Sam
@sjberger.bsky.social
Minnesotan. Dad. Plant-lover. Bewildered denizen of the anthropocene.
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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New in our shop! A collection of cute wooden wildlife ornaments, laser cut and screen printed by hand in our studio. Choose from gray squirrel, box turtle, opossum, turkey vulture, bison, and saw-whet owl! 🎨🐡
blueasterstudio.com/collections/...
blueasterstudio.com/collections/...
November 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
New in our shop! A collection of cute wooden wildlife ornaments, laser cut and screen printed by hand in our studio. Choose from gray squirrel, box turtle, opossum, turkey vulture, bison, and saw-whet owl! 🎨🐡
blueasterstudio.com/collections/...
blueasterstudio.com/collections/...
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How do you do, fellow cats?
October 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
How do you do, fellow cats?
Any entomology folks able to help me figure what's going on in this bee balm seed head? iNat suggests Neortholomus scolopax (a seed bug) but I can't find much useful information beyond that...
Could also possibly be a fungus of some sort?
#inverts #NativePlants #entomology #mycology
Could also possibly be a fungus of some sort?
#inverts #NativePlants #entomology #mycology
October 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Any entomology folks able to help me figure what's going on in this bee balm seed head? iNat suggests Neortholomus scolopax (a seed bug) but I can't find much useful information beyond that...
Could also possibly be a fungus of some sort?
#inverts #NativePlants #entomology #mycology
Could also possibly be a fungus of some sort?
#inverts #NativePlants #entomology #mycology
Evolution is an incredible artist. I was happy to find this weird little guy in my garden yesterday.
#Inverts #NativePlants
#Inverts #NativePlants
September 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Evolution is an incredible artist. I was happy to find this weird little guy in my garden yesterday.
#Inverts #NativePlants
#Inverts #NativePlants
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September 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Ain't no party like an ox-eye party
Cuz an ox-eye party has multiple bee species.
#Inverts #NativePlants
Cuz an ox-eye party has multiple bee species.
#Inverts #NativePlants
September 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Ain't no party like an ox-eye party
Cuz an ox-eye party has multiple bee species.
#Inverts #NativePlants
Cuz an ox-eye party has multiple bee species.
#Inverts #NativePlants
Proud of my state senator. Any chance the GOP has a conscience?
More on that
August 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Proud of my state senator. Any chance the GOP has a conscience?
In honor of #invertefest the black swallowtail my kids have been raising from a caterpillar decided to emerge today.
It came into the house on a native flower bouquet from our garden that included golden alexanders.
#NativePlants
It came into the house on a native flower bouquet from our garden that included golden alexanders.
#NativePlants
August 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
In honor of #invertefest the black swallowtail my kids have been raising from a caterpillar decided to emerge today.
It came into the house on a native flower bouquet from our garden that included golden alexanders.
#NativePlants
It came into the house on a native flower bouquet from our garden that included golden alexanders.
#NativePlants
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July 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
July 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Thanks, I feel inspired:
While trees rake carbon from the sky
and lignify it 'til they die,
eventually that heat's released
by fire or rot or gnawing beast.
But if you've got the clime to suit,
and want to see less top, more root
while storing carbon out the ass
you cannot beat a prairie grass.
While trees rake carbon from the sky
and lignify it 'til they die,
eventually that heat's released
by fire or rot or gnawing beast.
But if you've got the clime to suit,
and want to see less top, more root
while storing carbon out the ass
you cannot beat a prairie grass.
July 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Thanks, I feel inspired:
While trees rake carbon from the sky
and lignify it 'til they die,
eventually that heat's released
by fire or rot or gnawing beast.
But if you've got the clime to suit,
and want to see less top, more root
while storing carbon out the ass
you cannot beat a prairie grass.
While trees rake carbon from the sky
and lignify it 'til they die,
eventually that heat's released
by fire or rot or gnawing beast.
But if you've got the clime to suit,
and want to see less top, more root
while storing carbon out the ass
you cannot beat a prairie grass.
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the best part of waking up
is milkweed in your cup
(spent a spontaneous 10 minutes digging A.tuberosa volunteers from the lawn. they'll find new homes in the front yard...)
#NativePlants #FlowerReport
is milkweed in your cup
(spent a spontaneous 10 minutes digging A.tuberosa volunteers from the lawn. they'll find new homes in the front yard...)
#NativePlants #FlowerReport
July 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
the best part of waking up
is milkweed in your cup
(spent a spontaneous 10 minutes digging A.tuberosa volunteers from the lawn. they'll find new homes in the front yard...)
#NativePlants #FlowerReport
is milkweed in your cup
(spent a spontaneous 10 minutes digging A.tuberosa volunteers from the lawn. they'll find new homes in the front yard...)
