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@sjberger.bsky.social
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Minnesotan. Dad. Native plant booster. Bewildered denizen of the anthropocene.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 3h
I'm so honored to be in this ICE OUT zine put together by @crucialcomix.bsky.social. All proceeds go to Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Center (MIRAC). www.crucialcomix.com/product/preo...
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PREORDER: Cartoonists Against ICE
These comics by 25 cartoonists across the country are both urgent and reflective as they document the human impact of ICE’s cruel 2026 raids.
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 19h
Has there been any discussion of Minnesota's official state fossil? Castoroides ohioensis, the Giant Beaver You can even see one at the MN Science Museum! smm.org/2026/02/03/m...
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Minnesota's Giant Beaver: A Prehistoric Legend as the State Fossil
After years of advocacy, Minnesota officially welcomed the Giant Beaver (Castoroides ohioensis) as the official state fossil. A victory for science education and our state's paleontological heritage.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
My Ojibwe name is Gizhiiwewidamookwe, which means ‘Speaks in a Loud and Clear Voice Woman.’ I’m going to be Minnesota’s voice in the U.S. Senate — not Donald Trump’s.
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Amy, I suggest you call your US Senator with your questions and concerns
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Wow. How many consultants and advisors did we need to craft such bold language!?
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Agreed. Also, man that article reads like it's an AI summary of scraped comments from social media discussions.
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It just makes sense!
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"YOUR BENEVOLENT SOCIETY NEEDS YOUR HELP" "YOUR BENEDICT NEEDS EGGS" "YOUR BENJAMIN NEEDS BUTTONS"
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#AbolishICE
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
ROFL BARD
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This looks amazing. Link?
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My argument:
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Star Demands More!
Alt: Kylo Ren politely asking for more, please.
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Spent the evening negotiating with spouse about how much sod I can remove from the front yard this fall.
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bwahaha, WTF I love this
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's just wasps all the way down
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yikes, I just saw one in MN yesterday. Get moving, guy!
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Also, they take spray paint pretty well. I've sprayed some white or black. They can then be used as a blank slate for custom yard or protest signs
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This has been a "hobby" all summer. Owl Roofing can fuck all the way off...
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They should just drop the eligibility rule to "did not receive chickenpox vaccine". I don't want to wait until I'm 50!
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#AbolishICE
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
😍🤩😍🤩😍
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Support Native Pollinators Iron-On Patch
Show 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...
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blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Help us choose which option to run with! Reply with "messy" or "wild!" Will be a sticker, t-shirt, and possibly more!
A red shed with the text Wild Yards Have More Fun, surrounded by abundant plants like goldenrod, joe pye weed, ironweed, milkweed, rattlesnake master, geranium, shrubby st. Johns wort, columbine,cup plant, coneflower, and asters. There are also critters including a toad, squirrel, rabbit, blue jay, wren, scarlet tanager, dragonfly, Luna moth, tiger swallowtail.A red shed with the text Messy Yards Have More Fun, surrounded by abundant plants like goldenrod, joe pye weed, ironweed, milkweed, rattlesnake master, geranium, shrubby st. Johns wort, columbine,cup plant, coneflower, and asters. There are also critters including a toad, squirrel, rabbit, blue jay, wren, scarlet tanager, dragonfly, Luna moth, tiger swallowtail.
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I like both, but I'm leaning "wild". I like that it doesn't play into the negative stereotype, but reframes it.
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lemmy singing
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This was me, last night, playing Dr Mario against my wife. Not nearly as impressive, but felt just as good (I assume)
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Correct answer here is Larry
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've been dreaming up a shirt with a bunch of bee mimics and a cursive "ceci n'est pas une bee" underneath. I could settle for tote. I could also Make a Thing. Maybe I should Make a Thing
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Aldi merch with this worm would be incredible
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bye!
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Abolish ICE
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Historians 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...
"Excerpt from Kant: "If one compares this with the inhospitable conduct of the civilized—and primarily commercial—states of our own continent, the injustice they display when visiting foreign lands and peoples (which they equate with conquering them) is truly appalling. To them, upon their discovery, America, the lands of the Negroes, the Spice Islands, the Cape, and so forth, were territories belonging to no one; for they counted the inhabitants as nothing. In the East Indies (Hindustan), under the pretext of merely establishing trading posts, they introduced foreign military forces—bringing with them the oppression of the natives, the incitement of the region's various states into widespread wars, famine, insurrection, treachery, and the whole litany of evils that afflict the human race.

China and Japan (Nippon)—having had experience with such guests—wisely restricted access: the former permitted entry but not full admission, while the latter granted even that limited access to only a single European nation, the Dutch, whom they nonetheless kept isolated from the native population, much like prisoners."
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I 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.
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hey friend, what's eating you? Good luck, Mr Fly. Plant native plants, feed several layers of the food web. #NativePlants #inverts #Minnesota
A fly on a goldenrod flower, that's all, nothing to see here. 

(Jk, there's a perfectly goldenrod colored ambush bug holding into the fly)
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hey friend, what's eating you? Good luck, Mr Fly. Plant native plants, feed several layers of the food web. #NativePlants #inverts #Minnesota
A fly on a goldenrod flower, that's all, nothing to see here. 

(Jk, there's a perfectly goldenrod colored ambush bug holding into the fly)
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ope
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Annie Shao Art @annieshaoart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My 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
Watercolor sketch of a Lanceleaf Coreopsis flower and buds. One yellow, daisy-like flower is shown with 4 yellowing flowerbuds.
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Got 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
A metallic green bee with a striped abdomen drinking nectar from the bright yellow center of a vibrant purple flower
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yeah! Tis the season!
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Got 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
A metallic green bee with a striped abdomen drinking nectar from the bright yellow center of a vibrant purple flower
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
That's an interesting angle on dam removal. Do you have any thoughts on the potential removal of lock and dam 1 in the Mississippi gorge? That would be so transformative for that area
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
sweaty lurking > net working
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yeah, he texts us up here in MN too...
A reply to a donation request reading "Can you stand up for the rights of your trans neighbors? Or do you expect them all to abandon their homes and lives?"
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What do you teach?
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JT Layne - Backyard Native Plant Restoration @laynejt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Does 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?
Stem of plant with notches evenly spaced.
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A classic Dick joke
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A 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
A mostly black wasp with brownish wings. Isodontia Mexicana, a grass-carrying waspA black wasp with yellow stripes and pock-marks. Euodynerus foraminatus, the pitted mason waspA skinny black wasp with golden markings. Eremnophila aureonotata, the gold-marked thread-waisted waspA black wasp with pale yellow markings on its vase shaped body. Eumenes fraternus, the fraternal potter wasp
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My therapist tells me not to compare my life to others', but what about when it makes me feel better about myself... 🤔
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
when you say how you use LLMs just for this thing or that thing I think of dead teenagers. www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
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Perry: 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.
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
OMG, those frass puddles on the leaves
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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I biked to the 7 Brew in Apple Valley recently. Only wanted a gift card. There were 30+ vehicles in line. 1 picnic table next to a walk up window. And a sign "No Walk Up Orders, please" 🫠
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