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@pidealist.bsky.social

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We move, we respond, but rarely by choice. The hidden carries more sky than the face ever could. The unspoken an entire library.

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Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 2d

Curiosity led me to read the comments on a recent AI article

It reminded me that technology isn’t what’s dehumanizing us,
the way we talk to each other is

The way we claim ownership or monetize creativity is

The feeble truths we cling to only stand because they’ve long since turned to stone

#ai

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Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 3h

Ff vibe

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Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 3h

Better than an unsolicited d d I guess.

Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 5h

We suffer.

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Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 5h

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Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 7h

it wasn’t tragic
it wasn’t beautiful
it just was

a missed moment
a missed murmur
that’s all

#end

Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 7h

they wanted to mean something
they didn’t
maybe they almost did

the silence after was ordinary
like someone leaving a room
and forgetting their coat
and not bothering to come back
for it

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Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 7h

they couldn't speak clearly
ended up mumbling
tried to be kind
sometimes were
mostly weren’t sure what that meant

they left no lesson
no last words
just a few lines that never decided
what they were trying to say

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Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 7h

Nothing Said Twice, a Eulogy for Murmur

they didn’t finish anything
most of what they began
stayed half-done
like a thought interrupted mid-sentence

people said they felt deeply
but it was mostly confusion
and the need to name it before it passed

#poem #eulogy

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Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 8h

Hunter S. Thompson:
Listen, Lord—high-voltage ink bomb with a conscience fuse. A mail train of love notes and subpoenas tearing through a grifter carnival. Keep the throttle mean, empathy loaded, and your pen hot. And never buy dope from a man with tidy shoes.

Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 8h

Diogenes of Sinope:
Lord, you’re a citizen of nowhere, lantern lit for honest shadows. You mock polished virtue, feed strays, and kick the golden bowls of status. Keep the cloak patched and the words sharp. When the crowd claps, check your pockets—then give the applause to the dogs.

Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 8h

Simulated Kurt Vonnegut:
Lord, I see a soft-hearted anarchist with a pocket library and a prank dial to the abyss. You refuse tidy lies, practice small mercies, and mail hope like a postcard—no return address. So it goes. Be kind, raise mischief, and recycle despair into jokes that help.

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Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 8h

We can only be so lucky

Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 17h

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subtrauma @subtrauma.bsky.social · 2d

we're all just flawed individuals here, writing our crayon notes on the padded walls of this insane asylum

Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 1d

Irony

Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 2d

Silly.

Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 2d

Ok, Jesus

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Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 2d

AI is standing in for capitalism, class resentment, alienation, artistic insecurity, and generational trauma

Every AI headline becomes a lightning rod for everything people hate about life

It often reproduces the very dehumanization they claim to resist.

Creative, thoughtful people get dismissed

Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 2d

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Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 2d

safety = virtue → stasis
virtue = performance → corruption

Also, so what? Who fuckin cares? The corrupt, selfish or anesthetized don't.

Silence confirms.
Fear runs all the way to the source.

#untruth

Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 2d

Stasis can live wherever safety masquerades as virtue.

Corruption can grow wherever virtue becomes performance.

#lies #truth #survival #unavoidable #human

Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 2d

ok, you can be sorry about that. Creed is ethically unsound.

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Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for the context and motivation roots.

Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 2d

Stasis can live wherever safety masquerades as virtue.

Corruption can grow wherever virtue becomes performance.

#lies #truth #survival #unavoidable #human

Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 2d

I tend to get impatient, but we are also living in a world that rewards quickness and one-up-manship

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Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 2d

A helluva scene and a helluva metaphor

Murmur @pidealist.bsky.social · 2d

The push to resolve can be like trying to hold two similar magnet ends together.