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Mother Abrams

@motherabrams.bsky.social

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Using what worked for music in WWI or WWII cannot be a template for what music can accomplish in warfare during our times. Salty Tank Veteran & His Abrams, Conjurin' the Voltron of small NATO bands w/ #TheSeam & https://www.youtube.com/@MotherAbrams

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · Jan 25

#Hungary #Ukraine #Georgia #America

We are the backsliders.

The nations where Democracy is most acutely under attack.

In danger of falling, or falling even further, into the madnesses of malign men.

The ravenous egos of clowns, focused down on us four, pushing us down our mountains.

#TheSeam

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 4m

Statistics. Probabilities. Human nature, the nature of entropy...

Odds of you ever seeing this missive in the first place are monumentally against ever of being so.

Yet yer eyeballs be reading this fuckin' sentence, troop.

Much less your comprehension of it, or its meaning.

Fuckin 2 ya...

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 9m

2 out of 500 who will ever desire to follow the yammerings of this account. The story of this tank. The #MotherAbrams.

If this account doesn't post every hour or two?

You two are lost. You drop below the tides of zero.

Lost past attention's zero lines.

As a thinker, do you understand?

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 15m

You. Only fractionally aware, at random times.

That's your awareness of this account, & your current times.

500+ of you, mostly dormant.

Do you understand?

The bet is, the stats say, it may well be just 2 of ya. Out of 5 fucking hundred.

(Because statistics, honestly, be fucking cruel...)

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 24m

We, the #Resonant amongst the many.

Those amongst us all who can move mountains.

We mostly slumber. Hibernating alongside kindness & empathy.

Some fuckin' random cave somewhere, where intellect's frost equator has not yet thawed in response to the flames & heat of our moment.

Yet to awaken.

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 31m

There's a way to be good at the art of social media. It's to be omnipresent & ever posting.

To 500+, & stalled, followers of this account. You may have already realized this. #MotherAbrams ain't yer normal follow.

Don't even wanna be, nor will we even try.

Us rare. We lucid, we curious...

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 40m

This, actually an author's note in disguise, trying to figure out the beast that is social media.

It's so limiting. Like notes passed among school desks before the internet was existent. So much gets lost between short sentences. Entire contexts.

Then judgement floods the spaces between.

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 47m

Amongst all the multitude, the many...

You are the few, you are the lucid.

This account cannot spam your needs for attention. It'll get lost in the drown.

You'll need to hunt us down with your focus. Your need to know.

Ain't sustainable otherwise. Just ain't that kind of thing.

Ya know?

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 55m

I've found music, #Allspeak, to be as such. Only understood by the hunters.

Not the gatherers, nor the illucid.

The curious amongst ya'll, as the incurious fall away from the trying.

That's who this account is for. The true seekers. Those sustained by truths.

Those with sight...

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 1h

But this account can't pop up in your feed so often as to remind you that it exists.

This account will be lost down blurs of your life's fog. Buried deep into your larger feedstock of content & posts.

You'll only happen upon us rarely, most likely never see it, if you ain't lucid nor curious.

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 1h

I've tried to do it. I can't. I won't.

This ain't that kind of account.

A daily spam of what's going on, it's meaning to us as a species. I can't keep up, nor do I want to.

I've a front I'm fighting on, a zero line, in conjunction w/ others. It's in Ukraine.

Given due time, I can explain.

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 1h

Most likely did, but did you know?

Social media. It's a bit fucking shit.

To keep you apprised. To keep you & me at top of mind...

Have to spam this shit. Post e'ry hour, or half.

It's too much, dilutes intent & meaning.

Bullshit to tide us all over before bits of rare meaning present.

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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 5d

Air raid alert. Everyone’s in the shelter.
A song echoes underground.
It’s not fear — it’s life, it’s strength.
Ukrainians. Together. Unbreakable.

🎥y.krasinskyi

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 2h

My salient is my own.

I have learned this lesson, over & over again.

I have no idea if this will translate beyond confusion:

Український танкіст...

Епоха танкової війни не закінчилася. Ми повинні знайти інший шлях.

Ти і я, разом...

Ми це знайдемо.

Ми не зазнаємо невдачі.

#Bulldog469

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Це обкладинка найдивнішого посібника з експлуатації танка M1 Abrams, який будь-коли був написаний.

