Greetings dramanauts. Today were gonna look /u/SashaButNotGray1. I found this specimen when scrolling through /r/probation . Our friend is originally from Texas where he got in a little kerfuffle . He accepted the plea for two years probation on a second degree felony charge to misdemeanor assault. He went to the best place for advice, Reddit dot com , for his new life on probation. This was three months ago.

https://old.reddit.com/r/probation/comments/1g63idg/accepted_plea/

Fast forward to today. Homie fled the county . He went to Europe . But not to Germany , Finland , or even Italy . He went to fricking Russia! Now he wants to get back to the good ol US of A because he learned what everyone in Russia already knows, Russia sucks . Now he runs back to the best place for advice, Reddit dot com. Jannies do their thing!

https://old.reddit.com/r/probation/comments/1ikgyhc/i_left_country/

Like every other r-slurred zoomoid, he's been rug pulled on a meme coin.

https://old.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/1fbeqc8/cannot_get_my_jup/

https://old.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/1fbet3e/coin_base_scam/

He's even got the zoomer haircut.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rhinoplastyquestions/comments/1citfhw/6_months_post_op/

Anyways, /u/SashaButNotGray1, best of luck to you. You stupid, stupid man.

This is the person who was being very evil pic.twitter.com/KQLg7aEXz6

— MaryShelleyStepOnMe (@_MSSOM_) February 17, 2025

on the one hand dasha weighed in and i want to frick dasha so im inclined to agree

She must be very unhappy, I'm sorry she is lashing out at you

— dasha (@dash_eats) February 17, 2025

but on the other hand the person who made the reddit post is called lana and lana is a hot name too

what is the correct take here

Reddit protest pic.twitter.com/K5Zk9nOtGF

— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) February 5, 2025

Florence Spurling is a moderately popular knitwear designer who made her Scout Shawl pattern in 2021. It uses different color work designs "patchworked" together to form a shawl.

Earlier this month a smaller designer named Susan Chin released her Quilt Star Scarf pattern. It has a similar shape and patchwork construction to Spurling's design.

This has lead people to accuse Chin of plagiarism, which Spurling addressed in an instagram post see above and below

(I can't link to the post because Spurling later deleted it)

The scarves obviously have some similarities, but they also have some differences. Here's a list of what's the same and what's different that someone else wrote, speaking of plagiarism :

Both objects use Intarsia and Fair Isle/Stranded colorwork.

Both patterns have multiple blocks in different motifs, joined together as the finished object is worked.

Both patterns have colorwork charts. (Scout > Shawl is in full color; Quilt Star is in greyscale)

The border is not indicated on either pattern's chart.

Suggested Gauge for the two patterns; Scout Shawl suggests 28sts x 30rows for 10cm, using 3.5mm needles. Quilt Star suggests 28sts x 27 rows for 10cm using 2.5mm or 3mm needles.

Finished size for Scout Shawl is 181cm, 37cm deep

Finished size for Quilt Star is 150cm, 35cm deep

Scout Shawl relies on 5 colors and makes suggestions as to the color contrast if you don't use the same palette as the pattern. Color 1 is the garter stitch border.

Quilt Star relies on 8 colors. No contrast is suggested, only the colors recommended in the original pattern. Color 8 is the 1x1 rib border.

At least one motif in Scout uses 3 colors.

Each motif in Quilt uses no more than 2 colors.

Cast on is 8 stitches for Scout.

Cast on is 4 stitches for Quilt.

All sections on Scout meet at 90 degree angles.

Some sections on Quilt meet at diagonals, at ~45deg ish.

Scout has 10 distinct blocks and patterns.

Quilt has 7 (?) distinct patterns. There seems to be an error in the charts. I'm not sure my count is correct based on the charts alone. But it is certainly fewer.

Increases on Scout are M1L, Decreases are k2tog

Increases on Quilt are kfb, decreases are k2tog.

Scout's finishing has no special bind off for the remaining 8 stitches.

Quilt uses a seamed bind off for the 6 remaining stitches.

Motifs for Scout appear to be floral.

Motifs for Quilt appear to be star-them

Source

VERDICT: they're different patterns.

This didn't stop people from stirring shit, because obviously you need to have an MFA to be inspired by patchwork, and only one person is allowed to be inspired by a thing.

People (Spurling suck ups) went on social media to b-word, including leaving comments on the Ravelry page for Chin's scarf. (Ravelry is like letterboxd for knitting and crochet, and also a platform that many designers use to sell their patterns)

Source, but you need a Ravelry account to view

This lead to Chin taking the pattern down for sale. Satisfied with the results, Spurling deleted her post . And so ends another chapter in the ongoing saga of insecure designers accusing others of plagiarism.

