Arinn Dembo
@erinys.bsky.social
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).
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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Bookstores, not Amazon. Proud of my US colleagues.
To Help SNAP Recipients, Bookstores Set Up as Food Banks
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Bookstores, not Amazon. Proud of my US colleagues.
Dudes. I could literally write an entire novel about one Bond in an endless sequence of Bonds finally remembering that whoa, I died, I died so many times, oh shit what the hell is happening what have they done to me
this kind of feels like freaking out over a problem that 95% of the audience is not going to have an issue with
Report: Amazon Is Struggling to Think How to Bring James Bond Back From the Dead
Daniel Craig's permanent exit in 'No Time to Die' is apparently causing issues for the next 'Bond' film.
gizmodo.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Dudes. I could literally write an entire novel about one Bond in an endless sequence of Bonds finally remembering that whoa, I died, I died so many times, oh shit what the hell is happening what have they done to me
What he said.
AI-Generated Everything is like wax fruit. It may look real to a casual glance, but you take a bite and—gah. No flavor. No texture. No nourishment.
No terroir.
AI-Generated Everything is like wax fruit. It may look real to a casual glance, but you take a bite and—gah. No flavor. No texture. No nourishment.
No terroir.
The tides of genAI imagery flooding the nonexistent halls of our internet will likely not have a lifespan of 10 years, let alone hundreds. They're a ghost accretion of late capitalism, an anti-history that obscures humanity & time, the opposite of art, whatever its subjective quality.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
What he said.
AI-Generated Everything is like wax fruit. It may look real to a casual glance, but you take a bite and—gah. No flavor. No texture. No nourishment.
No terroir.
AI-Generated Everything is like wax fruit. It may look real to a casual glance, but you take a bite and—gah. No flavor. No texture. No nourishment.
No terroir.
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Tatsuya Nakadai (1932-2025), grand parmi les grands. RIP
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Tatsuya Nakadai (1932-2025), grand parmi les grands. RIP
This guy. Truly. An icon.
I will have to re-watch his movies.
I will have to re-watch his movies.
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai - one of the all time greats of world cinema variety.com/2025/film/ob...
Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Film Legend That Starred in ‘Ran,’ ‘Harakiri’ and ‘The Human Condition’ Trilogy, Dies at 92
Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan's most celebrated actors who was a frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi, died. He was 92.
variety.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This guy. Truly. An icon.
I will have to re-watch his movies.
I will have to re-watch his movies.
Joyce is choosing violence and it is beautiful and terrible to behold
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Joyce is choosing violence and it is beautiful and terrible to behold
I just finished playing the Iron Rig expansion of Dredge and whew. What a beautiful finish. The team has really outdone themselves this time.
Also—the new “oil” mechanic, the way you can clean up toxic spills with your boat?
Yikes. That hit me a LOT harder than I expected, emotionally.
#gamedev
Also—the new “oil” mechanic, the way you can clean up toxic spills with your boat?
Yikes. That hit me a LOT harder than I expected, emotionally.
#gamedev
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I just finished playing the Iron Rig expansion of Dredge and whew. What a beautiful finish. The team has really outdone themselves this time.
Also—the new “oil” mechanic, the way you can clean up toxic spills with your boat?
Yikes. That hit me a LOT harder than I expected, emotionally.
#gamedev
Also—the new “oil” mechanic, the way you can clean up toxic spills with your boat?
Yikes. That hit me a LOT harder than I expected, emotionally.
#gamedev
A generation from now, if/when the Zoomers and Gen Alpha are cleaning up this mess rather than surviving the fall of our civilization, there are going to be some changes to laws, regulations and building codes that will re-structure the world as we know it.
Here are my best guesses:
1/thread
Here are my best guesses:
1/thread
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
A generation from now, if/when the Zoomers and Gen Alpha are cleaning up this mess rather than surviving the fall of our civilization, there are going to be some changes to laws, regulations and building codes that will re-structure the world as we know it.
Here are my best guesses:
1/thread
Here are my best guesses:
1/thread
We have beaten diseases and public health challenges before. But we won’t do it this time by “being kind” to people who make up their own facts—or listen to the charlatans who do.
But you refused to ensure vaccination compliance in our school communities.
You transformed public health into "do your own research" and "be kind" even when it was clear that the anti-vaxxers from the 2000's were leveraging internet-based misinformation tools to run laps around you.
You transformed public health into "do your own research" and "be kind" even when it was clear that the anti-vaxxers from the 2000's were leveraging internet-based misinformation tools to run laps around you.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
We have beaten diseases and public health challenges before. But we won’t do it this time by “being kind” to people who make up their own facts—or listen to the charlatans who do.
Yeah, if I see one more “eat more beans” post I am going to start shanking people. People have this idea that the things they used to eat during their “poor student” says twenty years ago are still cheap.
Wages have stagnated. Prices for food have not.
Wages have stagnated. Prices for food have not.
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Yeah, if I see one more “eat more beans” post I am going to start shanking people. People have this idea that the things they used to eat during their “poor student” says twenty years ago are still cheap.
Wages have stagnated. Prices for food have not.
Wages have stagnated. Prices for food have not.
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This is a lie. All 31 Moms for Liberty candidates in contested races lost their 2025 elections. The only "wins" were in uncontested races. Apparently, being hypocritical, book-banning scolds isn't so popular.
