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!

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

HELP I'M SORRY WHAT

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" 💀

@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?...

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?...

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!!!

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...

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

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

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.

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

🔆 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/...

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

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.

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

Let the maternity leave binge begin

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.

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

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

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

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

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."

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)

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.

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

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

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

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

@fmriguy.bsky.social Hi! I missed you, friend!

Unbelievably pumped to have this Twenty Thousand Hertz episode I produced out in the world.

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.

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.

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

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

solemn news for a friday

ah, mouse/cat, the two genders

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

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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!

Latest newsletter - can we pleeeeease stop saying that menstrual products are tested with saline? Not because I care about corporations but because I care about feminist health history! Yes, I'm pissy. And please, please share. 🧪