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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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Latest posts by violanorth.bsky.social on Bluesky

Bluesky wrapped but it's just people showing up in the replies to your joke posts loaded for bear after keyword searching on the one weird topic they post about 16 times a day

04.12.2025 15:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jeff Epstein’s best friend thinks I live in a hellhole and that my neighbors are garbage, which I just assume is part of him grieving over the loss of his best friend, Jeff Epstein.

04.12.2025 00:38 — 👍 265    🔁 52    💬 2    📌 1

People in both MN and NH will interpret this as a swipe at NH and a point in MN's favor, but I don't know that I meant it either of those ways.

04.12.2025 12:24 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

When I lived in Minnesota, it felt important to follow the news closely because there were always MFers trying to ruin good things about the place. Living in NH is more like when I lived in Alabama - I can just assume that most things don't work and never have and the fix is fully in. Saves time.

04.12.2025 12:23 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans

i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing

04.12.2025 09:59 — 👍 2055    🔁 513    💬 41    📌 22

Jenny from the Bloq Québécois

04.12.2025 07:07 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Shout to all the it’s “economic anxiety” pundits. People have been wrong in the past, but no one perhaps in history has been quite as wrong as you are

04.12.2025 10:57 — 👍 346    🔁 53    💬 3    📌 1

I once shared a stage with him when he was around 10YO. Art Sr. trotted him out in full tux and tails and a top hat at the end of a show with my orchestra to sing Feelin' Groovy as the encore.

04.12.2025 11:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

They're fine! It's just every third IG post now and I feel like we could maybe chill out a little

04.12.2025 11:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One thing I've learned in 30 years of adulthood is that a lot of angry leftist men are mostly into the angry part, and if someone's anger matches theirs, they're often willing to flip their politics to keep the rage flowing the way they like it.

04.12.2025 02:41 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

And it's probably going to work.

04.12.2025 02:38 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

it’s impossible to read this and think these are people who are a net benefit to society

04.12.2025 02:06 — 👍 64    🔁 3    💬 5    📌 2
It's not just about leave but about what we are producing when we are working, says Toss Grumley.

It's not just about leave but about what we are producing when we are working, says Toss Grumley.

It's not just about leave but about what we are producing when we are working, says Toss Grumley.

03.12.2025 22:04 — 👍 528    🔁 66    💬 81    📌 41
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Trump’s war on D.E.I. is an attack on three biblical virtues As a longtime biblical scholar, I believe the enemies of D.E.I. fail to recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion characterize God’s actions throughout the Bible.

From the great Richard J. Clifford, SJ, one of the world's leading biblical scholars: "Trump’s war on D.E.I. is an attack on three biblical virtues."
www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...

04.12.2025 01:43 — 👍 123    🔁 33    💬 2    📌 3

Can't wait for the glorious future where the rich people are clogging up the hospitals every December paying cash for recreational MRIs while the rest of us die of trichinosis because there's no more meat inspection and we didn't have enough in the savings account to make an appointment at the ER.

03.12.2025 23:37 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

What do you mean, fictitious

03.12.2025 23:31 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The idea that fruit is somehow overwhelming cheesecake, one of the densest, most flavorful things on earth, is quite a take.

03.12.2025 23:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's weird that like every day this week he's done a thing where he's absolutely *surrounded* by fawning sycophants as he muddles and bumbles his way through profanity-laced hate speech.

03.12.2025 23:16 — 👍 172    🔁 27    💬 4    📌 3
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Anyway, it looks like this. Nothing fancy, but neither was he.

03.12.2025 23:25 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Agreed. Know what's also good? Cheesecake with fruit on it.

03.12.2025 23:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's kind of weirdly hard to find for a 40-foot burial mound. There's a little headstone at the front of it that says "Here lies Paul, and that's all." I once drove 3-1/2 hours round trip just to see it.

03.12.2025 23:24 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is the town that has Paul Bunyan's grave in a little park just off the main road.

03.12.2025 23:22 — 👍 21    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

I've always said that about you.

03.12.2025 23:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You know what's great? Cheesecake that *isn't* burned.

03.12.2025 23:18 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I am the age of the wind

03.12.2025 23:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Guys, I think it's maybe enough with the Basque cheesecakes

03.12.2025 23:16 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

As Eartha Kitt once said in another context, "Come see me when you're fifty"

03.12.2025 23:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Garrett, I don't think you're *that* much older than me

03.12.2025 23:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is a good start, but hear me out: no one but people in a 12-year radius around my precise age should be allowed to have social media accounts

03.12.2025 23:07 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

This is so obviously menacing *and* foolish that the first time I saw this quote, I assumed it was someone talking about what someone *else’s* business model was, because nobody would say this about their own product. True story!

03.12.2025 23:04 — 👍 134    🔁 15    💬 8    📌 1

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