#Metaphors

Hashtags like #CoronaWar #CoronaWarriors #CoronaVillains #CoronaFighters are misleading & DANGEROUS – to health workers & to us allWAR metaphors should not be used with #COVID19 This article explains why
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Here is what the superhero genre does, and it’s a common theme across Marvel and DC. That the powers are not what makes someone the hero, it’s what they do
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It is tragic that the only language our society seems to have for the collective effort to survive is "war." What a failure of political imagination. This is what provoked
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36 Lessons on Making Better Graphics (Thread)Inspired by the IG live conversation between @jackbutcher and @mkobach on building @visualizevalue.Notes below Origins of Visualize Values- Jack was burned out from
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Share and RT this thread.. Many people mistakenly think "dasas" "dasyus" of the Rigveda were dark-skinned aboriginal "dravidians" –– this is definitely not true. Most philological research suggests they wer
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I am bad at explaining to software people what an FPGA is and I get worse every day. Bad approach 1: Intro to electricity. "Know those green board things in
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#Frames“Thought is structured, in large measure, in terms of "frames"-brain structures that control mental simulation and hence reasoning.” “You think metaphorically, perhaps most of the time. Just by functioning with
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My best friend and I were talking about drowning in information. The 24 hour news cycle. The numbing effect it has. The paralysis. The hopelessness. She told me it was
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Me, critiquing prose: Well, you should change the syntax here for more clarity, and you're mixing metaphors here, but clear that up and it'll be all polished up!Me, critiquing poetry:
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I think I have mentioned this before but war as a metaphor doesn't work for me. This thread might be disjointed.https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/4/15/21193679/coronavirus-pandemic-war-metaphor-ecology-microbiome I grew up in the suburbs. Middle c
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THE GENIUS OF ATLANTA. Atlanta is a show that currently goes for two seasons. It’s my favourite show right now. The story is based around Paper Boi, his manager (Gambino)
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Yoongi’s lyrics and their development - a general thread Yoongi’s lyrics have always been extremely eloquent, addressing complex issues through storytelling and metaphors. To me, they read like poetry. And
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Zootopia: a fucked up mess.Firstly an utopia where cops exist? Not happening. Cops are the like chekhov's gun for the state, eventually used with bad results. It is an analog
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What does it mean to be “at war” with the coronavirus? What does military language add (if anything?) to our understanding of this challenge? In this week's episode, we dig
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Why BLACKPINK’s Lisa’s ”Play the part like Moses” IS NOT -sexualizing the prophet-meant to be offensive or explicit*A THREAD* Before you come here storming, for those of you who were
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I've seen a shit tonne of death of the author takes on Jk Rowling and Potter and they all seem boring af, and imo death of the author just means
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