#metaphor — Public Fediverse posts

This Mined Mind of Mine

This mind of mine
is a mine
mined with mines,

bombs bombing
balmy balms,

static coms,
erratic ROMs,

a spinning sinning din of
fractured psalms.

Soul soloing
solely on wounded soles,

moldy moles
modifying holes,

digging shrews,
rigging news,

a sonic bubonic tonic of
the unamused.

Eye on the I,
I’d hide from I,
why try,

eye, I,
open wide,

what’s inside,
now out,
look about,

shouting shout,
spouting sprouts,

broken limbs,
token Sims,

a brimming skimming hymn of
the grim.

Blinding binds,
blinds behind signs,

warped windows,
skin grows,

transparent parent
gelling jellos,

a churning yearning turning of
buried cellos.

Nerve serving curve
of the mortal swerve,

a word herd stirred,
a buried blurred bird,

sudden flight,
sodden fright,

a scattered battered bat of
the tattered night.

Hands in the sand,
unplanned manned strands
of what once was grand,

keeps collapse,
seeps relapse,

in the laps of
the lambasted land,

vain veins
veined in clay,

waiting gray,
weighty water
washing away,

a dim lit hymn-bit limb of
decay.

Still—

slurping krill,
burping bill,

Be still,
be still,

not my will,
but thine,

new wine,
do dine,

demining
this mined heart of mine,

never mine,
ever kind,

sever the binding line,

and I,
eye,

am no longer
blind.

Nine of my learnings from the first Meeting Design Practicum — 30 meeting designers together for 48 hours in Utrecht, The Netherlands

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/02/nine-learnings-from-the-first-meeting-design-practicum

#meetings #EventDesign #Practicum #learning #ElementaryMeetings #metaphor #Druids #EscapeRoom #fun #eventprofs

🚀 Ah, another day, another 'visionary' who thinks #AI #labs are the new sovereign states 🌐. The real revelation here? That 403 error – a fitting #metaphor for the impenetrable logic 🤔 of comparing a code-writing bot to an entire government. 🙄
https://ai-updates.net/an-openai-strategist-says-ai-labs-should-rival-government-power/ #Sovereignty #AI #Tech #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated

Nine of my learnings from the first Meeting Design Practicum — 30 meeting designers together for 48 hours in Utrecht, The Netherlands

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/02/nine-learnings-from-the-first-meeting-design-practicum

#meetings #EventDesign #Practicum #learning #ElementaryMeetings #metaphor #Druids #EscapeRoom #fun #eventprofs

„One Foot Out“ (March 2026)
Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
📍Zurich, Switzerland

#monochromemarch #monochrome #monochromemonday #zurich #switzerland #streetphotography #street #car #woman #foot #metaphor #bnw #photo #bnwphotography #photography #streetphoto #blackandwhite #moment #catchthemoment #Hasselblad #midformat #Schweiz #mittelformat #strasse #auto #frau #fuss #metapher #foto #monochrom #schwarzweissfotografie #fotografie #schwarzweiss

✮ Out of Gas ✮

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I am writing an open #letter to all #political sides as an #introduction to #hope I wish to turn #hurt away from and closer into as such through #affirmative #action accordingly if at all possible.

Let me start out by saying, that I #believe in the #power of real human prayer as #unbound #energy finding its way through us. And in turn, I'm no #religious #person by and large, but I am going to send this #prayer out there anyways because I feel it needs to be #said as is.

This will be a prayer covering several #topics of conversation that I #feel are important and significant enough to relay as one broadcast.

#extremism

To all #people I #pray that:
You realize living on your own #political #island sounds great in theory, be it on the #left or the #right of the spectrum. Or even at the #top or #bottom of it as well. But being unable to find or care for the #center of it, leaves you #vulnerable to #attack more so than anything else. And that is not a state of things I #desire for you to have to #live by.

#awareness

I pray that:
As #individuals you #collectively and #personally #understand that there are differences between the #perception of how you come across to others, and how others #perceive you in turn. It is okay to have a #difference of opinion, but to be #blind sighted by this, leaves you open to being #weaponized and I do not #wish that for you to have to #experience at all.

#sovereignty
I pray that:
You can #recognize how someone wants to be able to experience #respect without having to diverge or divulge your #interest in a #potential #conflict as such. In order for us to be able to #trust each other, we have to #remember how to #treat one another as #equals rather than constantly #competing for #dominance based on denying that there #exists a spectrum of #agreeability at play that we are all apart of.

