#Metaphors

kenyatta cheese

kenyatta

I’ve been trying to stop myself whenever I use a war metaphor to talk about countering political or science disinfo/misinfo like it’s a proxy war in Vietnam because it makes

Palivizumab

Experiential_Dr

Very happy to see our take in the @IndJMedEthics against the use of war metaphors in the context of #Covid_19 with co-authors @AnantBhan @divyarrs and @DLBOse ,in print. Thanks Dr

Simon Lancaster

bespokespeeches

Metaphors can distort our perception of the world, making good people appear bad and illegitimate actions appear legitimate. Much of Trump’s messaging was metaphorical. Washington was a ‘swamp’. African countries

Kink•y

N0P0lice

Marina might actually be the queen of alt omg?? Omg its so obvious to see Melanie is inspired by her and is a big fan she even said so herself

ellen fishbein

EllenRhymes

Wanna 10x your writing skills?Become a master of metaphor."Metaphor? Like, fluffy poetry stuff?!"Yeah, no... the way it's taught in school is ABYSMAL. Aristotle wrote, “The greatest thing by far is

Ryan J. Gallagher

ryanjgallag

"We need to adopt a broader view of what it will take to fix the brokenness of the social web"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/facebook-doomsday-machine/617384/This article is definitely worth a read. I want

EngLangBlog

EngLangBlog

Having a bit of a binge session of online linguistics courses this week. Yesterday was Jane Setter, tonight it's three speakers from Lancaster University Starting off by looking at

Dr Claire Hardaker (she/her)

DrClaireH

This #WednesdayWisdom let's do metaphors. These can be super-slippery ways of both controlling current thinking about events, *and* setting up people to respond in certain ways in the future.NB. The

César A. Hidalgo

cesifoti

Map Time!So you’ve seen a lot of maps in the last few days. What maps work, which ones don’t, and how to think about them? Time for a thread !

Tanner Guzy

tannerguzy

Overheard a show the kids were watching this morning and some Lego villain said, "Let's finally end this once and for all"And it perfectly hit on something I've been noticing

d ❕

KIWISDEFENCE

anyways louis’ songs are considered “louder” than harrys because louis writes in more of a storyteller perspective. he talks about concrete events and memories he’s had and writes about it.

GeePaw Hill

GeePawHill

Rework Avoidance Theory, or RAT, is likely slowing your team down more than rework ever would. Let's talk a little about that today. I am writing these geekery muses in

John Manoochehri

jmanooch

An extra thread to @metadiogenes about causality - months delayed. It's a demonstration of my claims that- causality is real but 'causes' are not found in nature- telelogical framing gives

Jane Coaston

janecoaston

A reminder that Twitter is reality, but a louder version of reality that prioritizes the edges and extremes of whatever argument is discussed and tends to dull the middle. I

Dr. Alex Duszynski

AlexDuszynski

Since working from home with my husband, I decided to start a twitter thread of metaphors my husband uses on his calls that I overhear /1 It's like fighting with

Sarah McManus

SarahAMcManus

okay okay okayapparently it's time to start a thread of metaphors for emptiness & formso far mostly featuringthings that are topologically equivalent to donuts?? Okay, let's start with Kegan stage

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