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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

What about a .380 "pen gun" that looks like a keyring flashlight? Bonus points for the fact it has an optional suppressor

GSL .380 pen gun
It looks like a keyring flashlight and is displayed beside two compatible suppressors depending on the calibre of round used

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

In response to the information that the US were torturing prisoners in Iraq using Metallica he variously said over the years: "If the Iraqis aren't used to freedom, then I'm glad to be part of the exposure" and "I'm honored my country is using something to help us stay safe" He's pure trash

In 2008, responding to the use of Metallica's music to torture Iraqi prisoners, Hetfield was unoffended and replied, "If the Iraqis aren't used to freedom, then I'm glad to be part of their exposure."[47] British band Chumbawamba subsequently released a song called "Torturing James Hetfield" in response.[48] In a 2017 interview, Hetfield reaffirmed his previous stance, saying, "I'm honored my country is using something to help us stay safe, if they are. But then again, once the music is out, I don't have control over that. Just like how someone's giving it away online. They're using it to do what they do

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

Saw a couple of Australasian Swamphens on the way back from the gym, hoping they might hang around the wetlands area for a bit so might head down with my dslr in a bit and try and get a photo of them, because they're pretty striking looking birds. Reference below for those who don't know them

A medium sized wetland bird with long red legs walling through some shallow water. Their plumage is a mix of a deep blue-indigo and black with a red beak and forehead shield.

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Spotted this little white faced heron chilling on a driveway while walking back from the gym yesterday. No idea what they were doing so far from obvious water but cool to see nonetheless.

A white faced heron, with white plumage around its eyes and throat (hence the name), and blue-grey feathers across the rest of it, stood on a concrete driveway besides a flowerbed full of various different flowers

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

He did mention the other day, while sephiroth posting again, that if he ran things by comms then nothing would get posted so he just ignored them. So makes sense they'd have fired them because otherwise they're paying someone to do absolutely nothing but question their own sanity constantly

demon core vidal:

i am again going to politely entreat on you to stop posting about any policy anything without running it past your comms team. as politely as possible, you are not actually capable of being appropriately objective, which you *should* be when talking about policy

aaron rodericks

Yes I've tried that and we then don't post anything. See nearly any post from the safety account as an example.
Users keep demanding policy explanations daily and then make up their own random stories when there's usually an objective and repeatable process on our end (since we train mods).

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm sorry, but wtf are they smoking at Jaguar?

Rear view of the new jaguar that looks like the air conditioning vent panel on an office building stuck to the back of a Cybertruck

Front view of the new jaguar, which looks blocker and duller than a raw iron ingot

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not quite able to get a whole line, but pretty damn close on several occasions. The hypermasculinity was diving headfirst into sports and working out constantly, strangely with an inordinate focus on unsuccessfully building chest muscle mass and getting hung up on that. Wonder what that was about 🤔

Teenage dysphoria bingo as filled ou by me, ticking the following boxes

Secretive with parents
Sensitive, shy and quiet
Closely attached to mother
Hates mirrors and photographs
Confused by malr/female dynamics and dating when peer start participating
Hates getting haircut
Attempted hypermasculinity as teenager
Anxiety around girls when older
Anxiety in changing rooms, hiding chest
Gifted kid burnout
Crossdress attempts
Obedient and eell behaved
Tries to secretly watch girly cartoons

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

Behold the comparison of my old eyebrows and how I wake up (with a little maintenance plucking a couple of times per week, following the template I now have) after over a year since my last microblading session. 24/7 eyebrow game

Closeup of my old eyebrows that are big scraggly clumps of nonsense

Photo of me in the stairs, without makeup, kidna messy unwashed hair, eyebrows on point as always

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

Managed to catch one of the musk lorikeets out in the open briefly on my phone, without one of the rainbows bullying them away instantly.

Photo of a red bottle brush tree behind a weathered old fence. Amongst the red flowers and lush green leaves is a little musk lorikeet, with a base of vivig green feathers, slightly deeper on the wings, with flashes of yellow ahead of the wings on the body, a blue cap on their head, and a stripe of red around the front of the head and across the eyes just above their short black beak

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also apparently he's really salty about how they keep getting called out for treating *certain users* as special snowflakes and curating their creative interpretations of the TOS so they don't have to ban them.

Aaron posting:
There are a number of myths that have grown with time that see in my mentions such as rewriting the terms of service for individual accounts, etc that if folks want to believe that then great. Repetition doesn't make it true.

