A cup of T(ea)ravel

No all who wander are lost.

[catchymemes]

[ottosgotanothergun]

[doggosource]

safety 

[facelesskinkyblackguyblog]

The baby 😭😭😭😭

[svedone]

“bro”

“what bro”

“tell the whole world that we’re bros”

*whispers* “we’re bros”

“why’d you whisper bro?”

“because you’re my whole world bro”

“b r o”

[fineillsignup]

why not to waste your money on Mulan (2020)

send message to Disney to stop with this lazy remake bullshit already and create actual new content

no Mushu

no songs

bisexual icon Li Shang replaced with bland inferior love interest

lead actress Liu Yifei trashed Hong Kong protesters, specifically supported HK’s brutal police

Hong Kong activists are asking international supporters to boycott it

perfect live action Mulan starring Vicki Zhao Wei made in 2009 already exists

here in Canada they’re asking for thirty five fucking dollars PLUS a Disney+ subscription

thirty five fucking dollars just to rent it

[whitepeopletwitter]

[nostrem]

I’m posting this here because I’m honestly so sick and tired of this kind of thing. Especially in regards to endangered languages

[nostrem]

But yeah. so funny

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

For those who don’t know, Scots language is not the same as Scottish Gaelic. They are unique from each other. Some people know Scots language better as being referred to as a dialect, so if you’ve heard about the Scots dialect before online, they’re probably referring to Scots language. 

UNESCO recognizes it as a vulnerable language (Gaelic is considered more severely as “endangered”).

The Scots Wikipedia is exactly what it sounds like, an alternate wikipedia where the articles are all written in Scots. There are other wikipedias that provide content for other languages the same way. It helps preserve and give access to a threatened and underrepresented language, which is invaluable.

About 16 hours ago, it was discovered that an American teenager has been editing and writing articles not in Scots, but in an American’s disrespectful phonetic take on what he thinks Scots sounds like. 

“The problem is that this person cannot speak Scots. I don’t mean this in a mean spirited or gatekeeping way where they’re trying their best but are making a few mistakes, I mean they don’t seem to have any knowledge of the language at all. “

This problem isn’t unique to this incident. Frequently on tumblr I see Americans making jokes about Scottish actors making what they’ve called “garbled Scottish sounds” and attempting (and failing) to type in Scots. Scottish languages have been decimated over the centuries, and Scots Wikipedia should be an amazing language resource.

The worst part? He’s apparently been at this for YEARS. He’s potentially (more info to come) edited or penned nearly 1/3 of Scots Wikipedia. Apparently when Scots speakers have corrected him in the past, he’s had a “haughty attitude,” claiming that other Scots speakers (who were never present, unsurprisingly) approved of his failed attempts at writing in Scots.

The damage is heart wrenching:

“Potentially tens of millions of people now think that Scots is a horribly mangled rendering of English rather than being a language or dialect of its own, all because they were exposed to a mangled rendering of English being called Scots by this person and by this person alone.

They wrote such a massive volume of this pretend Scots that anyone writing in genuine Scots would have their work drowned out by rubbish. Or, even worse, edited to be more in line with said rubbish.

Wikipedia could have been an invaluable resource for the struggling language. Instead, it’s just become another source of ammunition for people wanting to disparage and mock it, all because of this one person and their bizarre fixation on Scots, which unfortunately never extended so far as wanting to properly learn it.”

Even worse, many people are praising this kid as the all-time most dedicate “troll,” as funny, etc. It’s inexcusable.

They’re hoping Scots speakers will volunteer to help fix all of the nonsense articles he’s put up.

[feministakari]

This is awful first of all, but how can you completely write that many Wikipedia page translations in a bastardized language without getting caught sooner? I know Wikipedia is open to edit many pages, but there’s got to be some checks right? The fact that nobody caught this seems like a bigger problem. Even if that one kid didn’t do this, it could have been done to many other vulnerable languages by anyone else.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Apparently, at some point he was somehow granted moderator power, but there’s so far no detail as to how. Scots Wikipedia isn’t exactly a bustling business. There aren’t many moderators, and unless they were combing through tens of thousands of articles continually, these ones could be missed among the rest.

