Sam Michel
@toodlepip.bsky.social
Inquisitive. Hopeful. Jovial. Exploring creative industries, immersive, tech, biz, startups & society. In front of a screen or being dragged around by a furry friend. Work: @beyondconference.org @beyondstudio.info but posts just mine
Traitors. So good. But possibly the least helpful bit of scheduling in modern history. How am I supposed to convince over tired kids they can watch it on catchup without hearing spoilers at school 🤯
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Traitors. So good. But possibly the least helpful bit of scheduling in modern history. How am I supposed to convince over tired kids they can watch it on catchup without hearing spoilers at school 🤯
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Rather than unlocking UK community power, successive govts' digital policies have been focussed on Silicon Valley-style success.
By me for @powertochange.org.uk, on why digital social policy is a necessary building block for a stronger society
www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...
By me for @powertochange.org.uk, on why digital social policy is a necessary building block for a stronger society
www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...
The digital disconnect: taking digital social policy seriously - Power to Change
In our next essay, Rachel Coldicutt explores the urgent need for a community-centred approach to technology policy in the UK. From WhatsApp-powered communit ...
www.powertochange.org.uk
October 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Rather than unlocking UK community power, successive govts' digital policies have been focussed on Silicon Valley-style success.
By me for @powertochange.org.uk, on why digital social policy is a necessary building block for a stronger society
www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...
By me for @powertochange.org.uk, on why digital social policy is a necessary building block for a stronger society
www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...
100% The reason AI doesn’t help productivity 😬
Writing before the internet took ages because you had to visit the local library to do research. However, the internet is so distracting that writing still takes ages.
It's like that library is run by your mates, newsreader Peter Sissons, your favourite bands, Laurel & Hardy, and some daft cats.
It's like that library is run by your mates, newsreader Peter Sissons, your favourite bands, Laurel & Hardy, and some daft cats.
August 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
100% The reason AI doesn’t help productivity 😬
Kids away on a school trip. Kidmin pressure off? Nope. That Duo Lingo streak won’t preserve itself. 🙄
June 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Kids away on a school trip. Kidmin pressure off? Nope. That Duo Lingo streak won’t preserve itself. 🙄
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This would be a great introduction to the scientific method for kids.
Not Japan-related, but since we all need a distraction from The Horrors, Takaya Suzuki points out a study that examined 408 sleeping cats and found the majority (65%) curl leftwards.
I'm not sure how useful this information is, but...it's yours now.
I'm not sure how useful this information is, but...it's yours now.
June 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
This would be a great introduction to the scientific method for kids.
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📣 Our Super Early Bird Tickets are on sale! >>
Don't miss out on our cheapest ticket price, available for a very limited time.
What's more, they're still set at the 2023 price of just £299+VAT - no price increase for two years!
Grab yours this week, before they disappear: t.ly/nQ8xb
Don't miss out on our cheapest ticket price, available for a very limited time.
What's more, they're still set at the 2023 price of just £299+VAT - no price increase for two years!
Grab yours this week, before they disappear: t.ly/nQ8xb
May 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
📣 Our Super Early Bird Tickets are on sale! >>
Don't miss out on our cheapest ticket price, available for a very limited time.
What's more, they're still set at the 2023 price of just £299+VAT - no price increase for two years!
Grab yours this week, before they disappear: t.ly/nQ8xb
Don't miss out on our cheapest ticket price, available for a very limited time.
What's more, they're still set at the 2023 price of just £299+VAT - no price increase for two years!
Grab yours this week, before they disappear: t.ly/nQ8xb
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BEYOND 2025 explores the seismic shifts reshaping our creative landscape. In a world where creativity drives innovation, we will explore the intersection of imagination, technology and place.
From the rise of the creator economy, to the evolution of innovation districts and cutting-edge CreaTech..
From the rise of the creator economy, to the evolution of innovation districts and cutting-edge CreaTech..
BEYOND 2025: The Creator Economy, CreaTech and Innovation Districts - Beyond Conference
beyondconference.org
May 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
BEYOND 2025 explores the seismic shifts reshaping our creative landscape. In a world where creativity drives innovation, we will explore the intersection of imagination, technology and place.
