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Dr Kat Day (she/her)

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Science & Fiction editor/writer. Chemistry PhD ⚛️ Writer: The Crash Course Organic Chemistry & various DK science books 🧪 Deputy Editor at PseudoPod 🦑 Short fiction https://thefictionphial.wordpress.com 🖊️

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · May 15

Maybe I STARTED OUT made of sugar and spice and all things nice, but now I’m made of coffee, capsicum, obstreperousness and dark stories.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 31m

And a full moon, and bonfire night, over here. So we will light fires and shoot lights into the sky. Seems fitting 🌝

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2h

I LOVE this story!

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PseudoPod @pseudopod.org · 2h

Ahhhh, The Bear Across the Way 🐻 🐝

Dani Daly @danooli.com · 8h

Today I am thinking about this story by Emily Rigole that I narrated for @pseudopod.org some years ago...

pseudopod.org/2022/03/11/p...

a close up of a honeycomb with a spoon in it and a bee on it .

Alt: a close up of a honeycomb with a spoon in it and a bee on it .

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 4h

You are stronger than you think.
If you had tentacles, you could easily crush sailing ships from below with your dark determination.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4h

Mmhm, mmhm.
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4h

And then… there it is. I think we can all imagine what he actually said.

“Free speech” “protecting women and girls” annnnnnndddd…

"A week later, I arrive back home from Welburn Hall in York after having a good day and someone found out about the flags and spoke to the headmistress. The headmistress then saw that [highlight] I posted about problems we have in the country (on social media) such as young girls getting raped. [end highlight] The post was all about children - as that is who 1 am trying to protect.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4h

And then… there it is. I think we can all imagine what he actually said.

“Free speech” “protecting women and girls” annnnnnndddd…

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4h

Number one: he was a supply teacher.

(Fun fact: supply teachers are, by definition, temporary workers, so he didn’t really “lose” his job)

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6h

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion

After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

goodlawproject.org

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 6h

Had a really good time with Peter talking about the AI bubble, and said the following, which i stand by:

"I don't do this because I'm like "I'm going to be nasty." No, I do it because I'm pissed off at the way they fucked up the computer."

Peter Kafka @pkafka.bsky.social · 7h

Enjoyed talking to @edzitron.com, who has been spending a lot of time banging the drum about the AI bubble (and about the problems with tech in general.

Also discussed here: How Ed runs a PR company while he also savages some of the biggest companies in tech.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust

Podcast Episode · Channels with Peter Kafka · 10/15/2025 · 55m

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12h

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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Fiction Fans Podcast @fictionfanspod.bsky.social · 7d

To celebrate #BannedBooksWeek, we read THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margarita Atwood for this week’s #podcast episode.

Listen to our discussion here: linktr.ee/fictionfanspod

💙📚 #booksky

Fiction Fans | Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktree

View fictionfanspod’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like YouTube, Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 9h

There’s a website, wordcounter.net, which is very good for short counts

WordCounter - Count Words & Correct Writing

Copy and paste your text into the online editor to count its words and characters, check keyword density, and correct writing mistakes. Bookmark it now, it’s free and easy.

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Hannah Rutherford (she/her) @lomadiah.bsky.social · 10h

Charities, non profits and PR folk: I’ve got some space coming up for November onwards 👀

If you’d like consultancy support with creator outreach, prospecting or campaign planning then please do reach out - I’d love to chat!

lomadiah.com/charity

Hannah Rutherford (she/her) @lomadiah.bsky.social · Oct 20

Helloooo! 👋 I’m Hannah (aka Lomadiah), a variety streamer and charity consultant. I’m an ADHD menace, Twitch Ambassador and Mentor for the Women’s Guild 💚

I love:
- animals
- gardening
- folklore
- books
- MTG & boardgames
- horror

Twitch: twitch.tv/lomadiah
Website: lomadiah.com

Hannah doing a peace sign to camera whilst wearing orange dungarees and a black tank top.

Hannah dressed as Luigi from Mario, standing with Mario as a plastic skeleton (he has the moustache and hat) and reacting to Mario being dead with shock.

Hannah in a long purple wavy wig with blue vertical stripes of makeup over her eyes. She is pretending to cry and holding up a small terrarium in reference to the night elves’ world tree being burnt down in World of Warcraft.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 10h

Oh yikes. This is something that’s really important to editors. Take note!

LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social · 10h

recently, i noticed that the latest iteration of MS Word stopped reliably numbering words in a simple .docx file—terrible for a flash writer, impossible for a novelist!—but not as dangerous as black box errors in higher stakes fields, like medicine or aeronautics 😔

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 10h

Oh no! I don’t suppose you’ve tested using Google Docs?

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 10h

Most *humans* can’t get this right, I mean 😆

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 10h

Colour me surprised.

Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 13h

Can generative AI be trusted to draw chemical structures? Not yet, according to two chemists who want to see the community take a tough stance against its use.

The chemistry community should ban drawing chemical structures with generative AI, chemists warn

AIs like Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT still make serious errors rendering structural formulae

www.chemistryworld.com

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 1d

we’ll we’ll we’ll if it isn’t my old friend autocorrect

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 13h

That’ll work for his supporters, who don’t care anyway, but it’s still damning for the, “you can’t just call everyone Nazis” deniers.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 21h

nasa jpl had to lay off over 500 employees today.

science really is under attack with this administration.

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Snack Queen @auntiebaecc.blacksky.app · 21h

The best apology is changed behavior. You only said "I'm sorry" because you got caught.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 16h

This is horrific and needs all the content warnings. I’m grateful to the journalists reporting it, who have no doubt taken risks to do so.

Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1d

Saying the quiet bits out loud. The far right US GOP reveal their true selves, in leaked social media messages, & it’s alarming! TW Deeply dehumanising content.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 15d

He who does not read, at 70 years will have lived only one life, his own! He who reads, will have lived 5000 years: He was there when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired infinity... Because “Reading is backward immortality”.
-Umberto Eco
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#books

Umberto Eco with many shelves of his collection of books

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 13

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

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Hell Ray-ser @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 13d

BREAKING: The mitochondria have released a statement they are ending their long running symbiotic relationship with humans, citing "increasingly poor use of the energy we provide".

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