme Court denies relief (damages) in a ruling that says "not unconstitutional at the time the claim was filed, but might be the next time a claim is filed" - a message to the Diet to change the law else next time it might decided differently.

In my framing these cases (and other constitutional cases brought as legislative inaction tort claims) are all ultimately directed at the Diet.

[thebes @voooooogel]

>play three brilliant moves
>opponent fucking dies

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

You do not get to do the Iran pre-1979 thing with Lebanon. People wear all kinds of clothing. Bars line up and down the block in Beirut. There are gay nightclubs.