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@rebeccawatson

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Writer, science enthusiast, curious person. I like surfing and reading and playing video games. She/her

Oakland, CA
Joined March 2008
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Yesterday a blackjack dealer told me to never hit on 16. I just smiled and nodded bc I didn't feel like getting into a fight about statistics. Then she said she never gets a flu shot. Friends, I got into a fight about statistics that day.
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I fucking hate grocery store check out screens asking me if I want to donate $20 to end child hunger or whatever. You’re a $10 billion corporation. I’m using a coupon to get 50 cents off a bag of potatos. Why don’t YOU donate $20 to end child hunger
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In the US, teachers buy their own chalk while cops get Captain America shields to protect themselves from women who want healthcare
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On way to the court
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BREAKING: The Iowa Senate passed a child labor law before dawn today. The bill lets 14-year-olds work 6-hour night shifts, 15-year-olds work on assembly lines, and 16- and 17-year-olds serve alcohol. The Senate went through the night, and voted on child labor at 4:52 a.m.
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Good morning! Yesterday I shot a 10-hour time lapse of my calathea and now my boyfriend is scared it’s going to try to kill us in the night
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an app called airDnD where traveling nerds can find a role playing group to join for a night
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what if we had a system where private corporations couldn’t “fund” our elected representatives 🤔
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Since She-Hulk is trending I'd like to remind you that the absolute best thing you can do to help improve gender equality worldwide is to always refer to Bruce Banner as "He-Hulk" and answer no questions about it. Thank you.
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Sometimes I feel sympathy for the people who worry about “cancel culture” and then I remember that I was canceled and deplatformed but they don’t think it counts because I was targeted by Richard Dawkins and his fans instead of, like, trans people or antifa or whoever 🤷‍♀️
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a thing I noticed
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“Should I keep wearing a mask after getting vaccinated?” I haven’t had a cold since 2019. I’m never gonna free-face it on public transportation again. Shit, I kept using hand sanitizer after scientists realized it didn’t help much with Rona. Y’all filthy. Masks 4 Lyfe
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"I fixed it"
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*whispers in trump's ear*: but what if YOU were that man. why should any other man have all the glory
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Trump wants to send a man to Mars during his presidency
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In case you were wondering if we are, in fact, living in a dystopia, just imagine 30 5-year olds singing this in unison.
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This should not be hanging in my soon-to-be-kindergartener’s classroom.
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this is it. this is, truly, the best reddit post
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Let me save you a click: the two new @jeopardy hosts are Mike Richards, who was previously sued for sexual harassment, and Mayim Bialik, who shills bullshit "brain pills," eats placentas, and runs a "non-vaccinating family."
@thedailybeast
The Daily Beast
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BREAKING: The long-running game show "Jeopardy!" is set to reveal not one, but two hosts for the first time ever
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“I put my ‘male ally’ tokens into this woman but there’s no transphobia coming out ☹️”
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James "The Amazing" Randi has died. I've spent the past 15 min just looking through old photos and damn, we had a lot of fun. He's the reason I now do what I do, the reason I know so many wonderful people, and the reason the world is a little smarter and weirder.
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Terry Crews and JK Rowling should start a therapy group for people who could have lived out their years rich and beloved by the entire world if they had just kept their fucking mouths shut
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sorry I've been offline, was doing a thing
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seeing a lot of praise for this and I agree she's an incredible, inspiring woman. she's also a bullshit peddler who is responsible for promoting Jenny McCarthy, the secret, anti-vaxx garbage, Dr Oz, Dr Phil, and so much more. so no, save the "Oprah 2020" bullshit.
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Oprah is the first Black woman to be honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the #GoldenGlobes .
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BREAKING NEWS presidential elections called off, this lady elected president by unanimous decision
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Remember, before Tweeting a joke about a bunch of little girls maybe dying, ask yourself: is it funny? NO = don't tweet YES = no it isn't
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Idea to stop school shootings: from grade 1, one child is chosen in each class to become the Slayer, who will exclusively study martial arts and ways to kill with their bare hands. Wait...two kids, in case the 1st becomes the threat you have another to fight them. Yes. Perfect.
