Wanna stress-test your Japanese knowledge? A new social media app for Japanese users, Tsuita, dares you to ditch kana by allowing only kanji input, a.k.a. "Pseudo-Chinese." The app's been such a hit that users crashed the service temporarily (it's since been restored).
https://unseen-japan.com/tsuika-kanji-only-social-media-app/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon
Being called “tako” in Japanese might sound like someone’s calling you a marine animal. In fact, the insult goes back to Japan’s Edo era – and, according to one theory, is deeply associated with the era’s feudal hierarchy.
@[email protected] · Reply to インディー通信 Indie Tsushin's post
Last year, we were extremely honored to be able to speak with both Taylor and Fuglekongerige about He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me, an autobiographical game that deals with trauma, sex work, suicidal ideation, and a whole lot more. I am proud of all the interviews I have up on the site but this one is at the tippy top. Do yourself a favor and check it, and then play the game
https://indietsushin.net/posts/2023-05-21-Taylor-McCue-Fuglekongerige-HFTGOOM-en.html
#Japanese #IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev #Interviews #Translation #Trans
Japanese translator @fuglekongerige is back with another Japanese translation of @taylormccue's games, this time with Saving You From Yourself, one of Taylor's earliest games and a powerful work about the trans experience and harms surrounding medical gatekeeping. I encourage everyone to play and think about this game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1277310/Saving_You_From_Yourself/
The people have spoken: The Kanji of the Year for 2024 is 金 (kin, kane), meaning money or gold - a character reflecting a range of topics from the Olympics to the LDP's embarrassing political slush fund scandal. Learn what other characters also made the news below.
Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in #Seoul, #Korea, and an avid advocate of #FLOSS and the #fediverse.
I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, and @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users.
I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!
Finally finished this landscape drawing 
#PixelArt #mastodonart #ekkaart #pixelartist #pixelfed #game #gamedev #isometry #games #set #asset #digitalart #digital #harvest #fall #autumn #forest #grass #moss #mosstodon #tree #trees #mushroom #mushrooms #leaves #house #waterfall #WaterfallWednesday #waterfalls #wood #rock #rocks #stone #path #pathfinder #china #japan #japanese #southkorea #asia #mountain #mountains
The 2024 Autumn issue of #IndieTsushin is out now! It is viewable in browser and available to download in PDF, ePub, and MOBI formats on itch and Ko-Fi. We also have digital postcards and the Japanese interview editions (インタビュー特集) to download. It is PWYW, so everyone can enjoy!
https://indietsushin.net/posts/2024-12-07-2024-Autumn-Issue-and-Wrap-Up.html
Be sure to follow @indietsushin for the latest updates! 📰
#Zines #VideoGames #IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev #Japanese #Japan
Fluffy pastel painting of a Japanese Geisha/geiko/geigi woman in MediBang Paint
#medibangpaint #geiko #geigi #Japanese #Japan #pastelpainting #Geisha #geishaart
My #introduction post. I like a bit of everything and always appreciate learning something new. On the Fediverse since Nov 2022.
Highlights include:
#tea, #books, #languages (especially #italian and #japanese), #StarWars, #JamesBond, #IndianaJones, the film scores of #JohnWilliams, playing the #violin, #piano and #ukulele, looking at the fish/frogs in my #aquarium, #chocolate, #Chinese food, #pastries, #astrophysics, pro #EU, I like #CrossStitch, #crafting, #painting, and Jenkins the rabbit is the real star of the show.
A friend pointed me at Kaishi (https://github.com/donkuri/Kaishi) which looks to be a very nicely constructed Anki (https://apps.ankiweb.net/) deck for studying/reviewing basic Japanese vocabulary.
Adding this into the rotation alongside Wanikani (https://www.wanikani.com/), which I've been managing to keep up with daily for almost eight months now and certainly seems to be helping with building up my kanji and vocabulary.
MORIMURA Ray/Rei（森村玲 #Japanese, b.1948） 中尊寺金色堂 Chuson-ji Golden Hew Pavilion 2006 #woodblockprint.
