Katy M

@katmers.bsky.social

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I just do whatever Ursula K Le Guin tells me. Chronically broken brain. she/her

Line graph of sea surface temperature anomaly indicating El Niño and La Niña from January 1982 to January 2026. El Niño years are red and La Niña are blue. Importantly, 2019-2020 and 2023 are both red spikes. 2026 shows the beginning of a red spike of El Niño.
A full disk image of Earth at night, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a dark midnight blue. Swirling white clouds are visible against the darker surface. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large, very brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. Other tiny yellow dots of electric lights are sprinkled across the planet's surface. From the 3 to the 6 o'clock spot, a very thin crescent of blue light hugs the edge of the planet. Earth is set against the black of space.
Graphic from Washingtonian Mag’s Instagram. Title: Cherry Blossom Bloom Stages. Subtitle: Up close with the six phases of cherry blossom development. The first bar has a light green icon. It says: 1. Green Buds. Buds develop and turn green. The second bar has a medium green icon. It says: 2. Florets Visible. Each bud will develop into a cluster of 3-5 blossoms on Yoshino Cherry trees. The third bat has a darker green icon. It says: 3. Extension of Florets. Clusters stretch outward and individual florets become more defined. The fourth icon has a wine colored icon. It says: 4. Peduncle Elongation. The stem (peduncle) bearing each floret lengthens and separates from the cluster. The fifth bar has a light pink icon. It says: 5. Puffy White. Petals are developed, nearly ready to open. The final bar has a bright pink icon. It says: 6. Peak Bloom. Reached when 70% of the cherry blossoms are open at the Tidal Basin.
The “Exposed Cranium” Nebula in near-infrared. The nebula’s oval-shaped outer bubble has a white edge and its inner clouds are orange, with a distinct dark lane cutting vertically through the center, like the hemispheres of a brain. Stars and background galaxies appear around the nebula and through the outer bubble. Text in the center reads “If I send you this, it means my head is exploding but I’m being so brave about it.”
A panda hanging upside down from a tree branch. His big front and back paws are wrapped around the branch, which look too thin to hold his weight.
Screenshot of part of an article that says “It's part of a strategy called demand response that's being used by power grid operators in times of peak energy use, like cold snaps and heat waves. The idea is to reduce power demand when supply is tight by incentivizing big electricity customers to use less. That could mean a bitcoin mine shuts down for a few hours. Or a hospital might switch on a backup power generator, reducing the amount of electricity it pulls from the grid.” The last two sentences are highlighted.
An embroidery hoop with black fabric with green alien heads. Text reads “Can’t spell indict them all without I.C.E.” I, C, and E in indict them all are red to match I.C.E.
Screenshot of the Wikipedia entry for Mare Crisium on the Moon. Text reads “Mare Crisium (Latin crisium, the "Sea of Crises") is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. Mare Crisium is a basin of Nectarian age. It was formed by the flooding of basaltic lava that filled an ancient asteroid impact.”
Screenshot from an article that says “The study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that after spaceflight, astronauts’ brains were tilted upward and shifted up and back in the skull relative to their normal positions on Earth.”
My hands holding a large embroidery hoop to the camera, with my face peeking over it. The hoop is divided into twelve pieces slices, each with about 30 tiny stitched icons.
Webster, a fluffy black cat, sits on a gray couch with his back legs out in front of him like a human. His fluffy tail sticks up between his legs, and he’s hunched over like a baby still learning to sit up. His expression is contemplative.
Series of frames from the OSIRIS-APEX StowCam instrument during its Earth gravity assist. The StowCam imager captured hundreds of individual images with the OSIRIS-APEX instrument deck in the foreground and a view of Earth as it flew over the Atlantic Ocean. This instrument was originally designed to verify that the sample material from asteroid Benn was safely stowed in the sample return capsule for the journey back to Earth. Earth fills most of the images, a moody blue globe mostly covered with tiny blueish white clouds like carpet pile or sheep's wool. In the foreground, the instrument panel is dark enough to be nearly in silhouette, like a city skyline. A tall thin rectangle juts up from the left side of the panel, like a tall building, which is part of the SamCam (another onboard camera). In the center, a shorter, squatter polygon shape is the OLA instrument (a laser ranging device). A slightly lighter colored Y shape lays on its side in front of the OLA.
