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Kathleen De Vere

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Magic content creator, chaotic Dungeon Manger, music nerd, freelance lunatic, Kathleen@loadingreadyrun dot com

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Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 15d

Good morning! It's Pizzamas, and that means I can finally tell people about THIS:
pizzamas.com/collections/...

I wrote another Pizzamas Dungeons and Dragons adventure!

It's got tons of Nerdfighter references (and a few just for the LRR fans, heh heh), jokes and a message board!

Pizzamas One Shot - Part II

Did you absolutely love the first adventure? Well we’ve got a new one cooked up for you! Now with some new pre-gen characters and packed with a whole lot of excitement! Are you a DM? If you purchase t...

pizzamas.com

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radley #1 jace fan @robotrad.bsky.social · 4h

i do think vraska would think labubus are cute

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Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 4h

“What do you mean it’s not appropriate for children?” Vraska grinned as she pinned the strange toy to her satchel. “It looks like it has a knife! All children should be taught to recognize danger.”

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jay! @pogona.space · 7h

We need to steer magic community online into a fandom. What do you mean its been months and theres not a single fanfic on ao3 with alpharael and his hole. Hes a white boy talking about his hole any fandom would have taken that and ran

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Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 8h

Obligatory do you want to be apple music friends?

Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 8h

If you are truly getting sick, you may as well give in. Open your windows for airflow, ditch the masks (just for comfort, you’re sick!) and then have a nap.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10h

Setting aside graverobbing woman who died in no small part due to men exploiting her image, copyright violations aren't "growing pains." It's literally the law. They’re breaking the law. Without copyright law, there is no creative industry, and without a creative industry, there is no genAI.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Katie @legdotegg.bsky.social · 11h

A duskmorn zimone sketch

#zimone #duskmorn #strixhaven #quandrix #mtg #mtgart #magicthegathering

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Jarrett P. @notcrucial.bsky.social · 10h

I've been scrolling BS a lot less lately, and I think it's due to a lack of personal posts. It used to feel like I followed individuals and now it just feels like a news feed or horrors. I know all social media reflects the times, but man, im so tired.

Kate Dollarhyde @katedollarhyde.bsky.social · 11h

i need you all to post more daily life stuff. i know we're all here to stare into the void together but i want to know what you made for dinner and what you've been reading before bed between all the void-staring.

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Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 10h

Loud boys in your area

LoadingReadyRun @loadingreadyrun.com · 10h

Time for Is This Your Card! Today we're playing meta decks on the One Piece TCG. twitch.tv/loadingready...

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 12h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 13h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 15h

Hear Darkside's phenomenal new single "One Last Nothing"

Darkside Share New Single "One Last Nothing": Listen

Darkside, the psych/electronic band founded by Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington, expanded to a trio for this year’s Nothing with the addition of drummer Tlacael Esparza. We named it our Album Of The W...

www.stereogum.com

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LoadingReadyRun @loadingreadyrun.com · 1d

Today is LoadingReadyRun's 22nd anniversary!🎈🎂

Kinda snuck up on us so we don't really have anything planned, but hey, we've got two streams happening and plenty of stuff from the past to watch. So to celebrate go watch your favorite LRR video of all time, and let us know what it is!

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 1d

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

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Katie @legdotegg.bsky.social · 1d

While waiting in line for secret lair I finished a drawing of Nahiri as Ophelia I'm still going back and forth on whether I want to add flowers or not

when I hear the line rosemary for remembrance I think of her

#nahiri #mtg #mtgart #phyrexia #magicthegathering #ophelia #allwillbeone

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 1d

“Dibs.”

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Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 1d

a good choice!!

Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 1d

Favorite album (current or otherwise)?

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not sure if my cat is a terrible or incredible negotiator.

trade offer meme template. Man is labelled with "my cat" on his forehead
Trade offer
I receive: Scritches
You receive: Getting to give me scritches

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Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 2d

I APPRECIATE YOU!!!

Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 2d

I appreciate that you like it! I put a lot of work into this and it’s nice to get feedback!

Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 2d

Also EVERY play tester who found this asked for Bort as soon as I mentioned keychains. It was delightful to get every single one of them.

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Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 2d

Last day for Pizzamas stuff!

Here's one of my favorite throw-away jokes in the game. This is an optional thing in one transitionary location BTW. I wrote almost 60(!) pages of jokes for this, many of which are probably just for the DM!

pizzamas.com/collections/...

THE GIFT SHOP:
• An assortment of “personalized” keychains featuring common names like Hank, John, Dave, and Bort. (Roll a luck check (D20, no modifiers.) On a 14 or higher, the player’s name is in stock.
• Pizzamas themed gifts for everyone on a pizzamas shopping list. There are shirts, pyjamas, hats, hair claws, and even colouring books. Inexplicably, the pizza-scented candles are sold out.
• Frozen Banana Locos on a Stick. Flavors include: Baked Beans, Zesty Peanut Butter, and Mixed Up Ladder. They are 1 gold piece/$6.99 and advertise “miraculous nutritional properties.”

Further Investigating the Frozen Banana Locos:
Whatever Mixed Up Ladder is, the label indicates the flavour is “100% humane.” The ingredients list is: banana, ladder filling (simulated), artificial flavors. Baked Beans and Zesty Peanut Butter are more self-explanatory.

If anyone buys and eats a Banana Loco:
They are fully healed, but they have to describe how it tastes.

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Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 2d

is that a supportive chuckle? XD

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

Portland is showing the way. Hail Portland

FOX 12 Oregon facebook post screenshot. Headline reads "Latest Updates: 2 more arrested near Portland ICE facility Saturday." Picture shows people outsid the ICE facility in blow-up costumes, L-R: Squidward, Mr. Potato Head, not sure but it's a diapered person in a trucker hat, Garfield, again not sure, banana, lobster

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