katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

It's been a while since I took photos of the sky.

Oh my gosh thank you to whomever suggested I watch the SGDQ Super Mario World 3 race. It was good and pure.

I finally got around to watching Baby Driver last night, and it's shot and edited so perfectly that I'm a little bit angry with how good it is.

🤔 is a person who lives in SeaTac a SeaTacian?

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Realizing too late that your kitchen-improvised personal lubricant isn't safe for condoms:

Panic! At The Crisco

Today I Learned about the Dance your PhD contest, which is wonderful.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/and-winner-year-s-dance-your-phd-contest

I'm a sucker for overblown synths.

cc @cyndisision@octodon.social I feel like this is way up your alley

Today I discovered that Justice has done a remix of Electric Feel (MGMT) that fucking rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enrrbWOAFR4 [5:27]

Thanks, KEXP :)

The quiz at the end covered the most basic of atomic theory, not even the intro stuff about electric hazards, DC circuits and Ohm's Law etc that we'd covered in class. It was pitiful.

So we got through the class material early, so to pad out the time (it's supposed to be 8h of instruction) the instructor put on an episode of Modern Marvels from 2006 about magnets. It didn't amount to shit.

As is, I feel like my time was disrespected. If I had paid more than a trivial amount for the class, I'd be actively pissed.

<instructor pulls out a sketchy-ass demo transformer made from two spools of wire and some ferrous conduit>

Classmate, with just the smallest hint of irony in his voice: "what's the UL listing on that?"

Okay, that got a pretty good laugh from me.

Okay, in followup slides he made clear that electrons flow from negative to positive. Cool.

22 electricians in this class and as far as I can tell I'm the only woman.

(to be clear, this post is not a complaint about this class.)

Apparently I lowkey go "lol you think matter is real" when discussions of atomic theory come up.

Things aren't made out of smaller things. "Matter" is a convenient approximation.

(It's a useful model but it's a map, not a territory.)

This Union hall has photos of members marching at May Day events and protesting WTO 1999 which is kinda cool, though.