Zupancic! at the Disco
@zupancia.bsky.social
American writer/teacher/parent and professional gamemaster in Georgia-the-country. Polisci, anthro, linguistics, data analysis, jokes. Third-generation Wokeist. he/they. My kink is karma.
My GM profile: https://startplaying.games/gm/ninesides
My GM profile: https://startplaying.games/gm/ninesides
screenshot of OP in case I get blocked, I guess...
March 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM
screenshot of OP in case I get blocked, I guess...
Voyager 4x17: Retrospect
Well, this episode aged poorly.
Having lived through this period of time I get that it was about the danger of therapists producing false childhood memories. It was ripped from the headlines and a reasonably well-informed person would have known what it was about...
Well, this episode aged poorly.
Having lived through this period of time I get that it was about the danger of therapists producing false childhood memories. It was ripped from the headlines and a reasonably well-informed person would have known what it was about...
![Malpractice cases
During the late 1990s, there were multiple lawsuits in the United States in which psychiatrists and psychologists were successfully sued, or settled out of court, on the charge of propagating iatrogenic memories of childhood sexual abuse, incest, and satanic ritual abuse.[33]
Some of these suits were brought by individuals who later declared that their recovered memories of incest or satanic ritual abuse had been false. The False Memory Syndrome Foundation uses the term retractors to describe these individuals, and has shared their stories publicly.[34] There is debate regarding the total number of retractions as compared to the total number of allegations,[35] and the reasons for retractions.[36]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erwcgvaakzo4mxjo7sgjyfef/bafkreiadkw46whmeegjxosraxzfri2mpbelj2p4v3pk744ew6ctjoyjpsm@jpeg)
March 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Voyager 4x17: Retrospect
Well, this episode aged poorly.
Having lived through this period of time I get that it was about the danger of therapists producing false childhood memories. It was ripped from the headlines and a reasonably well-informed person would have known what it was about...
Well, this episode aged poorly.
Having lived through this period of time I get that it was about the danger of therapists producing false childhood memories. It was ripped from the headlines and a reasonably well-informed person would have known what it was about...
when spotify serves up an unexpectedly delicious song transition
March 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
when spotify serves up an unexpectedly delicious song transition
Finally a hybrid scene - the tokens are characters behind the one-way mirror, in the next room, watching the interrogation, which is taking place between the Theatre Inserts characters. I think the hybrid approach is actually my favorite of the three.
February 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Finally a hybrid scene - the tokens are characters behind the one-way mirror, in the next room, watching the interrogation, which is taking place between the Theatre Inserts characters. I think the hybrid approach is actually my favorite of the three.
Here's a theatre of the mind scene, where characters conducted an investigation of a demolished science lab. The Theatre Inserts module lets me move character art cards in and out to represent who is present and talking in the scene.
February 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Here's a theatre of the mind scene, where characters conducted an investigation of a demolished science lab. The Theatre Inserts module lets me move character art cards in and out to represent who is present and talking in the scene.
Normally I use tokens on a top-down battlemap, but for today's confrontation I went with a perspective scene as the crew fought their way down a tunnel, under fire from some hired guns. I just scaled the tokens to indicate distance, which I thought produced a really cool effect.
February 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Normally I use tokens on a top-down battlemap, but for today's confrontation I went with a perspective scene as the crew fought their way down a tunnel, under fire from some hired guns. I just scaled the tokens to indicate distance, which I thought produced a really cool effect.
Pharma salaries average $63K in France and $91K in the US, plus France has higher mandatory employer contributions to public benefits. If drugs cost 50% more in the US that could be considered fair. $25 vs $66 is 264% more. $25 vs $539 is 2156% more. That is absolutely absurd and unjustified.
February 2, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Pharma salaries average $63K in France and $91K in the US, plus France has higher mandatory employer contributions to public benefits. If drugs cost 50% more in the US that could be considered fair. $25 vs $66 is 264% more. $25 vs $539 is 2156% more. That is absolutely absurd and unjustified.
"now he's gonna destroy Gaza"
I didn't realize you'd been in a coma for the past 15 months. Congratulations on recovering. Now go and read the news before you open your ignorant mouth.
