Shows
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | How Christianity was neutralized & co-opted for power.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."2025-08-1215 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | When the power hungry weaponize religious belief...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 faith."2025-08-0815 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | When it's MY conflicting desires in a deadlock... 😤 | How do you resolve yours?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."2025-08-0212 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | An oasis in the shit storm of life. 🌿🌼🍄🐦⬛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."2025-07-3014 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Navigating the preconditions to sharing/receiving truth…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."2025-07-2215 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | The disservice of the suffix -est. ("Smartest, strongest, etc.")Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Like, if we don't acknowledge how these things go hand in hand, then we can set ourselves up for trouble down the line, right? Because either we're ignoring the emotions and feelings. I'm using these words interchangeably and I know not everybody does, but that's what I'm doing. Then we will not take the time to learn about what they're informing us of or how to regulate those emotions and feelings. Right. It's."2025-07-1512 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Is morality really for everyone? Or is this a story we've upheld?Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And really like recognizing for me, it seems like it's a tool of control because it's not about, it's not about harm or flourishing of relationships. It's more of how we police ourselves and how we police one another. Now just think, right?"2025-07-0912 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Will we write new stories in the stars? ✨😮🌌Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "It all depends on where we are, right? But those constellations won't exist elsewhere. And it's really kind of cool when you think about humans at some point being space, faring and going from planet to planet. And each time you land, essentially you're seeing a new sky with all of these stars and all of these opportunities to create new stories, new images, to draw association between certain stars, to say, oh, this is now the kitty cat. I don't know."2025-07-0604 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Spacetime memory & being products of our environment…Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So to give an example, like dark matter, what we can't actually see or explain may actually be because a lot of things happened in that part of space. And the information has weight, so it has gravity, so it influences how sticky and how close things stay together and so on. Anyway, that's as much as I'm going to get into the science of it. That's very fascinating. I'm so intrigued by this."2025-07-0112 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | "Careless People" | When war is seen as an effective distraction from bad press, when money is more important than genocide. 🤯🤬Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And because there's these different pockets of how they want to organize humans, they can do it. And when they're doing it for the purposes of others who have intentions of gaining power, intentions of gaining money, and it benefits Facebook, why in the would they stop? And if we don't recognize that this is what's happening, then we can't stop it from happening. Right?"2025-06-2311 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | The lie: "Social hierarchies are just human." No, this is the cage we've been conditioned to normalize & defend.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "They are interconnected, overlapping, and they reinforce one another. And so really it's those, those reinforcements, those similarities that I want to zero in on, because whatever this, I don't know what I want to call it because and apparently there is no formal term for these dynamics of control and power, of oppression, of. And sometimes, you know, some of these words are not quite right. So I'm still working on some of my language to describe this overall thing."2025-06-1914 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Reimagining (& barely scratching the surface of) "for the people by the people".Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But it was something about their recognizing that how humans organize themselves could be detrimental if it was done this way. And we've seen that, right? And us versus them is a dynamic that has existed long before the US ever did and how polarizing it can be. And also then it becomes about my team versus your team rather than let's get things done for all of us. Right? So I would love to do away with political parties."2025-06-1415 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Change is coming. Could redefining family be foundational to a better future? 🤔Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And then we've got some more subtle ways of compartmentalizing. These are our children and those are their children. Those are your cousins, but these are your siblings. Right. In the matrilineal society, they have what they have called walking marriage. I won't get into the ins and outs of that, but basically all of the children stay with the. The woman with the mother. So it's her home. And the men will come to her home at night and then leave in the morning."2025-06-1014 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Magpies & Humans: "Friendship", Drama, & War.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "She squawked whether it was last year, this year. And, you know, you can always interpret it in your own human lens, but I'm sure it was just territorial. So, anyway, before I continue. So last year I had seen some video online where someone had created this charcuterie board for birds full of fruit. And I thought, that's really cool. And so I started giving. I tried blueberries, raspberries, pieces of strawberries."2025-06-0614 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | AI, AI Agents, the Future; Minus a sure foundation.