Frame from the OSIRIS-APEX StowCam as it flew over Earth. Earth fills most of the images, a moody blue globe mostly covered with tiny blueish white clouds like carpet pile or sheep's wool. In the foreground, the instrument panel is dark enough to be nearly in silhouette, like a city skyline. A tall thin rectangle juts up from the left side of the panel, like a tall building, which is part of the SamCam (another onboard camera). In the center, a shorter, squatter polygon shape is the OLA instrument (a laser ranging device). A slightly lighter colored Y shape lays on its side in front of the OLA.
Screenshot of an Instagram post from The Cut that says “What is a chunky knit doing in Wicked’s Sexiest Scene?”
Screenshot of the dumb headline “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” for Ross Douthat’s dumb op-ed in the New York Times. The category is listed as “Opinion: Interesting Times.” Embarrassing!
A black cat sits on a tile floor. He’s twisted up in a weird position so his body is barely recognizable as a cat. He’s slightly out of focus, and the camera flash has caught his eyes so they glow bright against his black void body. He looks like a cryptid of some kind.
A gray sweatshirt with black and magenta embroidery that says “Well what we really need is acetaminophemininomenon” with a pill bottle surrounded by sparkles.
The Trojan horse meme. The walls of Troy are labeled “my boyfriend.” The person pulling the horse is labeled “me.” The horse’s head is labeled “delicious pawpaw.” And the soldiers inside the horse are labeled “facts about Pleistocene megafauna poop.”
A sign in a business door. The sign has a picture of a big pitcher and smaller beer bottles. Text set randomly around the image says “Passport Photo, Fax, Happy Hour 5pm-7pm, Draft Beer, Color Printing.”
At center is the planet Uranus, a blue globe with a large white spot occupying most of the planet. It’s surrounded by a series of rings that get brighter as you move outward. Beyond the rings are 14 moons appearing as points of light. The moons vary in brightness with the brightest, Miranda, just above 9 o'clock.
My fingers holding a small embroidery hoop against a wall. The fabric is gray with black and white stars and moons. In the center, a black Loch Ness Monster is stitched with a red bead eye. In red thread around it is stitched “Nessie needs clean lakes. Preserve freshwater resources.”
Screenshot of an instagram reel from the European Space Agency. A man in an ESA hat and ESA polo is talking to the camera, with a spiral galaxy on the green screen behind him. Captions on the screen read “What if I told you the Milky Way might not crash into Andromeda after all?”
Screenshot of a Teams message I sent that says “Also I wrote it in the shower last night so you know…feedback extra welcome”
An industrial brown building with several windows. Along the top, big white letters read “Neuroscience and Orthopedic Center.”
A fluffy black cat named Webster peering around the frame of a landlord specialed white door. One furry black paw is curled around the frame in a surprisingly human gesture. Just peeking out behind the paw, one eye and two soft black ears are tilting around the door frame to surveil me. The whole thing has a vaguely unsettling aura, but in a snuggly way that Webster would hate.
Jason from The Good Place leaning up against a poster of Ariana Grande. An iced coffee has been badly edited over her. Text along the bottom has been badly edited to say “Oh, second cold brew we’re really in it now.”
Screenshot from Canva. Along the top, it says “Font” and “Text styles.” Font is underlined to indicate that’s the tab we’re in. Below that, a search box says “Try ‘Calligraphy’ or ‘Open Sans’.” Below that, the font selected is called “Climate Crisis.”
