マリオ (Mario Menti)

マリオ (Mario Menti)

@mario.neko.cat

Swiss-Brit 🇨🇭 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇹🇼 ❤️ cats, japan, taiwan, books, running, drums, cooking, (mostly weird) music and tinkering with technology. 日本語を勉強しています。 https://menti.net Currently listening to / 現在聴いている曲: @mariolistens.neko.cat

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Read Japanese Literature
@readjapaneseliterature.com

Congratulations to Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896) and translator Brian Karetnyk for Troubled Water’s position on the Warwick shortlist!

bookshop.orgTroubled WatersA new translation of 5 remarkable stories from Japan’s first professional woman writer, chronicling the lives of the turn-of-the-century working classThis collection of short stories, several never be...
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation@womenintranslation.bsky.social

Announcing the shortlist of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2026. Congratulations to the authors, translators, and publishers! tinyurl.com/bdhfm9nx @tenement-press.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

マリオ (Mario Menti)
@mario.neko.cat

"The Be Ready campaign is aimed at persuading people to stock up with supplies to last 72 hours, amid growing official concern about the impact of the climate crisis, technological dependency and hostile state threats." Right after approving the Jackdaw gas field... 🤡

theguardian.comEvery Briton should stockpile water and food supplies, government advises | UK news | The GuardianBe Ready campaign aims to prepare UK for impact of climate crisis, technological dependency and threats by hostile state
マリオ (Mario Menti)
@mario.neko.cat

喃語 is a band from Hokkaido that are probably even in Japan a little niche. Their album あうおあう is one of my favourites of this year. I was wondering how they play this song live (you'll understand if you listen to the version on record). I'm actually quite happy they didn't just play the sample. #喃語

youtube.comYASASHIIKIMOCHI RECORDS - YouTube38 likes, 1 comment. "喃語 - 大小中大中大小大小大中中大小中小小中大中小小小(LIVE)@扇町para-dic...
マリオ (Mario Menti)
@mario.neko.cat

"in blow to climate campaigners" 🙄 ... No, "in blow to a liveable earth". Pure vandalism from Burnham and Labour (not surprisingly, sadly). https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/20/jackdaw-north-sea-gas-field-to-get-go-ahead-in-blow-to-climate-campaigners

theguardian.comJackdaw North Sea gasfield to get go-ahead in blow to climate campaigners | Fossil fuels | The GuardianJackdaw gasfield announcement signals UK’s commitment to North Sea industry but undermines green credentials
マリオ (Mario Menti)
@mario.neko.cat

If you have a cat, please neuter them! If you want a cat, please adopt them from a shelter rather than buying one from a pet shop!

The Guardian@theguardian.com

‘We really need help’: RSPCA faces capacity crisis as cats arrive faster than they can be rehomed

theguardian.com‘We really need help’: RSPCA faces capacity crisis as cats arrive faster than they can be rehomedAbout 20,000 cats were taken into charity’s care last year, an increase driven in part by pet hoarders There is a cat crisis in rescue centres across the country, the RSPCA has warned, as abandoned felines now outnumber dogs in the charity’s shelters. Cats are arriving in RSPCA centres faster than they can be rehomed, and the charity is asking people across England and Wales to consider adopting. Pet owners are being urged to neuter their cats as kittens are increasingly being found dumped in perilous conditions. Continue reading...
マリオ (Mario Menti)
@mario.neko.cat

I know that what I do is less effective in terms of learning (I will often forget kanji I looked up straight away), but I feel treating it like study would (for me) remove some of the enjoyment of reading.

