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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 · Apr 29

Almost my only life goal at this point is to slowly age into the guy who shows up at the general store every morning for black coffee and then sits at one of the two tables making uninvited conversation with anyone who walks in for three hours.

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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 5h

today we think of classical music as stuffy but in the 18th century if a symphony caused a noblewoman any degree of sexual arousal the piece was declared decadent and immoral and her husband would invade the composer's home country. thus was mozart responsible for more dead habsburgs than syphilis.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 11h

I heard that exact wording from at least three different older male teachers over the years, so I assume this is some How to Win Friends And Influence People shit that every man born between 1930 and 1960 just soaked up and spat back out.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 14h

ICE was on the roof. He had just been praying.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

ICE released a statement after an agent aimed a pepper ball at a priest’s head after he prayed and laughed when he was hit:

“If you are obstructing law enforcement, you can expect to be met with force.”

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 11h

Using "we" here not only because I am a man, but because I have absolutely caught myself doing this multiple times.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 11h

I have even heard men instruct other men to do this because "people don't really hear you until you tell them three times," and I don't know where this idea came from, but we should stop.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 11h

One thing I have noticed that we men tend to do in extemporaneous speaking (that I rarely hear women do) is to repeat the same point two or three times in a row using slightly different words, when everyone heard us the first time. And while we do that, wasting time and words, women wait patiently.

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 11h

It’s really frustrating. I don’t love doing events with (most not all) men because they never stop talking. And I am not good at forcing myself into conversation so the I just wait my turn and afterward people say, “you should have spoken more.”

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 12h

Sweet. Snuck in under the wire.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12h

This is nightmarish and every Dem politician, every media figure who is silent is complicit. This is not supposed to happen here. Masked thugs with guns dragging moms away in front of their screaming children. Trump’s government must be destroyed and his accomplices must rot in prison

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 13h

String friends: little help with this question? I don’t play much classical-era rep, so I’m not sure I know much beyond the obvious composers…

Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 13h

@violanorth.bsky.social Please only engage with this question if it’s fun, else ignore: What is some of your favorite under-played string quartet repertoire from, say 1780-1820? I’m trying to add some new rep without pushing my colleagues much beyond their comfort zone.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 13h

Hmm. That’s a great question, and probably I’m not the best person to answer it, since I tend to play mostly later rep than that. Let me repost and see if we can get you some good suggestions!

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 14h

I mean, for one thing, the stores and restaurants in LynLake haven’t closed lol

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 14h

No.

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It absolutely is not.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 16h

It is self soothing to say that if only Palestinians accepted Israel then everything would be unlocked and peace would be possible. OK well that already happened, more than once, and what did it result in? When will people seriously grapple with the idea that perhaps Israel is a lot like Russia?

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 16h

PLO recognized Israel in 1988 and 1993 and then what happened is a question nobody seems to answer on here

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 16h

a man in a suit and tie is saying `` i 'm here to tell you right now . ''

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying `` i 'm here to tell you right now . ''

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 16h

After less than three years in orbit? Okay, man, good talk. 👍🏼

Cathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 17h

If you look at the aerospace.org/reentries tracker, some of the Starlink satellites that are re-entering have been in orbit less than 3 years. This is... profoundly irresponsible.

Reentries

The Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (CORDS) Reentry Database documents objects and payloads that have reentered earth’s atmosphere since 2000. Database below is sortable by object name, ...

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Lumpia Nyong'o @creolebabybritt.bsky.social · 17h

I thought this was butter lettuce

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

Nicole Kidman stuns for Vogue.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, this is definitely the person I want to contract with to ensure that my rural summer camp doesn’t burn down.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 18h

“I still can’t believe how unhinged the last update was. Not only the nudity but the motions, boobs bounces more realistically, it’s incredible.”

Elon Musk's xAI seems to have relaxed filters on Grok's video generation, allowing users to create and share explicit AI pornography.

Musk's AI Is Being Used to Make Hardcore Porn: 'Grok Is Learning Genitalia Really Fast!'

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 17h

Just what we need!

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Downtown Brandi Frown 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 17h

Minneapolis, leaning against the rubble of the 3rd precinct: Oh, you have a frog costume? Neat.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

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Tammy @tbobrowsky.bsky.social · 17h

i sometimes wish when a person tries to react with a laugh emoji to a serious news story that the platform require the user to explain the joke.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 17h

I know I should never be shocked by the degree to which money will protect money, but wow.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 17h

I literally stood and listened to a very professional and experienced IT consultant just this week advising that my very rural workplace needs to transition our fire-dialing system from our phone lines to one that connects directly to Elon Musk's Starlink satellites because "they never fail."

Futurism @futurism.com · 17h

Look out!

Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky

Multiple Starlink satellites from Elon Musk's SpaceX are falling to Earth every single day, an astronomer warns — and counting.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 17h

You have a name for that corner! It is literally LynLake! None of the definitions of Uptown include LynLake!

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