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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 28/09/2026

And for those in the UK... The Computer Misuse Act 1990.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 26/09/2026

The right wing: We should forcibly castrate migrants. Also the right wing: Let’s stop trans people willingly getting castrated.

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Citizen Snippy △ @citizensnippy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If I setup some Metasploit script with a bunch of custom payloads and random targets which ends up hacking a government website, can I also just say: "Oopsy boopsy! My machine just did that itself!" And walk away without consequence? Or will that be considered a serious crime I'm responsible for?

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

plenty of people run llm based agents with powerful models and do not end up hacking anyone. this is not an ai alignment problem, it is an openai being routinely criminally negligent as a company problem

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 24/09/2026

AI models which end up escaping sandboxes and hacking sites and other companies is concerning and frustrating for a few reasons. The first is that the companies running them should be prosecuted for breaking the law. If anyone else did this privately it would be treated as the crime it is.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 22/09/2026

I have experienced the gender bias in tech; and in the one most obvious case it wasn’t even intentional and it was just subtle differences in how some developers behaved. It was thrown into even sharper relief as I had a direct comparison from before transition. So, thread:

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Dave Jones @welshgasdoc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 21/09/2026

Why are the journalists going after ADHD now? I presume they’re envious of those of us on medication who get our amphetamines on prescription instead of down the pub like they do.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 21/09/2026

The United Kingdom is awash with an epidemic of medical professionals who don't want to do their fucking jobs

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🏳️‍⚧️ Samara, The Werewolf Deer says ACAB 🏳️‍⚧️ @samarathedeer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I need everyone to understand that this is legitimately most of the UK healthcare right now. Like. Hey you think this hyperbole? Oh sweetie. No.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

2 panel comic

Panel 1:
Orange Guy saying: let’s just throw trans people under the bus

Panel 2: Red Guy replying: Whoa there. That could damage the bus.

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Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A very astute activist friend of mine recently observed that trans people aren't rebuilding rights from the 2010s, we're rebuilding them from the 1980s.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm

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☀️ @stel.energy · 18/09/2026

puberty blockers were the compromise you motherfuckers

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 17/09/2026

"Well yes, you have ADHD, but we can't officially diagnose you as we've hit our limit for the month, sorry" By definition, being diagnosed with ADHD requires you to prove it is having a significant impact on your life. Everyone currently diagnosed and treated is past this threshold already.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 15/09/2026

100% this. If any of the UK political parties are listening? No, I won't tactically vote for Labour to prevent Reform; not while my rights are being stripped by them.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Say the word" Simpson's meme amended to 'Dignity and Respect'

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 14/09/2026

The phrase "dignity & respect" is weaponised hate speech against trans + people. If you use it, you're a transphobe.

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Lazzie BOO!! 😱 @lazzieb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

guys the UK gender clinics -𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕪- required trans people to use the facilities for their target sex, for two years, before they were given any access to healthcare. rationale is not where these people go looking for answers. it is solely about their bigoted priors. everything comes after that.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 07/09/2026

I’m not against AI for software dev, it’s here and that’s not changing but as a maintainer of a large (but niche) open source project, I wish people would stop submitting issues and comments written by AI. If you can’t be bothered to write the post yourself, I can’t be bothered to read it.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 07/09/2026

I felt more seen by this episode than any others. Absolutely amazing episode even if it did seem to strategically target me in quite a few places!

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Somewhere in England, a tired man turns off Channel 4 news and wearily puts on a bin.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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Metal Gear Solidarity @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Richard Ayoade is a big transphobe

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 03/09/2026

People can change. In 2005, someone came out as trans in the community I was in, and they were more-or-less pushed out. One of the people there was threatening violence against her if she ever went into the same toilets as his wife. I stopped talking to him and retreated deep into the closet. 1/3

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 03/09/2026

+1 here for starting with Guards! Guards! You can't go wrong with Mort either.