Magazines for the Japanese community in the Netherlands, being handed out by my dentist, which seems to be a bit of a hubworld for Japanese immigrants
一期一會 (ichi-go, ichi-e), one time, one meeting, #Japanese saying to treasure every meeting because they will never happen in the same way again.
November reboost since it's been half a year and people still forget that Japanese is my first language (though both Japanese and English are both mother tongues for me 
)
Hi, I'm a professional violinist who plays soundtracks 
Ok, #Introduction over. I'm a musician, not a wordsmith 
... ... ...
I'm being gently informed by my responsible half that I'm to write a *proper* intro, as she puts it...
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Hi Fedi/Mastodon, I'm Octavia, a 30ish Japanese and USian violinist (and composer) whose mother introduced her to the violin at age 5 and Super Mario Brothers at age 3. This would go on to have profound consequences, chief amongst which was that the majority of the activities I enjoy involve fingertip dexterity. The secondary effect was that I would go on to use the classical training I received throughout my childhood to, for the most part, play soundtracks while letting my classical repertoire languish 
Nintendo classics like Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Pokemon, and Smash, JRPG classics like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy (IX and X specifically), movie soundtracks including a bunch of Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki Hayao works, Disney, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Carribbean, and Master & Commander (which is just my excuse to play the Bach Cello Suite no. 1: Prelude 
), and a few anime pieces here and there (along with at least one My Little Pony theme 
) are the bulk of what I play when I perform solo. I do play classical pieces here and there, but they mostly tend to be various movements from the Bach Cello Suites, along with a smattering of Celtic music, though I try to mix everything together in my sets, leaving people guessing as to what's a soundtrack and what's not
I perform at various conventions in the Pacific Northwest of the US (formerly in Brook and Link cosplays), whether inside or outside, and also perform as part of Troupe Seven Stars at faires in the area over the summer months while filling the rest of my time playing solo or ensemble shows, mostly near Portland. I also stream performances when the mood strikes me.
I tend to spend my free time dissociating in the shower, overcoming whatever ADHD lobs my way, and running out the door like an alternate-universe fusion of Bilbo Baggins and the March Hare from Alice in Wonderland (though, to my astonishment, I've only been late to 2 gigs in my life that I remember). What crumbs of time are spared from those tend to be spent on gaming, reading manga/watching anime, listening to and sharing music (yes, mostly soundtracks), and enjoying what the internet has to offer. The fact that I can just read manga in Japanese really helps because of the mountains of deserving manga that never get translations.
Aside from needing to hop instances, I've found my time on the Fedi to be enjoyable, and I hope to keep meeting interesting, genuine people and sharing time and conversations together 
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Interest tags:
#Music #Musician #Violin #Violinist #Composer #Theatre #Games #Gaming #Soundtracks #GameDev #Cats #KajiuraYuki #YukiKajiura #Bach #Manga #Anime #Discworld #TerryPratchett #LolitaFashion #Trans #Transgender #TransFem #Bi #Queer #LGBTQ #Portland #PDX #ADHD #Japanese
I thought I'd do an updated #introduction since my first one was a bit sparse on details. Also, #HappyNewYear 😊
I'm an #editor working full-time from home for a small publication. The organisation has gone through a lot of changes over the past six months, which have been stressful, but hopefully things will be more stable this year.
#2024 will also be the year I finish my #PhD. I know I said that last year but I've run out of time so I really have to do it now. It's a #creative PhD -- I'm writing a #steampunk novel set in #WesternAustralia and my #thesis discusses Australian steampunk. Weirdly, despite having spent years on this, I still like the topic and I hope to write some more papers on specific elements when I'm finished. (But first I need to finish).
I have a partner and four #children and live with them plus two #dogs, three #cats and a bunch of #chooks (aka #chickens) in a little regional city on the south coast of Western Australia. I love #cooking, #reading, #writing, #gardening and #hiking and am interested in all things #green ... I've been banging on about the #environment for decades and despite the dire predicament we humans collectively find ourselves in now, I'm heartened by the fact that #climate issues are mainstream news now. I believe in #hope because I think it's a radical act of defiance against the #doom.