Apparently, the kid was using online Scots dictionaries (not a reliable way to translate a language) so that at a glance or to a non-speaker, enough words…..looked like they were being used in the APPROXIMATELY correct place. That combined with a small number of moderators and tens of thousands of articles to look after let this non-speaker edit and moderate pages despite being caught a few times and questioned by speakers.

That’s all I know.

It’s a mess. And you’re right. Hopefully nothing like this happens (or is already happening) to other vulnerable languages.

[erarg]

longcat is probably dead :(

[kremlin]

WRONG

[notcuddles]

Awww, long cat’s owner got married.

[nb-tomfool]

this is a good post

[djo-time]

“When you say “Looooong”, I think of my cat. Around 15 years ago, someone made me lots of collages of my cat. The cat is still alive and she is the longest living cat in our family!”

“Now she is 17 years old. She does not climb to high places anymore, but she is relaxing and living her life.”

“It’s not something recent. This is the photo that we took when we made her Figure”

[princesstigerbelle]

WHOLESOME UPDATE

[no698-deactivated20241214]

This is a photo taken a day ago (July 31st, 2020) so she’s still alive and well

[mariposa-corbeau]

The Umbrella Academy Season 2 Soundtrack

Episode 1

“Beyond the Sea” - Bobby Darin

“Right Back Where We Started From” - Maxine Nightingale

"My Way” - Frank Sinatra

“You Must Be an Angel” - Richard Myhill

“Trying” - Fran Powers

“I Wonder What The Future Holds For Me” - Glenn Snow

“Rocket Fuel” - DJ Shadow (feat. De La Soul)

“Be Thankful You’re You” - Fern Jones

“Crazy" - Daniela Andrade, cover of Gnarls Barkley

“Comin’ Home Baby” - Mel Tormé

“You Only Want Me When You’re Lonely” - Jim Boyd 

Episode 2

“Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” - Perry Como and the Fontane Sisters

“Who’s That Knockin’” - The Genies 

“I’m a Man” - The Spencer Davis Group

Episode 3

“I Gotta Get the World Fff My Back” - Bill Martin and Phil Coulter

“Sunny” -Boney M

“I Don’t Care What They Say About You” - Mack & Gwen With The Country Playboys

“I’ll Never Do You Wrong” - Joe Tex

“Golden Brown” The Stranglers

Episode 4

“Love Is Blue” - Marty Robbins 

“Renegade” - Styx

“Have You Ever Been Hurt” - Helen Wilson 

“Unwind Yourself” - Marva Whitney

“I Was Made For Lovin’ You” - KISS

Episode 5

“Major Tom (Coming Home)” - Peter Schilling

“He Can’t Love You” - Joe Hunter feat. Four Holidays

“Hey Da Da” - Andrea Litkei & Ervin Litkei

“Twisting the Night Away” - Sam Cooke

“Bad Guy" - The Interrupters, cover of Billie Eilish

“Hello" - My Kullsvik, cover of Adele

Episode 6

“Won’t Be Long” - Aretha Franklin

“An Old-Fashioned Christmas” - Jack Huddle 

“Hold On, I’m Comin’” - Sam and Dave

“I Live Alone” - Bob Cox

“The Order of Death” - Public Image Ltd.

“In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company” - The Dead South

Episode 7

“Polk Salad Annie” - Tony Joe White

“Give Me A Reason To Stay” - Zoe Muth

“Sister of Pearl” - Baio

"Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” - Backstreet Boys

Episode 8

“Pepper” - Butthole Surfers

Episode 9

“Dancing With Myself” - Generation X

“Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor” - Johann Sebastian Bach

“Here Comes The End” - Gerard Way  (feat. Judith Hill)

Episode 10

“Wicked Game” - Parra for Cuva (feat. Anna Naklab)

[ampervadasz]

[melonmemes]

[nomehablen2]

this is so fucking funny

[awesome-picz]

People Are Sharing Pics Of Their Long Cats That Seem To Stretch ‘Til Infinity.

[justcatposts]

More cat snaps

[serfuzzypushover]

Trying

[warplanerubdown]

[liberalsarecool]

Mood.

[babyanimalgifs]

An elephant casually stealing and then returning a wildlife photographer’s hat 

(Source)

[whitepeopletwitter]

[vialium]