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David :SetouchiExplorer: @david.fediverse.setouchi.social · 2h

The lengths to which Americans will go to defend their ignorance and lack of education. TIL that apparently "grammar" is racist, classist and colonial. I just can't anymore with those people who don't know anything about anything, but who all have very strong opinions to justify their ignorance. 🤦

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David Ho @davidho.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 6h

People say I’m blaming the victim when I tell people not to look at their screens while they walk, but you wouldn’t count a stack of $100 bills when you walk either. Phone are super expensive and phone snatching is a real thing […]

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David :SetouchiExplorer: @david.fediverse.setouchi.social · 6h

I thought it was only for the EU, but I just could do it. If you're still on #windows10, go to Security and Update and where it tells you to buy a new Win11 computer or else you'll die or something, there is a button where you can extend the security updates for one more year.

Still, if this […]

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David :SetouchiExplorer: @david.fediverse.setouchi.social · 6h

In other news, tonight I stayed on campus until dusk and... apparently the buildings next to mine (mine too?) have become a gathering spots for quite a few crows (basically they all come from different areas of town, and gather there before all flying […]

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A bunch of crows flying, with Takamatsu Symbol Tower in the background (the picture is blurry)

A bunch of crows flying in front of a building on campus (the picture is blurry)

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David :SetouchiExplorer: @david.fediverse.setouchi.social · 6h

Micro #crowupdate (that's difficult to say out loud). I hadn't seen the #crows since Saturday, and they didn't seem to have been around at all (peanuts on my balcony were untouched). But this morning Mr Crow was there, in the rain. And he was calling Ms Crow […]

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David :SetouchiExplorer: @david.fediverse.setouchi.social · 8h

One thing that drive me nuts with some travel blogs/sites/whatever is when they call a place unknown or off-the-beaten-track, and what they mean is "unknown by Westerners," totally ignoring the local tourists, or even non-Western tourists.

Your defaultism at best and racism at worst is visible […]

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Guillaume Desbrosse @desbrosseg.bsky.social · 10h

Regardez moi cette beauté !
Le pangolin. C’est le seul mammifère entièrement recouvert d’écailles. Oui, des écailles mais faites de kératine, la même protéine que nos ongles ou nos cheveux.
En gros, c’est un mammifère qui porte une armure de cheveux durcis.
😍
📷 Hendri Venter

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David B. Himself @davidbhimself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

J'avais filmé cette vidéo il y a un petit moment, je profite du nettoyage d'automne de mes blogs pour vous la remettre.

https://swamp.fr/lempire-des-signes-par-roland-barthes/

#japon #rolandbarthes #Sémiologie

L’Empire des Signes par Roland Barthes Il y a quelque temps, j’ai posté une vidéo parlant un peu de **_L’Empire des Signes_** de **Roland Barthes** , où je parlais de ce qu’était cet ouvrage et ce qu’il n’était pas. Je vous la remets aujourd’hui. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36K9AeQoJY Oui, je sais, j’aurais pu faire un effort pour le thumbnail, mais c’est du temps que j’ai préféré passer à faire autre chose. Et oui, je sais aussi, j’ai pas posté de telles vidéos depuis des mois. J’étais pas d’humeur, que voulez-vous. En fait, J’en ai filmé une ou deux l’été dernier, faudrait que je prenne la peine de les monter et les mettre en ligne un jour. https://swamp.fr/lempire-des-signes-par-roland-barthes/ #Japon #RolandBarthes #sémiologie

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David :SetouchiExplorer: @david.fediverse.setouchi.social · 11h

I hate when this happens.

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David :SetouchiExplorer: @david.fediverse.setouchi.social · 19h

@Snoeksen Not yet. But I don't plan on having Linux on it, at least not for now.
The first step is to move all my stuff from my old PC there and then install Linux on my old PC.

David :SetouchiExplorer: @david.fediverse.setouchi.social · 1d

I almost don't use #facebook anymore, only to check out some friends and some groups I manage.
I just did a small experiment. I just scrolled through my feed as if I was a regular user. I could feel my anger growing and growing and growing. Oh, what was shown to me was no different from the […]

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David B. Himself @davidbhimself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

It's been a while since I last posted a weird gacha, so... here is one.

