Do you celebrate Halloween? If so: Did you read a spooky magazine like tenpo monsuta? Did you carve some pumpkins? Did you tell each other some fireside horror tales? And if you don’t celebrate it: I hope you’re having some cozy evenings with a hot beverage of your choice. One thing is for sure: You won’t have to wonder what everyone else has been up to, because here’s a whole list!
Community projects
- The 2027 meetup in Europe is being planned - fill out the form to say where and when you can go!
- jan Sate made a CHIP-8 game console called ilo musi 8! You can read some general information, access the code in the repository, and buy it here
- The lipu tenpo team published lipu tenpo nanpa pimeja! The next theme will be “kili” - click here to contribute.
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Songs
- nja Alila translated Mi tierra by Luciana Wolf!
- nimi En translated Impostor Syndrome (alt link) by Sydney Gish!
- jan Jami translated the labor movement song ⚂Einheitsfrontlied!
- jan Ju translated ⚂Hymn for the Weekend by Coldplay!
- jan Jami translated the labor union song ⚂Which side are you on by Florence Reece!
- jan Nikita translated от улыбки!
- puwa njasu translated ⚂なかなおり (Last Rally) (alt link)!
- jan Jami translated the Shakers anti-capitalist hymn ⚂Babylon Is Fallen!
- jan Jami translated the Italian anti-fascist song ⚂Bella Ciao!
- Marcus Scriptor released the album waso wawa!
- jan Jami translated ⚂We’re Gonna Vote Vote Vote, which is based on the KPop Demon Hunters song Golden!
- jan Pikesike translated ⚂enough by Gigi Murin!
- pipi Alon translated Butcher Vanity by Flavor Foley!
Videos in toki pona
- Several people on Ma Toki Pona VR told each other spooky stories for Halloween!
- jan Sunjeki got cursed to talk this way!
- jan Ke Tami made a final travel vlog about the meetup in Tiana!
- During the monthly crossover between Ma Toki Pona VR and Projekto Babel, ilo Tekinowi made a presentation about creating a model to use as an avatar!
- And puwa njasu also made a presentation about creating a model to use as an avatar!
- WCS_DoesStuff2025 made a ⚂toki pona livestream and then did it again!
- jan Esi-Pesi translated and subtitled the title sequence of Astro Boy!
- Students at the School of Vocational Education at RMIT University recreated the “good morning” scene from the beginning of The Hobbit!
Games
- A game called Lestvica: The Analog Current has toki pona as a feature!
- jan Sate presented a CHIP-8 game console called ⚂ilo musi 8!
- jan Matun created ⚂Toki Pona rooms with 12 levels in which you can find sitelen pona characters in a labyrinth!
- Benny Blue translated Gradius NES and played some of it!
- akesi Pi and mun kule played Fiz and the Rainbow Planet with the “all treasure” challenge!
- jan Pankeki played Minecraft!
- sitelen Kosin made a ⚂drawing in Pico-8!
Resources
- jan Sake made a ⚂condensed web keyboard for sitelen pona!
- puwa suwi made a proof-of-concept implementation of a ⚂UCSUR Sitelen Pona keyboard, intended to be faster than other keyboard inputs, taking advantage of people’s pre-existing skill typing text in Latin script on a QWERTY keyboard!
- jan Kupekuki made a rhyme dictionary!
Reading
- jan Kete translated the horror comic (cw: bugs, swearing, violence, death, trypophobia, body horror) ⚂Objectified!
- kala Koloje showcased a notebook with ⚂notes in sitelen pona, featuring many glyph variants!
- ma Pusa continued to translate Shimeji Simulation ⚂up to chapter 13!
- jan Pikesike continued translating the manga Bocchi the Rock up to ⚂chapter 32 (alt link)!
- jan Josuwa is translating Puzzleheads (be aware this comic is 16+)!
- jan Wajole made a poem called ⚂ali li seme!
Cool graphics
- Pumpkin season!
- SwiftShotShadow made a ⚂monsuta suwi pumpkin!
- jan Nowa made a ⚂soweli pumpkin!
- On the annual Ghost Town Pumkin Festival game, people have ⚂added pumpkins: ⚂soweli mu, ⚂tenpo pi nasa pona, ⚂toki pona, ⚂mun Kekan San, ⚂kijetesantakalu, ⚂mi lon kili!
- jan Ekawi made a tonsi flag!
- waso Seko made a ⚂taso meme!
- jan Sate made an illustration of a library for inktober!
- lightdiffraction compared ⚂raccoons and tanuki!
- jan Kupekuki made an ⚂infographic about lukin!
About toki pona
- jan Jami was on an Esperanto radio show discussing toki pona!
- Justin Reiners let an AI play a video game that a friend made, in which a player needs to learn toki pona to beat the boss!
- Roni talked about toki pona in Georgian!
- lipamanka made a video about tonsi and queer discourse and jan Olipija responded with a detailed blog article!
Have we missed something? Did you see something cool to share? Help us fill this newsletter! See you soon!
— jan Ke Tami