A poster with 10 cartoon-style illustrations of cryptids and a short description below each of how climate change is affecting them. Text reads: "Extreme droughts impact even the Chupacabra. Severe storms increase flooding and wash out the Michigan Dogman. Hotter temperatures and less snowfall means fewer places for Yeti to hide. Wetlands provide valuable habitat for wildlife like the Swamp Ape. Prescribed burns lower fire risk, improving Jersey Devil habitat. Dense forests store carbon, helping reduce Bigfoot’s (carbon) footprint. Living shorelines protect coastlines and sea creatures like the Loch Ness Monster. Invasive grasses destroy prime Jackalope habitat. Krakens must look to cooler waters as fish populations move. Planting native species helps pollinators like Mothman thrive.”
Screenshot of a text conversation. The other person said “That seems like a mentally healthy plan.” I replied “Stopped clock”
The iconic “It is your birthday.” sign from The Office. It’s printed in boring black font on white printer paper taped together to make a banner, held up with masking tape. Around it are a few sad streamers and mostly empty balloons, all in neutral shades. The sign has been badly edited to say “It is your Earth day.”
Cassiopeia A, a circular-shaped cloud of gas and dust with complex structure. Text reads: space affirmations: I can handle this and if I can’t, at least my implosion will be a spectacle. The nova’s inner shell is made of bright pink and orange filaments studded with clumps and knots that look like tiny pieces of shattered glass. Around the exterior of the inner shell, particularly at the upper right, there are curtains of wispy gas that look like campfire smoke. The white smoke-like material also appears to fill the cavity of the inner shell, featuring structures shaped like large bubbles. Around and within the nebula, there are various stars seen as points of blue and white light. Outside the nebula, there are also clumps of yellow dust, with a particularly large clump at the bottom right corner that appears to have very detailed striations.
The eyes and ears of a black cat peeking over the top of the edge of a gray couch. He is looking intently at me, with his big green eyes locked in. He’s sitting on a purple carpet.
Hubble image of a stellar nursery. The entire frame is filled with swirls of gray dust, fading to light blue in some places near the edges of the clouds, where the dust is thicker. Interspersed throughout the dust are dozens of tiny pink and blue stars. Some are spaced throughout the whole image, while some clump together, especially near the bottom right. In the thickest clump of stars, the whole region glows pink from their light. Near the 10 o’clock region, an especially bright star glows pink through the dust, shading some of it light blue.
Selfie of me holding Webster, a fluffy black cat, while kissing him on the cheek. I’m wearing pink cheetah print glasses and a gray sweatshirt. Webster is looking toward the camera with gigantic yellow eyes and his pink tongue barely sticking out of his closed mouth in a blep.
Screenshot of an email from Kelly to Katy. The body of the email says “Thanks Katy!!! I love SnapFace!! -k”
Lucille Bluth meme saying “It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?” But it’s been badly edited to say “It’s one egg, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars.”
Screenshot of a tweet that says “I found the vocal fry too irritating to listen to the end.”
“I pretend I do not see it meme,” which says those words above a badly edited emoji with a flat line mouth and closed eyes.
Two white cardboard boxes sitting on wire shelves among other things. Writing on the end of one says “I am made of glass.” Writing on the other says “So am I!”
Screenshot of an email newsletter segment that says “I was under the impression she had been forgotten, kind of like Megan Markle's character on Fringe, who appears for two episodes and then everyone just forgets about her.? Welcome back, Tiffany.)”
Line graph with lines demonstrating the global temperature records from Berkeley Earth, Copernicus ERA5, Met Office HadCRUT5, NASA GISTEMP. These are many of the major global temperature records. The lines run from 1950 to 2024, and although there are slight differences, particularly in the early years, the lines match up remarkably well, showing that the temperature records are in agreement. As the lines progress from 1950 to 2024, overall, the temperature gets higher, reaching a record in 2024.
My hands in front of my laptop screen. My fingernails are several different colors: yellow, bright red, dark red, and one light blue. These colors correspond to the map of global temperature anomalies in 2024 on the laptop screen. Most of the map is yellow with lots of dark red, especially over continents. A few tiny splotches of light blue still appear over parts of Antarctica.
