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David B. :SetouchiExplorer:

David@setouchi.social

<p>Blogger, Teacher, Father, Immigrant.<br />🇪🇺 🇯🇵 🇫🇷</p><p>- Gallivants on the Seto Inland Sea art islands.<br />- French, but teaches English at a Japanese university.<br />- Raises two wonderful kids that drive him nuts.<br />- Friend of crows<br />- Writes things. Tries to be better at it, both quantitatively and qualitatively.<br />- Hopes the world doesn&#39;t end soon. Not too optimistic about that.<br />- Mostly talks about <a href="https://setouchi.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Japan</span></a>, <a href="https://setouchi.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Education</span></a>, <a href="https://setouchi.social/tags/Crows" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Crows</span></a> and <a href="https://setouchi.social/tags/Climat

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  • Post #4356858

    I think I just converted to a religion... https://note.com/hisanomotohiro/n/nab558b9373f1

  • Post #4310252

    Une des fonctions que j&#39;adore sur Mastodon, c&#39;est la possibilité de ne pas voir les boosts d&#39;une personne que l&#39;on suit. Et j&#39;écris ce post en français parce qu&#39;on dirait que certains de mes compatriotes sont payés au nombre de &quot;posts d&#39;outrage&quot; qu&#39;ils partagent. Les gens, ça fait combien d&#39;années que vous avez quitté Twitter? Vous n&#39;avez toujours pas trouvé de manière moins toxique d&#39;utiliser les réseaux sociaux. ⤵️

  • Post #4028525

    Good morning. 33°C at 8h30 a.m. This is fine. #ClimateDiary #GlobalHeating #ThisIsFine

  • Post #3912893

    I just watched &quot;The Creator.&quot; How come a movie with such great visuals and high production value can be so poorly written and nonsensical? (note to self: read movie reviews before watching them, it&#39;s not like you have the opportunity to watch movies all the time these days) #movies

  • Post #3783210

    Yes, I&#39;m an old fart. I&#39;m also a teacher of university students, and I see first-hand how replacing paper, pens and books with screens for everything is impacting cognition and learning. (spoiler alert: the act of learning is as much a physical activity as a mental one, and yes, writing with a pen or holding a book and turning its pages are an important part of the learning process) https://fortune.com/article/how-did-us-spending-30-billion-dollars-on-laptops-result-in-first-generatio...

  • Post #3632623

    I saw an American comment on the FIFA red card reversal scandal and saying &quot;now we are going to be seen as the bad guys.&quot; Oh my sweet summer child, I have big news for you....

  • Post #3598810

    Fireworks pretty much anywhere in the world: &quot;Ohhh... Ahhhh.... It&#39;s beautiful!!!&quot; Fireworks in the US: &quot;Yeah! Let&#39;s blow up shit!!! Yeah!!! USA! USA! USA! Boom!!! Boom!!! Yeah!!!!&quot; #fireworks #Murica #America250

  • Post #2706678

    Alright, I&amp;#39;m deleting Ubuntu and installing Mint. I hope it will drive less nuts.

  • Post #2706677

    RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116588626536297925 When technofascists leave their ivory tower and go out in the real world:

  • Post #2706676

    Alright, I reinstalled my PC (with Mint this time). I haven&amp;#39;t tested everything, but so far the good news is that Beeper is working with Mint (it didn&amp;#39;t with Ubuntu) but I can&amp;#39;t figure out how to type in Japanese. I downloaded a bunch of things (fctix?) it tells me that it&amp;#39;s working (i.e. I can switch the input method) except that... nope... it&amp;#39;s Roman alphabet and only Roman alphabet. Okay, I&amp;#39;m tired, I&amp;#39;m going to bed.

  • Post #2706675

    I just stumbled a post of a guy saying &amp;quot;so we humans have to adapt.&amp;quot; about AI and.... I never wanted to burn a data center more than right now... #FuckAI #NoAI #AI

  • Post #2706674

    A/C season just started.... This is fine. #GlobalHeating #Climate

  • Post #2627545

    Alright people, it&#39;s time for one of the biggest #CrowUpdate of the year! I heard Mr and/or Ms Crow making quite some noise for the past hour or so in the park. Some familiar calls (&quot;where are you! come here!&quot;) and some I heard before but I don&#39;t really understand. I suspected something and... I was right!!!! Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce you to Junior 1 and Junior 2, 2026 edition!!! ⤵️ #crows #birds #corvids

  • Post #2539872

    #CrowUpdate Wow, this morning, Mr Crow was waiting for me on the neighbor&amp;#39;s roof, and he even came grab the peanuts in the yard while my son was nearby. He must have been really hungry. But that&amp;#39;s not all, when I got home, I saw a crow flying toward my car as I was parking it and it was Ms Crow. She too, came down to pick up peanuts I gave her (the park was too crowded). What&amp;#39;s happening? I think the baby(ies?) are ready to leave the nest so Mr and Ms Crow have been watch...

