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Me too! I was hoping to visit for the printing conference in SF this fall, but no travel funds. I might be able to figure something out in the spring, though!

Hannah's work is amazing; I've already printed this out to work through. If you haven't used @halperta.bsky.social's previous free workbook on finding purpose/SJ action for folks who do academic or other knowledge work, it's excellent too: bsky.app/profile/halp...

!! Thank you for making & sharing this; your previous workbook was amazing & I was (excited? relieved? hopeful?) to see this in my RSS feed just now

Taking Action in Higher Ed Taking Action for Higher Education is a workbook to assist university workers in assessing personal risk and making decisions about how and when to take action to resist fascism.

I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed.

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Cavalier Daily reports an important development that will certainly be on the mind of many BOV members on Monday. While I am not a lawyer, it appears to me that Deeds is establishing a legal basis for the GA to seek an injunction on the enactment of any Voluntary Settlement
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Article embeds the senator's letter at the end, worth reading for the thorough day-by-day Qs establishing who/what/when timeline of UVA President's ouster. Requires answers to our state legislature, for Qs UVA folks (incl deans) have been asking (& denied answers for months):

Wonderful news for and from our colleagues at George Mason University! May this good energy visit us here in Charlottesville!

Thank you!

Thank you! The drawers of type are beautiful on their own, so hoping to preserve a gallery of that regardless of where they go next (hopefully where I can print w/them again 🤞)

Thank you! It's built on great previous work listing typeface/size + case, + type collecting work, by Kevin McFadden, @josefbeery.bsky.social, Garrett Queen, & others.

Not sure yet (hopefully some news soon), but we know when it needs to move to storage (a couple weeks) so trying to document things beforehand!

There is no AI involved in this project. All manual data entry and standard bar/pie charts.

Virginia General Assembly demands answers about Ryan's resignation in Aug. 1 letter In a 10-page letter obtained by The Cavalier Daily, State Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Charlottesville, demanded written responses and documentation from University Rector Rachel Sheridan and University Vice ...

State Sen. Creigh Deeds asks the BOV: “What is your understanding of the importance of shared governance in a university? What is your understanding of the significance of having lost the confidence of the people who educate students in that university?” www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

I have photos of all the U.S.-type-high wood type so far; trying to photo all the lead type that isn't still in foundry packaging this weekend. (These webpages aren't open to public viewing currently, but if stakeholders are okay w/it, we would share website+data once we've finished documenting.)

Screenshot of a webpage showing various colored charts and stats that summarize the Virginia Book Arts' large type collection. The stats are: "Total type count (Discrete typeface + size + variant): 374" [note that this is only the type in numbered cases, not the huge collection of additional type in various other drawers and galleys, such as a collection of European wood type, and a huge amount of unopene foundry type packs], "# of unique type families (e.g. Caslon, Bodoni, etc.): 72", "Photographed types (I.e. a photo of this type in its case is in the database): 43", "Photos of type printed (Examples of how type at this size appears when printed): 2". There is a pie chart showing "Proportion of type materials in collection" with 85.9% lead type, 13.9% wood type, and 1 3d-printed item. A bar chart shows "Common Variants (For the most common variants in our type collection, # of types with that variant)", with different lines for how much italic, bold, etc. variants of type the collection contains, with around 25 variants listed. A bar chart for "Collection type: sizes (# of typefaces in the indicated size)" shows that 18pt type is the most common lead type size in the collection, and 15 pica is the most common wood type size in the collection.

A screenshot of part of an Airtable database (looks like a spreadsheet with color-pill entries) documenting some of the details for some of Virginia Book Arts' type collection, such as type family and variant, point size, and type material.

A screenshot of part of an Airtable database (looks like a spreadsheet with color-pill entries) documenting some of the details for some of Virginia Book Arts' type collection, so zoomed out to show all ~30 metadata columns that it's difficult to read anything. There is still a lot of info to fill in, but there are places for photos, documenting the history of how VBA acquired and used the type, and other social info as well as many details about particular typefaces (what they are, how they look, how well they print)

Lets us see % wood vs metal type, counts of the various typefaces, frequency of various point sizes. Going to work w/@josefbeery.bsky.social to document the type's use history, quirks, condition. Hoping to add photos of prints made w/as much of our type as I can, to show what to expect.