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

I saw drama about folks not knowing a pop song, with this comment. My backyard parties aren't playing the top 40 hits or whatever sports games are famous for overplaying the same 5 songs from the 70s and 80s Starbucks being a measure of culture? Lol I don't know anyone under 60 with "live TV"

What I've learned from this is that lots of people just don't take any notice of the music being played at backyard parties, baseball games, your local Starbucks, live TV broadcasts, etc. That's fine! But those people probably aren't the best judges of what pop culture is ubiquitous

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

Narrowing this down to 9 was tricky honestly. Also kept these vaguely in order of their first exposure to me. Wolfenstein 3D was my first real PC game, and I played the hell out of it bakc then. Ocarina of time is easily the game I've replayed the most, I love that game so much

My 9 games
Wolfenstein 3D
Zelda ocarina of time
Goldeneye 64
Timesplitters 2
Medal of Honour Allied Assault
Super smash bros melee
Eve online
Stardew valley
Wildermyth

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah, a lot harder to get. A little further north they have thousands of flying foxes that fly between the mainland forest and an island at sunset/dusk which is crazy to see the first time. Attached a photo someone else grabbed of it, but it's just like a constant stream of them for half an hour

Hundreds or even thousands of large flying foxes in the sky at dusk

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

I bothered to try and grab a photo of one of them today myself. Didn't come out too bad, but fuck do they not stay still

Photo of a rainbow lorikeet hanging off a branch in firnt if a fence, eating a flower

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

And what's their stated reason for imposing this mandatory wait time? Kicking the financial can down the road because the NHS is chronically underfunded and understaffed for dealing with modern healthcare.

Four NHS integrated care boards (ICBs) covering large regions of England have adopted the approach because they cannot afford the cost of the number of assessments that people are seeking.

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

Least surprising bio on a "vote blue no matter who" lib making a list of uppity trannies.

Empath, sapiophile, innately curious. Rationally Liberal. BLM/PUPPIES/& so forth! Adopt don't shop. Respectful until you blow it. Circa EO.WWII+11; FB. Blue heart emoji. Peace emoji. Rainbow flag emoji. Organically Woke AF. Attached atheist.

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

They're open about the fact that earlier locations that had the age verification rollout were used as training data got the model, so presumably they really are just keeping on treating us differently because otherwise their ML model has nothing solid to re-check against

Training Data

Over the course of 2025 and 2026, Discord implemented age assurance technology in certain regions around the world in response to new legal obligations. Each rollout generated reliable age data from users who verified their age.

Users confirmed their age through one of two methods: Facial Age Estimation (FAE) or a government ID upload ("ID scan") paired with a matching selfie. The data from users provided as part of the age assurance process was only used to determine their age group, and was not received by Discord or used to train our models. Only the age group data itself (teen or adult) was used for model training and evaluation. As a condition of working with us, we require every age assurance vendor to only store what users submit for as long as it takes to confirm their age, and to permanently delete it immediately after.

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

Also, having just forced a discord update to install on my phone, here's what I see for age verification. So either it's only updated to show me that their age estimation has (predictably) failed for me but not added new verification methods, or they aren't universally rolling them out I guess?

Confirm your age Choose a method to confirm you're an adult. Once confirmed, you can access age-restricted content and settings.

The information you provide is only used to confirm your age group, then it's deleted

Video selfie via k-ID Estimate your age with a video selfie. Video stays on-device, no biometric data is shared.

ID scan via k-ID Scan your ID and take a selfie to confirm it's you. Both are deleted right after confirmation and never linked to your account.

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

In a shock to no one, both of my accounts (which are respectively 10 and 5 years old) have been automatically age estimated. There are servers I have over 93k messages on and yet somehow "we don't have sufficient info to estimate your age". Fuck off @discord.com and pull your head out of your arse

We don't have enough information to place your account in an age group yet and you want access to age-restricted content, spaces, or settings now. Additional safety protections apply in the meantime, while core features like messaging friends, joining voice calls or servers that are not age-restricted stay the same.

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bonus closeup photo of the (wild) green rosella that landed on my hand to come eat some seeds down in Tasmania last year 🙂

Green rosella perched on my hand staring at the camera, which my wife is using to take the photo, before returning to eating more seeds

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

They're such pretty birds, and so incredibly common too. The rosellas who seem to love munching the seeds of the plants in our overgrown grass area are another level on top though imo. The arms race of stunning birds here is out of control!