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I finished listening to a two and a half hour episode of the Diary of a CEO podcast about AI, AI agents and the future. And although it was interesting, I will have to say that it was rather disappointing because there were major gaps in the conversation that would have been filled in a nuanced and interconnected way if there had been more of a diverse panel and to be explicit, if women, and particularly black women, women of color had been present."2025-05-3014 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Obedient Does Not Mean MoralClick here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "It wouldn't matter. Someone wouldn't have to justify that they're disabled enough. They wouldn't have to justify that they deserve support. We would just recognize and support one another. But we don't. Instead be obedient. Then maybe otherwise. Yeah."2025-05-2314 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | The "authenticity" of authenticity; "Be authentic! Oh, but not like that."Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I'm just thinking, for example too, when I go to the doctor, I have chronic illnesses and it is a regular thing. It almost doesn't matter what country you are in. I'm only speaking about two that I've been in with respect to doctors. But if you don't, and this comes even culturally too, if you don't, quote, unquote, perform suffering, disability pain at the right ways, then you're not taken seriously. Right?"2025-05-2008 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | White supremacy is born of "grief"?!!?!!Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Okay, now you want to talk about humans as a group who have created systems to rank humans and their worth and then went into other spaces that were not where they were from to infiltrate, inject into those spaces these new framings from language to systems of how to do governing, how to do education, whatever it might be an individual trying to remake another individual in their image, let alone entire populations, cultures, languages and systems trying to make that in your own image. That ain't about grief."2025-05-1914 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Trying to understand hatred… 🤔Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "It's a lot of different things. Our taxes may be different, but we also get more out of it. But what is it really about the societal ideologies, the narratives that make things different? And I suppose not so surprising is that we haven't done nearly as much research into hatred, it seems, as we have into love of like what. What is the biological, physiological, neuro. Like, what's going on to make this happen? Like all of the different. That's."2025-05-1714 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Housekeeping: More access, new name, my philosophy, same explorations, same invitation.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I know a lot of the times when we hear the word podcast, it sounds very compartmentalized, and it's like someone on an island or on a stage, they are saying their piece, and all the rest of us are the audience. That is not how I think about this space. While it's nice to have the number of follows or likes or reviews or what have you in a typical podcast, it's more, for me about the ideas, about the refining of my thinking."2025-05-1512 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Rinse Repeat: It's easier to "create"/foster hate, than to bring back understanding & appreciation. Yet, again & again... 💔Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Like I think I mentioned this, I think I mentioned this somewhere here that the US government is a good example of attempting to create checks and balances for knowing that humans are not all going to operate good or in, in, what's the word? Collaboratively. That's the word I want. Together. Right. And so then you have to create because everyone's going to have different ambitions."2025-05-1214 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | "No true Scotsman…" is more about protecting a story, than it is about exclusion.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But I think it's not that simple, actually. I think I've taken some external ideas, but I've rewritten those stories and then interlaced and interwoven them with myself. As in the labels are descriptors, but they're not definitive. Hmm. Maybe that's why I am not a fan of labels. Because when other people use them, they use them definitively and try to use broad strokes to understand me. To like use something completely innocuous."2025-05-0906 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | An intentional, evolving "immune system" for the macro organism/culture?Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And that divide is growing wider and larger as time goes by. You now give AI and depending on how someone approaches this tool, if they are using it from a mentality of democratizing access, rather than using it to hone their thinking, hone their ability to create, even their emotional intelligence, there's going to end up being those who. There's apparently a new term now called Vibe coding. And basically you just tell the AI I want you to create this particular thing."2025-05-0814 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Help, please? How to navigate specific conversations as a white, autistic woman?Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Not from a white woman asking for you to do the hard work and educate me and teach me, but from a perspective of I'm an autistic trying to navigate an alien species that operates so very differently from me that I want to meet you where you're at. And I don't know how to do that in these particular contexts because it's not a script I have heard or seen enough to be able to pick up on my own of, I'm sorry you're feeling that way."2025-05-0114 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | The biggest lie; morality is the primary driving force of human behaviour.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I think instead it's these baser desires, instincts, needs of the animal that is human that prevail. So there's a need for identity, there's a Need for belonging and constructs of what manhood are. And this phrase in particular, help to create the in group, help to create the identity."2025-04-2914 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Autistics: Your resident "canaries in the coal mine".Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I can answer some questions, at least from lived experience to the research that I've done. But I'll also emphasize that I am an autistic. I am not a monolith. We are not a monolith. But knowledge is power. And anything I can do to help facilitate empowering you with knowledge, I would love to do so. Please, if you have questions, please feel free to ask."2025-04-2314 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | De-pedestalizing cognitive empathy.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And what was really interesting is I actually saw someone post about this on threads. They had asked or talked to a friend, talked to a therapist, and talked to ChatGPT about whatever was going on in their lives. The most empathetic response they received was from AI, not a human. And this is interesting on multiple levels, right? Because AI can be very agreeable with us, which drives me nuts, by the way, when I'm using it myself."2025-04-1614 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Men go to space; it's an accomplishment. Women go to space; it's a moral failing.