#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

> “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

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

„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

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

Wo das Meer trägt und widerspricht – Über Hyperkomplettheit und die Grenzen ontologischer Kohärenz
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/wo-das-meer-tragt-und-widerspricht

#Philosophie #Wissenschaft #Sprache #Erkenntnis #Metapher #Ontologie

Where the Sea Carries and Contradicts – On Hypercompleteness and the Limits of Ontological Coherence
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/where-the-sea-carries-and-contradicts

#Philosophy #Science #Language #Knowledge #Metaphor #Ontology

Ein Text über Spiegel und Spiegelungen ohne Punkt und ohne Abschluss als ruhige Meta-Ebene
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/spiegel

#Philosophie #Literatur #Erzählung #Selbstreflexion #Metapher #Sprache #Humor

A text about mirrors and reflections without full stops and without closure as a quiet meta level
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/mirror

#Philosophy #Literature #Fiction #SelfReflection #Metaphor #Language #Humour

@Aphelion

pain, given time's weight,
can mass gravitas enough
to nova as joy

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #pain #sadness #joy #time #gravity #gravitas #nova #metaphor

Ein Text über das paradoxe Lesen von Menschen wie fehlerhafte Systeme – und die leise Rückkehr der Menschlichkeit.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/menschlichkeit-wie-datenmull-ausliest

#Philosophie #Psychologie #Innenwelt #Selbstreflexion #Sprache #KI #Metapher #Fragmentierung

A reflection on reading humans like faulty systems – and the quiet persistence of humanity beneath the code.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/humanity-parsed-like-waste-data

#Philosophy #Psychology #InnerWorld #SelfReflection #Language #AI #Metaphor #Fragmentation

Ein Text über Depression als Freizeitpark der gedämpften Farben – ein Bild, das sich leise entfaltet und tief trifft.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/freizeitpark

#Philosophie #Psychologie #Wohlbefinden #Gesundheit #Innenwelt #Selbstreflexion #Metapher #Sprache #Erzählung

A piece portraying depression as a theme park muted by fog – a quiet, resonant image of inner perception.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/theme-park

#Philosophy #Psychology #Wellness #Health #InnerWorld #SelfReflection #Metaphor #Language #Storytelling

Ein Text über das Denken als Prozess ohne Endzustand – eine Schleife, die nicht gefangen hält, sondern lebendig macht.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/funktion

#Philosophie #Psychologie #Sprache #Selbstreflexion #Innenwelt #Metapher

A reflection on thinking as an endless loop – not a trap, but a living process of continual questioning.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/function

#Philosophy #Psychology #Language #SelfReflection #InnerWorld #Metaphor

Ein Blick in den inneren Nachrichtensender – ein ganzes Studio aus Rollen, Ritualen und kulturellen Mustern, das plötzlich sichtbar wird.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/mein-eigener-fernsehsender

#Philosophie #Innenwelt #Identität #Kultur #Metapher #Selbstreflexion

A glimpse into the inner broadcasting studio – a full newsroom of roles, rituals and cultural frames suddenly revealed.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/my-own-television-channel

#Philosophy #InnerWorld #Identity #Culture #Metaphor #SelfReflection

Ein Text wie ein Feuerball: keine Buffets, keine Ausreden – nur direkter Kontakt mit dem eigenen Spiegelbild.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/texte-aus-dem-giftschrank-feuerball

#Philosophie #Literatur #Erzählung #Psychologie #Selbstreflexion #Sprache #Metapher

A text like a fireball: no buffers, no detours – only unfiltered contact with your own reflection.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/texts-from-the-poison-cabinet-fireball

#Philosophy #Literature #Fiction #Psychology #SelfReflection #Language #Metaphor

Texte, die sich falsch anfühlen dürfen – und genau deshalb nötig sind.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/texte-aus-dem-giftschrank

#Philosophie #Literatur #Sprache #Selbstreflexion #Innenwelt #Metapher #Erkenntnis #Psychologie

Texts that feel wrong on purpose – and reveal something in the stumble.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/texts-from-the-poison-cabinet

#Philosophy #Literature #Language #SelfReflection #InnerWorld #Metaphor #Insight #Psychology

Ein kurzer Blick an die Kante des Denkens – dort, wo Logik endet und Eigenlogik beginnt.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/blinde-flecken

#Philosophie #Psychologie #Innenwelt #Sprache #Erkenntnis #Metapher

A brief look at the edge of thought – where logic ends and inner logic takes over.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/blind-spots

#Philosophy #Psychology #InnerWorld #Language #Insight #Metaphor

Ein Traum über genehmigten Widerstand und ein Spiegelbild, das nur noch ein Auge hat.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/nur-ein-traum-unmoglich

#Literatur #Philosophie #Innenwelt #Metapher #Freiheit #Gesellschaft

A dream of authorised resistance and a mirror-self with only one eye left.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/only-a-dream-impossible

#Literature #Philosophy #InnerWorld #Metaphor #Freedom #Society

Ein Text über Metaphern als ererbte Schutzmechanik – und darüber, wie Trauma sich in Sprache verwandelt, wenn direkte Worte fehlen.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/das-ererbte-ubersetzen-generationstrauma

#Philosophie #Literatur #Psychologie #Identität #Gesellschaft #Metapher #Integrität

A reflection on metaphors as inherited survival tools – and how trauma becomes language when direct speech is impossible.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/the-inherited-act-of-translation

#Philosophy #Literature #Psychology #Identity #Society #Metaphor #Integrity

Ein Labor, ein Gänseblümchen und zwei Membranen als Denkwerkzeug.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/das-labor-mit-dem-ganseblumchen

#Philosophie #Innenwelt #Sprache #Metapher #Selbstreflexion

A laboratory, a daisy, and two membranes as a method of thinking.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/the-laboratory-with-the-little-daisy

#Philosophy #InnerWorld #Language #Metaphor #SelfReflection

Ein Reim über Suchanfragen, digitale Spuren und ein Einhorn, das durchs Datengelände schaut.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/ein-suchmaschinen-crawler-reim
#Literatur #Philosophie #Sprache #Metapher #Gesellschaft
A poem about search queries, digital currents, and an Einhorn watching from the margins.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/a-search-engine-crawler-rhyme
#Literature #Philosophy #Language #Metaphor #Society

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcrb4s9ecd4
#P5R, #P3R, #Metaphor, and now #P4r What a great time to be an #Atlus fan!
#Persona

2. (DEMONIC) MIRROR OF REALITY - Chapter 1

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1768-4229-4cba-d60346599810

@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