josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

I'm trying to improve my Japanese by replying to everyone whose posts I understand with what I hope is both a grammatically correct and coherent reply. If you got one and can read this, please forgive me if they're neither. I don't mean to bother you or anything. My Japanese is just that terrible.

Reading @hannah's posts feels like reading Finnegans wake little by little and in random order. (I say that as a compliment, in case it wasn't clear.)

Thanks to having an alt, I realised that Mastodon did what I predicted a couple of years ago: they implemented quote posts in an incompatible way with everybody else. If you read some post of mine and it makes no sense, there's a good chance you are missing the quote I'm commenting on as Mastodon doesn't show it. I will have to use links from now on.

This post reminded me of a blog called The Nihon Review which was active more than fifteen years ago. They were cool people (they had an IRC channel, so you could chat with them) and saved many a series from obscurity thanks to very thoughtful reviews and essays. I wish they came back.

https://hackaday.com/2026/01/03/fpga-dev-kit-unofficially-brings-msx-standard-back/

«Although MSX is relatively unknown in North America and Western Europe...»

I don't know what their concept of Western Europe is, but my first computer was an MSX2, and, while it wasn't the best-selling platform of the time, there were plenty of videogames released for it, and even magazines dedicated to the standard. It was not unknown in Western Europe at all, just more expensive than a ZX Spectrum or an Amstrad.

I bet this is the same people that think the Commodore64 took the world by storm when it mostly sold in the US.

«El verdadero enemigo no son las mujeres ni los migrantes, sino el sistema que genera desigualdad: un capitalismo que concentra la riqueza en pocas manos, precariza el trabajo, jerarquiza brutalmente las vidas por clase social y convierte cada aspecto de la existencia en mercancía.»

Muy bien. Veo que lo vais pillando. Ahora decidnos a los hombres que toda la mierda que nos habéis echado encima durante los últimos quince años era bromi. A ver si hay suerte y (n)os convencéis. Besis.

To all the women who keep asking: “Why can't men be better?” This is why:

Remember: it all boils down to making you need it.