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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hi I’m Jess & here’s some of my work for #PortfolioDay I’m a painter & illustrator focused on southeastern wildlife! Primarily watercolor but I’m getting better at digital stuff. Would love to do more art & looking for jobs and/or commissions! Here’s my portfolio & print shop: jessmilner.com

Eastern Bluebird male and female painted on a vertical branch covered in lichens

In progress watercolor painting of a bright yellow Prothonotary Warbler singing

Watercolor painting of a Flying male Ruby Throated Hummingbird with a female hummingbird perched in the distance behind it

Pop illustration of Psyduck and Golduck with a fisheye perspective

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 24/01/2026

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.

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Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

My latest newsletter is about how tech companies, by pushing generative AI, reveal the contempt they hold for their users and society at large. whatwelost.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

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The Biggest Insult

The Unspeakable Contempt At The Heart of Generative AI

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 16/06/2025

“The true solution, perhaps, is more solidarity and more sincerity.”

Because guess what — what people are hurting for right now is actual, real sincerity. Everybody feels like something is wrong. The products they use every day are increasingly-broken, pumped full of generative AI features that literally get in the way of what they’re trying to do, which already was made more difficult because companies like Meta and Google intentionally make their products harder to use as a means of making more money. And, let’s be clear, people are well aware of the billions in profits that these companies make at the customer’s expense.

They feel talked down to, tricked, conned, abused and abandoned, both parties’ representatives operating in terms almost as selfish as the markets that they also profit from. They read articles that blandly report illegal or fantastical things as permissible and rational and think, for a second, “am I wrong? Is this really the case? This doesn’t feel the case?” while somebody tells them that despite the fact that they have less money and said money doesn’t go as far, they’re actually experiencing the highest standard of living in history.

Ultimately, regular people are repeatedly made to feel like they don’t matter. Their products are overstuffed with confusing menus, random microtransactions, the websites they read full of advertisements disguised as stories and actual advertisements built to trick them, their social networks intentionally separating them from the things they want to see.

And when you feel like you don’t matter, you look to other human beings, and other human beings are terrified of sincerity. They’re terrified of saying they’re scared, they’re angry, they’re sad, they’re lonely, they’re hurting, they’re constantly on a fucking tightrope, every day feels like something weird or bad is going to happen either on the news (which for no reason other than it helps rich people constantly tries to scare them that AI will take their jobs), and they just want someone to talk to, but everybody else is fucking unwilling to let their guard down after a decade-plus of media that valorized snark and sarcasm, because the lesson they learned about being emotionally honest was that it’s weird or they’re too much or it’s feminine for guys or it’s too feminine for women.

Objective reporting is necessary — crucial, in fact! — to democracy, but said objectivity cannot come at the cost of context, and every time it does so, the reader is failed and the truth is suffocated. And I don’t believe objective reporting should be separated from actual commentary. In fact, if someone is a reporter on a particular beat, their opinion is likely significantly more-informed than that of someone “objective” and “outside of the coverage,” based on stuff like “domain expertise.”

The true solution, perhaps, is more solidarity and more sincerity. It’s media outlets that back up their workers, with editorial missions that aggressively fight those who would con their readers or abuse their writers, focusing on the incentives and power of those they’re discussing rather than whether or not “the markets” agree with their sentiment.

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 14/06/2025

The rainbow is not a symbol of condemnation, but of patience, of God revealing creation will have a role in creating itself, and of God choosing renewal over destruction All God commands as part of this rainbow deal: Don't hurt anybody, because everybody is precious 🌈

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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Posting one more Prothonotary Warbler shot because I’m blown away to get this lucky. A top 5 photo for me 📷: Fujifilm X-T2 & XF100-400mm #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #fujifilm

An underneath photo of a bright yellow, fluffy-looking Prothonotary Warbler with a shiny black beak and lots of feather detail

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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I had a couple pretty good bird photos from the weekend to share but then experienced an all-time photoshoot with an extremely curious and un-afraid prothonotary warbler. — 📷: Fujifilm X-T2 & XF100-400mm #prothonotarywarbler #birdphotography #fujifilm #telephoto #georgiabirds

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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

“Not A Swan” 9x12 (2025) | Getting caught up on posting art here! I photographed this juvenile female belted kingfisher at Swan Lake, Berry College right at the end of the year on Dec. 31. (1/2) #painting #art #scientificillustration #watercolor

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

A bill to make sure poor people stay hungry, sick, and dying so rich people can be slightly richer. Actually evil. We need to make people understand it in those terms and not something about “budgets” or “house reconciliation bills”

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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

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✨🌯 jamie @glitterburrito.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Also read me here: horrormovieblog.com/author/jamie... And obvs email me if you need social media work, voice over work, or just want a fun actor who’s a workhorse in a personality hire’s body

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Jamie Kirsten Howard, Author at Horror Movie Blog

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Look at this list and see how little our national parks cost the American people. My park has an appropriated budget of $3 million. That's it. By way of comparison, that's 4 percent of the cost of just one of the fighter jets we've lost overboard in the last week.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The PBS Kids app is one of the few things you can trust your kids to play around with on a computer. All the shows that you can stream are good and entertaining. Nothing positive comes from getting rid of this, they're just trying to make life worse for everyone www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

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Department of Education Eliminates Grant for PBS Children’s Shows

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Nathan HawkBlogger @nathanhb.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

As @brianmfloyd.bsky.social has pointed out repeatedly these champions of innovation and would-be tech messiahs freaked themselves out in a group chat and crashed their own sweetheart slush fund/bank for absolutely no reason beyond they were bored and dumb.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

All the guys who run media went from shitheads who used to throw elaborate and expensive parties to fill a void inside of them to guys with headlines about them like "Meet The Startup King Who Invented Slavery 2"

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Any dem who thinks well-directed ambition is a vice should find a different hobby

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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

i am far too stupid to be weighing in on this but one thing i would stress is that gaming media’s collapse wasn’t an inevitable fact of life. it’s the result of very stupid people making decisions they could have just as easily not made

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"primary everyone" feels like the moderate option tbh

HOUSE MINORITY LEADER Hakeem Jeffries was asked Monday whether Democrats should continue to advocate for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and the other men wrongly shipped to El Salvador, by making the trip to the country to put a spotlight on the issue.

