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@violanorth.bsky.social

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

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As someone who has had kidney stones 3 times, I am fine with this. I legit thought I was dying the first time.

08.10.2025 17:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Shrek is just Into the Woods for heterosexuals so I get why they thought the Bush era was their window

08.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 22    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

She keeps the bike in the garage she's renting over south.

08.10.2025 17:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You're gonna regret this statement when Becka Thompson takes up biking just to spite you.

08.10.2025 16:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It gives me no pleasure to inform that a) he does in fact have other songs, and b) they are worse than God Bless the USA

08.10.2025 16:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks for writing it!

08.10.2025 16:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely. It was indispensable in keeping Minneapolis folks connected to each other during the week of police riots that followed George Floyd's murder. And personally, I've gotten to know musicians across the country who I never would have met otherwise, and a bunch of those are now irl friends.

08.10.2025 16:34 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Oh yeah, Tanglewood is almost an hour and a half away.

08.10.2025 16:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I don't think there is a town called Greenwood, MA? The camp is in Cummington.

08.10.2025 16:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And the farm it settled into wasn't called Greenwood before the camp. It was called something like Greenhaven, I think.

08.10.2025 16:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, that's pretty far from Greenwood. Pittsfield is 40 minutes west of Cummington.

08.10.2025 16:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I doubt it. Greenwood Music Camp is on Harlow Road, and the camp only settled in that location in 1938 or so. It started on an island in Vermont and moved 2 or 3 times before getting to western Mass.

08.10.2025 16:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I mean, the concept of the Midwest has changed dramatically over time. Old-timers in Minnesota remember when it was considered the Northwest, not the Midwest. That's why Northwest Airlines was called that despite being Minneapolis-based.

08.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It sounds like Steven Spielberg isn't someone who appeals to a broader audience. And there are so many eyes on the Super Bowl - a lot of young, impressionable children. And in my view, you would have Leni Riefenstahl, or role models, doing that. Not somebody like this.

08.10.2025 16:12 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I didn't, but there are roughly a thousand Greenwood Roads in this country, I think.

08.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Imagine living in the bubble where you think Lee Greenwood is more popular than literally the most popular US pop musician on the planet.

08.10.2025 16:04 — 👍 38    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0
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I think anyone who saw the episode where Mr. Rogers explains the Trolley Problem has it seared in their memory forever.
So much violence, depictions of gore we never thought possible in puppetry.
We wept, we screamed, we were scarred.
Still, it was educational.
So that’s good.
I guess.

08.10.2025 15:58 — 👍 160    🔁 25    💬 12    📌 3

It's close but different, and there's also a key with numbers. The tri-state number is hard to see because the blue is dark, but all the regions are contiguous, there's no region that has a blob totally disconnected from the rest.

08.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It isn't. It's Tri-State.

08.10.2025 15:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

They're included because this person is defining the Rust Belt as a region and you can't legitimately exclude Michigan from the Midwest, but I think most of the larger regions on this map are deliberately over-expansive to account for the smaller gradations of true "regions."

08.10.2025 15:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is dividing the Midwest more finely than I usually do, but I see nothing inaccurate.

08.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

08.10.2025 14:04 — 👍 3139    🔁 783    💬 61    📌 19

we don’t have TIME to wait for you to meet all the different kinds of people to learn that everyone is just a stack of meat with a brain on top and the sausage casing isn’t the POINT. it’s some part of identity but it’s not the point. Round up your acceptance when you meet one “not you.”

08.10.2025 15:26 — 👍 40    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Bought the basic, no frills, no seat assignment til check-in option for this flight and wound up next to the only empty middle seat on the plane. I choose to believe I earned this by being such a very good boy.

08.10.2025 15:29 — 👍 23    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New York Times’ headline writers get a lot of justifiable guff but I salute anyone and everyone involved in titling a piece about “miraculous” meatballs “Anyway, here’s wonderball.”

08.10.2025 15:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

08.10.2025 14:48 — 👍 2370    🔁 310    💬 91    📌 21

At some point with this narrative, you’re not strategizing, you’re just endlessly relitigating your own anger that Hillary didn’t get to be president.

08.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you believe that there isn’t an electoral plurality in this country for basic human rights while the current administration sits 20 points underwater, you might as well give up claiming to be in favor of elections at all.

08.10.2025 15:04 — 👍 23    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations In a scathing critique of President Donald Trump, Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based...

This is a good way to hit back at Trump's deranged statements and calls to jail Democrats.

Media needs to focus on his mental decline. Democrats must force media to do it.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

08.10.2025 14:41 — 👍 720    🔁 183    💬 16    📌 11

They’re just gonna do a little lite slavery.

08.10.2025 13:48 — 👍 376    🔁 201    💬 18    📌 15

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