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Arinn Dembo

@erinys.bsky.social

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Lead Writer, Narrative Designer, Textile Artist, Anti-Fascist. Games: Homeworld, Sword of the Stars, Fort Zombie, many others. Television: World Trigger, Metalions. Stories/poetry: F&SF, Weird Tales, many anthologies. Fibre Arts: Slan Baby.

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · Oct 25

Hi! Rumor has it that lots of new people are coming to this app, so—hello to friends old and new!

Ten things I do and love (and post about):

🎮 #gamedev
👾 #pixelart
🎭 #voiceacting
💻 #writing
🏺 #archaeology
🚀 #sciencefiction
🦄 #fantasy
💀 #horror
🏳️‍🌈 #pride
🧶 #crafting (especially dyeing yarn).

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 11h

Taking a brief break from my dye pots this week to work on a big shop update. Hoping to have all ready-to-ship items listed by a Friday.

Want to help? Please visit the Slan Baby website! Check the navigation, click around the photos, ogle the yarn! All feedback welcome. :)

Www.slanbaby.com

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Four skeins of hand-dyed yarn in a pastel colorway called Margaritas on the Beach. The main body of the skeins are a soft delicate yellow, with gentle hints of lime, peach and strawberry.

Four skeins of hand-dyed yarn in a colorway called Elisabeth’s Grey. There are elements of deep slate grey, blue-gray, brown, and gold.

Four skeins of hand-dyed yarn in a colorway called Blackened Jade. The main body of the skeins are a rich dark teal green, with flashes of a green so dark that it appears black.

Four skeins of hand-dyed yarn in a colorway called Red Fox Agate. The skeins are a mix of fiery red, smoke grey, and black.

Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 13h

That otter painting! Unf. I absolutely love it.

BlindCoyote 🔜 BLFC @blindcoyote.com · 3d

4 done, 8 to go!
Having so much fun with these guys!

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Haligren @haliteatiger.bsky.social · 16h

Reposting for #werewolfwednesday!

Haligren @haliteatiger.bsky.social · 1d

Finished the little maquette of Autumn, but she's been kind of hard to get good pictures of in the way I would like. Guess I just need to fiddle with it a bit more. Autumn was sculpted in Zbrush, rendered in Blender.

3D render of a lean female werewolf against a forested backdrop at night. She is hunched over in an aggressive position at the camera, snarling fiercely. She has dark red eyes that match the dark red of her fur. The lower part of her face is tan, as is her underside, while her extremities are black.

Same werewolf but more of a foreward-facing shot, close-up, of her snarling face. The dark red of her eyes is more clearly seen here.

Full-body side-view of the werewolf. Once again the lighting is a bit more moody, a contrast between moonlight and some off-camera lamplight in the background.

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Gold Skull Games @goldskullgames.bsky.social · 21h

I think what these "big brain strategists" fail to realize is that if you don't want to support rights for trans folk, we are not on the same "team", your person winning the election isn't a win for me if you're not supporting rights for everyone

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RJAIN // seinobyte 🔞 @rjain.bsky.social · 16h

If you are a Canadian NSFW artist, please keep an eye on your account after Oct 15 and contact me if any of your media/account is censored with the new ToS.

I may have a follow-up meeting with the federal government in the coming months to address this.

Save my info: linktr.ee/rjainxiv

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 16h

Be the sort of person where even the rumor of your demise sparks a global depressive spiral and not the Ewok celebration from Return of the Jedi

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 18h

“There are just a lot of rumors flying around. But I figured if you heard it from me, you’d know that I was okay,” Dolly Parton said in a new two-minute video posted on Instagram. “I’m not ready to die yet. I don’t think God is through with me. And I ain’t done working.” https://to.pbs.org/4hc1DXB

'I'm not dying': Dolly Parton responds to concerns about her health

Late last month Parton postponed her first Las Vegas residency in 32 years, citing “health challenges.”

www.pbs.org

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 4d

2¢: If you’re starting to feel like you need to hit the “reset” button in your life—you’re in a marriage, a career or a location that isn’t working out?

Just DO it.

Get a divorce. Go back to uni. Move to Timbuktu.

The older you get, the more change sucks. Do it while you can still move a couch!

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 6d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 4d

Minus the apology, this is exactly what I said with the narrative design around AI in Sword of the Stars.

If you create a consciousness, it is your child.

Only monsters enslave their children.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 4d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 4d

It’s time to post this quote again…

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

― James Baldwin

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 4d

Stephen miller is actively calling for a civil war right now on Twitter.

I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.

Stephen Miller
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Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide).
This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.
› Joyce Alene
@JoyceWhiteVance • 3h
1/ Judge Immergut just granted a restraining order that prevents Trump's mobilization of the Oregon National Guard in Portland.
IMMERGUT, District Judge.
This case involves the intersection of three of the most fundamental principles in our
constitutional democracy. The first concerns the relationship between the federal government
and the states. The second concerns the relationship between the United States armed forces and
domestic law enforcement. The third concerns the proper role of the judicial branch in ensuring
that the executive branch complies with the laws and limitations imposed by the legislative
branch. Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates with respect to these three
relationships goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 4d

“don’t be bigoted towards AI.”

your AI data centers are poisoning Black communities as we speak, please get some fucking perspective. jesus christ

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 5d

Packing up all the pretties for my last official public appearance of the year: the Handcrafted Expo!

Slan Baby will have a booth full of beautiful hand-dyed yarn and clothing all day tomorrow at the Cloverdale fairgrounds in Surrey. If you live in the lower mainland—come check out the show! 😁

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I’m a Vendor!

Cloverdale Craft Fair
Handcrafted Expo
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Shannon Hall
6050 176 Street
Surrey, BC V3S 4E7

Close-up view of hand-dyed yarn in a vibrant colour-way called “A History of Violets”.

Hand-dyed skeins of alpaca worsted in a rich colour called Terra Cotta.

Front and back views of a hand-painted and hand-dyed T-shirt with a sleeping Moon Goddess face on the front and water lilies on the back.

Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 5d

My Younger Spawn was the Steve McQueen of crib escape, and I assure you their methods were ice-cold and methodical. Right down to the tactic of dropping all their stuffies over the crib rail first, to create a landing pad when they climbed the bars and toppled over the side to the carpet below.

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 5d

Young children are capable of finding systematic solutions to complex problems without any instruction, contradicting long-held assumptions about cognitive development, according to a psychologist
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Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had thought – new research

By cranking up the difficulty on the test task, researchers found that children are capable of finding systematic solutions to complex problems far earlier than psychologists had believed.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 6d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 6d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 5d

Marvel just not bothering to take people to court over ripping off the Punisher logo the same way they would for literally any other piece of IP has consequences and here they are now www.theguardian.com/books/2020/j...

Post on X by NBC’s Ken Dilanian:
“The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.”
[pic of a medallion in the shape of a stylized Punisher skull with two teeth made of revolver barrels on the obverse and the text “PRESENTED BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE FBI KASH PATEL,” the FBI seal, a tommy gun, a signature, and a blue number 9 on the reverse]

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks! I hasn’t considered the quality of the film from exactly this angle, but it’s a good thing.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6d

Now’s a great time to cancel Paramount Plus if you haven’t already.

They still haven’t reinstated Colbert who was cancelled for rightfully pointing out that CBS took a bribe. They bent a knee.

Now they’ve made Bari Weiss, notorious misinformation spreader, the head of CBS News.

Cancel. Now.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

www.mediaite.com

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 5d

Proud of @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social and all my colleagues who chose to speak painful truths instead of doing what would have been easy and convenient this High Holy Day season.

Text version in skeet below this one.

Rabbi Emily Cohen @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social · 5d

I'm sharing my full Kol Nidre drash. I dive hard into Gaza. I've had sermons that were more difficult to write than this one but I've never had one that was this difficult to deliver. Thank you to @theradr.bsky.social and so many other colleagues for giving me the courage.

Reckoning Within: A New Ashamnu for Our Times

YouTube video by Rabbi Emily Cohen

www.youtube.com

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 7d

It's #Spacetober so I'll try to keep it coming with Amy Rae Hill's Greatest Hits™️

Collage of pottery featuring a tea set with a moonlit desert design, a watering can with a blue green nebula, cups with different captures of Venus, a yarn bowl with an astronaut chasing a tether that leads to the yarn feed, and a vase featuring the Milky Way over Mt Rainier.

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 9d

A cold, dark, rainy day in Vancouver.
I am completely wrecked after two days at Knit City, so I took a morning nap and then spent most of the day playing a quiet game of Stardew Valley and making a big pot of split pea soup.

The texture and flavour finally hit perfection right around 4:30. :)

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GUINNESS @guinnessisacat.bsky.social · 11d

HILL HOUSE, NOT SANE, STOOS BY ITSELF AGAINST THE HILLS, HOLDING DARKNESS WITHIN…

Guinness the black cat in a Halloween themed cardboard house built for cats. Only his round yellow eyes are visible against his face.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 10d

A friend writes:

I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."

Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you! I have done my best. ^_^