Ahhhh I’m just back from traveling and the best package EVER was waiting for me 🤩 Thank you @literaturegeek.bsky.social and @wolfproofpress.com !!!!

If you want amazing prints , look at this gorgeous from @wolfproofpress.com I can’t be thankful enough with @literaturegeek.bsky.social! #DHMakes

I love all the prints, but I’m specially in love with the @wolfproofpress.com sticker!

I also made a holographic sticker 🌈 of my "letterpress for the people! silly letterpress for the joyful people!" print as I wanted one for my laptop; up at store.wolfproofpress.com/product/stic... if you'd like one too (1st pic=sticker, 2nd=the print's typesetting photo)

For the vaporware vigilant, added a Luddite "breaking machines that enshittify livelihoods (since 1811)" sticker version to the beckoning Luddite technocritical letterpress prints in the store (store.wolfproofpress.com/category/lud...):

Relatedly, have some dildo protest art: bsky.app/profile/wolf...

I'm so into this wave of dildo-related protest. 🍆💪

"Run toward the fire". May we run toward the fire, the crisis, to save those still inside & put those fires out. Thinking of @walshbr.bsky.social's writing on a digital humanities that runs toward crises not away; & a speech from a past fantasy-liberal-gov TV show. 🌤️🔵 Bluesky texture is handinked.

"Run toward the fire": letterpress banner w/handinked bluesky background, blue & shiny silver hair inks: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/run-...

New typesetting & print of something I'd printed previously (that "the moral arc of the universe won't bend itself"): playing with overlaying silver ink on blues-gradient text #DHmakes

Also up in the store now, starry blue+silver "the moral arc of the universe won't bend itself" prints (store.wolfproofpress.com/product/mora...):

Letterpress process: couldn't fit the acrylic bubble font I'd lasercut into the same printing pass as the lead type, so I used light to see+circle empty spaces through half-done print's back (=reflected), used that on press bed to know where to place inked bubble font when adding it to the prints:

Revolutionary remix/nice MN anti-ICE protest prints 👀💜 are up on the store, & I'm donating $5 from each to MN mutual aid groups: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/revo... Ty @chebutykin.bsky.social for the 🪽🚀🧊🔥 text!

I'm always thinking about @halperta.bsky.social's lineage activity and ways we can set visible reminders at work. I'm thrilled to have @skeuomorphpress.org and @wolfproofpress.com prints hanging in my cubicle. Love having the words of @megsmith.bsky.social and Le Guin on display with my books!

(If you are like why is this print???, look back through the QTs: @chebutykin.bsky.social remixed revolutionary quotes to honor the folks in MN who've been protesting ICE using dildos, bc power hates to be mocked; I'm printing her remixes)

With apologies for the blue(sky) joke. (Seriously though, art is healing & so is laughter. Puns are inherently antifascist. I have a life rule to never inhibit sharing a pun, except in situations like someone's grief)

these prints are really coming together nicely. i didn't even get dildos on the tympan 😐😐😐

If this "doesn't go with your decor" 🧐 but you can also give directly to MN aid efforts at:

Finished printing @chebutykin.bsky.social's remixes of revolutionary quotes, celebrating Minnesotans who've protested ICE by throwing/waving expired sex toys?? Letterpress lead type+bubble type I lasercut. Need cut/count then will be up at store.wolfproofpress.com, w/portion donated to MN mutual aid

If you buy a print at my store that requires a large enough mailer (anything from this category: store.wolfproofpress.com/category/fre...) you can add 1-3 of these ⬇️ large anti-ICE letterpress prints in for free (until they run out—there's ~25). +

i'm not sure what the party will be, but definitely printing something dayglo with this soon

Not a fan of "This Is A Printing-Office"'s triumphal "printshops are naturally good". My print remixes Warde's w/text from language developed to warn the far future off nuclear waste sites ("this is not a place of honor") + my own critical tech text ("...but it could be a place of hope") +

👀 not just Big Wood Type but a Big Press to actually fit it on?! (Love the Vandy Unis I use at printshops, but they are *not* big enough to fit an adequate aka large quantity of Big Wood Type)

Print sales supported Trans Lifeline (translifeline.org), Action St. Louis community (actionstl.org), McGill 2SLGBTQIA+ Graduate Student Queer+Trans Research Fund (www.alumni.mcgill.ca/give/index.p...), & D.C. neighborly mutual aid (consistentmoneymoving.org)

Neat seeing where folks buying my art in the last week are from (16 states+UK); most often NY, CA, OH. Several of these fund specific mutual aid efforts (links in reply); I track these on a public Gsheet—just from a couple prints until I fund a printing press, then hoping to do more fundraising.

🏳️‍⚧️The new version of my "Trans joy! & a little bread, as a treat" prints are now up in the store: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/tran... & "Envision trans futures" now has 1 copy in stock (we sold out, but I just found 1 more I'd stored elsewhere): store.wolfproofpress.com/product/envi...

