I was getting that, redownloaded, reinstalled, and now it's working again. I don't know why it worked, but it worked.

A single white hair has appeared at the front of my eyebrow like it's planting a flag. What is the evolutionary PURPOSE of this? Did my ancestors need one reflective eyebrow hair to fool predators when they became a certain age? Who looked at this and said "yes, keep that in the genome"?🧐

"Both sides are the same" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting right now. Like, structural-engineering-on-a-condemned-building levels of heavy lifting.

Oh, good! That gives me time to run to HEB. I refuse to face the end times without queso. 🧀

Me: Time to write!
My brain: But have you checked the news about Iran lately?
Me: …
My brain: You're welcome.

Concentrating in a world gone mad is its own kind of superpower. One I do not have today. ☕

Why on earth did Texas start the THCA ban *on* the 31st? Texas starting the THCA ban *on* the 31st makes zero sense, unless the goal was to trick us olds who logically assumed the end of the month would be the last day to buy.

Oops. 🤦‍♀️

In other news, water's wet.

The fun part of writing 22 books in a series is when your character walks into a room and you think "wait, did I burn this building down six books ago?"

Monday mornings are for fact-checking yourself.

Yes, you can also do this with NotebookLM, but somehow, it's more fun with Antigravity.

The absolute luxury of editing with Google Antigravity: Highlighting a line, asking "Is this true?", and watching my little AI minion scour 21 previous books to find out if I hallucinated a piece of my own lore. Having this kind of instant continuity-checking power while editing is incredible. 🦉

Which means the model is more confident in data it was trained on months ago than in the live feed its creator is actively injecting. The trust hierarchy there is something.

I'm starting to think the only version of COTA I'll ever see is the Christmas one. MotoGP is there this weekend, my hub's a vet so tickets were half off, and he still said no because they were too expensive. And yes, he's a huge fan.

(Yeah, I don't even bother asking about F1. I know the answer.)

"Operation Epic Fury" as a made-up wargame sim is genuinely impressive hallucination — that's not a bug, that's a whole character arc.

The new Costco in Liberty Hill means you can now buy 48 rolls of toilet paper AND a rotisserie chicken without ever getting close to I-35. We're living in the future.

Cynthia Plaster Caster, The 'Super Groupie' Who Immortalized Rock Stars' Penises With Plaster Molds Cynthia Albritton made dozens of plaster casts of famous rock musicians' penises

I first read about Cynthia Plaster Caster in Pamela Des Barres' groupie memoir years ago and thought it had to be exaggerated. It was not. Her collection ended up at MoMA PS1 and the Kinsey Institute. Sometimes real life is just too weird to be fiction.

David Muir: "Airports are in crisis."
Congress: "We'll look into it."
Narrator: They did not look into it.

Congress is working on the airport situation with the same urgency they bring to everything else. So, see you in 2035.

A runaway parade float & a legacy built on a lie! 🐱 Burgers, Bunting, & Betrayal is LIVE in KU! 🇺🇸 leanneleeds.com/books/burgers-bunting-and-betrayal

(Check the link for German, French, & Dutch translations! 🇳🇱 Dutch also available on Kobo!)

Somebody explain the Fetterman-Marjorie Taylor Green body swap episode. He's out here sounding like a Fox News audition tape and she's… not? It's funny. Both sides are staring at members of their own team going "wait, WHAT?" and honestly, that's the most bipartisan unity we've had in years.

"Every war is not only a defeat of politics but also a shameful surrender to the forces of evil." #PopeFrancis #PrayForPeace

I was just talking with my husband that we were too old to know where Buford's was because we never go downtown anymore, but I didn't realize. We had out first date at Opal Divine's and spent so many hours on that patio.

Five chapters into edits and I just realized I contradicted my own lore. From three books ago. The cat didn't even have the decency to look sympathetic—she just yawned and rolled over on my notes. 😩📖

Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon | CNN Business Anthropic, a company founded by OpenAI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition.

Anthropic walking back their safety commitments feels less like a surprise and more like an inevitability. Ethics are cute until the revenue numbers come in. 💸

We went from 'fake news' to full Ministry of Truth real fast.

Thai police go undercover as lion dancers to nab a serial burglar Thai police say they've caught an elusive serial burglar by going undercover as lion dancers at a temple fair.

Absolute gold from the AP today. A serial burglar gets tackled at Lunar New Year by two undercover cops hiding inside a dancing lion costume. If this doesn’t end up in a cozy mystery by 2027, the entire genre has failed us all. 📚🦁🔍

Supreme Court: "You can't use emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs." The Administration, 5 minutes later: "Cool, I'll just use this other 1970s law to do the exact same thing."

I've seen less predictable plot twists in a Hallmark mystery. 🙃

Mystwich Hollow’s wildest family reunion is LIVE! 🧛♀️✨ Fortuna Delphi is back, and her midlife crisis just got teeth. Her vampire husband’s twin sister is in town. The bad news? She’s a vampire hunter. Dive into the latest Mystwich Mindslider Mystery today: leanneleeds.com/books/crysta...

Me: *writes fiction about people getting away with things for too long*
Reality: *arrests Prince Andrew on his birthday*

Y'all, I cannot compete with real life's plot twists. 👀 I have been awake for twenty minutes and I need to sit down already. Whoah.

Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu… YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Colbert: *books Texas state rep for an interview*
CBS Legal: No.
Colbert: Can I mention it?
CBS Legal: Also no.
Colbert: does both, posts interview to YouTube

Here's the interview a network censored before the FCC even made them. 🙃

I switched my whole book writing process to Markdown and I gotta say — after years of fighting Word formatting like it owed me money, processing everything in plain text feels almost suspiciously easy.

Me: *opens laptop, ready to conquer the week*
Cat: *sits on laptop*
Me: Okay so we're starting like THAT.

Happy Monday, y'all. ☕😼