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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 2h

If you're wondering why I have limited interaction on my posts to my followers, this is a countermeasure I am using to filter out automated phishing. I don't know why my page is such a bot magnet, but I'm doing something about it. It's fucking annoying, but this the world we live in nowadays. =-/.-=

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I gave my new ring light a spin. =^/.^= Yes I have my glasses on because the light actually hurts my eyes (it's that bright). Also tagging this as NSFW in-case Bluesky's moderation auto-flags it 'cause I couldn't be bothered putting my cropped top on. Lmao.

Cassie Robinson with her Jackson guitar. She also has her sunglasses on to shield her eyes from the bright LED ring light which is just visible near the top inner corners of the lenses of her glasses.

This pic in particular is a bit of a "happy accident" in the sense that Cassie thought she had her camera on video mode, but instead is on photo mode, and when this picture was taken, she spent a good ten minutes playing her guitar (unplugged, no less) thinking she was recording a video of herself. Nope. Her phone just took a selfie instead. LOL.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good! I hope this comes to Aotearoa too! That and do phones next! Typing on glass is a fucking nightmare!

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

By the way, I use a moderation tool called "SkyWatch" to alert me to accounts what engage in bulk following, platform abuse and manipulation, inauthentic behaviour and such nonsense. I want GENUINE ENGAGEMENT! Not whatever this bullshit is I been dealing with over the last two weeks.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Two bulk following accounts blocked today! One RIGHT AFTER I SAID TO "READ THE ROOM!" =/)/.<= These accounts have gotta be automated or some shit, 'cause nobody is that fucking stupid and ignorant!

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Walking through Woolies, KMart, and The Warehouse be like this.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's very reassuring to know I'm not alone in this. Like... it's legit annoying me, the number of bulk following accounts I have needed to block over the last two weeks.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Another bulk following account blocked! =/)/.<= Can these accounts READ THE FUCKING ROOM!? That'd be great! Thank you! Otherwise, all you're doing is artificially inflating my follower count! It doesn't go down when I block accounts! I wish it did, but apparently it's a quirk of Atmosphere itself.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Even with my RA and brain fog still being annoying, I let the spite win; and I set my guitar and gear up, and gave it all a test-drive. You can tell where the brain fog takes over, but I want to keep all the imperfections in, because perfection is boring. =^/.~= #ZZ-Cat #Rocktober #Metal #Guitar

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My life on Bluesky in the last two weeks be like... "Oh cool, I have a new follower. =^/.^=" *Looks in...* >Bulk Following. >Obvious bot account. >Occasionally posts suspected AI. >Platform Abuse and Manipulation. Oh for FUCK SAKE!!! =/)/.<=

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Musk showing everyone how big of a vile sack of shit he is... and even THAT is an understatement! Nobody deserves to die because of their identity, and nobody deserves to die because they provided life saving medical treatment!

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seeing as all the US Americans on Bluesky about to be like "it's spooky month" and granted that's not exactly something celebrated in my country, I'mma play some guitar for you all for the month of October under the tags #Rocktober #Metal #Guitar and my pseudonym #ZZ-CAT in the tags too. =^/.^=

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyway, back to regularly scheduled programming... rather... guitar playing!

Cassie Robinson with her violet bodied Jackson guitar. She also has her headphones on because they are plugged into her (off-camera) Boss GX-10 effects unit she uses when practising standalone (IE without The Honey Badger her laptop, powering her open source sound rig).

"The sound I am getting out of my GX-10 at the minute isn't perfect, but tthat's the point. It just needs to be good enough to empower me to let my creativity fly!" —Mx. Cassie Robinson.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well this is interesting. The bot I just blocked was an OnlyFans bot. LMAO!!!!

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After getting hid hard by the flu and it knocked out my voice for nearly four weeks, I have recovered enough to show off singing a part of AVATAR's "Torn Apart" from their Black Waltz album. I am so back!

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Blocked yet another bulk following account. This one was recently created as in the last 24 hours. Why the fuck do I get all the dodgy cunts artificially inflating my follower count? =/)/.<=

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Blocked yet another account that was flagged for platform abuse and manipulation, and bulk following. =/)/.-=

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What people think "talent" is, is actually skill honed over time. Start flawed, start imperfect, and get comfortable with making mistakes, because learning from your mistakes is better than demanding yourself to start "perfect" at first attempt. —Sincerely, a former perfectionist.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I consider my project CRSF for Arduino to be a work of art. Reading this is very reassuring to me, because I felt like I was the only developer who sees coding in this way. I also see it like it's one big puzzle and figuring out what goes where in order to make it do what I want.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's shit like this what puts me off posting anything online anymore. Like... there is no guarantee it won't eventually be fed into a large language model, despite my own attempts to minimise the potential for that to happen. Fuckin' AI circle-jerk! =/)/.<=

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am really fucking sick at the minute. But it's temporarily given me one helluva vocal fry. Although it actually hurt to scream at the end like that. So all you budding singers out there, don't do what I just did and sing while sick okay. Drink plenty of water! It will help.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just cracked 100 followers. Woohoo! I don't know what that means here, granted I had to block a few what were trying to game the system and that had artificially inflated my follower count (because Bluesky doesn't decrement my follower count by the number of accounts I block... unfortunately).

