Helen
@seryndippyt.bsky.social
Semi-feral neurodivergent yarn goblin on wheels.
Unapologetically British English speaking.
Current projects are as unknowable as the deepest sky.
Unapologetically British English speaking.
Current projects are as unknowable as the deepest sky.
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Helen
@seryndippyt.bsky.social
· Sep 2
I’ve given up looking at people who follow me because it’s almost always middle aged American dudes who think this is a dating app or gym bros grifting (I mean the lovelorn are probably grifting too tbh).
If you want me to follow back, 👋 on the post or comment that made you want to follow me 😁
If you want me to follow back, 👋 on the post or comment that made you want to follow me 😁
The moment of absolute disorientation you have when someone with a family members name follows you and you have to check they haven’t changed careers and started a podcast while you weren’t looking 🤣🤣🤣
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The moment of absolute disorientation you have when someone with a family members name follows you and you have to check they haven’t changed careers and started a podcast while you weren’t looking 🤣🤣🤣
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enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
One physio appointment and two phone calls (one awesome, one not so) this time.
My uncle, a guy who monologues to Olympic standards, found me a bit quiet in a conversation this morning.
Anyway, please don’t expect wit for a while.
My uncle, a guy who monologues to Olympic standards, found me a bit quiet in a conversation this morning.
Anyway, please don’t expect wit for a while.
“But do I really have PEM?” she asks while she crawls into bed, suddenly exhausted on the second day of resting after a heavy* weekend.
*two car journeys in order to sit and hold her new nephew.
*two car journeys in order to sit and hold her new nephew.
a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face .
ALT: a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
One physio appointment and two phone calls (one awesome, one not so) this time.
My uncle, a guy who monologues to Olympic standards, found me a bit quiet in a conversation this morning.
Anyway, please don’t expect wit for a while.
My uncle, a guy who monologues to Olympic standards, found me a bit quiet in a conversation this morning.
Anyway, please don’t expect wit for a while.
Evri is such a shit company.
Just had a delivery guy lie to my face that he didn’t try to deliver a parcel - presumably because he’d already sent the email on his walk to the next house after giving me exactly 4 seconds to get to the door.
You know it’s shitty punitive timing policies driving it. 🤬
Just had a delivery guy lie to my face that he didn’t try to deliver a parcel - presumably because he’d already sent the email on his walk to the next house after giving me exactly 4 seconds to get to the door.
You know it’s shitty punitive timing policies driving it. 🤬
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Evri is such a shit company.
Just had a delivery guy lie to my face that he didn’t try to deliver a parcel - presumably because he’d already sent the email on his walk to the next house after giving me exactly 4 seconds to get to the door.
You know it’s shitty punitive timing policies driving it. 🤬
Just had a delivery guy lie to my face that he didn’t try to deliver a parcel - presumably because he’d already sent the email on his walk to the next house after giving me exactly 4 seconds to get to the door.
You know it’s shitty punitive timing policies driving it. 🤬
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it's so important to have one cat who never leaves your side for one moment and another cat who just yells at you for food
November 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
it's so important to have one cat who never leaves your side for one moment and another cat who just yells at you for food
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Standard measurements of women, men and children - Free knitting size chart
www.10rowsaday.com/library
#knitting #knit #knitsky #knittingsky #knitter #handknit #beginnerknitter #showmeyourknits #knitwear
#sweaterweather #handmade #colorwork #justknitting #cables
#crochet #crocheter
www.10rowsaday.com/library
#knitting #knit #knitsky #knittingsky #knitter #handknit #beginnerknitter #showmeyourknits #knitwear
#sweaterweather #handmade #colorwork #justknitting #cables
#crochet #crocheter
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Standard measurements of women, men and children - Free knitting size chart
www.10rowsaday.com/library
#knitting #knit #knitsky #knittingsky #knitter #handknit #beginnerknitter #showmeyourknits #knitwear
#sweaterweather #handmade #colorwork #justknitting #cables
#crochet #crocheter
www.10rowsaday.com/library
#knitting #knit #knitsky #knittingsky #knitter #handknit #beginnerknitter #showmeyourknits #knitwear
#sweaterweather #handmade #colorwork #justknitting #cables
#crochet #crocheter
Everything I’m seeing about Game Of Wool suggests that the makers know nothing and care even less about knitting and 🧶 craft in general.
Also that they fail to both learn lessons from other similar shows and adjust their format to meet their casts personalities.
