Notices by Citizen Helene (citizenhelene@mastodon.social)

Ever since I mentioned I'm knitting a jumper, all I get on Instagram are ads for jumpers... are they telling me to just give up and buy one

@botvolution Maybe they're trying out some new stamp designs

@botvolution Seriously though, this is so strange. Why on earth are they so suspicious of you?!

@botvolution I'd forgotten about this! Thanks for the reminder. It's tricky because what I need is pretty specific, and I find charity shops tend to offer the opposite sort of experience, so don't know if I'd have much luck. Probably more likely to find someone's finished version of the jumper, haha

@botvolution (If it was a larger size I suppose I could unravel it and make my own version? 🤔)

*And* I'd need to buy a new pair of needles because I don't have anything smaller than 3mm. So getting closer to £50

Even acrylic yarn. Was looking into making a silly Wit Knits jumper and really struggled to find black yarn in the quantities needed! And it still somehow came to about £40, which is... more money than I feel I should spend on something that will probably turn out to be unwearably sweaty

Wow, there is truly a dearth of 4 ply yarn in the UK right now (everyone knitting Christmas jumpers and socks presumably)

@botvolution I've started having to put the heating on "for the washing"

My Hallowe'en-adjacent Soho Radio show is now on Mixcloud! 🎃 Check it out here:

https://www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/citizen-helene-29102024/

Back on Soho Radio today from 2-4pm GMT with two hours of (incredibly tenous) Hallowe'en-themed music

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Back on Soho Radio today from 2-4pm BST with two hours of boogie heat 🔥

Tune in via https://sohoradiolondon.com

Back on my (Italian post-apocalyptic) bullshit

@botvolution I bet that stuff lasts forever

(Sources nicked from Clean Air Club)

Rapid tests/LFTs are very reliable at showing true positives (99%) but not great at showing true negatives – historically the average reliability has been 69%*, but with more recent variants, it's reportedly even lower, around 27%**.

So while you can believe a positive result, you shouldn't rely on a single negative test. Instead, you should repeat the test over several days.

Sources:
* https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2023/0400/cochrane-poc-rapid-antigen-tests-for-diagnosis-of-covid-19.html#:~:text=Evidence%2DBased%20Answer,%2C%2099.2%25%20to%2099.3%25

**https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36379401/

Hate that in 2024, the majority of people think that one single negative test means they don't have covid. Fuck the last government and the current one

Don't want to speak too soon but I just dismantled them, then wasn't sure what to do, so I just put them back together and the problem seems to be fixed now 😂

I might attempt to repair my headphones today. Hopefully I won't break them further

The secret ingredient is confusion

I'll look into replacing the cable at some point though