November 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is a lie. All 31 Moms for Liberty candidates in contested races lost their 2025 elections. The only "wins" were in uncontested races. Apparently, being hypocritical, book-banning scolds isn't so popular.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Andrew Mountbatten Windsor losing all of his titles over just the possibility of the Epstein files coming out tells me all I need to know about just how bad the contents are, and why the Republicans are so desperate to never let it out.
The thing that’s so fucked up about the Epstein files is that if they’re bad bad for Trump, it’s gonna come out, and every Republican who knew what they were doing protecting him is gonna get flayed for it. And if they weren’t bad for him at all, they’d be out already.
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor losing all of his titles over just the possibility of the Epstein files coming out tells me all I need to know about just how bad the contents are, and why the Republicans are so desperate to never let it out.
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Techbro surprised when autistic and/disabled people do not fawn over his neurotechnology claiming to help identify "pathologies such as autism" seems to be a recurring thing; but also speaks to a deep rooted ableism in the way tech is being taught, understood and enacted in relation to disability
November 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Techbro surprised when autistic and/disabled people do not fawn over his neurotechnology claiming to help identify "pathologies such as autism" seems to be a recurring thing; but also speaks to a deep rooted ableism in the way tech is being taught, understood and enacted in relation to disability
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Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
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One of those really cool bits of news: women teaching women how to build flood-safe huts out of local materials - and making them pretty works of art, too!!
The 82-year-old female architect working to flood-proof Pakistan
Yasmeen Lari is making bamboo houses for people living on the front lines of climate change.
www.aljazeera.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
One of those really cool bits of news: women teaching women how to build flood-safe huts out of local materials - and making them pretty works of art, too!!
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
My grandbaby is going Trick or Treating tonight and dropping by to collect candy from Grampa’s house.
So excited! 😁
So excited! 😁
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
My grandbaby is going Trick or Treating tonight and dropping by to collect candy from Grampa’s house.
So excited! 😁
So excited! 😁
Still mystified by people who flip their shit over the pronouns. Like, literally I cannot parse what they can possibly dislike about knowing someone’s gender too early. Are they just pissed about spoilers…?
October 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Still mystified by people who flip their shit over the pronouns. Like, literally I cannot parse what they can possibly dislike about knowing someone’s gender too early. Are they just pissed about spoilers…?
Without saying Halloween, name your fav film to watch on Halloween
October 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Without saying Halloween, name your fav film to watch on Halloween
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Every time
Last year we got a tip about a children's pastor who'd managed to stay in ministry for decades even as allegations of sex abuse trailed him across four states.
I kept pulling thread and found something far bigger: a 50-year pattern of abuse and cover-up in the largest Pentecostal denomination 🧵 1/
I kept pulling thread and found something far bigger: a 50-year pattern of abuse and cover-up in the largest Pentecostal denomination 🧵 1/
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Every time
In no particular order:
1. Sharks
2. Monsters
3. Getting lost
4. The way people disappear from your life without warning or explanation
5. The way people suddenly reject and exclude you without warning or explanation (e.g. bullies)
6. My father
#HorrorWritersChat
1. Sharks
2. Monsters
3. Getting lost
4. The way people disappear from your life without warning or explanation
5. The way people suddenly reject and exclude you without warning or explanation (e.g. bullies)
6. My father
#HorrorWritersChat
Hola, Horror Writers. I'm going to post and eat as I've pretty much just walked in. But, we're all about it today, so close to Halloween!
Tell me tell me. What scared you as a child?
No links, no hawking books please, till the end. Thanks Thanks.
#HorrorWritersChat
Tell me tell me. What scared you as a child?
No links, no hawking books please, till the end. Thanks Thanks.
#HorrorWritersChat
October 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
In no particular order:
1. Sharks
2. Monsters
3. Getting lost
4. The way people disappear from your life without warning or explanation
5. The way people suddenly reject and exclude you without warning or explanation (e.g. bullies)
6. My father
#HorrorWritersChat
1. Sharks
2. Monsters
3. Getting lost
4. The way people disappear from your life without warning or explanation
5. The way people suddenly reject and exclude you without warning or explanation (e.g. bullies)
6. My father
#HorrorWritersChat
This is as close as I’ve been to a leprechaun my whole life!
October 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This is as close as I’ve been to a leprechaun my whole life!
Sharing because I hope this pattern will spread.
Yoooo ABQ! Burqueños 505 #NMTrue . Share these around if you have the cash go spend money and make sure they know you are there because they are feeding people!
October 29, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Sharing because I hope this pattern will spread.
Occasionally I like to talk about my friends on BlueSky, especially if I actually met them on BlueSky.
Example: @ethankocak.com!
He’s a fantastic artist who drew a series of freelance commissions after we met on-line, including game art, my BlueSky avatar, and the logo for my textile art studio. 😎
Example: @ethankocak.com!
He’s a fantastic artist who drew a series of freelance commissions after we met on-line, including game art, my BlueSky avatar, and the logo for my textile art studio. 😎
October 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Occasionally I like to talk about my friends on BlueSky, especially if I actually met them on BlueSky.
Example: @ethankocak.com!
He’s a fantastic artist who drew a series of freelance commissions after we met on-line, including game art, my BlueSky avatar, and the logo for my textile art studio. 😎
Example: @ethankocak.com!
He’s a fantastic artist who drew a series of freelance commissions after we met on-line, including game art, my BlueSky avatar, and the logo for my textile art studio. 😎