Mia

Hi, I'm Mia! • 24 • GB • programmer (Rust, ATProto, Nix, & more) • occasional photographer • maths/stats nerd 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Mar 25, 2026

Bluesky... without Bluesky

What if we could use Bluesky without touching any Bluesky servers? What about if we avoided touching their code, entirely?

Dec 30, 2025

Mia's Roundup 2025

Tangled Repos

tangled.org

Latest Livestream

started 10mo ago

mia fails at webdev

chelsea bridge

@secretaboutbox.bsky.social

21h

thank a trans person today for being in your life while surviving in the face of a world that would prefer we didn't

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

16h

okay so it's week two of #GBBO and half of bluesky is mocking Danni and the other half are stanning and there's a correct option here (it's the one that doesn't involve mocking the very obviously ND contestant)

leave that mocking tone back on the birdsite, please.

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

decentralisation win - the spammers are using tranquil?

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

so under bluesky's current rules as defined by the Chief Joke Understander, this nyt journo will be banned / get 4 strikes / decreased social credit score for instigating a QRT dogpile, right?

*puts finger to ear*
ohhh, right, that doesn’t apply to journalists

good heavens, she's BLOGGING now??

i've been playing around with migrating to independent, open-source social networks for a while now. the tech is really maturing! but the space is still awkward to discuss. i talk about this issue here, and how it applies across matrix, activitypub, and ATproto.

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

mum found some old school reports out while doing a clear out today, so my brother and I have been reading ours

two words: undiagnosed autism

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

Cleveland might actually be better than the rest of LSoAS (it’s a low low bar)

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

girl who has just been deploying to the wrong machine and wondering why it's not working

may

@maysuser.name

went to go add the new showgirl tracks to this and accidentally added a whole bunch of new features alongside it:
- filter to a specific album/albums
- a new daily mode where everyone gets the same tracks
- new heardle/lyricle modes

up now at maysuser.name/swiftype

maysuser.name

Swiftype

may @maysuser.name

wanted a way to prove this so introducing: Swiftype! A Taylor Swift song guessing game. Guess Taylor Swift tracks by their sound/lyrics across three different game modes, available now at maysuser.name/swiftype

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

[sickos yes]

i have so so so many places i can use this

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social

Thoughts and prayers for research data managers everywhere. You are not alone. We will get through this together techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelbl...

Lists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays introduce new ways to store and organize related information, helping you keep data together without sacrificing...

techcommunity.microsoft.com

Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell | Microsoft Community Hub

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

Parakeet updates are now on the project account - I'll keep posting random bits and bobs here when I find really dumb things past me did though.

Parakeet @parakeet.at

it's been a hot minute since the last Parakeet update, so here's one to finish up September:

The highlights:
- Notifications - no push notifs for now, and they only start generating once you've logged in to an instance at least once.
- Repost and Quote mutes
- Auto handle revalidation

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

mozilla what are we doing here?

screenshot of the new firefox tab UI - there's a tab open with a blue line placed seemingly randomly above it (it's the container tab colour)

emma (toys)

@freeuse.toys

bluesky would rather ban trans women for reclaiming slurs than notorious transphobes whose life's work is just making trans women kill themselves

jules @awawa.pics

tranny banned on the tranny webbed sight for saying tranny #FreeSaraSocial

jules

@awawa.pics

tranny banned on the tranny webbed sight for saying tranny #FreeSaraSocial

@sarasocial.bsky.social and found it violates Bluesky's Community Guidelines on Anti-Discrimination. We protect people's fundamental rights by prohibiting identity-based harm and hatred.
For example:
• Do not attack, harass, or incite hatred or discrimination against individuals or groups based on protected characteristics such as age, asylum-seeker/refugee status, caste, disability, disease, ethnicity, gender identity, immigrant status, race, religious affiliation, sex, or sexual orientation.
• This includes hate speech, slurs, dehumanizing comparisons, supremacist content, conspiracy theories targeting protected groups, and coordinated harassment campaigns.
The following Post was removed:
modern-day twitter trannies are genuinely a different breed (derogatory) it's like if you took the worst parts of 4chan trannies and the worst parts of tumblr trannies and just threw it all into a big awful blender
Your post was classified as a Serious Violation, adding 4 strikes to your account. You now have 8 total strikes.
Because you reached 8 strikes, your account has been suspended for 7 days. You will be able to access your

jules @awawa.pics

tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny tranny

phantasmAgaric 🍄

@lalonde.bsky.social

look. do i need a promotion or new job? yes. do i have the skills and experience to get one? yes. do i want to have a series of conversations where i actively have to advocate for myself? well. that's where it gets complicated,

I got you

it’s bi day and I can’t find the goddamn edit someone did of the Microsoft PowerBI logo in bi flag colours.

this is tragic

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

well I guess I should get time booked off for AtmosphereConf tomorrow - exciting!

probably not going to get my trains booked until a bit closer but idk

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

large F in the chat for Rare and Playground both being chopped and changed

Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me

Man reading this is giving me heartburn. Hundreds punished for this mismanagement of others, and those who aren't cut are being told to do the impossible if they want to stay employed.

This message was just sent to Team XBOX employees globally. Team, I’m writing to share several updates as part of the XBOX reset outlined earlier this year. First, we are eliminating 268 roles across ...

news.xbox.com

communicating open social networks to normies

Swiftype

Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell | Microsoft Community Hub

Continuing Our Reset