iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 20/08/2026

if you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation

A photo of a solved Rubik's cube, sat on a table, with 2 Wacky Tracks fidget toys perfectly surrounding it.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 12/08/2026

That is just amazing! No photos or videos can do it justice.

A wide angle photo of the total solar eclipse.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 04/07/2026

I assume next year they’ll be removing their physical presence from Pride and moving to download only.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 26/06/2026

So other games I remembered playing were Fame Quest (just had to browse a site for 5mins to find its name) on C64 and the very first game I ever remember playing was River Rescue on the VIC20.

Screenshot from Fame Quest showing a simple roguelike RPG from 1984.

Screenshot of the VIC20 game River Rescue showing a boat heading down a river with very few pixels.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 26/06/2026

QTP. 4 GAMES FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD, GO!

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 22/06/2026

The Secret of Monkey Island, 1990, EGA Version.

A screenshot from the 1990 adventure game "The Secret of Monkey Island" of the main character Guybrush looking at a re-election poster with the slogan "When there's only one candidate, there's only one choice".

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 08/06/2026

Wes Streeting, June 2026 [colourised].

The 'We're all trying to find the guy who did this" meme of a person wearing a hot dog costume who is talking about trying to find who is responsible for crashing a hot dog car.

In this case, it has been recaptioned with 'LGBT Progress is being harmed' and underneath 'We're all trying to find the guy who did this".

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 11/03/2026

I'm 41, I'm a senior principal engineer for a tech company, present talks at conferences and have won awards for work in the UK esports industry. I also have 2 cats. I just want a quiet life but I'm trans so Labour don't think I should exist any more. I wish I could flee the UK.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 19/01/2026

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

A cartoon goose from the game 'Untitled Goose Game' in a running pose while holding a table knife in its beak

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 31/12/2025

The one I most closely relate to for transitioning is ‘When will my life begin?’ from Tangled.

A screenshot from the Disney movie Tabgled showing Rapunzel at a window looking up into the sky captioned “When will my life begin?” Which is the song she sings at the beginning of the movie.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 12/12/2025

I made this cake a few years ago, it ends up looking like this. The one in OP looks even better and tastier!

A large chocolate cake covered with chocolate frosting sat on a plate on a kitchen worktop. It is inspired by the one from the movie Matilda.

A slice of the chocolate cake led down on a plate showing the cross section of 3 layers with thick chocolate buttercream between each layer.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 18/11/2025

I wasn't expecting to spend the afternoon migrating services from Cloudflare to AWS, but needs must.

A graph showing request counts from AWS. The graph starts at 0 and then increases in a 30 minute window to approximately 300,000 requests per minute where it then stabilises.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 14/11/2025

This adorable ball of fluff would like it to be known that she is innocent.

A small white cat with heterochromia who is curled up in the arms of a human and staring up at her.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 06/09/2025

Not sure it would have been quite as successful if he wrote it today.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 30/08/2025

This is slightly interesting, the wording has changed slightly on the GRC Statutory Declaration. The one I made in late 2018 says "I intend to live full time as a female until death." The current one says: "and I intend to live in that gender until death."

Statutory Declaration from late 2018 with the wording "I intend to live as a female until death."

A screenshot of the Statutory Declaration from 2025 stating "and I intend to live in that gender until death."

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 30/08/2025

If I do not “live full time as a female” then I will have committed perjury which can result in a fine, a prison sentence or both. How can I live as a woman when according to the Supreme Court and the EHRC, I am not one?

A photo of my statutory declaration from when I obtained my GRC stating that I intend to live full time as a female until death.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 22/08/2025

I did a thing! At the right time of day and place, you might be able to find me as M7OPI. Next up, Intermediate.

Part of a UK Amateur Radio License showing the type of license, Amateur Foundation Radio Licence, my name and my callsign - M7OPI

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 26/07/2025

Flying my colours at Trans Pride London. We will not be ignored!

A woman with multicoloured hair with pride flags behind her, stood in the middle of the street.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 26/07/2025

Ready to head into London for Trans Pride. I don’t think it’s going to be a celebration this year but more of an act of defiance. They won’t win, we will survive and thrive.

A photo of a woman (me) with multicoloured hair holding a trans flag behind her.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 25/07/2025

I guess the UK establishment are pretty happy with this outcome, LGBT authors like @taliabhatt.itch.io having their page blocked due to the Online Safety Act. This on top of @itch.io things from their platform due to pressure from payment providers. Welcome to the UK in 2025, don’t forget your VPN

A screenshot of https://taliabhatt.itch.io/ showing it has been blocked to UK visitors due to the Online Safety Act coming into effect.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 21/07/2025

According to a letter from my previous GP in the UK, they apparently do not have the competence. There is a reason they are my previous GP.

Snippet from a letter from a GP stating the monitoring of GAHT is beyond standard expertise.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 15/07/2025

This is the benefit of global DNS monitoring though - we can see the impact and recovery time of Cloudflare from around the world.

