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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.

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 5h

I honestly forget it exists!

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 6h

Fiddling with his unconfined hair while he's bending over an iced cake. Hanging's too good for those presenters #GBBO

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 6h

Jasmin first, Aaron second, Tom third (I think)

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 7h

Finished the first Brussels Sprouts sock*

(*not actual pattern name)

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 9h

Funnily enough my great-great-grandparents were from Wood Norton, and for many generations before...

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks Disney+ but I don't want to watch Christmas films, on account of it being 4 November

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 11h

We're all just so damn thirsty for a shred of good news

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 13h

I was at nursery school when they first started that abomination

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 13h

I thought in the programme they said she was a police officer, so they're clearly quite economical with the verité

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 13h

I'm currently taking all kind of medications but clearly not enough to tolerate that kind of old pony

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 13h

Punctuate or it didn't happen, that's my mantra

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 13h

I'm putting them right up there with the kind of person who talks into their phone as if they were on the fecking Apprentice, on loudspeaker in the street

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 13h

Oh they're a WhatsApp thing too I fear - don't think you'd be immune

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 13h

I honestly don't, but the breathtaking excess on money they clearly didn't have, taking advantage of others made me fairly livid

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 13h

Oh no no no. I actually DO long for more chatty phone calls (which I never used to) but the idea of a voice note leaves me entirely cold

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 13h

Careering through your 50s has very little going for it but there is one thing - at least none of your similarly-aged friends will ever even dream of sending you a fecking voice note

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 13h

I can't lie, it was at that precise moment that I joined the Socialist Workers' Party

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h

A day of huge mourning for the Far Right in the UK. Not only was the Huntingdon train stabbings not the terrorist/asylum seeker/immigrant atrocity they’d hoped and prayed for, here is the hero of the day:

Train hero who saved passengers during attack named ‹
LNER
Samir Zitouni is credited with saving lives on the train

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 14h

Brace yourself - it only gets worse

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 17h

I live in a small town in Hampshire with two shops that sell yarn but only nasty cheap acrylic. How I long for somewhere close by that I could go for a little yarn-fondle

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 17h

You must take my legitimate concerns seriously, ideally without making me say out loud what they are as I find when I do that they tend to sound a bit awful.

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 17h

I think I've seen elsewhere that Rowan (and perhaps others) have started marketing kits to make what's seen on the show...

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 17h

You'll be doing god's work to teach them the righteous way of starting with 4mm needles!!

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 19h

Been interesting to read the responses to the programme over there too. Seems to be a lot of what we're seeing here as well

Sam @samdeane.bsky.social · 20h

I'm signed off for the week to get better, which is clearly why my brain felt it necessary to wake me up at 5am