На ньому, на цьому фото обкладинки, зображено M1A2 Abrams у 3D-рендері. Навколо нього нанесено текст, виконаний графічним малюнком на сіро-білому фоні, щоб відповідати спектру вашої реальності. Речі так рідко бувають чорно-білими, незважаючи на схильності простих людських умів, які вас оточують.

Більшість речей, які ви переживаєте, будуть певним ступенем сірого, але більшість дивиться на краї. Де існують лише чорний або білий колір.

До біса ці сліпі йолопи, які бачать лише два відтінки. Які бачать лише прості кольори.

Якщо ви бачите ці слова, ви бачите у відтінках.

Це ваш шлях. Це ваша історія. Це ваш посібник...

#Hagbard
#MotherAbrams

Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 3h

I do understand it, American apathy, the force of it.

But fucking reject its momentum. Fucking reject its current trajectory.

Fucking reject the control of its failsons.

Alone, without a current together.

The tethers I've gathered whittled down near none.

Yet, I'm a vet.

Down to one...

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 3h

The world in rapt witness as it falls asunder.

I don't think you truly understand this moment, this confluence of events.

I can admit to rageful vents of imploring. This moment, this passing. This, our shared time of perceiving.

How can you ignore klaxon, sounding or siren?

Slumber still?

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 3h

To bread & circus.

Your lot, my lot.

Fucking chaos, fucking corruption.

Fucking apathetic slumber. A mighty nation asleep.

Because no one ever knows the nature of true time, perhaps for the last time.

America. A young nation. The dirt nap of freedom & justice.

Our current confluence.

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 3h

The only message I can convey to your timeline. The only message that you may ultimately receive...

Is of a lonely veteran, stubborn enough in the environment of what currently sets your timeline. aflame.

The background of your current privilege America, as you've long abandoned...

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 3h

If you can hear klaxon & siren. Aware that the moment you inhabit may well be aflame?

Can't give you comfort, can't give you guarantees.

Our shared & better days...

They've been infested by numerous grifter fleas.

Ain't no telling of our time says that kindness, empathy, will win our day.

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 3h

Alone, but still together, at least from afar...

We endeavor, you & I.

Women & men, made from metal, who see strange duties.

We who can see our species' strange seams.

We who endeavor to sew selfsame back together.

This accounting, if your soul pines for more...

Searches what matters most?

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 4h

Hedy. Ben & Betty...

Sun.

I find myself abandoned in strange efforts, again.

Same as it ever was, as crew to an unknown prototype M1.

Bespoke machinery & craftmanship, singular & alone, it's ever been thus.

Her metal. You & I.

Our adventure together.

Again, once more.

Alone to gather.

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 4h

Your apathy. The kind world's selfsame.

It's led to justice in slumber, where free people fall back into the chaotic seas of cruelties.

To be honest, my fellow artists, I do not think you fully comprehend this moment.

This shining confluence.

It can consume us all...

#Hagbard
#MotherAbrams

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 4h

Your mind when it craves for only simplicities...

That ain't the nature of things. Ain't the nature of what can be.

Ain't the nature of human proclivities.

To shine the light to show it as so?

Dear fucklords, still don't believe you can see...

What it has cost me.

#PaleDriver
#Bulldog469

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 4h

Where you & I have have fallen down the well of love for one another.

Separated. Falling ever further from one another.

The nature of this universe, this 'Verse you & I inhabit.

Its nature to forever push us apart, at ever subliminal speeds.

You cannot grasp truth if you can only see...

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · 4h

My fellow artists, I don't think you fully comprehend this moment, this confluence. The fact that the human proclivity to learn only by repetition.

Done.

Been automated.

We are fucked, you & I, & we ain't never met to fully get sticky.

Confluences.

Where random strings have come together.

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Mother Abrams @motherabrams.bsky.social · Jul 3

bsky.app/profile/karl...

Many ways, we already awash in that era. Our current era of music has culminated. Reached an end of effectiveness.

Regroup with us, troop. We gonna find those teeth, that bite.

Rage at our current storm, fellow freaks. Music is down. Art is down.

Human expression...

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · Jul 3

I did not like the era of "musicians and actors should never express political opinions and should quietly exist as ideological homogenized mannequins that happen to make art" and I'll be thrilled if our dance with authoritarianism results in an actual counter-culture with teeth

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