Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 5h😍🤩😍🤩😍shop.fossilforager.artSupport Native Pollinators Iron-On PatchShow off your support for native pollinators! 𓆣 Patch measures approx. 3 x 3 inches. 𓆣 Iron-on backing. 𓆣 Colors in real life may differ slightly from monitors. Please note that due to the nature of t... 010
Reposted by Samblueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Help us choose which option to run with! Reply with "messy" or "wild!" Will be a sticker, t-shirt, and possibly more! 6115
Reposted by Sam𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Historians rightly say people's actions should be judged by the standards of their time. But what often gets lost is that those standards weren't what we think. Many 18thc Europeans hated colonialism--as an e.g., here's Immanuel Kant in 1795 castigating it as "truly appalling." It was contentious... 16325
Reposted by SamJohn Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I guess one way in which I differ from the Republican nominee for US Senator from Minnesota is that I love Minnesota and enjoy living here. Something I like about @peggyflanagan.bsky.social is that she likes the place she is running to represent. Seems like it may help someone in that job. 651989
Reposted by SamSam @sjberger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hey friend, what's eating you? Good luck, Mr Fly. Plant native plants, feed several layers of the food web. #NativePlants #inverts #Minnesota 0152
Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hey friend, what's eating you? Good luck, Mr Fly. Plant native plants, feed several layers of the food web. #NativePlants #inverts #Minnesota 0152
Reposted by SamAnnie Shao Art @annieshaoart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026My Lanceleaf Coreopsis bloomed for the first time this June, and I'm still getting new blossoms! A great native species for a new gardener like me. This piece is available as a greeting card on my webstore: annieshaoart.myshopify.com #SciArt #BSNM #BotanicalArt #Watercolor #FineArt #NativePlants 0284
Reposted by SamSam @sjberger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Got to show off cool bees to some cool neighbors at a garden project today. They were pretty amazed by the existence of green bees! Plant native plants, connect with neighbors. A striped sweat bee (Agapostemon sp) on new england aster. #NativePlants #bees #Minnesota 2133
Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Got to show off cool bees to some cool neighbors at a garden project today. They were pretty amazed by the existence of green bees! Plant native plants, connect with neighbors. A striped sweat bee (Agapostemon sp) on new england aster. #NativePlants #bees #Minnesota 2133
Reposted by SamJT Layne - Backyard Native Plant Restoration @laynejt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Does anyone have a guess as to what has poked into a drying stem of my Illinois bundleflower? I’m wondering if it was a bee of some sort? 2104
Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026A quick survey of the Tall Boneset, with some species too fast to capture! There were also bees and flies... Plant native plants, get an embarrassing diversity of bugs. #NativePlants #inverts #wasps 3183
Reposted by SamDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026when you say how you use LLMs just for this thing or that thing I think of dead teenagers. www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...startribune.comPerry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes. 324281
Reposted by SamErin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Plug to my #nativeplants friends: please use alt text! Alt text makes your posts more discoverable, can provide more info on your pictures, and is just the upright thing to do. You can turn on a setting to require any photos you post to have alt text. That's what I do. 📷💌☑️ 1466
Reposted by SamMatt Little @littleforcongress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026🤝You. Me. 15,000 hands shaken. THIS Saturday! Be part of history! I’m going to try to break the world record for most hands shaken by a politician in eight hours at the MN State Fair this Saturday!! See you there 🤝 3172
Reposted by SamAdam Conover @adamconover.net · 03/09/2026Yet another way AI is ruining the internet: online shopping 34734221
Reposted by SamSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026New sticker alert! Squidfacts.net 535469
Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This guy found the good stuff! Halictus sp (ligatus?), per iNat Plant native plants, feed native bees. #bees #inverts #NativePlants 🌱 0265
Reposted by SamJane @jane.meangirls.online · 02/09/2026“Because fuck those guys” is a good enough reason to oppose tech lords shitting out data centers in your neighborhood. They all immediately bowed to fascism, they spy on us, they build weapons, they promise to take our jobs away, and they do everything in their power to NOT pay their taxes. 818718
Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Song of the summer. Katydid on anise hyssop. Plant native plants, host summer concerts. #inverts #NativePlants 🌱 #Minnesota 0121
Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Minnesota could be a wholly owned subsidiary of ULine! We seriously need to end Citizens United. And tax billionaires.startribune.comOpinion | The Minnesota governor’s office shouldn’t be bought by a Wisconsin billionaireBillionaire Richard Uihlein was a major funder of Lisa Demuth’s primary campaign. 020
Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026A bugs life is tough. Plant native plants and make it a little easier for them. A beat up looking Eastern tailed-blue from my yard this afternoon. #invertefest #NativePlants 🌱 #butterflies 0141
Reposted by SamMatthew Vinge @mvinge.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Lunar Eclipse on the first day of the 2026 Minnesota State Fair First time in 167 year history that a lunar eclipse visible during open hours It wasn't until after doors closed that I had idea to take these pics. A friendly security guard escorted me back in! 527068
Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 27/08/2026On Bluesky, most emotions are acceptable as long as you remember the Importance of Being Earnest 030
Reposted by SamEle Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 27/08/2026If you allow native wildflowers to grow in your garden it will fill with native pollinators. Common eastern bumblebee and common aerial yellow jacket enjoying the Canada goldenrod. #Invertefest 🐡🧪 26713
Reposted by SamJes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976) 213218838
Reposted by SamSaimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 25/08/2026#InverteFest begins tomorrow!! (Or today if you're in the other half of the world.) Join in the festivities by looking for and posting about invertebrates with the hashtag #InverteFest. More info: saimihanma.com/invertefest/ Here's some buggy goodness from Dorohedoro to launch us into inverts. 26724
Reposted by SamColton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I did a pollination demonstration for the kids this morning now that (1) I finally have two genetically distinct purple passionflowers blooming together for the first time and (2) I'm an incurable dork. 🌱 #nativeplants #nature #SciComm 5451
Reposted by SamSam @smknigh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026My flat-topped white aster snapped in the wind against the structure I was propping it up with after it starting leaning the last windy day. So I have made a giant bouquet for the bees. We’ll see what they think & how long it lasts. A few stems (seen in the background) still stand. #nativeplants 192
Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Bumble beetle in furs It's half scarab beetle, half bumbling pollinator, all sassy Broadway debutante Plant native plants, get stylish bugs #inverts #beetles #NativePlants #Minnesota 0256
Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This ambush bug was not happy I was taking photos of its root-fly breakfast, but it wasn't backing off. #inverts #NativePlants 050
Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 15/08/2026My 5y/o borrowed my camera in the prairie garden right after it stopped raining. Good eye, kid! #macro #photography #NativePlants #inverts 0120
Reposted by SamSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/202641 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming. 393142875761
Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Least skipper? More like Greatest skipper amirite... I wasn't there for the naming of things and I have complaints. Plant native plants, get cool but poorly named bugs. #NativePlants 🌱 #Invertebrates #Butterflies 3182
Reposted by SamWelcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 14/08/2026CORRECTION: Turns out we were wrong about everything. 121454