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Do trans people cover for predators like drunk old men who grab women's asses in pubs, like you did to me at a skeptic event in London circa 2010? LMAO take a seat you pervy ass Marshall Applewhite-looking fuck face
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"Endlessly unpleasant as its constant targeting of me has been, I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode woman as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it."
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Confirmed: Boston Dynamics is a nightmare factory
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uh probably bc they've never seen a bunch of shrimp walk around
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Experts suggest teaching your dog to recall when he's not distracted. I waited until Indy was staring right at me, 20 feet away. "Come!" He paused, SMILED AT ME, then ran in the opposite direction to start eating grass, which he promptly barfed up. I love him.
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I know the last time I gave obvious flirting advice it ended with Richard Dawkins burning the New Atheist movement to the ground but I can’t help it, I gotta let y’all know: if you have a love letter for a female creator you like, don’t send it. it’s so fucking creepy pls stop
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reminder that richard dawkins literally deplatformed me from multiple speaking opportunities bc he refuses to share a stage with me.
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A new study found that conservative think tanks and blogs have been running a coordinated disinformation campaign to lie to the general public about climate change to benefit the fossil fuel industry. The level of detail in the study is impressive 1/5
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skepchicks
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Study: How Conservative Think Tanks are Destroying the Planet
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Obamacare vs. GOP Replacement
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tonight @travismcelroy looks like the pastor for a megachurch just outside seattle that dateline will reveal to be a cult by 2022
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@shaun_vids @EveryVowel @MrBeast @netflix This tweet got 13,000 likes in just two hours. Leonarda da Vinci got 0 likes in 67 years
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Okay, fuck my mentions, I’ve deleted the tweets. I’ll just sum up everything in this one: - Trans rights are human rights - JK Rowling is a shitty human for conflating a man sexually abusing a woman with trans women asking for respect - read better writers - learn science
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here’s my hot take: no, we don’t need to give sexual abusers a path to redemption. paths to redemption are found by the asshole in question doing the hard work and becoming a better person, regardless of whether they get a reward at the end. read a fucking book.
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this feels like a good day to honor the most devastating thing an ex boyfriend said to me: “were you part of an experiment where you were the only baby who preferred the wire mother?”
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the edit though 😭
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lmao
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the live action King of the Hill reboot looks like shit
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Fixed it for you @ABC7Chicago ...
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me seeing Levar Burton trending bc people are rightfully dragging @Jeopardy for having the dangerous quack Dr. Oz host instead of one of the smartest and most wholesome men to ever grace our televisions
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I was so confused why Captain Marvel was trending as the worst movie in the MCU bc I remembered it being okay and then I remembered that fanboys just really, really hate women
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This year's gingerbread cookies are a little Chewy HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Good morning to all the rich dudes who stayed up all night ctrl+F-ing their own names in the ghislaine maxwell docs
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A new study shows that conservatives are more likely to label protesters (even those simply chanting slogans) as "violent" if they disagree with the cause. Past research shows that people become conservative when they're afraid.
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“with all due respect mr oz I don’t think you appreciate how seriously I take this talking frog alien’s motivations”
@ememess
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I hereby invent the term "fansplaining".
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Most people are probably aware that "long COVID" is a possible result of an infection, but not many people realize how long COVID can lead some people to a truly debilitating diagnosis of ME/CFS. @thephysicsgirl is one heartbreaking example
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when I'm drunk & twitter changed something & everyone on my timeline hates it but I don't know what's going on
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Since #TimAllen is trending, I'd like to tell you that the only Facebook group I enjoy is a Tim Allen fan page that was taken over by lefties and used to torment boomers by pretending he's dead
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wow it must suck to have a leak result in the birth of something you deeply regret
@SCOTUSblog
SCOTUSblog
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It’s impossible to overstate the earthquake this will cause inside the Court, in terms of the destruction of trust among the Justices and staff. This leak is the gravest, most unforgivable sin.
