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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

I feel like any completion is a victory with the deluxe ones.

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Never saw it!

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 3h

Seward Coop

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 5h

Pilot just said the plane next to us is using the jetway rn and he’ll come on over when they’re done with it, so apparently those government cutbacks are really biting your mid-sized regional airports.

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 5h

If the airport can’t be bothered to have the jetway ready when your flight lands, you should get to just open all the emergency exits and use the slide.

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 6h

It's cool that this series features all four kinds of mustache a white guy can have. From left to right: gravel cyclist, cop, Field Marshal Haig, Bruno Kirby

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h

I love that they basically invented Krusty Dollars and people pretended it was currency

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 17h

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 6h

Seward on Franklin

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 6h

I mean, I'll take the trade-off, but I do have a bunch of work to do tomorrow.

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 6h

Drinking black coffee on the plane at 10pm because I'll have almost a 2-hour drive when we land at 11:30 is not one of the upsides of living in one of the more beautiful places in North America.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 12h

So when I say Minnesota takes apples seriously…

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 6h

hmph. Made a bad swap early, this could have been five.

#deluxewaffle177 3/5

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 6h

@dalanie.bsky.social It's Sunday night again. Warmup pitches looking good...

#waffle1361 5/5

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 7h

flared bases loaded

CB⚾️ Baseball Highlights @badgerbaseball.bsky.social · 7h

….is that

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 7h

Well hello there

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 7h

I thought Cooper's was better, myself, but thanks!

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 7h

The Big Dumper is that restaurant in Montréal's Chinatown that only makes dumplings. Known as Le Dumpl Énorme locally.

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 8h

The Big Dumper is what you clip the bag of milk into so it can be put into glasses

Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 8h

The Big Dumper is what Canada probably calls a spice cabinet or something

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 7h

TIL that UAB is still playing football. I used to live right up the street from their campus.

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j-salvo.bsky.social @j-salvo.bsky.social · 8h

Word to the wise: do not fly internationally into Logan. All of the major public detainments of Legal Residents and Citizens at airports have been out of Logan.

Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · 8h

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 8h

If you meant hard cider, I can’t - sober. But it might be good just squeezed as NA cider, too!

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 9h

this is so funny if you think about it for like five seconds

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 9h

All liberals agree contrails aren't a Deep State plot to control our minds and that 2+2=4. This uniformity of opinion is quite concerning.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 9h

It was me, I'm sorry, I thought it would be fun 😔

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 13h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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