Arinn Dembo

Mainstream America: We are obsessed with Heated Rivalry and Drag Race. We love them and can't get enough.
American Democrat politicians: LGBT people are not culturally normal. We will not speak of them.

I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth

Four skeins of hand-dyed yarn in a rich deep teal green colorway called BC Jade.

Five skeins of hand-dyed DK weight yarn in a vibrant golden green colorway called Ceremonial Matcha.

Re-stock in progress: BC Jade and Ceremonial Matcha colorways on my Simple DK base.🧶

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A cross-stitch bookmark on a piece of 14-count Aida banding. It depicts a blue happy monster wearing spectacles and knitting a vibrantly magenta and purple blanket. The thread used is very bright and shiny, as the embroidery floss is hand-dyed silk rather than cotton.

First stitch test complete! I made a prototype of my first cross stitch bookmark design, using my hand-dyed silk colours.

In the end I really do like the design, but I think the final colour of the blanket will probably be a cooler purple.🧶

Even if it did, the world absolutely doesn’t need tougher people.

Wow. That’s saying a lot.

Interesting. I always assume that they’re about the fear colonizers have that someone will do to them what they have done to others.

Are you talking about the OP?

As stated, I’m mystified by the MAGA desire to return to a world of yesteryear. They love everything about the past that sucked (measles, racism, sexism, homo/transphobia) and hate anything that was better (unions, living wages, taxing the rich, funding the arts).

Yeah, I’m old enough to have watched conditions and parenting improve steadily for every generation since mine, honestly. I’m really happy about it and it bewilders me why anyone would want to go backward in time, much less to fucking 1933 or whenever this MAGA shit is supposed to be.

Maybe the reason that I don’t want to see the world burn is that the only universal Gen X childhood experiences in my circle are things like “find something dead or a cache of disturbing magazine porn in the woods” or “creamed corn in a plastic tray for lunch”.

Let’s Make America Gross Again, sure.

My Gen X playground was a ravine full of rusting metal and discarded beer bottles, so yeah. Not really identifying much with this millennial fantasy.

Jesus Christ, this. The only thing worse was everything else.

I had a good friend who was a producer at Pixar for many years and she peaced out a couple years ago and everyone was shocked because the place looks amazing from afar but she said the absolute wrong people are making decisions and I guess that makes more sense now

“He was not protesting” is a shitty frame for this story. It strongly implies that the US government has every right to straight up MURDER protesters for protesting, which they absolutely do not.

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Survival skills for the modern internet.

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Sir Gawain Fucks the Green Knight Here’s a tale ripe for telling. Can’t say where I heard it first—in pretty French or Dutch. Perhaps as a young lady walking ‘longside the Rijn. I’ll spin it for you in an English tongue, fine as frost on lace, sweet as malmsey wine. So it goes that young Gawain, strength kissed into his limbs, fresh as the bright dawn, comes trembling down to the Green Chapel. You’ve heard this tale, I know. His breath makes peach fuzz in the air, fear into him like worm to apple. Christmas Morn is too soon, time is short. You have your own life to save, he says, picking through thorn and bough to an ivy-clad cave. The creature is the Jack O’ the Glen / forest prince / the wood’s own laughter. Beard of lichen and eyes like dark elder. I need not repeat their exchange—my boy’s flinching heart—a songbird in a rattled cage. It is after the blows are dealt, he asks, what god is worshipped in these green trees? Boy, the Knight replies, boy, were you not just down on your knees? The Knight is the tang of sap / bark rough and petal soft / everywhere leaves scatter / easily crushed / Gawain clings / hardly knows what he clings to / he is the forest and the flower / a turmoil of roots / where god and tree meet and melt / the birch the oak the fern the deer / mushroom maggot crow / here Gawain is branch and bud / blow returned for blow

This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so:

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Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target Did the US military use Anthropic's Claude to select targets in its weekend operations in Iran, with devastating results?

There it is. “Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target” 3/6/26 … 1/

Good hunting, Ms. James. Good hunting.

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

😂 Mad Max will always be my favorite dystopia, by virtue of being the Gayest.

Both.

*barely hides her disappointment* Oh well. Guess I won’t be needing this feather boa then…

No worries, I’m sure JKR will whisk in on her broom and spend just as much money fixing this problem as she did causing it. 🙄

I hear you’re about to run out of fuel. The Great Screen tells us that you will soon be overrun by queer biker gangs!

*reads the news from Australia, purchases a motorcycle and a feather boa immediately*

my9games.com as a #gamedev #indiedev. :)

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Looks pretty cool to me!