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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️

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She/Her, making wine and doing crimes

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 24d

My lovely wife grabbed a decent candid photo of me at breakfast this morning in my semi-cosplay (l had my emo Vi jacket on over normal clothing lol)

Me in my black, arcane Vi jacket using my phone

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 3h

Is that like the men's version of the WNBA or something?

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 5h

Okay, 60kg is about my limit on zercher squats till my upper forearms adapt to them having to support a bar that weighs 60kg across them, lol

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 8h

Zercher squats day again today. Craving the weirdness of them after work now

Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 8h

What a day to have eyes

Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 9h

Not here, the tyranny of cold wet weather has finally broken recently and we're well on the way to hot humid summer mode

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 9h

It definitely is, I just need the right weather for it

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 9h

I'm kinda annoyed I only got this jacket sorted just as the weather started to heat up (even that day at comic-con was *warm* inside with it on). I want excuses to wear it again

Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 24d

My lovely wife grabbed a decent candid photo of me at breakfast this morning in my semi-cosplay (l had my emo Vi jacket on over normal clothing lol)

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 10h

"an Argentine national accused Kirk of "spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric," according to the State Department"

Wow, so just stating facts and not even adding any commentary about it is enough to get your visa pulled

US revokes visas for six foreigners over comments made about Charlie Kirk's death

The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had revoked the visas of six foreigners over social media comments made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

www.reuters.com

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 11h

Can confirm, it's actually not hard at all

Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 12h

Love to see it

Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 12h

Infuriating

Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 12h

"“We use this value because it is the most protective lead standard available,” says Sana Mujahid, PhD, who oversees food safety research and testing at CR" i.e. We chose the lowest arguable "safe" level to make the numbers bigger and scarier

Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 12h

"the Prop 65 threshold [...] is .5mcg per day. This is 1000 times lower than the highest level of lead known by California NOT to cause reproductive harm"

So rather than usefully highlighting that Naked's mass gainer and Huel's black edition are above the agreed safe levels, they broadly fearmonger

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 12h

Aren't they basing it off the California prop 65 levels, which are hilariously low for most things in the legislation? Like at a most unprocessed vegetables would be flagging up similarly kinda of level

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 13h

"Minor side effect: I've started an underground club for guys that involves fighting, which has kind of spiralled into a domestic terrorism sort of thing."