Bleh. Not going to bother.
Also that they fail to both learn lessons from other similar shows and adjust their format to meet their casts personalities.
Bleh. Not going to bother.
November 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Everything I’m seeing about Game Of Wool suggests that the makers know nothing and care even less about knitting and 🧶 craft in general.
Also that they fail to both learn lessons from other similar shows and adjust their format to meet their casts personalities.
Bleh. Not going to bother.
Also that they fail to both learn lessons from other similar shows and adjust their format to meet their casts personalities.
Bleh. Not going to bother.
It was a very pretty twilight this evening so I went out to look. I ended up having a conversation with a spider who had built her web across the path - congratulating her on her efforts & warning of the danger, husbands eyesight not stretching to spiderwebs.
I’m not the only one like this, surely?
I’m not the only one like this, surely?
November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It was a very pretty twilight this evening so I went out to look. I ended up having a conversation with a spider who had built her web across the path - congratulating her on her efforts & warning of the danger, husbands eyesight not stretching to spiderwebs.
I’m not the only one like this, surely?
I’m not the only one like this, surely?
There are fireworks going off in one of the gardens nearby, but something tells me my efforts to de-terrorize loud noises with the cats have paid off.
Now if we could just make her less afraid of the postie.
Now if we could just make her less afraid of the postie.
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
There are fireworks going off in one of the gardens nearby, but something tells me my efforts to de-terrorize loud noises with the cats have paid off.
Now if we could just make her less afraid of the postie.
Now if we could just make her less afraid of the postie.
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This old curmudgeon has been listening long enough to be confident that every musical generation produces great music, mediocrity, and trash in every genre.
We all just have problems agreeing on which is which, since taste is so relentlessly subjective.
We all just have problems agreeing on which is which, since taste is so relentlessly subjective.
November 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This old curmudgeon has been listening long enough to be confident that every musical generation produces great music, mediocrity, and trash in every genre.
We all just have problems agreeing on which is which, since taste is so relentlessly subjective.
We all just have problems agreeing on which is which, since taste is so relentlessly subjective.
In important news though. I have listened to the whole of Everybody Scream.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
a man in a black turtleneck stands in front of a window with perfection written on the bottom right
ALT: a man in a black turtleneck stands in front of a window with perfection written on the bottom right
media.tenor.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
In important news though. I have listened to the whole of Everybody Scream.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
I watched a reviewer of Good Boy ask why it wasn’t a cat and I can answer that.
I just told my cat that if she saw anything spooky to scream and run and to not even think about coming to help me. The look on her face was interpreted by my husband as “of course not - that’s a You problem.”
I just told my cat that if she saw anything spooky to scream and run and to not even think about coming to help me. The look on her face was interpreted by my husband as “of course not - that’s a You problem.”
November 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I watched a reviewer of Good Boy ask why it wasn’t a cat and I can answer that.
I just told my cat that if she saw anything spooky to scream and run and to not even think about coming to help me. The look on her face was interpreted by my husband as “of course not - that’s a You problem.”
I just told my cat that if she saw anything spooky to scream and run and to not even think about coming to help me. The look on her face was interpreted by my husband as “of course not - that’s a You problem.”
That’s actually reassuring as I’ve never managed to work out where I fit.
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
That’s actually reassuring as I’ve never managed to work out where I fit.
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Every time I see a social media meme about being an introvert, which is at least once a week, I think about how the modern conception of introversion was popularized by a book by a woman who worked on Wall Street who felt that she was so different and special compared to her coked up male colleagues
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Every time I see a social media meme about being an introvert, which is at least once a week, I think about how the modern conception of introversion was popularized by a book by a woman who worked on Wall Street who felt that she was so different and special compared to her coked up male colleagues
I used to block trolls and misogynists.
Bluesky is apparently so refreshingly free of these menaces that my block/mute response has transferred to AI posters, people who ask “does anyone still use this site?”, joy policers and poets (but that’s my phobia, not the poets fault).
#blessed
Bluesky is apparently so refreshingly free of these menaces that my block/mute response has transferred to AI posters, people who ask “does anyone still use this site?”, joy policers and poets (but that’s my phobia, not the poets fault).
#blessed
October 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I used to block trolls and misogynists.
Bluesky is apparently so refreshingly free of these menaces that my block/mute response has transferred to AI posters, people who ask “does anyone still use this site?”, joy policers and poets (but that’s my phobia, not the poets fault).