From the rise of the creator economy, to the evolution of innovation districts and cutting-edge CreaTech..
From the rise of the creator economy, to the evolution of innovation districts and cutting-edge CreaTech..
Taking some small advantage from the dog’s 6:30am Sunday wake up call!
May 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Taking some small advantage from the dog’s 6:30am Sunday wake up call!
Dog really needs to work on his hide and seek game.
May 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Dog really needs to work on his hide and seek game.
Rather lovely projection mapping to celebrate VE Day.
May 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Rather lovely projection mapping to celebrate VE Day.
The Assembly on ITV is such a tremendous bit of telly. The emotion the group gets from their interviewees is quite something.
www.lep.co.uk/news/opinion...
www.lep.co.uk/news/opinion...
The Assembly review: The only show in which an interview with Danny Dyer could move you to tears - in the right way
As a middle-aged man with some 'life experience' behind him, I tend to cry at the drop of hat. And let's say there were a lot of titfers being spilled during ITV's new celebrity interview show The Ass...
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May 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The Assembly on ITV is such a tremendous bit of telly. The emotion the group gets from their interviewees is quite something.
www.lep.co.uk/news/opinion...
www.lep.co.uk/news/opinion...
Wonder Panic.
A brilliant phrase that sums up so much about AI. I didn't know where it came from until this week. H/t to artist Alan Warburton, you should check out his video: theodi.org/news-and-eve... a brilliant thought piece on what AI means for the creative industries.
A brilliant phrase that sums up so much about AI. I didn't know where it came from until this week. H/t to artist Alan Warburton, you should check out his video: theodi.org/news-and-eve... a brilliant thought piece on what AI means for the creative industries.
The Wizard of AI
Join Alan Warburton on a fantastical journey to explore what AI means for artists in the 'Wizard of AI', through the prism of multiple AI tools.
theodi.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Wonder Panic.
A brilliant phrase that sums up so much about AI. I didn't know where it came from until this week. H/t to artist Alan Warburton, you should check out his video: theodi.org/news-and-eve... a brilliant thought piece on what AI means for the creative industries.
A brilliant phrase that sums up so much about AI. I didn't know where it came from until this week. H/t to artist Alan Warburton, you should check out his video: theodi.org/news-and-eve... a brilliant thought piece on what AI means for the creative industries.
That nagging feeling your line manage me is peering over your shoulder at work…
May 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM
That nagging feeling your line manage me is peering over your shoulder at work…
For the love of, well simplicity, can we have a standard for parental controls? Preferably accessible via API with super secure access. It’s so frustrating having to dig around in endless menus on dozens of platforms to try and provide a vaguely safe environment for the small ones in the household.
April 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
For the love of, well simplicity, can we have a standard for parental controls? Preferably accessible via API with super secure access. It’s so frustrating having to dig around in endless menus on dozens of platforms to try and provide a vaguely safe environment for the small ones in the household.
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😍🥲🥰
this is giving us all the feels ❤️
this is giving us all the feels ❤️
Lovely to see the poem I wrote for Devon libraries turned into this starting librarians and library users @librariesunlimited.bsky.social @hulllibraries.bsky.social @librariesconnected.bsky.social @thefnl.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social @librarian.bsky.social @librarianjones.com #libraries
April 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
😍🥲🥰
this is giving us all the feels ❤️
this is giving us all the feels ❤️
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Me to my children: “Boys, question EVERYTHING.”
Also me to my children: “Because I SAID SO.”
#consistency
Also me to my children: “Because I SAID SO.”
#consistency
April 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Me to my children: “Boys, question EVERYTHING.”
Also me to my children: “Because I SAID SO.”
#consistency
Also me to my children: “Because I SAID SO.”
#consistency
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BEYOND is back..
..in the creative powerhouse of Greater Manchester!
☆ SAVE THE DATE: Nov 24-26th
☆ LOCATION: MediaCity, Salford
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#BEYONDconf #creativein
..in the creative powerhouse of Greater Manchester!
