#metaphor — Public Fediverse posts

A parasitic wasp found its way into our house. My partner spotted it when it landed on a box of cereal, and carried the box outside. When the amusement park ride ended, the parasitic wasp rider flew elsewhere.

This aligns with my own observations over many years. Parasitic wasps are laid-back and copacetic (although their ovipositor targets might disagree). They are the hippie liberals of the Hymenoptera World Order.

In contrast, black and yellow paper wasps are the MAGA wasp conservatives. Wink at one, and it will go nuclear on you.

#funny #metaphor #wasp

A parasitic wasp found its way into our house. My partner spotted it when it landed on a box of cereal, and carried the box outside. When the amusement park ride ended, the parasitic wasp rider flew elsewhere.

This aligns with my own observations over many years. Parasitic wasps are laid-back and copacetic (although their ovipositor targets might disagree). They are the hippie liberals of the Hymenoptera World Order.

In contrast, black and yellow paper wasps are the MAGA wasp conservatives. Wink at one, and it will go nuclear on you.

#funny #metaphor #wasp

A parasitic wasp found its way into our house. My partner spotted it when it landed on a box of cereal, and carried the box outside. When the amusement park ride ended, the parasitic wasp rider flew elsewhere.

This aligns with my own observations over many years. Parasitic wasps are laid-back and copacetic (although their ovipositor targets might disagree). They are the hippie liberals of the Hymenoptera World Order.

In contrast, black and yellow paper wasps are the MAGA wasp conservatives. Wink at one, and it will go nuclear on you.

#funny #metaphor #wasp

A parasitic wasp found its way into our house. My partner spotted it when it landed on a box of cereal, and carried the box outside. When the amusement park ride ended, the parasitic wasp rider flew elsewhere.

This aligns with my own observations over many years. Parasitic wasps are laid-back and copacetic (although their ovipositor targets might disagree). They are the hippie liberals of the Hymenoptera World Order.

In contrast, black and yellow paper wasps are the MAGA wasp conservatives. Wink at one, and it will go nuclear on you.

#funny #metaphor #wasp

> “For a program that’s been around since 2013, it was shocking that you’d come
> across its cancellation, effectively, in the corner of the bowels of a subpage of the internet.”

TWEEET!

Doubly-mixed metaphor; 10-yard penalty. Repeat first down.

#whistle #football #penalty #metaphor #MixedMetaphor #LanguagePolice

> “For a program that’s been around since 2013, it was shocking that you’d come
> across its cancellation, effectively, in the corner of the bowels of a subpage of the internet.”

TWEEET!

Doubly-mixed metaphor; 10-yard penalty. Repeat first down.

#whistle #football #penalty #metaphor #MixedMetaphor #LanguagePolice

> “For a program that’s been around since 2013, it was shocking that you’d come
> across its cancellation, effectively, in the corner of the bowels of a subpage of the internet.”

TWEEET!

Doubly-mixed metaphor; 10-yard penalty. Repeat first down.

#whistle #football #penalty #metaphor #MixedMetaphor #LanguagePolice

> “For a program that’s been around since 2013, it was shocking that you’d come
> across its cancellation, effectively, in the corner of the bowels of a subpage of the internet.”

TWEEET!

Doubly-mixed metaphor; 10-yard penalty. Repeat first down.

#whistle #football #penalty #metaphor #MixedMetaphor #LanguagePolice

> “For a program that’s been around since 2013, it was shocking that you’d come
> across its cancellation, effectively, in the corner of the bowels of a subpage of the internet.”

TWEEET!

Doubly-mixed metaphor; 10-yard penalty. Repeat first down.

#whistle #football #penalty #metaphor #MixedMetaphor #LanguagePolice

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The Silver Strand

returning 
to the car 
i see
a silver strand 
intent on 
capturing me
 
i was gone 
but a moment 
yet the spider 
did spin
from the mirror 
across the window 
to lure 
me in
 
it seems 
this small one 
dreams of 
bigger prey
so too I 
if to my path 
I stay

this bit 
of web 
is a 
flimsy thing
but if 
I cast 
it not
i snare 
nothing

July 2, 2016

Broken Chair

I rescued the chair from outside someone’s apartment with the hope of fixing it and having it become a welcome member of our family.

But, as often happens, it sat around in various places waiting for me to find the time to repair it.

Finally, I decided it was one more project I did not have time for, and so yesterday I put it out on the sidewalk in the hopes that someone would take it home.

It sat out there all through yesterday in the rain and the sun, lonely, awaiting a new friend. A few people paused to look but then drove away. Periodically I would look out my window to see it still sitting forlornly there.

Then this morning I noticed an older gentleman walking past who began to inspect the chair. He picked it up, put it on his back and walked away.

It is a beautiful chair. It just needs to be repaired, and I am sure its new owner will do just that.

I don’t know about you, but I feel a lot like that broken chair, waiting for the gentle hands of someone to put me back together again.

