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Rik M

@r-m.northsky.social

564 followers 891 following 6.1K posts

He/him (for want of anything better). Business Analyst. Ex-programmer. Archer (resting). Knitter. Sometime leathercrafter. Spouse and parent. Finrose.

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Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 9h

Not mine, exactly (I only have fencing blades), but in my household... My youngest also has a rapier and kris bladed parrying dagger, with a bell guard...

detail of the hilt of a Withcher tie-in blade, with a twisted steel cross guard and double wolf head pommel

close up of the blade of the Witcher sword, showing the pattern in the steel

bit of fun, not a real blade (Demon Slayer tie-in)

damascus sterl gladius with a wood/brass grip

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 18/10/2026

South Indian for dinner (Andra Bhavan in Belfast)... It's been a while, hope I can cope

"Breakfast thali"

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 18/10/2026

South Indian for dinner (Andra Bhavan in Belfast)... It's been a while, hope I can cope

"Breakfast thali"

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 18/10/2026

Lovely day today...

looking up Belfast Lough towards Carrickfergus Castle and the Belfast hills beyond

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

Cheese scones (again). This time with parmesan topping

some slightly ragged looking scones, on a wire cooling rack

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

Or even...

another Hulk - Lou Ferigno, late '70s

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

Add a photo you took of something good

an otter, lurking in the scrub at the side of the river in Dumfries, mugging for photos

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

Cheese scone time... Over did the buttermilk a little so rougher than usual

Some rough looking scones, sat on a wire cooling rack on a bread board

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

"A delayed game is eventually bad, and a rushed game is also bad. Video games are bad. Do not play them."

Shigeru Miyamoto

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reminds me of this, I saw in school...

WW2 cartoon. Stalin and Hitler meeting jovially over dead bodies on a battlefield.
"The scum of the earth, I believe?"
"The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume?"

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

So, newspaper editors don't actually look at their front pages any more...

Banner headline on the Mirror. Just below it is the caption: "M06 CAPTION
Cntrl semi-colon brings in"

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

@hedgehogsafety.bsky.social Bigot of the "it's your own fault for wanting fair treatment" variety

Bigot blaming "TRAs" for trans people being attacked by society: "it's your own fault" in effect

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

I hadn't downloaded mine before:

12 axes result, showing me a best match to Pedro Sanchez of Spain...
Notable results: 95% progressive (an outlier, apparently) and both globalist and public (unusual combination, hey 🤷)

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 30/09/2026

But today, it decided to fly...

A grey heron, poised and about to take flight, on the grass near the millpond

A grey heron seen from behind, in flight, above the grass next to a tarmac path

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reminds me of this makeup...

Portrait of a woman with dark hair. In this selfie, she has been made up to appear to have 6 extra eyes arranged radially with her own two. Both beautiful and disturbing

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today's heron just stood, watchfully, instead of flying off... @everyheron.bsky.social

A grey heron standing on the grass, next to a footpath

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reminds me of this "paper bag"... People's reaction to it is mixed. Dismissive of someone producing something which looks so mundane, for example. While I look at it and marvel at the skill in producing something which looks so simple: a permanent record of something so ephemeral

Display case in a museum. The work on display is a representation of a paper bag, slightly crumpled, worked in metal, anodised to look like brown paper

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

This has to be the weirdest one yet... 😂

Screenshot of a notification telling me I've been added to a "Taskmaster (TV Show) Fans" block list...

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Nine games, spanning decades...
Pong, Tailgunner, Star Wars, Myth: the Fallen Lords, Home World, Baldur's Gate, Max Payne, Breath of the Wild, Baldur's Gate 3

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

I suspect some people would take as badly to that as to this one...

Union Jack, blue replaced with green and red replaced with orange.
The white, is the same...

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

What was that line from Dara O'Briain...

I'm sorry, 'herbal medicine', "Oh, herbal medicine's been around for thousands of years!" Indeed it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became 'medicine'. And the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri, so knock yourselves out.

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 19/09/2026

The tuna and onion rings are not fucking around...

Two plates, an enormous tuna steak 8n the foreground and a platter of giant onion rings beyond

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 19/09/2026

my wife got me a new t-shirt... @everyheron.bsky.social

Dark blue shirt, silhouetted in the middle against a rainbow half disk, is a heron. The writing says: "I just really like herons, OK?"

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

from FB...

GoT screencap. Sheeran next to Maisie Williams, offering her some meat on a stick... "so, after Macklemore everything went tits up for me. Rabbit?"

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

just bottled up my latest concoction: a plum liqueur (with a little bit of nutmeg).

a Clydeside malt bottle containing a strange pink liquid...

