It Rhymes With Broken

I'm Phil. He/Him. You’ll probably find too much Star Trek for your tastes here.

[herpsandbirds]

Animals with visually pleasing/appealing color schemes?

Ok, so here are some frog color schemes i greatly enjoy...

Santa Fe White-lipped Frog (Leptodactylus laticeps), family Leptodactylidae, Paraguay

Poisonous.

photograph by Daniel Kane

Klappenbach’s Red-bellied Frog (Melanophryniscus klappenbachi), family Bufonidae, found in the Gran Chaco in northern Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil 

Poisonous.

Captive frogs that are fed low alkaloid diets are much less toxic than wild toads.

photograph by Rudy van Santen

Splendid Leaf Frog (Cruziohyla calcarifer), family Hylidae, Costa Rica

photograph by Milan Zygmunt

Splendid Leaf Frog (Cruziohyla calcarifer), family Hylidae, Costa Rica

photograph by Milan Zygmunt

Purple Harlequin Toad (Atelopus barbotini), family Bufonidae, endemic to the uplands of central French Guiana

This species status is in dispute amongst herpetologists, some consider is to be a subspecies of A. spumarius. A few otheer species are considered to form a “species complex” with A. spumarius.

This species does not have a CITES listing, but the population is in decline, and may be CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

photograph by Josh’s Frogs

Dyeing Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates tinctorius), “Northern Bakhuis” morph, family Dendrobatidae, Regina, French Guiana

photograph by Xavier Rufray

[herpsandbirds]

Sonoran Desert Toad (Incilius alvarius), STANCED UP!!!, family Bufonidae, Arizona, USA

photograph by Adrian Bara-Popa

[slimetony]

Alpine Ibexes climb nearly 90 degree angles to lick salt deposits of of mountainsides. They crave that mineral.

[sailor--spoon]

Why is this back on my dash in 2018

[conqueringthenoodle]

Thank god this is back on my dash in 2018

[imjunebitch]

hate when a motherfucker says he has dark humor and then it turns out he just means he knows racial slurs

[sandpontiff]

On a trip

[charlizetheronsbush-official]

i still think chuck tingle is brandon sanderson

[drchucktingle]

🤔

[flork-of-cows-official]

crime scene

[punkitt-is-here]

watching an old disney movie

inspired by the comments in this video making me aware of the siamese cat scene in aristocats

[konekoling]

[theonion]

[unteriors]

Grassdale Road, Belmont (Brisbane), Queensland.

[chimaerakitten]

One big unintended implication of filming every outdoor stargate episode in various Vancouver forests is that somehow every planet in two galaxies was extensively logged 60-100 years ago

[beatrice-otter]

#they have so many naquadah mine plots and yet no timber plots#despite that evidently being a booming business for the goa’uld

[vintage-tigre]

Compatibles PC Magazine #2, May 1987

Olivier Legan's cover story illustration for the article titled "Who Wants the Head of The 5.25 Inch?"

[weaver-z]

How the media depicts the Apollo 11 mission:

Actual quotes from the Apollo 11 mission:

[fairycosmos]

my dead wife. the ad free internet

[fairycosmos]

watching dreamily recorded footage of a web forum from 2003

[free-my-mindd]

[diedoffscreen]

[mornington-the-crescent]

[garaks-padded-cell]

Does anyone else have a grandfather that locks you into unskippable cutscenes if you go to drop dinner over. Like this

Me: hi papa i made you some udon here for your dinner

Him: i met a man in japan once. His name was Yukihiro Shinohara. Real cocky sort of fella. He was a real pup. Well not a pup, about 30. He bought a motorcycle but could never manage to get his license, so one day, I decided to-

[At this point i sit down and mentally cancel all plans i had for the next 2 hours]

[teaboot]

Not to be rhe ten millionth person to say “USAmerican President Donald Trump Is An Incoherent Public Speaker Whose Train Of Thought Can Be Best Described As Scat Jazz” but I just remembered that when he talks at international events it is several dozen people’s job to translate what he’s saying and what he intends to say to world leaders in real time

And I desperately wish to hear how they do it

[teaboot]

If anyone reading this isn’t fluent enough in English to understand the sentences that man says, please know that he has essentially mixed a number of adjectives and topics together in a hat and is pulling them out at random like a horrible children’s game

[teaboot]

Like that waxy jaundiced bitch will straight up be like “J'étais sur internet l'autre jour – internet, la plus grande invention américaine. Et la Chine a “internet aussi. Pas un bon internet, pas comme le mien, j'ai un internet formidable. Les gens me disent : « Donald, ton internet est génial ! » On adore l'internet de Donald. Mais la Chine… Chine, Chine, Chine… Vous savez qu'ils mangent des oiseaux ? C'est terrible. J'adore les oiseaux. La Chine mange des oiseaux. Pas comme nous. Pas comme mes oiseaux. Mais vous savez, c'est comme ça, et c'est terrible. Mais voilà ce que je vais faire : je vais sauver les oiseaux. Je vais sauver internet et sauver les oiseaux. Tous ces magnifiques oiseaux. Pour l'Amérique. Et la Chine va nous détester pour ça. Ils vont nous détester parce qu'on est les meilleurs sur oiseaux”. And people will lose their minds

[angryraptor13]

International translators have had this problem for A While - if they *don't* clean up what he says to sound coherent, they look like they're doing a bad job.

Why is difficult to translate Donald Trump? Trumpslation explained.

Explore Trump translation challenges, tips for interpreters, and 2025 strategies for accurate political translation and Trumpslation success

[teaboot]

oh my god

[freckles-a-constellation]

There was a scandal in Poland because one translator decided to translate him accurately, tone, vocabulary level and word salad tangents and all. Polish conservatives who don't speak English and previously only heard smoothed out translations that sounded coherent and used big words were up in arms about how the translator was "inserting her political agenda", "mocking him", "exaggerating", "purposefully trying to make him look bad" and "incredibly unprofessional". I listened to the translation in question. It was literally just accurate.

[kimbureh]

5. Sensitive and Controversial Language Trump’s speeches occasionally contain misogynistic, sexist, or inflammatory language. Japanese interpreter Tsuruta, for example, faced challenges when translating sexualized remarks, ultimately opting for standard terminology to maintain professionalism. Similarly, Chinese translator Kumiko Torikai found certain lewd expressions ethically challenging, ultimately leading to her retirement. Navigating these situations requires skillful balancing of accuracy, professionalism, and cultural sensitivity, ensuring that the translation is appropriate without distorting the original intent.

I don't know why the authors of PoliLingua act as if Trump's verbal misogyny and racism wasn't very much part of his "original intent".

it only now dawns on me that millions of people on this planet think Trump is way smarter than he is because translators have neglected to relate his violent speech accurately out of misunderstood politeness. Make the ape sound like a ape

[cosmogyros]

We had a mini-scandal in the German translation/interpretation community last year about exactly this – the interpreter for the inauguration got sick of Trump's incoherence and made a remark into his mic that was not intended to be heard (here's my post on it).