If you're outside the U.S. but would like to buy my prints, let me know? I didn't get the store calculating shipping right yet, but can do so manually if you let me know shipping address & what you want. store.wolfproofpress.com/contact

I usually refuse to set type under 24pt (18pt is permissible if it's just a few words). Continue to be shocked pt sizes I'm used to thinking of as readable from screen use are Too Tiny when working w/lead type

Printed the big broken text in Jan; to finish printing small text only in bits of whitespace, cut out empty space on a test print=>upside down on press, 🧲'd cutouts in place, removed rest; blocked around those & filled w/type. Running short of letters limited/decided wording many times #DHmakes

Finished a 21"x14.5" print edition I started @penlandschool.bsky.social in January, w/actual bits of broken wood type assembled to print “Broken is a relative term”. Smaller statements on human value under capitalism, identity, accessibility, craft & disability surround it (added via metal type).

I got the final title of the broken-type print done before the storm, but not the surrounding smaller text which was going to be re: broken is a term relative only to some specific function: who sets that function & why, what if we reject that etc.

"'Broken' is a relative term" is for sale: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/brok... There's a more muted pastel version if you don't love dayglo as much as I do 🌈 "Broken" is relative to intended function—& who gets to set what that is? Human value & identity under capitalism, craft & disability...

So many good prints! These are 4 of my faves:

If you purchase any art from my store today (3/31), I'll donate the $ (minus cost of shipping) to Trans Lifeline 💜💪🏳️‍⚧️ (On other days, buys support this here trans printer getting their own press—except for 4 prints that support good mutual aid efforts!) store.wolfproofpress.com #tdov

Making 🏳️‍⚧️ gradient on press:

Last #ICYMI of my prints raising press funds @ store.wolfproofpress.com: *A hydroponics of care—see+water us as seeds now, not once we're buried *Vaporware Luddites! (All The Text) *"Justice is what love looks like in public" *"Without reading, we are all w/o light in the dark, w/o fire in the cold"

4 of these are now up in the store (store.wolfproofpress.com/product/be-t...); there will be more available in the dayglo-ink version, once I print those.

"Be the vibrant glitch you want to see in the world." I tried this w/silver ink since we had it on the press for SLab printing; it's a bit hard to see unless tilted in the light the right way, so sticking w/plan to ink dayglo on "vibrant glitch" on the remaining prints (that orange is dayglo!)

The big lasercut lino block printed well; printed a lighter version as well, maybe for the background of a different print. #DHmakes

Printed new versions of these today 🏳️‍⚧️🍞 & 💜 Reset so can fit into smaller envelopes, added a layered text background to some, blue metallic-sheen paper. Doing some "I <3 my trans [self, fam]" too).

My anti-AI prints arrived and they’re even better in person! I can’t wait to post in my office and give out to fellow refusers (I got 5 to start). Thanks @wolfproofpress.com + @literaturegeek.bsky.social! #DHmakes

confident art @ store.wolfproofpress.com: *(academic) rigor is bullshit & u know it💜 *"I don't need your praise to survive...I'll be here when only the sun & moon are left...& the wide field. I will constitute the field"🫳🎤 *The tiger! Is out!!🐈🔓 *Hands off our neighbors ❌🧊 w/15! printers fists 👉👉👉

Book-arts 🎨 @ store.wolfproofpress.com: *Printing-office/not a place of honor/critical tech remix *HTML=letterpress of digital world *Make a good impression 😷-up 4 community *Bookmakers say all u fascists bound📕 to lose *Vandercook 🏳️‍⚧️ allies! *Letterpress 4 the people/silly lp 4 the joyful people

art made for joy (@ store.wolfproofpress.com raises $ for a press): 🐳 @heatherfro.bsky.social's Moby-Dick joke 🎵Big Wood Type! likers cannot lie 🦌Yellowjackets Jeff appreciators 🍔The Whopper but unnecessarily Ornate 🐕historical dogs deserve little treats 🌈(silly) letterpress for the (joyful) people!

& bc hope needs antifascist action, @ store.wolfproofpress.com: * Guthrie's "all you fascists bound to lose" +5 📚 puns * This little light of mine 🎶 I'm gonna let it burn away fascism (protest in joy!) * Abolition is heavenly work * This machine kales fascism (actual 🥬 print! mine's in my kitchen🍽️)

Hopepunk letterpress @ store.wolfproofpress.com: *"listen / I love you / joy is coming" (Addonizio) *"To look at our world & say, no, it does not stay as it is" (@wynkenhimself.bsky.social) *Hope is a thing with wings *"This is a good time / the best time / the only time to come together" (Jordan)

It’s leg day at work. Just printing up some promotional material…

Helping me visualize what I can spell w/my big type. 1st pic says "Drop words here" bc I forgot to change it after modifying the "Catchword" page, which does the same drag-and-drop building but of sentences using printing catchword & other word-image printing blocks. My related tools for scant type:

i swear i still do digital stuff (little projects w/data! coding! UX!) too (but it does tend to have a theme that is zine/print/read/bookadjacent 📚)

My office is slowly turning into a gallery of letterpress and other artisan-printed materials from folks generally involved in DH + GLAMS + making (yay!!!), typically with resonant messages about tech and libraries and archives and academic labor. the new ones I just snagged here are amazing!!!!!!