A few I remember from the last year:

A designer put out merch with "Knit Club" on a baseball caps. Well some other pattern designer has a community by that unique name and also has baseball caps merch (but none that actually say "Knit Club"

Source

"Only I'm allowed to be copy 1950s dresses!"

Source

"omg why are you so obsessed with me, stop copying me" macrame. Except her product looks like something posted earlier by someone else on TikTok. (If they look similar it's because there's only so much shit you can make with macrame and there's probably patterns for something like this in a book from the 70s)

Source

One French company accused another French company of copying their, um… tailor clappers, test squares and pointer cowtools (these are pretty common cowtools that have existed for a long time, this like Milwaukee accusing Makita of stealing their idea of the hammer)

Source

I forgot to add that while I agree with most of the commenters on the craft snark thread, look at this b-word trying to turn it into a race thing

source

I'll keep posting this guy here while he keeps posting to /r/WaltDisneyWorld. He's absolutely dominating the subreddit - three of his selfies this month have more upmarseys than the news that beloved ride Muppets 3D is closing down and this will soon be the fourth.

The mods are still working overtime to protect him - they do more work in his threads than every other /r/WaltDisneyWorld thread combined. Comment locks and sneedy mod comments everywhere. OP seems to have free rein to be as toxic as he wants in an otherwise civil subreddit:

How indeed?

I want to get him over here but I don't want to log into my Reddit account again.

Lebanese accounts are claiming Israel and HTS are working together against Hezbollah:

“Israel conducted airstrikes in Lebanon, targeting areas where armed Lebanese groups were defending border towns against HTS militia advances.” https://t.co/R4JvrpnROe pic.twitter.com/GHiaOEX4EQ

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 9, 2025

I hope they are. If both Muslim groups are fighting and killing each other, that is good news for Israel.

— I Stand with Israel (@freegames101) February 9, 2025

The only people dying in this mess are the arabs, who are fighting man to man while Israel brought it's jets. Too bad both Syria and Lebanon lost their surface to air missiles, I wonder what happened to them

Reddit foids will do anything to "prep" except buy a gun.

They're still seething

so... you were able to do it in an hour, you're just used to it taking ten to twelve weeks

just 16 hours! give these poor babies some slack

DHS spooks parked at the little TSA booths

Also

>CDC

>entire 70+ member team has been fully remote since 2000

How can blurmpf expect elite government functionaries to work in these compliant but outdated spaces

>do not comply

>stay and do our jobs

If they're so critical, why are "data calls" needed to determine who and where the frick your employees are

/u/el-corneador don't let the door hit your culo on the way out esé

We banned their app, now they hate us

Bonus content

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskWomenOver40/comments/1i7v7g3/what_are_we_going_to_do_about_this/

>women over 40

>plan b

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i7vhdw/what_groups_will_this_affect_and_what_do_you/

Last but not least, the smartest pooner:

https://old.reddit.com/r/transplace/comments/1i7v2e7/what_does_the_executive_order_about_trans_people/

>Ok, do you know about changing the f to a m tho? If that's still ok

"no"

>That's gonna suckkkk

So masculine

Important poll !chuds !nooticers

We're playing the turboneurodivergent Dawn of Civilization mod for Civilization IV that replicates world history. !g*mers

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

Part 7 Part 8

We now have Russia as a vassal (the "Province of Sarmatia") and directly control Japan, Australia, and America. Settling New Zealand as well.

Publius Valerius Publicola can be used to reform the government for free.

Fascism WINS by a whisker

We are now the New Roman Empire.

Much better for our treasury, espionage, and military. Science and great people generation took a minor hit.

We've gone from Italic Peoples -> Roman Kingdom -> Roman Empire -> Roman Republic -> New Roman Empire.

We're secular now too. We could do the Secular Religious Victory if we wanted

The cathedral goal is a little confusing - we don't have cathedrals for any eastern religions. But with Judaism, Islam, Orthodoxy, Protestantism, and Catholicism we have enough I guess

Secularism should our relations with much of the world a little. Most of the Catholic world are our vassals with the exception of Netherlands and Austria.

It's enough for Iran to open borders apparently.

Prussia still has a stick up their butt. I'm hoping when Bismarck becomes leader he'll like us a little more as Nationhood is his favorite civic. I'm going to cultivate good relations with these guys and try to influence them to become fascist too so Hitler appears, just for you chuds.

We still get penalties for "Our rivals are vassal to your empire" but it helps just a little. I realize embarrassingly late into this game session that I could just pay all my vassals to become secular as well to try to ease up this penalty.

Ultimately, fascism helps us Our domestic stability is booming and the economic recession is cooling off. We have a strong civic combo and a bonus for "contemporary civics".

