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Sam Bergman

@violanorth.bsky.social

musician, arts administrator, stress baker, Granite Stater; he/him "A curmudgeonly joy" — @doodlyroses.com "Fancy with an element of surprise" — @dalanie.bsky.social

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Six volumes of a series of books called How to Understand and Listen to Great Music

Six volumes of a series of books called How to Understand and Listen to Great Music

Oh good, I’ve been trying to figure that out for a while

01.03.2026 23:30 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
A mixed berry pie with a rebel loon in the crust

A mixed berry pie with a rebel loon in the crust

My FUCK ICE pie from last week

01.03.2026 22:25 — 👍 191    🔁 16    💬 7    📌 2

Gina, this is amazing!!

01.03.2026 22:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This has been a truly awful month and I've mostly been dealing with it by sleeping too much, but I made a delicious batch of biscuits today and tonight I'm gonna force myself to go to what looks like a fun heist movie and this all feels like a step in the right direction.

01.03.2026 22:49 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I guess I didn't realize The Economist was taking story pitches from the entertainment managers of boring podcasters, but live and learn.

01.03.2026 22:46 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you, England, that will do.

01.03.2026 22:44 — 👍 27    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If I may be so bold:

01.03.2026 21:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

likely also good for keeping a guy happy you really need to sign long term

01.03.2026 21:14 — 👍 31    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Weirdly, it was Hey Ya.

01.03.2026 20:34 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Nice to hear the Montréal home crowd continuing to boo Britta Curl every time she touches the puck.

01.03.2026 18:46 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Putting him up there with Booker T. Washington is some crazy, evil shit

01.03.2026 18:26 — 👍 165    🔁 14    💬 9    📌 1

People like this are so exhausting

01.03.2026 18:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

01.03.2026 02:18 — 👍 2713    🔁 1038    💬 22    📌 19

I saw a comment the said we aren’t “angry enough.” But all we are is angry. Our veins circulate it like acid. It cracks our sternums. It poisons and paralyzes us. We hiss and spit at each other, all impotent, helpless rage.

We don’t need more anger. We need more direction.

01.03.2026 09:48 — 👍 1209    🔁 243    💬 20    📌 19
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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

28.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 8862    🔁 3650    💬 53    📌 106
I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

01.03.2026 08:39 — 👍 24040    🔁 4456    💬 550    📌 467

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

01.03.2026 03:58 — 👍 17115    🔁 3216    💬 369    📌 162

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

01.03.2026 02:36 — 👍 10229    🔁 1907    💬 103    📌 81

Pears are delicious 😌

01.03.2026 11:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Coffee bags, one is Tom of Finland with a Tom of Finland image on it. The other is Moomin with a Moomin leaning on a blueberry. More details: in the photograph of two "Art Roast" coffee bags on the shelf of a store with prices in euros. One of the bags is large and black and says HEAVY DUTY dark roast coffee beans, exclusive blend by Robert [I can't read it, it's in script]. The other is blue and says Blueberry coffee.

Coffee bags, one is Tom of Finland with a Tom of Finland image on it. The other is Moomin with a Moomin leaning on a blueberry. More details: in the photograph of two "Art Roast" coffee bags on the shelf of a store with prices in euros. One of the bags is large and black and says HEAVY DUTY dark roast coffee beans, exclusive blend by Robert [I can't read it, it's in script]. The other is blue and says Blueberry coffee.

ah yes, the two genders

28.02.2026 21:03 — 👍 890    🔁 277    💬 12    📌 20

I highly recommend becoming the director of an all-consuming summer music camp, it really fills up that offseason nicely

01.03.2026 01:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's important to safeguard your own mental health

01.03.2026 01:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Very relatable. I still blame Chuck Fletcher for all of both Minnesota's and Philly's problems

01.03.2026 01:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That would be difficult to do from LA, though, probably.

01.03.2026 01:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I can't believe the NHL's been back for four days and you guys haven't traded for Binnington yet

01.03.2026 01:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Congrats on 9 years! And also, yes, it's real tough these days.

01.03.2026 01:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting

28.02.2026 23:17 — 👍 4458    🔁 828    💬 72    📌 70

quick question: what’s it like to use the death of schoolchildren to fuel your social media beef on behalf of democrats who don’t care if you live or die does it feel cool? do you feel your soul at all dissolving.

28.02.2026 19:53 — 👍 728    🔁 141    💬 7    📌 2

the most reliable Dem voters on earth—myself included—are constantly accused of voting third party or not voting by people like this and it’s fucking exhausting

28.02.2026 21:52 — 👍 921    🔁 58    💬 12    📌 3

Senator Mullin that guy died in 1989

28.02.2026 21:03 — 👍 1723    🔁 285    💬 74    📌 10