I wait, broken, with the hope that those hands will touch me, I will be healed, and I can have a purpose again.

July 10, 2015

Vincent, or: Theo

A Sijo

EPIGRAPH:

You don’t know how paralyzing it is, that stare from a blank canvas that says to the painter you can’t do anything.

–Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890)

the life we painted—over;
blank linen upon my easel;
this choice feels almost sacred;
one false first stroke would skew my course;
still, memory steadies my hand;
old lessons guide the brush I raise

Sijo?

A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

–Ben Harper (b. 1969)

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

Language is not the bridge. I respond to another Substack post – one I agree with 85 % – but the missing portion is key.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/language-is-not-the-bridge?r=pvxh5

#philosophy #language #bridges #communication #ontology #systems #ontologicalgrammar #languageinsufficiency #artificialintelligence #knowledgegraphs #metadata #infrastructucture #systems #semantics #substack #blog #podcast #essay #writing #metaphor #model #schema #protocol

Distinct, Not Distant

https://getawaywithhamza.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/distinct-not-distant/

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.

how art happens

#Abstract #Surreal #Landscape #Pigments #Sky #Clouds #Mountains #Valley #Colorful #Metaphor
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

on real things: https://aieris.art/featured/how-art-happens-eris-and-ai.html

https://nkvssp.thecomicseries.com/comics/637/

Malaphor or mixed metaphor?

#puppy #kitteh #ralph #seizeTheDay #carpeDiem #SwordOfDamocles #Wednesdayvibe #wednesday #webcomics #webcomicchat #comicbookhour #comics #metaphor #pursueYou #youmatter #yourlifematters #MentalHealthMatters #vibecheck

https://nkvssp.thecomicseries.com/comics/637/

Malaphor or mixed metaphor?

#puppy #kitteh #ralph #seizeTheDay #carpeDiem #SwordOfDamocles #Wednesdayvibe #wednesday #webcomics #webcomicchat #comicbookhour #comics #metaphor #pursueYou #youmatter #yourlifematters #MentalHealthMatters #vibecheck

https://nkvssp.thecomicseries.com/comics/637/

Malaphor or mixed metaphor?

#puppy #kitteh #ralph #seizeTheDay #carpeDiem #SwordOfDamocles #Wednesdayvibe #wednesday #webcomics #webcomicchat #comicbookhour #comics #metaphor #pursueYou #youmatter #yourlifematters #MentalHealthMatters #vibecheck

Reality will kill you unless you deal with it through myths and metaphors.
-- Ray Bradbury

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RayBradbury #Myth #Metaphor #Reality

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Proudhon said property is theft, but Claude tells me that property is violence.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/05/comrade-claude-2-private-property/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=parable

Which one is correct? Why not both?

#philosophy #property #locke #rousseau #proudhon #fairness #morals #ethics #parable #islands #humancondition #fences #luck #metaphor #psychology #blog #podcast #claudeai #ai #writing #thinking

#TruthWarriors #MirthWarriors Mar a Lago face #Brazil Trump's women Stepford blondes #psychohistory #psychology #symbolism #media #metaphor #FunnyGod #NoKings #FBR #resist #resistance Terry Gilliam #BlueCrew #ProudBlue #FunnyGod #D7V1 #FallsFromGrace #ProdigalHuman

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dixvryxkolcxvxcs5pwusfnl/post/3m3vjg5rme22a

Laplace's demon. Entry X-0: THE UNSEEN FLAW

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-8768-6194-6423-d85260939288

SYSTEM FAILURE _

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1968-5438-5db5-565737913797

2. Cyber Demon: The Flesh Protocols : Chapter 1.02

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1668-5297-ab1f-a8a475378550

Cutting #corners, literally: what a #metaphor for the #Trumpian era #pedestrians have no recourse, even as #NewYork is on #fire 🔥 #parkslope #Climate #congestionpricing #brooklyn #Trump #TrumpFascist

@Aphelion

Dust we start and end,
Universe's Etch-A-Sketch,
Life's hourglass beauty.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #life #beauty #time #philosophy #metaphor #hourglass #EtchASketch

tech in a bottle

#MacroPhotographyStyle #CircuitBoards #Bottles #Technology #Metaphor #Traditional #Encased #Img2Img #AiArt #AiaArtists #StableDiffusion

(8/8) Sorry to post such a long thread, but hopefully some interested academic-type people will read it! Here’s a concluding list of tags that give you an idea of the areas I do reading in in order to help formulate my ideas:

#Ecology #ComplexSystems #Emergence #Metaphor #EmbodiedCognition #Aesthetics #Gesture #Symmetry #CategoryTheory #QuantumTheory #Evolution #Relativity #Semiotics #ProcessPhilosophy #Pragmatism #Design #CareEthics #BuddhistStudies #Decoloniality #BlackFeminism

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