A graph from perfops.net showing Cloudflare DNS between 22:45 and 23:30 BST in USA, South Africa, Japan, UK and Australia. The graph shows Cloudflare suffering a global outage for nearly 25 minutes.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 14/07/2025

Cloudflare DNS tonight: "I want to be a shark!"

A graph from perfops.net showing relative performance of DNS providers. There are three providers, Cloudflare, Google and Cisco Umbrella. The graph for Cloudflare looks like a shark's fin, due to the issues they were having from 22:52 BST to 23:19.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 08/07/2025

if u wanna be a girl u can just be a girl 29 to 34

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 02/07/2025

Exactly right. The JPAC decision notice they've based this off states to use female ranges; but for a trans man stable on HRT, this could allow them to donate at levels below safe limits.

Table showing donor selection and donation management, that shows AFAB trans men would be using female reference ranges, donations per year and blood volume equations.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 02/07/2025

This seems to be what NHSBT are basing their guidance off of without instead looking at the preceding points stating that they should take account of donors being on stable hormone therapy. Another interesting point here is blood volume. This position document says this. 4/7

Section 7 of page 2 of the linked PDF outlining blood volume estimates and how this may be affected by hormone therapy; along with a point that they need to do a review on this with relevant clinicians and until that's complete they will use blood volume estimates for female donors.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 02/07/2025

"Proposals for managing donors and donations by SAAB or gender identity are presented in tables 2 and 3." What are tables 2 and 3? Let's see. 3/7

A table from page 4 of the linked PDF in the original post, outlining donor selection and management based on gender and transgender history.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 23/06/2025

Further to my post last week about haemoglobin levels and being denied as a blood donor due to them using male minimums (I was also below female minimums, but they didn't use those for me). Leaflet from NHSBT, and the blood test result by my GP. Both within normal female range.

Blood test result for 'Haemoglobin estimation' showing a reading of 132 g/L with a normal range of 115 - 165'.

Photo of a leaflet given out by NHS Blood and Transplant stating a level of 124 g/L and to take this reading to my GP. It also says I will need to wait 12 months before trying to give blood again. Signed by the donor carer, Jane.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 19/06/2025

The guidelines state that consideration should be given to the assessment criteria for transgender people. This is clearly not the case and not what is happening. The nurse showed me a controlled document on her phone stating that trans female patients are assigned screening code '4'. 3/7

Transgender and Non-binary donors may take gender affirming hormone therapy to support
their transition. This may change the haemoglobin level in their blood and consideration can
be given to changing the Haemoglobin criteria used to assess the donor, based on the
therapy the donor is taking. See Transgender and Non-binary Individuals.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 19/06/2025

This means they use male reference ranges for iron count and the deferral period is 12 months, not 3. The massive problem here is that haemoglobin recovery rate and the iron levels they use are based on the endocrine system. JPAC guidelines state as such. 2/7

The higher haemoglobin concentration of men, compared to women, is related to testosterone levels. Testosterone therapy will result in the haemoglobin concentration rising. The opposite will be true if a person is taking feminising therapy.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 05/06/2025

Going through some old things and remembering some of the amazing one-shot webcomics from @drxii.bsky.social many years ago. So many of these based on random off-hand comments and turned into amazing things.

A three panel web comic. The first panels shows Robert Muldoon from Jurassic park; the second shows the mirror of a jeep from Jurassic Park with a dinosaur mouth close to it, and the sticker "Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear". The third panel is a wide shot showing the Jeep driving away underneath a fallen tree and you can see the dinosaur chasing them is Barney, the purple dinosaur from kids TV.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 23/05/2025

This book dragged me out of a rut that I'd been stuck in for 3-4 years. These two are also a year apart. The first one 15th May 2024, the second 14th May 2025. Both are me on my way to Italy for a conference.

Woman with blonde hair, drinking a cup of coffee while on a train.

Woman with pink hair, sat in an airport departure lounge. 1 year later.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 20/05/2025

I'm sure I saw lots of people saying that banning trans people from single sex spaces wasn't referring to toilets, yet from the EHRC code of practice consultation, it gives this example. Guess they are trying to remove the "problem in a sane society" then by driving us out of public life.

Text box showing an example with a lightbulb and the text:

13.3.11 A service provider operates a shopping centre and decides to renovate the centre. It initially intends to only provide separate-sex toilets to improve the safety and comfort of users. This disadvantages trans people because it means that a trans person cannot access a toilet catered towards their acquired gender. The service provider therefore decides to also provide toilets in individual lockable rooms which can be used by people of either sex.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 16/05/2025

Opening keynote of day 2 at phpday and it's Edoardo Dusi telling us about the history and future of Open Source.

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 15/05/2025

Second talk of the day here at phpday and seeing @secondej.bsky.social talking about how CLIs aren't as easy you think. Always a great talk when Jim's presenting!

James Seconde standing in front of the intro to his presentation.

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