Notices by Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 ☀️ (flockofcats@famichiki.jp)

Hello all! This is a test post for an idea to use Mastodon for Japanese language practice. Anyone is welcome, but try to participate IN JAPANESE!

1. Tag practice posts #日本語練習
2. Reply to this post to start a subthread, or reply to someone else’s to continue the conversation
3. Tools are fine for help, but please no machine translation or AI copy-pasta.
4. Be courteous — people are learning!
5. Corrections are welcome. Tag corrections and language discussion #日本語添削 (てんさく)

Mastodon/Fedi is the social network for people who read the encyclopedia for fun as a kid 🤔

Grim. Three lions died of heat stroke at a Tokyo zoo.

The zoo had taken measures like installing additional fans, but it wasn’t enough.

Dr. Ms. FoC speculates that it seems the zoo assumed since lions can survive 40°C in the wild, they’d be fine in Japan, but they didn’t fully account for the difference between dry savana heat in the shade vs. Japan’s hot humid hellscape.

https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/20260803-GYT1T00233/

Won’t someone think of the second home owners?? 😭 😭

<looks at calendar>

@aral @EUCommission

gigafire clouds 💡

I want to get a new air quality sensor for indoors (temp, humidity, air pressure, CO2).

I looked at some to buy but then I saw something about making one.

Is this a good idea or will it be harder than it looks?

Was looking at ESP32 controller, SCD41 sensor (CO2), BME280 sensor (temp, humidity, pressure), but I’ll probably need to look closer to make sure I get the right parts. Any recommendations on places to get parts like this?

I love wacky limited time products, but I don’t think I can do the Toy Story melon cream soda granola

I just can’t

Me, speaking in English: So-and-so wants macha (まちゃ) powder for o-miyage

Ms. FoC: huh??

Me: Macha (まちゃ)

Ms. FoC: wtf are these strange noises coming from your facehole

Me: Macha (まちゃ), like green tea

Ms. FoC: 抹茶 (まっちゃ)??

Me: yeah. Jeez.

Ms. FoC: how am I supposed to understand that?? Macha (まちゃ) and 抹茶 (まっちゃ) are TOTALLY DIFFERENT. Macha (まちゃ) is incomprehensible and no one would understand it!!

A potential corporate client wants to have a meeting, in person, about the translation services we can provide.

First of all, it’s 2026. Can we please just do a Zoom call? 😩

Second of all, there’s really not that much to talk about. You have something in one language. We put it in another language. Ugggggggggg

Reviewing the safety instructions with FoK, particularly the final part of the infant life vest protocol where we set him adrift at sea

@stopthatgirl7 @roque

So many questions

11 am or pm?

Is this a good thing or bad thing?

Does it include incidentally encountered eggs like onsen tamago in ramen, or is it just breakfasty eggs?

I’m not sure if my phone camera did it justice, but this is the most purple flower that ever purpled

#Bloomscrolling

Mozilla every few months:

“We’re pleased to announce that we are adding the Torment Nexus for every Firefox user!”

“You spoke. We listened. We are making the Torment Nexus opt out!”

“People have strong feelings about the Torment Nexus. We get it. That’s why we’re making the Torment Nexus opt-in only!”

“Firefox is and always will be Torment free. We’ve rebuilt FF Nexus from the ground up to capture everything you love about Torment Nexus experience, minus the Torment!”

@piepants eyeing your knob jealously 👀

@tokyobybike at my current apartment I’ve never had my garbage returned to the place of shame in the lobby. But lots of people do. Presumably mostly Japanese. 🙃

@Dana sorry my is currently too cluttered to get an aesthetic pic

@brian recommended this to me, and I’m loving it!

@Dana very cool!

My new keyboard is arriving tomorrow 🤩

every day we stray further from god’s light

I guess one way to end our reliance on fossils fuels is to blow them all up 🤔