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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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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 3h

Nope!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13h

Everyone In Symphony Audience Has Finger Cocked Under Beer Can Tab For First Sign of Crescendo

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17h

Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic).

But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 17h

which then begs the question of why you want flying cars instead of whatever mass transportation equivalent you imagine

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 10h

anyway if i ever strike it rich, I'm going to start a foundation that just pays the salaries for small non-profits to have full time staff members with benefits, because that is what they actually need most of the time

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 9h

Trying to watch opening night of hockey season, but it turns out my eyes physically refuse to focus on the sight of Rangers-Penguins.

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, they definitely only became Reese's after being Hershey's for years! Didn't change the contents at all, though.

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, he was a huge fan of the Great American Songbook.

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 10h

He genuinely thought he was going to transform the whole US orchestra industry. He was beyond baffled that other CEOs didn't follow his lead.

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 10h

Reese's Take 5 has my whole heart. I even made up a recipe for Take 5 caramel corn a while back.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, I've seen his LinkedIn and it's not accurate. They sold their house and moved a while ago. I don't know where he is now. He was apparently trying to get an artist management company going for a while, but it turns out people in the industry have heard of him.

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 11h

My guess would be he’s still plenty rich. Money takes care of its own.

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 11h

Well, and also, he credited Babbitt for having the broad taste to teach him to analyze Jerome Kern songs and the like.

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 11h

Anyway, when people tell you who they are etc. And also, when people tell you what their plans are, use the head start to formulate your counterattack.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 11h

Literally no idea what that guy’s doing now, but he sure as shit isn’t running the Minnesota Orchestra.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 11h

Sometimes I think about the time my former boss outright told us three years in advance that he was gonna lock us out for as long as it took to crush our union when our contract ended, and how confident he was that we couldn’t do anything about it.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

“.. we’re going to take care of our people,” Trump added. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of. And we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

@thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 11h

Stephen Sondheim studied composition with Milton Babbitt and loved it.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 14h

Oh god, this is happening at my house too. Everyone I talk to says that nothing works against them?

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · May 17

did u know that you can just buy a shawarma rotisserie and you don't even need a license or a permit. there's nothing to stop you except yourself

picture of a shawarma rotissery cooker thing

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 21h

I begged @spiegel.de to translate Jörg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/
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Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington

U.S. President Donald Trump has opened the doors of power to far-right Christian nationalists. Their goal: an American theocracy. The separation of church and state in America is at risk.

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joe positive @joepositive.wtf · 19h

Walgreens: did you get the text? did you get the email? did you get the phone call? did you get the voicemail?

me: no, I was looking at the sky, next time try skywriter

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20h

The juxtaposition and absurdity of these arguments alongside an active years-long campaign to ban Black scholarship because it “belittles” conservatism, or makes white children feel bad, is half the point.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

wtf is wrong with these people

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying'

On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 22h

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 22h

Did ICE do this? Who can say.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 22h

You guys. There’s been a terrible tragedy.

The same Halloween display as in the quoted post, but now all the inflatables have been deflated and are lying flat on the ground

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