Mia

Hi, I'm Mia! 🏳️‍⚧️ she/her • 23 • GB • programmer (Rust, ATProto, Nix, & more) • occasional photographer • maths/stats nerd

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mia fails at webdev

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

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

Finally got around to posting the pictures from my (impromptu) trip to Naples back at the start of May over on Grain:

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Day 1 of an impromptu trip to Naples. We went in to Naples, and around on the tourist bus.

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Naples (2026-05-02) by @mia.omg.lol — Grain

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

Ticking another thing off the list by finally getting this one out, a month late.

Parakeet @parakeet.at

Parakeet is (just over) a year old now! I wrote a post about the progress up to now, what I've learned, and where I intend to go next:

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a blog post by Mia, which does contain some of her own personal views Parakeet was announced on Bluesky not too long over a year ago now. In this post, I’ll be...

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Parakeet - A Year On - Parakeet

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

mia.age += 1;

every day closer to declaring myself mid-twenties and withering away.

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

oki I need to get some actual work done for a few weeks so I’m logging off*. yell at me if you see me on here or whatever (alt exempt)

*also for MH reasons. if you know a trans person in the UK, ask if they’re okay and hug them (with consent). they need it right now—I certainly do.

Chad

@kitation.co.uk

All your trans friends are struggling, whether you see it or not. The march of cruelty is endless and unrelenting.

I can’t tell you what to do, but if everyone does something, no matter how small, it will help.

And to trans people, please look after yourselves. Do one thing you love this weekend

Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social

This week has been hard. Not going to lie. It’s just been one thing after another.

All the people in the community I know are struggling at the moment, and some are thinking about giving up.

I think things will get better with time, but this week has just been another ordeal to endure.

kat

@katproto.girlonthemoon.xyz

i'm crying this is so funny lantian.pub/en/article/f...

lantian.pub

AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN42 - Lan Tian @ Blog

Cal Horton (they/them)

@fiercemum.bsky.social

"When the investigation ToR was published last year, it was anticipated that the GP practice would continue prescribing these blockers.

However the seriousness of the findings in this safety investigation mean this decision has been changed

Abigail Thorn

@theabigailthorn.bsky.social

As I’ve said before, any serious attempt to ban conversion therapy needs to confront the fact that the NHS has been doing it for decades.

Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social

Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS.

These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st).

Forced medical detransition.

This country is a danger to trans children & young people.

chelsea bridge 🏳️‍⚧️

@secretaboutbox.bsky.social

1. this should not have been shipped without a setting to control reply notification depth that applies to all threads.

2. "just mute threads" is a poor response to this because it requires you to carpet-bomb each thread and silence them completely.

3. "exiting" a thread is conceptually tricky.

chelsea bridge 🏳️‍⚧️ @secretaboutbox.bsky.social

oh my god did they disable the hellthread depth limit

bryan newbold (⛱️ sabbatical mode)

@bnewbold.net

tapping the sign

Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com

remember these are not end-to-end encrypted, consider pivoting to something like Signal after coordinating in group chat

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

i would really really love to know why my computer insists on rebuilding tranquil, parakeet, and rsky from source on every deploy even though i've not touched their flake inputs since the last deploy

Eurosky Social

@eurosky.social

Muve to the beat.
Muve the conversation.
Muve mountains.

Today @eurosky.social announces mu.social, a new microblogging app to experiment with the future of social! 🪩💖

AircraftMechJess

@studentpilotjess.bsky.social

I’m a student pilot, an aircraft maintenance student, I have a medical certificate stating I’m fit to fly, I have a psychiatric report saying I am fit to fly, yet the NHS think I’m delusional and as such they are taking the care away from me and 77/78 other T/NB individuals. We need this care!

Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll

@trasinscneach.bsky.social

Absolutely breaks my heart. Fuck everyone and everything. 17,000 news articles just to hurt a few innocent children.

A child talking about being forcibly transitioned by the UK health system

alyson “end journalism” greaves

@badambulist.bsky.social

We have to end the BBC. We have to end the Times. We have to end the Telegraph, the Mail, the Guardian. Journalism in the UK is racist, transphobic, anti-immigrant, anti-traveller, ableist, and overall staggeringly irresponsible. It must be stopped.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social

I almost can't believe this, but *right now*, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a programme about the scourge of illegal immigration, through a lens of faux concern.

A screenshot showing the title card for a radio show called To Catch A King, on BBC Sounds.

rich harris

@rich-harris.dev

There are two ways to resolve the cognitive dissonance of being on Twitter while also caring about all the awful shit happening because of Twitter

1. Leave Twitter
2. Stop caring

Profoundly disappointing how many people I like seem to have chosen the latter

Mia

@mia.omg.lol

email truly was sent by god to try us

(she is struggling getting her PDS fleet to send emails)

Malcolm Wilson

@malcolmwilson01.bsky.social

Clinicians: “First,
do no harm.”

NHS: “Fuck that.”

Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social

Lyra 💕

@lyra-scotland.bsky.social

Forced Detransition of Trans Kids
This has been justified through 3 mechanisms
1. The Cass review (Globally Debunked)
2. 10 "Literature Reviews" majority of which read no evidence
3. A general public consultation

This is not evidence, it is denial of science to kill children
This is labours CHOICE.

Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social

Talia "ESTRO JUNKIES IS OUT NOW!!!" Bhatt ⚢

@taliabhatt.itch.io

Years of a political circus and manufacturing half-baked 'evidence' that doesn't hold up to the slightest scrutiny so that trans youth can be abandoned wholesale on purely ideological grounds.

Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social