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Isolde (Izzy)
@xrayizzy.bsky.social
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She/Her. Parent of one 5yo and a neurotic Lurcher. 39yo. Trans and probably autistic. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈. MNDI.
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Wes Streeting: Spymaster...
A screengrab from Crusader Kings III. It shows a liege lords council. The player character, a blonde woman, is in the bottom right corner because she has been appointed as the liege's spymaster, in charge of carrying out plots against the liege's enemies or preventing schemes targeting them. The player character has an intrigue (the stat governing the character's natural ability at this, where higher numbers are better) of zero.
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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When you're tired, but you need to stay awake in case there's any animals on the TV that need to be barked at.
The head of a mid sized black lurcher looking straight at the camera. She's starting to get a bit grey around the nose. She looks like butter wouldn't melt.
October 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Luckily the Pope already knows a guy....
Pope Leo shaking the hand of President Zelenskyy of Ukraine.
October 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The HCA I worked with last night asked why I always wear a surgical mask, so I answered a/ infection control. And b/ Clockiness. So she asked if she could do makeup for me and then afterwards she improved my pigtails. I'm not sure we have similar goals with makeup, but I really liked my hair.
Izzy, a short white woman with medium length brown hair in pigtails is in a hospital changing room. She is wearing black skinny jeans and a grey/white hoodie with the collar of a blue t-shirt visible. She's also wearing glasses and a blue surgical mask. She's turned her head to try and make the pigtail on the right, which is much better than she normally manages herself, is visible. A similar picture as before. This picture is a bit more face forwards than the others.
October 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Post a photo from another era...
A short white guy with brown hair and glasses is wearing a grey suit with a blue tie while sitting on a chair. I don't even remember what event this was for. It could be anything, I only own the one suit so that doesn't really narrow it down.
September 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I wonder if they're about to get a rude awakening about Nigel's priorities? (Presuming he doesn't continue to insist that he can do whatever he likes without breaking the GFA).
Clarkson "This is brilliant, but I LIKE this" meme. He likes the Union, but prefers Hard Brexit.
September 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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He's in good company when it comes to claiming that no longer being allowed to be awful to people is in fact a form of terrible persecution.
Epic handshake meme. The pilgrim fathers are bonding with Glinner over the fact that they both went to America because Britain wouldn't let them be bigoted any more.
September 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I did try to do some Sea Monsters for Mantic Armada for TDoV last year, but they didn't come out that well (the blue was a bit off and the shading just muddied the white), but I was pretty happy with these Scottish Covenanters for Pride month last year.
Some 15mm scale Pikemen in rainbow colours.
September 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Pronouns: She/her
Height: 5'5"/ 165cm
Shoe: UK 7, EU 41, US 9(?)
Zodiac: Libra
Smoke: Never
Tattoos: None
Piercings: None
Fav Drink: Pepsi Max.
A top-half selfie of Izzy, a short white woman with mid length brown hair and blue glasses. She's stood in a bathroom. She is wearing a slightly over-sized orange t-shirt.
August 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Was his name Jackie Daytona?
A still image from the TV series, What We Do In The Shadows. A man, who is clearly the vampire Laszlo, is labelled on screen as "Jackie Daytona: Regular Human Bartender".
August 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Trying to find a replacement mug for my wife. The years of use for this one have started to cause the print to come off. Sugar and Sloth are winding down their main store, so I'm trying to see if anyone knows anywhere that does something similar?
A white mug with a cutesy narwhal and a rainbow. text on the mug reads "everything scares me but I will do it anyway (probably slowly and (illegible) but th (illegible)". The illegible text is where the print has started to come off. This is the better of the two sides as well.
August 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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History fans may be pleased to know that this is one of the things now at the former RAF Upottery. If the name is familiar it's probably because you recognise it as Easy Company's (band of brothers) embarkation point for D-day.
Anyway, we took the car mad 5yo to stock cars and caravan chaos.
Bangers (beaten up old cars, not sausages) doing a parade lap around a short oval course. Writing on the track wall shows that this is Smeatharpe Stadium. The weather is uncharacteristically sunny for a bank holiday Monday. A different view of the first picture. A 5yo boy is on a plastic fold down seat wearing some blue ear defenders. He is watching the cars from earlier. His face is obscured by a sticker. The cars on the track are now mini coopers that have been adapted for stock car racing.
