Notices by Rebecca Watson (rebeccawatson@mstdn.social), page 7

I realized I'm allergic to our Christmas tree so I'm vacuuming up fallen needles as if that will help when there's still an 8-foot Christmas tree in my sitting room that I will refuse to remove until January 2nd at the earliest

last weekend a bartender told me to buy a fancy brand of cherries for my old fashioneds. Friday date night I saw them. They cost 50 cents a cherry. I’d had 2 glasses of wine so I bought them over my partner’s protestations. THEY ARE DELICIOUS THE BARTENDER WAS RIGHT

Were you praying for a new video from me this week? Well I have good news and bad news https://youtu.be/PUo9B8y3_Pc

“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."

Rereading Grapes of Wrath. Whew.

on the one hand I’m very excited for an Alien tv show costarring Timothy Olyphant. On the other hand, the only revealed plot point makes me want to burn Hollywood to the ground. 🤷♀️

When I posted this video to Patreon yesterday a few patrons let me know that Dr. Angela Collier did a video on Loeb last year. I finally watched it and it's great! Just annoyed that she went back in time to preemptively steal my "blogger?? me??" joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY985qzn7oI

hi today I'd like to tell you all about Avi Loeb, Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University, who was recently diagnosed with Stage 4 Nobelitis 😢 https://skepchick.org/2023/11/avi-loeb-the-harvard-physicist-who-thinks-its-always-aliens/

It's weird how everyone just takes this company's bullshit at face value. Hating young women on Instagram seems to trump hating capitalists trying to avoid paying people for their labor

an important reminder this holiday season: snowmen can only survive in cold weather. if you see a snowman wearing a knit cap, scarf, mittens, or other warming attire, that snowman is experiencing existential distress. that is a suicidal snowman.

I feel like we haven't spent enough time talking about how the new Speaker of the House sends his teenage son weekly reports on whether or not he watched pornography https://skepchick.org/2023/11/the-speaker-of-the-house-sends-his-teen-son-weekly-porn-updates/

been fine-tuning my set up for recording next week's @ClimateRide through Joshua Tree. I've changed the GoPro position, ditched fisheye, and probably won't bother with the side-view. GoPro's own edit thing isn't the best but may do for daily updates https://youtu.be/EIH6VeGoVks?si=2XDoSMfT7SN6auhN

Completely bonkers that when I voice support for the rights of Palestinians, dudes say "But you're a woman, they don't want you to have rights." Neither do Republicans but I'm not going to call for Orange County to be nuked, what the fuck?

I guess I should remove the bowl of cheetohs I left out for the local corvids lest an errant child get the wrong idea tonight and end up in a crow brawl

from one direction it’s Indy’s skeleton. from the other it’s a frog who is scared bc he just woke up with 12 legs

If you're wondering why American politicians have thus far actively supported Israel's fascist apartheid state and now refuse to condemn their blatant war crimes, in 2021 I wrote about the evangelical Christians who want this to happen https://skepchick.org/2021/05/one-weird-reason-the-us-supports-israel-an-ancient-prophesy-about-magog/

I’m a figment of his imagination

just saw a medication commercial that listed a side effect of “uncontrollable body odor that may be permanent” and I’m crying

Last week's lead-crime video inspired many people to tell me about the ABORTION-crime hypothesis, made famous in the book Freakonomics. So, today's video is all about why Roe v Wade probably did NOT reduce crime 20 years later https://skepchick.org/2023/10/did-legalizing-abortion-reduce-crime-20-years-later/

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New! Video! Day! In which I am surprised to learn that the winner of this year's "Nobel Prize" in Economics is someone 1) I've heard of and 2) like! https://skepchick.org/2023/10/the-gender-wage-gap-the-nobel-prize-in-economics/