Wonderful, you took care of the pona I gave you last time! The seedling is already beginning to reach up to the sewi, showing its first laso. Let’s appreciate the moment and enjoy its sin by looking at all the little ijo that came out of the pona. Then let’s make sure that there’s telo in the ma so we can come back to check on it in another 2-ish weeks!
If you want to see which things make use of sitelen pona, look out for this symbol: ⚂
Videos in toki pona
- mun Kekan San made a presentation about inner strength for a powerpoint karaoke meetup, which happened as a crossover between Ma Toki Pona VR and Projekto Babel!
- For another powerpoint karaoke during the Ma Toki Pona VR and Projekto Babel crossover, waso Seko made a presentation about fish!
- jan Polijan met a horse!
Fonts ⚂
- jan Maku tested out the new v5.0 of SPFM to make ⚂sitelen pi nanpa sewi, the first SPFM font to have “long pi”!
- soweli Pijuku created ⚂ilo en luka!
- kala Awi created ⚂linjawi!
- jan mute luka luka tu created ⚂sitelen meso!
- kili Owen created ⚂RTD Pixelscript!
Songs
- jan Jami created an original song called ⚂sina moli e sewi!
- Nardi rapped in 4 languages including toki pona!
- Pajama Grams released remastered versions of pona tawa sina and mi pilin pona!
- jan Jami made a cover of the Minecraft song ⚂Revenge (Creeper, aww man…) by CaptainSparklez!
- jan Alila made a cover of I Love You by Pearl Sisters!
- jan Nikita made a cover of Прощание славянки by Vasily Agapkin!
- moustilu made a cover of サイレン *Siren* by Susumu Hirasawa!
Comics
- jan Masewin made a couple of funny comics called leko-leko:
- jan Ke Tami published a new ⚂kijetesantakalu comic!
- jan Pikesike made a comic about ⚂pirates!
- jan Pikesike continued translating the manga Bocchi The Rock ⚂up to chapter 21 (alt link)!
- ma Pusa continued to translate Shimeji simulation ⚂up to chapter 8!
Community projects
- The annual toki pona writing contest has officially opened!!! You have until July 12 to submit original works in four categories: small worded document, large worded document, small image document (comic), large worded document with additional images!
- jan Tene maintains the webring sike pona and has added new graphics people can use!
- The lipu tenpo team published lipu tenpo nanpa suwi! The next theme will be “pakala”, click here to contribute.
- jan Salo needs recipes to recreate them on video!
Games
- jan loje, loje jelo, jelo tu made a ⚂sitelen pona version of 2048!
- jan Nowa made a connections game!
- mama nanpa luka luka luka pi ale mute made a connections game!
- People played Among Us, and meet 01:00 UTC every Saturday to play!
- jan Meteka updated the ⚂sitelen pona texture pack for Minecraft to support Minecraft 1.21.11!
- And Mojang fixed a bug to render glyphs correctly when loaded from a TTF, which includes ⚂ a sitelen pona example!
- Wynncraft has a small toki pona reference!
Reading
- Inspired by Chao Yuen Ren’s Chinese translation, jan Kupekuki ⚂translated the Jabberwocky poem into sitelen pona!
- soweli Sawa shared some ⚂writing accompanied by doodles and illustrations and ⚂shared some feelings!
- Marie Smith translated 子夜吴歌·秋歌, a Chinese poem!
Cool graphics
- kili Tanewin made a ⚂toki pona soap dispenser!
- jan Kesi continues to animate all sitelen pona characters ⚂up to jaki!
- b0x1 animated the ⚂concept of the word ala!
About toki pona
- lipamanka made a video about prototype theory and how toki pona uses categories differently from other languages!
- With the addition of Danish by tonsi Natali, Wasona is now available in 15 languages! This is the first modern toki pona course in Danish.
- jan Kuwimaku made a new Anki deck!
- ijo Eta wrote about how to say anything in toki pona!
- Battle for Dream Island Again had 2 toki pona cameos during a theatrical release in BFDIA 25: “Toki Pona” by STB4G and “Toki” by Pixeled_ransomware!
- jan Likipi released ⚂an update to the Wakalito keyboard, allowing for parentheses, and more options to type akesi, alasa, pilin, pipi, seme, soko, epiku, lanpan, majuna and Pingo!
Have we missed something? Did you see something cool to share? Help us fill this newsletter! See you soon!
— jan Ke Tami