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Sam

@samdeane.bsky.social

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I don’t do drama or tea and I don’t like cats - no, not even yours. I like France, colour, sun, podcasts, language, wit, cities, NYT games, #TheArchers, walking, baking, knitting, dogs, general snark. If I want your advice I’ll ask for it.

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Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · Nov 18

For many years this was my pinned tweet so probably right it should be here too. If you read this and think ‘yeah, I get that - I’m going to bear that mind’ we’ll probably get on theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about the backfire effect.

Reposted by Sam

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4h

When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.

Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature

Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 3h

Oooh I will take a look at your website tomorrow - I love to browse yarn (no actual shop selling quality stuff within tens of miles of me sadly)

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 4h

It's ironic because, as they found, using needles and yarn that big actually isn't that easy, as well as looking bloody ugly

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 4h

I only watch Sewing Bee and at least they do try to show how to recycle things or make stuff out of as small an amount of fabric as possible

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 5h

Exactly - so many ways to make it a genuinely lovely thing to enable people to show off their skill and have the audience see the talent and beauty involved. But nope. Typical Channel 4, I think

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 5h

I mean I suppose it's fine for a scarf or whatnot - it's not my thing but each to their own. But that was a travesty

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 5h

Depends. If you love yarn/knitting it will only raise your blood pressure

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 5h

They could have made that 100% better by asking people to design and make squares or parts of blankets that could have been put together and sold off for charity. #GameOfWool

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 5h

Nope. It's 100% merino that retails at over 12 quid a ball. I mean I'm sure Rowan did them a deal but still

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 5h

Do you know why it's not finished? BECAUSE KNITTING COVERS FOR SOFAS IN 10 HOURS IS NOT A THING #GameOfWool

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 5h

it's 100% merino so bound to

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 5h

It's got me furious. What could I do with a yarn budget like that?

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 5h

I know, he does keep it quiet

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 5h

Every ball of that Rowan Big Wool retails at £12.25, lads #GameOfWool

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 5h

If it's not the nipples it's the Olympic rings tattoo

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 5h

Oh god I'm SO glad it's not just me

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 5h

I'd have given good money to see Holger pick up his needles, shout THIS IS BENEATH MY DIGNITY and storm out #GameOfWool

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 5h

That is absolutely it. Nobody would make a thing like that out of super-chunky yarn and it's a completely different way of knitting that doesn't show anything to its best. It's making me furious. They're obviously all wearing stuff they've made which is far more typical of their efforts

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 5h

One quarter into #GameOfWool and I'm already raging about, amongst many other things, the utter waste of expensive yarn on unwearable garments

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 6h

I can only imagine CP's face is much the same as mine

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 6h

This is why we would make perfect business partners

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you - the colour hasn't rendered at all well but it's actually a really lovely kind of watery aqua grey-y green

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 7h

Here he is having a nice lie-down for a few days

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 8h

I saw a thing on Insta yesterday about how to do that while knitting too (it's what puts me off learning how to do colour work). We shall teach this when I win the lottery and we open our fabulously expensive yarn shop

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 8h

I have one more end to weave in and then the soaking/blocking must commence. I only knit top down sweaters in the round now to minimise the end-weaving because I bloody HATE it