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let us not talk falsely now the hour is getting late #BobDylan

In #Nagoya , like experimental music and poetry? Come to Valentine Drive in Imaike, Friday 21st. Theme "Heresy". valentinedrive.com

#Nagoya にいる方、今度の土曜日（15日）に、御器所の「なんや」で、60〜70年の懐かしい曲を！投げ銭！是非お越しください！nanyagokiso.com @Nanyanagoya @marimo_koi @KURONOZ @MBrhythm @anponman @UsuiYasuhiro

If you're in #Nagoya on 15th March, why not come along to Nanya in Gokiso? An evening of nostalgia from the 60s and 70s. No charge @Nanyanagoya @gokigenmusic @CafeBarTank @ogawa_vem @hanasakisuirei @valentinedrive @_BrianCullen_ @KDjapon @136kotobazooka @fletless4s @busaichedelic

How a handful of X accounts took Elon Musk ‘down the rabbit hole’ on UK politics ft.com/content/8e9159…

Elon Musk has had a lot to say about the grooming gangs scandal. We looked at 24 hours on Musk's X timeline and found a range of false and misleading information being amplified. Produced by Catherine Karelli, Shayan Sardarizadeh and Jake Horton. Graphics by Jacqueline Galvin.

Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X aa.com.tr/en/europe/over…

"Yes, he has every right to do this on his own platform, but so too did the operators of Twitter before him." ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Suspends Critics On ExTwitter, Asks People To Be Nicer | Techdirt techdirt.com/2024/12/30/fre…

「NHK党は反社会的カルト集団」名誉毀損に当たらず　投稿のインターネット記者に賠償責任なし　東京地裁判決　　東京新聞デジタル 　阿部雅彦裁判長は判決理由で、党首の立花孝志氏が「犯罪行為や不法行為を繰り返し、副党首とともに支持者に対し自らに批判的な言論活動をする人への迷惑行為を促し、テロや民族虐殺も辞さないような発言をしていた」と認定。 「投稿などの目的は公益を図ることにあり、前提事実の重要部分は真実で、違法性を欠く」と結論付けた。 tokyo-np.co.jp/article/369922

🇯🇵 YOUR ULTIMATE GUIDE TO JAPANESE POLITICAL PARTIES! An overview thread of Japan’s political parties: their ideologies, positions, key issues, and historical backgrounds.

@Arin_Yumi Really good quick summary.

Slowly winding down my presence on X, moved to Bluesky. @johnraff.bsky.social Please don't be offended if I unfollow you here. If you don't yet have a Bluesky account, please consider starting one!

"a possible recommendation bias favouring Republican content in terms of visibility, potentially via recommendation mechanisms such as the "For You" feed" analysis of potential algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election | QUT ePrints eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/

@Arin_Yumi Even the LDP is divided on this. But with the Abe faction now cut down a bit, there might be room for progress...

This is a very contested issue in Japanese political with the LDP being stubbornly opposed to any reforms despite support from the majority of the population. x.com/Arin_Yumi/stat…

New Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito pledges to persuade Ishiba and the LDP to pass legislation permitting married couples to have separate surnames.

We wrote a couple months ago about how "impression zombies" - people outside Japan who post in Japanese purely for money - have taken advantage of Twitter's slow dismantling of moderation controls to convert panic into profit. unseen-japan.com/impression-zom…

@AndyinPhnomPenh @Andy Followed.

@andy-social.bsky.social [still getting the hang of it!]

The number of accounts I follow that have transferred to BlueSky has reached a critical mass, so now I join the movement, discovering a number of long-lost friends along the way. My new account is Andy-Social.bsky.social

All beings want freedom, and all beings want to live in joy. We all know this. A good person finds happiness in the happiness of others, doing no harm in the process. But while goodness grows in shared joy, evil feeds on suffering—and naked greed. Some of you made a choice. Some chose hope and compassion. Some chose to follow a man who is cruel, who takes pleasure in harm, who is a rapist, a racist, a conman, an insurrectionist. A deceiver who meets with a cruel dictator—Vladimir Putin—behind closed doors, betraying our ideals and, by extension, our nation. Maybe you knew. Maybe you didn’t. Or maybe you just didn’t care enough to act. The thing about choices is this: they define you. Not just who you are now, but who you’re going to be. And in time, the harm you align yourself with has a way of coming back around. When it does, it doesn’t just touch you—it curses the people you love. You will be betrayed, just as you betrayed yourself. Think back on the choices you made, the harm you allowed. When the suffering you helped sustain lands at your door, understand this: there will be no forgiveness. There will be only one way out—to atone. To step up and do something good. Something kind. Something courageous. Take some time. Think on it. Not lightly, but deeply. I’ll check in on you from time to time. Appeasement is simple; atonement is difficult. Cruelty is easy; compassion is hard work. One path leads to temporary pleasure and profit; the other leads to joy and an unshakable inner peace. Over the next four years, decide who and how you really want to be and what you’re going to do about it. Because that’s the choice that will matter. 💚🖖☮️☪️✝️☯️🕎🛐🕉️⚛️🖖💚 Feel free to share, with people who may someday find that they do care about the choices they’ve made. #Trumped #Karma #Atonement

New Poll: The majority of American Jews demand: 1) Stop offensive US weapons to Israel (62%) 2) Resume funding @UNRWA (66%) 3) Sanction Israeli leaders (66%) 4) Increase aid to Palestinians (72%) 5) Establishment of a Palestinian state (72%) jstreet.org/wp-content/upl…

Trump vowed to end the Ukraine war. But Vladimir Putin "wants to show that America, NATO, and the West are weak and indecisive, regardless of who is president, and that his brutal regime represents some kind of new global standard," @anneapplebaum writes. theatlantic.com/international/…

"The central government began accepting bids this month to decide a contractor that will be tasked with driving reinforcement piles into the soft seabed." Tokyo's pointless construction of a US base that US will likely never use 1/2 www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ne…