Jessica Scott
@jessicascott.net
Writer of spicy military romances, among other things. Writing again after a 5 year drought. Sociologist studying privacy, surveillance, and narrative warfare.
https://jessicascottbooks.com
https://jessicascottbooks.com
@authormsbev.bsky.social have you read this? It’s fantastic
November 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
@authormsbev.bsky.social have you read this? It’s fantastic
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The trope in an IP revival where the beloved couple are now estranged but get back together in the end is so overdone.
And I DEMAND they do it again anyway here.
I will fall for it like a cartoon coyote.
And I DEMAND they do it again anyway here.
I will fall for it like a cartoon coyote.
November 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The trope in an IP revival where the beloved couple are now estranged but get back together in the end is so overdone.
And I DEMAND they do it again anyway here.
I will fall for it like a cartoon coyote.
And I DEMAND they do it again anyway here.
I will fall for it like a cartoon coyote.
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When a master gives a master class. Register!!
Our writers conference offers a 4-Hour pre-conference masterclass:
Anatomy of a Romance with Sherry Thomas!
Structure is just as important in a romance as in a mystery or a work of speculative fiction. A hands-on, example-driven workshop!
Register: www.chicagonorthromancewriters.com/spring-fling-1
Anatomy of a Romance with Sherry Thomas!
Structure is just as important in a romance as in a mystery or a work of speculative fiction. A hands-on, example-driven workshop!
Register: www.chicagonorthromancewriters.com/spring-fling-1
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
When a master gives a master class. Register!!
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Hi Bluesky friends! I've been MIA for a while, but I'm coming back because I have some fun news...
I'm helping the Astronomical Society of the Pacific sell/rehome their library because they are downsizing their office space. There are sooooooo many cool finds. I'm going to share as many as I can! 🔭
I'm helping the Astronomical Society of the Pacific sell/rehome their library because they are downsizing their office space. There are sooooooo many cool finds. I'm going to share as many as I can! 🔭
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Hi Bluesky friends! I've been MIA for a while, but I'm coming back because I have some fun news...
I'm helping the Astronomical Society of the Pacific sell/rehome their library because they are downsizing their office space. There are sooooooo many cool finds. I'm going to share as many as I can! 🔭
I'm helping the Astronomical Society of the Pacific sell/rehome their library because they are downsizing their office space. There are sooooooo many cool finds. I'm going to share as many as I can! 🔭
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i hate it when people give out reckless and irresponsible firearms advice online. you don't want to use anything less than .300wm when shooting appliances inside your home.
My personal recommendation on a response if your washer, refrigerator, or thermostat asks for your WiFi password or wants you to download an app. Use a 9mm or larger because you don't want them to suffer when you put them down.
Correction... when the thermostat died, the HVAC neighbor gave me an EcoBee smart thermostat. When it asked for the wifi password...
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
i hate it when people give out reckless and irresponsible firearms advice online. you don't want to use anything less than .300wm when shooting appliances inside your home.
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These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!
October 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!
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Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo
October 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo
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Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.
Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip
Turns out the cop was also an abuser
jessica.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.
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When you hear about Big Tech companies lobbying the federal government to stifle AI regulation in the states, this is one reason why.
California has now banned algorithmic price fixing.
The state has outlawed the practice of landlords colluding to raise prices using rental software and AI.
This is a huge victory for renters in the biggest state in the country.
The state has outlawed the practice of landlords colluding to raise prices using rental software and AI.
This is a huge victory for renters in the biggest state in the country.
October 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
When you hear about Big Tech companies lobbying the federal government to stifle AI regulation in the states, this is one reason why.
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assistant professor, associate professor, grad student
October 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
assistant professor, associate professor, grad student
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So the thing we've been warning about re: Age Verification just happened, mere months after it started becoming a wider required. Imagine that!
Can't technofix your way out of a social values problem
Can't technofix your way out of a social values problem
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.
buff.ly
October 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
So the thing we've been warning about re: Age Verification just happened, mere months after it started becoming a wider required. Imagine that!
Can't technofix your way out of a social values problem
Can't technofix your way out of a social values problem
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BOOK COVER ARTISTS
QRP with your book covers 📚
#BookCovers
(Retired from illustration last year but here are some of my later covers)
QRP with your book covers 📚
#BookCovers
(Retired from illustration last year but here are some of my later covers)
September 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
BOOK COVER ARTISTS
QRP with your book covers 📚
#BookCovers
(Retired from illustration last year but here are some of my later covers)
QRP with your book covers 📚
#BookCovers
(Retired from illustration last year but here are some of my later covers)
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NEW from me for @wired.com's politics issue: I have spent SO much time fascinated by the "network state"--privatized cities in special economic zones (SEZs) where the normal rules and regulations don't apply.
www.wired.com/story/tech-b...
www.wired.com/story/tech-b...
Tech Billionaires Already Captured the White House. They Still Want to Be Kings
From Montenegro to Northern California, the tech elite dream of building cities where they make the rules. Is this, finally, their moment?
www.wired.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
NEW from me for @wired.com's politics issue: I have spent SO much time fascinated by the "network state"--privatized cities in special economic zones (SEZs) where the normal rules and regulations don't apply.
www.wired.com/story/tech-b...
www.wired.com/story/tech-b...
