Dr Kat Day (she/her)
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Dr Kat Day (she/her)
@chronicleflask.katday.com
Science & Fiction editor/writer. Chemistry PhD ⚛️ Co-Editor at PseudoPod 🦑 Writer: The Crash Course Organic Chemistry & various DK science books 🧪 Short fiction https://thefictionphial.wordpress.com 🖊️🐢
“it said had not considered that some human tissue can produce measurements easily confused with the signal given by common plastics.”

You mean the fact that –CH₂– groups occur in plastics but also in fats? I feel like that really *should* have been considered earlier…
January 13, 2026 at 7:57 PM
My problem is compounded by slightly thinning hair (yay, menopause) coupled with even thinner hair at the front due to minor surgery nuking a few hair follicles. This style hides all that perfectly, which I knew, but I had this bright idea that maybe I’d try again just to see 😆
January 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM
It’s more targeted than mute, and less sledgehammer than turning off reposts from everyone (though that is another useful setting).
January 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM
January: new year, new hair!
January 13, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Thank you! I feel so much better 😄
January 13, 2026 at 3:49 PM
It wasn’t. This one has a built-in pop screen, which should’ve been a clue 😆 but it had got turned around during setup.
January 12, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Yes there was a logo, but there’s ALSO a logo the back. Smaller, admittedly, but still. It was looking at the picture on the box that clued me in 😆
January 12, 2026 at 2:52 PM
I SWEAR this wasn’t obvious 😆
January 12, 2026 at 12:51 PM