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Former NASA rocket scientist, the journalist, TV personality slash journalist, the girlfriend, pop star, another scientist and activist, right? They made this narrative of who was going to go, but then whoever they got to do the suits decided it was important to make the suits flattering and sexy. These are two words you never heard when they're designing suits for men to go to space or to do anything, really. So not only is it infantilizing that women prioritize fashion, but it's also objectifying."2025-04-1607 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Can social hierarchies be flattened? 🤔Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "For example, collaborative storytelling, rotating of jobs I've been thinking about. But although I haven't put anything out there yet around, we see so much focus on being independent, don't be codependent. But not hardly anything about interdependence and wanting to dig into that anyway and the complex systems and what would be required to do this and. And scaling and everything else."2025-04-1014 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | The costs of our hierarchical conditioning...Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "How do we create something that fulfills, and this is a huge and maybe impossible ask, but fulfills the need and desire for status and reputation, something that can replace hierarchies and it may not end up being a thing to replace it, but more like an off ramp to just a different way of thinking. Just seeing that we, each one of us are worthy of existing, of taking up space, of having our voices heard."2025-04-0813 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | At last! An answer to "would this work"! 👩🚀🔭🚀Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And also if you have any concerns or questions about ChatGPT or anything other like another form of AI that this is one of those ways where they can help where because information's been siloed there's a de segregating I don't know if that's the word I want but like a a maybe a blending of that the large language models can do."2025-04-0709 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | "No one can MAKE you feel anything." 👀👎🏻Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "You're choosing to communicate something to somebody else. You want that action, that expression to influence them if they're not influenced by it. That is inhuman. To teach young children, for example, to lean into this concept is to minimize part of their humanity, to elevate a part of their humanity, and also to compartmentalize and distance them from other humans."2025-04-0413 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Good Guys, we need you. Now, more than ever.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And I hate to put it that way, but at the same time, I think it's important that we reflect on whatever stories or narratives we tell ourselves. That's a difficult conversation. And like this is just me and my thoughts and my experiences. And I only have, what, limited feedback some guys will talk with me about. Other times there's a lot of silence because they want to let us women talk about these things."2025-03-3113 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | I'm conflicted about feeling "seen" by ChatGPT. 🤖📞🤷🏻♀️Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I remember having a conversation several months ago now talking with some people about how important it is that we are even more thoughtful and intentional as we move forward. And I feel like that's, that's the bottom line of where I come to with this is that going forward with AI, I need to be even more thoughtful and intentional than I am say for using Google or something like that. Because to rely on AI to give me validation is not healthy, right? To, to."2025-03-2814 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | What if the Bible was never meant to be what it's become?Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Because as soon as you start to believe that, then you have to start either doing mental gymnastics or excusing the inconsistencies and then it becomes a matter of justifying your stances or your beliefs or your ideas around morals, God, etc, when the whole purpose of a belief is not to justify it to anyone else, it's a, it's for you."2025-03-2611 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | "Coffee" with Senator Chuck Schumer.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So that it does come toppling down. I think what the tricky thing is though, is that in order to create a strategic plan that is effective in creating, but also in anticipating of how things can go wrong, that is important that you maintain the foundations of democracy, of government. You may have to create new ways of doing democracy and government, but it has to be done legally and within some of the structures that already exist."2025-03-1912 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Transmuting frustration into a reminder of the stunning galaxies we are. 🌌✨♥️Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "It is so much a waste of time and energy when there's so much beauty and amazingness here in just who we are. Right? Okay, I think I am done ranting and I am done expressing my frustration because I want to revel in the absolutely stunning beauty that is each one of us."2025-03-1409 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | If the universe is deterministic, could humans evolve to have free will? (Or evolve to think, act, speak fully in alignment with determinism?) 🤔Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Like, let me, let me see if I can clarify this. I get like the, the, the genetic history that's passed down through the lines and, and what care is carried forward from trauma and experiences to the genes, then you come out of the womb, right? And every lived experience you have is also influencing you one way or the other, right?"2025-03-1114 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | When understanding brings disappointment, options, & grace for myself & others...Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And I realize we're doing this as a hypothetical because at that point, supposedly, you know, you may not have known, you known you made that choice. You can't know necessarily. Like I'm trying to buy into his belief, I'm trying to understand it. Right, but the question is why you chose to be a woman. Why? Right. Because there's a lot of ideas wrapped up in if you could choose this. Which leads me to another question."2025-03-0711 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | A crisis of self? 