2024 is “The Year the World Votes” because nearly half the world will be voting for new national leadership. Here is a roundup from FP. A big year for fighting disinformation.
This panel of women leaders from the Yukon was a fun listen and very inspiring for 2024. The assumption of subsidiarity in the North reminds me of what I read in Graeber+Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything #governance
Earthquake! Whoa we felt that in Kyoto
明けましておめでとうございます🎉🐲
ゆく年くる年 is literally my favourite TV show. I look forward to it every year! #nhk
Sent out my final newsletter of the year! Now it is time to kick back, get the noodles going, and watch some end of year Japanese TV (for the last time…) 🎍🔴🎤⚪️🐲
Best of 2023
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Hagia Sophia
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Nice discussion with @becedo.bsky.social on how Nihon Shoki & Kojiki are treated through time newbooksnetwork.com/meanings-…
If you want to hear what’s IN the Chronicles, I recommend this great podcast by @tatsushu@historians.social sengokudaimyo.com/podcast
Got a nice snack pack for the winter holidays from the company. 🎁 It’s a nice tradition. This year I got a chocolate set 😋
Merry Xmas! 🎄 After opening prezzies we drove to Ako, famous for Chuushingura (The 47 Ronin), and had lunch with a lovely view of the Seto Inland Sea. So nice and warm 🥰
Christmas Eve on the water! Cruising around the Biwako on the Michigan
Last day of work for 2023 is done. ❄️ What a year! 🗓️ And I finished it with Inbox Zero 💪
Tonight I took a yuzu bath 🍋🛀 as I enter 10 days of rest, relaxation, and recharging 🧘♂️ with my books and my family ✌️🥰 Hope you too enjoy your hols! 🥂🍾🎊
11 year old: “OMG my friend she is SO ready for the zombie apocalypse! She can climb trees 🌲 she has a katana 🗡️ AND she has an iPad with OFFLINE games!” 📱👾
From Heatmap Daily: “Americans often refer to their electricity or gas providers as ‘public utilities.’ But only about 15% of the population is served by a government-owned, customer-owned, or member-owned electric utility.” The rest are private monopolies. #ClimateCrisis
Perspective on Palestine — Review of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
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My copy of EMPTY KYOTO and 2024 Calendar from @hermosawave@photog.social has arrived! 📸🎋⛩️
hermosawavephotography.com/emptykyot…
My uncle-in-law was decorated with the “Order of the Rising Sun” 🎖️ for his contributions to basketball in Japan 🎊 This is his medal. When you tilt it in the light it really shines! ✨
Chili crab time! 🦀
Interesting ideological analysis of Cixin Liu’s popular Three Body series, especially this bit on how Chinese and American reactionaries use one another
madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/1…
