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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wish LinkedIn Me nothing but the best, but we haven’t been in touch for years, and I don’t feel the need to renew contact.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don’t think I’ve logged into my Linkedin account since I created it for a professional development module in grad school, so when I get emails saying “You’re getting noticed! X# of people have checked out your profile” I always wonder what they’re seeing. Seems like none of my business, really.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah, yes, I love fall. The crisp air, the turning leaves, the pumpkin spice, the unsalted matzos.

Instacart ad:
“Take one more thing off your list. Get fall favorites delivered in as fast as 30 minutes.” above a box of Yehuda unsalted matzos

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s a little silly how excited I am about this pencil sharpener I bought myself. It’s fast and unfussy, and look at that point.

Small handheld pencil sharpener—a cube of smoke and copper-colored plastic—next to a red freshly-sharpened pencil. The tag for the pencil sharpener says:

531s
NAKAJIMA JUKYUDO CO.,LTD.
7-3-28, Miyakenaka, Matsubara-city,
Osaka, Japan.
株式会社中島重久堂
T580-0046大阪府松原市三宅中7-3-28
TEL:072-339-5599

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I like how this photo illustrates the two extremes of Japanese industry: the sharpener is from NJK, a company that only makes pencil sharpeners; the pencil is from Mitsubishi, a company that, I’m told, also makes a few things other than pencils.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In case you, too, would like to experience the joy of this pencil sharpener, it’s the NJK 531s njk-brand.co.jp/en/njk-brand...

njk-brand.co.jp

Stationery-en | 中島重久堂

NJK's stationery products are introduced here.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A thing to know about me is that I love pencils

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s a little silly how excited I am about this pencil sharpener I bought myself. It’s fast and unfussy, and look at that point.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

always fun to see how the belief that gender is inborn and immutable can coexist in the same mind with the belief that having an opinion about paint colors makes you a girl

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Accidentally read the comments on a Facebook post, please keep me in your thoughts

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Had 3 different random strangers yell “Shanah tovah!” at me while walking to shul over the weekend, which is a nice change from what I usually expect strangers to yell at me.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Are you still changing? Well, it’s past time to start stopping.

Sign that says:

Service Alert
Alerta de servicio

Stop Changing
Starting Sunday, August 23

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Are you still changing? Well, it’s past time to start stopping.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Those are both great reasons. I also have the very petty reason that I have always found it irritating that he sometimes tops lists of notable alumni from my alma mater when there are much better candidates. Not so much now as ten years ago, but I can hold a grudge.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Dima celebrating Rosh Hashanah by napping on top of not just one, but two machzorim. Not quite sure how this is comfortable for him, but he is snoring loudly and drooling.

Fluffy black cat sprawled on a coffee table with his legs at odd angles, his head lolled over, one eye partly open. He is fully on top of one machzor (not pictured, entirely covered by floof) and partially atop another, which is poking into his back

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

the eternal question: will my husband find me before my cat eats my face?

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I wish my cat could understand that if he trips me and I die, it will actually take him longer to get fed.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I missed the new kitten news! So soft! So baby!

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Next you’ll be telling me that daydreaming with a globe, and staying up late poring over atlases, and making detailed maps of your neighborhood with all the local cats and dogs labeled aren’t basic features of all childhoods but just particularities of mine, and I refuse to believe it.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Where’s your curiosity about the world you live in?

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And when I say geographical knowledge I don’t mean esoteric trivia, I mean basic geographical awareness like knowing what continent you’re currently located on.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My instagram feed is determined to show me videos of people demonstrating an alarming lack of geographical knowledge and I don’t understand people who just go through life not knowing where anything is.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Rosh Hashanah in 2026 begins at sunset on 11th September. Here is the initial-word panel for 'Melekh Amon' (Steadfast King). Bodleian Library MS. Michael 619; Maḥzor for the High Holidays, Western Ashkenazi rite (Tripartite Maḥzor, vol 3); 1320–1330 CE; f.53r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just had a flashback to school and people calling them “tenny runners”

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Like, now as an adult, I say soda, but I grew up saying pop, and I know when that changed because it was a conscious decision. You can’t be out there running around San Francisco for a decade saying “pop.” It just won’t do.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

But interesting that the Miami is still in there

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just had a flashback to school and people calling them “tenny runners”

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Maybe you’ve just been living in the wrong Portland

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It stuck you as far north as it could!

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

But I also grew up saying “tennis shoes” (or tenni-shoes, really) and now I say “sneakers” but I don’t think it’s because I lived in a “sneaker” region.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It’d be cool to have a diachronic version of this—I used to say x, but now I say y—and figure out which shifts are a result of moving to a different region and which are a result of language change

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I have lived in all of the “most similar” cities and one of the “least similar”

Cities most & least like you.
Most similar:
Portland, OR
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA

Least similar:
New Orleans, LA
Atlanta, GA
Houston, TX

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So I did the dialect quiz thingy and hmm… not sure I appreciate feeling this seen.

a map of the USA that is dark red all along the west coast, blue in the east (darkest in the Deep South). The legend says “redder areas talk more like you; bluer areas least”

The caption says “Your dialect map: you talk most like someone from Oregon—about 59% of your answers match a typical resident.”

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Stop trying to gaslight me with your smug overconfidence!

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I put the word “further” in the search bar because I was going to look it up on wiktionary and Google’s AI confidently told me “You are thinking of the classic 1984 R&B/soul song "Don't Look Any Further" by Dennis Edwards featuring Siedah Garrett” and no, Google, I don’t think I am.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I had a dream that I was trying to organize a seminar on “Tantric Talmud” and I would very much like to not think any more about what that would be

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Had a ticket to see PJ Harvey at La Luna in Portland, felt under the weather and didn’t go, still mad at myself decades later.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Had a ticket to see PJ Harvey at La Luna in Portland, felt under the weather and didn’t go, still mad at myself decades later.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

From the same verse in Paradise Lost, I also learned the excellent word “gonfalon” which is the name for those banners that hang from a horizontal cross-bar attached to a vertical pole. Who knew?

Person in gown and mortarboard carrying a tasseled gonfalon

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This here is the specific reason that children should be required to read the classics. Just think how many lives could be changed by the knowledge that gonfalonier is a possible ambition.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

From the same verse in Paradise Lost, I also learned the excellent word “gonfalon” which is the name for those banners that hang from a horizontal cross-bar attached to a vertical pole. Who knew?

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This revelation inspired by reading Paradise Lost and seeing “van” used on its own (“twixt Van and Reare”) and wondering if van is just a clipping of vanguard or if it was a meaningful morpheme on its own. Clipping, it turns out.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hey Portland, go outside and look at the moon. Right now. It’s doing weird stuff.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The fun thing about language is that you can speak it your whole life and think you’re good at it and then suddenly realize something so obvious that you should have figured it out decades ago. Like me just now realizing that “vanguard” is just “avante-garde” filtered through Middle English.

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So now you’ve missed the shofar workshop (noisy!) and the Song of Songs class (spicy!) and the Cheshbon haNefesh session (featuring a surprising amount of Benjamin Franklin!). Don’t miss out on the Music of the High Holidays this Saturday, 2 pm. Singing! Snacks!

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Maybe it’s lack of sleep, but I struggled with this headline. Several garden paths were taken.

Magazine headline that reads : ART BRIDGES COHORT SUPPORTS ART SHARING ACROSS OREGON

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E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Maybe it’s lack of sleep, but I struggled with this headline. Several garden paths were taken.

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