2026 has not stopped the onslaught of the attacks on trans people with 710 bills being introduced nearly reaching 2025's high watermark of 1059 bills in just 4 months without multiple state legislatures being in session this year.

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

reupping with a link! lenyx.neocities.org

I neglected to show the scale of the lasercut lino block. It is nearly 12x18" (tol dog for comparison)

✨You can archive any data you feel may be at risk!✨ ❤️ You can archive the things you love, too. ❤️ The initial image in this thread is from the lovely Zine Bakery, which houses a zine on DIY archiving! zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... Direct link to pdf of the zine: zinebakery.com/assets/homem...

I'm giving a keynote 4/9 on speculative+experimental kinds of peer review, built on my "Organized Futures: Speculative Design for More Just+Joyful Scholarly Infrastructure" article journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/... For Experimental Publishing Practices conf: copim.pub/online-confe...

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

Making! in the makerspace (hard/laser-safe lino lasercut, still gummy/rehardening) #DHmakes

At Angel Parham & team's talk on her IATH DH project revealing layers of New Orleans history "in one square block". Shouts out collaborator IATH's @laurenmassari.bsky.social as "the person who makes [research] dreams come true", showing a fantastic multimedia exploration of place, space, memory:

Next Wednesday 3/25 4pm in @scholarslab.bsky.social. Interdisciplinart faculty speakers from Drama, Medicine, Gender Studies, & Urbran+Environmental Planning/Architecture. Refreshments! Zines for research, public scholarship, teaching! And get guidance on making your own (first?) zine:

Creativity is not a talent. It's a process and a practice available to everyone.

if you are not following my (letterpress) press account @wolfproofpress.com you are missing me at my unhinged memeiest? silliest? fwiw

Got 3 more "intro friends to letterpress" coprinting sessions scheduled for the next month! It's been fun to share w/folks by making poster prints together. Hope to do more w/folks who are interested + local (or visiting) this summer, once I know my schedule. Could this be your letterpress summer??

#DHmakes <3 making things for fun (& pun) (see also mar's dadjoke zine marhicks.com/zines/dadjok...)

You can pre-order, unbelievably. Oct. 20! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

The 𝚙̶𝚕̶𝚘̶𝚝̶ ̶𝚝̶𝚑̶𝚒̶𝚌̶𝚔̶𝚎̶𝚗̶𝚜̶ mystery mini bakery has expanded to a new location on our BookBeetle. (Mystery Persons have been leaving tiny breads & accompaniments around my office & sometimes mailed, for the past year; I think the past ones are all in this QT chain)

Lasercut chipboard to cover the bottom of cells in an old letterpress type case—testing measurements are right. (Already vacuumed w/special attachment hose & rotating brush, powerwashing, wiping; this is just for the ones that are still looking very questionable).

Many things non-lawyers can do, such as this (attend bail hearings, cases; notetake on judge decision+reasonings that won't be published), watch courthouse to report ICE presence, or simply sit in audience (many cases public) bc judges explain better+are more lenient when it isn't just the defendant

Virginia Festival of the Book this weekend! I'll have a pile of free, large anti-ICE letterpress prints *anyone* can take from, over @ the Literary Marketplace anytime 12-6 this Saturday. A block away from this protest story panel on the Cville DTMall (vahumanities.cventevents.com/event/bookfe...) +

heckin...letterpress

I didn't believe this so I looked it up and holy shit, it's true. There is a literal pathway to life imprisonment if a trans person uses the bathroom 4 times in Idaho, if this bill fully passes.

Was trying to keep the Data Visualization with Textiles class super low-key for this spring because of excessive dumpster fire elsewhere in my life. Maybe I'd get, like, 3 people, I figured. And yet, I just checked the enrollment and I still managed to end up with 19 students. 😳 #DHmakes

I don’t know who sent me this book on street lettering in India, but thank you, it is definitely in my interests! In addition to typography in general, hoping to train in sign painting & brush lettering some day. (Penland has class this summer but it’s full, alas penland.org/workshop/sig...)

