Chip Roush

Chip Roush

@chiproush.bsky.social

Minister, Prairie Unitarian Universalist Church. Board-game-playing Deadhead, living into Postdoom climate understanding. BLM. they/he.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app

My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

kickstarter.comPositive Deviance NYC: Building Clean Air CultureBack our next three clean-air NYC music events in 2027 and join a growing community building a more accessible cultural life.

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Scott Horton
@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
Chip Roush
@chiproush.bsky.social

I just pledged!

Lunarpunk Games@lunarpunk.games

The Color Jam Kickstarter is now live! 🖍️ We're very excited by the design work Gene Koo and Joe Kell put into this game, along with the beautiful art by Erin Laue, and are honored we get to share it with you. We can't wait to see the incredible art you make through this cozy, puzzle-y game.

kickstarter.comColor Jam: A Print-and-Puzzle Coloring GameEnjoy cozy and clever coloring at your next game night. Craft the story of each hand-illustrated picture with creative color choices!

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Allison Gill
@muellershewrote.com

Because I’m white, it was easy for me to conflate the solidarity we witnessed on the ground among New Yorkers on 9/11 for some kind of colorblind national unity in the months and years that followed. The reality is and was vastly different.

Chip Roush
@chiproush.bsky.social

College football is about tradition—including the tradition of UM cheating

Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social

The mind-blowing, controversial Western Michigan-Michigan finish. Noah Eagle, Todd Blackledge, and rules analyst Terry McAulay have the commentary on the stunning scene for NBC. 🏈🦓🎙️

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster
@chriswarcraft.bsky.social

As a former professional football player, I can confidently say that this essay is incorrect from every conceivable angle, and contributes heavily to the culture of toxic masculinity that still infests high schools and colleges across the country.

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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

ysph.yale.eduUniversal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study ProjectsA single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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David_j_roth
@davidjroth.bsky.social

"Lake America" instantly just absolutely clogged with algae. Six uniformed National Guard guys standing on a beach dumping windex into it. It smells like a turtle tank.

Chip Roush
@chiproush.bsky.social

If you play any RPGs, do yourself a favor and get The Quiet Year. It’ll blow your mind

Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony@lackingceremony.bsky.social

Do you love any of the games that I have created? Whether it's Monsterhearts, Dream Askew, The Quiet Year, Going For Broke, or a deeper cut, now would be a great time to hit quote-tweet and tell your friends about it! It's been a slow month. 💕✨ store.buriedwithoutceremony.com

store.buriedwithoutceremony.comBuried Without CeremonyMy name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...

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Kendra, spooky version
@kendrawcandraw.bsky.social

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Starbucks Workers United
@sbworkersunited.org

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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Drew Scanlon
@drewscanlon.bsky.social

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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innes mck
@innes.bsky.social

again i am just not that interested in debating whether human rights should theoretically extend to robots and ai when we currently don't even extend them to all humans

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Brandon Friedman
@brandonfriedman.bsky.social

Abolishing ICE is now the official position of the Democratic Party

Dante Atkins@danteatkins.bsky.social

Here are things that happened at the DNC today: 1) Resolution calling to abolish ICE unanimously adopted 2) Brand-new early state calendar that reflects the full diversity of the Democratic base 3) Rejection of insider efforts to ban RCV from being used in presidential primaries Great results here

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alec karakatsanis
@equalityalec.bsky.social

THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.

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Haunt Ghostman
@jpbradley.bsky.social

You might read this and think it doesn't seem simple, but the difference is just experience. Read more ttrpgs, and more varied rpgs, and run your games. Time will teach you how to read a game and understand what the important parts are to you and, crucially, your players. AI robs you of this craft.

💀Elaine Lich-glow💀@elainelithgow.bsky.social

One of the best DnD campaigns I ever ran used one A4 sheet of paper for notes, the default GM screen, and a whiteboard plus some generic tokens for complex combat. It for three years and my group still say it's one of the best campaigns they've been a part of. It's really not that complicated!

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@planetx.bsky.social

*standing up on the plane* So, the Molly Houses of 18th century London were not just the gay bars of the era, but also were settings of vast assortment of gender play, including weddings, and "mock birth" rituals where patrons would be reborn in identities and family units of their choosing. The inf

Lee Knox Ostertag@leeknoxostertag.bsky.social

*standing up on the plane* okay so the first thing you need to consider when interrogating if Frodo and Sam from Lord of the Rings are an example of romantic love is to understand Tolkien's context; what did same sex love mean to an academic and a veteran of world war one in the middle of the 20th c

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Cole Wehrle @ Essen
@colewehrle.bsky.social

Today we’re posting the prelaunch page for our next game: the second edition of An Infamous Traffic. There is so much to say about this game, and we’ll be talking about it quite a bit in the coming months, but I wanted to provide a little background here. 🧵 www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

kickstarter.comComing soon: An Infamous Traffic: Second EditionA new edition of the acclaimed game of cutthroat capitalism in the nineteenth century opium trade.

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Tom Humberstone
@tomhumberstone.com

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

The Guardian@theguardian.com

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

theguardian.comGeorge Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and cartsThe Star Wars director has called AI technology ‘the future’ of film-making and advised ‘there’s nothing you can do about it’ Star Wars director George Lucas has added his voice to the growing chorus of film-makers receptive to the rising use of AI tools in moviemaking. Speaking in an interview with A Rabbit’s Foot, Lucas, 82, said: “Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies.” Continue reading...