Screenshot of a grid photo gallery of drawers of wood letterpress type, with around 30 drawers of brown and black and yellow wood type, sans and san serif, varius typefaces shown

Photo of a letterpress typecase (wide, shallow drawer) pulled out from its cabinet to show the 2" tall wooden letters (in a medieval typeface called "Abbey Text") it organizes

Screenshot of a list of the metadata fields in a database named "Moveable type"; the fields are: Case # Legacy label Point size SPiF font genre Other notes Type style/variant Type family Warnings Acquisition & history Material Contents type General typeface history Case notes Letter, Hamilton Number... Qs from Amanda ID Case photo Case photo date Case photo notes Photos of type (non-case) Photos of printed type Source of core data Photos of type (non-cas.. Photos of printed type n... Status Final status decision Similar typeface? Proposed fate Fate reason(s) Sans vs Serif

I'm making a database+photo gallery for @virginiabookarts.bsky.social's big (370+!) wood+lead letterpress type collection, before it's packed up: pull out+photo each case, add descriptive data to Airtable db based on others' existing typeface+variant+pointsize list+I added 27 more metadata fields 🙀+

Florida AG Subpoenas Venue For A List Of Guests Who Attended A Drag Show Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wants to intimidate drag queens and gay bars. It’s not going as planned.

1. Florida has subpoenaed a drag bar for a list of attendees to a drag show, in what could be a new first for anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.

Their goal is to end drag in the state.

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This autocrat shoots the messenger dynamic is one I remember well from my years of working and living in Cuba. Then the less brave bureaucrats go into self-preservation mode and spout out flattering lies. Then there is a complete disconnect between state-controlled media and people’s daily reality.

Studio Two Three 'supports art making for personal+social change...the role of the arts in civic voice+engagement, partnering w/activists+leaders to provide space for creative advocacy initiatives' (www.studiotwothree.org/our-mission). 💜 their charter (I see some #DHmakes values there!):

Sad to see Richmond's fantastic print+other community arts space Studio Two Three coping w/$200k lost funds (most recently, denied a federal grant it rec'd annually the past 5 years) after Charlottesville's public printshop closed this summer:

Congrats, that's fantastic news, and well deserved!

Cover page of a legal document filed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The case, numbered 1:25-cv-12162, was filed on August 1, 2025. Plaintiffs include the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and 17 other states, along with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. Defendants are Donald J. Trump (as President), Pamela Jo Bondi (as U.S. Attorney General), and the U.S. Department of Justice. The document is titled "Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief" and spans 79 pages.

17 states have filed a lawsuit to stop the illegal intimidation of Healthcare providers to stop providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

They're bringing APA and 10th amendment states right claims.

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You don't actually know what will or will not make a difference which is why it matters to try to do things.

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.

This is wonderful news!

I am *thrilled* to join the Library of Virginia. @dennistclark.bsky.social hooked me by saying he wanted to create a "digital-first state library," and we needed to figure out what that'd mean. One building can't serve 9 million people over 50k mi², and I'm so looking forward to building what can.

Oh heck yes! Congrats, Scott!

Do note their text re:who can use the lower scholarship cost for the class—"we leave it to you to decide if your income, wealth, or privilege status warrants" the $50 level, vs. $90 regular fee (& higher fee option if eg you have uni funds you can use to pay forward for others)

Long-Distance Letterpress: DIY Wood Type • Partners in Print In this edition of Long-Distance Letterpress, we’ll explore how a CNC router can be used for creating letterpress wood type and engravings.

Letterpress folks, @partnersinprint.bsky.social has DIY Wood Type zoom class again this fall: using CNC router to make yr own moveable type. I (no CNC experience) took+recommend: 👍 examples of what DIY makes possible—go beyond scarcity of nonLatin scripts in US!—& useful for my lasercutting type too

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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