katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space
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Moving to @starkatt
I'm a leftist trans gay fox girl. More than one thing can be true at a time. I believe in agency, subjectivity, and beauty.
In my day job, I'm an apprentice electrician.
Please introduce yourself when sending a follow request if we haven't recently chatted. Interacting with me is encouraged even if I don't follow back. I'm here to get to know people, not be a fountain of Content.
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Joined Apr 2017
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Consider: instead of getting the tail of our choice surgically or otherwise rapidly installed, it's grown in over the course of a year or two. Kinda like tits for estrogen-taking trans folk. Ever day it grows and fills in a little more. Every day, you're a little more self-actualized :)
And if you haven't heard of Things I Won't Work With, it's an (infrequently updated) blog by a research chemist on substances frightening enough that he doesn't want to be in the same lab as them. A common thread is compounds that would *really* prefer to be nitrogen gas and will energetically turn into such if given the slightest opportunity.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/things-i-wont-work-with
BTW if you enjoy rocketry history or the Things I Won't Work With blog, I highly recommend the book /Ignition!/
It's an informal history of the development of rocketry propellants. Contains explosions and a whole lot of frightening chemistry.
https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf
I think it's really cool that our current understanding of lighting physics is "we probably know the basic mechanism but there's still all kinds of weird shit we're trying to untangle."
Shoutout to that time a Gemini astronaut smuggled a corned beef sandwich aboard the flight https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/time-when-astronaut-smuggled-corned-beef-sandwich-space-180954749/
Of the many things I love about the Space Shuttle program, one of the sillier ones is that a significant part of the launch profile calls for "throttle at 104%".
Turned out the engine could safely run at higher power than expected, but the engineers kept the original scale. One abort scenario for multiple engine failure specifies throttle at 109%.
The highest-performing rocket engine ever tested burned molten lithium with cyrogenic fluorine, plus added hydrogen for some light reaction mass.
This has never been developed for actual flight, in significant part because it's terrifying.
I think the Delta IV Heavy wins some points for "Extremely Kerbal engineering" because they made the rocket bigger by taping two extra copies of the bottom stage to the sides.
Now if you'll take a look at my resume, you can see that I'm a native speaker of Online.
"If you roll your target number exactly, you have LASER FEELINGS."
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The pantheon from Bastion (2011 game) is really quite excellent. Each of the twelve gods represents both a value and its negation and I haven't seen anyone write about it.
e.g. "Jevel, the god of health and atrophy. We each have the Tower Keeper's strength in us, until that strength runs out."
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Fun fact: Nimrod was a Biblical hunter of great renown. The American use of "nimrod" as an insult (meaning someone who's foolish and short-sighted) is due in large part to Bugs Bunny's use of the name as a mocking description of Elmer Fudd.
katt, migrating 🌟 🌈
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trans stuff (silly)
okay so now that we've buried the idea of auto{g*ne,andr*}ph*lia with a stake through its heart...
s/auto/allo/ for the much more common condition where one develops an unshakable conviction that all trans {women,men} are shockingly beautiful except for oneself 😭
gimme fifty bucks and i won't tell bl*nch*rd about it ...
Along with everything else in the Meyers-Briggs being bunk, trying to draw a binary classification between "introvert" and "extrovert" is some de-contextualizing, alienating bullshit.
sadly these headphones, while excellent, don't actually get Bad Idea Loud just being driven off of my motherboard jack.
I've said this before but it's extremely worth repeating: music is some of the closest we can get to experiencing what it's like to be part of divinity.
- Pronouns
- she/her
- Location
- Seattle
Moving to @starkatt
I'm a leftist trans gay fox girl. More than one thing can be true at a time. I believe in agency, subjectivity, and beauty.
In my day job, I'm an apprentice electrician.
Please introduce yourself when sending a follow request if we haven't recently chatted. Interacting with me is encouraged even if I don't follow back. I'm here to get to know people, not be a fountain of Content.
🕯️
Joined Apr 2017
