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Diversity Saves @diversitysaves.bsky.social · 23h

Tune in this week for our First Friday Fundraiser on Oct 2 at 5pm PST/8pm EST! Live on Twitch with GM Mariko, Cris, katie cofield Lisa Mantchev and Jonathan aka RoadBlock The chickens are fighting back! Let’s hope their plans don’t run a-fowl!

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Jonathan aka RoadBlock @roadblock.bsky.social · 23h

SOME WEIRD CHICKENS GONNA TAKE DOWN THE MAN!

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katie cofield @katiecofield.bsky.social · 23h

Brave & talented friends: @longlostabletop.bsky.social @roadblock.bsky.social @lisamantchev.bsky.social & @rollforcris(on IG)! ‘Something Is Wrong with the Chickens’ is a freaking delightful 1 page TTRPG by @moreblueberries.bsky.social Come hang w/ us & help the table top better reflect our world!

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katie cofield @katiecofield.bsky.social · 23h

Proceeds support Diversity Saves’ grant program, which provides funds for creators from marginalized communities to support projects that bring a positive impact to the TTRPG space and foster diverse viewpoints and voices!

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katie cofield @katiecofield.bsky.social · 23h

y’all, please join me for some fowl play this friday, October 2 at 5pm PT/8pm ET! i’m playing ‘Something Is Wrong with the Chickens’ with the good folks of @diversitysaves.bsky.social alongside some brave and talented new friends! 💛🐥💛

A blue, purple and yellow square with information about a fundraising Friday streaming episode of the table top game “Something is wrong with the chickens”, which benefits a cool organization called Diversity Saves. Pictures of the cast and a cute cartoon chicken are also here!

A white square which reads: What is Diversity Saves?
Diversity Saves is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization comprised of passionate BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Neurodivergent, and Disabled TTRPG Creators, Actors, and Fans who wanted to create a means to amplify our voices not only in the community but in the works we consume across the industry. We have committed to the promotion and uplifting of marginalized communities in the tabletop roleplaying industry and, with funding from our donors, we seek to aid our community in the following ways:
Distribute grants to TTRPG organizations and creators from marginalized communities (such as BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Disabled, and Neurodivergent people) to fund future projects and creative pursuits
Provide TTRPG supplies and materials to educational and recreational centers in marginalized communities to promote education and creative exploration
Uplift voices and provide a platform for underrepresented creators to promote
Diversity and Inclusion

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Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's wild she's a talking head for the "meritocracy!" crowd while owing her *entire existence* in the media ecosphere to placing 5th in a final collegiate swimming event and turning it to hate on trans folk. Like, she was a successful college swimmer, took one last L and spun a hate career from it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the right's crippling lack of ball knowledge strikes again

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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pleased to say I’m a @cdprojektred.com Creator! ✌🏾 Kicking off this first week as part of the program with loads of @thewitcher.com 3: The Wild Hunt Remastered!

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LaTia is a free agent @latiajacquise.com · 28/09/2026

well. two months before my four-year anniversary, my role at wizards has been made redundant, and I have been laid off. i have a lot of feelings i'll probably never put words to, except to say that i don't regret a single day and have so much love for anyone else affected and those who remain.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

now here is a level set

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is the only political ad that understands the situation

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/09/2026

These 7 men at Cornell drugged & raped a woman for hours, then called their friends to come rape her. 2 men got expelled. 5 had to write letter of apology. 0 faced any consequences. Men throughout the societal ladder are complicit. Women are not safe around men.

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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Iowa wins.

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Lucy Rohden @lucyrohden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i cant breathe oh my god

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Lucy Rohden @lucyrohden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I did a spell on Michigan obviously they are in the fridge

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

truth

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There is a perfectly moral and ethical way to live together and republicans are ready to kill us all to prevent it, so I think that might be more the problem.

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Seth Emerson @sethemerson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Offensive yards at halftime: Georgia 150, Oklahoma 140. Score at halftime: Georgia 28, Oklahoma 0

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

herbstreit: Tennessee should consider kicking a field goal tennessee: [immediately scores a touchdown]

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the cosmically most correct ending possible nothing hurts anymore bsky.app/profile/edsb...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026

This is actually hell, right?

