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Held in Motion

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Held in Motion: Breaking boxes, blurring lines, & imagining the possibilities. These recordings are my sense-making explorations of humans & their systems. Think, the multidimensional intersections of things like science, tech, psychology, sociology, language, the practice of philosophy, etc. No expertise, here. Just a curious mind that thrives on wrestling with the complex whys, because anything else isn"t nearly as fun. If this sounds interesting, welcome! Hear something you"d like to chat

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12:27

@SeekingPlumb | Mamdani: When an IG reel & Roller...

Held in Motion ·

2025/11/02

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Like, right now, I nickel and dime things, but if in the game, I could spend a hundred million dollars, two hundred million dollars, and not think twice about it, not think twice about it. And so then when I think about the millionaires and billionaires in New York City throwing money behind Andrew Cuomo so they don't have to pay 2%. That's all. That's all Zoran Mamdani wants to do. Increase taxes on the rich by 2%. 2%. Okay."

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14:59

@SeekingPlumb | The Hydra Reflex, The Zombification,...

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2025/10/28

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But deciding like to measure people, this is like getting to exactly the psychology of what's harmful when it comes to like there is an element of clinical narcissism that's genetic. And it's a matter of like, when those things are switched on, switched off. But part of it is also how the child is parented."

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15:00

@SeekingPlumb | When tackling "the problem" is "too...

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2025/10/23

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "They just don't realize it because of the scope and the limits on their vision, right? And so when people will talk about the problem right now with politics, capitalism, AI, whatever it happens to be, they're all identifying real concerns, real issues that are a part of the elephant."

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14:42

@SeekingPlumb | RANT: 🔥 F$CK American Exceptionalism!! 🔥

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2025/10/20

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But inevitably, every single time when I talk about, like in this particular culture, in this particular country, and when they were faced with this particular scenario, this is what they did, there were structural changes, but there was also psychological changes and, and how these things don't change at the same pace, right? And so, like, this is just a parenthetical here, right? You can create structural changes to account for things that have gone

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14:57

@SeekingPlumb | Hierarchy of Manhood: A...

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2025/10/13

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I observed and listened to a conversation a few days ago, men and women. But in this particular case, I want to talk about the men because it was heartbreaking, breakingly eye opening and so blatant in how the prison shackles hold men even when they declare their freedom and their existence at as king of the hill, so to speak. Right? So there were some men describing themselves essentially as quote unquote, real men, right? They were alphas."

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14:59

@SeekingPlumb | Extinction Event: Sexism & Misogyny?

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2025/10/08

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So I talked about Namibia and Iceland still having sexism and misogyny. It's because the changing of thinking for men in particular or culture more generally takes time, right. If stereotypes have long life span, if our fiction and the messaging takes time to change, then it's going to take a while before what shapes that state of sensitivity in men really changes. Right."

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12:24

@SeekingPlumb | A new magpie friend, a few gifts, a...

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2025/09/30

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And so what happened when I paused the recording at one point here was I went to put the peanuts out in his hidey hole and the communal. And at the same time, my cat slipped out the door. And I thought, oh, no, I don't like to entice the birds and then have my cat outside. Barge just feels wrong. But they must know that he doesn't have good hearing and eyesight anymore. And so they were quite bold."

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14:37

@SeekingPlumb | Considering our responsibilities as...

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2025/09/26

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "It had me thinking about, like when we hear someone say something, whether it's a lie or whether it's a fact or whatever. Like the responsibility that we hold as people who receive that information. And really needing in this day and age, more than ever to be honest with ourselves about where and when we choose to take something in and when we choose to reject something. Because I think."

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14:58

@SeekingPlumb | Let's talk autism. Again.

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2025/09/24

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And so when you start to identify the umbrella of autism, then you won't necessarily be surprised to see all these other things underneath it. So it's really, really important that one, we recognize that autism is far more complex, that it is an umbrella, or if you will, a doorway to walk through to have better understanding to the brain, the nervous system, the biology of this specific individual."

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14:59

@SeekingPlumb | There are no easy answers.

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2025/09/13

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And so then we take ideas that have a long history of right and wrong, but then we lean into them more heavily and we want to like, get down to a granular level of what is right and wrong. Except that doing this is an impossibility. This is what I mean. Someone will say, maybe it's about like your vote. If you voted for, then you are responsible for everything that that party does. That is not true."

