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Katy M
@katmers.bsky.social
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I just do whatever Ursula K Le Guin tells me. Chronically broken brain.
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Thank you, the Cut, my entire row absolutely lost it during As Long as You’re Mine
Screenshot of an Instagram post from The Cut that says “What is a chunky knit doing in Wicked’s Sexiest Scene?”
November 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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God forbid women have hobbies
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!
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Happy Halloween from my cryptid son
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.
November 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Seems like the right time to share that I got third place in the county fair with this last month
A gray sweatshirt with black and magenta embroidery that says “Well what we really need is acetaminophemininomenon” with a pill bottle surrounded by sparkles.
September 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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‘Tis the season to eat like a mastodon
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.”
September 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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I’m at the photo printer, I’m at the happy hour, I’m at the combination
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.”
September 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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I gasped when I saw Uranus.
(But seriously this new JWST image is stunning)
science.nasa.gov/blogs/webb/2...
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.
August 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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My environmental cryptids got first place at the county fair!!
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.” 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 Bigfoot is stitched with a red bead eye. In red thread around it is stitched “Save Bigfoot habitat. Protect old growth forests.” 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 Mothman is stitched with red bead eyes. In red thread around it is stitched “Mothman flies in dark skies. Limit light pollution.”
August 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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We can’t have one nice thing
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?”
July 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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When you are Doing Great actually
Screenshot of a Teams message I sent that says “Also I wrote it in the shower last night so you know…feedback extra welcome”
June 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I went to the brains and bones center and no one there knew you
An industrial brown building with several windows. Along the top, big white letters read “Neuroscience and Orthopedic Center.”
June 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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At least my assigned sleep paralysis demon is cuddly
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.
May 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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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.”
May 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Apocalypse design, etc
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.”
May 18, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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USGS my beloved!!
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.”
May 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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How’d budget proposal day treat everyone else
Screenshot of a text conversation. The other person said “That seems like a mentally healthy plan.” I replied “Stopped clock”
May 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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How it feels this year
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.”
April 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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How’s everybody else’s brain doing
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. A bright binary star surrounded by a nebula. Text reads: space affirmations: I am alive. I am here. When I stare into the void, the void recognizes me as kin. The star, in the centre, is a large white spot surrounded by a circular glow. It has a large, X-shaped set of diffraction spikes around it. The nebula extends far above, below, left and right of the star in long, arcing shapes made of thin, multicoloured filaments — mostly red and greenish colours, but lit in a bright cyan near the star where its light illuminates the gas. The planet Uranus on a black background. Text reads: space affirmations: Uranus orbits on its side, I too can accomplish things from a horizontal position. The planet appears blue with a large, white patch taking up the right half. The patch is whitest at the center, then fades into blue at it expands from right to left. A thin outline of Uranus is also white. Around the planet is a system of nested rings. The outermost ring is the brightest while the innermost ring is the faintest. Unlike Saturn’s horizontal rings, the rings of Uranus are vertical and so they appear to surround the planet in an oval shape. There are 9 blueish white dots scattered around the rings. A tightly packed group of stars is condensed at the center in several points of white and orange light. Text reads: space affirmations: I am at peace. When I scream into space, the sound is lost to the vacuum. The stars grow more sporadic at the image's edges, all against a black backdrop of space.
April 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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The migraine babysitter has logged on
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.
April 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Do you need a Hubble image for TDOV? Of course you do. This is for you
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.
March 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Guess who slipped into the hallway and then cried so loud the neighbors heard
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.
March 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Kelly is a talented scientist doing vital work to understand our changing climate, and also a joy to work with on any comms platform (even ones she invents!). One of many workers the federal government is much worse without
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/c...
Screenshot of an email from Kelly to Katy. The body of the email says “Thanks Katy!!! I love SnapFace!! -k”
February 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Has someone already done this
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.”
February 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Always nice to hear from my fans
Screenshot of a tweet that says “I found the vocal fry too irritating to listen to the end.”
February 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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“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.
February 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM