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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

My main takeaway from this lead photo and the one on the previous write up is that he looks a little too much like Colin Farrell in the Penguin makeup

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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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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Radar got a car seat for Christmas that he’s finally getting used to

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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Two Tides is one of my favorite breweries and good people. SCAD galleries are always cool. Skidaway Island State Park is nice. Also just walking around

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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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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Absolutely played for the falcons

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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 · 11/06/2025

Further warming the waters where we find the fish and invertebrates to document on your platform to keep track of populations being hurt by warming waters. Fantastic work by whatever managerial idiots that have wormed their way to the top of an ostensibly science focused service for a quick buck

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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Thunderbolt never gets talked about and is a blast! GQuuuuuX is much better than I expected fwiw

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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I can’t imagine him in a hot climate; so damp (he was young at SA and HOU)

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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 felt a little bad from the deception but all told this was probably about 5 minutes. Can’t wait for the first painting from these photos!!

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

I’ll admit, I heard it in the distance and played a song from Merlin twice to see if it would show itself. It then proceeded to hang out and fly around inches from my head often perching a foot or more away. I guess it pinpointed exactly where the song had come from.

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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

She is the first kingfisher I’ve ever gotten a clear photo of! Perched on a little, scrubby island in the middle of a pond on Berry’s mountain campus, she actually chose to just yell at me rather than fly off which gave me time for some shots. (2/2)

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

This is the Hunter Fieri biopic look

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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I exclusively read his name like that. Few tweets have permanently altered my brain this much

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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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Jess Milner @jessemilner76.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Heineken did an ad for that! I remember thinking it was insane lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRgq...

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Heineken 0.0 | Now You Can | Presentation

YouTube video by Heineken

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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

Learning languages is my hobby & I practice a lot. There’s no speed crunch for producing more content. Most people aren’t racing through a particular language’s entire course & on to the next. Some may need to speedrun a language for a particular reason but I’d wager that’s small

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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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