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Breaking Google up was one of the last best hopes for preventing the free press from getting squeezed into oblivion and harvested into AI slop, and for saving the open web. The ruling that effectively lets Google continue operating as a monopoly isn't just disappointing, it's a disaster.
One of the last, best hopes for saving the open web and a free press is dead
The Google ruling is a disaster. Let the AI slop flow and the writers, journalists and creators get squeezed.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Breaking Google up was one of the last best hopes for preventing the free press from getting squeezed into oblivion and harvested into AI slop, and for saving the open web. The ruling that effectively lets Google continue operating as a monopoly isn't just disappointing, it's a disaster.
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I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers
Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.
www.axios.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
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🧵 Hey, romance authors! I want to make you aware of a scam. Someone pretending to be Fresh Fiction reached out to me using the email freshfiction.bookclubs at gmail dot com, which is not a Fresh Fiction address. They wanted $50 for a video book club opportunity. (FF does not charge for these.)
August 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
🧵 Hey, romance authors! I want to make you aware of a scam. Someone pretending to be Fresh Fiction reached out to me using the email freshfiction.bookclubs at gmail dot com, which is not a Fresh Fiction address. They wanted $50 for a video book club opportunity. (FF does not charge for these.)
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Why publish one story about A.I. gone wrong when you can publish two?
Here's my other story today on how the NYPD used facial recognition tech to arrest the wrong man for public lewdness.
The perp was 5'6''. Cops charged Trevis Williams, who is 6'2''.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...
Here's my other story today on how the NYPD used facial recognition tech to arrest the wrong man for public lewdness.
The perp was 5'6''. Cops charged Trevis Williams, who is 6'2''.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...
How the N.Y.P.D.’s Facial Recognition Tool Landed the Wrong Man in Jail
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Why publish one story about A.I. gone wrong when you can publish two?
Here's my other story today on how the NYPD used facial recognition tech to arrest the wrong man for public lewdness.
The perp was 5'6''. Cops charged Trevis Williams, who is 6'2''.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...
Here's my other story today on how the NYPD used facial recognition tech to arrest the wrong man for public lewdness.
The perp was 5'6''. Cops charged Trevis Williams, who is 6'2''.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...
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Disable ChatGPT this fucking instant. Destroy it. JFC.
![Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his
parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him
"[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jkj7qm4o4kwjbk6geoatopu3/bafkreicpqmrgkbhd2a3lqfyvutjutevlborsiodcomvcachphtv25f3fbe@jpeg)
August 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Disable ChatGPT this fucking instant. Destroy it. JFC.
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I also remember when Bookstore Romance Day started!
It was so frustrating to have people yelling at us to shop at our local indie bookstores and we had to keep saying "they literally hate us" (one of our locals said we were going to HELL LOL)
This helped change that. I love it. 💓
It was so frustrating to have people yelling at us to shop at our local indie bookstores and we had to keep saying "they literally hate us" (one of our locals said we were going to HELL LOL)
This helped change that. I love it. 💓
There were a record 650+ independent bookstores signed up for #BookstoreRomanceDay this year. There's a map & list on the BRD website. bookstoreromanceday.org/participatin...
Find a Bookstore
A full list of participating bookstores will be coming soon. If you are a bookstore interested in participating, please fill out the form located under For the Trade in the main menu.
bookstoreromanceday.org
August 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I also remember when Bookstore Romance Day started!
It was so frustrating to have people yelling at us to shop at our local indie bookstores and we had to keep saying "they literally hate us" (one of our locals said we were going to HELL LOL)
This helped change that. I love it. 💓
It was so frustrating to have people yelling at us to shop at our local indie bookstores and we had to keep saying "they literally hate us" (one of our locals said we were going to HELL LOL)
This helped change that. I love it. 💓
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In the future, stores might use cameras to identify you as you walk into the store and display individualized prices based on what they think you are willing to pay.
I'm working with Rep Sabadosa to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores because the cost of groceries are already high enough.
I'm working with Rep Sabadosa to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores because the cost of groceries are already high enough.
MA bill would ban 'surveillance pricing' in grocery stores. Here's how it would work
The bill would block supermarkets from using customers biometric data to determine pricing and send targeted advertising.
www.telegram.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In the future, stores might use cameras to identify you as you walk into the store and display individualized prices based on what they think you are willing to pay.
I'm working with Rep Sabadosa to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores because the cost of groceries are already high enough.
I'm working with Rep Sabadosa to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores because the cost of groceries are already high enough.
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For years I have been saying we must get rid of course evaluations. Lots of good tools for qualitative confidential feedback. But the bureaucratic centralized course evaluation is a tool for replicating bigotry.
July 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
For years I have been saying we must get rid of course evaluations. Lots of good tools for qualitative confidential feedback. But the bureaucratic centralized course evaluation is a tool for replicating bigotry.