Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈

@mintopia

Software Architect, Freelance network, broadcast and event engineer. Ask me about LanCache! ADHD. She/Her 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Also on Fediverse @mintopia@phpc.social

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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· 25d

Comic strip from the Simpsons with Homer being told “Oh and don’t bother using Discord anymore, here’s the real online chat” by Carl and being handed a piece of paper saying “IRC” with a caption of irc.quakenet.org #niche-topic

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Jul 4

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

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Jun 26

A bitmap picture of a car parked on a boardwalk with the ocean in the background. It is captioned “This place looks safe. I’ll just park here.”

It is from the game Streets of Rage where it was part of a special bonus stage where you had to destroy the car.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Jun 26

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.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Jun 26

QTP. 4 GAMES FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD, GO!

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Jun 22

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".

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Jun 8

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".

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Mar 11

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.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Jan 24

AFK for a bit.

A screenshot of a cinema ticket booking for a Lord of the Rings Extended Edition marathon.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Jan 19

"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

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Dec 31

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.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Dec 26

Oh. Absolutely not.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Dec 12

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.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Nov 26

10 years (30 - 40)

An overweight guy with long hair tied back. He’s wearing a navy blue t shirt and is sat down.

A woman with blonde hair stood at a train station platform. She has short boots, jeans and a long black woollen coat. She is holding a (decaf) coffee.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Nov 18

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.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Nov 14

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.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Nov 12

Age yourself with gaming!

Low resolution game screenshot of River Rescue on the VIC 20 from the early 1980s. It shows a blue river running horizontally across the screen with a white boat in the water. Black text at the top of the screen has some high scores.

Screenshot of the title screen of Magicland Dizzy on the C64. The screen has a border with trees and a sword in stone. The top of the screen has a status bar with some fields and the center of the screen has a treehouse on the left, a large wizard on the right who is throwing lightning bolts.

In the center at the top is the name of the game and below it in 2 rows are the characters in the game with their names above them. The characters are all eggs with various things to distinguish them.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Sep 6

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

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Sep 6

If it were written today.

A screen grab from ‘The IT Crowd’ showing Moss and Jen looking at ‘The Internet’ which is a black box with a red LED, but instead it’s labelled ‘This, your honour, is all the cissy porn’.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Aug 30

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."

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Aug 30

A lazy #caturday morning for Moopsy. #proofofcat

A small white cat curled up asleep on a bed with grey bedding. Her legs are sticking out with her head resting on them. Toe beans are visible.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Aug 29

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.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Aug 23

It was even worse for me.

Screenshot of a Bluesky compressed thread where the first post says:

“You ever think about how we just kept killer whales as amusement park attractions for years?”

And the follow up post at the end of the thread is:

“depends on the porn site”

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Aug 22

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

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Jul 26

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.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Jul 26

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.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Jul 25

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.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Jul 21

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.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Jul 14

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.

Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia· Jul 14

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