Katy Major 🌹

Educator, instructional designer, and essayist. Fierce feminist, antiracist, and abolitionist. Let’s talk about big ideas. 💡

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

Take that in. Then try wrapping your head around the fact that we’re only seeing the beginning of a destabilising planet, while remembering that GHG emissions are still rising and the companies largely causing this are making record profits.

A bit concerning, don’t you think?

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Today Palermo, Italy, recorded its hottest day in city history since records began in 1790, hitting a stunning 47°C (116.7°F).

Now at 3 am, the city is being threatened by a fast-moving wildfire moving into populated areas, with major damage to houses being reported.

[Scott Duncan @ScottDuncanWX]

We could also be looking at a new world record in ocean heat from Manatee Bay (Florida). Please carefully read the excellent thread by @DrJeffMasters, there are a few uncertainties explained

https://t.co/cBT1JjHMnv

[Scott Duncan @ScottDuncanWX]

This is the hottest we have ever observed.

The Mediterranean is now completely outside all previous records. We have never measured this level of heat across the basin at any time of year.

It is only July. We usually see the annual maximum in August.

[Katy Major 🌹 @KatyMajor]

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[The New York Times @nytimes]

The heat in Athens has forced the Acropolis to close to tourists in the afternoons again this month, with plans to open up in the cooler hours of the evening. But a worker's strike, over dangerous working conditions, will also keep it closed after noon. https://t.co/ZLcUPcsUQi

[Katy Major 🌹 @KatyMajor]

@_celia_bedelia_ “It’s dumb to limit your babies because of this” was a real jaw-dropper.

[Famous Monsters @FamousMonsters]

Moon fungus can be nasty stuff!
Mutiny in Outer Space (1965)

[Katy Major 🌹 @KatyMajor]

“My PTSD is just an TEENSY bit enflamed” -me, trying to be politely mentally ill

[carina adly mackenzie @cadlymack]

It takes a lot to blow my mind these days but I’m actually floored.

Not to mention Kim is working on one of the only scripted shows that has completely given the middle finger to the writers’ strike.

[Katy Major 🌹 @KatyMajor]

@JScottroller 100%. The “what I wear translates as respect or a lack thereof for my husband and IN-LAWS (!) also icks me out. Big time.

[Katy Major 🌹 @KatyMajor]

The straights: definitely very much not okay.

[Derenic Byrd @DerenicByrd]

And when it comes to the Keke Palmer situation my woman said it best. She said baby I wouldn’t have ever gone out in public like that because the way I dress represents you and your family name and I have too much respect for “us” to put you in a position like that.

[Katy Major 🌹 @KatyMajor]

@jasondashbailey Well this thread sure was haunting!

[Katy Major 🌹 @KatyMajor]

@theferocity @PennBadgley Oh my god. I am so sorry that happened.

[New York Times Books @nytimesbooks]

Twenty-five years ago, Bridget Jones was the toast of book clubs, the subject of editorials, a lightning rod for morning-show debate and fodder for late-night comedy. Some readers were charmed by her; others were disgusted. https://t.co/vdNKsNK2ws

[💜💜🎀 ȶɦɛ ȶɦɨռӄɛʀ🎀 💜💜 @NickPinkerton]

It's baffling, but it appears that major American movie studios' seemingly foolproof strategy of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to put out horrible-looking garbage that no moderately intelligent person could possibly be interested in watching has begun to backfire?

[Man Without Qualities @MenschOhnMusil2]

Dormitory at the Hospital in Arles (1889). Vincent #VanGogh.

[Aurora @CitizenScreen]

Bette Davis at home, 1931 #DailyBette

[Katy Major 🌹 @KatyMajor]

trying so, so hard to be okay.

[Katy Major 🌹 @KatyMajor]

@oldfilmsflicker Yeah. I dunno. This isn’t right either.