rebeccawatson

rebeccawatson, 6 months ago to random

Porch pirates stole my medication so now I have to convince my insurance to give me more. In the spirit of the season, and I say this from the depths of my heart, I truly hope the thief has moderate to severe depression that gradually improves after 4 to 6 weeks of daily usage

rebeccawatson, 7 months ago to random

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/

rebeccawatson, 7 months ago to random

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?

rebeccawatson, 8 months ago to random

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

rebeccawatson, 9 months ago to random

Sabine Hossenfelder tried to use the story of penicillin to prove her thesis that capitalism leads to scientific progress. Here, I quote Ernst Chain, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on penicillin, to prove her wrong. https://skepchick.org/2023/09/sabine-is-wrong-again-capitalism-wouldve-killed-penicillin/

rebeccawatson, 9 months ago to random

men on reddit: “my girlfriend of 8 years recently revealed she bleeds from her vagina once a month. should I leave?”
women: “a guy I’ve known for 60 days says he’s a pedophile. how do I discuss this with him”

rebeccawatson, 9 months ago to random

Here we go again: popular YouTube physicist Sabine Hossenfelder is extremely wrong about something! This time, she argues in favor of capitalism, saying that without it, we wouldn't have scientific progress. The Nobel prize winner she cites begs to disagree. https://skepchick.org/2023/09/sabine-is-wrong-again-capitalism-wouldve-killed-penicillin/

rebeccawatson, 9 months ago to random

can't I get Linux?

rebeccawatson, 9 months ago to random

I’ll say this for Mastodon: the stalking is a much weirder flavor than Twitter’s.