Notices by Anne Drew Hu (they/them) (annedrewhu@hci.social)

The upcoming year will be a leap year in the Chinese calendar, which means that it has an extra month, not just an extra day. In Chinese, the calendar is often referred to as 農曆 (agricultural calendar) because the months while lunar in nature, are pinned to certain solar terms to help plan crop harvests.

This means that unlike in the Gregorian calendar, we can't just slap an extra month at the end bc it would screw up which months are in which season. Instead there's a complicated system...

Imagine this: pub trivia, but with Mahjong instead. You show up one night a week to a bar, bring your friends and play some casual Mahjong. Fun environment to introduce new players to the game and make new friends who play, especially Chinese and Jewish aunties.

@Yukari I’m pretty sure this image is something that server administrators can set, so the mastodon.social admins probably set up the trans flag specifically for today.

On mine (hci.social) there’s a picture of a dog (presumably the admin’s)

@Yukari 去年このインタビューを読んで面白いと思いました。川上未映子は女性目線から村上先生と議論する。彼女の小説は読んだことありませんが、定立はぴったりだとおもいます。

I read this interview last year and thought it was interesting. It’s a feminist conversation with Murakami moderated by Mieko Kawakami. I haven’t read her books, but I think her argument here is spot on.

https://lithub.com/a-feminist-critique-of-murakami-novels-with-murakami-himself/