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

Because currently I seem to be more or less unemployable, even for retail jobs. And this despite how capable I am.

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

Well, that or someone needs to be willing to work with me, but let's not be hopelessly optimistic

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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

We are remarkably lucky. I met a bunch of little penguins down by Frank Kitt Park last night, and while they're not *that* rare, it's still cool to me that we just have penguins roosting about two minutes walk from home

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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

There was a CGI flyover. They failed to remove the British flag from the models

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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

We get more florid hatred directed at us by state and media at the moment (at least outside of New Zealand: where I'm at it's a lot more even), but in terms of the structural things that are actually killing us, they're largely similar. Even in times like these, it's the grinding structural bigotry

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

There is a very particular brand of person who will be oh-so-happy about my trans ass existing and surviving and being brave and moral but do absolutely shit-all to actually make it workable. I don't know if first nations people catch the same kind of shit, but somehow I suspect you do.

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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 · 09/05/2026

It's definitely a choice to do that *while campaigning on raising the eligibility age for super*

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

There is the fact that polls seem to be consistently underestimating the scale of the swing in actual elections though...

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

I'm currently using it to generate LinkedIn friendly-infographics from blog posts: I wrote a bit of code to turn HTML and CSS into branded images and pdfs, and now I can have as much marketing slop as I'll ever need. Is this good or socially beneficial? No. But it's economically useful, and I like

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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

Fermented grain for the most part: the hops are a preservative. By the standards that you've given, it *should* be halal inasmuch as bread is, but I know that a lot of legal scholars would carve out exceptions where the conclusion is repugnant (which this would be to your average legal scholar)

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

Now, that raises the question: if you have to choose between the Hanafi take above and the Maliki take that everything from the sea is halal, which would you go for? The tradeoff between beer and oysters is difficult

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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 swear, at this point "training in a quantitative field" seems like it's about as much a marginalised class as anything else we have going on.

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

Yeah, mixing substances can often lead to a really bad time

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

I think you're mixing up Space Wolves and Sisters Repentia

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

I suppose I'd have a massive drinking problem if I were a British journalist. You'd have to drink to forget, I think.

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

I can count on one hand the number of times I've drunk so much I vomited. It's still too much, but it feels weird to see it normalised

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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

It's moderately terrifying. Like, some of this drinking would draw undue attention in fucking *Poland*

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

It's definitely difficult to reason about this particular set of counterfactuals, given that we have essentially no data. But I was more or less brought up by Jesuits, so of course I'm going to try anyway.

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

But then, I suppose you might argue that said element of psychology is a result of the fall?

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

people don't develop the ability to act or think virtuously. You see it in a lot of very rich people, even: they find it hard to develop virtue because they don't ever see why you *would*.

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

That makes a fair amount of sense. I suppose I'm leaning here on a relatively Buddhist understanding of how virtue *develops* (which, whatever the truth value of it is spiritually, is a good psychological model for how humans seem to do it), in which an absence of awareness of suffering means that

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

Occupational hazard of being a seriously-minded and ambitious trans woman I fear. Sometimes I think we're altogether too put-together for our own good...

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

At my most misanthropic, I sometimes think being a writer is as much a marginalised identity that you're kinda born with as anything else that we deal with.

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

It's been a problem that's vexed me for a while: I am methodologically and temperamentally a writer, but my background's all tech and engineering, so now I have entirely the wrong kind of network for the work I do.

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

I'd say that was a consequence of the fall, but oddly enough, that doesn't even work, largely because there's no need for virtue in a world absent sin.

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