At this point I'm so absurdly advanced that I decide to turn down my research funding and focus entirely on espionage temporarily to let the rest of the world catch up. I'm close to discovering nuclear weapons and we haven't had the American Revolutionary War yet. But I do want biplanes circling in my American colonies just to prove Trump right.

We can also use them to air strike injuns

Rome has hit Legendary Culture

I have to be careful because we're starting to tiptoe toward victory conditions. Vassalizing Russia was awesome but now we're 8% territory control away from Domination. I have a few other cities with Influential culture I need to prevent from hitting Legendary or I'll will Cultural. If really necessary I can just let some shit go but I turn my research funding back up to make sure I can get to space before another victory ticks.

1762, they're coming

I bring "Grippy" Agrippinia's army from Japan to Panama to prepare.

We're starting to discover Uranium deposits, which will of course be very important strategic resources.

We have mines in Ukraine and Australia. Australia is ours, but Ukraine is at risk of seceding. More would be safer.

There's a deposit in Africa we can grab with a colony, but it's a little close to Dutch South Africa.

We have an extra Great Artist we can use to create a Great Work in the city and blow up our cultural borders, getting us gem and rare earth mines as well.

Washington has arrived

I want America to capitulate, but it's going to take a while for "Rise of the Americans" to end before it will even be an option. Fine by me. With totalitarianism we don't get war weariness. America on the other hand does

With Nationhood we also actually get a small stability bonus when at war.

Interestingly America has embraced Slavery, so they're actually the Confederate States of America.

I'll contribute this to my development of the south and rich slave plantations.

It should probably at least require a capital in the south as well, but whatevs. There are some neat dynamic names for America. If they were to vassalize Mesoamerica as the CSA it would be known as the Golden Circle.

Washington attaches a general, Winfield Scott and does a successful job repelling Agrippina's army.

I'm forced to pull them back north to Concord to rendezvous with my other army. Concord is much more vulnerable.

His army marches on French New Orleans and there's little I can do I have to get my planes out.

They've rammed the ramparts and taken the airports.

Winfield Scott attempts to take Concord with my full army there and dies in the process

1810, my thinkpad grinds to a slowdown as Argentina and Mexico enter the map

Colombia shortly after

They all dislike us

And Colombia took the Panama canal away from us

These central/south American civs have some banger themes tho

Argentina:

Mexico:

Colombia:

We've researched Fission, and get The Manhattan Project started in Pella, Greece.

We're really having trouble making friends with Prussia/Germany

If we want Hitler (I assume you chuds do ) we'll probably need to convince Germany to become fascist through civic changes. Not possible if they hate us.

It is possible if they're our vassal.

For example, if we give Spain enough technologies to adopt Totalitarianism (WITHOUT a planned economy, otherwise they're commies), then encourage them to do so...

Philip II becomes Franco

If we want a pet Hitler, we'll have to get Germany to capitulate

First: America. The Rise of the Americans event is over so they can mechanically capitulate. We capture Washington almost right in 1812

It's now the Roman "Province of America". I give them back their cities and board my army to retvrn to Evrope

Interestingly, they seem to think some cities in Japan should belong to them.

I'm getting overextended, so it's worth considering

Btw, despite having almost 15k ducats in the bank we're not #1 in wealth. That honor goes to the original gangsta Mansa Musa

Dom Pedro of Brazil spawns with the smoothest banger yet

Our general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus prepares to vassalize Germany. We have tanks now

Agrippina's army from America is gonna come from the west while Magnus comes from the east

They've been trying unsuccessfully to fight the Archduchy of Austria so are gonna be a little softened up. This should be over quick.

We can speed it up even more by having our spy start a revolt in the city, removing their defenses and allowing us to attack over a river semi-safely.

Within one turn we've taken most of his territory. Get blitzkrieg'd b-word

Bismarck is quickly willing to capitulate.

Now the "Province of Borussia" is willing to accept my new government.

A few turns later and HE'S HERE!!!!

Ethiopia apparently had a Defensive Pact with Germany so we're at war again now. I have just the thing for them

Nukes are much more powerful than in base game. I finish off stragglers with some biplanes and move in to take this irradiated shithole.

Probably nearing the endgame soon. I may be touching grass tomorrow so if not Saturday maybe Sunday

In the meantime, there's a missing String for Communist Sweden - someone give me a good name for them and I'll go into the XML files and change it.

NEXT

ignore the 0 effort plating

The followup:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Adulting/comments/1ij2pq9/time_stamp_vol_2_more_context/

/u/No_Excitement5215, you were fired for being a peepee, not for being late. I've done this too with people. It's way easier to fire you on a technicality than to go through the rigamarole of HR bs. Your former coworkers are probably thrilled you're gone. I feel bad for your preggo gf. Judging by your posts, you're going to split the second she shits that thing out.

