Notices by Rebecca Watson (rebeccawatson@mstdn.social), page 5

Guys like this are the exact reason I casually mention Israel's genocide in videos. I would like them to know that history will see them as enablers of atrocity, because let's be honest: in 20 years when it's obvious to everyone, they'll pretend they were on the other side.
https://mstdn.social/@rebeccawatson/112452736835887696

the other day I was biking through town listening to music on (bone conduction) headphones when a crazy guy on the sidewalk leaned over and screamed “BITCH” at me. but I swear to god he screamed it just as Texaco Bitches came on and he was right in time with the music. it ruled

A few weeks ago, CBS Sunday Morning aired a really disgusting PR package for Tyler Henry, a scam artist (IMO) who pretends to have psychic powers in order to prey upon vulnerable people. It's 2024, we don't need this shit. https://skepchick.org/2024/04/psychic-psychopaths-have-to-go/

this is the only day of the year that I am legally allowed to post a pic from eloping on a beach 3 years ago

hey I have a new video up right now!! the US government is banning TikTok to make you think they care about your private data, which they will continue buying from data brokers using 4th amendment loopholes https://skepchick.org/2024/04/banning-tiktok-wont-fix-the-problem/

(secret billionaire meeting)

WALGREENS CEO: ok so the vote passes, whenever we fuck up we blame shoplifters and minimum wage increases, right?

LOWES CEO: yep

TARGET CEO: got it

RED LOBSTER CEO (in the corner shoveling shrimp into mouth): mmhmm

Will the recall of Cybertrucks make our roads safer, or are people who are dumb enough to buy a Cybertruck also dumb enough to keep driving them after being informed they will randomly pancake pedestrians?

Lots of pro-Palestine protests today, so I think it's worth remembering that protests that disrupt regular people's lives can work even if you don't like them https://skepchick.org/2020/06/study-says-extreme-protest-isnt-popular-but-it-can-still-be-effective/

I have until Monday to tell Climate Ride whether I want to bike 60 miles (my previous max in one day) or 100 miles on day 1. I have a month to get in shape. What say you fellow cyclists and people who consider taking on more than you probably should? https://support.climateride.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.participant&participantID=12036

this is why I do functional weight training 3x a week

What is the Comstock Law and why are a bunch of lunatics planning to use it to outlaw abortion? If you've been hoping to learn all about this while also learning the plot to Weekend at Bernie's II, today's your lucky day https://skepchick.org/2024/04/comstock-the-zombie-coming-to-take-your-healthcare-away/

@forteller I am getting hundreds of messages like this, and it's not important, it's stupid as shit. I know how Mastodon works. I used it as a framing device. Most people don't know or care how the fediverse works and I wasn't going to derail an entire video explaining it to them.

Good morning! Today I'd like to talk about Libs of TikTok, stochastic terrorism, and whether or not Mastodon was right to remove my posts for condoning violence against Bryan Doyle Murray https://skepchick.org/2024/03/is-libs-of-tiktok-a-stochastic-terrorist-am-i/

one week ago the @MontereyAq told me to sign up for text shrimp facts so obviously I did, only to get GHOST SHRIMPED. So I'm going to send THEM a shrimp fact every day.

letting vin diesel make movies is the closest thing scientists have to understanding the average 8 year old’s imagination and there should be a permanent government grant to allow him to continue

Remember the Pulitzer Prize-winning Jared Diamond book Guns, Germs, and Steel that was on your early 2000s boyfriend's bookshelf? A new study tests his main hypothesis and finds it lacking. New video + a transcript in case YouTube is down today https://skepchick.org/2024/03/study-guns-germs-and-steel-was-wrong/

A new study suggests that when older couples get divorced, their adult children drift away from their fathers. Let's talk about "grey divorce," male loneliness, and the emotional labor expected of women https://skepchick.org/2024/03/why-your-divorced-dad-never-calls-you/

finally watching The Marvels and I already loved the Kamala Khan series so I knew I’d like it more than most but I just got to the Trojan kitten scene where alien monster cats eat an entire civilization to the tune of Memories and sorry but if you didn’t like this movie you suck

Update on my video from two weeks ago: the CDC did the thing they said they weren't going to do https://skepchick.org/2024/02/the-cdc-gives-up-on-covid-19/

You already know that bots are spreading misinformation on social media, but here's a new thing to worry about: bots that spread apathy. They made you hate Amber Heard & they can do much, much worse https://skepchick.org/2024/03/catching-empathy-and-how-bots-made-you-hate-amber-heard/