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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

It feels as though if I'm going to be able to survive at the moment, I need to either detransition, become a full-on AI booster, or both. The idea makes me want to die, but I might actually die if I don't...

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I'd usually say that this was ideological or an attempt to discipline workers, but at this point I think it's just "no thoughts: head empty".

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

You know, it occurs to me that if a trans organisation just sent Kash Patel a case of whiskey, it might actually have a positive effect.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

On one level, yes, this is very, very bad. On the other, it's Kash Patel who'll have to implement the bulk of this, and well...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

"I do not know what weapons Victory Day 2026 will be celebrated with, but Victory Day 2027 will be celebrated with sticks and stones" -Albert Einstein

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Just finished watching the Victory Day livestream. Holy Shit. Even though everything in the anglosphere is falling apart and I'm trying to make some kind of life for myself in the wreckage, I still feel happy seeing Russia reduced to... this

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

If we want people to behave morally, we *badly* need to find some way to help people actually survive while doing so.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Some people on here could really benefit from saying nothing when they have nothing worth saying.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I'm not entirely clear what there *is* to say about the latest round of gerrymandering in Tennessee? We need to pack the court more and arrest more people? I don't know, anything that isn't "the people responsible need to spend the rest of their lives in prison" feels like a waste of breath

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Look, I took this advice and now I have an audience of analytic philosophers. Which is great and all: you're all lovely people. It's just not a particularly practically useful audience to have.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

You know, I'm not entirely against the dominant ideology of the latter half of the 21st century being transgender Islam with socialist characteristics. Now, what school of Fiqh should we be adopting? I'm mostly sold on the Maliki school myself...

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I think this website really needs to stop being so fucking tedious about politics all the time. We seem to occupy a good part of our time figuring out how to make already very bad things seem even worse than they actually are.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Honestly, yeah, probably. As shit as LLM-generated code is, I think I'd still trust Claude over Accenture

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Folks, is a country suddenly losing over 6% of its population something that's likely to be good for said country's economy?

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

If you're at all into this kind of fiction, you should definitely go support Sunsette/Cynthia. She is extremely capable and is dead serious about doing the best writing work she possibly can.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Chesterton stands triumphant again. The fuckers really *will* believe in anything

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I am both a ) Polish and b) drink more than is strictly healthy. Which is to say, I am far from a puritan and I've seen some really serious drinking problems in my time. I... holy shit, this is bad.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Can we get Mamdani to make some more mock-ups? They seem to work.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

OK, probably bears mentioning in a post here: I *do not* like how the more seriously-minded and professional trans women on here get treated. We do not police how the rest of the community behaves (though we will, of course, be told that we are regardless of the truth of that): some reciprocity

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It’s @bretdevereaux.bsky.social who has made this point better than I could but there’s something lost when people don’t aspire to be better educated, informed, etc than they are at any given moment. (it’s not the amount of knowledge, it’s the striving, and the aspiration towards it as a good thing)

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works, if you'd like. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

There is a reason why I write and maintain a Patreon and the whole "make money from content" infrastructure. Even when you're a well-educated, well-adjusted trans woman who can pass for neurotypical at least some of the time, it's brutal for us.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

What makes it particularly frustrating for a lot of us is that, as I've discussed in my last article, the tech just doesn't get the outcomes that it claims. It writes the kind of code that kills people down the line, and nobody seems to care.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Never take anything seriously Never challenge the views of "good blokes" For the love of all things holy, don't claim to know anything

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I think the least favourite part of my life at the moment is the gap between sending out invoices and them being paid. Just a truly wretched, stressful period of time

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

One ring to mog them all, One ring to maxx them...

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I would appreciate if the USA does Woke 2 soon so that we can emigrate there, because right now New Zealand seems to be going the way of discount Trump and unlike the USA, I don't see a path back to a good society here

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Is it just me, or is Catholicism increasingly taking on aspects of an ethnoreligion?

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I have to admit, I often wonder how much medical shit I've dodged simply because I did a couple of courses in biomedical engineering back in the day (EngSci and Biomed lived in the same department for whatever reason) and that means that I can speak doctor well enough to get taken seriously

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The paranoid mode of politics in the world is getting to me. Nothing can ever be what it is; it *has* to be secretly and maliciously concealing something else.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Alright, I'll join in for the sake of the nostalgia.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Woke 2 is queer Ukrainians using Lockmart-derived missiles to kinetically protest Russian oil production.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

All blogged up and nothing to say

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

OK, but what happens if I ship the revolution with Postgres?

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Gotta admit, this one's doing some truly perplexing traffic. Relatively low, at a few thousand hits, but the exponential decay that you usually see on traffic doesn't seem to be happening.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

So, I am both a trans woman and Polish: these inform different parts of how I look at the world, politics and social dynamics. When looking at the current Stancil shitshow, the vast bulk of what's relevant is the knowledge of Communist Poland.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

A new article (with fancy Schema.org and og:image tags, even!). This one's an observational piece about trying out Claude Code, and an observation that the people who get the best results from these things (from an engineering perspective) tend to be the people who hate them, not the boosters.

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Engineering judgement and the Claude Code paradox | deadSimpleTech

Looking at my peers, this seems like a consistent pattern: the people who get the best engineering results out of coding agents are not only *not* the boosters, they're the people who think the whole ...

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Is it just me, or has the average quality of political analysis on here been sharply declining?

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

deadsimpletech.com

Engineering judgement and the Claude Code paradox | deadSimpleTech

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Ah yes, the "you have to understand our culture" line. Large parts of New Zealand's culture are just shit, and are why we underperform. There's no particular reason that New Zealand culture is *a priori* good, and we need to be willing to change our culture if we want to grow as a society.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

In a wider scope, this is what I hate most about much of the modern progressive movement. There's a whole lot of stuff where just *knowing* it makes you suspect, even if you disagree with it.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Looking at politics at the moment makes me think a little of the seen in Use of Weapons where Zakalwe executes a defence in depth that the political grouping he's working for just doesn't understand. All that the civilian leaders see is lost ground. Meanwhile Zakalwe's sitting on concentrated,

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Two thoughts: a) 40k is particularly bad for this and b) I think it's rather more fun to write modern military tech and magic working together. I personally believe that the scrying-directed Storm Shadow is massively undertheorised.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Oh Gods. Human Pet Guy is a year younger than me. I feel awful.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

You know what, fuck it. Poland's annexing the UK now. You will have kielbasa stands on every corner, and you will like it.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Yeah, about that... (As an aside, I would pay considerable money to see what Tolkien's reaction to this would have been)

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taking the hobbits to isengard

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