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Hibby @hibbythach.com · 05/10/2025

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_...

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Trans 101: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Transgender People

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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!

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

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

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.

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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" 💀

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

@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?...

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The Rescuers Down Under - Landing Down Under

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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?...

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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.

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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

Bathroom faucet with one arm for temperature control

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Ali Vitali @alivitali.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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...

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

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

Three pictures of brown calcite ammonites with iridescent chambers

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

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

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

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

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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.

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

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

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

🔆 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/...

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

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I just hit the episode from which @eve6.bsky.social got their name. Utter 90s bliss over here

Screenshot from the Eve6 Wikipedia page saying "The band's final name is a reference to The X-Files. Fagenson, a fan of the show, suggested the name after seeing an episode titled 'Eve,' which included a character who went by the name of 'Eve 6.'"

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Annual reminder to parents with kids music in their Spotify Wrapped that you can put it all in a playlist and then hit the three dots and choose "Exclude from Taste Profile." I had zero Ms. Rachel songs in my Wrapped this year.

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

sorry am I supposed to think Mulder is a massive idiot or am I watching this wrong

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I just got followed by a ton of podcasters, which is awesome. Am I on a starter pack?! Clearsky is down so I can't check. Even if I'm not I definitely want a podcaster starter pack, if anyone's got one.

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Asheville is so proud of the Biltmore that there are at least three neighborhoods named after it -- Biltmore Park, Biltmore Village, Biltmore Forest -- all of which are far enough away from each other that any confusion will cost you 20-30 minutes in drive time

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I just finished #ZeldaEchoesofWisdom and GOD DAMN CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW DISAPPOINTING THAT FINAL BOSS IS

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

terrible time to try and start a new social media habit and populate a new feed with witty posts when my entire brain is taken up by this thing

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Had a baby! Everyone is healthy, everything went so smoothly. Already home from the hospital.

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

My hometown of Eureka, CA has a main street with a name that's a special trap for people who aren't from there. Buhne. Pronounced...wait for it..."booner."

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

just finished and submitted a freelance podcast project 4 days before I'm due to have a baby. i was not sure that was gonna happen but i pulled it off (now let's please pull this baby out)

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

honestly "your body, my choice" is such sophomoric little boy behavior, the thing boys say because they want to see what will happen if they do. it's the kind of thing a boy says before his mom grabs him by the ear and takes him outside for a stern talking to, after which he never does it again.

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

as much as I fear for her future, hanging out with my toddler is absolutely a salve for my soul right now.

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

I'm not even a New Yorker but the screenshots of bluesky posts about Eric Adams on other platforms is making me want to use bluesky more

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

It's incredible what a toddler can do with a limited vocabulary. My kid only knows "hot" and "cold," but hot coffee, sour kiwi, and carbonation are all "hot," which I honestly can't argue with

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

Niche tweet about a nicher topic but at the end of the Ceviche episode of Normal Gossip where listeners played My Heart Will Go On on recorder, one person played The Lick at the end. That person will never see this but I salute you, brave listener

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Asheville seriously has some of the best music photographers I've ever seen. Pic by Nick Burrows from the Women to the Front festival this weekend.

Me playing saxophone with a passionate expression on my face

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Hanner @gangsthannah.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Remote work would really help with both the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the reduction of climate-warming emissions. Capitalism, corporate real estate and billionaires' egos aren't good reasons to destroy our health, lives and the planet.

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

seems strange that Apple named their first computer the Macintosh and then just stopped. what if they didn't and I was writing this from my granny smith laptop

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

american sign language for "more" when performed by a toddler looks exactly like someone rudely clapping at a waiter and it functions in precisely that way

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

go the first five minutes of meeting someone without mentioning your kid CHALLENGE (i just failed it again)

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

oh holy crap, I didn't realize bsky was on web already. this is going to increase my usage GREATLY

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

I guested on @ThatsAbsurdShow and laughed all over again when I listened back. (We accidentally invented gorillas, it's a whole thing.) If you're into science but wish it wasn't so serious, try this pod. @tracedominguez.com and Julian are a delight. pod.link/1680094699/e...

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That's Absurd Please Elaborate

Seriously researched answers to absolutely ridiculous questions. New episodes every other week.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

The US Copyright Office is seeking comment on AI as it affects writers and other artists! If multibillion-dollar corporations want to use YOUR labor and skill to benefit their shareholders, you probably have an opinion about that! Comment here (link at bottom): www.copyright.gov/policy/artif...

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Older ladies: what is the correct response when someone says "You don't look [your age]" ? It doesn't feel great to say thank you because there's nothing wrong with being my age. Younger people: This is a super awkward thing to tell people, maybe reevaluate your perception of what "old" is

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Ashley Hamer Pritchard @smashleyhamer.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Heading to Podcast Movement! It'll be weird attending a conference with Twitter on the outs; hoping that this place serves as a good substitute.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Another day, another amazing anatomy fact! 🧪 Your teeth are joints. They're a fibrous joints called dento-alveolar syndesmoses. Science speak for: pegs of tooth fit into jaw socket. LOOSE teeth are bad right? Why's it a joint? Because a tiny bit of movement tells you how hard you're cronching!

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