A selfie. I am leaning over, partly out of the left side of the frame. My eyes are squeezed shit behind red tinted migraine glasses, and I’m wincing a bit. Webster, a black cat, is sitting on the arm of the couch behind me. He has his ears partly back and his face is buried in my hair. His eyes are partly closed, and he looks very focused.
Screenshot of a tweet that has a bunch of crying laughing emojis then says “What DEI hire is running this account? (Yes, it shows)”
Webster, a black cat, sits on his butt on tan carpet. His back legs are poking out toward me, with his fluffy tummy visible. His position has him folded into a slumped seat like a person.
A selfie over my shoulder. I have my hand over my mouth and look horrified and amused. There is a guy? He is wearing a gray mascot head of some sort with gray locks and a blue knit cap and glowing red eyes. He is pretending to play a guitar behind me.
A stuffed brown dog with fluffy fur. One of his ears has gauze wrapped around it, like he’s just had surgery.
Screenshot of a tweet from Discussing Film that says “Christopher Nolan's next film is an adaption of THE ODYSSEY' • Described as a mythic action epic that follows the tale of Odysseus & his 10-year journey home after the Troian War • Starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Matt Damon, Lupita Nyong'o and Robert Pattinson.”
A sign with two arrows pointing opposite directions. The top arrow points to the left and says “beer sales” and the bottom arrow points to the right and says “photo horse.” It is decorated with evergreen garland.
Selfie of me wearing a white tshirt, red and black buffalo plaid flannel shirt and black coat, with animal print glasses and a black mask. I am holding an embroidery hoop with smaller red and black buffalo check fabric with a water soluble pattern.
Webster, a black cat, laying on a gray couch and peering around a pillow. Only his head and ears are visible. His yellow eyes are the roundest and innocentest you have ever seen, like an anime cat.
A letter to Santa I wrote when I was very young, in messy kid handwriting using red marker. It takes up a full piece of plain white paper. It reads “Dear Santa, I would like a new toothbrush and some books please. Your friend, Katy M”
My hand holding a jar full of small rocks and dirt, all of which is a dark black.
A screenshot from the iconic Bee Movie YouTube edit titled “The Bee Movie but every time they say “bee” it gets faster. It has been badly edited so the title says “COP but every time we meet it gets worse”
The tired DW meme. DW from Arthur in a grassy field. She has a small smile but one that looks like unhinged. There are prominent dark circles under her eyes.
A picture taken across a soccer pitch. On the other side, a fan section has unfurled a square, lime green banner over their heads. It reads “Spirit and it’s completely playoffs but also still Spirit” in the same style and font as the Brat album rerelease.
A black cat laying on beige carpet. He’s laying with his head away from the camera, but turned back up and up so he’s looking directly at it. His mouth is open wide, showing a pink tongue, and his green eyes are squinted. It looks like he’s yelling.
Screenshot of a tumblr post. It reads: Theory 1: baseball curses are real bc look what happened to the Cubs and the Red Sox. Theory 2: baseball curses are fake bc no one has ever cursed the Yankees. Theory 3 (synthesis): no one has successfully cursed the Yankees bc they employ a cadre of dark wizards
Screenshot of my lock screen. It has Webster, a black cat, peering over the top of my notification bar, next to a tiny orange and white striped pumpkin. In the notification bar, my music playback menu shows All Too Well (10 Minute Version), with the playback line at 2:11, right when the song diverges from the original lyrics to “And you were tossing me the car keys.”
A black cat laying behind two pumpkins, peering between them. The pumpkin on the left is smaller and white with orange stripes running up it’s ridges. The pumpkin on the right is larger and plain white. The cat has big green eyes looking intently between them at the camera. The smaller pumpkin is labeled Europa. The larger pumpkin is labeled Jupiter. The cat is labeled Clipper.