Timmy Samuel
@starbellystudios.bsky.social
Photo/video for live theatre. Founder of Starbelly Studios. Book lover, musician, and audio engineer. The new album from my band Professor Panic is out now on streaming services and Bandcamp. https://professorpanic.bandcamp.com/album/self-titled-debut
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This is just five minutes. Please watch this and share it with anyone you think might be moved by it. And then call your US rep and tell them to vote AGAINST all of the anti-trans bills Republicans are pushing this week. Find your rep at reps.fyi
the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress
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Rep Sarah McBride on the steps of the Capitol
YouTube video by David Steinglass
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December 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is just five minutes. Please watch this and share it with anyone you think might be moved by it. And then call your US rep and tell them to vote AGAINST all of the anti-trans bills Republicans are pushing this week. Find your rep at reps.fyi
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Senate News: Republicans are trying to sneak a provision into their latest government funding bill that would make it easier to sell off public lands and national parks, and may have the votes to do it. If you care about protecting your public lands, now’s the time to make it known.
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Senate News: Republicans are trying to sneak a provision into their latest government funding bill that would make it easier to sell off public lands and national parks, and may have the votes to do it. If you care about protecting your public lands, now’s the time to make it known.
If I turn myself in as a trans ally, exactly how much of a bounty do I get?
Pam Bondi has directed Kash Patel’s FBI to create a cash bounty system that targets transgender people and those who support their equality.
The attorney general considers those who support "radical gender ideology" to be “domestic terrorist organizations."
www.advocate.com/politics/pam...
The attorney general considers those who support "radical gender ideology" to be “domestic terrorist organizations."
www.advocate.com/politics/pam...
Pam Bondi wants to put an FBI bounty on transgender people & their allies, leaked memo shows
The U.S. government is trying to figure out a way to pay people for reporting on anyone who supports trans lives.
www.advocate.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
If I turn myself in as a trans ally, exactly how much of a bounty do I get?
I had completely forgotten that Rob Reiner directed The Sure Thing, a scene from which is where I got the inspo to name our first puppy Nick.
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The Sure Thing - Nick
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December 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I had completely forgotten that Rob Reiner directed The Sure Thing, a scene from which is where I got the inspo to name our first puppy Nick.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWGF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWGF...
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"When same-sex marriage was still years away, there was America’s Uncle, straight as can be, demanding a future in which LGBTQ families be given a full stake in the American Dream and hurry the fuck up on that, please and thank you."
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America's Uncle
He brought us comfort and humor.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"When same-sex marriage was still years away, there was America’s Uncle, straight as can be, demanding a future in which LGBTQ families be given a full stake in the American Dream and hurry the fuck up on that, please and thank you."
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charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/americas-u...
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It’s like they made up a word just for me.
Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.
December 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
It’s like they made up a word just for me.
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I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
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December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
I have just finished my oatmeal and am already wondering what I shall make for lunch. #secondbreakfast
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I have just finished my oatmeal and am already wondering what I shall make for lunch. #secondbreakfast
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Holy shit, Spotify is fucking repugnant. I keep thinking I know how trash that platform is, and I keep being shocked all over again.
An old person, I just hoard MP3s. I buy ‘em with Bandcamp and stream from my hard drive with Plex.
An old person, I just hoard MP3s. I buy ‘em with Bandcamp and stream from my hard drive with Plex.
My girlfriend has spent countless hours setting up a home server filled with the music we own, painstakingly tagging albums and installing a way to listen to music outside the house.
Meanwhile Spotify now recommends fake AI bands. The real King Gizz band left the platform months ago.
Meanwhile Spotify now recommends fake AI bands. The real King Gizz band left the platform months ago.
December 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Holy shit, Spotify is fucking repugnant. I keep thinking I know how trash that platform is, and I keep being shocked all over again.
An old person, I just hoard MP3s. I buy ‘em with Bandcamp and stream from my hard drive with Plex.
An old person, I just hoard MP3s. I buy ‘em with Bandcamp and stream from my hard drive with Plex.
Spotify is evil. Coming up with AI bands whose names are -kinda- close to other band names that have left the platform? My hatred for their platform burns hot.
My girlfriend has spent countless hours setting up a home server filled with the music we own, painstakingly tagging albums and installing a way to listen to music outside the house.
Meanwhile Spotify now recommends fake AI bands. The real King Gizz band left the platform months ago.
Meanwhile Spotify now recommends fake AI bands. The real King Gizz band left the platform months ago.
December 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Spotify is evil. Coming up with AI bands whose names are -kinda- close to other band names that have left the platform? My hatred for their platform burns hot.
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‘Think we’re gonna get to see Batgirl now, dad?’
‘Shut up, son.’
‘Shut up, son.’
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
‘Think we’re gonna get to see Batgirl now, dad?’
‘Shut up, son.’
‘Shut up, son.’
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.
December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.
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All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
Ah yes, it’s that time of year when we learn everyone’s terrible taste in music (but, you know, you do you). As well as those who are still clinging to the heinous streaming service that rhymes with botify.
December 4, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Ah yes, it’s that time of year when we learn everyone’s terrible taste in music (but, you know, you do you). As well as those who are still clinging to the heinous streaming service that rhymes with botify.
THIS IS HOW TO DO ALT TEXT ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
December 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
THIS IS HOW TO DO ALT TEXT ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
Hubs: (while wrestling with Xmas tree lights) It’s ok. I can do this without getting stoned, can’t I?
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Hubs: (while wrestling with Xmas tree lights) It’s ok. I can do this without getting stoned, can’t I?
Welp. Mom passed yesterday. Weird few weeks culminating in the weirdest of weeks.
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Welp. Mom passed yesterday. Weird few weeks culminating in the weirdest of weeks.
Now that it's had it's own chance to sink or swim in the marketplace, here's my Running Man review. It's ...not great. I'm a huge Edgar Wright fan, but this was a misfire, Glen Powell's nakedness notwithstanding. I literally fell asleep in the first act.
That said, Michael Cera is delightful.
That said, Michael Cera is delightful.
November 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Now that it's had it's own chance to sink or swim in the marketplace, here's my Running Man review. It's ...not great. I'm a huge Edgar Wright fan, but this was a misfire, Glen Powell's nakedness notwithstanding. I literally fell asleep in the first act.
That said, Michael Cera is delightful.
That said, Michael Cera is delightful.
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Have we stopped mocking the cybertruck? I’ve seen a few more pop up in the wild and damn they are the fricking dumbest thing on wheels.
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Have we stopped mocking the cybertruck? I’ve seen a few more pop up in the wild and damn they are the fricking dumbest thing on wheels.
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Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house