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This reminds me of something I saw someone posted on another platform I am semi active on, and they specified "I am looking for a biological female". Like... bruh. Go be transphobic somewhere else. This ain't the place for you.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There been a fair few accounts marked "platform abuse & manipulation" and "bulk following" I have blocked lately, and that shit artificially inflates my follower count. I am not too happy with this. =-/.-=

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Oh cool. Yet another popularity contest for me to avoid. I can't stand popularity contests, and finding out this one's coded with a LLM is farkin funny to me. 😆 Like... bruh, I was already avoiding it, ya didn't need to convince me to.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Neither do I. It's creating an environment where erosion of trust can fester unimpeded. That and the companies themselves want to do whatever-the-fuck they want unimpeded (in other words, be arseholes unimpeded). =-/.-=

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Awesome-sauce! Now I can post some of my guitar and singing practise sessions. =^/,..,^= Hell! Maybe I might post some videos of me flying one of my drones.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Fuck sake! =/)/.-= First Frank Beard dies. Then Dolly Parton, and now Tim Curry?! Fuck-arse timeline! Death is as corrupt as the fucking Trump administration!

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Interesting. 🤔 I am five away from 100 followers, yet the accounts I have been blocking as of late are all flagged "platform manipulation", "platform abuse", and "bulk following".

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Tech's supposed to help people and improve the quality of their lives, not fucking control them and rule their lives with an iron fist!

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

On this day in 1993, the bundle of chaos you see before you came into this world. Some 33 years later and I'm still here to tell the tale.

A screenshot taken from Star Walk 2 that shows the constellations of the Southern Hemisphere. In the top right-hand corner is the date 2026-08-17T21:30Z +12 (18/08/2026, 0930 Hrs NZST).
Front-and-centre is the sun in the constellation of Leo. Off to the left is Mercury paired with Jupiter in the constellation of Cancer. In the lower right-hand corner, barely visible, is Venus starting her retrograde.

A screenshot taken from Star Walk 2 that shows the constellations of the Southern Hemisphere. In the top right-hand corner is the date 1993-08-17T21:30Z +12 (18/08/1993, 0930 Hrs NZST).
Front-and-centre is the sun and moon paired together in the constellation of Leo. Off to the left is the constellation of Cancer, with Mercury and Venus. Near the lower right-hand corner is the red planet Mars of which is void-of-course.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

=-/.-= Gone too soon. Rest in peace.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

WHAT?!=0/,..,O= @transfem-femboi.bsky.social is following ME?! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!! Thank you soooo much! I been following you on here for a while now, and I fucking love what you post.

Screenshot of Bluesky notification.
Text reads: "Transfeminine Femboi GF followed you back".

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! 🤣 I have rheumatoid arthritis and POTS. THAT'S what my cane is for! Because why bother with accommodating disabled people better, when it's far easier to spread FUD about some bullshit boogieman then act like the end is near!? What a bunch of morons!

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

GAAAAAAAYYYY... FROOOOOOOOOOOOOOGGGSSSS!!! 🤣

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Also, Codeberg are based as fuck. They banned large language models from their platform. This ban extends to agentic AI as well, which is brilliant. I already have a project-wide ban, but it's good to see the platform itself ban it too. blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...

blog.codeberg.org

Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News

In Brief: Two motions regarding

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Also there is an indie web alternative to YouTube called KamTape, which has late 2000s-early 2010s aesthetic, and it's more community oriented. www.kamtape.com

kamtape.com

KamTape - Share Your World.

Share your videos with friends and family

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Because I know some of my followers are artists. I don't know if you have a presence on DeviantArt, but if you do, this a heads up, and if you know someone that is on DeviantArt, get this out to them so they're aware of it.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Artist: *Draws something cool and posts it to Bluesky.* Me: *Heart reacts it.* "I just think they're neat." My notifications: "The artist who drew the picture you heart reacted is now following you." This fucking platform, man. 😆 I jest, but I'm cool with it.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Growing up with 2000s and 2010s era internet has taught me four things: 1. Do not feed the trolls. 2. Block early and often. 3. Review privacy settings, and make necessary adjustments. 4. The most important rule of all: Life exists outside of the internet too. Do not forget this.

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Cassie Robinson @mxcassierobinson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Yeeted another new follower what had "Platform abuse & manipulation" and "Bulk following" flagged on their profile. Yea, get the fuck out! I don't tolerate that.

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