Notices by David B. :SetouchiExplorer: (david@setouchi.social)

I think I mentioned the colony of cormorants hanging out on the coast near my house in winter before.
Here they are:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uH7g0VjJG44

#SetoInlandSea #birds #cormorants

I would have loved posting on #Loops instead, but my app still crashes every time I try to upload a video to it.

@dansup the latest update didn't fix the problem.

RE: https://loops.video/v/dl0-kYA8XM

Why is the quality of my videos on #Loops is always so bad?
@dansup am I doing something wrong?

Does #Pixelfed have a spam account problem? I noticed that I got a bunch of new followers these past few days. All "cute young probably eastern-european women" with empty accounts. All from pixelfed.social

@dansup are you aware of that?

https://spoon-tamago.com/duct-tape-typographer-shuetsu-sato-honored-with-design-award/

#design #Japan #typography

@gaijinmommy.bsky.social I love it when my son gets so excited that he starts jumping around.

On a side note: wait, there's a red shinkansen?

Une intéressante interview de Lee Ufan:

https://numero.com/art/numero-art/lee-ufan-interview-paolo-roversi/

#art #LeeUfan #ArtContemporain

Sunday November 2nd. Earliest I've ever heard Last Christmas (but it officially starts on November 1st in Japan)
It was a muzak cover and not the original though.

#Japan #Wham #Christmas

I have the feeling that the media speak less and less of what's happening in Ukraine, but we should not forget what's happening there nor its importance.

This newsletter is one important thing to read in my opinion:

https://akindofrefugee2022.substack.com/p/30102025-home

#Ukraine #Russia #Europe

Open AI's new "browser" is even worse than I thought. It needs to be burned with fire.

(I'm asking again, any tool to block specific browsers to access your sites?)

https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/

#OpenAI #ChatGPT.

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 #Microsoft fuckery has one good side, it is that it pushed me to finally try Linux, and thanks to that one year extension, I can do calmy and without precipitation or pressure (I don't like pressure).

This library boat is just awesome and has become very popular among the islanders. It's for adults too.

(fun fact: one of the kids who's interviewed is my friend's son)

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250910_17/

#Japan #books #libraries #boat #SetoInlandSea #Naoshima

On Bluesky, there's a pretty awesome bot account that posts various public webcams from all over Japan. And great news, I just found out that it is bridged to the Fediverse:

@japan-cambot.bsky.social

#Japan

Putting this book on my reading list:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse

#capitalism #collapse #democracy

Kenzo Tange's "Boat Gymnasium" may be saved.

https://yousakana.jp/kpg_rebirth/

#Japan #architecture #KenzoTange #Kagawa #Takamatsu

That's it, the sanseito and its dozen of seats is all over the news. And I don't expect the Japanese media to learn that any publicity is good publicity anytime soon.
Fascism is using the exact same playbook here that it's been using in the West. And it works every single time. I'm so tired of people's idiocy.
#Japan #politics

The one good thing about #summer in #Japan is that the sky is often quite interesting. Although the #clouds are mostly here to taunt us and rarely become rain.
(If Florida summers were more bearable than Japanese summers, it's mostly thanks to the daily late afternoon downpours that happen there. Not here, the clouds just stay in the clouds and we're all dying of heat while nature lacks water)

@minorusaba Thanks for sharing this story.

On this day, 80 years ago, the US firebombed and destroyed 80% of Takamatsu, killing thousands of civilians.

This happened all over the country. The US was never held responsible for the massacres.

#Japan #FourthOfJuly

Alright, people in Japan. Should we be concerned about the increasingly powerful tremors in Kagoshima?

The media doesn't seem to think it's headline material, but it gives me early March 2011 vibes.

Am I the only one?

#Japan #earthquake