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here's Laura Rutledge explaining that the secret service will not interfere with the radio communications at this game immediately followed by the broadcast audio going to hell

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

hilarious that they're talking about interference with the secret service's radio signals on the broadcast and the audio immediately goes to shit

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Lucy Rohden @lucyrohden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

im sorry the irony of talking about communication in the stadium and then their mics turn to shit is so funny

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

incredible metaphor for the broadcast to go immediately from “we’re told the president should not impact headset communications” to “ABC’s audio sounds like an emergency broadcast from 1936”

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Long Dog Dice @longdogdice.com · 26/09/2026

Set up for the night market at The Tiny Minotaur tonight!

A woman with fair skin and purple hair wearing a white blouse and a brown corset stands behind a display table looking excited with her arms in the air. The table has a banner draped over it that says "Long Dog Dice" and has an array of dice on display.

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OboeLauren🔜PAXUnplugged @lauren-urban.com · 25/09/2026

It's time for my home #dnd game where we're starting up a Humblewood campaign. I've got delicious mead from @theedoctorb.bsky.social and fantastic friends and spellfire!! Woo!!

On the computer is a D&D Beyond character sheet of a Sylph Sorcerer named Veer Garganscar. In front of it is a hand holding a glass of mead.

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Jonathan aka RoadBlock @roadblock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is what the billionaire class wants. They want our money, our labor, and our essence. None of that requires us to be intelligent or attentive.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Mebhy ✶ @mebhy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Been cleaning up my paid newsletter subs, my barometer for keep/unsub is 2 articles about the discrimination faced by trans people in 2026. I have unsubscribed to A LOT of people I would have previously called good progressive independent journalists.

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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Disable gambling ads:

Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Sponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Manage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Celici Lorena @celicilorena.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is no way that Bungie can unvault the game AND eventually make new stuff for Destiny 2 AND keep working on an entire second game when they've laid off so much of the talent they needed to make it in the first place. Stop trusting executives just because they say what you want to hear.

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What Tr*mp did at the UN Summit isn't just "embarrassing", it's a world power threatening nuclear war on an allied nation, in front of them and all allies No matter how much you understandably want to separate that man from the country at large, you gotta understand he *is* speaking as the USA

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Celeste Conowitch @cconowitch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hey cool kids, I'm excited to share that I've joined the Wizards of the Coast D&D Team as their new Senior Game Developer! It has been a strange and wondrous journey here---but I'm raring to face all the new thrills & challenges that lie ahead ✨⚔️✨ #WotCStaff

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this angle and the still shot at the end absolutely fried me 🤣

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No one is disposable, including the canary ❤️🦜✊

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OboeLauren🔜PAXUnplugged @lauren-urban.com · 21/09/2026

Last night I ran a session of Forgotten Odysseys for friends and we had a blast! I've played MÖRK BORG before but never GMed. When @badeye.bsky.social & @brokendoorgames.bsky.social put the game out I knew this was a setting I wanted to try! I had so much fun GMing a PC carrying around a ladder.

A black and white drawing of four characters, all in various basic Greek outfits. The one on the left is holding a ladder, the next has an impressive cape and badge of office, the next a long spear and a patch over one eye, and the last a shield connected to an arm cut off at the elbow and an arrow sticking out of an eye with a small owl perched on it.

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OboeLauren🔜PAXUnplugged @lauren-urban.com · 21/09/2026

I learned so much about GMing this type of game thanks to having awesome players, and I think they had fun too! So thanks @roadblock.bsky.social @gooberthegr8.bsky.social Clem, and @lukemckay.bsky.social for joining me! And thanks Luke for drawing the characters! ...how about another adventure?

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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My view of Tommy Carr's completion to Salesi Moa for a touchdown was uh......... close!!

very tight photo of him catching the ball. you can't tell he's in the endzone and can only see his torso

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Jonathan aka RoadBlock @roadblock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

TinyWife™ made me the cutest card for today!

a white card with a yellow border, with a anthropomorphic toast and butter pat holding a heart shaped balloon. Text says " A little birthday toast to you"

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Jonathan aka RoadBlock @roadblock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've never actually worn netherite anything before!

RoadBlock's minecraft character, wearing a netherite chest piece

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