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Jess
@jesstech.bsky.social
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American Designer - Amsterdam based - he/him
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Dracena fragrans flowers opening at dusk 3 hour timelapse #flowers #houseplants #bloomscrolling #timelapse #blossoms 🌱🌴🪴sky
November 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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You'll never guess how I was nagged into this update either

A full screen modal takeover. Thanks Google UX team, I really appreciate this whole experience
A user experience interrupting pop-up dialogue taking over my full screen to announce "Security update needed" "Your system is 2 days out of date." Interaction options learn more link "remind me later" or "restart now" an incredibly intrusive way to tell users about something that is already a notification sitting in the notification tray
November 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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So happy to be receiving marketing features and announcements in my mandatory OS updates. How long until I have to watch the Wicked trailer to unlock my phone and turn off my alarm in the morning?

Thank you Google Sponsored by Wicked™ for this new way to deliver brand synergies directly to my brain
A clean modern update screen with an image of a generic blond long haired model taken below, holding her phone so that the google logo on the back is clearly visible. Title: "Your Pixel just got better". The first highlighted feature reads "Wicked: For Good theme packs Each pack changes your wallpaper, icons, sounds, & GIFS" as in Wicked the big budget movie that was just released. The release notes for my OS are an advertisement
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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A bit of timeline zen
A screenshot of a post about right-wing grifter theo von with his hands up taking no accountability for his actions right above another post with kendal roy the character from succession doing the same saying "let's do the fucking news"
October 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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September 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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A burger restaurant names Orgasmeat
July 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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And I'm supposed to believe this man is a respected food critic?
Night time street picture taken from the sidewalk focused on a very faded backlit blue and white sign above a very blobby amorphous figure that might be holding a tire running and waving it reads MICHELIN
March 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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More premium ads, it's what the mind and body desires
A close cropped screenshot of text in a generic modern sans serif font on a plain white background reading "fewer and more premium ads." It's not easily apparent in the screenshot but it's listed as a selling point for a digital subscription.
February 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Shout outs to Burlington and their eclectic taste
Spotify wrapped screenshot saying I'm similar to someone from Burlington, USA "People there are far more likely to be fans of The Stampede, Liz Cooper and Big Thief"
November 29, 2023 at 6:19 PM
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@ Web summit for the week
An inside view of the altice arena in Lisbon seen from the upper level filling up with nerds bathed in red and blue light
November 13, 2023 at 5:06 PM
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The kind of ads that show up when I log back into Twitter
A Twitter ad from an account named Miahcombat reading: I'm A Dad, A Grandpa, And A Retired Firefighter. miahcombat.com/collection/gol. #dad #grandpa #family #gift #firefighter #holiday #retired The attached image is of the back of a t-shirt with the same text and "nothing scares me" written along the bottom and a crude rendering of an adult hand fist bumping a baby both holding far too small fire axes, both facing towards the baby
November 11, 2023 at 10:51 AM
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A screenshot from Instagram with a meta Logo header "Want to subscribe or continue using our Products for free with ads? Laws are changing in your region, so we're introducing a new choice about how we use your info for ads. Youll learrn more about what each option means for you before you confirm your choice. Your choice will apply to the accounts in this Accounts Centre. Subscribe to use without ads. Subscribe to use your Facebook and Instagram accounts without ads, starting at €12.99/month (inclusive of applicable taxes). Your info won't be used for ads. Use for free with ads. Discover products and brands through personalised ads, while using your Facebook and Instagram accounts for free. Your info will be used for ads. Your current experience Compare your choices and how they affect your experience." With 2 buttons at the bottom, 1st secondary button reading "subscribe" and second primary button reading "use for free"
November 9, 2023 at 8:25 AM
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The rare triple banner plane formation over Amsterdam earlier today
3 banner planes flying in formation above the trees and an ornate red tiled dutch rooftop on a partly cloudy day. The banners read: LOVE HUMUS. NOT HAMAS, MAKE FALAFEL. NOT WAR, and SHALOM SALAAM
October 15, 2023 at 4:44 PM
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A quick 3D scan made with photogrammetry - 44 photos I took on my phone while having a coffee the other day - of a succulent on the table, using Polycam's gaussian splatting implementation:

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A realistic 3d rendering of a small green succulent in a knobbly ceramic pot sitting on a wooden coffee table in the sunlight with some glitchy parts due to the blurry, slightly smeared kind of painterly defects common to renderings done with gaussian splatting. A grey couch with a blanket heaped on it is somewhat discernable in the background
October 8, 2023 at 2:45 PM