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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 01/10/2026

Another week, another “we’re vaguely familiar with the basic premise of the story while at the same time wilfully missing the entire point” moment

Screenshot:

Is this a 3D model?
@IsThisA3DModel

80% of the children who accepted Wonka's Golden Ticket died

Josh Daws
@JoshDaws
Rejecting Al is like refusing Wonka's golden ticket.
Anything you want to, do it Wanna change the world?
There's nothing to it

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 29/09/2026

Today in small joys: for reasons, it’s particularly important I keep an eye on my blood pressure. I’ve had a Hilo (was Aktiia) wearable for years. But the only strap available was silicone, which irritated my skin, so I cobbled things. Until today! Because they’ve finally made a fabric strap! Yay!

A Hilo blood pressure device under a beautiful new bottle-green woven fabric strap.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 28/09/2026

I have just discovered that you can get the full audio tracks of all the Blackadder series as one audiobook. And now you have, too.

Screenshot showing Blackadder: The Complete Collected Series audiobook: 15 hours and 3 minutes.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 22/09/2026

Anyway, listen to women en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraet...

Wikipedia extract:

In 2011, researchers retroactively estimated the annual impact of tetraethyl lead worldwide to be 322 million lost IQ points, 60+ million crimes, and 4% of worldwide GDP (around 2.4 trillion United States dollars per year).[16]

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 22/09/2026

A friend put me onto this a while back, saying they thought it’d be my sort of thing. It is indeed my sort of thing. If you enjoy dark-fantasy-folk-horror I reckon it will be your sort of thing, too.

Screenshot of the audio book Pilgrim, collected series 1–4, the BBC Radio 4 fantasy drama series. Image shows a man’s face, half in shadows, on a dark, tree-filled background.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 21/09/2026

What an excellent streak to have 😈 On another note, it’s #WorldAlzheimersDay. The Minute Cryptic app is brilliant, and the team have so far donated $123,000 to Alzheimer’s research raised from subscriptions, books and merch sales. Supporting them makes more fun stuff AND does good. A rare win-win.

Screenshot:

Today's clue
"All-in bet?" say Romeo and
Juliet (6)

21 September, 2026 • By Member: KevLoughrey & Angas

you have a 666-clue streak!

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 20/09/2026

e-books and audiobooks as well as physical copies. Whatever it is, it’s very, very bad.

Harper Collins has now confirmed that it has dropped Walliams's backlist, according to The Bookseller. The publication reported that the publisher will gradually phase out stock of Walliams's books in shops as well as e-book and audio versions available online.

The Independent has contacted Walliams and HarperCollins for comment.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 19/09/2026

Just caught this massive hornet on my car windscreen. Not quite sure what it was chomping on… another insect, by the looks of it? It was huge, at least 3cm I’d say.

Close up (if not perfectly focused) photo of a yellow and brown hornet on a glass surface. It’s attacking/eating what looks like the abdomen of a different, pale brown, insect.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 17/09/2026

And note that the great, late Sir Terry Pratchett did NOT use it (he wrote “was” not “were”) and thus, whether strictly allowed by grammatical rules or not, we should not impose a change upon him 😆

Page from Diggers, by Terry Pratchett. Top line reads:

To convince was themselves

Which follows from the preceding page:

… argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 17/09/2026

I started questioning my own sanity and reached for every reference I could find on subjunctive mood, and… … I don’t feel this is an appropriate place to use it, but I’m struggling to pin down precisely WHY. In the end I’m going to take this advice relayed by @bcdreyer.social…

Page 98 from Dreyer’s English. Pertinent sentence reads:

When I was a baby copy editor, I was told by my betters not to impose the subjunctive on writers who did not naturally use it.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 16/09/2026

Right. Do not cite the old magic to me. I was… okay, not QUITE there when it was written, but close! And I’ve got the sodding paperback to prove it! n

Front cover of Diggers, by Terry Pratchett

Inner flyleaf of Diggers by Terry Pratchett, showing the printing history:

Doubleday edition published 1990
Corgi edition published 1991
Reprinted 1992 (twice), 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997

Page 39 of the Diggers paperback. The last sentence on the page reads:

people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying

page 40 of the Diggers paperback. Text continues at the top of the page:

to convince was themselves.

WAS THEMSELVES

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 16/09/2026

Sorry. For the avoidance of confusion, I’m referring to this. This is the Reddit version but it’s everywhere. It’s causing me actual pain 😆

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 12/09/2026

Sophie Anderson’s books are so gorgeous. Look at these illustrations!

