Papyrus papermaking, with multiple videos of the process in the thread 😍:

escaped wolfproof sheep vibes

I'll have access to Cherokee 18pt lead type in July. If anyone Cherokee (can be folks you know offline too) would like to collaborate w/me (write or suggest a text; help make sure I print it readably) I'd be happy to create a letterpress print of it, & mail you a bunch of the prints for free+

Never a bad day to quietly participate in a subtle work of achieving socialist utopia via careful attention to the craft of producing useful beauty in the world

Ideas for my printing on these vintage telegrams? (Words of hope? Bad puns? I could see customizing these a bit per person as an option, which would take longer but be fun.)

New $10 letterpress print up in the store: rainbow gradient "recall the beginner's mind." on vintage gradeschool penmanship paper. I'll donate 20% to the legal defense fund for the MN folks recently indicted for protesting ICE. (You can donate directly here: chuffed.org/project/1865...) +

👇quote is from @rawsignal.ca newsletter piece, "You are not entirely powerless". I think we should say obvious & urgent things (when we safely can) loudly, clearly, plainly. It helps others take heart; it models good beliefs & actions; it drives hate into silence. ("ICE OUT" signs as a small part.)

Bc "If yours is an org where bad shit happens unremarked, the most important tool @ your disposal is that you can remark...the thing the entire room is waiting to see is if this is a place where bad shit goes unremarked. Or if this is a place where we stop, stare at it, say not in my fucking house"

I'm going to send a bunch of these lil' letterpress prints out on Monday. If you'd like one (all free if you're in the U.S.) let me know where to mail: tinyurl.com/iceoutprint

📢 New zine announcement: “Zines Are Back! : The Perennial Reemergence of the Zine Scene” is a collection of news headlines featuring all the cliché “zines aren’t dead” stories that you’ve grown accustomed to (or resentful of). violetbfox.info/zines-are-ba... #zines

"Remember zines?" 💀 I'm selling these 28-page full-color zines for $5 (shipping included, even international). All money raised will be donated to the Prairieland defendants. If you're at #alaac2026, pick up a copy at the #ZinePavilion! If not, fill out the order form & I'll mail 'em after ALA.

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

"A People's Guide to Teaching Tech" is a free, 61-page book/zine PDF by Diana Nucera you can get through Allied Media ⬇️ (The series also includes free booklets on AI, digital surveillance/privacy, & tech futures: store.alliedmedia.org/collections/...) +

1st meeting of the @ach.bsky.social #DHmakes SIG was just wonderful. Lovely to have new folks join in; learn about so many different methods folks use to make art, joy, knowledge; get a preview of the mail packets of much art folks who contributed something are getting soon.

So excited to see / meet (@markalanmattes.bsky.social!) other #DHmakes folks synchronously for our ACH SIG picnic / show-and-tell while I'm futzing with the loom for the second @neh-odh.bsky.social weaving.

I’ll do a longer post later with more photos (I’ve woven all the ends in since this was taken, for example!) but here’s the rug I shared in today’s #DHMakes share-out, complete with proof of Bowie approval!

Ty @yfiac.bsky.social for 💪 Luddite stickers & a surprise embroidered @wolfproofpress.com sheep!? that is going right on my printing apron

Put grocery gift cards into the hands of local food-insecure immigrant families by donating to the Grocery Card Campaign, hosted by Sin Barreras and co-sponsored by Indivisible Charlottesville and several other trusted community organizations.

Cover bond payments for Virginians held in ICE detention by donating to the Central Virginia Community Support Fund, fiscally sponsored by Congregate Charlottesville.

Y’all, while I’m conferencing my partner is making paper from the papyrus he’s been growing! 🤯 #DHmakes Alt txt: A white man’s hands pushing a strip of papyrus through a mandoline food slicer

Erin McCabe's talk on collective assemblage art practice, tied into an old Lithuanian girls' game of creating and hiding colorful things, and a personal response to the US government's anti-DEI mandates, is incredible, beautiful #DHmakes right here.

Who’s in for a #DHCooks book?

Does this news outrage you? Does it make you want to make zines? Do you want to know how, even without a computer? Here's an easy step-by-step guide by @thorazos.bsky.social. Print out the pages below or purchase copies cheap at the link. www.etsy.com/listing/6936...

