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Arinn Dembo
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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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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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I’ve never lived in Tacoma, so I can’t say. But I think things will probably be better. And Seattle is not far away.

Neither is Vancouver, for that matter! 😎
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OKAY PEOPLE YOU KNOW THE DRILL: HIT THAT FOLLOW BUTTON

This is a Canadian small press, with a Canadian editor, so LET'S GET THOSE CANADIAN CLICKS (worldwide clicks also appreciated and loved equally, but I can't bully you in the same manner as I can Canadians)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
Coming soon: Fascination: Dark Fantasy Anthology
A macabre story collection of nature-fueled magic, witches & dark fae. Creepy cottages, haunted homesteads & bespelled woods.
www.kickstarter.com
I loved Tennessee. Except for half the people.
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It’s telling how some male columnists and commentators have reacted to Riot Women as ‘man-hating’ when it’s simply depicting average everyday experiences women have with men all the time. If seeing the world through a woman’s eyes makes you hate men too the I guess you see our problem.
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The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
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Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?
Woo-hoo! Westcoast bound!
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New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.
It’s nice to know nice people, where guiltily us your worst case scenario.
Could easily have told people this, if anyone had asked.

AI is a time sink and its outputs are not worth all the things you lose.
"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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Sorry. I wish it was even less common knowledge.
Yeah, I just walked away from my last music subscription service. The model is just broken, it will never ever work.

From now on I’m just going to buy music from a source as close to the real musician as possible. There’s no other path to sanity.
Same problem in publishing and film.

Everyone gets paid long before the writer, and then it's pennies on the dollar, if we're lucky.

People can't create like this.

We shouldn't have to create like this.

There's no product without us, yet we get told it's more important to pay everyone else.
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Sorry. It’s a bad lesson to have to learn the hard way.
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
You don’t actually know someone at all, no matter how long you’ e been acquainted, until you have to say “no” to something they *really* want.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
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Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?
Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.
Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country
On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.
19thnews.org
I’m just sayin’. ;)
*hands on hips* Swear to me that this was not the cover illustration for a party invitation!
The double entendres write themselves.
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT

GUYS

GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC

GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU

OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
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