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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 22d

A notice of his passing:

Farewell to Louis Moholo-Moholo: Jazz revolutionary and anti-apartheid voice dies at 85 | News24

Legendary drummer Louis Tebogo Moholo-Moholo, who died at 85, transformed jazz through his fusion of African rhythms and free-form experimentation.

www.news24.com

Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 22d

I missed that the South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo passed, at 85, last June. Listen to this song, which always soothes something unsettled deep inside me, recorded in exile in London in 1978. Unreal, non-egoist, beat-dragging, masterful drumming on this track. A musician's musician. RIP.

You ain't gonna know me 'cos you think you know me - Louis Moholo

YouTube video by Eric White

www.youtube.com

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · 27d

Design friends! @johnaugust.bsky.social is looking for a "UI-heavy product designer with exceptional visual taste" for a new product. Contract, for now, but his shop builds exceptionally well considered software. If I was looking I'd be all over this.

Quote-Unquote Designer | Notion

We’re looking for a UI-heavy product designer with exceptional visual taste and front-end fluency for a new product.

qapps.notion.site

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · Sep 8

Oh, I love this GoFundMe aimed at helping @nisishawl.bsky.social fund the writing of a different kind of book: an "artifact of [an] imaginary philosophical movement". This is a book Nisi dreamed and has used in their fiction, so the idea of it jumping the veil into the realized world is thrilling.

Donate to Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!, organized by Eileen Gunn

Nisi Shawl, a wise and wonderful writer of science fiction and fantasy, had a… Eileen Gunn needs your support for Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!

www.gofundme.com

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · Sep 8

Apple Music appears to be showing alt-image text for Pink Floyd albums instead of cover art.

$A screenshot of the Apple Music Pink Floyd page. It shows the layout with "Latest release", "Top Songs", "Essential albums", and "Albums", but all of the artwork has been replaced with terse alt text. For "Essential Albums" it has: * "A wall of white bricks with red graffiti" for The Wall. * "Two men in suits shaking hands one man is on fire" for Wish You Were Here. * "A prism refracts light into the spectrum" for Dark Side of the Moon. * "Four young men viewed through a Kaleidoscope" for The Piper at the Gates of Dawn". For "Albums" it has: * "Four men walk across the ruins of Pompeii" for "Pink Floyd at Pompei * "A man rows across a sea of clouds" for The Endless River (Deluxe Edition) * "Two giant metal faces in a field" for The Division Bell * "Ultralight flys over rows of hospital beds on a beach" for A momentary lapse of reason (2019 remix) * Rows of hospital beds on a beach" for A Momentary Lapse of Reason$

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · Sep 2

My favorite part of this article is that there was a schism and original Castrator vocalist Mallika Sundaramurthy formed a new band called Emasculator. May this new sub-genera flourish as it splits and divides in infinitum, death metal cell division building a body of bloody brutal feminist metal.

Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · Sep 2

My favorite feminist brutal death metal band just released a killer new album, so I did a quick interview with founding member Carolina Pérez Arango!

Meet Castrator 🔪 :https://salvo.ghost.io/castrator-sharpen-their-knives-interview-2025/?ref=salvo-newsletter

Castrator Sharpen Their Knives

The brutal feminist death metallers return with a killer new guitarist, a blood-splattered new album, and plenty of new bones to pick.

salvo.ghost.io

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · Aug 31

Anybody else’s frame rate dropping to 50fps during the last supper? I can never get my parry timing right for Judas’s kiss

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · Aug 31

My favorite part of the bible is the Parable of the First Person Shooter

Screenshot of a video game store featuring game titled “Jesus Simulator”. The illustration shows white Jesus ascendant in heaven, angels looking up at him as he glows and looks up to his godly father represented by billowing clouds

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · Aug 25

I'm literally wearing a shirt with her name on it and an energy dome like one does on Monday so I'm down with all new spuds

Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · Aug 25

Ok, so here's my train of thought:

Holy shit, I had no idea who Devo WAS. I just know the song "Whip It". Never considered its meaning.

Musical innovation!

Whoa, they're MAD political...and I love it!

Mark Mothersbaugh? That's the dude from Rugrats!

Not even DONE with the documentary & already:

a man 's head is surrounded by a circle of light and stars .

Alt: Steve Job's head is surrounded by a circle of light and stars .

media.tenor.com

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · Aug 22

We made you a rigorously cited timeline of major moves, cases, changes, and other wildass developments in the immigration system since January 20. This is one of the most complicated things I've ever worked on, but we think it needs to be done. The thread breaks down the kinds of things we found.

Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · Aug 22

We have a new issue page up today, looking at the multi-pronged assault on both immigrants to the United States and the immigration system itself: unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

Immigration — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · Aug 7

Screen capture of a movie credits title card from the movie Airplane! Text reads “Stephen Stucker as Johnny” and shows the actor looking mischievous in the control tower after unplugging the runway lights.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · Aug 7

Red was one of a kind. She was a radical in the best sense, unwavering in her identity. Yes, a lovable grump who, when you got a smile out of her, you know you really earned it.

Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · Aug 6

RIP Red Reddick. Red was a Seattle bookselling legend—a lovable grump who was boundlessly passionate about sharing great literature with good people.

A photo of Red Reddick, with text below:

“February 22, 1952 - May 14, 2025
Bookseller. Dyke. Activist. Writer. Poppa. Collective member. Faithful friend.

Born in Sumner, Washington, Red moved to Seattle in 1970 to sell books with flair at Red and Black Collective, Twice Sold Tales, Mercer Street, and Oblivion. With mobility declining, she leaned on 'Alice Walker,' 'Citizen Cane,' and Cascade neighbours and friends.

Lover of the Beats, San Francisco, social justice, books and music; an American flaneur who roamed the city and came home to write about it. Memorial service Sept 7th, 2:00-4:00 pm, Immanuel Lutheran, 1215 Thomas St.”

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · Aug 6

I wish one of the streamers would pick up this model!

Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · Jul 11

My brain immediate read "Looks bad to you", instead of LGTM.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · Jul 10

Full hour! Full hour!

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · May 7

My pitch for all streaming services, but themed on Murderbot for Apple TV:

A daily soap opera. Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon. Do it fast, do it cheap. One hour a day. Tin foil sets. Low, low budget. No VFX except premade/rudimentary. Cut a one-hour condensed version for the weekend.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · May 7

How did the Murderbot showrunners pitch Sanctuary Moon to the actors? @vfarmstrong.com asked, and Paul and Chris Weitz answered!

#murderbot #themurderbotdiaries

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · May 3

The illustration reference must have been this trading card we made. I’m in the blue shirt and illustrator made me front and center. Pat, with the speaker on his head, made it to the repair bench with a sawed off arm in the drawing.

A trading card picture of a bunch of people, the staff, sitting amidst a pile of vintage Fender amps. It says “The Trading Musician”

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · May 3

Here’s an ad from the mid 90s when I worked at The Trading Musician (rip). It ran in @thestranger.com, which was famously known for @dansavage.bsky.social’s column and kink-forward personals.

A newspaper advertisement shows a detailed comic of a dungeon with BDSM themes. The picture shows a man being spanked with a paddle, weird sex robots, a businessman clawing to get out, a man being pegged behind the counter, and a lot of other weirdness.

Hand lettered text reads:

“Get out the whips and handcuffs! It’s The Trading Musician’s Fetish Guitar and Equipment Sale

Acoustic contact mics that can be mounted on anything. (ANYTHING!). Strange-shaped electrics…Fat keyboards from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s & 90’s! Touch the infamous IRON CROSS GUITAR! MEET SINGLE PERSONS WITH SIMILAR INTERESTS! Check out our necks, bodies, tubes, speakers, microphones and cases! Learn new positions in which to hold your guitar!

Don’t just fantasize about better equipment; go out and get it! Try our new twisted stomp boxes & vintage sex machines! Circle-jerk in the drum shop… used sound systems for your special events! Instructional videos and how-to books! Black leather straps with spikes…

5908 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle Washington, 522-6707

* Ask about our torture chamber basement treatment
* Sessions available with our dominatrix owner (Robin von Bartlett)
* *Special rates for collectors who can’t play a G chord!!!*
* Mention this ad and get a free lube job on your guitar

Illustration by Tracy • Lettering by Jeri Francis”

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · May 2

Yes! We posted pictures of clouds. We could do that here, too. Call it #cloudsky? #cloudblue? #bluecloudskycloudcloudcloud?

Picture of pretty clouds on a deep blue sky over apartment buildings, looking east from Queen Anne hill in Seattle.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · Apr 18

1982. The future was anything we wanted it to be.

Picture of book titled “The Design of Medical and Dental Facilities” by Jain Malkin. A sticker on it has a hand written price of $10 from PATM (Page Against the Machine bookstore)

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · Apr 9

I haven't even watched the real show yet and I already want a spin-off so bad

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · Apr 9

Finally!

Screenshot from the trailer of the Apple TV+ show Murderbot that shows a pink planet with gold fancy type over it that says "The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon"

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · Apr 7

One of the best rebrands I've seen in years. Really hits on aesthetics and business case reasons to do something like this.

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Martin McClellan @hellbox.bsky.social · Apr 4

Humbly, I submit that we update Betteridge's law of headlines. Instead of answering "no" to any headline that ends in a question mark, I think we can safely start responding with "what the actual fuck?"