!g*mers

!friendsofspiderman

Who should I ban next. Should I ban award @sandkwinn more? She said something mean to my girlfriend. I hate her. I hate Sandkwinn.

the maymays said musk was gonna make genetically engineered catgirls why he makin the eggs cost more

Not funny not insightful, doesn't even play that deep cuts. Mandalor is way better. Good points, funny, deep cuts.

Upmarseys mandatory

!kino Ne Zha 2 might actually make over 2 billion dollars and be a strong contender against Avatar 3 later this year.

https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1iqwxwa/in_china_ne_zha_2_grossed_an_incredible/

You don't need to take kids to the grocery store with you. I understand restaurants and movies and other places, but why do you need to take kids to the grocery store? Putting their filthy hands on the meat and veg.Order online if you can't get somebody to watch them for 2 hours.

— The Lawnmower Man 🇺🇸 🏴‍☠️ (@JohnsonLwnNPest) February 9, 2025

I'm sorry but Europe is so 🚬 y now. It's become Orwellian, with people being arrested for thinking about dead babies, and with streams of illegal immigrants running about raping everybody while the governments all cheerlead diversity and say "nothing to see here".

The fact that the left has to reflexively defend European decline under the guise of "be nice to our allies!" is just so fricking ghey.

!oldstrags

redditards try to turn a Hobbit-hole of a subreddit into a Mount Doom

First reported by @Senpai:

https://rdrama.net/post/335813/mod-of-small-lord-of-the

Some of these read-another-book jannies are alright

SRDines, ever caught between cringe and nerdshit are even force to bow:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1i9dd51/the_lord_of_the_rings_reddit_fanbase_suffers_a/

You won't believe what happened

In the southeastern part of the Kursk salient, Russian forces began counterattacks against the new Ukrainian positions in and around Cherkasskaya Konopelka and Fanaseevka.

They advanced in two directions on the flanks of the Ukrainian spearhead. In the east, Russian forces… pic.twitter.com/gJLFBFSZ8u

— AMK Mapping 🇺🇦🇳🇿 (@AMK_Mapping_) February 9, 2025

Russian retreated a bit to let Ukrainian…

wait for it

Wait

A new pocket

Novosilka wasn't enough with a 100% wipe

Ukraine continues to having more pockets

This map seems to also now updating slow

Since Russian mod report of capturing after reinforcements has arrived

According to Zelenskyy, a "significant number" of enemy troops were destroyed. He gave no details but said the losses were in the hundreds.

Billions

Russia's Ministry of Defense said Saturday that it had repelled a Ukrainian counterattack in the Kursk region.

Russia said Friday its forces had captured the mining town of Toretsk in their latest breakthrough in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, where Ukrainian defenses are creaking. Ukrainian officials did not confirm the report.

I just love how the reporters sucker punch it

But let's ask our expert that knows everything Ukraine is doing is right:

@rdramamademegay

Since invasion of Kursk where Ukraine gained around 1400 km and now holding 400km and a town Sudzha with pre conflict population of 5000 people.

Ukraine lost those town with population over 10000 people: Kurakhove, Selydove, Hirnyk, Vuhledar, New York, Pivnichne, Ukrainsk, Krasnohorivka, Novohrodivka and of course Toretsk

You see that's why I love khohols they rush to lower the population of towns they are about to lose. I respect it and I am understandable so

So it's a 31k city.

And those clowns doing it other wise with Sudzha

They writing its population is 6k

While

So @rdramamademegay was it worth holding 400km of basically rural farm land in Kursk while losing land in the most populated and mineral rich region ? I ask pure rational question no need for emotional answers.

There is very good reason why Trump asking Zelenskyy to leave Kursk since Putin told there won't be any peace talk until Ukrainian are in Kursk and this month Ukraine is about to lose more than 400km in Kharkiv. Putin can get that land back when he wants and while Ukraine send its best men to Kursk and launches reckless offensive in zone where they are now outnumbered is a great gift for Putin in an attrition war.

Also here funny event

This week Korean soldiers left

But Ukraine offensive failed and they getting owned so this weekend

North Korean returned

@rdramamademegay Fact check this genius

/u/LilliaBaltimore is still posting public bathroom selfies regularly (see [NO DRAMA] A Reddit poweruser is STILL getting to the top of /r/waltdisneyworld by posting bathroom selfies for more info.

Yesterday he posted a rainbow which makes me wonder if he's not so subtly calling out for Disney World hookups?

Anyone who dares to say "hey public bathroom selfies are weird and not on topic for /r/WaltDisneyWorld" is called a racist gatekeeper by /u/MarleyTheBeagle, the most typical Reddit imaginable.