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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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
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all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading
November 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading
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the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
Oh Bob’s Burgers, I am late to the game, but am thrilled I found you.
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Oh Bob’s Burgers, I am late to the game, but am thrilled I found you.
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All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism
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Fuuuuuuuuck Kim Davis
Good riddance
Good riddance
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Fuuuuuuuuck Kim Davis
Good riddance
Good riddance
I finished “The Staircase in the Woods” by @chuckwendig.bsky.social last night and immediately wanted a sequel. May I offer “The Fireplace in the Woods” as title? No? Well, then.
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I finished “The Staircase in the Woods” by @chuckwendig.bsky.social last night and immediately wanted a sequel. May I offer “The Fireplace in the Woods” as title? No? Well, then.