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 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.

Here's how to opt out.

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!

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

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

When you hear about Big Tech companies lobbying the federal government to stifle AI regulation in the states, this is one reason why.

assistant professor, associate professor, grad student

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

Oh look Nazis shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params... #maddow #ultra

BOOK COVER ARTISTS QRP with your book covers 📚 #BookCovers (Retired from illustration last year but here are some of my later covers)

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...

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.

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.

🧵 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.)

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...

Disable ChatGPT this fucking instant. Destroy it. JFC.

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. 💓

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.

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.

A NEW PATREON FREEBIE! I'm bringing back the MY NEVER-ENDING TBR LIST! www.patreon.com/post... Check out this round's selections! #booksky #romancenovels #romancelandia

We need federal legislation to stop hedge fund vampires from bleeding our health care system dry. Moving forward, we need to nationalize our health care system. No more private hospitals or private prisons.

guys @kateerobert.com featured me in the latest newsletter and i am absolutely crying and you should sign up for said newsletter!

So much for Asimov’s First Law of Robotics.🚨

To the Old LaDarrion who used to work in the drive-thru at Taco Bell, praying one day his stories will see the world. You doing it, kid. 6 more days till Bones at the Crossroads drops!

I just backed Midnight Mystics: An Anthology of Fantasy Comics By Black W on @kickstarter.com #kickstarter #booksky #blacksky www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...

And we're over $15k! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...

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i just want someone to adapt a Ms. Bev historical. give it to me.

A PLACE CALLED HOMECHAPTER 6 “We have to swing by my battalion headquarters before we head out to the training area.” Emily jessicascott.net/2022/04/11/b...

A PLACE CALLED HOMECHAPTER 6 “We have to swing by my battalion headquarters before we head out to the training area.” Emily jessicascott.net/2022/04/11/b...

72 hours to go - www.kickstarter.com/projects/jes...

I just backed Midnight Mystics: An Anthology of Fantasy Comics By Black W on @kickstarter.com #kickstarter #booksky #blacksky www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...

We have 5 more days to reach our goal! We can do it! Please pledge and support the first All-Black Women Fantasy graphic novel anthology on Kickstarter #booksky #fantasy #comicbooks www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...

CHAPTER 5 A PLACE CALLED HOME Chapter Five It was quiet. The kind of quiet that felt like a thousand tiny spiders crawling up his spine. The kind of quiet that could only be found in the middle of the night in the heart of the western desert outside of Fallujah. jessicascott.net/2022/04/09/b...

CHAPTER 5 A PLACE CALLED HOME Chapter Five It was quiet. The kind of quiet that felt like a thousand tiny spiders crawling up his spine. The kind of quiet that could only be found in the middle of the night in the heart of the western desert outside of Fallujah. jessicascott.net/2022/04/09/b...

A PLACE CALLED HOME Chapter Three Reza padded to the front door, the carpet soft beneath his bare feet. Someone was pounding on his door like the damn house was on fire and he felt a strong urge to whip someone’s ass. It had been a shit week as shit weeks went. jessicascott.net/2022/04/07/b...

A PLACE CALLED HOME Chapter Three Reza padded to the front door, the carpet soft beneath his bare feet. Someone was pounding on his door like the damn house was on fire and he felt a strong urge to whip someone’s ass. It had been a shit week as shit weeks went. jessicascott.net/2022/04/07/b...

📚 The Institute of Governmental Studies Library at @UCBerkeley has digitized over 5,000 local government documents from California, preserving rare reports & essential records for researchers & the public. Learn more ➡️ archive.org/details/igsc... 🧵 @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

The outlook email search function is truly one of the worst things in modern tech. There cannot be one person who uses it and walks away satisfied with the experience

Chapter Two The text message of doom vibrated on Reza’s phone as he pulled into his company ops parking lot. Reza was wanted in the sergeant major’s office. He did his best to avoid the brigade headquarters. There were too many names memorialized on the walls. jessicascott.net/2022/04/05/b...

Chapter Two The text message of doom vibrated on Reza’s phone as he pulled into his company ops parking lot. Reza was wanted in the sergeant major’s office. He did his best to avoid the brigade headquarters. There were too many names memorialized on the walls. jessicascott.net/2022/04/05/b...

#sociology peeps who is doing work on our railroads? Looking for ethnographies like Levy’s Data Driven and Viscelli’s Big Rig for trucking.

A PLACE CALLED HOME Chapter Four “I think I drank too much last night.” Reza grunted as Teague sank into the chair next to his in the battalion classroom. Reza was testing himself. Seeing how far he could push it and still stay in control. jessicascott.net/2022/04/03/b...

A PLACE CALLED HOME Chapter Four “I think I drank too much last night.” Reza grunted as Teague sank into the chair next to his in the battalion classroom. Reza was testing himself. Seeing how far he could push it and still stay in control. jessicascott.net/2022/04/03/b...

Radley Balko is always worth reading, but when he talks about police militarization, he’s speaking as one of the most qualified journalists we have. He’s rather apocalyptic about where we are with a huge ICE force. He’s right. open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

One of the really great things for me both as a dad and as a writer is to watch @athenascalzi.com develop her own distinct authorial voice over the years. I mean, I think you can tell from our writing that we're related. But she's very much her own writer. I think that's cool as hell.

Five days to go to help push my 10 year anniversary special edition kickstarter over the finish line - the first of this duet is my fuck the VA book. Poured ALL of my rage at the bureaucratic bullshit onto the page in about 10 days www.kickstarter.com/projects/jes...