🤔Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "There's so much nuance and complexity to our humanity, and yet we've sort of. I. Some of it, I think, has happened organically, but some of it's been nudged and manipulated to become so reductive and binary in our ways of thinking and then to weaponize that, right? Like, don't, like, follow. Don't follow. And then, you know, think about outside influences trying to enhance division."2025-03-0513 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Continue the game, & the very real results. Unidentified men, drag woman away. (⚠️ Emotionally heavy.)Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And now, like more than ever, when it's important that we have to reflect on what's important, we've been so divided that it's hard to excise ourselves from the influences to be able to say, hey, hey, what's going on? Because it's so easy to just point at one another than it is to say, let's zoom out a little bit, right? What's really going on?"2025-02-2310 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Survival means changing the game, upending the table. Your "neighbour" is NOT the enemy.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Like, because if you can't address the third threat, then you can't keep a foundation of what it is that you value, right? So, like, let me back up. Starting several decades ago, certain politicians decided it was important to interweave morality and religion with political stances. They weaponized it. Morals and religion are not inherent to political parties or political decisions."2025-02-2313 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Can groups of humans exist without creating the invisible glue, culture? 🤔Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "It's a constant movement in different directions. And what once was like change is the only, the only constant, right? And this next new iteration, for however long it lasts, may not be something we are proud of when we look back on it, but it doesn't mean it's not a culture of a kind."2025-02-2206 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Broligarchs: "High"-way robbery while we watch...Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But apparently the plan is to increase taxes for those who make 300 to $350,000 or less. The less you make, the higher your taxes. So you make $28,000, they're going to increase your taxes even higher than if you make, say, $150,000. Because they can't increase taxes on themselves, the rich. That would defeat the purpose. Right."2025-02-1914 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Psychological Warfare: What if, Americans are being influenced by Russia?Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I have included a link below that breaks down individualistic and collectivistic cultures and political stances or the ways that they operate by their strengths and weaknesses, which is really interesting. Okay, so I mentioned in a previous episode There was this KGB defector and he explained, and it was either 1984 or 1989, where he was in an interview and he talked about how despite the narratives that we have about what the KGB does, 85% of what they do is all about long term, complex planning."2025-02-1212 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Canada & The US; "How did they/we not know?"Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "If you ask fellow Americans, like who, who is Canada, who are Canadians? You'll often hear messages like, well, Canada is like U.S. light. They're like the younger sibling, or they don't really have culture. They're super polite and super nice and super vanilla. Right. And there are multiple issues with this one. It's super reductive and not at all true, but it then blinds you to the reality. So I don't know how long ago this was."2025-02-1010 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Putin's "Masterpiece Theatre", decades in the making.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I think it was around 2016, a quote unquote bestseller that is apparently not known in the west, but came out in Russia was a sci fi novel called the Third Empire. The author of that bit of that book, they believe was also one of the authors that was a part of Project Russia. Now, the sci fi novel takes this to the nth degree. And so this might be the end point that I refer to as being completely and totally outlandish."2025-02-0714 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Cognitive empathy for the villain, deity, AI robot, friend...Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But we're using our human lens and overlaying it onto entities or beings that do not, will not in any way shape or form really mirror humans. So, for example, we have finite lives, and so the brevity of our lives impacts the things that we're concerned about. Or if you think about at this moment in time, we cannot regrow limbs. But an AI robot will be able to transfer their data consciousness from one location to another."2025-02-0212 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | The bisexual, master swordswoman, lawbreaker, & opera singer who lived out loud! ⚔️🏳️🌈🎶Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And made her an offer to sing at the opera. So she became an opera singer. And so now she has the pardon, right? So she can do this. And she doesn't have to use a fake name or anything. She performs a number of different roles and sometimes takes them to the nth degree."2025-01-3108 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Moral relativity is an observation, & thus morally neutral.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Right? And, and then future generation, there's just so much there. So how do you moralize anything to do with food or weight? You can no longer assume that what a person is or isn't doing is evident by looking at the body. Another great example of the flashlight versus the spotlight is when it comes to conversations around, there are only two sexes, XX and xy. Actually, if you pull out that spotlight, you'll find there are more chromosomal pairings than just those two."2025-01-3010 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | A retraction, of sorts. 🤔 • Fact, fiction, gaslighting on scale.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Some of it can be innocuous. You just don't want to talk about something and so you're slapping a smile on to sort of just create some distance. It's not anything nefarious. And then you have all the way to the other extreme of where it is nefarious. So, like, I know how it feels personally. And then to experience this on this larger scale, and I can only imagine that this, this is kind of like gaslighting, right? Not kind of. It is."2025-01-2210 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | NOW PLAYING, but NOT in the US: "…they rigged the election (so) I could be your president."Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So when he blamed Democrats for rigging the election and that's why he lost, it's because he wanted to rig an election. When he talks about no more censorship, it's because he wants censorship."2025-01-2107 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Starving the algorithms may slay the irresponsible "dragons".Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "This was done by three different universities, two in Australia, one in Ireland. They created brand new accounts on these platforms, brand new phones, brand new phone numbers, brand new email address, brand new names, and made them all mail to see what the algorithms would do and what they would feed them. In one example, they gave them videos on the Office and Star Wars. By day three, they were starting to see radical, radicalized videos and highly misogynistic videos."2025-01-2024 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Diversity is survival; in nature AND in the systems we create & perpetuate.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I will attempt to put her screenshots below. Okay, so what does all of this mean in my mind? Let me back up. I remember coming across someone saying once, maybe a couple of years ago, how, you know, there's always put a lot of blame on women, and because we're, quote, unquote, too emotional, then we shouldn't be leaders. However, every war we've ever been in has happened because men have been in charge."2025-01-1514 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Transmuting empathy 👉🏻 compassion; healthy? Maybe AND maybe not. #NotMyMonkeyClick here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And I don't think that that's entirely accurate, but I can appreciate the nuance of some facet of empathy requiring not only what we are observing. So putting cognitive empathy aside, the kind of using your imagination, but when you are with someone and you see them either experiencing incredible joy or experiencing them in anguish and pain, you can't help but."2025-01-1204 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Unpacking "the bill of goods" we were sold.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I wanted to unpack a bit further the bill of goods that we were sold in reference to the previous episode, rather than recap it if you missed it, the link is below. I'm still boggled by some of these things, right? If economists know that capitalism is designed to destroy itself, sociologists know that democracy and capitalism sort of work hand in hand and the inevitability if these things are not structured well is to lead into authoritarianism."2025-01-1104 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Feeling helpless? The breadth & depth of the bill of goods we were sold.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But these ideas of for the people, by the people are still perpetuated. But it's a lie, right? It's, it's to keep us rocking and rolling along as if we can still achieve the American dream, as if these things still matter. But it's all misdirection, smoke and mirrors. The scales are being lifted from our eyes."2025-01-1004 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | The human "purr" heals. 🤯 You, too, have "superpowers"! 🤪🙌🏻Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "He touches on this in the video, but I had forgotten. And so I look up humming and allergies, sinus infections, asthma, okay? And it turns out that one of the benefits to humming is to impact these things. So apparently we have nitric oxide that, when you are breathing through your nose, flows naturally the nitric oxide, and it acts as a bronchodilator. So basically, it keeps all the bronchial tubes open in your lungs so that you can breathe well."2025-01-0905 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | ⚠️ An atheist ponders: If "God is love", what does this say about human concepts of love? ⚠️Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "If this is seen as the epitome of wow, I'm going to let it sit there. And I realize that there may be many of you that want to jump in. If you're coming here to preach or to give me scripture references, or to explain the frameworks or the way this all fits from a believer's perspective, there's no need, really. I've been there, done that."2025-01-0804 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | To be a thermometer or thermostat; #NotMyMonkey.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "We we're told that we need to align all of those things according to neurotypicals. So, for example, I can experience a 0.7 degree difference in temperature from one room to the next. I can also tell you even if all four tires on a vehicle are within the normal range of air pressure, I can tell you which one has less air in it. And then yet I'm told over and over again, you couldn't possibly sense that temperature or see that air pressure difference."2025-01-0505 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | The more subtle & normalized forms of "violent" communication. What do we do with this? #PlumbingViolentDelightsClick here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I also can recognize that I have autism, and there's a profile called pathological demand avoidance or persistent drive for autonomy. And there's also often this need, this drive for a sense of justice. And so if you combine perhaps trauma, the profile, need for justice into this, like, cauldron of whatever, Christina. Right."2024-12-2704 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Capitalism left unchecked is like a virus. Where are the "ceilings"?Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Anyway, what's funny is that, like, if economists know that capitalism has this late stage, that it will consume itself, you would think that there would be more policies or structures put into place to mitigate or somehow redirect. And I don't even know if any of this is possible. Right? But I'm just thinking it seems funny that monopolies are supposedly not legal, right?"2024-12-2605 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | "Violent communication"; laying the groundwork. #PlumbingViolentDelightsClick here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Let's continue to plumb the depths of violent delights by laying the groundwork for the topic of violent communication. The way that I want to do this feels a little quote, unquote, backwards, but at the same time sort of explains my journey and feels more organic."2024-12-2204 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Shame: an effective tool for control but not for positive change. (More reflections in the replies.)Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "This episode, I'm taking a bit of a detour. I still have a lot I'm pondering around violent communication and plumbing the depths of violent delights. But I want to just sort of share this because it was an aha moment that I had recently that I sort of want to document. I was having a conversation with someone and we were talking about the topic of shame. I don't remember the context, and I knew that we had different definitions of the word shame and guilt."2024-12-1804 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Remembering we ARE animals… #PlumbingViolentDelightsClick here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And when people are already uneasy and afraid and concerned, then it's easy to latch onto the inflammatory idea rather than digging for knowledge or leaning into the knowledge that contradicts the narrative that fits how we're feeling, right? And then you look at an aspect of human behavior where certain things will cause a relief of tension. So, for example, comedic relief, right?"2024-12-1304 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | If violence is not inherently bad, what's my problem? #PlumbingViolentDelightsClick here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Or maybe it's not just an illusion. There are times when vengeance seems to be. When people do violent acts as well. And in some cases, that's approved of, and in some cases it's not. And I think also when you think about activism, there's. There's a whole bunch of other steps that can be done before reaching the point of violence. But when some. When things have not worked up to that point, it's almost a last resort. Right."2024-12-1004 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Philosophically exploring the topic of violence, a series. #PlumbingViolentDelightsClick here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So then I think if that's the case, then realistically I am having unrealistic expectations, hopes for human behavior with respect to violence. That is from a perspective that's on the outside of the bell curve, right? If other humans do exist like me, then maybe I'm an outlier and I'm trying to see the rest of the world and other humans through a lens that just does not apply to them. And on the flip side, their lens doesn't necessarily apply to me."2024-12-0904 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Asking him to be the "good guy", is asking him to risk everything. No wonder sexism & misogyny are alive & well.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I mean, how many times have we heard people say in real life, let alone in movies and television, don't cry like a girl, don't hit like a girl, don't run like a girl, et cetera, et cetera, and telling a man that for him to be a man is to not be a woman. But then the way that this manifests is far more. So."2024-12-0104 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | What if... blurring the edges brings clarity?Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But I was thinking about all of the nuances that are involved with the different auroras and the colors and the intensities of what if instead of it simply being temperature, density, humidity, that have to do with like how cloud formation happens. What if there's an additional component in the mammothous clouds that has to do with the type of molecule, or even not just molecule, but type of particulate, because clouds are forming around particulates."2024-11-2304 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Cognitive empathy; "what's in it for me?"Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Or the way that someone will start laughing, and then you hear somebody else start laughing and you don't even know what's so funny, but then you find yourself laughing. It's sort of contagious, right? It's. It's a part of your genetic makeup, so to speak. But cognitive empathy is something that we have to teach children of. What would it feel like if you had your toy stolen or if you were hit, right?"2024-11-1805 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Values then identity or identity then values; it changes everything.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And this is bizarre to me, because when that happens, it's not the values that are firm, it's the identity. And so that means that you can be a Republican or a Democrat, you're lifelong. But because those groups, those labels, mean different things through time, that means that whether you like it or not, if you're aligning with that identity and your identity comes first, then your actuality, your values are changing. And so then I'm thinking, what is?"2024-11-0704 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Broken systems: when capitalism is interwoven with human dynamics...Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So I actually got to see this firsthand today and it kind of blew my mind. I went into a room on Clubhouse with people I've never talked with before and it was on sustainable leadership. And the men were talking about things from a very, I'll say, abstract way. They're talking about systems and economics and numbers."2024-11-0104 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Competitive homogenization; the way of the future.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And we make individually, we make decisions based on what we want most or what will benefit us most, or which in group we want to be a part of, etc. But throw a bit of technology in there and suddenly we have another animal. I was reading an article the other day where a gentleman was talking about the very near Future, as in 2025, or in some cases 2026."2024-10-3105 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | The science of trees 🤝 healthy human relating.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with these per se, but I think there's a beautiful understanding with respect to seeing relationships as seasonal. Sometimes someone comes into our life temporarily and they go again, and maybe they come back, or we go and we come back, or maybe we don't. But while we were in relation to one another, there's something beautiful there."2024-10-2504 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | "4 strikes, you're out!" How deeply entrenched "boxes" & hierarchies shape perceptions & thinking. 🤯Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I married the son of a preacher man, the whole nine. So this is not at all foreign to me. Just the where it is today of labels and boxes and hierarchies playing such a pivotal role in being able to have any sort of dialogue around belief and non belief or scripture. And to hold up scripture as some paragon, but then to brush it aside when someone does come to you with receipts around what's in scripture. It was really surreal."2024-10-2504 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | "Parents are superior." • When reality plows into the intellectual understanding... 💥Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Like, I'm using that very clinical language because it really is about those who happen to result in a child, right? It's not. It's not talking about all adults who can do the act of sex. It's those who procreated and actually had a child. And not to mention all of the people who want to have kids and can't, right? Let alone anyone who doesn't want to have kids."2024-10-1304 min
