Martin McClellan
@hellbox.bsky.social
UX & Design: @factal.com
Novelist/ish
Once, Seattle Review of Books co-founder
Type fan/fan type
martinmcclellan.com
Novelist/ish
Once, Seattle Review of Books co-founder
Type fan/fan type
martinmcclellan.com
Playing “I want to be sedated” at 7:12am in the airport is a baller move, Cleveland.
September 15, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Playing “I want to be sedated” at 7:12am in the airport is a baller move, Cleveland.
Did I cry at great-grandmas funeral in 1997? Why do you ask?
September 15, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Did I cry at great-grandmas funeral in 1997? Why do you ask?
Apple UI team blazing conjugation like bosses
September 12, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Apple UI team blazing conjugation like bosses
Literally the plot of @lailalalami.com’s The Dream Hotel.
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
www.404media.co
September 8, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Literally the plot of @lailalalami.com’s The Dream Hotel.
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Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions https://theonion.com/historians-politely-remind-nation-to-check-whats-happen-1819572992/
September 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions https://theonion.com/historians-politely-remind-nation-to-check-whats-happen-1819572992/
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.
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.
September 3, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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.
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.
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.
August 21, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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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“We’re occupying a strange political moment in which humanities work is both massively undervalued and everywhere extracted as a valuable resource.” https://defector.com/humanists-have-done-nothing-wrong
Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, archive perusers, and history buffs who grew to love their areas of study because of the specific objects that constitute the field: the…
defector.com
August 20, 2026 at 5:46 PM
“We’re occupying a strange political moment in which humanities work is both massively undervalued and everywhere extracted as a valuable resource.” https://defector.com/humanists-have-done-nothing-wrong
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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.
August 13, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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.
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.
August 14, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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.
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
August 12, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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
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?
August 4, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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?
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.
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.
July 27, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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.
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.
First of all I don’t know how to “quality” something. Second of all, eww.
July 25, 2026 at 4:07 AM
First of all I don’t know how to “quality” something. Second of all, eww.
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:
Mundane bureaucracy [2026, 01] by Martin McClellan on Apple Music
Playlist · 17 Songs
music.apple.com
July 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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:
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?...
July 9, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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?...
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?
June 30, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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?
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.
This month marks *18 years* of A Working Library. I will have more to say about what it means to blog for this long, and what I'm building towards, but for now I just want to thank everyone for reading. aworkinglibrary.com/writing/umyazu
Umyazu
Reading is the art of attention.
aworkinglibrary.com
June 24, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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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This is amazing. The kids are alright + also have access to 90s video segment technology
I need every Seattleite to watch this fucking YouTube channel called Wake Up Seattle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmxQ...
Wake Up Seattle | Episode 2
YouTube video by Wake Up Seattle
www.youtube.com
June 23, 2026 at 9:57 PM
This is amazing. The kids are alright + also have access to 90s video segment technology
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.
I do not give one single solitary damn about any kind of sports, but I have to say the World Cup has been nothing but great for Seattle. A joyous civic celebration. We should commit to keeping the city’s investments in public transit and shared public spaces going once the event is over.
June 23, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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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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.
Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words. Their unauthorized site now ranks higher than the real one everywhere.
The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows - Waxy.org
Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words and definitions. Their unauthorized site now ranks higher than the real one everywhere.
waxy.org
June 18, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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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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/...
Sometimes I get sad for people who don't realize that time is all any of us has.
www.theverge.com/tech/947871/...
Amazon’s Echo speakers can now help kids wind down and fall asleep
Amazon wants to make bedtime less of a struggle.
www.theverge.com
June 11, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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/...
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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Introducing Melted: A Messy Ice Cream Game! No kickstarters this year! Preorder on my website now! Coming in July! Art by @wildkatstudio.bsky.social !
May 26, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Introducing Melted: A Messy Ice Cream Game! No kickstarters this year! Preorder on my website now! Coming in July! Art by @wildkatstudio.bsky.social !
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Breakout French-Canadian math rock duo Angine de Poitrine, British singer-songwriter Arlo Parks, and garage rocker Ty Segall headline the lineup for the KEXP BBQ on Aug. 22 at Seattle Center. Tickets are on sale now. www.kexp.org/bbq/
May 21, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Breakout French-Canadian math rock duo Angine de Poitrine, British singer-songwriter Arlo Parks, and garage rocker Ty Segall headline the lineup for the KEXP BBQ on Aug. 22 at Seattle Center. Tickets are on sale now. www.kexp.org/bbq/