Ves

@ves.bsky.social

she/her, aka aurora_84

moved buildings at work today, we are now in an open plan/clean desk office. we'll get used to it, probably, hopefully. also, I am maybe developing a summer cold and it's so rude. during birthday month??

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

Less bad than the Shanebug thing, but (young) Ilya is definitely not thinking of how much things weigh in pounds, pls anglo world, it's kilograms all the way (and kilometers for distance)

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.