I'm fascinated by #science and #space and the #history of how humans have learnt and passed down #knowledge through millennia. I love to learn new things from people whose backgrounds are different from my own. I spent a little time in Germany and did languages in my undergrad degree, so ich spreche #deutsch et parle un peu #français. I'm also learning #Japanese on Duolingo so now I can say 'this cake is tasty', which, I think we can all agree, is a very handy phrase to know.
Ooh! Nearly forgot. Love #tea. Big fan.
re #introduction Hi, I'm Chris (he/him), 49y, nerd, cyclist, gamer.
I'll post and boost mostly gaming related posts, thoughts and recommendations, no rants, no spoilers.
Things I enjoy: #biketouring #hiking #filmphotography with old #analogphotography cameras #bookstodon #books #FOSS #linux #anime
I care about #climatechange, pedestrian-friendly and bike-friendly cities and #sustainability but not here to talk politics.
I'm currently learning #Japanese #日本語.
はじめまして
よろしくお願いします
Sakurajima.moe is an inclusive Glitch Mastodon server for fans and content creators interested in Japanese anime, manga, games etc. The server is highly moderated to provide a safe, non-toxic environment.
:Fediverse: https://sakurajima.moe
They also run a Sharkey server at:
:Fediverse: https://sakurajima.social
Find out more at https://sakurajima.moe/about or contact the admin @sakurajima
#FeaturedServer #Anime #Manga #Japan #Japanese #Otaku #Glitch #GlitchMastodon #Sharkey #FreeFediverse
Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in #Seoul, #Korea, and an avid advocate of #FLOSS and the #fediverse.
I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, and @hollo, a fediverse microblog for single users.
I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文/#漢文)!
My #introduction post. I like a bit of everything and always appreciate learning something new.
Highlights include #tea, #books, #languages (especially #italian and #japanese), #StarWars, #JamesBond, #IndianaJones, the film scores of #JohnWilliams, playing the #violin, #piano and #ukulele, looking at the fish in my #aquarium, #chocolate, #Chinese food, #pastries, #astrophysics, a fan of the #EU, not a fan of the Tories, I like #CrossStitch, #crafting, #painting...
Since there's been a big migration and my server has kinda connected a bit more a new intro post.
Dan. 🇮🇪🏳️🌈
Husband: @[email protected]
Talks about #horror #videogames #nintendo #anime #comics #manga. Studying #japanese. Makes websites. Collects soundtracks on #vinyl.
Time for #introductions 😅
Hi everyone, I am Norbert, a Data Architect and photography enthusiast living in Tokyo. I am mostly going to post travel and daily life photography, topics related to my Japanese Language learning, impressions from cafés that I went to (or newly discovered), and some other random musings. よろしくお願いします。
All the photos below were shot on film with a Mamiya 6 medium-format camera.
#photography #mediumformat #mamiya #cafe #日本語の勉強 #日本語 #japanese #japaneselanguage
As #Japanese studies #English, I've been encouraged by everyone who share that they are studying a language that is not their native language in #Fediverse ⁂ :fediverse: :tony_smiling: :vivaldia_heart:
@[email protected] · Reply to 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post
I guess I should write a brief introduction. I'm not quite sure exactly how I'm going to use Mastodon yet but I'm interested in #folklore and #mythology, especially from #Japan and East Asia, Japanese #culture and #art, especially #ukiyoe prints, and anything magical or #supernatural. I am trying to learn #Japanese, but it's a very slow process. I have a website mostly about Japanese folklore, see link in bio.
Looking forward to connecting with others here.
Ukiyo-e print by Utagawa Hiroshige.
I just realised that I haven't done a proper intro for this account which I use to share mostly #JapaneseFolklore, #yokai and #JapaneseArt, especially #ukiyoe art. I also love East Asian #folklore, British folklore, Greek #mythology and anything #supernatural. I have a website with content I've shared over the years & I'm currently playing around with the idea of writing a beginner level book about #Japanese folklore. I also have a personal account @angela which I use to connect & chat.
