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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, I know, the levers of power only work for Republicans, Democrats are helpless to do anything when they're in power.

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 18h

And now the status quo is “if you hold executive power none of the institutions designed to check your power will stop you,” so go for it.

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Apparently once you hold executive power all you have to do is simply take the action you wanted to take and simply act like you had that power the entire time, and the world will part for you to allow it to happen. That might only be for paedophile fascists, though.

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My understanding is that he could remove five of them with cause, and that bringing the organisation into disrepute would be part of that cause. It's also kind of wild that Democrats still act like legal barriers to executive power are a thing in the brave new world of the current US.

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I get the strong sensation you don't care much at all about what helps Palestinians

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Right, so it’s not that they misunderstood what office they were voting for it’s that you personally don’t think he should use the powers he has to do those things. You could just say that.

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They have two very specific and achievable demands.

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TREBEK: According to the lyrics of rapper Lil Ten Five Lb Labey, your nose bridge will be snapping and your cranium will be cracking when you let her drop 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 bowling ball sized snack on your face. CONTESTANT:

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I mean I do know it’s class, but still, they can’t even pull back enough to maintain the liberal order

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

fucking hell the US currently has a regime that literally cannot stop breaking laws, de jure, on paper, and liberal politicians still can't quite get their way around to treating it as illegitimate

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

tbh one of the big differences between the broad liberal-left and the right is the right openly and gleefully treat liberal governments as illegitimate while the left doesn't do the same, and it should

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I still froth a NICE biscuit if that helps your data collection

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Specific kinds of other people (you know what kinds)

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Heading into a very cool space where it's going to be functionally illegal to consentually take your clothes off for money but fully legal to pay the tech industry for a limitless pipeline of artisanal CSAM

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Australian, but yes, limited sick leave.

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

but outright telling someone "go home, I'm putting you on sick leave" is a different thing.

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our enterprise bargain agreements are pretty clear about the conditions under which an employee can be "instructed" to take leave and it's a big no-no outside of that. I can encourage all I want and if a team member was coughing/sneezing I could absolutely say "I think you should take leave"-

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That sucks yeah. In Australia we have sick leave and recreation leave separated out by law, because rec leave is an entitlement (paid out when you leave a job) while sick leave isn't (you're entitled to it but not to have it paid out if you change jobs).

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can do it in general terms but I have to be careful about anything that could be interpreted as directing a specific employee on what to do with their leave Of course if the employee is already considering not coming in I'm free to encourage that

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Speaking as a manager I can't outright direct someone not to come into the office but you can be 100% certain that I *very strongly encourage it* if someone is unwell and remind them of both WFH capabilities and their accrued sick leave

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The wild part is I’m not even happy with Larissa’s performance as leader and I’d be happier if the party agreed with me, but I’m not that optimistic

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Uh-huh. There’s been absolutely zero issues with her leadership within the party room (and the broader party, frankly) but far be it from me to stand in the way of the keen party room insights you’ve pulled directly out of your butt.

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

She wasn't knifed. Party room hadn't even met, let alone put up a spill motion (which would require a supermajority outside of an electoral cycle).

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The member email said her prognosis is positive, it's just that leadership duties aren't compatible with healing

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

to him, Little Ceasars crazy bread is just normal bread

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is there a word aside from “Alex Lifeson” for being an incredibly talented person who is nevertheless outshone by the company they keep “The least notable member of Rush” is a height to which many would aspire and yet, the least notable member of Rush

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I fully believe that the majority of people in the public service, at least where I work, are neurodivergent

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Are you professionally preoccupied with childrens’ genitals or is it more of a hobby

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Getting black book of communism vibes weeping about dead Nazis

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If my vote and the votes of anyone who cares about my opinion are worthless to you then feel free to treat me as such, don't turn around and act like I'm blowing an election for you when I'm not enthused about turning out for you, you liberal asshole

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm glad to see we've again reached the cycle of electoral politics where we see the existence of Schroedinger's Left, the electoral demographic that is simultaneously too small to be worth reaching out to with promises and policy and also large enough to sink elections for moderate candidates

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026

it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Australian Graun is okay. UK Graun still a bin fire.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This honestly just sounds like the Palestine protests need an actual threat of violence for the wallopers to leave them alone, doesn't it

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You are however completely correct that it has literally nothing to do with the moral position of continuing to patronise the works of somebody who has outright said support of her work is tacit approval of her bigotry

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For example, a certain author who had her fictional banks staffed by hook-nosed, malformed greedy goblins can say as much as she likes that she didn’t intend them to be an antisemitic caricature, but the interpretation is still there regardless of her intent.

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Death of the author is one lens through which a text can be analysed, noting that meaning can be derived which did not have to be consciously intended by the author. It doesn’t mean the author’s intention is irrelevant, just that it isn’t the whole story.

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The annoying part is that death of the author is honestly a valid lens for analysing a text regardless of why Barthes proposed it but it has *literally nothing to do with reading or watching Harry Potter*! It’s a textual lens, not a moral philosophy!

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Is the creature a slater/pillbug/roly-poly

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Referring to the Oldest House as "brutalist House of Leaves" is inspired

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Trouble is this works on a not insignificant number of supposed “liberals”

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Passing my favourite local vehicular cryptid, the gigantic Jeep Rubicon with the American flag livery but also the Shahada and a scimitar on the back window

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