Are you interested in a planarian pendant? Because I have exactly what you need!

#japan #gacha #gashapon #planarian

A gacha machine (capsule toy) that gets you a planarian pendant.

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David :SetouchiExplorer: @david.fediverse.setouchi.social · 1d

On the day Windows 10 died, I received my Mini-PC. That thing is so small, I can't believe it. (human hand for scale, I don't have a banana at the moment)

I won't set it up just yet, but soon (I'm starting to find myself with many computers and not enough […]

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David :SetouchiExplorer: @david.fediverse.setouchi.social · 1d

Still, I didn't think I would ever use the adjective "exciting" to talk about Japanese politics.

David :SetouchiExplorer: @david.fediverse.setouchi.social · 1d

It's kinda exciting to see a big coalition of opposition parties forming to oust the LDP in Japan, and it could work, but it's also very weird as some of these parties have almost nothing in common. I'm not sure how long the coalition will hold, and if it may no backfire in the next general […]

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Janne Moren @jannem.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Japanese #politics : New #komeito has been a junior coalition partner with LDP for *decades.* Affiliated with a Buddhist sect (it's complicated), and nominally pacifist; the question has been if there any line they would not cross in order to stay in power as a junior coalition partner.

We now […]

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David :SetouchiExplorer: @david.fediverse.setouchi.social · 1d

This awkward moment when you receive the 2m long USC-C - HDMI cable you ordered and you have no idea why you ordered it. First I thought I made a mistake and I meant to ordered a micro HDMI - HDMI, but no, because I also received that one.

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David B. Himself @davidbhimself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I promise to hate AI a little less, the day my tablet listens to me when I tell it to stop playing ads forever while using Youtube Music.

#enshittification

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𝕋𝕠𝕞 @tombzz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

#photography #blackandwhite #analogphotography #monochrome #architecture #tombzz

Black-and-white analog photograph depicting two historic buildings with timber-framed construction, typical of Dutch settlement architecture in the Żuławy region. On the left stands a house with a brick foundation and wooden frame, marked with the number thirty-three painted on the plaster. The roof is covered with ceramic tiles, slightly sloped, with a pronounced eave. On the right, a structure with an elevated section rests on heavy beams, forming a passage underneath. Its form echoes traditional undercroft houses, though it diverges from the classic Żuławy arcade style. The aged wood bears traces of time, and the rhythm of the beams adds weight and depth to the composition. In the upper left corner, a spruce tree enters the frame—its needles contrast with the geometric structure of the buildings. In the background, beyond the fence, blurred deciduous trees emerge through the depth of field. The image is gently vignetted, emphasizing a mood of documentary observation.

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David :SetouchiExplorer: @david.fediverse.setouchi.social · 2d

#setouchitriennale update: Tonight, two ferries were running from #naoshima to Takamatsu. The "Seto" and the "Naoshima" (that's the ferry's name). It's true that I hadn't seen the latter in a little while. Did it have a technical problem? No idea.

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The Seto Inland Sea at dusk, two ferries are returning from Naoshima to Takamatsu.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 9d

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.

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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Darwin Day! Bible, England 13th century. Alençon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 56, fol. 250r.
#medieval #medievalart

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David :SetouchiExplorer: @david.fediverse.setouchi.social · 2d

30°C here today.
This is fine.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20251013/p2g/00m/0na/004000c

#globalheating #climatediary

Japan sets new record for latest-ever extremely hot day - The Mainichi

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's record for the latest date temperatures have reached 35 C or higher was broken Sunday in Kagoshima Prefecture, as the western

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David :SetouchiExplorer: @david.fediverse.setouchi.social · 2d

As well as "hafu" people (including my kids), I know they'll be the target of racism too (Fucking Sanseito already wants to deny them full citizenship).

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#japan #xenophobia

David :SetouchiExplorer: @david.fediverse.setouchi.social · 2d

I'm not scared for myself. White people are white privileged even in Japan (don't listen to white people complaining about racism in Japan, they're just whiny clueless people experiencing the outside world for the first time).
I'm worried for all the brown and other Asian people, they're the […]

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