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Timmy Samuel

@starbellystudios.bsky.social

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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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Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 17h

I handed my phone to a dude who was in a tree and asked him to take this shot. Otherwise I couldn’t get high enough for a good overview.

High-angle overview photo of the crowd from the back of the Chicago No Kings rally.

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Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 18h

Jealous of these costumes.

Two people in blue Yip Yip alien costumes stand on leaf-strewn ground at the Chicago No Kings rally.

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Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 2d

I swallowed a bug is my favorite.

Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 2d

Sung to the tune of the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep Till Brooklyn".

Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, please!

Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 4d

Touché

Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 4d

The constabulary is attempting to put my old house to good* use. Photo courtesy of my old neighbor John.

*Good depends on your viewpoint.

Fourteen armed, uniformed police officers stand in a suburban house's backyard. Viewed from the next-door neighbor's window.

Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 4d

In news of the unexpected, the local constabulary is using the house I grew up in and sold last month as a training location for the next three days.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 5d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 4d

This is exactly what happened when I read the original Dracula for the first time recently.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 8d

What middle and upper class cis het white people need to understand is that they only have as many rights as the most vulnerable do. You have only the rights trans people and immigrants do.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 9d

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 11d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 11d

Sure, if by “city” you mean “the Hamptons.”

Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 12d

The hordes forcing me to listen to Oasis this Monday morning. Twice.

Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 15d

That one breast looks like someone sliced a soccer ball in half, hit it with some fancy spray paint, then pasted it on. It’s almost an afterthought.

Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 15d

That’s so surreal! Want to go there now.

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Zappit @zappit.bsky.social · 15d

Jay, I’m going to make an earnest appeal here. I hope you read it and consider it.

The user in question had repeatedly violated the TOS before and was repeatedly reinstated. He writing, full of disinformation, has been cited by the current federal government as reasons to target trans people. /1

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Scott Murderhouse @voxparlour.bsky.social · 16d

Become ungovernable

Noisy, hungry frogs sadden farmer's life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt.

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Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 16d

“I’ll be the rouuuuustabout
The words will make you pout and pout”

- sung to the tune of “Roundabout”, by Yes

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18d

Republicans this week:

"If I intentionally drive this vehicle off a cliff, it will be the fault of the people in the car that didn't have control of the steering wheel."

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Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 22d

I love the concept of idea accretion.

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ptklein @ptklein.com · 22d

The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on US screens 50 years ago today. Initially a major box office bomb, cult cinema outsiders and queer audiences quickly took up the film’s mantle and turned it into a unique and exciting way of engaging with the movies. Remember kids, don’t dream it—be it!!

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Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 22d

The sheer joy in Curry’s performance is always spellbinding for me.

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 23d

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 23d

The carp comments are the best.

Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social · 23d

Yes, the "Death Star Hangar Bay" style of Apple store.

Once, on a prednisone shopping binge (it's a thing!) I bought two 5Cs for my parents.

* to be clear, I was shopping while ON a fairly high dosage of prednisone, not shopping FOR prednisone.