August 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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This is a really old pic now. The puppy is a distinguished middle-aged lady.
A black adult greyhound is lying on a brown sofa trying to sleep. A small black lurcher puppy with white feet is basically lying on him.
August 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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I'm dull enough that my answer is a VW ID Buzz. I just think they're neat!
A promo photograph of a white and green VW ID Buzz. Basically an electric VW people carrier/van thing.
August 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Thinking about hobby spaces earlier and considering I've not painted anything since about February I probably SHOULD tidy this away properly (ie. Shove it in the drawer).
Izzy's tip of a hobby space. Paints are scattered everywhere or shoved in boxes. Tools are out randomly. There are models perched precariously on top of the pile. The long dry paint water mug has a pair of headphones and a little slip of paper shoved into it for some reason.
August 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Chicken, cauliflower and broccoli pie for dinner. Trying to refine it from the other day (replaced ham from previously with chicken, made cheese sauce instead of using premade and actually wiped the filo with melted spreadable butter instead of using a spray oil). Wife thinks it was an improvement.
A cheese sauce based pie with scrunched up filo pasty on the top is on top of a hob in an oven proof dish. Dished out onto a plate it is more obvious that the pie is chicken with cauliflower and broccoli.
August 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors.
Lauren and Hacker from the viral CBBC outtake where Hacker adlibs "we're just normal men, we're just innocent men", causing Lauren to lose composure and break out in fits of laughter.
August 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Ever since someone mentioned that this is a real quote from "Fire", I have had this stuck in my head....
Epic handshake meme. John Boyne, author, self described Terf and someone who has picked a fight with the Auschwitz museum; is bonding with author, Dreamweaver, visionary... Plus actor, Garth Merenghi. They are bonding over the phrase "as a burns doctor, I should have known better than to play with fire".
August 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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THANK YOV FOR VISITING, WE HOPE YOV RETVRN TO...
A pamphlet for Wye Valley "Miniatvre" Golf.
August 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I'm still most comfortable with how I look when I'm wearing work uniform. I don't know if this is symptomatic of an unhealthy reliance on work to be a load-bearing portion of my personality....

Anyway, today I went with pigtails...
Izzy, a short white woman, wearing a white tunic top with burgundy trim, along with burgundy trousers, a rainbow lanyard, blue glasses and a surgical mask.
August 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Feeling superfluous at work. I have a colleague who is meant to be supernumerary, but she wants to try and manage the night shift as much as she can by herself. Which is a good idea but leaves me with not very much to do. So here's the scrunchy I totally didn't buy just because of its colours.
It's your girl, Izzy. Izzy is a short white woman with medium length brown hair and blue glasses. She is wearing a white work tunic with maroon edges and a rainbow NHS lanyard. She's standing in front of a mirror to try and show off a ponytail held together by a blue, pink and white fluffy scrunchie. An attempt to try and show the hairband a bit better. Yet another attempt to show the hairband.
August 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Given the view that is labelled top elevation, presumably this is the correct orientation for the submersible?
A garbled mess of a technical drawing of a submersible generated by generative AI. Izzy has added annotations pointing out that the AI seems to have labelled the rear of the sub as the top? So presumably the sub is meant to descend nose first, plowed into the ocean floor by its thrusters while utterly irrelevant skids are present on one of its sides.
August 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Thought I would give this a try and I'm liking it a lot more than I was expecting. For Christmas my wife got me a subscription to a thing where every two months I get sent a selection of non-alcoholic cocktails/premades/spirits and mixers/ciders and beers and this came with the most recent box.
A can of Sonder Euphoria, a non-alcoholic elderberry daiquiri.
August 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Alfred's version of the GI bill paying off here.
A screen grab of a randomised weregild calculation. I was killed during military service, and my family are entitled to 1230 shillings, or £123k in modern money.
August 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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That's a blockin'
Jasper from the Simpsons, a grumpy looking elderly man with a bald head and a flowing white beard. He is holding a wooden paddle. From the bit where he's explaining to the children of the elementary school all of the things that will result in a paddlin'.
July 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM