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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Kinda tired of the "historians will say they're close friends" meme. Babe, we've been screaming about how gay everyone is for *decades*. Funding for history keeps getting cut as a result. There are entire moral panics about it. You just haven't read any history since highschool.

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

As someone currently trying to buy a 2-story cottage (or rowhouse, rather) I think I'd prefer to pay in eels

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

It pisses me off that I recently learned his name and realized there's an extremely good chance we're related (my great-grandma was an Evnen from Nebraska)

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I was kind of hoping he'd throw his hat in the ring for PA-03, but oh well, the race is already pretty packed

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I'd absolutely love to be proven wrong, and I'll vote for him for whatever he runs for next

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I voted Kenyatta in the primary, and damn but I wish PA was a state he could win

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Fucking hell. IU is known for a world-class music program

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Really, I think the best for an actual musician is a rebuilt older model. Sister has a gorgeous old Mason& Hamlin from the 1920s

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

My sister used to be the sales rep for most of the non-Steinway high end piano brands in DC, and has very strong opinions about how Steinway has been enshittified and is not worth the money anymore

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

My great uncle was briefly stationed on Greenland while in the US Air Force in the 60s, so there has been at least one other Jew there in the past

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I volunteered for her first Senate campaign when I was five years old! (My next door neighbor and babysitter was chair of the county Democratic party and had us help stuff envelopes)

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Yeah, he's lucky it wasn't my usual sandwich order of banh mi with extra jalapenos (haven't eaten at Subway since I got food poisoning there in high school)

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I got chicken pox as a child the year before the vaccine became widely available and I'm so mad about it.

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Everything, untoasted if very fresh, toasted otherwise, whitefish salad, tomato, capers, pickle on the side

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

"Blessed is the True Judge" would be wonderfully passive aggressive, but only Jews would get it

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Ooh, I've been looking for a nice desk organizer for my office!

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

As a library cataloger, I know from professional listservs that the LC is currently migrating to a new library system software (which has been planned for a long time). It doesn't seem like that should affect this part of the website, but there are a lot of updates happening this week.

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Rice also works, if you have the right climate and irrigation

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

My great-grandfather literally came in under a forged identity to avoid racist laws keeping Turks out (he was Lithuanian, not Turkish, but he was a sailor who somehow ended up with a Turkish passport)

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

My parents are much less wealthy than Mamdani's (probably about a quarter of their income, though I also grew up in a then much less expensive area and my dad's job with the state government had great benefits)

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I've always been grateful that I grew up never having to truly worry about food or housing or healthcare, but still having to consider budgets and learning delayed gratification, and not being insulated from those less well-off

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Turning dumpsters into swimming pools

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Wow, yes. I was kind of a sheltered kid, and seeing the invasion of Iraq go ahead when I was 14, despite the very obvious lies leading up to it, was my first real visceral understanding that people do not generally make rational decisions

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

I'm terrified and sobbing intermittently and I don't know exactly what to do, but you know what? Three and four generations ago, my ancestors survived pogroms and famine and brutal repression and my existence is testament to their survival: I'm going to live, and I'm going to keep others alive.

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

There are lots of theist Quakers too! Quakerism is much less about what you believe than how you worship and the principles you live by (was raised Quaker, not really active now but still like it)

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I was just there last month and I can confirm

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

We haven't even hit post-work voting yet!

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Huh. I got a mailer from a Zionist group supporting Harris, and I just assumed they knew I was Jewish and made some very bad assumptions, but now I wonder

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

(Pedantic self-correction: Guido Cavalcanti, son of Cavalcante, was the poet, a one-time friend of Dante, Cavalcante was a philosopher who shows up in the Inferno in the city of the heretics)

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

It wasn't just Galileo! There was a medieval Florentine poet named Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti, it seems to have been a Tuscan thing

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Took a quick walk around Center City on my lunch break and about 50% of people were wearing I Voted stickers

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Four years ago tomorrow, I was playing klezmer music in front of the Philly convention center to entertain the crowds camped out in front of the doors to make sure no one messed with the vote count going on inside (I'm the one in the middle)

A photo from the web version of _Le Monde_, showing two women playing violin and a person in a Gritty mask playing a drum. Caption reads "Des musiciens, dont l'un porte le masque de Gritty, la mascotte de l'équipe de hockey des Flyers de Philadelphie, devant le centre de comptage des votes à Philadelphie, en Pennsylvanie, le 6 novembre. MARK MAKELA/REUTERS"

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Or judicial races, the bane of my existence

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

But the ballot is extremely short, so it doesn't take much time per voter (there are only about five races)

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Wow. Gotta say, I was mildly worried when I arrived at my polling place at 8am and there was only one other voter there.

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Going to vote before work early tomorrow morning! Fortunately I live across the street from my polling place

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

I keep saying I want to worry about boring things for a change

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

PA is very much an Election Day voting state, and dems remember the early vote counting shenanigans of last time and don’t want a repeat of that (we were almost literally barricading the door of the Philly convention center for several days in case anyone tried to get in and stop the count!)

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Why are political appointees not required to have even the minimum requirements for an entry level job in the department they head?

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

She's not even a fucking archivist! None of this shit would fly in my library and archives science masters program. It pisses me off because every actual archivist I've met from NARA is extremely rad

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Plus, candidate/team from California wins, candidate/team from New York loses.

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PomegranateFish @pomegranatefish.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Philly turnout is the entire ballgame; the city is about 80% democrat. And I expect a lot of us will vote on Election day because it's a very compact city and most people live only a few blocks from a polling place

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