マリオ (Mario Menti)
@mario.neko.cat

I fucking hate ridiculous, misleading ads like this. Speak fluent Japanese in three weeks? If that was true, this would be an absolute miracle app. But more likely, "fluent" here means being able to fluently say ありがとうございます… 🙄

マリオ (Mario Menti)
@mario.neko.cat

Wow... Also toe x MOTFD 👀

音楽ナタリー@music.natalie.mu

広島クアトロ25周年企画 第2弾発表📣 https://natalie.mu/music/news/693942?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social ・Salyu ・田島貴男 × GRAPEVINE ・長岡亮介 × cero ・eastern youth × betcover!! ・キュウソネコカミ × 四星球 など13公演追加

natalie.mu広島クアトロ25周年企画にSalyu、田島貴男×GRAPEVINE、長岡亮介×ceroなど13公演追加 - 音楽ナタリー広島・広島CLUB QUATTROのライブイベントシリーズ「QUATTRO CROSSING」の出演者第2弾が発表された。
マリオ (Mario Menti)
@mario.neko.cat

Happy birthday to Jiji, who is 1 year old exactly today 🎉 😻 ジジ、今日でちょうど1歳のお誕生日おめでとう 🎉 😻 #CatsOfBluesky #BlackCats

マリオ (Mario Menti)
@mario.neko.cat

I can't believe killing a entire school full of children doesn't automatically give you the Nobel peace price. Trump fumes over Nobel peace prize snub and criticises Norway https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/09/trump-nobel-peace-prize?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

theguardian.comTrump fumes over Nobel peace prize snub and criticizes Norway | Donald Trump | The GuardianPresident complains about not winning prize in year he started war with Iran and says: ‘We will not forget, Norway’
マリオ (Mario Menti)
@mario.neko.cat

Lin King (金翎) is taking legal action over an allegedly unauthorized "relay translation" based on her English translation of Yang Shuang-zi’s (楊双子) novel Taiwan Travelogue (臺灣漫遊錄 in the original Mandarin). https://www.rti.org.tw/en/news?uid=3&pid=236264

rti.org.twTranslator sues over alleged unauthorized relay translation of ‘Taiwan Travelogue’-News-Radio Taiwan International Lin King (金翎), the English translator of Yang Shuang-zi’s (楊双子) “Taiwan Travelogue,” h...
マリオ (Mario Menti)
@mario.neko.cat

I've heard of relay translations before (kind of like that game where you whisper a word into the ear of the person next to you, and they pass it on to the next person, and so on, until at the end a completely different word comes out 😅), but this is the first time I've seen an actual case.

マリオ (Mario Menti)
@mario.neko.cat

I watched 左様なら (Sayounara) tonight, and really liked it. It centres on teenage girl Yuki, played wonderfully by 芋生悠 Haruka Imou, living in a sleepy seaside town, dealing with the suicide of her closest friend and all the horrid high school clique stuff.

マリオ (Mario Menti)
@mario.neko.cat

I also just remembered that in one scene, they are talking about the band For Tracy Hyde, but are calling it フォトハイ、which I hadn't heard before. It's typical Japanese truncation, but if I had seen/heard it without knowing, I'd never have guessed what it meant. 😆

マリオ (Mario Menti)
@mario.neko.cat

Ha, somehow I never knew that until today, in Japan Ronald McDonald was called Donald McDonald 😁 マクドナルドのキャラクター「ドナルド」、きょうから「ロナルド」へ(オリコン) https://u.lin.ee/Y9Dibcm?mediadetail=1&utm_source=line&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=none&ep_list_account_id=%40linenews&ep_list_slug=bgmx8r1368ct

u.lin.eeマクドナルドのキャラクター「ドナルド」、きょうから「ロナルド」へ（オリコン）　日本マクドナルドのキャラクター「ドナルド」がきょう1日、マクドナルドの公式Xにて、「今日からロナルド」と宣言した。　投稿に「ドナルド、どーなるの？」とつづられており、添えられた写真
マリオ (Mario Menti)
@mario.neko.cat

I love/hate Japanese onomatopoeic words - love them because they're fun, hate them because there seem to be millions of them 😆 Today's new one to me is ガタゴト (gatagoto), meaning rattling or clattering.

マリオ (Mario Menti)
@mario.neko.cat

I'm regularly using the NHK easy news site (NHK news written in easier to understand Japanese) and I only just found out that the Asahi Shinbun does one too... やさしい朝日新聞 #LearningJapanese #日本語を勉強する https://yasashii.asahi.com/

yasashii.asahi.comやさしい朝日新聞「やさしい朝日新聞」は、朝日新聞のニュースをやさしい日本語で伝えるウェブサイトです。アルファサード株式会社が作っています。