#blessed
Bluesky is apparently so refreshingly free of these menaces that my block/mute response has transferred to AI posters, people who ask “does anyone still use this site?”, joy policers and poets (but that’s my phobia, not the poets fault).
#blessed
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October 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Every child should live in a safe, decent & secure home.
Awaab's Law - requiring landlords to fix dangerous hazards in social housing - is a momentous piece of legislation & will save young lives.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Awaab's Law - requiring landlords to fix dangerous hazards in social housing - is a momentous piece of legislation & will save young lives.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Social landlords in England now forced to fix emergencies within 24 hours
New legal duties follow case of two-year-old Awaab Ishak, who died after exposure to mould in his home
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Every child should live in a safe, decent & secure home.
Awaab's Law - requiring landlords to fix dangerous hazards in social housing - is a momentous piece of legislation & will save young lives.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Awaab's Law - requiring landlords to fix dangerous hazards in social housing - is a momentous piece of legislation & will save young lives.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I get the feeling there’s a sportsball game running a bit long somewhere…
October 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I get the feeling there’s a sportsball game running a bit long somewhere…
We’re at three for three on the absolute bangers with the new Florence & The Machine album.
a woman in a red dress is standing in a field with the words therecanbedarkness.tumblr below her
Alt: Florence Welch, a pale red haired woman in a red dress walks towards the camera through green hillside as dancers dressed in dark academia style and black hats emerge behind her, screaming theatrically.
media.tenor.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
We’re at three for three on the absolute bangers with the new Florence & The Machine album.
Just saw a comment on insta saying the reason they (some men) don’t like tattoos on women is because you generally have to be 18 to get them.
a woman with blue hair is wearing a blue shirt and making a face .
ALT: a woman with blue hair is wearing a blue shirt and making a face .
media.tenor.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Just saw a comment on insta saying the reason they (some men) don’t like tattoos on women is because you generally have to be 18 to get them.
Same with benefits in the UK. The vast majority of people claiming benefits either cannot work (children, the elderly and the disabled) or ARE ALREADY WORKING and the companies are paying dividends and CEO wages letting the government fund their employees survival.
October 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Same with benefits in the UK. The vast majority of people claiming benefits either cannot work (children, the elderly and the disabled) or ARE ALREADY WORKING and the companies are paying dividends and CEO wages letting the government fund their employees survival.
None of us argue in good faith any more.
We’re either so keen to be arguing that we don’t even realise we share the same basic views and keep bitching around in circles. Or we’re too busy going for the gotcha we twist and misinterpret every word regardless of obvious intent.
Ugh.
We’re either so keen to be arguing that we don’t even realise we share the same basic views and keep bitching around in circles. Or we’re too busy going for the gotcha we twist and misinterpret every word regardless of obvious intent.
Ugh.
October 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
None of us argue in good faith any more.
We’re either so keen to be arguing that we don’t even realise we share the same basic views and keep bitching around in circles. Or we’re too busy going for the gotcha we twist and misinterpret every word regardless of obvious intent.
Ugh.
We’re either so keen to be arguing that we don’t even realise we share the same basic views and keep bitching around in circles. Or we’re too busy going for the gotcha we twist and misinterpret every word regardless of obvious intent.
Ugh.
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If one of the appliances in your home, say your cooker or fridge, ran using ten times the power of a normal one, you‘d replace it as fast as possible and never go near that manufacturer again, because you’d think they were catastrophically bad at making stuff.
But it’d be cool if it talked, right?
But it’d be cool if it talked, right?
"Goldman Sachs has estimated that the average ChatGPT query uses nearly 10 times as much energy as a Google search."
"A midsized data center uses as much water in a day as 1,000 American households, about 300,000 gallons, one research scientist told NPR."
More: share.google/BOXHTwok4Ltr...
"A midsized data center uses as much water in a day as 1,000 American households, about 300,000 gallons, one research scientist told NPR."
More: share.google/BOXHTwok4Ltr...
Researchers issue warning on harmful side effect of using ChatGPT: 'It's a concern'
Tech executives have been frustratingly opaque.
share.google
October 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If one of the appliances in your home, say your cooker or fridge, ran using ten times the power of a normal one, you‘d replace it as fast as possible and never go near that manufacturer again, because you’d think they were catastrophically bad at making stuff.
But it’d be cool if it talked, right?
But it’d be cool if it talked, right?