Notices by マリオ (Mario Menti) (mario@neko.cat)

@alexpalacefan well, to that I would say, what good are Labour in the current form? And I genuinely believe what they are doing is almost guaranteeing a Reform government at the next election.

Absolute travesty. Pretty difficult not to enjoy watching the Labour Party disintegrate...

Ban on Palestine Action to take effect after legal challenge fails
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/04/ban-on-palestine-action-to-take-effect-after-legal-challenge-fails?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

At last night's Japanese Breakfast gig, they played this song on the PA before the gig. It caught my attention and I had to Shazam it, and now I discovered a whole lot about Shin Joong-hyun 신중현, who is an absolute Korean Rock legend. He formed the first South Korean rock back back in 1962 and was imprisoned and tortured under Park Chung-hee.

And he's still alive today, 87 this year.

#ShinJoong-hyun #신중현

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln-hZBrn5Q4

Also I rarely go to such "big" or "mainstream" (for me, it's all relative 😅) gigs....

Nice to to see Japanese Breakfast again after a few years. Also I think the first time I've been to Brixton Academy for at least 7 years, even though it's relatively local. But maybe not that surprising given Covid and what happened here in 2022 and the subsequent closure.

#JapaneseBreakfast

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It's easy to feel jaded about Glastonbury, but this Prodigy set is 🔥

Oh good, we got a new bunch of noisy cunts as neighbours. One thing I hate about London in summer is that it's now practically impossible to actually sit in your garden and enjoy it, because there's always some inconsiderate fucks playing their moronic EDM shite at full volume.
This message has been brought to you by a grumpy old man 😅.

This is quite funny, I'm reading Junko Takase's おいしいごはんが食べられますように、and there's a scene where someone visits her coworker's flat, and looking at all the books piled up, notices books from authors that won the Akutagawa Price. Which of course this book also ended up winning. 😁

@kojinmanus thanks, I'll check it out. This is a short book, but it's taking me quite a long time to read, with my level of Japanese 😅
But I do enjoy it a lot!

#nowplaying #drums

The whole album is great, and you can buy it here
https://tripledeer.bandcamp.com/album/sowal

This is so beautiful. Triple Deer are a Taiwanese post rock band singing in the Taiwanese indigenous Pangcah (Amis) language.

#TripleDeer #PostRock #Taiwan #Amis #Pangcah

Triple Deer - Romi'ami'ad ( Live Session) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APi-mb3ndC8

God I love moreru. One of those bands that is impossible to classify. Weird Japanese black metal/ noise/ pop, I'd say. But all the better for it 😍

#moreru https://youtube.com/watch?v=RhlzeZnaVYg&si=xON22zqPjM1eg3TV

Lovely KEXP session and interview with Ichiko Aoba

#青葉市子 #IchikoAoba

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SB7PKTQR6TU&si=1_1A85wD-4XxSItC

Clearly what Mastodon needs more of is Japanese tongue twisters, so here's one I learned tonight (I say "learned", but I'm not claiming I can say it unaided 😅).

東京特許許可局長
今日急遽休暇許可拒否

(とうきょうとっきょきょかきょくちょう
きょうきゅうきょきゅうかきょかきょひ)

"Tōkyō tokkyo kyoka kyokuchō kyō kyūkyo kyūka kyoka kyohi"

I think (not sure because it's not really a grammatically correct sentence and ambiguous, but I guess that's not the point) it means something like "Head of the Tokyo Patent Approval Office today suddenly denied the vacation approval.

It happens all the time, but it still always pisses me of. I've just come across this classic example - a Japanese singer songwriter uploads a video, and the first comment is some Western guy commenting "Cutie". 🤢

First new EP from chouchou merged syrups. in 9 years. Love this (slightly slower than their typical stuff) song.

あの景色をもう一度
あなたと見たいと思ったの

I wanted to see that scenery with you one more time

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dbnQslB_Pxs&si=bQx9V0HQIqp_ca0_

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: chouchou merged syrups. (60) Pedro (36) 彼は誰時、 (36) wachi 蛙池 (28) Ruinszu (24). #myweekcounted 514 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue

Quite apart from being an active supporter of genocide, and therefore rather 'inappropriate' as UK prime minister, just how fucking stupid is Keir Starmer. Does he know anything about PR? Kneecap could not hope for anything better 😂

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/21/kneecaps-glastonbury-performance-not-appropriate-says-keir-starmer