Jess
@rocketjessie.bsky.social
Gamer, stubborn spouse, attorney, and unofficial editorial assistant.
I'm passionate about stories, mostly SFF, mostly queer, and always moving.
She/her/hers.
Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
I'm passionate about stories, mostly SFF, mostly queer, and always moving.
She/her/hers.
Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
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For some reason Bsky algorithm has decided to super push my stuff all of a sudden so hi I’m Jen and I write books.
November 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
For some reason Bsky algorithm has decided to super push my stuff all of a sudden so hi I’m Jen and I write books.
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A special lil holiday gift. First twenty people to show me purchase of LIGHTHOUSE, I’ll send you a bookplate!!!
Sapphic Orpheus ahoy!
Sapphic Orpheus ahoy!
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A special lil holiday gift. First twenty people to show me purchase of LIGHTHOUSE, I’ll send you a bookplate!!!
Sapphic Orpheus ahoy!
Sapphic Orpheus ahoy!
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
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Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
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Contract signed! So happy one of my favorite stories finally found a home!
“Magical Girl Eater,” inspired by the growing commodification of nostalgia + fandom (and of course all my favorite magical girl series from the 90s/00s 🌙), will be in a future issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!
“Magical Girl Eater,” inspired by the growing commodification of nostalgia + fandom (and of course all my favorite magical girl series from the 90s/00s 🌙), will be in a future issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Contract signed! So happy one of my favorite stories finally found a home!
“Magical Girl Eater,” inspired by the growing commodification of nostalgia + fandom (and of course all my favorite magical girl series from the 90s/00s 🌙), will be in a future issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!
“Magical Girl Eater,” inspired by the growing commodification of nostalgia + fandom (and of course all my favorite magical girl series from the 90s/00s 🌙), will be in a future issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!
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Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the short story "Wend-Way-Go" by Tim Pratt @timpratt.org!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/UEOBcnh
Try the short story "Wend-Way-Go" by Tim Pratt @timpratt.org!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/UEOBcnh
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the short story "Wend-Way-Go" by Tim Pratt @timpratt.org!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/UEOBcnh
Try the short story "Wend-Way-Go" by Tim Pratt @timpratt.org!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/UEOBcnh
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AUDIOBOOK BLACK FRIDAY SALE!
This audiobook is beautiful. @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social calls it “immerse and imaginative storytelling.” And I am telling you @marawilson.bsky.social and @lindseydorcus.bsky.social are perfect and a dream team. @torbooks.bsky.social @macmillanaudio.bsky.social
This audiobook is beautiful. @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social calls it “immerse and imaginative storytelling.” And I am telling you @marawilson.bsky.social and @lindseydorcus.bsky.social are perfect and a dream team. @torbooks.bsky.social @macmillanaudio.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
AUDIOBOOK BLACK FRIDAY SALE!
This audiobook is beautiful. @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social calls it “immerse and imaginative storytelling.” And I am telling you @marawilson.bsky.social and @lindseydorcus.bsky.social are perfect and a dream team. @torbooks.bsky.social @macmillanaudio.bsky.social
This audiobook is beautiful. @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social calls it “immerse and imaginative storytelling.” And I am telling you @marawilson.bsky.social and @lindseydorcus.bsky.social are perfect and a dream team. @torbooks.bsky.social @macmillanaudio.bsky.social
This was a lovely tonic for my spirit. Thoughtful and genuinely caring advice.
Many young people struggle with homophobic family members. Heather had advice here that’s good for people of all ages.
"We are all helped and supported by our mutual survival and well-being." A quote from Heather's answer to this all-too-relatable question of how to be in relationship with a homophobic parent. Read the rest of this beautiful answer here: www.scarleteen.com/read/relat...
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This was a lovely tonic for my spirit. Thoughtful and genuinely caring advice.
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Always remember that when Henry David Thoreau "lived simply," he was doing it on his friend's land, and his mom would do his laundry.
So we are going to bring forth a world where anyone who wants to be a lone wolf is welcome to walk into the woods without a single damn thing a global community made for him, and perish howling at the moon.
The rest of us will live in a society.
The rest of us will live in a society.
November 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Always remember that when Henry David Thoreau "lived simply," he was doing it on his friend's land, and his mom would do his laundry.
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I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
This both bleak as fuck and internally consistent logic. 😱
when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
November 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
This both bleak as fuck and internally consistent logic. 😱
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It’s absolutely terrific.
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It’s absolutely terrific.
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Open invitation to any candidate in Minnesota at any level who wants to hear about how and why Democrats last night were so successful in winning both *in spite* of and *because* of their support of trans communities - let's talk.
