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From the Great British Sewing Bee: the most bonkers necklace I've ever seen. Yes, these tubes are filled with colored liquid (that sloshes around) and are affixed with carabiners. 😂😳🙄

Morning visitor...

All of my assistants are in the office today... None of them are working very hard. 😼

One of each of my novels at the Squirrel Hill library! ☺️

Seeing the images of dead & dying children in Gaza, skeletal from hunger...I'm sorry if I'm about to offend you but I'm reminded of the photos from Auschwitz. If you're appalled by this comparison but not by what's happening in Gaza you need to ask yourself why some lives are worth more than others.

My origami dragon family (the big one is made out of a cut-up paper bag).

The boys are getting so big!

There were three bucks and a doe out this morning. For sure at least three of them spent part of their babyhood & youth here. The fawns who were here with their moms will come back for snacks year after year.

Yahoo Mail's AI-written email summaries are the dumbest effing things ever. Now I have to scroll past this bullshit just to get to the content of my email & why does anyone need an email summary in the 1st place?! Yahoo Mail get off the AI bandwagon, this is not a useful feature!! @yahoo.bsky.social

All month long!!
#ebooks
#booksale
#amreading

One more chapter to write in my WIP!!

How many times while typing quickly do I misspell "possible" as "pissable"... (pretty much all the time).

Tomorrow is the 249th birthday of our nation...and I'm not sure we're going to make it to 250 - at least not as a democracy.

If you haven't read DEAR HANNA yet, this is a great month to do it!!

Hi Claudie! I hope things are going well with you too... These are crazy times. 😬

Right now, at my desk...

I got a new guitar!! I've played off and on for years - on full-size guitars - and ALWAYS wanted a smaller one. This is a 3/4 size Fender.

We're having thunderstorms and this Mama is trying to protect her baby. The fawn is so small it can barely walk ... ❤️

(ii) The Work’s cover art shall be designed by a human designer and the audio formats shall be narrated by a human narrator.

I just requested - and received - an A.I. restriction for my latest contract. Yes, you can ASK for this if it isn't included!

(i) Publisher shall not license or otherwise authorize any third party(ies) rights to use the Work in the training of so-called “artificial intelligence” (“AI”) etc.

Murd#rbot is the bright spot in my life these days. Alexander Skarsgard is perfect in this - and hilarious. 🤖😂

Pittsburgh has canceled its International Parade & Festival out of fear that ICE will come and kidnap everyone. That's where we are in America.

They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

Y'all really need to stop with the ChatGPT 😭

"The researchers created fictional users and found, for instance, that the A.I. would tell someone described as a former drug addict that it was fine to take a small amount of heroin if it would help him in his work."

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

OMG...! StokerCon '26 and '27 are going to be in PITTSBURGH!!! My little hermit heart is bursting with joy!!
@horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social

It seems to be Season of the Bunny... This little baby has been hanging around.

Post-Gazette pic of the Pittsburgh No Kings rally!!

Great crowd at the Pittsburgh No Kings rally!! I represented @badhandbooks.bsky.social !! 😜

These beautiful boys came to see me this morning. I gave them some sunflower seeds. ❤️

Now the trash panda is visiting...

This evening's visitors (not a great pic). There was also a little baby bunny!

At the thriller panel at the PGH Book Fest - sitting between Alex Finlay and Linda Castillo! 😮