The front cover of The House With Chicken Legs, by Sophie Anderson

An inside page from The House With Chicken Legs, by Sophie Anderson. It shows a black and white illustration of a house running on chicken legs past a sky filled with swirling aurora borealis.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 12/09/2026

City of Where Are My Anti-Glare Spectacles I Can’t Drive With All These Modern Headlights

Screenshot:

Victor Lams
@victorlams
If I were U2 and getting older, I'd record sequels to my most famous tracks, like "I Found What I Was Looking For But Then I Set It Down Somewhere And Now I Can't Find It Again" or "They Finally Named The Streets Around Here".

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 10/09/2026

Today is MPN Awareness Day. No idea what MPNs are? That’s why there’s a day 😆 www.mpn-advocates.net/mpn-awarenes...

MPN Awareness
Day 2026
Raising awareness.
Sharing experiences.
Strengthening the MPN community.
MPN Awareness Day 2026 will take place on September 10th.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 08/09/2026

I’m just one person, but it’s my feeling (as a former teacher and current parent) that this is due to continued focus on phonics and mental arithmetic in English primary schools, plus a refusal to give up hand-written assessments and strong guidance that encourages schools to restrict mobile phones

Graph of the lates PISA scores for Reading, Mathematics and Science. Wales, OECD, N. Ireland and Scotland have all declined across the board. England has stayed steady, in the case of Science recovering after probably Covid-related dip to ~2005 levels.

Daisy Christo...
@daisyc...

We are now in a slightly weird situation in which England's scores are basically the same as they were in 2012.

But whereas in 2012 England was about 20th - 25th in the world, now it is one of only a handful of countries to be in the top ten for every subject.
England & Estonia are the only two countries outside East Asia to come in the top 10 for reading, maths & science.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 08/09/2026

Yellow car! 🚖 (Also yellow tractor, but that definitely doesn’t count)

Your Southend

100 yellow cars and vehicles took over the streets of Southend on Saturday, all with one powerful purpose: raising awareness of childhood cancer
Organised by local Gold Geese Charity, the annual Yellow Car Convoy saw a huge stream of brightly coloured vehicles travel through Leigh, Southend and Thorpe Bay, turning heads along the route and shining a spotlight on children and families affected by cancer.
The charity had put out a call for yellow vehicles to take part and said it was amazed by the support from complete strangers who came together once again. This year, even a yellow tractor joined the convoy!

Gold Geese supports local children and young people fighting cancer, along with their families, providing practical and emotional support during treatment and beyond.
Around 1,800 children aged 0 to 14 are diagnosed with cancer in the UK each year, with thousands more teenagers and young adults also receiving a diagnosis.
The charity is now hoping next year's event will have even more yellow vehicles taking part in the convoy.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 08/09/2026

It’s the anniversary of this very good boy’s death. He saw me through two pregnancies and guarded the house very thoroughly. He died in 2020 and there was A Lot going on then… Anyway. Cats are nice. 💔

A very long white and black cat, stretched over a sofa

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 05/09/2026

Okay, right, if I know your number and you get a weird call from an unknown landline, I need you to pick up – I might be trying to save a phone box 📞

Man standing next to a red telephone box:

TELEPHONE
Under Ofcom rules, 52 or more calls in 12 months is one of the criteria that can orotect a qualifying phone box from being removed.

Man standing in a red telephone box, holding the receiver to his ear:

TELEPHONE
Under Ofcom rules, 52 or more calls in 12 months is one of the criteria that can orotect a qualifying phone box from being removed.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 01/09/2026

I think this might be the greatest review of all time

r/EntitledReviews
u/IntroductionDeep5430 • 1d • i.redd.it
Death by chocolate is too chocolaty

Local Guide
*** (out of 5 stars)
8 years ago
Great ice cream death by chocolate is for chocolate lovers only

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 29/08/2026

Thank you @stephstephking.bsky.social to creating this marvellous starter pack and adding me to it! It was created some time ago but apparently I… missed it? Or forgot about it? Anyway someone just used it! bsky.app/profile/step...

