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
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.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK13DNSscbY/?igsh=OG42NjI5bG9oaGEw
https://pivic.blog/blog/two-kinds-of-serial-killer
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
you mischievous crow
wending strangely here to there
thwarting metaphor
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 ।
seasonal ratchet.
once more Climate ups its torque,
daring Spring to break
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!
The perfect #metaphor for #republican #leadership does not exi....
These "#Ostrich Sculptures" adjacent to the European Parliament in Brussels, were created by the architectural firm MSA in collaboration with contemporary art sculptor Elodie Antoine
Driving the perfect length of Ireland,
Like a worn fold in a newspaper
—Medbh McGuckian, from "To a Cuckoo at Coolanlough"
https://textworksite.com/2009/05/09/a-saturday-woman-poet-medbh-mc-guckian/
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.'
"The beak descends, the air is furious with blurs, drab against the snowless city day....Allow me to sit between you and the piercing sharpened roving eye for just a little time."
Sitting side by side with this poem from @marywordymary
#poems #metaphor #condolence #solace
https://sweetlit.com/issue-13-3/poet-mary-alexandra-agner/
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.
newton's laws apply
any move to force respect
pushes it away
@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!
We say "knock seven bells" out of someone because a naval watch traditionally lasted 4 hours, with a bell on the half hour, so 7 bells out of 8 is a near-total beating.
Best Video Games of 2024 - It was supposed to be a sleepy year for the video game industry. Then came surprise hits ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/arts/best-video-games-of-2024.html #eldenring:shadowoftheerdtree(videogame) #princeofpersia:thelostcrown(videogame) #finalfantasyviirebirth(videogame) #metaphor:refantazio(videogame) #silenthill2(2024)(videogame) #stillwakesthedeep(videogame) #helldivers2(videogame) #computerandvideogames #twothousandtwentyfour #animalwell(videogame)
"Whatever sentence I extract whole and entire from this cauldron is only a string of six little fish that let themselves be caught while a million others leap and sizzle" —Virginia Woolf, The Waves