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Toni McLellan, she/her

@tonimc.bsky.social
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Feral hag and word corvid at heywordpecker.com.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Photo of a book cover featuring another photo of a real cockatiel. Title and author read:

Introduction to Screaming
By Dr Coqatielius Boidmin
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com
image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the backgroundblack and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I just did an entire zoom meeting with crane food in my hair. Because some tiny tyrant flung his breakfast dish in outrage since he now only likes a very specific texture of crane crumbles. Broken leg/surgery child is now the crane of 10,000 opinions. #wildliferehab
A juvenile sandhill crane colt looking down at the viewer from the front. This bird is undergoing rehabilitation after a car strike and surgery to repair his leg.
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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 07/09/2026
I’m still so proud of this little book. If you read it, I hope it’s useful to you. And I’ve said it before, but if you’d like a copy but don’t feel you can swing the purchase right now—shipping costs, how your budget’s looking this month, whatever—just send me an email. We’ll figure it out. ❤️‍🔥
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 07/09/2026
This Friday 11 September at 9am PT: join me and Dana Chisnell, co-founding member of the U.S. Digital Service (amongst many other achievements!) for episode 10 of How People Work, Live! register + previous episodes at verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
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mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Every time you check out a library book instead of ordering from Amazon, ask a friend instead of an LLM, cook a meal instead of ordering from an app, or go for a walk instead of scrolling social media, you interrupt the cash flows of insane CEOs. Do it! Ruin their day!
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Wordpecker @wordpecker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Fresh Wordpecker update! www.heywordpecker.com/p/wordpecker... In this edition, we have small mammal antics, nerding out on feathers, two decades-long art projects, and more! h/t to @doctorow.pluralistic.net for introducing us to 'dickovers.'
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Wordpecker 15: Beaver Atlas
Meet the marms
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/08/2026
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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How to Disable the AI Features in Gmail and Google Docs
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
New update from the @unbreaking.org Immigration team on continued ICE activity: unbreaking.org/blog/briefin... Reduced media coverage doesn't mean they're not still terrorizing our communities.
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Special Edition: ICE Is Still Everywhere — Unbreaking
A special briefing from the Immigration team on what's changed—and what hasn't—since ICE reduced its emphasis on named, military-style operations.
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Matt Tobey @mtobey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I’m finally going to listen to my doctor and eat more vegetables and get more fresh air
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 17/07/2026
This week, we have a very large timeline update from Immigration and smaller updates from Food Safety, Medicaid, and Federal Workforce. Our weekly briefing covers all four at highest speed: unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: Immigration, Food Safety + more — Unbreaking
This week we have a short briefing about so many events in Immigration, some upsetting things happening in Food Safety, and quick updates from our Medicaid and Federal Workforce teams.
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I love this series so much and am so happy I got the physical copies. Supporting this Kickstarter will do your heart some good.
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
👇🎯
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hating women is the center of the venn diagram here then you can add whatever isms across the other circles
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/07/2026
NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026
One thing I would love is if, when a straight white guy “sees the light” and joins the left, he would volunteer for a community group and like knock doors for someone who’d been on the left for ages instead of immediately wanting to be the candidate. It’d be like a litmus test for if they’re serious
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
They bought all of our choices, political, lifestyle and economic. But they did not wager the cost of our *refusal*. It is fascinating. Grim but fascinating.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This seems fine.
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Every Sunday, I sent a weird wordy newsletter called Wordpecker out into the void. Some of you actually read it. Here's last weekend's edition. www.heywordpecker.com/p/wp-09-moon...
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WP 09: Moon Porn
Happily trapped in the American Woodcock algorithm
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
once again the innate belief of people that They Wouldn't Just Let The Thing Lie And Give Bad Information Mate It Stands To Reason They Got People Who Check These Things is proven to be as valid as believing the moon landings were fake or that Duke doesn't suck
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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 02/04/2026
right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 02/04/2026
i'm so sorry we've sent these souls to the moon and they're using outlook?
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
teaching only one of my chickens to play No Limit Hold'Em in order to create wealth inequality amongst the chickens
a baby chicken playing no limit hold'em poker on a computer
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/03/2026
If you think No Kings is too vague or insufficiently radical, I sincerely encourage you to go to your local No Kings rally tomorrow and hand out flyers/zines to recruit folks to your org/cause. It's a perfect recruitment event! Thousands of people eager to DO STUFF! Get out there!
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I've decided Bluesky is now my complaint channel. Enjoy.
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A major local healthcare network in Chicago (Northwestern Medicine) uses obnoxiously fake typing sounds between prompts with their automated phone service. It fills me with rage every time I hear it. We know it's not a human, knock it off. This is both terrible marketing & an awful user experience.
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Every single org should offer the option to turn off hold music while waiting to speak to a representative.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
[pink pony club] 🎵 Joyce Carol Oates She’s gonna keep on posting ‘cause she’s Joyce Carol Oates 🎵
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Truth!
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
🎯 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
FAQs for This Weekend's Bad Bunny Concert Featuring Football www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
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FAQs for This Weekend’s Bad Bunny Concert Featuring Football
What time is kickoff? The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. f...
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I LOVE HER!!!!!!
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We love you, Minneapolis!
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Really excited to share the new look for my newsletter, New-To-Me Phrases: Say hello to Wordpecker! www.heywordpecker.com/p/welcome-to...
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Welcome to Wordpecker!
New look, same phrasemaxxing
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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I think we can all root for this.
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Who is this little guy? Find out next week! Sign up for my newsletter at www.newtomephrases.com
A graphic design of a tiny, pill-shaped red-bellied woodpecker pecking at the air.
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/01/2026
AI can't take my job as a writer because I don't even have one
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
"Minnesota nice" taking on a whole new meaning is one of the good things to come out of 2026 so far.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17/01/2026
Nice thing about Minneapolis being kinda small is that it’s hard to convince us protesters are being paid because you’d go out and oh there’s that kid from my high school who played Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha one year, and is that the pharmacist at my CVS over there, and there goes our realtor
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Even more bad library bills being proposed in state legislatures. Don't just read and understand what's at stake here–take action to help stop their progress. Attempts to suppress LGBTQ+ books in libraries? They're not happening at the local level, folks. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
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Even More Bad Library Bills for 2026–and How to Fight Them Now
Two more bad bills have hit state legislatures in Indiana and Ohio. Here's what they are, what they do, and how to take action now.
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Wild being forced to be the bad guys by a demented leader on the world stage. How deeply embarrassing.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/01/2026
The only good thing about all this is that it has brought to my attention that the Greenland flag frickin’ rules. #Erfalasorput
The flag of Greenland. The bottom half is red and the top half white, and offset from the center there is a circular design with the bottom half of the circle white and the top half red. It is meant to symbolize ice caps and the sun setting over the ocean.
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Unbreaking is doing vital work by tracking things the Trump admin is breaking, in the hope that one day we might restore it. It's an all-volunteer effort (I'm one of them) for anyone to use in reporting, research, other tracking efforts, etc. Subscribe to get weekly updates.
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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Do we really have to endure all of this ::gestures wildly:: AND barrel-leg jeans?
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
holodeck hard reset
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