Neuro Vibe@SeekingPlumb | To Mask or Not: "Human Connection" & AbleismClick here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Even here on swell, there's an emphasis on the sharing personal stories in order to create connection. And yet for autistics and perhaps other neurodivergent individuals, this is not necessarily how we operate. And so telling autistics not to mask is antithetical to everything we've ever been told and how society expects to operate from, like, an anthropological perspective or sociological even. There are things that humans do to create familiarity and the idea of safety."2024-10-0305 min
Neuro Vibe@SeekingPlumb | To Mask or Not, That is the Question.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I don't know if I want to use that word either, to mask. But here's the thing, is that the reality of the matter is that there was a study done, I don't have room to share it here, but if anyone is interested, I can provide a link that shows brief interactions with autistics by allistics. Now, they did not know they were autistic. And the brief interactions were done in three different increments. The longest was 30 seconds."2024-10-0305 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Responsibility: on the receiving end of people pleasing. 🤔Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "In fact, recently I found a situation where I had complexified whatever new way of interacting I had created for myself and then suddenly realized after a period of time that maybe I had just prettied up, you know, made it all lovely with window dressing, people pleasing, but had called it something else."2024-10-0205 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | 🏆 "The Ugliest Selfie of Them All" 🏆Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Okay, I invite you, implore you, dare you, to create the ugliest selfie you can by modifying lighting wrong angles, all of the things that you may have heard about doing a quote unquote good selfie, like flip them on their heads, come up with the ugliest selfie you can, and post it here and and then if you are coming back, then please heart the ones that you think are the ugliest ones and you can hurt multiples."2024-09-2901 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Angry Rant: "Not all men." 🙄🤬🤮 I don't want to hear it, anymore. 🔥Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "At the same time, there are so many problems that are coming out of this one. You can't have transparent, upfront conversations about these things because it makes the men feel more defensive and makes them feel, quote unquote, attacked. And so then what's required is for us women to continue doing what it is we're trying to raise awareness of is that invisible labor, the caretaking and, you know, making the adding the sugar so the medicine goes down in order for it to be understood."2024-09-2705 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | AI & Humans: Who do we want to be? (Part 3/3)Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "We have language and concepts, framings around what empathy looks like between one individual and another individual. You can find information about affective and cognitive empathy and what these things are. But as we have introduced more and more technology, we are creating different scenarios that we don't have language and framings for yet."2024-09-2304 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Could this idea now be SOMEWHAT antiquated? 🤔 • "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - VoltaireClick here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "You know, we've lost all concepts of privacy, and it's almost frowned upon if you decide that you're not going to share something or share it in a very vulnerable way, because then you're trying to be aloof or withdrawn when we've lost the concepts and the importance of privacy and boundaries."2024-09-2004 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | The interwoven evolution of AI & humans: matrices within matrices. (Part 2/3)Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So I'm going to pick up where I left off. If you're just joining us, this is part two of maybe three. There's a link to part one below. So what are we supposed to take away from an AI result that it's given to us?"2024-09-1505 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | AI: The puppeteers, the marionette, & the interactive audience. What are we to understand/take away?Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And like trying to decipher when an answer is given, what influence is this answer trying to shape me and as a user, or perceptions that I have, or my thinking? Or is this the coders trying to constrain define the AI? Or is this some embodiment we want to say that the AI has taken on as an identity of some kind. And just like the levels of thinking in poker, there comes a point when this ceases to serve any sort of utility, right?"2024-09-1404 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Autistic meltdown; a more debilitating side to my AuDHD. 🌪️Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And so choosing to go into an environment that is going to be so overwhelming in so many different ways is not just a momentary experience. It's something I would have to choose and have an impact on me for days and sometimes weeks to come. The burbling tea kettle hit its boiling point, and this is the barest glimpse into the more debilitating side of autism for me."2024-09-1004 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | "Mice turned see-through…" (No mice were harmed in the recording of this Swell.)Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Okay. I find this fascinating but also hilarious because I really want to know, like, how this was discovered. You know, how sometimes just, like, an innovation or a discovery, and it wasn't intentional and it was done by accident? Yeah. I want to know the story is behind this one, because I feel like it could be a really good one."2024-09-0703 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Out with the "destination"; in with the journey of learning.