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Sam Bergman

@violanorth.bsky.social
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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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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7h
No one has taken an opportunity to reveal their worst selves with more relish than Based Mike Lee.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 7h
This period will go down as one of the greatest moments for Democrat attack ads in history. We're seeing LBJ "Daisy"-level spots daily.
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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 8h
Going to be the most predictable whiplash reversal ever come January 21, 2029, because if a Dem prevails the court’s conservatives will suddenly remember they take a dim view of expansive executive power.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 8h
Real lives are being destroyed and snuffed out every day that this policy is allowed to continue and the people who devised it are not in jail. I know we all know this, but I feel like it's important to say it from time to time.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h
operationalizing “users” as people who “believe they are getting value” is sloppy. something we teach in sociology. 🤷🏾‍♀️
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 8h
Look, this is who we ARE.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h
Believe it or not, a lot of people do not have to-do lists. And the the lists many of them have are not structured for an ai agent to be helpful. This isn’t groundbreaking. If you have ever watched the evening news or read even a single story about people who aren’t like you, it is pretty basic
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 18h
If this is happening in the 4th wealthiest state in the country, look out.
nhpr.org
Credit card delinquency in NH reaching levels not seen since Great Recession
Nearly 10% of Granite Stater borrowers are severely delinquent on credit card payments. That’s similar to the rate between 2006 and 2010 leading up to and during the Great Recession.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 19h
The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Texting my friend while I’m at a concert having a deeply moving spiritual experience: I need to connect with the fire of the universe, I think I might die of if I can’t My best friend who’s almost asleep on her couch watching Emily in Paris: Absolutely
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
LOL Florida
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is like someone designed an opening night tripleheader specifically crafted to get me to stop watching hockey forever.
Panthers - hurricanes, Rangers - Bruins, Blackhawks – golden Knights
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We actually don't hate this administration enough
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is gonna cascade to literally every nonprofit in the country. Nearly everyone in the northeast uses oil for winter heat, and the price of filling those tanks just doubled or worse. How do we think all our late-year donation drives are about to go?
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You guys can't just keep inventing new shit. I should not have to come home at night and read things like this.
theguardian.com
Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California
The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's always fascinating to log back on here after a 10-hour work day and discover that y'all have been truly going through it this whole time.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What exactly do all you "milk is gross" truthers drink with your peanut butter sandwiches
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is the fridge of a person who doesn’t prepare a single meal
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Will be interesting to see if any leading center left Democrat talks like this in 2027-2028
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Sky News # @SkyNews.5h
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband: "I want to say to the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere, who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people. We hear you.
You were right'
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HOPE AGAIN
HOPE AGAIN
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rue @deathcarpets.enterdeepfo.rest · 28/09/2026
everywhere else: yeah i called the city and they said the timeline for closing up the portal to hell on our street is 6 months to a year and to just keep any small animals inside so they're not carried away by swarms of bats

new yorkers: mayor mamdani can i have another ride on the chocolate ferris wheel?

zohran mamdani : of course you can sweetheart but dont forget to take 40 dollars from the bucket of 20s and punch a landlord in the tummy first
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hot take, ballparks should still look like this
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026
The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So much of being a functional adult is learning not to react to things the way you want desperately to react to them.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
“In Republican-led states like Texas and Florida, where the swell was strongest, they amplified their reach through partnerships with sheriffs and state highway patrol officers. In Democratic strongholds, they intensified their activities despite laws meant to restrict them.”
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Definition of insanity etc
newhampshirebulletin.com
Democrats have been trying to nail Collins on corruption for years. Will this time be different? • New Hampshire Bulletin
As U.S. Sen. Susan Collins has repeatedly defied odds to hold onto her seat by touting her ability to bring in federal money to Maine, Democrats have tried to target that defense by leveling corruptio...
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is my favorite genre of report: the big city journalists losing their minds at “bird” and “cow”
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/09/2026
Social media is weird because if you give people a good feeling they will be overfamiliar with you, and if you do not do that they treat you like a human yelp page
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a wildly small lead for a candidate we were frantically told was the *only* Democrat who could possibly keep this Senate seat blue, in a state that hasn't elected a Republican to Congress since 2014.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The thing about Aaron Sorkin is I don’t think he’s without talent he just needs to be paired with a director who is a bigger name that can take or leave what he writes and edit out the stuff that you roll your eyes at, lots of talented writers are like that. Stephen King adaptations are like that.
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The Not Chaotic Cherub 😇 @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Zack Fox is absolutely hilarious 😂
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Some real Polar Express vibes happening here
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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 27/09/2026
All my Phillies fan friends are so mad their team won the game to hold onto their spot in the postseason, what a beautiful city of normal people.
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bitch-king of angmar (her) @wetropolitan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
RIP Anton Bruckner. You would’ve loved hearing your loudass garbage choral music at 9 AM, you tasteless schmuck
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A provocative article in Rolling Stone titled "What some folks really mean when they claim to have never done the Humpty Hump."
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That oughta do it for this year.
Hot fresh apple butter in a crockSame apple butter, now jarred and sealed and cooling on a rack
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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Incredible stuff happening in the arts!
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War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
4-panel comic by War and Peas. Panel 1: A man at a bar tells Slutty Witch, "You really need to find God." Panel 2: She looks irritated. "I do?" Panel 3: Slutty Witch walks through a dark forest at night, glowing eyes watching from the bushes. Panel 4: She sits on a log beside a massive pagan forest deity with antlers and a long beard who says, "I think you're doing great."
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mr. cannoli @boner.ink · 27/09/2026
haven't you heard #1 hit song of all time "it's not gay if you are both christian cowboys"
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I was restrained at the heirloom farm, but this is still like 8 different varieties.
15 apples of assorted colors and sizes
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The funniest outcome today would be that the Phillies lose and the Diamondbacks also lose, and the Phillies fall headfirst into the playoffs like an intoxicated teenager passing out in the bushes, and they start a playoff series with the support of a fully irate fan base.
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star @foundbysara.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
engagement baiting on threads like "my autistic ass really thought ketchup was a condiment"
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mind you, my crock won't hold 10 lbs of raw apples, so I like to do a rolling double batch: 5 lbs go in with their sugar and spices before bedtime, and by the next morning, they've cooked down, and I can add the second 5 lbs and more spiced sugar right on top. This'll be done by this afternoon.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I find it fascinating that so many estranged parents view the estrangement as an incident, not as a process. So it's forums full of Boomers going "She stopped talking to me because I said her haircut was bad! She's so UNREASONABLE!", when, in reality, they've been shitting on their kid for decades.
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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"why would I deceive you?"
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 27/09/2026
this rocks. love her. anyway, what is this paragraph? This is not coherent writing. How is this a news article kicker?
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