“Our reaction is that Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating of any president in modern American history,” Jeffries responded.

But while Jeffries may be publicly agnostic on El Salvador trips like the one Reps. Robert Garcia, Yassamin Ansari, Maxwell Frost, and Maxine Dexter recently took, privately he sees the trips as having run their course. Two Democratic aides and a lawmaker who spoke to The Bulwark said that the minority leader has discouraged further excursions to the country even as pressure mounts within the party to turn up the heat on Trump for sending 238 men to a notorious prison system known for human rights abuses.

“They want to let the El Salvador stuff slow down,” a senior House staffer said.

Jeffries’s office declined to comment.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2025

this antivax stuff is genuinely bewildering. like what do you mean you don’t know if vaccines are safe? why exactly do you think child mortality rates have plummeted since the beginning of the 20th century? why is it that you are not worried about getting polio or smallpox anymore?

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

decided to do a fun little thought experiment on an otherwise normal day

Now, as a thought experiment, let’s say that 300-400 workers had just gotten laid off as a result of poor sales of games like EA Sports FC 25, as well as longstanding mismanagement of beloved series like Dragon Age and, repeatedly, Titanfall. Wouldn’t you think one or even a few of these people could stand to take a pay cut in order to prevent such an outcome? Wilson alone, as we’ve learned, is equivalent to 172 employees if we’re measuring in pure dollars, and I’m sure he’s got plenty in the bank.

Fortunately, this is all hypothetical, and there’s no need to feel any wholly justified, blood vessel-bursting rage about any of it. We are, after all, in the midst of yet another normal spring day. Nothing to see here.

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🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

They were already doing this for some of their courses last year. The Irish course is completely ruined, the real human voices have been replaced with AI ones which have their pronunciation all over the place, and in many cases make up sounds that don’t exist in any Irish dialect. It’s awful.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/04/2025

Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop. www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

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Reality Check

I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this and still, to this day, people are babbling about the "AI revolution" as the sky rains blood and crevices open...

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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Tremendously disappointing from a company I’ve honestly had affection for. Pure founder brain detachment. The AI based video function already on there sucks

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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

A taxpayer-focused argument for art education in Texas schools if I’ve ever heard one

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/04/2025

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

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Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana

The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 25/04/2025

Screaming at these people works. They’re fundamentally wimps, we just have to actually DO the screaming instead of preemptively admitting defeat. I am talking about my fellow Americans, not the Democrats. We actually need to scream, gang, not just complain that Schumer isn’t.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

“We hope it will be temporary” yeah, well, I hope all these families get the care they need elsewhere and everybody involved in every step of this decision goes to their graves broke and friendless, we’ll see who gets their wish www.ajc.com/politics/chi...

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Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta suspends gender-affirming care for trans kids

Parents of trans children who receive gender-affirming care at Children's Healthcare have gotten messages letting them know the facility will no longer offer the treatments.

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Hannah Nordhaus @hannahnordhaus.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This one took five years, three editors, four far-flung reporting trips (Kazakhstan, Wisconsin, Tennessee/Alabama, and Italy), and a vicious ant attack to see over the finish line and tell the story of these ancient, weird, beloved and gravely endangered fish.

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These ancient fish swam with the dinosaurs. They may not survive us.

For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living fossils.

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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I got to draw this “Fanmail Darter” for the USFWS (not on here unfortunately) Fish of the Week podcast & their listener mailbag! Based on the Fantail Darter that is fairly cosmopolitan around the eastern US, kind of like mail carriers. There’s a great episode on the darter from 12/1/24!

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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Canada geese at last light 📷: Fujifilm X-T2 & XF100-400mm #photography #birds #fujifilm

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JacketDan’s Stunt Spooktacular @jacketdan.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Guys I am legit crying right now. You did it! I love you all so much.

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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Dove in Series. A study of three slightly different angles of the same bird but with three different approaches that I just finished. I wanted to practice some depth and also a simplified pen style. #watercolor #art #scientificillustration

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

what, this old thing

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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

You can always tell people it’s Nick Offerman

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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I’m offering TWO things for the highest donor/bidder today to the @edsbs.bsky.social Charitibundi Bowl for @newap-georgia.bsky.social! Option A is this, the Spencer Overalls image as a Serious Portrait. Option B is a commission of your choosing (up to around 12x12). Here are the instructions: (1/2)

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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I illustrated this isometric view of River Remedy Brewing in Rome,GA for their 2025 Mug Club and the glasses just came in! It was a complex drawing and I’m really happy with how they printed. I got lucky with the light taking photos last night! #illustration #procreate #craftbeer #art

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The full quote from RFK, Jr. is truly disgusting and this is 100% him calling for institutionalization of autistic people. This is horrifying.

“These are kids who will never pay taxes,” Kennedy declared. “They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted. We have to recognize we are doing this to our children.”

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 15/04/2025

Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

A comparison of the photo from the Oval Office and an item on Alibaba.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/04/2025

there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words

Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis. While it's possible the user was disguising their location, it's highly unlikely they'd appear to be coming from Russia if they wanted to avoid suspicion, cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR explained.

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