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the amount of upkeep involved with teeth is ridiculous. just a huge design flaw. gonna exchange them for baleen plates. I bet krill is delicious.
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If folks want to drive sober, they are free to do so. Those who don't want to drive sober shouldn't be shamed into it, and govt should not mandate it. We need to respect each other's decisions to get shitfaced and run over your children with our cars
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Governor Kristi Noem
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If folks want to wear a mask, they are free to do so. Those who don’t want to wear a mask shouldn’t be shamed into it, and govt should not mandate it. We need to respect each other’s decisions. In SD, we know a little common courtesy can go a long way.
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Last night I dreamt there was a button you could push and a live shark would fall from the sky and land on the person of your choosing.
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Happy #ElonMuskDay everyone! To celebrate, I'm going to donate these ventilators to my local hospital
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do you think Trump wished on a monkey’s paw that he would be president for life
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don’t worry everybody in 10 years ellen will take a selfie with donald trump and everyone will be like “aww” and you will say “wait but...” and that’s just how things go
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I fucking love this reply. It really illustrates how fucked the American mindset is. “Why,” she wonders aloud, “would anyone bring a child to a place where the police are? Who would trust a policeman to *not* mace a child? That place is dangerous. There are POLICE there!”
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Men's Wearhouse is filing for bankruptcy so if you have any men to return make sure to do it soon
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has anyone designed a piece of furniture specifically to replace the “chair where I throw clothes that are sort of dirty but not really”?
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tired: being angry at scooby doo bc velma is gay wired: being angry at scooby doo bc the movies introduced the paranormal into a show that was based on confronting our superstitious fears to discover that the true evil is humanity
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Martin Short is so iconic that some idiot wrote a hit piece about him and now the internet is full of 50 years of hilarious Martin Short moments hell yeah
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*Teens protest gun violence* CONSERVATIVES: Leftists tricked them into having that opinion! ME: Uh I'm pretty sure people shooting at them tricked them into having that opinion
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"56% of Californians" is trending right now because our Governor says that's how many are likely to get #COVID19 . To those of you outside our state who are chuckling, he's just reporting what was projected weeks ago for everyone in the US: 50-60% of ALL of us. Quarantine now.
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7 out of 22 #Overwatch heroes are white males. This makes some Redditors 😭😭😭😭😭
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that children's book drawing of two male lions boarding the ark is making more and more sense
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I see more people (like @xeni ) starting to call out Jeffrey Epstein's connections to scientists who helped him clean his pedo image. Let me tell you about the one who not only quietly took his money but vociferously supported him AFTER Epstein's conviction: Lawrence Krauss 1/12
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Two men in a car leaned out the windows, yelled to me, then simulated themselves giving a blowjob. I think they really need to work on their approach because I don't even have a penis
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lol ok bye
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The worst thing you can do to a large national charity is give them $5 once and never again. They will spend the next 50 years sending you mail, with pleas, address labels, stickers, coins, membership cards -- it will cost them thousands of dollars in printing costs alone
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I really feel for Kevin Greeson's family. I can't even imagine how awful it would be to have someone I love die because he got too excited while doing a terrorism.
@ConnorASheets
Connor Sheets
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Greeson's family has released the following statement, along with this photo:
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Noted astrophysicist @AstroKatie is staying with me this weekend so I asked if she could fix my telescope. That bitch had the nerve to say “but I’m a theorist” smh
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4ch: ha ha, we made up #BoycottStarWarsVII as a joke and you fell for it Us: so you're not really racist? 4ch: oh no that part is super true
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is that a karen terrier
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Free idea for a video game: Hitler Simulator, marketed directly to the alt-right. "FINALLY, YOU CAN BE HITLER!" But when they buy the game it starts up and they're Hitler, alone in a room they can't leave, with a gun laying on a table with one bullet in it
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Out Lyft driver late last night randomly told us the government steals our taxes for public transport that no one uses & he hates tech companies bc they "hire a lot of foreign engineers" and friends, I yelled at that dumb racist so much I slept like a baby afterwards
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ok they found the wreckage of the Titan submersible so they probably just imploded immediately when contact was lost, right? Then what was all that banging rescuers heard every 30 minutes? WHO OR WHAT WAS BANGING DEEP BENEATH THE WAVES, LURING RESCUERS DOWN? was it the orcas
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Fun fact about Lauren Boebert: her husband’s penis is 6” long. This is public record bc when he was 20, he showed his dick to a group of 16yo girls at a bowling alley, who made statements to the police. One of those 16-year old victims named in the police report? Lauren Boebert.
