Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"In my day job, I am a QA Analyst for a software company. I spend every weekday from nine to five thirty(-ish) telling developers to fix things.

[...]

"At least once a day, I have a conversation that goes like this:

"'Can you fix the thing?'
'I didn't break the thing.'
'I know you didn't break the thing. But I still need the thing to work, so I'm asking you to fix it.'

[...]

"This is what social justice is to me. No, I didn't create racism. Or sexism. Or homophobia. Or transphobia. Or ablism. But it's still a thing that's broken. It's still a thing that needs to be fixed. Just because I didn't create it, that doesn't mean that I get to pretend like it's not broken. And that goes for every issue out there.

"Misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism, classism, ablism. These are all things that are deeply and intensely broken in society. There isn't a single person among us who shoulders the blame for breaking these things. At the same time, there isn't a single person among us who gets to walk away from the responsibility of fixing them."

-- Emily Finke, 2014-12-29

[To everyone whose civil and/or religious calendar is the Gregorian one, Happy New Year! To my Jewish friends who are observing Asara B'Tevet today, may you have an easy fast.]

Today is:
Gregorian: 01 January 2015
Julian: 19 December 2014
Hebrew: 10 Tevet 5775
Islamic: 10 Rabi`al-Awwal 1436
Persian: 11 Dey 1393
Mayan: 0.0.0.13.0.2.1.1
Indian: 11 Pausa 1936

For most Christians today is the eighth day of Christmas. (For old-calendar Orthodox Christians, it's still the Nativity Fast, with nearly a week to go until Christmas.)