Washboard Press

oh that’s a good thought!

Those mesh bags onions & oranges come in? Or The rough insides of pulp paper cartons—like eggs are sometimes packed in, but also other packaging?

This company makes rubber replica fish intend for classroom gyotaku printing, with 16 different kinds of fish, but idk how well they would print in a letterpress press? www.nascoeducation.com/fish-replica...

Shop Talk: Print Activism • Partners in Print Let's discuss how to harness the power of your printing press to inspire action and activism in your community.

Letterpress folks might be interested in @partnersinprint.bsky.social's 8/15 free Zoom chat on using letterpress printing for activism: partnersinprint.org/event/shop-t... #DHmakes

Oooh, very nice!

A yellow print with a flower that says ‘you don’t stop wars with guns & bombs. You stop war by talking to your neighbors’ said by John Wayne Fry.

We really like our neighbors. More details about this print here: https://www.starshaped.com/small-prints/neighbors
#letterpress

I love this—I have also been bothered by aspects of “this is a printing office,” and I love this recontextualization.

Look for “stay flats” or “rigid mailers”; I prefer the reusable tab-lock type to the more single use adhesive with tear open strip. As noted above, they aren’t cheap, and shipping is also not cheap, but they do the job!

I love this typeface, but can’t quite identify it. I wonder if the compositor who carefully mitered the border corners to line up with the pattern in the border was pissed at the printer who f%#&ed up the lockup.

Also: gonna survive the ongoing escalating climate crisis by stockpiling Grape=Nuts.

Yeah, it seems like they should be type high, because they are close, but it’s just 1/8” Lino mounted on a 3/4” block (so, ~0.043” short). I find a piece of chipboard + 1-2 sheets of copy paper under the block gets in the ballpark, then add or remove copy paper to adjust impression.

We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.

I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

It's very easy to not use AI image generators. Less than zero effort required. There's no reason to help normalise it at all.

Seems like the real alignment problem is not computer vs humans but the billionaires who own the hardware and direct the development vs the rest of us.

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

@lhn.bsky.social has a guide for you:
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in the desert with mountains in the background and asking is it too much to ask for both . Alt: a man in a suit and tie is standing in the desert with mountains in the background and asking is it too much to ask for both .

Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

The current administration:

A headshot of a good dog looking seriously and wisely at the camera.

A good dog smiling as he lies on the deck in the sun.

Good work buddy. That’ll do.

This is just to say

I have eaten
the eggs
that were in
the icebox

& which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were expensive
so white
& so gold

Two letterpress printed posters side by side. one of them reads “WTF THIS IS NOT NORMAL” and the second one says “WTF THIS IS NOT OK”

Finally snuck into the print shop for a few hours and cranked out a stack of these—probably not nearly enough, given I say this to myself every time I read the news. But at least I have a small supply for whatever occasion next requires them.
#thisisnotnormal #thisisnotok
#letterpress

I had no idea this was something that they could supply, thanks for the tip!

Hey #printers let’s all make NO KINGS! signs. It’s a design challenge for the moment. Make them. Post them. Give them away. Take them to events. #nokings I’m not the first to this idea. But I’m adding my voice.

To be clear: Even greater damage will be done by the loss of federal government productivity. The workers who are losing their jobs were worth more than they were being paid! We are all poorer when roads, planes, and food are unsafe, when parks are closed, etc.

Are you concerned about AI? We had a robust culture built around an older technology, printing. It had 500 years of editorial traditions which kept it stable. We need to maintain a BACKUP of that system, because this new one is scary. That's why I co-founded printingstewards.org/index.shtml

Stay human, fight fascism. #linotype #letterpress #timothysnyder #musktrumpcoup #coupdetat #usaid #departmentofthetreasury #departmentofeducation #project2025 #project2025isdeadly #stayhuman #fightfascism #typecasting

Print therapy with Octavia Butler.
#letterpress #parableofthesower

These are the same picture.

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Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

I'm trying to save them.

You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

THEY COME FOR TRANS PEOPLE FIRST. This is the playbook. Do not accept this Democratic position that maybe the Republicans weren't all wrong and maybe we can accede to some of their hateful bullshit.

Trans life is gorgeous, and brilliant, and capacious, and offers pathways to a better world.

A letterpress print lies in the bed of the press that printed it. The print has pink letters on dark blue paper and reads “Fix your ❤️ or die.” Each word is on it own line and the get smaller as the go down the page.

this is why I am deeply uninterested in AI generated art