Image for Bluesky Flash Fiction starter pack

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 29/08/2026

in case you’re not aware, this account @ politicsuk . com is owned by Reform counsellor Bailey Nash-Gardner. They claim that Politics UK is independently run day-to-day by a separate editorial team, but. More in link below.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 28/08/2026

I love this guy “Gen X does not have feelings. We have music. … you don’t have to ask a Gen Xer ‘how’re you doing?’ You just wait to hear what comes through our speakers. We weren’t raised to narrate every emotion. We were raised to shove our feelings into a cassette and rewind it with a pencil.”

Screenshot of a reel showing a middle-aged man with a generous grey beard and moustache. The subtitle says “We weren’t raised”

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 25/08/2026

“This is the world, a place where everything can be made right—except death.” I love this. I’m going to be thinking about this for a long time.

Screenshot of response to quoted post underneath:

ayşegül kızılarsı... @yoldaki...
Translated from Turkish
By the way, if they wrote, a lot would change, but life isn't a place as sharp as "it gave up on you, what difference would it make if it came back," friends. A person can give up. They can come back. A person can do things they'll regret without batting an eye. This is the world, a place where everything can be made right—except death.

Reposted post:
afrâze @affraze
Translated from Turkish
What would change if he wrote? You've already seen once that he could let go of you. Even if he came back five months later, what would it matter? The ease of his departure will gnaw at you

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 25/08/2026

Ooh look at this image! Eclipses come in pairs. We’ve had the solar one; the lunar eclipse is on 27/28th August. The UK timings aren’t entirely sleep-friendly, but 5am on the 28th might be worth an early alarm if the skies are clear.

BBC Sky at Night Magazine
A lunar eclipse is coming
Image shows a large image of the moon, the upper crescent bright white, the larger (gibbous) section blood red.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 23/08/2026

A Cabin Pressure snippet, since we’ve been listening lately (season 1, episode 4, ‘Douz’, by John Finnemore)

MARTIN: For your information, a firm landing is generally the safest.

CAROLYN: If that landing had been any safer it would've killed us.

DOUGLAS: You know what they say—a good landing's any landing you can walk away from. A great landing is one where they can re-use the plane.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 21/08/2026

I think so, although I can’t see the extra info you seem to have and I’m not sure where to look for it?

Screenshot of Bluesky app version history showing latest download 1d ago: 1.131.0

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 17/08/2026

Knew that job lot of ponchos we bought when the PseudoPod Towers moat flooded would come in useful at some point.

A ride photo of me at Thorpe Park riding Tidal Wave while wearing a ridiculous yellow plastic poncho

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 13/08/2026

It’s Thursday 13th August 8:35am BST, and the election is currently ongoing. Polls have not closed. I’ve screenshotted this from the Bluesky ‘Trending’ news page because I’m sure it’s going to be removed, but it’s extremely problematic that it occurred at all. How has this been done and who did it?

Screenshot from Bluesky “trending” page:

Trending
1. Farage wins Clacton seat
Count Binface also stood; Reform UK's biggest donor faces scrutiny over Kremlin ties.
1.3K posts

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 12/08/2026

And this is a good one from my Dad, showing crescent shadows

Crescent-shaped shadows on a garage door, projected through the leaves of a nearby tree

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 12/08/2026

We have got glasses, but I’ve also knocked up a quick eclipse viewer, Blue Peter style, out of a kitchen roll, some paper, some tinfoil (other end, not visible) and some sticky tape!

An eclipse viewer showing a small, currently circular, white sun projected onto white paper at the end of a tube.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 12/08/2026

Apologies for the janky screenshot, but this is the best summary I’ve seen. The eclipse should start to be visible in the UK from about 18:15 BST, ish.

Summary of eclipse shapes in major cities in the UK. Image shows London at 89.05% totality at 19:11 BST. By contrast, Inverness will be 77.24% at the same time.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 11/08/2026

Interesting example of shrinkflation in real time: regular branded mint Cornetto vs. an un-branded version of the same ice cream. Cornetto weighs ~63g; unbranded weighs ~73g (and is still, miraculously, cheaper).

A photo of a branded, packaged Cornetto ice cream next to an unbranded version in plain silver packaging. The unbranded version is visibly significantly larger.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 11/08/2026

Martin: I know you said no frills, Carolyn, but— Arthur: Mum, it was BRILLIANT!

Screenshot of Guardian article showing a map with a bin shape in green superimposed on it:

Clacton byelection August 2026
Pilot pulls off Count Binface stunt for Clacton byelection
Plane spends 30 minutes off the Essex coast marking out shape of a bin in apparent tribute to Nigel Farage's rival

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