I've walked into many a wall

I have played in LARP games where there was a safe word both to pause the game itself, and to call for help and have it be understood that you meant it out of game, rather than in-game.

This is pretty common in any kind of improv theater which has what we call "street work," like a Ren Faire. Because you're playing out scenes which may involve emulating distress, you need a way to say "there's a real problem." Thus, the ren faires I've been at use "in faith" and "in sooth."

Delighted to announce this bird is real and is a corvid.

I haven’t seen it in the notes yet, so afaik, here’s the source of that video! So now you can see the funny poison bird much more clearly.

DeSantis is attacking education in as many places in Florida as possible--he's forced colleges to detail what funds they spent on "diversity, equity and inclusion" and is pushing for a ban on diversity programs as of TODAY. He's taking over the most radical liberal arts college in Florida and filling the board with his own conservatives and trying to change them from diversity, equity and inclusion to "equality, merit, and colorblindness" and wants to prevent fucking gender ideology. IE it's the queerest campus in Florida and they all hate him. And he ousted the president who called it a hostile takeover and replaced her with a former Republican House speaker Richard Corcoran--who by the way, has supported every single other thing DeSantis has done in schools, like making it easier to DECERTIFY teachers' unions and trying to push private schools or public education spending.