This #drawing is based on a still of a scene from the #Japanese movie Tokyo Story, made by Yasujirō Ozu in 1953.
This is one of my favourite scenes in that movie, where the mother, Tomi, bonds with her widowed daughter-in-law, Noriko. The scene is when they're about to go to sleep.
As usual, I used rough paper (Fabriano Artistico, 300 gsm, NOT), about 50 cm x 70 cm. I set up the drawing in ordinary pencil and worked it in Conté pencil (from HB to 3B). I don't sharpen the Conté pencils to a point. I als o used kneaded putty and a piece of soft rag for blending.
Intro post time (again)!
Hi! I'm Smitha. I've landed here after searching for a #fedipact-friendly server.
Proessionally, I'm a #UX/user experience designer. I care about #TechEthics + #TechForGood.
Personally, I play #violin + #viola, study #Japanese, and geek out over #geology and #aviation. I'm a #JETProgram alumna (#Tokushima 2005-07) and involved with #JETAA.
Antiracist. Antifascist. Black Lives Matter. Protect trans kids.
One of the most typical narratives in #philosophical / #sociological texts in #Japanese is to be cynical and ironical against the free society: even if you think you lived freely, your life style has been set up for the sake of the capitalism which exploits your freedom by tricking you into believing you were free.
This type of cynicism is seen so broadly that it plagues any narratives which try to be constructive to propose a principle for fixing the actual problems of the society.
Revised #introduction, w/hashtags: I loved living in #SanFrancisco for decades, but moved back to #Brooklyn last year to be with my Sweetie. I'm a front-end #WebDev (#ReactJS, #NextJS) in the early stages of writing an #urbanFantasy novel (maybe 1st of 3?). I love languages and #linguistics; I speak some #Spanish, some #Japanese, and lots of #LangBelta from #TheExpanse. I love #Celtic stuff, #sushi, and #cocktails. I'm #bisexual, #Pagan, #feminist, and #progressive. I'm here to find new friends.
👋 I’m Stuart. I spend my days running the Brand and Experience #design team at Deliveroo.
I live in #Devon - in SW England - where I’m #renovating a Victorian house having moved from #London after almost a decade in #Amsterdam and spells in #Aotearoa and #Japan before that.
I have a degree in #Japanese and I occasionally make #music and #okonomiyaki, take #photographs & waffle on about #cycling and #ebikes and Coventry City (#pusb) and #tech and #politics and my #HondaElement.
There are many #introductions but this #intro is mine.
I'm a professional technical #generalist. I write #code, read code, research, discover problems, and develop solutions.
Been in some form of the computer industry starting in 1995. It's what pays the bills: Career trajectory was #dialup ISP #helpdesk ➡️ Corporate IT ➡️ firewall/IDS analyst ➡️ CERT/SOC #Technical #Leader ➡️ Cisco Talos Technical Lead.
For fun/enrichment/growth: I dabble in making #DJ mixes, #woodworking, #3dprinting /CAD, #circuit design, #music production, studying #Japanese language & culture, a little bit of a #coffee snob learning #latte art, I love to cook, and I make a bangin margherita #pizza.
I guess instance migration is a good time for an #Introduction post. Hello lovely people, I'm here both as a scientific researcher and as a human being, and you can expect a range of genres of posts and interactions from me.
On the work side, I'm a computational scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the field of biological X-ray crystallography, specifically at free electron lasers. It's a glorious interdisciplinary mess, and the description I give to non-scientists is that i use my degree in chemistry to write software to do math that models the physics of experiments that we're running to learn about biology.
For fellow structural biologists: I work on crystallography data reduction software for the steps between photons hitting the detector and a merged set of structure factors. I also support XFEL experiments, both on site and remotely, and assist in post-experiment data processing as needed. My PhD focused on using simultaneous XFEL crystallography and XES spectroscopy to probe the water splitting reaction in oxygenic photosynthesis. I did a postdoc in computational methods development for cryoEM, and I'm now back to XFEL crystallography but still in methods development.
