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funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

Hey I know that guy! @wdavidmarx.bsky.social

This is one of the most intense pieces of reporting I’ve ever read. It should be a movie. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

Very interesting development www.highsnobiety.com/p/kapital-lv...

What's the one thing you really need before coming to #Japan right now? A flu shot I just got mine today. The surge is real If you think, Japan doesn't have sunscreen or influenza.... They have both. In winter, influenza might be slightly easier to find. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

The Nissan-Honda deal isn’t perfect - but like the set of wheels you have, it’s the best that’s available. My latest from yesterday on one of the most extraordinary comings together of Japanese companies in recent memory. Free to read: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The best taiyaki shops in Tokyo! www.tokyoweekender.com/food-and-dri...

McDonalds delivers its very first Unhappy Meal

Visited Zoshigaya Cemetery in spring. Unable to find Natsume Soseki's (1867–1916) grave, I took a chance and followed this cat, Soseki's novel 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘢 𝘊𝘢𝘵 having sprung to mind. This obliging denizen of Zoshigaya posed for photos while leisurely showing me the way 🐈

Apropos of nothing, I feel like this moment has a lot of untapped meme potential.

I interviewed Shinsuke Nakada of the up-and-coming Japanese brand UNLIKELY for Carhartt WIP about their second capsule collection www.carhartt-wip.com/en/journal/n...

ICYMI: Sanrio is always up for new and interesting collaborations for its characters. (Case in point: the recent amazing Junji Ito collab.) Somehow, though, I don’t think they’d do an official collab with the Ukrainian military. And yet...

Hey corporate media, Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.

Every dad gift ideas list is like: Scotch rocks, socks that are also a knife, bacon wallet, hammer subscription

Japan’s astonishing industrial gamble to restore semiconductor dominance is transforming parts of Kumamoto and Hokkaido, and proving the truth of the old saying: If you build it, they will come. My (lengthy) latest on Japan’s chip cities, free to read: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

As I note in this piece, we've actually seen this weird mishmash of ridiculously wealthy businessmen and dipshits whose main qualification is loyalty to the president about a hundred years ago. It was the Cabinet of Warren G. Harding and, hoo boy, did that not turn out well.

So, we’re going to ask Tulsi Gabbard all about her support for Bashar al-Assad, right? She’s not going to cruise through confirmation without the world knowing why the hell she ever backed him, right?

I’d forgotten how bizarrely hypnotic this is.

1995 was your year. You were an idol, but became a serious actor in Love Letter. I went by myself to the Kyoto cinema. I didn’t understand much, but enough to cry at the ending. I was sad to hear you were alone; if someone was there maybe you’d still be alive. Goodbye, 1995. Goodbye, Nakayama Miho.

Crucial piece from Sean Monahan. I've been using the term "counter-counterculture" and "counter elite" makes sense for the establishment sector of that movement www.8ball.report/p/the-counte...

Terrific responses to this — lots of different career paths coming out of History.

Moderating a panel of past History majors, telling our current students about the career paths they took — from politics and law to cultural work and consulting. Really impressive, and that’s with a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter missing due to being sick. History: Just Do It

A post-mortem on Yoon's auto-golpe

🧵 from the @washingtonpost.com's Japan/ROK correspondent