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Statement on the 2014 Orange County Freethought Alliance Conference
This weekend, I am slated to speak at the Orange County Freethought Alliance Conference as well as the Sunday Assembly to take place the day after the conference. As someone who has participated as a principal volunteer since its inception as well as spoken there in 2012, the conference is an integral part of my year. On Friday, it was brought…
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Episode 2 of My New Video Series! Rebecca Vs. Frank Conniff
Frank Conniff famously played TV’s Frank in Mystery Science Theater 3000, and now he does all sorts of interesting and hilarious things. Check out the podcast he talks about, here. He’s on Twitter here. You can support more videos like this over on Patreon. Frank and I play the seminal N64 game WaveRace. Who will win? The answer may surprise…
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234 Girls Abducted from Physics Exam #HelpTheGirls
It’s a new, depressing video! A close-enough transcript follows. Warning: this is a terrible story. Normally I like to keep things light on this channel, but one of the most important topics I like to talk about is secularism and women’s rights, and right now there’s a story happening that illustrates the desperate need for people all around the world…
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Guest Post: I am No One’s Good Fatty
Editor’s Note: Shaunta is back! And this time she explains why the expectation of being a “good fatty” is hurtful and unproductive. Right on! *** When I first started writing about Health at Every Size (HAES), I spent a lot of time talking about my blood. Nearly every post I wrote included a paragraph listing my “numbers,” like credentials on…
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New Video Series! Episode 1: Rebecca vs. Jon Ronson
Thanks to all the kind people supporting me over on Patreon, I’ve been ramping up production on my YouTube videos. As part of this, I’ve started a new series where I interview some of my interesting and talented friends while we play Nintendo. The first episode is now live, in which I square off with Jon Ronson, author of many…
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GoDaddy Released My Personal Information to a Spammer Troll
Yesterday, I learned that GoDaddy released personally identifiable information about me to a spammer troll. You see, it all started way back in August of 2011 2012 (edit: I was mistaken on the date of the original incident) when I got a dodgy-looking email from someone I didn’t recognize that said only “Transcendental Argument for the existence of God (17:36)” and…
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4 Myths about Taxes
If you’re living and working in the U.S. then you know today is that most infamous of “holidays,” Tax Day. You are either rushing to finish your taxes and get it to the post office before they close or are smugly sitting back and relaxing because you finished your taxes ahead of time to avoid the last-minute rush. As one…
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Help Without Heaven
As part of my ongoing Do Better Challenge, I am seeking out people who are doing volunteer work and good deeds to help out in the various secular communities. We see a lot of negativity in the world and because of that, every now and then, I like to try to focus your attention on some of the good people…
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