iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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

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

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

No, it did start with two RAF pilots being shot dead outside of a pub though.

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

And those of us who haven't left yet already have a foot out the door.

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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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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 25/09/2026

I found the ending frustrating, other than that it was enjoyable to see Michael Gove handling an international crisis.

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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

In all cases, the AI Labs are at fault and the fact they can just go all “lol, look what our AI did, isn’t that amazing! The little rogue, so naughty, look how they messaged each other!” instead of “Our legal team are helping police with their enquiries” just says they’re apparently above the law.

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

Secondly, the models are either acting in a way that isn’t aligned with how we’d expect them to behave - showing a lack of effective controls on them; or they’re acting in exactly the way they’ve been trained - in which case it’s irresponsible of the AI labs.

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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

Everyone discovers this at some point :) Unfortunately CPU architecture still plays a part. Luckily it’s easy to set up pipelines and workflows to build for multiple architectures in a single manifest. Should be easy to fix - and if they have the dockerfile they can just build it themselves.

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

So that’s my experiences of it, but it does seem to slowly be getting better!

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

You can be the expert in something and still have people who know a little bit (that Claude has told them or they read about on Wikipedia) about that topic talk over you in meetings. None of this comes across as a deliberate choice, most people doing this don’t intend to do it IME.

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

The one thing I still find is that as a woman in tech, you need to speak up louder to be listened to; you also end up doing more work. Anything you propose or bring up in meetings or design sessions will be questioned far more than it seems to for men, so you have to prepare for it.

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

None of this was conscious choice from these people, and I have no bad feelings towards them - they turned out to be great devs too and lovely people. They respected my opinions and were great to work with. It’s just an unconscious bias that seemed to slip in from society.

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

Post transition (and a lot of weight loss), people who knew me before would still come to me and ask questions. New hires? Nope. They’d sit and stew on problems for days before either working it out or reluctantly asking for assistance from the geeky girl with pink hair.

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

Anyway, everyone knew I was the person to ask for any help or questions if you were a new developer - and I’d always help. Pre transition, not a problem, asking the overweight geeky guy about the codebase you’d been thrown at? No problem, people would come to me immediately.

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

I was working as a senior developer at a large company and was the subject matter expect for the main customer control panel software (a large PHP application with lots of legacy code and at that point, about 10 years of history. If you know PHP, let’s just say pre-composer ZF1 was the modern bit.

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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 · 18/09/2026

Schrödinger’s vote. Not important enough to affect their policy decisions; but absolutely the only thing preventing ‘the other side’ from getting in if you don’t vote for them.

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

"I know you've been in a car accident, but we've already had 4 broken legs this week, so you're just going to have to take 2 paracetamol and rest up. Try not to walk on it." "Yes, this is a tumor and it's spreading, but I've referred 3 people for chemo today already, sorry".

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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 · 17/09/2026

They hate the fact that bsky was adopted by trans and the queer community.

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

“It’ll cost extra for the cat scan”

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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 · 11/09/2026

Wait until episode 7, I felt absolutely called out.

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

“But if you don’t vote for us, Reform will win” Still no deal. This Labour government has been the most transphobic in history and I’m already making plans to leave the country, Reform winning would only hasten that. Restore our rights or no vote for you, it’s simple.

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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 Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Richard Ayoade is a big transphobe

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 04/09/2026

My issue with it is that for me programming is 95% thinking and 5% writing actual code. I don’t want to sit there with someone staring at me while I’m thinking about things; or interrupting me when I’m just typing out what’s in my head.

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

And almost no-one remembers him being one of the earliest internet memes with the whole 'Mr T vs...' thing.

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

He ultimately ended up working doing DEI in USAF by the time his service ended, and then went into the private sector doing DEI work and trying to make things better. I went from hating him to now thinking of him whenever I wonder if people can change - some can, and I find that encouraging. 3/3

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

11 years later, I come out and this person is back in the UK (he was serving in the USAF, so had postings around the world), and he starts talking to me, apologising and asking questions and trying to learn more. He regretted how he was before and wanted to know more and be better. 2/3

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