Two eastern rosellas in the overgrown lawn at the front of our house, taking a break from eating seeds

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

Seeing these idiots messing around in the garden constantly is awesome

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

So a SurveyMonkey link, advertised in a free magazine given to GP practices. The suggestion being that the rate of positive diagnosis for referred patients is "suspiciously high" for those GPs referring patients for assessment. Maybe because the process and stigma self selects out so many?

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

Toxicity is when uppity minorities remind you of the consequence of your actions, especially when they use PG13 words while doing it.

Aaron Rodericks posting the following:

"For context here, a user was responding in a thread to other users (unrelated to the original post) when they used the phrase "Trans rights or Trans camps. You chose the camps and you're blaming Dems" followed by profanity. > is this user toxic? undeniably yes."

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yeah, I wish I was exaggerating but this was the email they sent me (only after I emailed them to ask why my account seemed to be suspended). I sent several follow up appeal emails between Friday and Monday and got zero response, I only knew my ban was overturned because I got a like notification.

Hi,
We've reviewed a Post on your account @roisin.northsky.social and found it violates Bluesky's Community Guidelines on Public Safety (https:/bsky.social/about/support/community-guidelines#: wtext=Public%20Safety). We keep our community safe by stopping people from using our platform for criminal activities.
For example:
Do not coordinate, promote, recruit or disseminate content for criminal organizations, terrorist groups, or human trafficking networks. - Do not provide instruction for criminal or terrorist activities:
Detailed tutorials for committing crimes or terrorist acts. Coordination of harmful acts, including swatting or mob violence.
- Do not share violence content for harmful purposes: - Content serving criminal or terrorist organizational operations.
Videos exploiting victims of abuse or violence. The following Post was removed: Happy 9/11 to all who celebrate! Your post was classified as a Critical Violation content that is illegal, poses imminent harm, or accounts dedicated to violating our guidelines. These violations result in immediate and permanent account removal. You will no longer be able to access this account. If you believe this action was taken in error, you can appeal within 14 days by emailing **moderation @blueskyweb.xyz**, Please include context about why you believe this decision was incorrect.

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 15/09/2026

On an unrelated note, I found this image that's pretty neat.

Diagram of a ratchet and pawl mechanism, showing how the ratchet gear can rotate freely in one direction, but the pawl prevents it from turning back the other way

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 15/09/2026

People will really post things like this, without a second of introspection, or even full comprehension of the point they're trying to make themselves.

I get it, you hate Dems so much that your willing to fuck over 350 million people just to hurt them. Including yourself apparently

It's crazy to me that you would choose to be killed by Nazi's over voting for Dems. But the fact that you want to take millions of brown skinned people with you is evil

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 15/09/2026

Either a pullman or just a basic straight sided pan like the one below. Basically the only place I can see them is online via specialist catering stores and Amazon (where usapan ones start at about A$45). Not sure I fully trust the cheap YYBD and PENGQIMM ones to not give me heavy metal poisoning

A bare steel bread pan with only very slightly tapered sides.

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

While mods were seething over my reposting a 2009 cake and alleging that was an immediate threat of harm/terrorist activity, I was busy living my best life and enjoying the spring sunshine that's arrived.

Photo of me at the end of last week, wearing a green top with part of a black sports bra visible beneath it.

The contrasting natural light highlights the contours of my shoulder muscles, and makes my freshly re-coloured hair pop pretty well

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

The "unreasonable" restriction here? The council said they can only use their 276 diesel backup generators "during an unscheduled failure or interruption to the mains electricity supply; during a routine inspection, testing or maintenance; or in response to a genuine emergency." 🤔

Screenshot of firmus' website

Firmus

Sustainability

Green energy and local opportunity for the communities we serve

Each deployment is designed to strengthen regional energy systems and create economic opportunity, all while minimizing environmental impact.

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 10/09/2026

Lol, someone commented about the left not having anyone worth it, which I found amusing so I liked. The they panicked because apparently they were trying to bait a response out of me. So they replied to their comment with this then blocked me 😂

Meaning the left has nobody as influential and based in reality as Charlie was

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 09/09/2026

Williams choosing to run a reference to their early 80s livery this weekend is an incredible work of shitposting. Oh this stupid Madrid Street race is the weekend of the 25th anniversary of 9/11? Roll out the livery from when we were called Albilad-Saudia Racing Team and sponsored by Bin Laden

Image of the Albilad-Saudia Racing Team (Williams F1) livery, when TAG and a Saudi consortium including Bin Laden group and Saudia airline were their major sponsors

