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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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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 7h
❤️❤️
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 8h
Thanks! I love their clothes more than is good for me.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 9h
You would look so good in that!
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 9h
Listen, Duck Head is not fucking around
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 9h
No I haven't, fuck you
Instagram screenshot that says "you've been marinating meat wrong"
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 9h
Lol pretty sure I also own this exact sweater 
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 10h
You guys, I bought the sweater. No one is getting Christmas presents this year.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 11h
Videodrome (Cronenberg, 1983)
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 10h
Sure, Jane
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 10h
I’m a professional musician and I said private train car, but you’re making me think that was a little shortsighted
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 11h
It’s not downplaying the seriousness of the situation (which, yes, is deadly serious) to point out that she is so much smarter and better equipped for this fight than anyone in this joke of a regime.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 11h
They’re used to pulling this shit with people who either don’t know their rights or who have no access to the national media and can be easily disappeared. Ilhan is going to wipe the floor with them.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 11h
We’re getting it a week late here and the anticipation is killing me
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 11h
It’s because I left. They were only doing them so I’d know who to vote for.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 12h
I’m sure no one online will overreact to that.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12h
Most things I would now categorize as insufferable Bluesky behavior are things I can recognize much more accurately as “what we did on Twitter all the time six years ago” if I actually think about it
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 12h
Have you ever ridden a train in the US? There’s no weapons screening to get onto any car. The best part of trains is you hop on and hop off, no security theater needed.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 12h
Oh damn, did it say something racist?
Sign reading “church is cancelled”
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 14h
I think it's rolling out much wider starting next weekend. That's when we're getting it here.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 17h
Chuck Schumer — one of the most powerful Democrats in the country — has not issued statements to the press or through his social media channels about the administration’s attack on Ilhan Omar, which critics have described as a five alarm fire for the state of democracy in the U.S.
truthout.org
Chuck Schumer Hasn’t Said a Word About Trump’s Attempt to Deport Ilhan Omar
Ethics lawyers say the raid violated the Hatch Act. Schumer has been silent.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 14h
Like. Come on. Why would I not live in a Wes Anderson movie?
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 14h
Private train car.
nytimes.com
In the Private Jet Age, the Quiet Allure of Private Rail
Private train cars may seem like a relic of the past, but for some rail fans, nothing beats having — or renting — your own sleeper car.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 17h
Why, were things not going well
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Andrew Janjigian @wordloaf.org · 18h
BBC World radio interviewed a Palestinian olive farmer with 1500 trees who said he won't be able to harvest a single fucking olive this year because of these monsters
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 18h
"Fix your hearts or die" is a famous line from Twin Peaks that David Lynch speaks as an FBI agent relating to a trans colleague what he said to fellow agents when the trans colleague came out to her co-workers. Richard Ayoade is a UK comic who has defended anti-trans extremist Graham Linehan.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 18h
Of Ayoade saying it? He's on Taskmaster this season, and the Taskmaster was insufficiently charmed by a stuffed dog he had brought in for the prize task.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 18h
I gasped when he said this. So now the question is, does he not know the context of what he's quoting? Or did he sign onto the letter defending Glinner without the slightest idea of what Glinner spends his time doing these days?
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 19h
Clearly, they’re counting on the fact that most musicians and artists simply don’t have a choice - either you have a presence on Mets services or you have almost no way to connect with your audience.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 19h
This seems like the type of overly broad claim on the work of others that would never hold up in court, but as we’ve seen, the current tech behemoth model is to do it anyway and then claim it can’t be undone and a robot did it anyway.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 19h
In fairness to Norm, that was *not* clear from your original anecdote lol
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22h
They can’t believe Black people can write a novel but they can believe this.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 21h
One of the biggest problems with social media is the number of people who use it to just fire off any thought that comes into their head but insist that everyone else’s posts must be deeply considered expressions of perfect rational and political thought.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I genuinely cannot take you seriously if you use the term “purity politics” to describe people who may have to consider voting for a candidate that wants to remove their or their child’s right to medical care.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Marjorie Taylor Greene comes out with a statement opposing the raid on Ilhan Omar before Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democratic Party
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 23h
Peggy Flanagan runs the kind of ad that every user on this website has been demanding Democrats run for years and the replies are just people getting mad that she didn’t use the exact words that they wanted. This website is addicted to getting mad and should knock it off. It’s embarrassing.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23h
NEW: Over and over, judges have rejected the Trump administration’s arguments for turning over state voter rolls. “Clearly, this demand is devoid of any factual basis,” one judge wrote.
projects.propublica.org
How Judges Eviscerated Trump’s DOJ Voter Data Lawsuits — ProPublica
Over the past year, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has sued 30 states and Washington, D.C., to demand their unredacted voter rolls. The vast majority of cases have been thrown out.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Hell yeah, we love a blowout with a Boldy hat trick don't we, folks
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Shani 🫧🧙🏽‍♀️ @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 16/10/2026
Ta-Nehisi Coates responding to the question: “Could Kamala Harris have won in 2024 if she had spoken out on Gaza?”
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Sally Stitching Herself - Nightmare Before Christmas
Alt: Sally Stitching Herself - Nightmare Before Christmas
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🌅 Patricia Wallinga 🌇 @pwallinga.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Had several classes of middle school drama class today who were performing their own scary short plays. Fascinating look into the Gen Alpha psyche. The children yearn for the Cask of Amontillado
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I haven't met the whole city. I know some people who grew up there and escaped who I like just fine. But I've had nothing but negative experiences there, I think it's a bad, boring city, and I think St. Louis sports fans are the most overrated in the US.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The St. Louis Blues have really become the one Western Conference team I despise the way I despised the NJ Devils growing up as a Flyers fan: they're that perfect combo of a city and fan base that I inherently dislike and want to be miserable, and a team that juuuuuust *irritates* me on the ice.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
this is how you have to treat these guys. with genuine contempt. your genuine contempt makes their smarmy fake contempt look weak and inauthentic. it immediately exposes their game. these guys are just losers who have sworn revenge for every humiliation. humiliate them again
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Just a multiyear campaign across multiple presidential terms to strip the citizenship of a political adversary. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
washingtonpost.com
Trump officials scrutinized Omar in 2019. They didn’t find citizenship issues.
The earlier review of Omar’s immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
It really is. I'm in the Monadnock Region, so we're insulated from some of the worst of that, but as a lightly populated rural area, we're also pretty vulnerable when even one or two generous donors cut back or get stretched too thin. I think that's basically what happened to ArtsAlive.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Their 3YO daughter already knocks on my door regularly to demand that my dogs "come over for movie night," so yeah, our houses take care of each other.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
My awesome neighbors just had a baby, and he is the cutest, tiniest thing you've ever seen, and it's killing me that I can't post a pic of him for you all to coo over. (I would never, obviously, I'm just smitten.)
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Yeah, the sales tax thing you guys have is brutal. I remember that court case. But NH has been near the bottom of the nation in per capita arts spending forever, and we're also 49th or 50th in private charitable giving as a % of income. This in one of the wealthiest states in the US.
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Welcome to camp crystal laackackack
static.klipy.com
Mars Attacks Martian Close-Up
ALT: Mars Attacks Martian Close-Up
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I had not realized that Jason is canonically a Mars Attacks! alien
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