Polýphēmos

Si vis pacem para bellum

@polyphem.bsky.social
@[email protected]

[Polýphēmos @Polyphem10]

@Titleist1x @Mollyploofkins https://t.co/HsWA6iortR

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Bro has information about peanuts that the rest of us aren't ready for

[History Girl @HistoryGirlBW]

A joyful Mr and Mrs Hill, 46, are greeted by their happy children as they arrive home with their 21st baby. Chester, 1961.

[Kunterbunt Leben  @KunterbuntLeben]

Will ins Auto steigen und die Kindersitzerhöhung ist noch auf meinem Platz.

Der Mann: Ich wollte, dass du auch mal raus schauen kannst.

Ey, ich beiß' dem gleich in die Kniescheibe.

[Littlewisehen @littlewisehen]

Sport. So wichtig… 👍

[Polýphēmos @Polyphem10]

@EdhelthresV @kaffeezimt Mit dem Bobbes nach vorne hochwerfen, dann bleiben sie haften!

[Polýphēmos @Polyphem10]

@CellexionSid @kaffeezimt Ein Teleskop-Swiffer vielleicht?

[Polýphēmos @Polyphem10]

@GWaldmensch Hast Du ihn geküsst?

[Polýphēmos @Polyphem10]

@DragonQueenMama @sybileggarter Der Archetyp des "Alle verlieren"!

[Polýphēmos @Polyphem10]

@sybileggarter Na bloß nicht ...

[Littlewisehen @littlewisehen]

"Mein Enkel hat FDP und muss jetzt Medikamente nehmen, damit er nicht so zappelig ist."

Ältere Frau in der S-Bahn 😎

[Polýphēmos @Polyphem10]

@MaximalesD @Whiskas1203 Ach ja, diese Plattform ... ☹️

[Polýphēmos @Polyphem10]

@HereIAm1405 @Meyermacht 🤔 Das alle Menschen gleich viel wert sind?

[Polýphēmos @Polyphem10]

@Dustfire1981 @Meyermacht "... 'alle Menschen [sind] gleich viel wert' ...", selbst Besorgte Bürger und Nützliche Idioten, vulgo Blaubommel. Das ist in sich kein Widerspruch.

[Polýphēmos @Polyphem10]

@darkITler @littlewisehen Boah ey, der war fies!

[Polýphēmos @Polyphem10]

@morgenthau15 @dokhollidays @UndMohn AfD-Wähler stehen also auf so etwas?

[Polýphēmos @Polyphem10]

@itchyNit @Gianl1974 🤔 We do?🤔
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am too 🇪🇺 for this.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

[Nadia Menze @Cartoostrophal]

Wir haben die Tage wieder Schafskäse im Ofen gemacht und da dachte ich mir, es ist höchste Zeit, mal wieder einen meiner persönlichen Lieblinge zu posten.

[Polýphēmos @Polyphem10]

@ambrosianuss "Der Hunger trieb's rein" sei die Replik.