👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞

👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞

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We went to the genuinely lovely historical building park outside Sapporo. Lots of delightful Meiji and Taishō edifices, including bonus horse-drawn tram, which automatically means it beats the Open Air Architecture Museum in Tokyo.

Again, Japan is fucking class, who’d have thunk it? Normalise reforming planning laws so you can have a ten story building that has a post office, a tourist information centre, a barbers, a brothel, a manga cafe, the headquarters of a Doomsday Cult, and a craft beer place on each successive floor.

Brazil is showing me that two-round system for elections is basically VAR in the sense of most people hate it in principle but it does function fairly well as a “yes, but are you SURE about this?” approach.

But what if my paraplegic nonagenarian grandmother wants to collect a fridge from John Lewis at 9am on a Monday?

Various issues and problems with how pedestrianisation is going to work in practice but this is a solved issue and it’s going to be absolutely fine. This exact same thing happened when Ken did the same to Trafalgar Square.

I still have one surviving Frey Bentos pie from a job lot I got just at the start of Covid. I’m keeping it as a sort of grim reminder and I might have it with a bottle of first class claret when I next have a major life event.

David Henig@davidheniguk.bsky.social

Right then, so what are you actually stockpiling? Years ago, owing to a run of generous visitors from various points east, I had about 20 litres of finest vodka on hand which I figured could see me through for a while...

👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 reposted

we are off to japan on honeymoon early on saturday so it’s time for THE GLORIOUS RETURN OF NIHONCONES #whoremembers