For fellow software developers: all of our work is open source and mostly under the cctbx project/repo. It's mostly python with a bunch of C++ under the hood (including some low-level stuff redundant with scipy and numpy because those weren't around yet!), plus a user-facing wxPython GUI. More recently we've done a ton of work with GPU acceleration (using Kokkos, for NVIDIA, Intel and AMD architectures) and scaling up at three different national labs' supercomputing centers in anticipation of next-gen experimental capabilities. I derive too much joy from writing bash-sed-awk monstrosities on the occasions we need them to fix an urgent problem during an experiment, and I guess I'm most proud of the fact that I somewhat understand git.
As far as hobbies, the longest-standing one is probably #coffee, followed closely by #language (s) / #languageLearning and a love of #patterns and #symmetry in various contexts. I have too many different ways of making coffee (they have overrun my coffee cupboard), but my favorite remains the classic latte, and by now I can make a better latte than I can buy. I'm trying to refresh my #Japanese and learn #Dutch and #German simultaneously/comparatively, which of course is terrible for speed of learning, but fascinating. So far I've found #ASL the most challenging but also deeply satisfying -- I only have one semester under my belt but hope to take a lot more. I studied and continue to study all the #math and #science I possibly can. Right now I seem to be pretty engrossed in #electronics, #CAD, #3DPrinting, and just generally #DIY-ing/fixing/repairing things. Other active interests include #sewing, #reading, #cooking, #bike commuting, and #publicTransit. My journeys in #aikido and #pottery are on hold but I definitely want to pick them back up when I'm not already overcommitted. I'm casually interested in #neurophilosophy, #neuropsychology, #neurodivergence and #neuroscience. I've taken one course in neurophilosophy and can read literature in the rest, with effort.
On a personal note, I'm trans and nonbinary and very open about it -- I transitioned back when I had to explain what that meant. I've retired from some forms of community engagement and support but I'm very happy to answer any questions I can about the US legal and medical landscapes, available resources, policy and terminology best practices, or whatever you know you shouldn't ask [person in your life].
Finally, I spend a lot of time with my cat Rory (pictured), who is perfect and the most affectionate creature I have ever met. I promise to share photos of him from time to time.
Japanese Mastodon achieved to make some hashtags trending about "permanent residence permit cancellation by the Japanese government."
Some of the posts have the cutest antiracist posters I've seen in a while! 😍 :QueerCatHeart_Pride: :acabkitty:
Can somebody give some context?
#introduction 2.0
I'm Jeroen from the Netherlands and a problem solver.
Interests:
#bsd #freebsd #unix
#buddhism #folklore #mythology
#cats
#commodore #c64 #amiga #retrocomputing #hardware
#DevOps
#DigiPres #metadata #SemanticWeb
#documentation #TechnicalWriting
#fantasy #SciFi #books
#history
#heraldry #vexillology
#japanese
#linguistics (#ProtoGermanic #ProtoIndoEuropean)
#programming #assembly #c #golang #nim #odinlang #python #rust #zig
#typography
Some assume that other languages lack multi-use vocab like the "F"-word in English. Words so adaptable that you can use them to express exact opposite sentiments without batting an eye.
But that isn’t exactly true. After all, just look at the Japanese language's “yabai”.
https://unseen-japan.com/yabai-the-most-versatile-word-in-the-japanese-language/
Time for an updated #introduction.
I'm into #programming (#PHP, #TypeScript, #Go, one day #Rust).
#LanguageLearning rocks - some competence in #Esperanto, #Japanese and #German; less in others. Currently learning #Greek and #French, among others, and building @vortmaro.
#ClimateChange is a big deal and to mitigate it, let's switch to #renewables, #ElectrifyEverything, and adopt #PlantBased diets.
#COVID sucks, we should nuke it (with masks, filtration, ventilation, far-UV, etc.)
@[email protected] · Reply to Christian Krebel's post
🎲 Playing on the #SteamDeck or #NintendoSwitch is nice to calm down, especially with cozy games. In contrast, the TCG #Lorcana is a new excitement for me since 2024.