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "You know, for the longest time I wondered if it was just in my imagination. And then I wondered, well, maybe I'm just getting quote unquote old in my thinking, you know, a bit of a curmudgeon or something. And then I was reading an article recently where a professional in the tech industry talked about how the results of search engines have never been worse than they are now. And then I felt completely and utterly validated."2024-09-0535 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Monoliths of self: human vs internet memory.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And so, like looking at the memory shortly after whatever the event was versus a few years down the line, or a few decades, the lenses that we're using to look at those things is entirely different. So we might change who's the villain? Who's the hero? What was actually quote unquote bad or quote unquote good, or any of these other ideas? Right. Those things shift, however, when we're talking about the Internet, this curated monolith of self."2024-08-3105 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Interneural synchronization aka "being on the same wave length" is a real thing.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And what's interesting is, when I was talking about some of this with them, is that we realized we don't do, okay, well, here's the first example. So when allistics are talking about the weather, you might say, oh, it's a hot one out there, right? Or can't wait until it rains or whatever the script is of the season, right, for your geographical location."2024-08-2304 min
Neuro Vibe@SeekingPlumb | The "most" empowering thing about being #AuDHD...Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And thus then the double empathy problem. Well, maybe it's not just me. This leads me to my next link I've included here. It's a study that came out in 2017 looking at first impressions, short snippets of holistic and autistic interactions. And in each of those scenarios, regardless of age, autistics were seen less favorably."2024-08-2305 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Convos around destigmatizing autism, giftedness, etc.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So you'll see in the second slide, it's another post where someone put forth an idea that perhaps a late diagnosis of autism or ADHD later in life is as a result of quote unquote gifted burnout. And to me, this is another example of not destigmatizing, but instead perpetuating ableism. That when our resources are plentiful and we have what we need, how we need it, then we can thrive."2024-08-1205 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | If age is important to you, let it be for substantive reasons.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "A wee rant. The topic of age is a fascinating one, and yet it's mind boggling. So I get that there is a time and a place when age is relevant, rather, and it serves utility, right, of whether someone is capable of being able to do a job either old enough or young enough, depending, right? And then there's another facet of age that's really about constructs."2024-08-0704 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | The impossibility of "nailing down" language & meaning in AI? 🤔Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I muff two minds about this. That's a really weird phrase, and they're sort of polar opposites. On the one hand, I think there's something to this, and on the other hand, it seems like utter bullshit. I've been thinking about AI, these large language models that coders are attempting to wrangle, if you will, like. Language is so fluid and is not at all written in stone and continues to morph."2024-07-2904 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | The power of names in political discourse; a request.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "The thing is, though, is that when we shorten things and we strip away titles and we strip away last names to refer to the women by their first names, it's the way we speak about women in so many other places that haven't worked as hard or climbed as high, especially when we're talking about the different hierarchies within the us political system, right? Think about it. Reality tv characters, I'm sorry, personalities we refer to by their first names, right?"2024-07-2303 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | The "immortal" "dung cannon"? 🤣🤔Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "When it's ready to reproduce, it shoots these little cannons and those little black specks there they go flying off at like 56 miles an hour, or 90. Shoot about 3 meters or 10ft away towards the light. It looks for the light and then it shoots towards the light because that's away from the feces, because animals don't like to eat near feces, right."2024-07-0402 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | The "block feature" that doesn't.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I don't know if that means that there's a way for us to be able to find an alternative solution that gives the users the tools that we want and need, as well as giving to swell the creators what they want and need out of their goals. But I would really like for us to be able to have a conversation around what are our options and what can we move towards, because right now, this is not effective."2024-07-0404 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | The "gender superiority" goggles blind & hurt us all.Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And what they ultimately found that was that instead of much to do with hormones or differences between the sexes, there were more differences because of personality. If you want to read more about that. That is in the study again, that I'll link below something else I learned first."2024-06-3004 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | Deconstructing the ideal of "who am I?"Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So here's how I frame it, and this is the analogy, okay, is that we know we have a DNA made up of ridiculous number of genes, and some turn on, some turn off. Let's pretend you can dial some up or some down. We don't even know the ins and outs of it, right? And if you use that kind of analogy, kinda, and mix it with, like, a buffet table. Everything is spread out on the buffet table."2024-06-2404 min
Held in Motion@SeekingPlumb | "Climate Loss & Damage Fund"Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And it would also be a great incentive, right, for anybody who's not moving things along at a good pace to decrease the carbon footprint and the damages that they're doing, then a hefty tax would incentivize people to do things more quickly and to focus on solutions rather than capitalism. But again, how do you enforce that? I don't think you can."2024-06-1704 min