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bears comparison to Cleopatra

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 13/09/2026

afternoon view, today

looking down from Linford car park, hills on the right, sea down to the left

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 12/09/2026

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 10/09/2026

Another lough-side heron

Grey heron, standing sentry on a prominent rock at the verge between sea and shore

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 05/09/2026

They came closer...

Same two alpaca at the water's edge. They've been paddling so lower legs are showing damp

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 05/09/2026

I was not expecting alpacas on the beach...

Brown's Bay. The tide is fairly well in, and two alpaca and associated humans are walking near the water's edge

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 03/09/2026

Remembering these loos in Iceland, now...

A panoramic view of snow capped mountains... Through the windows, above the sinks, in a public lavatory...

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 01/09/2026

Bonus "white" rat, from yesterday...

Wild rat against the bushes on the millpond island.
"White" by courtesy, as it's kind of yellowy, overall... Pink eyes, though

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 01/09/2026

This morning's heron

A grey heron, sitting on a fence, against a background of green bushes

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Belfast hills brooding away, today

Grey sea below. A band of dark grey cloud above.
Between, the blue-gray of the hills and an array of tumbled clouds ranging from bright silver gray outlines to peachy tones in the distance, though the overall effect is grey

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 30/08/2026

Seems to be an evolving situation, tbh...

Google maps screenshot, shows Lake Ontario correctly labelled, but with the title "Lake Ontario (Lake America)"

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 28/08/2026

Text of an excerpt:
The United Kingdom has become one of the clearest examples of this broader anti-rights trend.

In Resolution 2417 (2022), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe condemned the "highly prejudicial anti-gender, gender-critical and anti-trans narratives" used to undermine LGBTI equality, identifying the United Kingdom alongside Hungary, Poland, Russia and Turkey as countries where extensive and often virulent attacks on the rights of LGBTI people had been taking place for several years. The United Kingdom demonstrates how anti-rights politics can hollow out democratic societies from within. Sustained anti-gender campaigns by political actors, sections of the media and organized anti-rights groups backed by opaque transnational funding networks have undermined the human rights of trans people, weakened democratic norms and challenged the universality of human rights. Michael O'Flaherty, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, emphasized in August 2026 that the attacks on LGBTI people are the warning sign of a wider backlash against democracy.

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 26/08/2026

Some natural light-painting, tonight...

The moon is behind the clouds. The light is edging the darkness and silvering the lighter clouds nearby

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 26/08/2026

Screenshot (from Twitter?) showing a page full of replies, where all that is visible is 'This post is from an account you blocked'

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 25/08/2026

Reflected light on old stone

The stone wall of the docks, under a bridge, showing the light reflected by ripples on the water

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 25/08/2026

Whilst on holiday, I noticed that the egrets in northern Spain seemed to have some sort of arrangement with the local cows... (Bonus heron from my walk this morning) @everyheron.bsky.social

Brown cows clustered in a green field, dotted around with the white of egrets

Grey heron walking down a path, giving a "why are you following me, you weirdo" vibe

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 24/08/2026

Reposting with alt text, since it deserves it ...

A chart, with the star signs down the left and a column for the prediction on the right. The prediction against every horoscope sign says:
"The stars and planets will not affect your life in any way."

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 23/08/2026

BBQ chicken for tea

Barbecued chicken, on a board ready to be sliced

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 23/08/2026

First moorhen chicks we've seen this year...

On the grass near the millpond are two moorhen chicks, little black balls of fluff, with a parent

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 23/08/2026

Back home again.l

Looking up Belfast Lough from the Shore Road in Carrickfergus

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 22/08/2026

Your favourite Disney Princess (wrong answers only)

Xena, in her later (and briefer) Japanese style

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 18/08/2026

Original for additional context...

Twitter posts by Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek)
Mar 4, 2023
Replying to @stealthygeek

Trans people account for less than 1% of US citizens today.

Jewish people accounted for less than 1% of German citizens in 1933.

But the Nazis didn't stop with Jews. They moved on to the next most vulnerable minority group.

Then the next. And then the next...

Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek

First, they came for the transgender person, and I spoke out immediately even though I'm straight and cis because I've read the rest of the poem.

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 17/08/2026

Nice view to stumble upon...

View from Mirador del Corzo, los Picos de Europa

A sweeping view down a grand green valley to peaks in the near middle and far distance, with lines of clouds in front of the furthest mountains

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 12/08/2026

Doing better than northern Spain...

Sattelite photo of cloud cover in Spain

A darkening hillside as totality approaches under a shield of cloud...

Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 12/08/2026

Well... Spit

Sattelite image, showing the coast of northern Spain (and only the coast) with a covering of cloud