Support the 2SLGBTQIA+ Graduate Student Queer and Trans Research Fund! All donations will support graduate student research, including archival work, fieldwork, conference travel, and more. www.alumni.mcgill.ca/give/index.p... @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillumedia.bsky.social

The 2026 Queer Food Conference Schedule is now live: www.queerfoodconference.com/p/schedule-2... Conference registration for in-person and online attendance opens on Jan 15th! @mcgillarts.bsky.social

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

Note that this excludes all workers at public universities *except* for service workers. Virginia's graduate students, contingent faculty, and all other staff members deserve the right to collectively bargain.

#ZineSunday #7 I know, one month without zines is terrible ! But here's a fun one for my comeback : the UVA Library's staff put together a zine of all their pets, lovingly describing them 🐾 "The Good Pets of UVA Library", by Amanda Wyatt Visconti et al. ➡️ zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...

Also test printed @chebutykin.bsky.social's revolutionary remix to make sure bubble font words will fit when I add them in a 2nd printing pass. Still fixes to make, but went home bc the weather forecast is so bad UVA closed (& they didn't even close for the bomb threat that evac'd library last week)

More vaporware Luddites. 3rd photo is first pull (usually lots to fix after test printing your typesetting for the first time, unless you've got brand-new type & luck) & 4th photo is final print. #DHmakes

Cheesetype!! 1 step closer to pizzapress 🍕🖨️ (Srsly tho I've printed typehigh cabbage & doing cabbage shreds would be easy... thinking what else I'd need for a taco print. Tortilla on a boxcar base, salsa-hued ink?? 🌮🎨

Virginia folks, are there VA-specific (but not Richmond-only) phone numbers to put on a VA version of the "Form a Crowd, Stay Loud" zines? Other states include phone lines to report ICE actions or alert rapid response (I don't know if we have these?), & request legal observer (I got email for those)

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

Engraved a new mat today. Fancy some cheese type? #letterpress #typecasting

DIY Methods, our little conference-by-zine about unconventional approaches to research, rises again! Maybe you'd like to make a zine on your weird/cool approach to methods, and receive a bundle of similarly weird/cool zines in the mail? Pitch submissions are due April 20th. diymethods.net

Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.

I found this thread useful & accurate to my sense of AI's impact on coding & coding jobs (this thread re:UX & project management, too: bsky.app/profile/spav...)

The biggest change in software development is not AI code, but a permission structure for disregarding quality in the pursuit of velocity

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

This game co structure celebrating *cutting* code/features (not jobs) ➡️ thinking re:how to get us under bandwidth in academia given destaffing, "austerity", capacity under fascism; eg new pilot=what's changed to allow. Current mode of quietly not moving forward "yet"=people feel behind, not freed up

Two misaligned incentives that combine to give us the state of modern tech: 1) Volume of deliverables is more visible than their quality 2) Putting out fires is more visible than preventing them

There's a new "design is dead, because AI" piece (thinly disguised marketing from Anthropic). But looking past the hype headlines, the things Wen claims AI can do cover approx 0% of the job. Devs aren't looking to UXers to write bad code. They're looking to us for what users need that code to DO.

Fuck

After pitching the Aftel Archive of Curious Scents to @gabi3.bsky.social last week, I finally made a visit myself and it absolutely did not disappoint. Best unusual museum I've ever been to, and talking with Beth about how she started the place was a delight.

In addition to local arts, free online resources, & your library—search "folk school" & "craft school" for a ton of places that often mix teaching craft/make/art traditions w/new+experimental ways of using them. E.g. just in NC: John C Campbell Folk School, @penlandschool.bsky.social, Wild Abundance

I love this plan. What knowledge from the past do you have in your head to carry forward and teach? Now I'm tempted to go sign up for some of the more obscure lace making classes at the local lace museum, just out of AI spite. 🤔 #DHmakes

I was lucky to get to see some of @kathrynhunterart.bsky.social's process at Penland this January. Beautiful mixed-media art & advocacy, including embroidery, lino carving, letterpress legends explaining science/history in paired pieces so you can explore visually 1st then read deeper #DHmakes +

Had a fun afternoon working in my cubicle after enduring a three-hour bomb threat today

4th UVA lockdown in the past year, 2nd threat on our library building; folks are evacuated. Trivially but representing state of academia: this=2nd time my *same* pending-publication article needs an edit, bc it refers to # of lockdowns on our campus in the past year (& that number rose since wrote).