PomegranateFish
@pomegranatefish.bsky.social
Music librarian, knitter, cat person.
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)
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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)
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)
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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)
I got chicken pox as a child the year before the vaccine became widely available and I'm so mad about it.
October 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I got chicken pox as a child the year before the vaccine became widely available and I'm so mad about it.
Everything, untoasted if very fresh, toasted otherwise, whitefish salad, tomato, capers, pickle on the side
October 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Everything, untoasted if very fresh, toasted otherwise, whitefish salad, tomato, capers, pickle on the side
"Blessed is the True Judge" would be wonderfully passive aggressive, but only Jews would get it
September 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
"Blessed is the True Judge" would be wonderfully passive aggressive, but only Jews would get it
Ooh, I've been looking for a nice desk organizer for my office!
August 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Ooh, I've been looking for a nice desk organizer for my office!
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.
August 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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.
Rice also works, if you have the right climate and irrigation
July 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Rice also works, if you have the right climate and irrigation
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)
June 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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)
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)
June 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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)
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
June 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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
Turning dumpsters into swimming pools
March 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Turning dumpsters into swimming pools
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
November 6, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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
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)
November 6, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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)
I was just there last month and I can confirm
November 5, 2024 at 11:35 PM
I was just there last month and I can confirm
We haven't even hit post-work voting yet!
November 5, 2024 at 7:53 PM
We haven't even hit post-work voting yet!
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Seems like a good omen
November 5, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Seems like a good omen
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
November 5, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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
(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)
November 5, 2024 at 6:02 PM
(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)
It wasn't just Galileo! There was a medieval Florentine poet named Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti, it seems to have been a Tuscan thing
November 5, 2024 at 5:55 PM
It wasn't just Galileo! There was a medieval Florentine poet named Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti, it seems to have been a Tuscan thing