📰 sin: Charlie Chaplin, CYOA comic, collaborative website
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Hi, how are y’all doing! I’ve collected a lot of fun things for you again, hopefully getting some pona from other people’s pilin to yours! Find a nice spot for the pona, plant it into some soft soil, water it and let’s all see together what grows out of it in the next 2-ish weeks.
Just like last time, you can see which items make use of sitelen pona with the Unicode symbol ⚂.
Songs
- jan Jami made an original song called ⚂ olin li seme!
- jan Sepulon made an original song called ⚂ jaki loje!
- jan Sate translated ⚂ The Internationale!
- CycylesaXeDe made a song with toki pona words!
- Basil Bagel translated あなぐらぐらし Hole-dwelling by Kikuo, using sitelen suwi for displaying lyrics!
- jan Kapuni translated Looping the Rooms by rusino and I’m talking to you by pinata!
- telo Kule made a song called ⚂ olin e sina!
Fonts ⚂
- pan Wakelelu made ⚂ sitelen melon pan!
- pakala Mapuju made ⚂ sitelen ike!
- soweli Pulejamotelu made sitelen jan sewi nasa!
- jan Niki made ⚂ leko Niki!
Games
- jan Tekinowi made a ⚂ game about a frog!
- jan Sate made a ⚂ game about traffic lights!
- nimi Elemenopi made a connections game!
- People played Among Us as a group!
- jan Jopa played Ori and the Will of the Wisps and then played some more!
Videos in toki pona
- jan Ekinen translated the entirety of Charlie Chaplin’s silent film classic The Kid!
- jan Alonola received jan Sate’s ⚂ toki pona keyboard!
- Zoomblop also received jan Sate’s ⚂ toki pona keyboard!
- ijo Upi demonstrated ⚂ simple addition!
- mun Pawi made a ⚂ short video in a Draw My Life style!
- jan Itate made an animation for the title of Despicable Me!
- jan Kupekuki dubbed the viral video prendo el velador!
- Noahswedishmappertv made a ⚂ toki pona version of The End of the World, the viral video from 2003!
Reading material
- soweli Sawa ⚂ shared some writing accompanied by ⚂ doodles and illustrations!
- jan Satase translated the first 26 parts of Mini Fantasy Theater from the Pepper & Carrot universe!
- jan Pikesike continued translating the manga Bocchi The Rock ⚂ up to chapter 20!
- jan Sijali translated the choose your own adventure comic ⚂ Super Mario Bros. in which you guide Mario through the game!
- jan Sami published ⚂ chapter 6, part 1 and ⚂ part 2 of the toki pona Knight series!
- jan Masewin made a couple of funny comics called leko-leko:
- NoDoughnut8739 made a comic ⚂ based on the uvuvwevwevweonyetenvewveugwemubwemossas meme!
- Staetyk made a comic ⚂ to explore different ways to ask “sina seme”!
- jan Majeka translated a ⚂ comic by paxiti (cw: trans relatable trauma)!
Websites
- People have collaborated to make a community-based website for toki pona and continue to improve it!
- jan Lanijo made a website about ferrets!
- kala Koko made a website to convert numbers!
About toki pona
- Multiple toki pona speakers and groups came together to make a statement.
- ilo Tani gave a 1 hour presentation for Conlang Adventures 2026!
- jan Alonola interviewed linguist Marc van Oostendorp!
- Babel. O językach gave an introduction to toki pona in Polish!
- Marie Smith made a Substack post about toki pona in Spanish!
- soweli Wika sells merch with pride, progress pride, trans pride and anarchocommunist designs!
- Herbythecurvy tried to see how much far a 7 day challenge of learning toki pona would go!
toki pona is out there:
- ijo Tojoko put toki pona (and art) in a museum!
- Someone tagged an LFG bar’s men’s bathroom!
- Someone made a small graffiti in Granada!
Have we missed something? Did you see something cool to share? Help us fill this newsletter! See you soon!
— jan Ke Tami