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I saw an American comment on the FIFA red card reversal scandal and saying "now we are going to be seen as the bad guys."
Oh my sweet summer child, I have big news for you....
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David B. 
@David@setouchi.social
mastodon 4.7.3Blogger, Teacher, Father, Immigrant.
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- Gallivants on the Seto Inland Sea art islands.
- French, but teaches English at a Japanese university.
- Raises two wonderful kids that drive him nuts.
- Friend of crows
- Writes things. Tries to be better at it, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
- Hopes the world doesn't end soon. Not too optimistic about that.
- Mostly talks about #Japan, #Education, #Crows and #Climate here.
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@SeaFury@aus.social When you consider that about 80% (on average) of the population of any place is dumb everything starts making more sense.
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Yes, I'm an old fart.
I'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-generation-less-cognitively-capable-than-parents/
Alright people, it'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 ("where are you! come here!") and some I heard before but I don'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!!!
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#crows #birds #corvids
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@agturcz@circumstances.run @stux@mstdn.social Yeah, don't say bad things about Florida swamps, they're the best part of Florida. Amazing wildlife and almost no humans.
So, apparently, yesterday was "Crow and Raven Appreciation Day."
Isn't it a waste of a special day? I mean, isn't it "Crow and Raven Appreciation Day" every day of the year?
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@dbattistella@mstdn.ca I grew up 150 km away, I went to college in Bordeaux. I know the area quite well. I don't have the words.
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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'm asking you? This is so inconsiderate.
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Fireworks pretty much anywhere in the world: "Ohhh... Ahhhh.... It's beautiful!!!"
Fireworks in the US: "Yeah! Let's blow up shit!!! Yeah!!! USA! USA! USA! Boom!!! Boom!!! Yeah!!!!"
#fireworks #Murica #America250
I just finished my rewatch of Andor.
I'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.
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Et les militants autoproclamés, si vous voulez avoir un quelconque effet sur la société, éteignez votre téléphone, allez dans le vrai monde et faites des trucs.
Booster des posts c'est pas du militantisme, c'est juste répandre de la négativité et faire de la pub aux trucs que vous pensez "combattre."
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@_elena@mastodon.social You are precious to us, your work to democratize the Fediverse more is priceless.
If anyone is still using Chrome, today is a great day to delete it from all of your machines:
I just stumbled a post of a guy saying "so we humans have to adapt." about AI and.... I never wanted to burn a data center more than right now...
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... indeed, I got a glimpse of the nest tonight and there was some movement, not in the nest, but next to the nest!!! There may even be two kids!
(to be continued in the following days, stay tuned)
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's now more than "fleshed out") 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.
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@fetchezlavache People with too much money sometimes forget that money can't do everything and can't go against the laws of physics, geography and more.
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@RainbowFrog@mastodon.top Toutes les archives de France datant de plus de 100 ans (et parfois moins pour certains trucs) sont maintenant en ligne. Tu devrais les trouver sur le site des archives de Martinique.
Motoi Yamamoto's art is made with salt. It's a painstaking process, and always an ephemeral one, but... it's not to be missed if you ever have the opportunity.
https://davidbilla.net/weaving-time-by-motoi-yamamoto-utazu-setouchi-triennale-2025/
Alright, I'm deleting Ubuntu and installing Mint. I hope it will drive less nuts.
RE: @DenisCOVIDinfoguy@aus.social
Cue to "this is fine" memes.
I just watched "The Creator."
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's not like you have the opportunity to watch movies all the time these days)
#movies
A/C season just started....
This is fine.
Alright, I reinstalled my PC (with Mint this time). I haven't tested everything, but so far the good news is that Beeper is working with Mint (it didn't with Ubuntu) but I can't figure out how to type in Japanese. I downloaded a bunch of things (fctix?) it tells me that it's working (i.e. I can switch the input method) except that... nope... it's Roman alphabet and only Roman alphabet.
Okay, I'm tired, I'm going to bed.
When technofascists leave their ivory tower and go out in the real world:
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@Blanche@piaille.fr Le meilleur moment de l'année pour marcher un peu, surtout dans la campagne. Faudrait que je le fasse plus d'ailleurs.
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If you're not familiar with the show, you really should give it a try. It's a pretty great show that starts in 1969 when... Russia lands on the Moon first.
The consequences are that the space race pretty much never stopped and the show follows astronauts and engineers from NASA.
I don't want to tell more, just watch it.
#ForAllMankind #TVShows #TVSeries
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@imanijoy I'm not totally sure what this entails, but I signed up.
A good way to include non-technical people is to avoid using technical linguo, though... (a plague a lot of technical people suffer from)
"Async"? I can guess what it means, but I'm not totally sure. Does it mean "on demand" in plain English?
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@elena Damn. I thought everyone had forgotten about Wsocial. A TV ad... that's bad...
(and sadly, I can't answer your question)
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@carnage4life We're used to it. It's been like this for decades. And wait til you learn about the lives of Central and South Americans or Middle Eastern people because of your country.
Y'all obsess about Trump right now, but it didn't start with him. In a sense, he's almost a blessing in disguise for Westerners who still thought the US was a decent place and not the reason why the world can't have nice things.
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@alterelefant@mastodontech.de
Sadly, I'm more familiar than I'd like to be with US-defaultism, and it's quite disappointing come from the @eff@mastodon.social . I guess it tells us the only rights they care about are Americans'.
And it's even more disappointing, almost insulting when people are guilty of US-defaultism on the Fediverse.
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@Milena_Hime Ben quoi, c'est bien les réunions en télétravail. Tu éteins ta caméra et ton micro et tu bosses pendant la réunion, non ?
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@kira_unlimited@defcon.social Whatever it is, it's not standard English, so a poor choice.
@imanijoy@mastodon.social
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@cb_desu@famichiki.jp To be honest, I'm a bit worried about an American show focusing on the USSR. Also, the main "historical" plot points can't be actual plot points anyone, so I'm not sure if they can make the show compelling enough. They will need to take a very different approach.
I'll definitely give it a chance.
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@Bilb0k3t@famichiki.jp Strangely, it was very easy with Ubuntu, and it even worked better than on Windows (I could type in kana without trying to remember the JP keyboard layout, I have a French keyboard).
Je vous ai préparé un peu de lecture en ce dimanche pluvieux.
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@mikemccaffrey@pdx.social Yes, they're very busy feeding the kids. And as Mr Crow can't fly much at all, Ms Crow is even busier. They really spent the past two-three days on roofs and poles (to the point I wonder how much they fed the kids, maybe they reduce the feeding to force them out of the nest? No idea)
I think I just converted to a religion...
https://note.com/hisanomotohiro/n/nab558b9373f1
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@gullevek One doesn't prevent the other. European fascists are no fans of the US for the most part.
@carnage4life