Katy M
@katmers.bsky.social
I just do whatever Ursula K Le Guin tells me. Chronically broken brain.
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The tradition of #Festivus begins with the airing of grievances…
…this year’s: unusual, near-record late-December warmth for over 69 million people across the U.S. will walk out the door to today, made more likely by climate change.
…this year’s: unusual, near-record late-December warmth for over 69 million people across the U.S. will walk out the door to today, made more likely by climate change.
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The tradition of #Festivus begins with the airing of grievances…
…this year’s: unusual, near-record late-December warmth for over 69 million people across the U.S. will walk out the door to today, made more likely by climate change.
…this year’s: unusual, near-record late-December warmth for over 69 million people across the U.S. will walk out the door to today, made more likely by climate change.
Diana, a HUD employee in New York, was fired, rehired, & then refired during what would have been her maternity leave... “I had to delay my kid’s one-year doctor’s appointment,” she says. “That visit included the MMR shot. I was worried about him getting the measles.”
www.thecut.com/article/preg...
www.thecut.com/article/preg...
The Terror of Working in Trump’s Government While Pregnant
Mass layoffs derailed the lives of new mothers.
www.thecut.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Diana, a HUD employee in New York, was fired, rehired, & then refired during what would have been her maternity leave... “I had to delay my kid’s one-year doctor’s appointment,” she says. “That visit included the MMR shot. I was worried about him getting the measles.”
www.thecut.com/article/preg...
www.thecut.com/article/preg...
I know hell is real because I’ve stood in the CVS pharmacy line
December 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I know hell is real because I’ve stood in the CVS pharmacy line
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Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
“It is not clear what the research question is. It seems to be about the safety of the vaccine rather than its effectiveness, but both are already well-established, and to undertake such a study in a population where almost 1/5 of the adult population has a marker of infection seems extremely risky”
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
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Global warming broke time keeping? 😬
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Global warming broke time keeping? 😬
I texted my boyfriend to bring me ibuprofen from the bathroom and Apple ai suggested he reply “sorry I can’t do that”
December 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I texted my boyfriend to bring me ibuprofen from the bathroom and Apple ai suggested he reply “sorry I can’t do that”
Good morning from my son
December 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Good morning from my son
Just cruelty for cruelty’s sake
www.advocate.com/politics/hhs...
www.advocate.com/politics/hhs...
HHS replaces name on transgender admiral’s official portrait with deadname in act of ‘pettiness and bigotry’
Biden’s Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Rachel Levine’s name was changed on a display that honors previous officeholders.
www.advocate.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Just cruelty for cruelty’s sake
www.advocate.com/politics/hhs...
www.advocate.com/politics/hhs...
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
Stick Season weather (complimentary)
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Stick Season weather (complimentary)
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They should do MyChart Wrapped
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
They should do MyChart Wrapped
Standing on the train, watching my boyfriend’s little find my icon crawl along one train behind, congratulating myself on having won
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Standing on the train, watching my boyfriend’s little find my icon crawl along one train behind, congratulating myself on having won
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
We’ve lived twelve lifetimes since then, but in September our tiny friend OSIRIS-APEX zipped by and took some pics en route to another asteroid
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
We’ve lived twelve lifetimes since then, but in September our tiny friend OSIRIS-APEX zipped by and took some pics en route to another asteroid
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Feeling much safer now that ICE is ripping a baby from the arms of a father having a seizure, and then pretending he didn’t have a seizure and lied about it! Thank you, ICE!!!! 🫡🫡🫡
A man appeared to fall unconscious during an arrest while clutching a baby. ICE said the video people saw did not accurately represent the situation. The Dept of Homeland Security posted: "Imagine FAKING a seizure to help a criminal escape justice". They were taking his wife
ICE facing fierce backlash after video apparently shows unconscious man clutching child during arrest
Footage shows commotion inside vehicle in Massachusetts as desperate woman in passenger seat tries to awaken man
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Feeling much safer now that ICE is ripping a baby from the arms of a father having a seizure, and then pretending he didn’t have a seizure and lied about it! Thank you, ICE!!!! 🫡🫡🫡
Thank you, the Cut, my entire row absolutely lost it during As Long as You’re Mine
November 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Thank you, the Cut, my entire row absolutely lost it during As Long as You’re Mine
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The league’s most unstoppable force. ⚡️
Temwa Chawinga is the 2025 Most Valuable Player.
Presented by ATT
Temwa Chawinga is the 2025 Most Valuable Player.
Presented by ATT
November 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The league’s most unstoppable force. ⚡️
Temwa Chawinga is the 2025 Most Valuable Player.
Presented by ATT
Temwa Chawinga is the 2025 Most Valuable Player.
Presented by ATT
Part 2’s gonna be exclusively about the bamboo
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Part 2’s gonna be exclusively about the bamboo
Whipping out the tape measure in my office
Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?
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Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
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Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Whipping out the tape measure in my office
Every 80s band has:
-one guy with the Most Hair possible
-one guy in a stupid hat
-one guy who looks like he works in IT at a mid-sized corporation
-one guy with the Most Hair possible
-one guy in a stupid hat
-one guy who looks like he works in IT at a mid-sized corporation
November 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Every 80s band has:
-one guy with the Most Hair possible
-one guy in a stupid hat
-one guy who looks like he works in IT at a mid-sized corporation
-one guy with the Most Hair possible
-one guy in a stupid hat
-one guy who looks like he works in IT at a mid-sized corporation
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I can’t stop thinking about how the ACA is one of the most impactful pieces of legislation in my lifetime.
And they just let them throw it away.
I know it’s been long enough that a lot of people don’t remember (or weren’t alive), but I haven’t forgotten what it was like Before.
And they just let them throw it away.
I know it’s been long enough that a lot of people don’t remember (or weren’t alive), but I haven’t forgotten what it was like Before.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I can’t stop thinking about how the ACA is one of the most impactful pieces of legislation in my lifetime.
And they just let them throw it away.
I know it’s been long enough that a lot of people don’t remember (or weren’t alive), but I haven’t forgotten what it was like Before.
And they just let them throw it away.
I know it’s been long enough that a lot of people don’t remember (or weren’t alive), but I haven’t forgotten what it was like Before.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
God forbid women have hobbies
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
God forbid women have hobbies
I think most people who are generally healthy can’t fathom just how hard it is to access healthcare in the United States.
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I think most people who are generally healthy can’t fathom just how hard it is to access healthcare in the United States.
I fear I’m once again feeling a modicum of hope
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I fear I’m once again feeling a modicum of hope