@Newsweek
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Boebert calls COVID-19 door-to-door vaccinators Biden's "needle Nazis"
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Every time you, dear moderate liberal, tell a forced birth proponent "no one LIKES abortion" I like abortion a little more. "No one LIKES penicillin" fuck you I like healthcare
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look out buffalo wings you’re next
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BF wants to watch DMX tonight so put on Cradle 2 The Grave. I’m worried I will be lost bc I haven’t seen Cradle 1 The Grave. I’m not allowed to make this joke for a 5th time so I’m tweeting it
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scary that we gotta call in the experts to tell people national borders are imaginary
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TIL London’s WWII blackout lasted five whole years, and for that entire span there was never a groundswell of libertarians insisting it was their right to wave searchlights around every night bc “the Blitz only killed 2% of the population”
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This is gross and dangerous. I take Lexapro (escitalopram) -- look at my Twitter feed, my Instagram, my YouTube videos. Do I look lifeless? Did I lose my personality? Lexapro may not be right for you but if you live with anxiety/depression I hope you find something that works.
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"Pope Francis tells couples not to substitute dogs and cats for children." TRUE! The fat content is so different, your recipe will be ruined
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Kellogg’s has fired their striking workers and are trying to hire scabs, so people are flooding them with realistic fake job applications. This is funny and morally good.
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This is what I learned many years ago that led to me leaving that community: movement skeptics and atheists will prioritize hating women and minorities over hating religion.
@ErebusLucifer
Michael Gregory 🇨🇳 🇰🇵 🇻🇳 🇨🇺 🇱🇦 🇵🇸 🇧🇾
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@rebeccawatson What’s New Atheists’ infatuation with Jordan Peterson? They do realize he is a Conservative Christian, don’t they?
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Let’s replace capitalism with whatever’s going on in John Wick. Cocktail? One coin. Hotel suite? One coin. Safe passage to another country? One coin. Disposal of a body & general housekeeping? One coin (per body).
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At the dog park yesterday there was a family with no dog. They came because the mom is terrified of dogs and trying to overcome her fears so her kids can get a dog. She was so brave and she even let Indy gently touch his nose to her hand. People are okay sometimes.
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don't even think for a second I'm joking either I didn't know this dude when he grabbed hold of my ass like it was his ticket to the Hale-Bopp. I turned to my husband at the time who was like "oh that's just Nick"
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There are not too many vaccines. Every recommended vaccine saves lives. She whines that she doesn't even know what Hep B is so why should she give the vaccine to her kids. I'll tell you, Mayim: because a million people die from Hep B every fucking year.
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don't make the joke don't make the joke don't make the joke the Twitter jokers will be first against the wall don't make the joke
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@Sethrogen sorry if this info is already out there but I can’t find it and the site isn’t loading — do any profits from this go to social equity, expungement, black entrepreneurs, etc?
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Happy #NationalBossDay everybody! Let's celebrate by (•_•) <) )╯eating / \ \(•_•) ( (> the / \ (•_•) <) )> rich / \
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@NYTScience
NYT Science
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C.D.C. researchers are puzzling over a sharp rise in young hospitalized children infected with the coronavirus.
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confusing week for people who hate body shaming and the police state but love schadenfreude and teens destroying misogynists
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Alejandra Caraballo
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Romanian authorities needed proof that Andrew Tate was in the country so they reportedly used his social media posts. His ridiculous video yesterday featured a pizza from a Romanian pizza chain, Jerry's Pizza, confirming he was in the country. This is absolutely epic.
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