#CommonSense
I pray that:
We keep building upon #frameworks that do not need to become a totally separate #foundation that exists just to serve you. But rather, exist as #modular #blocks that can join and detach from one another as already built #structures full and complete. This way, we are not trying to conflict over what block we have to share space with someone else in prioritizing. Because the entire thing is ours to shape in our own way. And so as a #metaphor, I feel it is #important to attach to the idea of having a sense in common, as opposed to a common sense where applicable, of things that cause us to #fight over how #relevant it is to most of us around the #actual or #planned #change currently in motion.

#battles
I pray that:
We are able to tell when to be #still and when to #move upon any #focus that #captivates us in part. Whether it exists as apart of a #whole or not. Doing so will help us make the best #impact #possible for the change we want to make a #reality for the #cause we are #concerned for.

And ultimately, I pray that we can move past the blatant need to have an #existential #crisis be on full display at the #crossroads of #agendas being carried out as they are each in turn, #instigated by #georegional #tribalism that serves nobody accept to put #humanity as a whole last, not first, as I intend to do.

All of these things are #real and can be #fixable and #doable as such. And I want to make sure, that this reality does not have a chance to get far out of #control the way it currently has.

For it is #outcomes like this, that #incomes should never have appropriately #manifested into #place that I want to #avoid and keep #preventable from ever #happening again.

To me, I find it very #unfortunate that we are living through #times of such blatant #hardship that should not have to be so unnecessary in today's day and age. For in this latest #protest #style #news #video we see this very inteersection of mounting, preventable #activities #culminating all at once in a display of #violent #behaviour best #repurposed for other #interests in my #opinion acordingly.

#posted by #YouTube #reactor and #media #podcaster #RebelNews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjT3kK5lHKk

In #America #israel and #Canada or anywhere else in our #world we should not have to worry about #migration #problems at home #effecting the #symptom of #indifference at the #core of #ineffective #deference as such. Rather, if we simply #agree to #adapt our time towards #focusing on the #things we can #bear #witness to as our own #personal #legacy then I say we have done enough for our #community be it or we tied to a particular #faith or not.

I say this, in my own #human name for all it is worth. Because that is who I am now, and if any #guardian #angel believes this to be #true then all I ask, is that you add yours to this prayer and pass it forward.

Thank you for your #attention to this #matter as such. I #appreciate it and you very much for the #blessing that you are.

Nine of my learnings from the first Meeting Design Practicum — 30 meeting designers together for 48 hours in Utrecht, The Netherlands

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/02/nine-learnings-from-the-first-meeting-design-practicum

#meetings #EventDesign #Practicum #learning #ElementaryMeetings #metaphor #Druids #EscapeRoom #fun #eventprofs

Wahrheit oder Illusion
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/wahrheit-oder-ilussion

#Philosophie #Sprache #Erkenntnis #Selbstreflexion #Innenwelt #Metapher

Truth or Illusion
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/truth-or-illusion

#Philosophy #Language #Insight #SelfReflection #InnerWorld #Metaphor

Nine of my learnings from the first Meeting Design Practicum — 30 meeting designers together for 48 hours in Utrecht, The Netherlands

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/02/nine-learnings-from-the-first-meeting-design-practicum

#meetings #EventDesign #Practicum #learning #ElementaryMeetings #metaphor #Druids #EscapeRoom #fun #eventprofs

This week was packed with #metaphor related events. Three days of the #MetaphorsOfReligion conference of @sfb1475, then two very promising meetings with other metaphor projects – #CRC1646 and #MetaNet – about future collaboration, and finally the initial publication of our dataset of metaphor annotations: https://doi.org/10.60517/tt44pq55t 🥳

Very interesting series of videos questioning how the #computer #desktopinterface standard format affects how people think and interact with computers then expanding beyond computing to how we view the world and consciousness itself.

#linux #deskenvironment #affordances #metaphor #academia

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pGpBQgZ5IsI&t=5s

The #Con at the #Core of the #RepublicanParty.

The #conservativemovement’s total #abandonment of even the #appearance of #principles has been decades in the making.

