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

Really good piece about translated Japanese fiction. (Translated in English, but I believe many of the points would be equally valid for translations into other languages.)

Surrealism, cafes and lots (and lots) of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming | Fiction in translation | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/23/japanese-fiction-britain-translation

@shiawase @kornelis maybe there was Ueno puppet theatre there at some point (it looks like it's under the railway arches)? No idea 😁

@shiawase @kornelis I was intrigued enough to do a little search, seems it's actually 文楽...

https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1311/A131101/13026650/

Some promising news from Switzerland, looks like the voters rejected plans for motorway expansion.

Hochrechnung: 53 Prozent Nein zum Autobahnausbau
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/abstimmungen-november-2024-nein-trend-zum-autobahnausbau-238640188364

Went climbing for the first time in about 8 years today and didn't die 👍

Almost certainly the most emotional and bitter-sweet gig I've ever been to. Thanks Three Trapped Tigers for everything, it's quite hard to put into words just how much this music has meant to me and to so many people I know and love. ❤️
#ThreeTrappedTigers

Come on, time to stop work.
#DeskCat #CatsOfMastodon

For all food lovers (and specifically Chinese food lovers), this is an incredibly detailed and comprehensive look at no fewer than 63 differerent Chinese Cuisines.

https://chinesecookingdemystified.substack.com/p/63-chinese-cuisines-the-complete

Daily Mail is yet again completely making stuff up to suit their idiot agenda. If you read the report that supposedly blames LTNs and cycle lanes, you will not find even ONE SINGLE mention of LTNs or cycle lanes.
Disseminating lies like these on purpose is surely illegal.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14095471/Sadiq-Khan-cycle-lanes-LTNs-walking-London-bus.html?ito=facebook_share_article-top&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR36txroNjdxYXneWrDzBBfDM26r4RRLNXC0v64Gfksf6rxkeKD3xvdk8Z8_aem_VVqhYTnpNnD_fW0mMY4tyg&sfnsn=scwspmo

@JillsJoy 😹

It's Monday evening, time to help with his Japanese homework.
月曜日の夕方、日本語の宿題を手伝う時間です。😹

#AlwaysHelping #JapaneseHomework #日本語の宿題 #CatsOfMastodon

I swear these Japanese Katakana loan words confuse me more than Kanji. I got this football (sorry, サッカー 😅) alert on my phone, and just kept trying to figure out what 試合のスタメン is... 試合 (match) is easy, but what the hell is スタメン (sutamen)?

Turns out it's "starting line-up", short for スターティングメンバー (sutaatingumenbaa, get it?). 🥴

Ooh, the follow up to "Scattered All Over the Earth" is now out in English! ❤️

"By the end of the novel there are still plenty of questions left unanswered. Did Knut’s father abandon the family because he thought his son was “delivering him a message from outer space”? And why does Susanoo seem to have stopped ageing? With any other author, you would expect to find out the answers in the final book of the trilogy. With Tawada – a blisteringly imaginative writer who could not care less about following expectations – there is no such promise. The uncertainty is thrilling."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/14/suggested-in-the-stars-by-yoko-tawada-review-a-linguistic-odyssey

@the_roamer Ja, wie gesagt war dies das erste Deutsche Buch, das ich seit einiger Zeit gelesen habe (obwohl Deutsch auch meine Muttersprache ist, wenn auch ein bisschen vernachlässigt).

Ich habe gerade heute auch herausgefunden, dass "Suggested In The Stars", die Fortsetzung von "Scattered All Over The Earth", jetzt auf Englisch verfügbar ist (eines ihrer Bücher, die sie auf Japanisch schreibt, und mein Japanisch ist noch nicht gut genug, um ein solches Buch zu lesen).

Vor ein paar Wochen war ich an einer Lesung von Tawada in London, anlässlich der Veröffentlichung der englischen Übersetzung von "Paul Celan und der chinesische Engel", und es war interessant, dass einige Leute im Publikum sowohl Deutsch als auch Japanisch sprachen (und natürlich Englisch).

Aber wie gesagt kenne ich Celan selbst fast nicht, da habe ich also noch ein Nachholbedürfnis 😁

Did you want to put these on? Sorry, I got here first. 😸
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@shiawase I don't believe the fact that it's not the top elite schools matters that much to me. The extremely rich will always be able to do what they please, and it's difficult to legislate against that. But the fact that reasonably well off people are able to send their children to public schools is (IMO) extremely damaging to society. So yes, if we could just close them all down tomorrow it'd be deliriously happy, but in the meantime making them less affordable is a good first step in my book.

Won't somebody please think of the children not being able to go to their exclusive private schools anymore.

VAT on school fees: ‘We have had to make the decision to pull her out’
https://www.ft.com/content/ecefe39b-f0df-4547-b4b1-4d86f0f77d05

Back at this. Sixty and no wiser, or any better at playing drums 😅 #NowPlaying

TTT released three live tracks from ArcTanGent this summer - such great memories.
If you see a crying wreck at Electric Ballroom next Friday, that will be me... 😭

Three Trapped Tigers - Kraken (Live at ArcTanGent 2024)

#ThreeTrappedTigers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgxSzEOALKU&list=PLyvy78-MCXddDNn58deMoRMVdhzineo1t&index=2

@skinnylatte I think I want your job