Katy M

It's also going to permanently harm a lot of people who will survive but with ongoing issues. Some of these people are going to end up blind and are going to have to adapt to that. Some of them are going to have lifelong neurological issues. And it's not necessary.

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.

I’m going to become the joker

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.

Infinite respect to Woke Hoth Guy, who freestyled a two-minute Federalist paper.

A graph entitled "What's Happened to Global Temperatures?" with two lines. A red line shows modeled global temperatures from 1860 to 2035. A black line shows observed global temperatures from 1880 to 2025. The two time series show good agreement, with values around -0.25C in the late 19th century and a small amount of warming until around 1970. After 1970 both lines rapidly increase to values above 1.2C.

Many people are asking, "What's Happened to Global Temperatures?" so here's the answer in image form.

We’re gonna need a bigger hell

Police have arrived. Arrests seem imminent. The crowd chants “let them pray” and “Minnesota nice means prosecute ICE”

Double Take - Orion Magazine Are people crying Bigfoot when it’s really a bear?

Bigfoots is bears
orionmagazine.org/article/bigf...

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.”

I went to the Sea of Crises and everyone there knew you

As the climate data for 2025 continues to be released, it's time to update various data visualisations.

First - the global climate stripes for 1850-2025. A third darkest red stripe is added.

The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record. A sequence that is unlikely to be broken soon.

Bar graph time series showing global mean surface temperature anomalies from 1850 to 2025 for ERA5 compared to other datasets. 2025 was the third warmest year on record. Graphic produced by Copernicus ECMWF. There is a long-term warming trend.

We continue to receive warning signs for our future. The data is in, and last year was the 3rd hottest on record for our planet...

+ Full report by @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social at climate.copernicus.eu/sites/defaul...

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.”

I bet the astronaut brain float would feel soooo good
www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...

My phone tried to autofill “mom” while I was typing “stay at home dad,” in case we needed a reminder that predictive algorithms are built on and reproduce dated stereotypes

The dentist walked in, greeted me, and said “Alexa, play 1990s music.” No coming back from that I fear

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.

My hand holding the same embroidery hoop against a brick wall.

The car salesman meme, edited with a picture of the embroidery hoop over the car. The salesman is saying “This baby can fit so many 2025s in it”

Didn’t really think I would pull it off, but managed to stitch an icon for every single day of 2025

Spitefully eating a gummy candy for every new year’s weight loss ad I have to see

Flu numbers are high in most states and almost all cases are variants of H3N2 and the vaccine includes H3N2

Get your flu vax if you haven’t already! Even if you still get the flu, the symptoms will be easier to manage if you get vaccinated!

Inflicting psychic damage on all digital producers in the vicinity by editing still images in Adobe Premiere

Festivus-themed climate graphic with a metal Festivus pole on the left and a Climate Shift Index map of the U.S. on the right. Text reads: “Festivus: The Airing of Grievances | December 23.” The graphic states that over 69 million people across the U.S. will experience unusual heat made at least twice as likely by human-caused climate change. Climate Central branding appears at the bottom

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.

The Terror of Working in Trump’s Government While Pregnant Mass layoffs derailed the lives of new mothers.

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...

I know hell is real because I’ve stood in the CVS pharmacy line

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

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”

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.

Good morning from my son

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.

Just cruelty for cruelty’s sake
www.advocate.com/politics/hhs...

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)

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