The livery is white with green, black and blue stripes. Just like the Saudia aircraft livery

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 08/09/2026

"I'm personally not affected by any of the various violent ways that the right wing has broken down societal order. I'm built different." says lib substacker while shielding his eyes to the "poor bastards" metaphorically tied to "dune buggies"

Actual revolution, far right or far left, has not come. But too many Americans seem to think we are immune to such a fate or, worse, that they would find themselves to be the beneficiaries. “Sure,” they seem to think “the violent breakdown of social order might be bad for some. But I’m built different.” Some deserving elites may die, but the virtuous will win out. And if not the virtuous, then at least the clever and deserving. As a friend noted, "They watch Mad Max and see themself as Max, never as the poor bastards tied to the front bumpers of the dune buggies."

In her book A Savage Order, Rachel Kleinfeld describes the ways countries fall into and become trapped in the miasma of violence. Kleinfeld and other researchers describe this deleterious process as “decivilization.” As Kleinfeld argues, “Decivilization’s deepest damage, however, is wrought not by professional killers but by ordinary people normalizing violence.” And the damage wrought by years of formal and informal violence tends to affect thousands, even millions, more lives.

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 07/09/2026

Feeling like crap, opened up Prime to see what I could stick on to watch while I dissolve into the sofa. Confronted with this screen. Those USMC guys don't look like the 101st Airborne to me Prime Video...

Screen from Prime Video promoting the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers using an image that's presumably pulled from The Pacific instead

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 07/09/2026

So, according to congress (for the purpose of benefits at least?), the Gulf War is a still ongoing war. Presumably this is because it ended in a ceasefire rather than a peace treaty, but as a result all the conflicts since 1990 have been treated as part of the Gulf War for benefits purposes

VA website, page for benefits administration for gulf war veterans

Body of text as follow:

Gulf War Veterans

More than 650,000 Service members served in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm from August 2, 1990 to July 31, 1991. For VA benefits eligibility purposes, the Gulf War period is still in effect. This means that anyone who served on active duty from August 2, 1990, to present is considered a Gulf War Veteran. For example, the Veterans Pension benefit requires service during a wartime period. Therefore, any Veteran who served on active military service for any period from August 2, 1990, to the present meets the wartime service requirement.

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 07/09/2026

I was a little curious what the US government defined as "wars" for the purpose of benefits, and found this from the VA:

Under current law, we recognize these wartime periods to decide eligibility for pension benefits:

Mexican Border period (May 9, 1916, to April 5, 1917, for Veterans who served in Mexico, on its borders, or in adjacent waters)

World War I (April 6, 1917, to November 11, 1918)

World War II (December 7, 1941, to December 31, 1946)

Korean conflict (June 27, 1950, to January 31, 1955)
Vietnam War era for Veterans who served in the Republic of Vietnam (November 1, 1955, to May 7, 1975)

Vietnam War era for Veterans who served outside the Republic of Vietnam (August 5, 1964, to May 7, 1975)

Gulf War (August 2, 1990, through a future date to be set by law or presidential proclamation)

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ah yeah I can see that causing confusion haha. I got kind of spoiled with the infrastructure in Perth, and then ending up in Newy was a bit of a shock to the system to see stuff like this. Not even a tiny strip of different paint, just a bike shape painted on the road in one of the lanes of traffic

Two lane road approaching a small hump in the road from a bridge. A white bicycle shape is painted in one of the lanes, beyond this a sign says to "watch out" for cyclists

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 06/09/2026

Opposing bike lanes, but only because cyclists deserve better.

Traditional bike lane, a painted red stripe of tarmac between the road itself and a parking lane at the side of the road. The lane is completely unprotected and will be crossed by any car entering or leaving a parking space, along with drivers side doors unexpectedly partially opening into the lane when occupants exit.

Completely separated shared use cycleway, to the left of a busy freeway. The freeway is separated by a concrete barrier, with an additional chain fence behind the barrier. There is an additional grass verge before the shared use path begins, with a 2 person wide lane marked in either direction. On the left of the cycleway is another verge area with bushes, shrubs, grass etc which opens up to the river the route runs alongside. Regularly spaced streetlights and placedyto illuminate the cycleway at night.

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fucking around editing things in snapseed again. I still wish I could get better fine control of the selective colour areas but I guess that's phone app limitations eh?

Black and white photo, selectively retaining the colour of my hair and tattoo, taken from behind me flexing

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