David B. :SetouchiExplorer:

Blogger, Teacher, Father, Immigrant.
🇪🇺 🇯🇵 🇫🇷

- 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.

about me: https://davidbilla.online
blog & newsletter (EN): https://davidbilla.net
thoughts and stories (EN): https://glitched.earth
réflexions et fictions (FR): https://metaphorismes.com

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2025-09-19 06:45:55 UTC

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And I don't get why the Far Right doesn't like the Macrons. They have done more for them than any other French public figure before.

2025-09-18 11:26:30 UTC

I guess it's official. Western Japan now has a near tropical climate (at least in summer) We've had daily late afternoon heavy rain and thunderstorms for the past few days.
I'm not completely complaining, it's a bit cooler at night.

2025-08-28 10:14:40 UTC

This.
I've never felt the "Imposter syndrome" too much here, but I know some Japanese (and English native speakers) have looked down on me as an English teacher because I'm not native. I don't usually care. What I care about is when some bozos become English teachers here despite their obvious absence of teaching (or even social) skills just because they're native speakers. They hurt the entire profession.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250822/p2a/00m/0op/012000c
#English #Japan #EnglishEducation #ESL #EFL

2025-08-27 06:33:52 UTC

I'm back in Japan. And in case you had any doubts, here is a bad English translation.
(I tried to fasten my neighbor's seatbelt, but he didn't approve despite me showing him the sign)
#Japan #Engrish
https://cdn.masto.host/setouchisocial/media_attachments/files/115/099/322/937/042/158/original/7b886d5160932922.jpg

2025-08-22 06:52:18 UTC

It can't come a minute too soon.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-report-triggering-panic-fear-135910894.html
#AI

2025-08-06 07:58:55 UTC

I'm alive. I made it to Amsterdam. We left three or four hours late (big thunderstorms in HK messed up all flights, and we had to wait for dozens of people whose flights couldn't land. Of course, I missed my flight to Toulouse. Luckily we got rescheduled for the next one... In four hours... Could be better, could be worse. It's good the kids are exhausted, they'd be bored to death and so annoying otherwise.

2025-07-14 04:40:56 UTC

I mentioned it a few days, but I revamped my old personal site that I never use. I'll be using the blog part mostly for my students, with some grammar/vocab reminders as well as suggestions of music and movies/TV shows as they sometimes as me for some, but I rarely have the time to do in class).
If you're curious about it, here it is:
https://davidbilla.net/led-zeppelin-stairway-to-heaven/
(you may want to wait a minute or two before clicking the link if you see this post right after I publish it, as it'll probably DDOS me)

2025-07-09 13:59:40 UTC

#CrowUpdate Not about my crows, they're doing fine, mostly spending their days trying to stay away from the heat as much as they can. It's about the crows-by-the-sea. I've barely seen them lately, but that's my fault, I've barely been to their territory (except by car, I cross it daily). However, tonight, driving through, I noticed a dead crow on the sidewalk!!! I walked back there shortly after, and yes, one of them is dead. 😢 (1 of 2 or 3) ⤵️
#crows #birds #corvids

2025-07-01 23:38:50 UTC

Me a week ago: Remember students, don't email me after Monday 5pm about Wednesday class, I'll be out of my office until Wednesday morning and won't be able to check my work e-mail (I'm hearing some people check their work email outside of work, but I'm not one of them).
Student: emails me about Wednesday class on Tuesday at 11:30pm.
I swear, some students just think that if they do it before the next class it's fine, regardless of whether I can read and reply to it or not.
#teaching

2025-06-29 13:32:28 UTC

I've been wanting to do this for a while, but today, I finally had the right pictures (and the right story?)
Enjoy.
#crows #birds #corvids #webcomic #CrowUpdate
https://cdn.masto.host/setouchisocial/media_attachments/files/114/766/877/216/649/953/original/6d094b527d331d7c.jpg

2025-06-29 12:54:39 UTC

It's been a while since a #CrowUpdate
I see the #crows every day, but now the kids are quite mobile and are slowly learning to be independent (we're still far from it, but earlier today, I was surprised when at some point mom, dad and one kid were in the park, but not the other kid. S/he arrived a few minutes later, and I was even worried something happened to it since the last time I saw it. So they spend less time in the park during the day, and with the heat they mostly hide in the shade?⤵️
https://cdn.masto.host/setouchisocial/media_attachments/files/114/766/750/887/337/671/original/4a95e3bed921cd99.jpg

2025-06-21 04:23:46 UTC

Some countries may have speeding drivers, some countries may have drunk drivers, but Japan have senile drivers, and it's as bad. I just escaped a bad accident because an old guy didn't see the red light.
I was waiting to turn at the intersection, the light changed for me, but I noticed that car coming (at normal speed) and slowing down a single bit despite the light having turned red for them. Had I gone, collision would have been unavoidable. ⤵️
#LifeInJapan #Japan