Australia's lower house of parliament passed new laws for a gun buyback, tighter background checks and a crackdown on hate crimes, in response to its worst mass shooting in decades. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/20/asia-pacific/politics/australia-gun-laws-hate-crimes-bondi/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #australia #guns #hatecrimes #massshootings
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The Bear is right:
a key problem with UK politics is that we do not hold people to account for their political certainties when they are proved subsequently disastrously wide of the mark.
We (well, the media) don't go back to the Brexiters & hold their claims of sunny uplands up against the awful reality of Brexit;
We don't ask those who told us Trump's second term would be a boon for Britain, how they explain his current antagonism.
No,. we just move on...
#politics
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-men-who-promised-trump-would
joene 🏴🍉
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Some food for thought for comrades abroad
#netherlands #bicycle #bike #bikelanes #cycling #activism #activisme #fietsen #politiek #politics #nederland #traffic #urbanplanning
U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will meet with several parties over his ambition to take control of Greenland during the upcoming World Economic Forum. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/20/world/politics/trump-meet-greenland-davos/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #republicans #greenland #davos #denmark
More and more people are seeking alternatives to Big Tech, given their role in the current state of the world.
Many are finding us at @Vivaldi a viable option and I welcome you to try us out. If you already have, please share with your friends. They will, hopefully, join us and thank you.
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I keep seeing Americans who want to do something about the state of our #politics, but feel like no action they can take will do enough to fix things, so it’s not worth trying.
It’s easy to feel nihilistic. So I’d like to propose an alternative - a 10% improvement approach to political change, of sorts.
It comes from my #PTSD treatment: the idea that no one approach, skill, or intervention can make the #trauma just go away instantaneously. So instead, us humans are left with 10% solutions - things that help a little bit, for some amount of time.
The key to healing is to develop an ongoing set of multiple different solutions that you rotate through based on what feels feasible on any given day / moment. Each one helps a bit. 10%, 5%, 1%. But eventually, you get to making big changes that felt impossible at the start.
The same works for political change and activism. Sure, going to any one protest, or calling your representative, or boycotting a brand, or changing one person’s mind, or donating to one fundraiser won’t fix the entire broken political regime. But it will help A LITTLE.
And if a lot of us continue to find ways to do things that help a little, it will end up doing a lot more.
A movement starts with a thousand little steps that don’t look like much on their own.
Take that little step. Then another.
Candidates in Hokkaido for the snap election set for Feb. 8 will have to brave subfreezing temperatures to campaign, while a snowstorm on election day could mean a low voter turnout. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/20/japan/politics/snow-election-hokkaido/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #hokkaido #sapporo #2026lowerhouseelection
I keep seeing Americans who want to do something about the state of our #politics, but feel like no action they can take will do enough to fix things, so it’s not worth trying.
It’s easy to feel nihilistic. So I’d like to propose an alternative - a 10% improvement approach to political change, of sorts.
It comes from my #PTSD treatment: the idea that no one approach, skill, or intervention can make the #trauma just go away instantaneously. So instead, us humans are left with 10% solutions - things that help a little bit, for some amount of time.
The key to healing is to develop an ongoing set of multiple different solutions that you rotate through based on what feels feasible on any given day / moment. Each one helps a bit. 10%, 5%, 1%. But eventually, you get to making big changes that felt impossible at the start.
The same works for political change and activism. Sure, going to any one protest, or calling your representative, or boycotting a brand, or changing one person’s mind, or donating to one fundraiser won’t fix the entire broken political regime. But it will help A LITTLE.
And if a lot of us continue to find ways to do things that help a little, it will end up doing a lot more.
A movement starts with a thousand little steps that don’t look like much on their own.
Take that little step. Then another.
The Bear is right:
a key problem with UK politics is that we do not hold people to account for their political certainties when they are proved subsequently disastrously wide of the mark.
We (well, the media) don't go back to the Brexiters & hold their claims of sunny uplands up against the awful reality of Brexit;
We don't ask those who told us Trump's second term would be a boon for Britain, how they explain his current antagonism.
No,. we just move on...
#politics
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-men-who-promised-trump-would
In calling a snap election merely three months into her tenure, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is making it personal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/20/japan/politics/takaichi-presser-election/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #sanaetakaichi #2026lowerhouseelection #cra
Some food for thought for comrades abroad
#netherlands #bicycle #bike #bikelanes #cycling #activism #activisme #fietsen #politiek #politics #nederland #traffic #urbanplanning
The 11-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations will not send observers to army-ruled Myanmar's ongoing three-stage election and will therefore not endorse the poll. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/20/asia-pacific/politics/asean-myanmar-election-malaysia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #myanmar #malaysia #asean
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From the @euobserver: "Greenland 'not alone' EU top diplomat says after X storm"
That's one of the reasons why the campaign focuses on politicians. We are fed up with media outlets having to rely on X as their source of political communication.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara has met with Sakie Yokota, the mother of Megumi, who was abducted by North Korea in 1977. In the meeting, Sakie said she hopes there will be some progress this year on the issue. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/20/japan/politics/megumi-yokota-mother-kihara-abduction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #sakieyokota #megumiyokota #minorukihara #northkorea #northkoreajapanrelations