Ellis Bergst
@antleredrabbit.bsky.social
A jackalope living in New England. Former lots of things, future lots of other things. Mostly still the same.
> Besides Grateful Dead, Phish and Widespread Panic, introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
- Steve Miller
- Elvis Costello
- Indigo Girls
- Natalie Merchant
- Lilly Golden
- Steve Miller
- Elvis Costello
- Indigo Girls
- Natalie Merchant
- Lilly Golden
> Besides Grateful Dead, Phish and Widespread Panic, introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
-disappear fear
-Springsteen
-Afghan Whigs
-indigo Girls
-Maceo Parker
-disappear fear
-Springsteen
-Afghan Whigs
-indigo Girls
-Maceo Parker
> Besides Grateful Dead, Phish and Widespread Panic, introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
- Jethro Tull
- Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
- moe.
- String Cheese Incident
- Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country
- Jethro Tull
- Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
- moe.
- String Cheese Incident
- Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
> Besides Grateful Dead, Phish and Widespread Panic, introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
- Steve Miller
- Elvis Costello
- Indigo Girls
- Natalie Merchant
- Lilly Golden
- Steve Miller
- Elvis Costello
- Indigo Girls
- Natalie Merchant
- Lilly Golden
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FBI: Do u know Karl Marx
Mahmood Mamdani: Haven’t met him
FBI: No, he's dead
Mamdani: Wow, what happened?
FBI: No, no, he died long ago
Mamdani: Why are you asking me?
FBI: He wrote that poor people should not be poor
Mamdani: Sounds wonderful
readingfanon.blogspot.com/2013/07/in-c...
Mahmood Mamdani: Haven’t met him
FBI: No, he's dead
Mamdani: Wow, what happened?
FBI: No, no, he died long ago
Mamdani: Why are you asking me?
FBI: He wrote that poor people should not be poor
Mamdani: Sounds wonderful
readingfanon.blogspot.com/2013/07/in-c...
![BS: Was there a feeling of exile?
MM: It wasn’t exile. I barely had a sense of the world, even though, when I was a high school student, my father used to take me to political rallies. But I didn’t really have any sense of it. I thought the British had no business being there, but that was it, no more than that. I didn’t have a sense of outrage. I didn’t have a sense of great injustice. I did have [a sense] of the color bar, yes, because I knew there was a white area and you couldn’t go there – or if you went to see your scout master, who was British, you had to stand outside…all those things.
But it’s really here I got a sense of it, because a friend of mine took me to a SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] meeting, six or seven months after I was here. At the end of the meeting they announced that buses were going to Montgomery, Alabaman, to demonstrate. I went there, got beaten up, thrown in jail…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5wgp627dhdxxx7zvmtpoz6yc/bafkreicxsgjedq3lcz7dspndxzke2zdscaiw6yjuyrdcst4j5bwod53lq4@jpeg)
July 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
FBI: Do u know Karl Marx
Mahmood Mamdani: Haven’t met him
FBI: No, he's dead
Mamdani: Wow, what happened?
FBI: No, no, he died long ago
Mamdani: Why are you asking me?
FBI: He wrote that poor people should not be poor
Mamdani: Sounds wonderful
readingfanon.blogspot.com/2013/07/in-c...
Mahmood Mamdani: Haven’t met him
FBI: No, he's dead
Mamdani: Wow, what happened?
FBI: No, no, he died long ago
Mamdani: Why are you asking me?
FBI: He wrote that poor people should not be poor
Mamdani: Sounds wonderful
readingfanon.blogspot.com/2013/07/in-c...
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In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.
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If the government won't bail out my crypto losses, I'm going to become an even bigger libertarian.
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
If the government won't bail out my crypto losses, I'm going to become an even bigger libertarian.
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YOU SAID NO TO MUPPETS KNIVES OUT?! YOU DEPRIVE US OF BENOIT BLANC SURROUNDED BY MUPPETS?! JAIL FOR RIAN! JAIL FOR RIAN FOR 1000 YEARS!
Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
YOU SAID NO TO MUPPETS KNIVES OUT?! YOU DEPRIVE US OF BENOIT BLANC SURROUNDED BY MUPPETS?! JAIL FOR RIAN! JAIL FOR RIAN FOR 1000 YEARS!
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This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Someday, I want to take a vacation that’s actually relaxing. But I don’t know how or what it would be.
I strongly suspect that step one is believing that everything is okay and well taken care of at home.
I strongly suspect that step one is believing that everything is okay and well taken care of at home.
