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A visual metaphor for our times. Just imagine who the hippo and the bird might represent - and remember the hippo can always just sink and the bird is relying on an ability to get away and out of the wash in time.

Photo by Ann Aveyard

I'm not in the habit of posting Instagram memes here, but sometimes an exception is warranted. This is powerful writing and a passionate performance and a worthy watch this Fourth of July weekend in the US.

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InstagramLeilani (レイラニ) on Instagram: "“Let’s Cook” This poem began as a response to the erasure of DEl efforts across the country and now, it speaks just as urgently to the violent, unlawful raids happening in Los Angelos, New York and all across the country. America was and continues to be built by immigrants and people of color. Human beings who deserve safety and life alongside their loved ones. Who deserve to dream. To tear families apart without due process is unjust, inhumane and absolutely SICKENING. We are in this fight together. Shot by @michaelgebhardt10 #SlamPoetry #Poetry #LosAngelesCalifornia #ImmigrantJustice #DElMatters #newyork #SpokenWord"92K likes, 2,301 comments - leilani.poetry_ on June 13, 2025: "“Let’s Cook” This poem began as a response to the erasure of DEl efforts across the country and now, it speaks just as urgently to the violent, unlawful raids happening in Los Angelos, New York and all across the country. America was and continues to be built by immigrants and people of color. Human beings who deserve safety and life alongside their loved ones. Who deserve to dream. To tear families apart without due process is unjust, inhumane and absolutely SICKENING. We are in this fight together. Shot by @michaelgebhardt10 #SlamPoetry #Poetry #LosAngelesCalifornia #ImmigrantJustice #DElMatters #newyork #SpokenWord".

pivic.blog/blog/two-kinds-of-s

I've written about two kinds of serial killers: the one who murders people with their own hands and the one that murders people from behind their desk.

Parts of my simple comparison include bits from Caroline Fraser's great book on different kinds of serial killers, Benjamin Nathans's brilliant book on Soviet dissidents, and Ed Zitron's recent blog post and podcast mini-series on 'the business idiot'.

#blog #metaphor #comparison @bookstodon #CarolineFraser #BenjaminNathans #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CriticalThinking #EdZitron

@funnymonkey For me, this article is important because the #rosegarden becomes a #metaphor for a death cult (fascism), for an inner attitude towards #nature and a lack of empathy towards the #diversity of species and people, for a deliberate break with democratic tradition. In Europe, we call them "gardens of horror". The USA became one.
These pictures tell more than many complex analyses.
BTW, it reminds me of the 1968 revolution with

The massive glacial flow in Blatten is a good metaphor, I guess.

"We had been aware of cracks, of pressure; we knew it was serious enough to prepare, but no one expected *this*. Yet in retrospect we should have. Huh."

And someone has to find a new shelter someplace "safer", and look after the kids, and make food on a temporary stove, and deal with paperwork.

And in a superdiverse alpine landscape, a thousand ledges and outcrops and gullies with gentians and mosses and evanescent bulbs...are gone.

But the company that conveniently sold and delivered that stove, and the company that makes diesel diggers rooting through the rubble, and the company that sold cloud computing services to the geological survey department, and the tourist airlines worried about a drop in revenue, and the insurance brokers...they adjust their business practices to deal with any temporary effect on future economic growth and then just market all the harder.

"In retrospect we should have. Huh."

सर्वं दु:खम्। सर्वमनित्यम् । सर्वमनात्मकम् ।

Beautiful #dream last night. I was lost, floating in a calm ocean, no land in sight. A dolphin - one of my spirit animals - came to save me.

It floated underneath, nudging me onto my stomach, pointing me to the right, hovering its fin beneath my hands. I wrapped my hands around the fin - slippery, hard to hold.

That is all. It felt like I was eventually rescued. I woke up, told myself: "Remember this, it's important." Interpretations welcome! 🙏💕

#Psychology
#Metaphor
#Allegory
#Symbols

More memories of #Kanzi

'One of Pruetz’s favorite pieces of Kanzi lore, she added, was a story about him using two of his symbols to describe a frightening beaver he discovered in his new outdoor habitat in Iowa. “He combined the symbols for ‘water’ and ‘gorilla,’ the latter referred to something scary in his world, and I always think of beavers ... as water gorillas now,” she wrote.'

#metaphor

scientificamerican.com/article

Scientific American · Kanzi the Bonobo, Who Learned Language and Made Stone Tools, Dies at Age 44By Kate Wong

MAGA Mike Johnson was on FOX talking about the US economy and stuttered through the following statement:

"The adults are back in the room, and we're going to turn this economy around. We need a little runway to do it... I keep using this metaphor of an aircraft carrier, you know, it took decades to get into the mess that we're in. You don't turn an aircraft carrier on a dime, but you need miles of open ocean to do it"

Given his position in the government, I am sure he should know more about US Aircraft carriers. They can turn on a dime, and what's more, even at 30 knots they don't need miles of open ocean to turn, they are almost as nimble as a Seadoo when they want to be!

The USS Abraham Lincoln has a message for your shitty metaphor, Mike.

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www.facebook.com1.3M views · 10K reactions | High Speed, Fast Turn | USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) performs high-speed turns in the Atlantic Ocean. | By All Hands Magazine | FacebookUSS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) performs high-speed turns in the Atlantic Ocean.
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@paigerduty Love it!!! And really nice because the postal service serves as a metaphor in many other cases, which benefits knowledge transfer!

So one that I like to use is to illustrate how we are more interested in useful dashboards than creating a dashboard(s) for everything.

We sometimes market this as "the single pane of glass solution". So I encourage people to think about a stained glass window instead.

Single panes of glass always look the same. Homogenous and uncolored from any angle or perspective, under most any light. Single panes of glass can be broken, they have no internal structure.

Stained Glass looks different if you change your perspective only slightly. Light is refracted in multiplicative ways through the different colors of glass. Different kinds of light have different shades and hues. Most importantly, stained glass pieces are deliberate, they depict something. These windows can only be broken in sections, which is a nice example of systems thinking as well!

Best Video Games of 2024 - It was supposed to be a sleepy year for the video game industry. Then came surprise hits ... - nytimes.com/2024/12/05/arts/be #eldenring:shadowoftheerdtree(videogame) #princeofpersia:thelostcrown(videogame) #finalfantasyviirebirth(videogame) #metaphor:refantazio(videogame) #silenthill2(2024)(videogame) #stillwakesthedeep(videogame) #helldivers2(videogame) #computerandvideogames #twothousandtwentyfour #animalwell(videogame)

The New York Times · Best Video Games of 2024By Zachary Small