🌱 #Vegetarian since 2017 and #Vegan since 2022.
🧠 #PKM enthusiast and building my digital garden of notes in #Obsidian.
🎌 I adore #Japan and it's culture, so I visited it in 2023 and started to (slowly) learn #Japanese どうぞよろしく
🇩🇪 Most of my posts are in English but sometimes I also post in German.
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Unicopedia Plus is a developer-oriented set of Unicode, Unihan, Unikemet & emoji utilities wrapped into one single app, built with #Electron.
Repository: 🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-plus
#characters #chinese #cjk #codepoints #desktopapplication #electronjs #emoji #ivd #japanese #javascript #kangxi #kangxiradicals #korean #normalization #opensource #regex #segmentation #strokecount #unicode #unicopedia #unihan #unikemet
Unicopedia Sinica is a developer-oriented set of #Unicode utilities related to ideographs, wrapped into one single app, built with #Electron.
Repository: 🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-sinica
#characters #chinese #cjk #cjkrelated #cjkv #codecharts #codepoints #components #confusables #desktopapplication #electronjs #glyphs #ideographs #ideographicdescriptionsequences #ids #japanese #javascript #kangxi #kangxiradicals #korean #localfonts #opensource #strokes #tangut #unicode #unicopedia #unihan #vietnamese
An updated #introduction! (Oct 2023)
Will be in #Fukuoka, #Japan beginning Nov 1 thru Jan 2024, then returning to #Portland. Married to a sweetheart of a man. Have dabbled in various artistic endeavors over the years (choreography, illustration, etc.) but concentrating for now on making #music (http://eerietom.com), #blogging (mostly about my #cannabis experiences https://eerietom.dreamwidth.org/), and improving my #Japanese. #福岡 #日本 #ポートランド #オレゴン州
Hi! 👋 My name is Renkon or renkotsuban. I'm 4世日系人, born and raised in Hawaiʻi. I've been living in #Japan since 2008. I am #nonbinary and go by they/them.
I keep myself busy by...
📝 #blogging @ https://renkotsuban.com
🎮 doing #GameDev with my partner Daikon as @nicegeargames
📰 making #zines highlighting #IndieGames from Japan @indietsushin
📚 #reading very slowly
💮 studying #Japanese
📸 taking amateur #photography
🏕️ yuru #camping
It's nice to meet you! 🤝
Hello lovely new space, it's time for an #introduction!
My name is Blair, I am a #bipoc trans woman and multi-instrumentalist that actively enjoys video game music and video games in general! It's my hope one day to compose music for video games!
Until then, I learn Japanese in my spare time and play in a rock band while working a simple day job. Nice to meet you!
ハイハイ、みんなさん！
私の名前はブレア、そして私はトランスジエンダー女性とシンセサイザーのプレヤーです！
ゲームが好きです、いつかゲームの音楽を書きたいと思っています。
その間、日本語を勉強しています、そして私のバンドを遊びです！よろしくお願いします！
Drawing and painting of a Japanese geisha/geiko woman calming a person down from an anxiety attack/panic attack. I was thinking of this idea randomly. She's a service geisha/geiko woman, who is trained to calm down people from anxiety/panic disorders, autism (ASD), etc. I used the following tools in Autodesk Sketchbook: color builder, pencil, fountain pen, and course watercolor.
#arttherapy #panicattack #geisha #geishaart #japan #japanese #mixedmedia #watercolor #watercolorpainting #Sketchbook
Hello World!
New instance, new #introduction
I'm Eren. I'm interested in #programming, #informationsecurity, #reverseengineering, #operatingsystems and #retrogaming. I read tech news and play games in my free time.
I've been on Mastodon for a long time. I have no idea how many times I've switched instances. I like all the platforms related to the Fediverse, so I ended up here because it was the best instance for me.
The stuff I write is mostly about daily life, the programming/software scene, and games. I mostly write in #Turkish, but you can also see my toots in #English and #Japanese
Happy tooting to everyone ^^
#programming #cybersecurity #os #operatingsystem #gaming #tech #cyberpunk #unix #linux #macos