☆ SAVE THE DATE: Nov 24-26th
☆ LOCATION: MediaCity, Salford
Super Early Bird tickets go on sale soon. Sign up to the BEYOND mailing list to hear about these and other offers first!
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April 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
BEYOND is back..
..in the creative powerhouse of Greater Manchester!
☆ SAVE THE DATE: Nov 24-26th
☆ LOCATION: MediaCity, Salford
Super Early Bird tickets go on sale soon. Sign up to the BEYOND mailing list to hear about these and other offers first!
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#BEYONDconf #creativein
..in the creative powerhouse of Greater Manchester!
☆ SAVE THE DATE: Nov 24-26th
☆ LOCATION: MediaCity, Salford
Super Early Bird tickets go on sale soon. Sign up to the BEYOND mailing list to hear about these and other offers first!
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#BEYONDconf #creativein
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OpenAI's new multi-modal image output, added to
GPT-4o and ChatGPT this morning, finally gave me the selfie with a bear I've always wanted simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/...
GPT-4o and ChatGPT this morning, finally gave me the selfie with a bear I've always wanted simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/...
Introducing 4o Image Generation
When OpenAI first announced GPT-4o [back in May 2024](https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/13/gpt-4o/) one of the most exciting features was true multi-modality in that it could both input _and_ output ...
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March 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
OpenAI's new multi-modal image output, added to
GPT-4o and ChatGPT this morning, finally gave me the selfie with a bear I've always wanted simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/...
GPT-4o and ChatGPT this morning, finally gave me the selfie with a bear I've always wanted simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/...
Spring has definitely sprung, at least temporarily.
Let's not forget this is the UK, so driving rain and sleet within hours is also just as likely.
Pretty flowers to take your mind off <waves arms around> *everything*
Let's not forget this is the UK, so driving rain and sleet within hours is also just as likely.
Pretty flowers to take your mind off <waves arms around> *everything*
March 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Spring has definitely sprung, at least temporarily.
Let's not forget this is the UK, so driving rain and sleet within hours is also just as likely.
Pretty flowers to take your mind off <waves arms around> *everything*
Let's not forget this is the UK, so driving rain and sleet within hours is also just as likely.
Pretty flowers to take your mind off <waves arms around> *everything*
In a change to the awfulness of every other social channel or news outlet everywhere. Here’s a spring morning…
March 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
In a change to the awfulness of every other social channel or news outlet everywhere. Here’s a spring morning…
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David Niven's birthday, is it? Time once more for The Greatest Picture Ever Taken, then.
March 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
David Niven's birthday, is it? Time once more for The Greatest Picture Ever Taken, then.
Interesting slide
Digging deep into the bubbling pool of lava that exists between the tectonic plates of the Creator Economy and AI and found this report from artreview.bsky.social & nowness.com.
Report here: lnkd.in/g8tbv5YJ (lots to digest and not unexpectedly, the design is absolutely gorgeous)
Digging deep into the bubbling pool of lava that exists between the tectonic plates of the Creator Economy and AI and found this report from artreview.bsky.social & nowness.com.
Report here: lnkd.in/g8tbv5YJ (lots to digest and not unexpectedly, the design is absolutely gorgeous)
February 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Interesting slide
Digging deep into the bubbling pool of lava that exists between the tectonic plates of the Creator Economy and AI and found this report from artreview.bsky.social & nowness.com.
Report here: lnkd.in/g8tbv5YJ (lots to digest and not unexpectedly, the design is absolutely gorgeous)
Digging deep into the bubbling pool of lava that exists between the tectonic plates of the Creator Economy and AI and found this report from artreview.bsky.social & nowness.com.
Report here: lnkd.in/g8tbv5YJ (lots to digest and not unexpectedly, the design is absolutely gorgeous)
I have just changed the bulb inside the oven.
I am ready to tackle anything.
After a nice sit down, obviously.
I am ready to tackle anything.
After a nice sit down, obviously.
February 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I have just changed the bulb inside the oven.
I am ready to tackle anything.
After a nice sit down, obviously.
I am ready to tackle anything.
After a nice sit down, obviously.