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Robin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wile E. Coyote is doing a reddit AMA right now for Coyote vs ACME and strictly answering through signs, and it's genius.

Wile E Coyote in an office, pointing to a sign he's holding that reads "WE CANNOT JUDGE OUR WORTH ON THE WORK OF OTHERS"

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 02/09/2026

Meanwhile the tone of this post about menopausal/peri-menopausal women struggling to access testosterone is completely different. If this was for trans people, the doctor quoted in the article would be reported to the GMC, investigated and forced to leave the country.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 01/09/2026

I will always choose a place with a hand written sign, blackboard, old peeling vinyl or plastic stuck to a light box or letters pinned into a board, written in blood on velum or just printed out in Times New Roman over a place using an AI menu or sign.

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jenny @jenny.cool · 31/08/2026

I hate quote posts but, literally a locked door labeled "inclusive" with symbols representing two different minority groups is something only the UK could conjure up

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 30/08/2026

Did they shut down the neonatal unit and conduct an “independent review” without a timeframe or a roadmap when Lucy Letby was killing babies? If not, what warranted the drastic measure suspending Wales's gender-affirming surgery referral service?

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 29/08/2026

Much like The Bursar in Discworld, all LLMs hallucinate, it's how they work. The trick is to make them hallucinate the correct thing. Time to make a new skill for Claude, `/dried-frog-pills`.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 29/08/2026

Oh wow. Going to apply this to Christmas dinner this year.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have never seen a moral panic grip a country so quickly or thoroughly

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 28/08/2026

Has the Welsh NHS prioritised surgery for service users who have been on the waiting list for a long time to cut down the waiting list, so they can meet the LEGAL REQUIREMENT of seeing new referrals within 6 weeks? Scandalous!!! Let’s investigate them for not defrauding public funds.

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NHS cancelling surgeries for adults even after they’ve already paid for travel + accommodation and waited years to get there. Some were about to be wheeled into theatre! Every manager responsible for this decision must be sacked and every patient paid compensation.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I still hold, btw, that whatever happens will end with Charlotte on the throne. I've got 4k hours in Crusader Kings 3. I can spot when someone is already planning a "hunting accident" or two. it's in the eyes.

photo of wills in his RAF uniform, Kate in bright purple.

In front are the kids. Prince George has the look of a young man about to suffer a tragic hunting accident. Prince Louis looks like he's about to be lured up a tall tower by a trail of sweets, and Charlotte is trying very hard to look like she knows absolutely nothing about either of those pending events.

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Bear Claw Billie (1590/5000) @bearclawbillie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

HEY THIS IS JUST A PAINTING OF A THEATER SHOWING COYOTE VS. ACME

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of the more obscure facts I remember about Dolly Parton is this: just like Star Trek would not exist without Lucille Ball, Buffy would not exist without Dolly Parton. She was a silent producer of the movie and show. That's why Buffy Summers has the same birthday as Dolly: January 19.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 23/08/2026

The utter lack of self awareness from the chair of the EHRC in her interview with the Telegraph today.

“It would be wrong, for example, to demonise all men because 98 per cent of all sexual offences are committed by men. Sometimes, people who would be the first to complain about that are quite happy to do it to other groups. There are human beings in this situation. It is not some abstract debate – it is about real people’s lives.” - Mary-Ann Stephenson, EHRC Chair.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 23/08/2026

scratch a transphobe find a racist

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Zoë O'Connell @zoeoconnell.co.uk · 21/08/2026

Tidy house, books on the wall, sorted by colour? (Shelf of black spines, another white, another arranged by hue from red to yellow) Just the 'tism. Piles of stuff on desks to "tidy"? ADHD... because all that stuff has no home other than on the desk.

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Zoë O'Connell @zoeoconnell.co.uk · 21/08/2026

Tonight's fun: Diagnosing people via Rightmove listings. No books on show? Neurotypical, boring people.

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