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Iris Meredith

@iris-meredith.bsky.social
3.7K followers 1.3K following 6.7K posts

Software engineer, trans advocate and general nuisance. Blogs at deadsimpletech.com/blog Support my writing: www.patreon.com/c/IrisMeredithandhe… en.liberapay.com/iris_meredith

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It is once again time for me to reintroduce myself, I think. I'm Iris: I write a blog at deadsimpletech.com/blog about the impacts of the tech industry on culture and humanity in general. I also work as a technical consultant and coach/mentor in the data, infrastructure and web spaces.
deadTech - the blog
In-depth articles from a straightforward engineer
deadsimpletech.com/blog

My blog started off as an attempt at content marketing. It degenerated into critical analysis of tech and tech trends pretty much immediately.

I write about the modern tech infrastructure and its impacts on culture and humanity. In times like these, understanding how tech is reshaping our daily experience and how it might reshape it differently is important if we want to live relatively happy lives, whatever the world brings.

Support our work here:

patreon.com/c/IrisMeredithAndHerBlog
en.liberapay.com/iris_meredith
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
One would think that, if they're all in on the LLMs, they could have at least used the LLM to *proofread the job listing*? Like, an LLM would probably have *caught the typo in the title*.
An advertisement for an AI "promp" engineer using Claude and Codex. They are offering the wildly generous rate of $60 NZD/hr for this role.
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Yeah, that about says it all about our current situation, doesn't it? I do wonder at what point we'll be able to start applying the logic of 'the fact that some Muslims created DAESH and did lots of atrocities does not mean that all Muslims are complicit in terrorism" to Jews.
Asher Elbein‬](https://bsky.app/profile/asherelbein.bsky.social)

Israel bringing back the death penalty that it had previously abolished *specifically* for Palestinians is an absolutely hideous 

@numb.comfortab.ly

That's not what it's "slang for."
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This bitch has a library card again! For a good library, even!
A pile of books containing, top to bottom, Copernicus' Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Feersum Endjinn and Complicity by Iain Banks, Tolkein's Hobbit, two texts on ancient egyptian, Eco's The Prague Cemetery, a book of short stories by Lem and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Lords of Uncreation.
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
This place really is becoming the Vienna coffeehouse of social media, isn't it? (Adrian, I love your books! Emma, I'm afraid I've not read any yet but I'm pretty sure I will love them when I read them!)
A snippet from my notifications feed demonstrating that both Adrian Tchaikovsky and Emma Newman are following me
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
When you buy Harry Potter products, you're directly supporting this motherfucker:
A head and torso shot of Executor Ballas from Warframe. He appears as a blue-skilled man wearing a garment loosely modelled on a toga virilis, with a gold torc around his neck and a gold filigree pauldron on his right shoulder. His eyes appear to have no pupils, and his hair is tied up on the top of his head, with a lot of gold ornamentation.
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
There are a fair few beliefs that I might well die for if push really came to shove, and it's a little concerning that Aella doesn't seem to have any.
Norman Rockwell's painting "Freedom of Speech", featuring a man standing alone in what looks like a courtroom, with a black background behind him, surrounded by other, seated men
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The major issue I have with the UFO thing is that I'm pretty sure we know what they are. A B-2 in cross section looks almost identical to most descriptions of the "flying saucer" type. Like, uncannily so.
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Ban me, then. I fucking dare you, you tasteless, moralising little twerps.
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Your last saved photo is your moral philosophy (oh dear)
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Well, if you insist... (Image credit @Jessichenliu)
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
My partner works in special effects makeup. She has been a little down on herself lately, but she is *very good* at what she does. This has been her latest work.
An image of a woman in her late twenties wearing a headscarf and alabaster foundation. Her lips are deep red and she has heavy eyebrows and highly prominent eyelashes.An image of a woman in her late twenties wearing a headscarf and alabaster foundation. Her lips are deep red and she has heavy eyebrows and highly prominent eyelashes.
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
To celebrate my first real weekend in what feels like years, I made Eggs Benedict. Goddess, I love being able to make my own hollandaise
Two servings of eggs benedict on a light blue background (our bedcover). The eggs benedict are built on foccacia, with spinach and streaky bacon, and there's a small pile of cutlery in between the plates.
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Dame Aylin and Isobel from Baldur's Gate 3 standing next to each other.
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A blue amongus shitting toothpaste on a bathroom bench, with a white tiled background. There are two toothbrushes in a cup in the background.
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Well, this is a low point for biblical literacy
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
One can derive much simple pleasure from giving ChatGPT the Voight-Kampff test.
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
A non-LoTR character who could resist the One Ring (if only because he's depressed enough to convince himself he doesn't deserve it)
A picture of Kaladin Stormblessed at the head of a Highstorm, spear in hand, surrounded by glowing motes of light, wearing a blue officer's uniform. The guy's tan in skin tone with black hair, and looks kinda like an emo.
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Have just passed a thousand followers on here! Thank you so much to all of you: to celebrate, here's a picture of my friend's bunny
A caramel bunny with a white belly flopped over in a dig box containing a mixture of dirt and vegetable matter.
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
A meme titled "Remember the difference". On the left is a picture of a chaos space marine with the top text "death to the false emperor" and the bottom text "Apostasy", and on the right is a picture of a genestealer cultist with top test "Glory to the four-armed emperor" and the bottom text "Heresy"
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Here we go: pierogi for a late thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. 75 are pierogi ruskie, 21 are with beef and coriander (I ran out of filling)
96 pierogi, or hemispherical dumplings. 75 are pierogi ruskie, 21 are with beef and coriander
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Gorgeous friesians. Most of the cows where I live are a friesian-jersey cross, and while they're very productive milk-wise, they aren't as pretty.
A brown cow, larger than a Jersey but significantly smaller than a Friesian. It has a yellow ear tag, and it's polled
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Dear LinkedIn, when setting up an obvious dark pattern to keep people subscribing to Sales Navigator well past the point at which the trial stops being useful, *for the love of all things holy don't be a bunch of condescending shits about it!*
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