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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Given the Vatican's important historical contributions to meaningful and beautiful typography, this letter disappoints.

Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Buy your digital comics from Sweet. It’s beautiful and run by people who love comics and are more interested in good design and good features more than selling out.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Rabbit opened his valise on the train and found that his drivel had begun its whine. The landscape rushed by in a blur. “Maybe I could give this up and till that heartland soil.” No. He was born for something else. He lit a cigarette and thought about seducing the teenager in the next aisle.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When it comes to wholesome videos, nothing is better than babies putting on glasses for the first time.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Playing “I want to be sedated” at 7:12am in the airport is a baller move, Cleveland.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Did I cry at great-grandmas funeral in 1997? Why do you ask?

A picture of grave marker for George (1900 - 1939) and Annie (1901 - 1997) Onions

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Apple UI team blazing conjugation like bosses

Screenshot of an iOS notification from the app Shazam. The headline says: “Recognize Music”, and the text reads “Music Recognition is already recognizing music.”

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Your mortality awareness age is -52"

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Literally the plot of @lailalalami.com’s The Dream Hotel.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/09/2026

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-politely-re…

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A pivotal moment in how I understood the world was noting the difference in what I was told Gloria Steinem's message was, and what she was actually saying. The gulf between the two was rather her point. She always spoke in a clear, direct way. It's almost like it took work to misunderstand her.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'd read a short story about a couple in therapy because of this, called *Breaking the Haarlep hard line*

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

But where are the sisters? Is it a pattern that follows commercial style for shop names, like Sanford & Sons?

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you are a team of illustrators or artists and you have “brothers” in your name, I’m probably going to be a fan. Hernández brothers, the Brothers Hildebrandt, The Etherington Brothers.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Have to reshare this every time I see it. Raymond Chandler mocking science fiction in 1953 and sounding cool as hell. He should have written some space stories.

Did you ever read what they call Science Fiction? It’s a scream. It is written like this:

“I checked out with K19 on Aldabaran III, and stepped out through the crummalite hatch on my 22 Model Sirus Hardtop. I cocked the timejector in secondary and waded through the bright blue manda grass. My breath froze into pink pretzels. I flicked on the heat bars and the Brylls ran swiftly on five legs using their other two to send out crylon vibrations. The pressure was almost unbearable, but I caught the range on my wrist computer through the transparent cysicites. I pressed the trigger. The thin violet glow was icecold against the rust-colored mountains. The Brylls shrank to half an inch long and I worked fast stepping on them with the poltex. But it wasn’t enough. The sudden brightness swung me around and the Fourth Moon had already risen. I had exactly four seconds to hot up the disintegrator and Google⁵ had told me it wasn’t enough. He was right.”

They pay brisk money for this crap?

Raymond Chandler | Letter to H. N. Swanson, 14 Mar 1953 | Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Then we have opinion Powerball. If you hit the big prize you live opinion free your whole life. OR, you make everybody else have your opinions for twenty-four hours, OR you make everyone have no opinions for twenty-four hours. Twenty four hours without opinions. You can't measure that kind of wealth

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Okay so new law where we all have to give our opinions to the person to our left for a week. I mean physically left. The person to your right gives you theirs. Everybody swaps.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This drives me crazy. First, the way you get good at making things short is practicing writing short things. Second, incentivizing length goes against Pascal's "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter" maxim. Good thinking benefits from strong editing.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Empty, because I can’t figure out how to lift my foot to remove them. I must be doing something wrong. Probably need a supplement to strengthen my grip.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I went for the Ayn. Yes, it was twice as expensive, but the company encouraged my independence of thought by letting me assemble it myself.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Maybe Mary really meant to say "You do not have to be food" since that seems like powerful words for even domesticated geese if you ask me

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’m in but I mean at least Die Macher was *fun*

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

That's a powerful quote you picked that does key heavy lifting on the book's major themes. Let me break it down for you: - Mohicans were a Native American tribe that lived in the Hudson River Valley - Famously, they placed a green blinking light on Daisy's dock as a desire metaphor - The bible is a

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Chatbot, what did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said this: “Books! What have such as I, who am a warrior of the wilderness, though a man without a cross, to do with books? I never read but in one, and the words that are written there are too simple and too plain to need much schooling...”

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Guess who told them to drop out of cryo sleep and check out the distress signal to start with? That’s right. AI.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

But my friend Clod said it just broke into some comic shop called hugging face and said you’d be an easy target. I mean in theory.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Not sure if it is me or them, but I sure am failing a lot of captcha checks these days. What is a motorcycle, anyway? Is a bridge really so obtuse?

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I'm sure you got a ton of great shots, but if my modest snaps would be handy for you, shoot me a DM and I'll send you the RAW files to do with as you wish.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So great! Here’s a couple more shots…

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I took some pictures in the style of street candids, but sharing them feels disrespectful to the hard work they put in. Instead, here are my two favorite cosplays I witnessed with my own two eyes.

An image depicting cosplay. An very large (10’ tall or so) inflatable representation of Trogdor the Burninator from Strong Bad’s emails.

Cosplay of the polka-dotted drummer Klek de Poitrine of French-Canadian microtonal all stars Angine de Poitrine. He stands in a hall and make a triangle symbol with both hands at the camera.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My favorite thing to see at SDCC was amazing cosplay people looking at their phones. It feels like they’re off shift having a personal moment, like you’re backstage at Chaos Theme Park witnessing something the normies shouldn’t see.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

No Kenny I wrote about my hobby refurbishing grottos

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

First of all I don’t know how to “quality” something. Second of all, eww.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

They took his country. They took his wife. They took his son. But they couldn’t take his poem. Odysseus goes back to where it all started. Avengers: Iliad, Again.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Yeah! I see you on the "Friends are listening to…" all the time. Agreed on Vanderslice. Always love hearing new stuff from him.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I gather current-year songs I love into playlists of about an hour long. Trying to shake off the past and keep my mind in the current as much as possible. Here's my 2026 playlists so far:

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Mundane bureaucracy [2026, 01] by Martin McClellan on Apple Music

Playlist · 17 Songs

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A good day to rewatch one the strangest videos to emerge from the mad MTV early days and see what details you missed last time. youtu.be/lcOxhH8N3Bo?...

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Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (Turn Around) (Official Video)

YouTube video by bonnietylerVEVO

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'm going to be at SDCC for the first time this year. Any real-world friends here going? DM me if you want to cross paths! Any great tabletop, or TTRPG, or artists you love that I should check out?

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Consistently the most meaningful and grounding read on the internet, to me. Mandy's work reminds me of the best parts of the early promise of the internet made into a beating, living, and modern textual body. Here's to eighteen more years.

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Dystopian Arthur Wyatt @arthurwyatt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This is amazing. The kids are alright + also have access to 90s video segment technology

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This has been the overwhelming opinion of everybody I've talked to, sports fans and haters alike. I think we all just wanted our city to feel fun, again. Seattle is a really fun city that feels like it's been struggling to wake up since lockdown.

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Andy Baio @andy.baio.net · 18/06/2026

I wrote about how I discovered that a new site for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig's long-running Tumblr project-turned-book, was a bootleg made by a marketing agency. They published the complete book verbatim, then added AI-generated art and new AI words, entirely without permission.

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Christa Mrgan @antichrista.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Hell yeah, why experience a meaningful daily ritual for a few fleeting years, when you can instead outsource it to something sterile that has never thought or felt or lived? Sometimes I get sad for people who don't realize that time is all any of us has. www.theverge.com/tech/947871/...

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Amazon’s Echo speakers can now help kids wind down and fall asleep

Amazon wants to make bedtime less of a struggle.

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