#NativePlants #FlowerReport
the best part of waking up
is milkweed in your cup
(spent a spontaneous 10 minutes digging A.tuberosa volunteers from the lawn. they'll find new homes in the front yard...)
#NativePlants #FlowerReport
is milkweed in your cup
(spent a spontaneous 10 minutes digging A.tuberosa volunteers from the lawn. they'll find new homes in the front yard...)
#NativePlants #FlowerReport
July 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
the best part of waking up
is milkweed in your cup
(spent a spontaneous 10 minutes digging A.tuberosa volunteers from the lawn. they'll find new homes in the front yard...)
#NativePlants #FlowerReport
is milkweed in your cup
(spent a spontaneous 10 minutes digging A.tuberosa volunteers from the lawn. they'll find new homes in the front yard...)
#NativePlants #FlowerReport
July 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
June 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This is such a great thread of MN native flowers!
First flowers in my yard in 2025! Hepatica blooms before the leaves even emerge.
🌱: Anemone acutiloba (sharp-lobed hepatica)
📆: April 13, 2025
#NativePlants #FlowerReport
🌱: Anemone acutiloba (sharp-lobed hepatica)
📆: April 13, 2025
#NativePlants #FlowerReport
June 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This is such a great thread of MN native flowers!
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Alright I have a question for *all of you*, esp for those of you who are not into environment stuff.
When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything.
RTs appreciated here.
When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything.
RTs appreciated here.
June 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Alright I have a question for *all of you*, esp for those of you who are not into environment stuff.
When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything.
RTs appreciated here.
When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything.
RTs appreciated here.
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ICYMI: Trans rights are human rights. Willi Castro appeared to lend support to that sentiment earlier this month, and even if that wasn't his intention, the aftermath says much about the moment he (and we) now occupy. #mntwins #twins #minnesota
What Willi Castro's Eye Black Meant Doesn't Solely Depend on What He Was Thinking When He Donned It
Trans rights are human rights. Willi Castro appeared to lend support to that sentiment earlier this month, and even if that wasn't his intention, the aftermath says much about the moment he (and we) now occupy.
dlvr.it
June 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
ICYMI: Trans rights are human rights. Willi Castro appeared to lend support to that sentiment earlier this month, and even if that wasn't his intention, the aftermath says much about the moment he (and we) now occupy. #mntwins #twins #minnesota
Always happy to see a new plant flowering from seed in my prairie garden. This spiderwort was seeded 3 years ago.
#NativePlants
#NativePlants
June 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Always happy to see a new plant flowering from seed in my prairie garden. This spiderwort was seeded 3 years ago.
#NativePlants
#NativePlants
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People think gender affirming care is new/untested because Nazis *literally burnt down* the research institute pioneering trans healthcare and its associated documentation
We are resting, here, on "controversy", on trans healthcare being "modern, unproven, untested, experimental" for damn near a century now, if not more.
The ahistoricization of trans people--our removal from the historical itself--is being invoked to continue historical epistemicide into modernity.
The ahistoricization of trans people--our removal from the historical itself--is being invoked to continue historical epistemicide into modernity.
June 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
People think gender affirming care is new/untested because Nazis *literally burnt down* the research institute pioneering trans healthcare and its associated documentation
Any bsky #NativePlants gardeners have experience splitting/transplanting meadow-rue? I'd like to move some of this to a new area, but it's been slow to fill in here so I don't want to kill it. Any advice welcome!
June 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Any bsky #NativePlants gardeners have experience splitting/transplanting meadow-rue? I'd like to move some of this to a new area, but it's been slow to fill in here so I don't want to kill it. Any advice welcome!
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The most consequential Speaker in state history.
June 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The most consequential Speaker in state history.
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I never met Melissa Hortman, but, each in our lane, worked on a bunch of the same issues. No one gets all the credit for legislation, but I think its important for people to understand how much good Speaker Hortman did/led/was a part of. That's something being an aging union guy equips you for 1/12
June 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I never met Melissa Hortman, but, each in our lane, worked on a bunch of the same issues. No one gets all the credit for legislation, but I think its important for people to understand how much good Speaker Hortman did/led/was a part of. That's something being an aging union guy equips you for 1/12
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All the credit that Tim Walz got as a VP candidate for good stuff that Minnesota has done? Melissa Hortman (and a bunch of other women) led the hard fight to get bills on his desk and make it politically safe for him to sign.
June 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
All the credit that Tim Walz got as a VP candidate for good stuff that Minnesota has done? Melissa Hortman (and a bunch of other women) led the hard fight to get bills on his desk and make it politically safe for him to sign.