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Someday, I want to take a vacation that’s actually relaxing. But I don’t know how or what it would be.
I strongly suspect that step one is believing that everything is okay and well taken care of at home.
I strongly suspect that step one is believing that everything is okay and well taken care of at home.
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Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans.
by Megyn Kelly
by Megyn Kelly
November 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans.
by Megyn Kelly
by Megyn Kelly
I’m team A.
My husband’s family apparently took all the weekly leftovers and put them in the freezer, and when they reached a certain volume, everything went in a crock pot for “freezer pot.” Which sounds very economical and also utterly unappetizing.
My husband’s family apparently took all the weekly leftovers and put them in the freezer, and when they reached a certain volume, everything went in a crock pot for “freezer pot.” Which sounds very economical and also utterly unappetizing.
Settle a household debate with me. If you have leftovers, you should store them:
a) in the fridge in their own container
b) in the fridge in the same container as *different* leftovers from the day before
I swear, if you do not answer this question correctly, I am blocking you.
a) in the fridge in their own container
b) in the fridge in the same container as *different* leftovers from the day before
I swear, if you do not answer this question correctly, I am blocking you.
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I’m team A.
My husband’s family apparently took all the weekly leftovers and put them in the freezer, and when they reached a certain volume, everything went in a crock pot for “freezer pot.” Which sounds very economical and also utterly unappetizing.
My husband’s family apparently took all the weekly leftovers and put them in the freezer, and when they reached a certain volume, everything went in a crock pot for “freezer pot.” Which sounds very economical and also utterly unappetizing.
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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Hello, Vermont! Can we please follow this model?
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Hello, Vermont! Can we please follow this model?
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Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social
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We went out and took Northern Lights photos with my phone (iPhone 8) and my husband’s phone (iPhone 14). These are roughly the same direction at the same time. It’s still very impressive with the naked eye (or an old phone), but the very impressive shots owe a lot to fancy phones.
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
We went out and took Northern Lights photos with my phone (iPhone 8) and my husband’s phone (iPhone 14). These are roughly the same direction at the same time. It’s still very impressive with the naked eye (or an old phone), but the very impressive shots owe a lot to fancy phones.
Every now and then I miss the Television Without Pity recaps of shows I was watching. The early internet was pretty great.
November 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Every now and then I miss the Television Without Pity recaps of shows I was watching. The early internet was pretty great.
I, too, am going to be so pissed if we’ve gone through all this for nothing. Fucking furious.
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I, too, am going to be so pissed if we’ve gone through all this for nothing. Fucking furious.
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We're extremely dishonest about the realities of aging in this country. The older I get, the more this becomes apparent to me.
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We're extremely dishonest about the realities of aging in this country. The older I get, the more this becomes apparent to me.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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You know you are the villains when you are fighting to starve people.
LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.
Oh, this is wild.
DOJ went to SCOTUS *before* we got the First Circuit's administrative stay denial. (We know this because DOJ just filed a letter at SCOTUS about the admin stay denial.)
So, DOJ went to SCOTUS b/c the First Circuit did not meet its less-than-seven-hour "deadline" for a ruling.
DOJ went to SCOTUS *before* we got the First Circuit's administrative stay denial. (We know this because DOJ just filed a letter at SCOTUS about the admin stay denial.)
So, DOJ went to SCOTUS b/c the First Circuit did not meet its less-than-seven-hour "deadline" for a ruling.
November 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
You know you are the villains when you are fighting to starve people.
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The lengths this administration will go to starve people is really unprecedented.
BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS trying to stop a district court order that USDA pay out full SNAP benefits this month.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The lengths this administration will go to starve people is really unprecedented.
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Not even the slightest spark of compassion, concern, or empathy. I'll never understand how people can still look at this soulless parasite and think, "yeah, he's my guy."
November 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Not even the slightest spark of compassion, concern, or empathy. I'll never understand how people can still look at this soulless parasite and think, "yeah, he's my guy."
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Imagine taking a trillion dollar salary while others can’t buy food.
November 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Imagine taking a trillion dollar salary while others can’t buy food.
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It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
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"who radicalized you"
Nothing radicalized me, I was born with basic empathy. The world decided that was radical.
Nothing radicalized me, I was born with basic empathy. The world decided that was radical.
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"who radicalized you"
Nothing radicalized me, I was born with basic empathy. The world decided that was radical.
Nothing radicalized me, I was born with basic empathy. The world decided that was radical.