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Open invitation to any candidate in Minnesota at any level who wants to hear about how and why Democrats last night were so successful in winning both *in spite* of and *because* of their support of trans communities - let's talk.
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
Excited to dig into this one! Uncanny always has incredible covers. And new stuff by Lingen and Pinsker!!
Uncanny Magazine Issue 67 Part 1 features new novelettes by Sarah Pinsker and Natalia Theodoridou and new short stories by Ana Hurtado and Russell Nichols! buff.ly/yEqnVQ3
November 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Excited to dig into this one! Uncanny always has incredible covers. And new stuff by Lingen and Pinsker!!
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billions of ticketing records are sold to the US government; the DHS, and records show agencies like ICE, CBP, ATF, TSA, and others.
@josephcox.bsky.social found a way for you to opt-out of this in this essential guide to prevent even more gov surveillance
@josephcox.bsky.social found a way for you to opt-out of this in this essential guide to prevent even more gov surveillance
When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government.
We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government
The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out…
www.404media.co
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
billions of ticketing records are sold to the US government; the DHS, and records show agencies like ICE, CBP, ATF, TSA, and others.
@josephcox.bsky.social found a way for you to opt-out of this in this essential guide to prevent even more gov surveillance
@josephcox.bsky.social found a way for you to opt-out of this in this essential guide to prevent even more gov surveillance
Hot political take: I think celebrating wins is good, actually, and reminds people why they gave you the job. Minnesota does a wonderful job of this.
Anyway, go out and vote!
Anyway, go out and vote!
90% of political coverage should be telling voters what Ds and Rs do when they wield power.
Yes Dems can be feckless and performative but if you're a low-information voter who likes it when poor kids eat, you should just vote Dem and not overthink it. Pundits are weirdly allergic to saying this.
Yes Dems can be feckless and performative but if you're a low-information voter who likes it when poor kids eat, you should just vote Dem and not overthink it. Pundits are weirdly allergic to saying this.
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Hot political take: I think celebrating wins is good, actually, and reminds people why they gave you the job. Minnesota does a wonderful job of this.
Anyway, go out and vote!
Anyway, go out and vote!
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The job of a good message isn't to say what is popular. The job of a good message is to make popular what we need said.
MAGA and Madison Avenue have known and exploited this. But it also very much applies to campaigns for good.
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
MAGA and Madison Avenue have known and exploited this. But it also very much applies to campaigns for good.
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
www.weekendreading.net
November 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The job of a good message isn't to say what is popular. The job of a good message is to make popular what we need said.
MAGA and Madison Avenue have known and exploited this. But it also very much applies to campaigns for good.
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
MAGA and Madison Avenue have known and exploited this. But it also very much applies to campaigns for good.
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
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TIL I too run a "safe house" because I make it a point of asking contractors, door knockers, mail carriers, delivery people, and other folks who are out all day if they need a bottle of water, bathroom access, or 5 minutes off their feet in heat/AC (depending on season) when I see them outside
The Oregonians interviewed a guy who Republicans have accused of running an “Antifa safe house.” The levels of MAGA derangement about Portland are truly off the charts.
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
TIL I too run a "safe house" because I make it a point of asking contractors, door knockers, mail carriers, delivery people, and other folks who are out all day if they need a bottle of water, bathroom access, or 5 minutes off their feet in heat/AC (depending on season) when I see them outside
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1) we’ve had the productive capacity to produce food for every living person on this planet
2) we have the logistics to deliver these to every person on this planet
3) we have ideologies and philosophies to know that’s good
That we don’t is a choice. And a moral failure.
2) we have the logistics to deliver these to every person on this planet
3) we have ideologies and philosophies to know that’s good
That we don’t is a choice. And a moral failure.
October 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
1) we’ve had the productive capacity to produce food for every living person on this planet
2) we have the logistics to deliver these to every person on this planet
3) we have ideologies and philosophies to know that’s good
That we don’t is a choice. And a moral failure.
2) we have the logistics to deliver these to every person on this planet
3) we have ideologies and philosophies to know that’s good
That we don’t is a choice. And a moral failure.
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I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
October 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
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Tried to sneak a photo of a cute doggo and accidentally had long exposure on and I believe I have created man’s greatest expression of art
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Tried to sneak a photo of a cute doggo and accidentally had long exposure on and I believe I have created man’s greatest expression of art
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"...Alito delivered the opinion..."
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
"I've added some notes"
"I've added some notes"
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
Mini cheddars and yoghurt.
Mini cheddars and yoghurt.
October 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"...Alito delivered the opinion..."
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The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.
October 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.