Ashley Hamer Pritchard

YouTube video by Taboo Science Trans 101: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Transgender People

Your fav tgirlie is in this "Trans 101" season of Taboo Science. Hear me talk about my mustache in this first episode and hear me talk about more as the season goes on. : )

Thanks again to @smashleyhamer.bsky.social for including me and many other trans voices!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMF_...

For the next season of Taboo Science, I'm on the lookout for your favorite researchers on trans subjects -- biology, psychology, youth/parents, voice changes, etc. Tag 'em if you've got them!

Screenshot of a Live Science article with the headline "Why do kangaroos have 3 vaginas?" and the subhead "Female kangaroos have one tail, two feet and three vaginas when they're giving birth." There's a photo of a female kangaroo with a joey in her pouch.

science communication is my passion
www.livescience.com/animals/land...

I just learned that the reason we use black and white soccer balls is because of a gimmick created by Adidas in honor of the Telstar Satellite, a satellite launched in the 1960s that was shaped like a ball and dotted with little solar panels....like a soccer ball. Soccer balls used to be BROWN

I want to start using this as a figure of speech. "Oh, you can take that pen, I've got plenty. It's a kangaroo's vagina."

Google AI overview saying: Yes, female kangaroos have three vaginas; the outer two are used for receiving sperm, while the middle one is used for birthing, allowing them to potentially be perpetually pregnant due to their two uteruses. Key points about kangaroo reproduction: Multiple vaginas: Female kangaroos have three separate vaginal canals. Two uteruses: This allows them to be pregnant with multiple joeys at different stages of development. Small joeys: Because of the urinary tract running through the middle vagina, kangaroos give birth to very small joeys.

HELP I'M SORRY WHAT

Just finished and so excited for the next one! I should tell you that the episode in the Important Not Important feed cuts off before the outro. It's fine in the main feed though!

I just subscribed to the new pod Not Right Now.

Perked up at "a podcast about parenting through (waves hands) all of this," smashed subscribe after hearing several fucks and @quinnemmett.bsky.social saying "maybe you have just one kid and you love them more than, for example, I do all 3 of mine" 💀

YouTube video by JCH 007 The Rescuers Down Under - Landing Down Under

@justthezooofus.bsky.social My one albatross reference is The Rescuers (Down Under, idk why the sequel was the one we had growing up). Albatrosses Orville & Wilbur run the Albatross Air Service, which flies the little mouse protagonists around. This scene is deep in there youtu.be/G1VBEU4Q8WU?...

Wikipedia screenshot with this text: When Marc Lawrence was working on the 2000 film Miss Congeniality and was not pleased with his options for the Miss United States pageant theme song, he turned to Clyde. At only age five, Clyde wrote his own version, and the film's other producers chose to add it to the film without knowing its writer. The Miss United States pageant anthem which Clyde composed is prominently featured in the film, and his composition led him to become the youngest member of the Songwriters Guild of America.

Something fun I just learned: The screenwriter for Miss Congeniality didn't like the original music they had for the pageant anthem, so he asked his 5 year old son to write a new one. The producers unknowingly chose it for the film.

You can hear it in this clip: youtu.be/Kf0tmg27pWA?...

I always assumed that too, but then I started thinking it was just some weird superstition. But I wasn't thinking about there being TWO pipes (have a 2mo baby, very little sleep 😅). One pipe might make it even, but two pipes definitely makes hot faster

Bathroom faucet with one arm for temperature control

Question for the hivemind: If I want warm water to come out of a tap like this, will it warm up faster if I turn it all the way to hot, or will it take the same amount of time if I turn it to the medium temperature I'm looking for?

Husband thinks it's the first one, but I'm questioning

@tracedominguez.com hi trace!!!

Ours went way more smoothly than I ever imagined! A day or two and it was like they never existed. Wishing you the best!

Most succinct fact-check I've read of how LA Fire Dept's budget wasn't recently cut -- in fact, the opposite -- from @politico.com. But that misinformation spread anyway. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

freedom fries

This is a ridiculously handsome cat

This is the kind of January content I'm here for

Three pictures of brown calcite ammonites with iridescent chambers

Something genuinely magical. Preservation of the inner shell nacre, or mother of pearl, on ~195 million year old ammonite 🦪

Milk spot on the boob of my matching reindeer PJs, merry newborn Christmas

This is why this issue never made sense to me! Like yes, it's a real problem that moms are expected to do everything on Christmas and nobody does anything for them, but the stocking is not one of those things -- everyone gets the same thing in their stocking!

My childhood au pair is visiting from Austria in a few days and because I want to share the best of US culture I'm taking her to Cracker Barrel

Descript, naturally! I connect my camera as a video source with the Elgato Cam Link.

By "a ring," does the narrator of Santa Baby mean she wants Santa to pop the question? Seems like a pretty boring ask to end the song with otherwise.

like a tomato bisque, definitely something made with a blender. no chunks to be found

tbh I'm not posting much here because the level of discourse is high and newborn sleep has turned my brain to soup. but I'm enjoying all the smart people

This was also my question! I'm guessing something similar would fuel mirror organisms unleashed in the environment? Seems like a slow process but I guess if you can't stop it, it doesn't have to be fast

Fred Savage (Princess Bride): "Is this a kissing book?"

🔆 Good morning!

Kiss me you fool...

Nobody knows when kissing emerged among humans.
But the practice of plopping one's mouth on another human, whether in friendship or love, is not universal.

The evolutionary origin of human kissing 🏺🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Stop you had me at "kissing is likely the conserved final mouth-contact stage of a grooming bout when the groomer sucks with protruded lips the fur or skin of the groomed to latch on debris or a parasite"