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12:36

@SeekingPlumb | The implications of influencing &...

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2025/09/09

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I'm glad I pondered this because I was having difficulty reconciling my grief with also my appreciation. And now I can see the grief as a tool and recognizing why it was there. And it's not necessarily about loss. It's about redirection and intentionally creating a slight shift for fine tuning. And that. That transmutes that feeling from grief into intentional choice. That. That is. That's empowering."

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3:33

@SeekingPlumb | Policy updates are the puppy dog...

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2025/08/31

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "We stay, they nudge, nudge, nudge. And we're just so enraptured by the puppy that we don't go anywhere. It's all really performative, and it irritates me because it's like, I know that legally they have to give us a notification and let us know that these changes are coming."

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15:00

@SeekingPlumb | Do the hard thing. Persist. You will...

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2025/08/27

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And they say this horrible thing and so I want nothing to do with them. And. And what's amazing about this thing though, is that you can see the nuances and complexities in individuals and also recognize the nuances and complexities in yourself. Nothing has to be cut and dry, neat and tidy, binary in its definition, in its categories, in its explanation. None of it, right? There can be conflicting things that coexist in the same space."

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14:57

@SeekingPlumb | The Future: Sub-optimally &...

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2025/08/26

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "They're going to run into a brick wall at some point because they've leaned too heavily into the optimization processes of algorithms and statistics and dollar signs, etc. And finally recognizing that they need more of the messy, gritty humanness to be able to achieve their goals. And so then maybe, maybe it'll nudge it back. Maybe. And perhaps this is a bit idealized. I definitely need to think about this some more. But it shifts my thinking of."

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15:00

@SeekingPlumb | Marriage: Stripping away competing...

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2025/08/23

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Rather than her having children with multiple men, the man needed to know that those were his children so that his owned property could be passed down to those children. So it very much became marriage about passing on of ownership. And so you've got those kinds of concepts, you've got the transactional agreements between two parties, right? You've also got some governments who thought it would be really important to make sure that your citizens continue to

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15:00

@SeekingPlumb | How Christianity was neutralized &...

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2025/08/12

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "What happened is then when you think about people who want to keep and maintain and increase power, you can't martyr everyone. The teachings that he, Jesus was sharing were catching. And so what do you do when that happens? You can't wipe out everybody because this is too far reaching. So then you neutralize the belief. They decided that it was important to instead of the complex shades and flavors of Christianity that existed at the time."

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15:00

@SeekingPlumb | When the power hungry weaponize...

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2025/08/08

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I want to, I want to find a greater connection with it. Ask the questions I hadn't been permitted in some cases, or ask them in a different way and really just understand things better to sort of give myself a stronger reconnection, if you will. Because so much had been disrupted in my life at that point. Surprisingly, that is what brought me out of the faith. It wasn't some tragic event. It wasn't whatever people say it is that brings people out of the

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12:03

@SeekingPlumb | When it's MY conflicting desires in a...

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2025/08/02

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But I find myself today all of a sudden realizing that I am experiencing conflicted desires and they're all self inflicted. They're my own desires at war with my own desires. And I'm like, what are you doing? And I've experienced this for some time now where I want to be a part of online conversations in live audio spaces. And, and that's different than doing asynchronous. And I think there's value to both. But I want to be a part of the live conversations."

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14:59

@SeekingPlumb | An oasis in the shit storm of life....

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2025/07/29

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "One of them they had brought down and they were cleaning out so this little baby bird tried to escape and they would catch it and bring it back, cleaned it all up, put the birdie back inside and then I didn't get to see when they put it back up again. But there were so many tiny little birds at these big, big bird houses as well as like the whole place is full of bird houses. They're everywhere. So Birds everywhere. They had goats. They just."

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15:00

@SeekingPlumb | Navigating the preconditions to...

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2025/07/22

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And it's interesting to look at how those dynamics, I think there's a parallel there between the classroom and childhood and how we are as adults, like as kids, the, the students were thinking about me, thinking myself better, that is a know it all. Or kissing up to the teacher to perhaps place myself ahead of them when those concepts were not even on my radar. It was quite literally, if you know the answer, raise your hand."

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