As in, this is literally what “freedom of the press” was all about when the 1st Amendment was drafted—there wasn’t “the media” in the way we use that term today—there weren’t even proper journalists yet—“the press” that was to be free was a constellation of mostly small, local printers

A tangential side note to a serious story—while I could see book historians rolling their eyes at the FBI calling “a standard office printer, a paper cutter & a book binder” a “printing press”—ofc it’s not, technically—what they did with them is very much in the spirit of revolutionary printers so

Chilling case of zines being used as evidence to convict anti-ICE protestors of “material support to terrorists” “The Sotos’ crimes largely stem from a ‘printing press’ that the FBI noticed during the initial raid of their home: a standard office printer, a paper cutter and a book binder”

New Queer(er) Luddite t-shirts are up in the store! "Breaking machines *& binaries* that enshittify livelihoods... since 1811 (& much earlier; we have always been here)" 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💜 store.wolfproofpress.com/product/breaking-machinesand-binaries-queer-luddite-tshirts

For #ACH2026 #DHmakes lightning talk, some "I've wondered what that is" or "how do I get involved?" links! * FAQ: tinyurl.com/whatisDHmakes (w/a 2025 update: tinyurl.com/dhmakesnow) * Peer-reviewed history of #DHmakes by @quinnanya.me @claudiaeberger.bsky.social & me accesson.kr/kjdh/v.1/1/7... +

Joining the Association for Computers in the Humanities general meeting on the first day of @ach.bsky.social conference today, and I’m just so impressed by all the great work being done by this volunteer-run scholarly society.

“Digital humanities gives us a space for connecting people who care about this kind of thing and who have the linguistic and cultural competence to be appropriately skeptical of the machine's results.” - @quinnanya.me and Regina Pieck 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #ACH2026

Excited to share this project w my v dear friend @emgrumbach.bsky.social at #ACH2026: Digital Humanities & Liberatory Friendship: An Anti-Management [Living] Manifesto. It's an ongoing convo on using friendship as a method for resisting the neoliberal university. Join us! tinyurl.com/anti-managem...

We're going to move the show-and-tell to Thursday's #ACH #DHmakes SIG meeting, to give folks more time to signup, & combine w/the mail art packet show-and-tell. You can sign up through the session tomorrow. But we're still doing tonight's session for general co-making hangout & chat!

#ACH2026 Lauren Gonzales keynote: How are communities sustaining each other vs growing tech surveillance+extraction? Collaborating to maintain humanistic values in tech design, policy. Builds on UX+participatory design: supporting community knowledge/efforts/desires should remain DH's central focus.

I can’t be grateful enough with @literaturegeek.bsky.social for all their kindness! They aren’t only super talented, but also generous. Thanks to them now, #NailsandNodes has a Woden sing! #DhMakes

Btw these *can* go in a window! Just knew not everyone can do that safely or may want in other places, eg communal kitchen, art studio, office desk?

Good morning #ACH2026! If you're attending the conf, join the annual general members zoom @ 10amET to hear about what @ach.bsky.social has been doing, where we're going; ask questions, & let us know what you'd like to see or help with. Log into ConTool>program for zoom links to this+other sessions.

DATA EMPIRE's pre-orders are currently discounted! Get your copy for 20% off. www.harpercollins.com/products/dat...

As foretold!! My latest accidentally inking the tympan *was* my most beautiful yet tho?? 🌈 (& tympan was close to needing a change anyway) Free tutorial zine for printers: zinebakery.com/homemade/tympanchange #DHtries #DHmakes

I'm mailing folks these small "ICE OUT" letterpress prints for 100% free 💌💪🧊 (if you're in the U.S. + will put it where others ever see it) Sign up for one here: tinyurl.com/iceoutprint

#ACH2026 attendees who do craft/art/making, we have 2 opportunities for you! 1: Share an image of something you've made (art/craft/maker), for a digitally stitched "picnic blanket" and/or 2: Sign up to briefly share 1 thing you're making/made (art/craft/maker) @ Wed #DHmakes Show+Tell session: +

Steamroller prints! 👀🎨 folks working toward "the largest hand-carved woodcut print ever made: 160 blocks, 5k+ sq ft, printed w/a steamroller in Spring 2027" helloprintfriend.com/big-print

The other day I asked folks to think of things that made a disproportionate impact — & not in the “for you this was Tuesday” kind of thing that celebrities & surgeons experience. This is what I mean: I’m grateful every time I am remembered by my colleagues & peers in maker spaces & book arts & DH.

spinning a rainbow (vandercook printing press rainbow roll) #DHmakes

breaking bad machines *and* binaries since 1811!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💪

Trans and Queer Community on the Early Net Tomorrow! Hybrid event introducing Avery Dame‑Griff's new book "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet." Congratulations, @adamegriff.bsky.social! Tuesday Jun 23, 2026 7:00 pm (Pacific time)

This *is* the last 🌈 I printed today, a small thing: added a gradient "Queer" for the queer letterpress charter I drafted notes for at my residency back in January (boring image of 2 gents + improving 💚 printed back then too bsky.app/profile/lite...)

This is not the last of today's 🌈. Printed the background-texture board I made a while back by lasercutting triangles & gluing them (bsky.app/profile/lite...).

Also printed the nasturtiums block (art by Verneu, lasercut on bamboo bsky.app/profile/lite...) in rainbows; vs real ones in my yard

now the typesetters are in on it too