Pick your #metaphor for the last eight years of #American #politics. #Sewer or #garbagetruck? Practically every day a helpless #nation watches a new scrap of #official #grift, #crime, #abuse of #publictrust revealed and tossed into the churning #dumpsterfire of #history.

https://newrepublic.com/article/184442/con-core-republican-party-trump-conason-book-review

#Editorial | Fire Israel's Far Right

Sunday’s remark by Heritage Minister Amichai #Eliyahu (Otzma #Yehudit), who said that dropping a #nuclearbomb on the #GazaStrip is an option, is a problem not for #Israeli public diplomacy but rather for Israeli reality.

The problem is not any particular statement, but rather the power and legitimacy enjoyed today, in Israel as a whole and in the government, by the #Kahanist, messianic Jewish far right, which supports# annexation and #occupation and Jewish prayer on the #TempleMount, sees the current war as an opportunity and scorns the international community, international institutions and the laws of war.

This was not a slip of the tongue. In an interview with Radio Kol Barama, Eliyahu said that “there are no uninvolved [civilians]” in the Gaza Strip. Asked by his interviewer whether that meant Israel should drop a nuclear bomb on the Strip, he responded, “That’s one way.” And his subsequent “clarification” – “It is clear to anyone who is sensible that the nuclear remark was metaphorical” – is ridiculous. A #metaphor for what?

Nor is he a lone exception. Eliyahu’s party colleague, lawmaker Yitzhak #Kroizer, told Army Radio on Sunday that “the #Gaza Strip should be flattened, and there should be one sentence for everyone there – death. We have to wipe the Gaza Strip off the map. There are no innocents there.” Entire swaths of the government belong to the dangerous far right: Bezalel #Smotrich, Itamar Ben-#Gvir, Simcha #Rothman, Orit #Strock, Avi #Maoz, Zvi #Sukkot, Limor Son Har-#Melech and their confederates.

Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu’s response was lame. Eliyahu’s statement, he said, was “disconnected from reality,” and the minister will be barred from cabinet meetings until further notice. He ought to have fired Eliyahu, but he chose not to do so; he prioritized preserving his government over preserving Israel.

Netanyahu isn’t the solution, but the problem. He has legitimized Kahanism and the far right. During his years in power, Israel has grown more extreme, and people who used to be loathsome #pariahs are now senior cabinet #ministers. Ideas and values that used to be outside the consensus, such as “transferring” Arabs from Israel, a second #Nakba and Jewish prayer on the #TempleMount, have been normalized under Netanyahu’s irresponsible #leadership.

He is the one who lent legitimacy to political alliances with admirers of Rabbi Meir Kahane, the mass murderer Baruch #Goldstein and the murderer of the #Dawabsheh family. Under his leadership, the settlers have begun setting their sights on the #WestBank’s Area B, which under the #Oslo Accords is under #Israeli security control and #Palestinian civilian control. And the settlers’ radical “hilltop youth” have moved from being intelligence targets of the Shin Bet security service to serving as ministers, #Knesset members, aides and advisers.

The far right’s membership in the government has painted the entire government, and all of #Israel, in far-right colors. The only way to solve the problem is to remove the far right from the government, and from the bounds of Israeli legitimacy. The only way to repudiate Eliyahu’s statement is to repudiate him and those like him. The Otzma Yehudit and Religious #Zionism parties must be fired from the #cabinet immediately.

The above article is Haaretz’s lead editorial, as published in the Hebrew and English newspapers in Israel.

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2023-11-06/ty-article/.premium/fire-israels-far-right/0000018b-a11c-dc0b-a1cb-e5de69890000

#CfP for the #panel "'Carried Down to Wondrous Depths': #Meaning and #Metaphor in #Moby Dick", which will take place at the Northeast Modern Languages Association (#NeMLA #northeastMLA) convention in Boston on March 7-10, 2024.

🗓️Deadline for Abstracts: September 30, 2023

📌Further Information:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/carried-down-to-wondrous-depths-meaning-and-metaphor-in-moby-dick-nemla-2024-boston/ #fidavlnews @litstudies #Rhetoric #Hermeneutics #AVL

Bullet the Blue Sky*

I went outside 
to watch the 
stars.

It is as if 
all the bullets 
from the war 
have been fired 
into the sky,
tearing holes 
in the black velvet 
for a little bit 
of heaven 
to shine 
through.

Every once 
in a while 
the fabric rips 
as a shooting star 
races across 
the sky,
but then 
it quickly 
mends 
itself.

November 2, 1988
La Esperanza, Nicaragua

Part of the continuing Ugly American series, a selection of writings from my travel journals from Central America in 1988

*From the U2 song of the same title