  • Post #2469964

    RE: https://aus.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy/116558995067396859 Cue to &amp;quot;this is fine&amp;quot; memes.

  • Post #2348598

    Motoi Yamamoto&amp;#39;s art is made with salt. It&amp;#39;s a painstaking process, and always an ephemeral one, but... it&amp;#39;s not to be missed if you ever have the opportunity. https://davidbilla.net/weaving-time-by-motoi-yamamoto-utazu-setouchi-triennale-2025/ #Japan #Art #SetouchiTriennale #ArtSetouchi

  • Post #2101987

    Je vous ai préparé un peu de lecture en ce dimanche pluvieux. https://metaphorismes.com/vision-densemble/ #fiction #écriture

  • Post #2087073

    If anyone is still using Chrome, today is a great day to delete it from all of your machines: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/google-chrome-silently-downloads-4gb-ai-model-to-your-device-without-permission-report-claims-researcher-says-practice-may-violate-eu-law-waste-thousands-of-kilowatts-of-energy #NoAI #ClimateCrisis #Chrome

  • Post #2027729

    I always liked Rogue One, but never loved it. Not sure why. Maybe the fact that the characters are not developed enough for the most part. However, I just rewatched it for the first time just after rewatching Andor, and it does hit different. In parts because of Cassian Andor himself (who&amp;#39;s now more than &amp;quot;fleshed out&amp;quot;) but also because of characters like Saw Guerrera or General Draven, etc. And over all, the show is so good that it makes the movie better. #movies #Star...

  • Post #1964410

    I just finished my rewatch of Andor. I&amp;#39;m still pinching myself that such a show was every produced and made it to our living rooms and to our minds and hearts. I always have the strange feeling that it will never happen again. #TVShows #TVSeries #Andor #StarWars

  • Post #1844646

    So, apparently, yesterday was &amp;quot;Crow and Raven Appreciation Day.&amp;quot; Isn&amp;#39;t it a waste of a special day? I mean, isn&amp;#39;t it &amp;quot;Crow and Raven Appreciation Day&amp;quot; every day of the year? #crows #ravens #birds #corvids

  • Post #1621916

    RE: https://famichiki.jp/@unseenjapan/116451284255133416 I blame Takaichi for this.

  • Post #1621915

    This awkward moment when you want to take a nap, but you have a class in 15 minutes. Why do they schedule classes during nap-time, I&amp;#39;m asking you? This is so inconsiderate.

  • Post #1621913

    I&amp;#39;m watching For All Mankind season 5. I&amp;#39;m a few episodes behind, and what happened in episode 3 surprised me. I mean, not that it happened, but the fact that it happened so early in the season. Beautiful episode, though. ⤵️ #ForAllMankind

  • Post #1195069

    RE: https://famichiki.jp/@mainichi/116411262712631847 Fun fact: The Japanese Alps is one of the places with the most snowfall in the world. #Japan

  • Post #1091925

    When I first moved to Japan, I used to try as many &amp;quot;unknown&amp;quot; (to me) soft drinks I could get my hands on, and then report on whatever social media I used at the time. I haven&amp;#39;t done it in years, but yesterday at the supermarket, one drink grabbed my attention. Mostly the &amp;quot;É&amp;quot; in the name. Verdict: imagine a bitter Aquarius, kinda like Schweppes but not carbonated. Not great, but not terrible either. #SoftDrinks #Japan #LifeInJapan

  • Post #977303

    One of the inventions that truly blows me away and that we all take for granted is fabric. Ages ago, people decided to weave strings to create soft surfaces that you could use as clothes, mats and more, and I just can&amp;#39;t comprehend how someone had this idea, not just once, but in many parts of the world independently from each other. (okay, now I want to go down the rabbit hole that is the history of fabric, but I don&amp;#39;t have the time right now!)

  • Post #977302

    My new favorite geography game? www.maptap.gg April 7 98🎯 95🏅 97🔥 98🎯 99🎯 Final score: 978 #geography #quiz

  • Post #977301

    When was the last time I had literal goosebumps listening to new music? Today. It was today. https://davidbilla.net/rosalia-bjork-feat-yves-tumor-berghain/ #music #Bjork #Rosalia

  • Post #977300

    RE: https://kolektiva.social/@jjr/116350814599783220 La France, plus que tout autre pays j&amp;#39;ai l&amp;#39;impression, a réussi à officialiser l&amp;#39;amalgame antisionisme et antisémitisme. Et je ne peux pas imaginer une seconde que ceci n&amp;#39;est pas volontaire. Il y a quelque chose d&amp;#39;assez terrifiant quand on voit avec du recul la façon dont les sionistes ont complètement pris le contrôle de la parole publique en France, et font tout (avec succès) pour museler toute critiq...