Israel destroyed Gaza with the Democrats' full funding and support. Past tense.
I didn't realize you'd been in a coma for the past 15 months. Congratulations on recovering. Now go and read the news before you open your ignorant mouth.
Israel destroyed Gaza with the Democrats' full funding and support. Past tense.
January 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"now he's gonna destroy Gaza"
I didn't realize you'd been in a coma for the past 15 months. Congratulations on recovering. Now go and read the news before you open your ignorant mouth.
Israel destroyed Gaza with the Democrats' full funding and support. Past tense.
I didn't realize you'd been in a coma for the past 15 months. Congratulations on recovering. Now go and read the news before you open your ignorant mouth.
Israel destroyed Gaza with the Democrats' full funding and support. Past tense.
January 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
and seen wearing a mask in public?
December 12, 2024 at 5:28 AM
and seen wearing a mask in public?
Love the shade in this last para.
Also this is the second time I've noticed GD painting Salome as "emotional" or "irrational". Not sure if those criticisms are as gendered in Georgian as they are in English - Georgian men are known to be incredibly emotional - but it's something to look for.
Also this is the second time I've noticed GD painting Salome as "emotional" or "irrational". Not sure if those criticisms are as gendered in Georgian as they are in English - Georgian men are known to be incredibly emotional - but it's something to look for.
December 4, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Love the shade in this last para.
Also this is the second time I've noticed GD painting Salome as "emotional" or "irrational". Not sure if those criticisms are as gendered in Georgian as they are in English - Georgian men are known to be incredibly emotional - but it's something to look for.
Also this is the second time I've noticed GD painting Salome as "emotional" or "irrational". Not sure if those criticisms are as gendered in Georgian as they are in English - Georgian men are known to be incredibly emotional - but it's something to look for.
Really?
"Tolerance isn't a moral standard"?
So being intolerant isn't bad or wrong? Tolerance is just something you can opt out of, like choosing not to receive personalized ads when you make a new Microsoft account?
Social contract theory is dumb as rocks. Please don't use it to explain things.
"Tolerance isn't a moral standard"?
So being intolerant isn't bad or wrong? Tolerance is just something you can opt out of, like choosing not to receive personalized ads when you make a new Microsoft account?
Social contract theory is dumb as rocks. Please don't use it to explain things.
November 29, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Really?
"Tolerance isn't a moral standard"?
So being intolerant isn't bad or wrong? Tolerance is just something you can opt out of, like choosing not to receive personalized ads when you make a new Microsoft account?
Social contract theory is dumb as rocks. Please don't use it to explain things.
"Tolerance isn't a moral standard"?
So being intolerant isn't bad or wrong? Tolerance is just something you can opt out of, like choosing not to receive personalized ads when you make a new Microsoft account?
Social contract theory is dumb as rocks. Please don't use it to explain things.
Here's what I wrote the day it came out. In retrospect I think I may have been too calm and measured.
We knew from the IFR up to October 2020 that "minimal risk" meant hundreds of thousands of people would die horribly. *Horribly*. We feared it would be millions. We were right.
We knew from the IFR up to October 2020 that "minimal risk" meant hundreds of thousands of people would die horribly. *Horribly*. We feared it would be millions. We were right.
November 28, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Here's what I wrote the day it came out. In retrospect I think I may have been too calm and measured.
We knew from the IFR up to October 2020 that "minimal risk" meant hundreds of thousands of people would die horribly. *Horribly*. We feared it would be millions. We were right.
We knew from the IFR up to October 2020 that "minimal risk" meant hundreds of thousands of people would die horribly. *Horribly*. We feared it would be millions. We were right.
"the person" you mean the tens of thousands of people. The idea that this stems from a single person is disinformation from Rowling's camp. People are saying it because we saw it happen in real time a month ago.
April 22, 2024 at 2:20 PM
"the person" you mean the tens of thousands of people. The idea that this stems from a single person is disinformation from Rowling's camp. People are saying it because we saw it happen in real time a month ago.