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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

[deleted a post because the linked content turned out to be vibecoded ai slop. Apologies. We now return to our normal ai-free programming]

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/08/2026

Surprising fact: We are actually NOT seeing more food recalls this year compared with recent years. What we’re seeing is an increase in the number of illnesses caused by contaminated food. This is the largest ever cyclospora outbreak & third-largest foodborne illness outbreak of any kind on record.

Number of food recalls by year
There have been 162 food recalls posted this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture.

Chart shows yearly food recall numbers from 2017 to 2026.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Stoppe callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

There are *so many* rooms of haunted dolls, it’s easy to miss one.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026

Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net

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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Nick Cave, as long as the Bad Seeds

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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Well, I made it 19 minutes but you’re not wrong.

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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I don’t really need a new series watch right now, but I kinda want to give it 15 minutes just to see how bad it really is.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Line up released for Glastonbury's new Chromatic Wood Type stage! 🤠 buff.ly/2uWLUsQ

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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

like, call me back in the morning when I might know if we still *have* a roof!

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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Parts of our city had big hail around 5pm. I just answered a random cold call to our land line that nobody uses and it was somebody offering to do a roof inspection. It’s 7pm. The storm is still an ongoing concern. Literally tornado sirens went off right before the phone rang.

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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I print with hand-set letterpress type. I have sometimes taken to calling this “analog” printing to contrast it with “digital,” even though the way I print makes extensive use of my fingers, and so is much more digital in the original sense than the computer-driven process that is analogous to it.

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Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · 09/03/2026

See Red Women’s Workshop, Capitalism Also Depends on Domestic Labor screen print, London, 1975 ⁠ In 1974, a group of feminist artists founded the See Red Women’s Workshop to address gender issues such as capitalism’s reliance on unpaid homekeeping and childrearing. #IWD #InternationalWomensDay

Poster screen printed in a single color (reddish brown). It shows a factory at the top with a line of people existing out the right side to the bottom of the poster where they are cared for by a conveyor belt of women, then the enter the left side of the factory.

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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Every now and then I think to myself, “*cool ranch* triloritos” and then I have to go reread this story again.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 19/02/2026

Ok, here’s a proof of the 2nd layer, which adapts a broadside published in April of 1854 to warn Black residents of Boston about slave-catchers in the city, following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act www.nps.gov/articles/000...

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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

If you do, I recommend doing two very different point sizes so there’s no risk of mixing them up if your subdivisions fail (or you just get sloppy redistributing)

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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I’m donating 75% of the sales of these prints through Feb. 14 to community support efforts in the Twin Cities (the rest will help keep me in ink, paper, and necessary supplies to keep printing). Use coupon ICEOUT to get $9 off any 3 of them.

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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

These Public Safety Messages were inspired by the messages I get from my city after every snowfall, and from the community care demonstrated all across the Midwest by neighbors helping each other dig out after winter storms, and the amazing ways Minnesotans are extending that care right now. #iceout

Three letterpress posters on a slightly snowy sidewalk, they read “Ice is a safety hazard and must be removed,” “Remove ice promptly to prevent dangerous build up,” and “If you are unable to remove ice in front of your home ask your neighbors for help”. All three say “A Public Safety Message” at the top and “We Keep Us Safe” at the bottom.

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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

otherwise I like val’s method, especially for smaller point sizes, although honestly most of my cases are in the same jumbles that I inherited.

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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I tried using chipboard cut to fit across the diagonal to sub-divide compartments when I am double-stacking a case, or when there is a font that has alternative sorts for some letters (looking at you, Kabel/Sans Serif Light), but I was unsatisfied with the result. This seems like a better method!

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

[Michael Stipe voice]: Here’s an ICE stop inside of St. Peter

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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The Minnesota Center for Book Arts is an amazing place, and a core institution supporting & promoting letterpress printmaking in the Midwest. I know there’s a lot of need for all kinds of support out there right now, but would be awesome if the #letterpress community would help them out right now!

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Ben Blount @blountben.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

2026 Wayzgoose? In Chicago? Word! It’s about time for the printers to get together again. Starshaped Press and I are planning Wayzgoose ORD (WORD) in Chicago this November 2026. WayzgooseORD.com We’d sure love to see you there! #letterpress #wayzgooseord

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Ben Blount @blountben.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Let’s get free.

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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Community is everything and printers know that well. So @blountben.bsky.social & I are leading the charge to host WayzgooseORD (WORD) here in Chicago. It’s a new gathering for the print community to share their shops, knowledge and friendship. More info: wayzgooseord.com

Wood type in a composing stick that says ‘WORD’ with a Chicago star. Image is reversed to be easier to read.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. -W. H. Auden

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The federal government is gunning people down in the streets, lying about what happened and then preventing any independent investigation of the killings

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I want the Truth and Consequences commission to be so memorable people assume they named the town in New Mexico after it fellowtravelersblog.com/2018/03/13/a...

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A Case for Transitional Justice

If sunlight is the best disinfectant, a failure to apply it leaves a festering wound, with complications that continue to amass.

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 19/04/2025

to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app select the icon in the top left corner go to settings go to content and media make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off

pointing at the hamburger menu icon in the top left hand corner of a mobile bluesky app screen

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Isla Catrìona @islascribbles.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

‘I had a lot of equipment and ink and I was very very angry’ is a beautiful sentence in this context ( @dansinker.com I think you’ll appreciate this one)

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 23/01/2026

Most of the people I saw saying a general strike couldn't just be spun up out of nowhere were right. I don't think any other place could pull this off right now. The Twin Cities built a citywide support system on every front in like 6 weeks, they are doing the ridiculous backwards in heels.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 23/01/2026

If this works tomorrow, it won't be because a general strike is easier than we all thought. It will be because the twin cities went all in on community and built a path to a place the rest of us still can't reach... Yet.

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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The first of a series of Public Safety Messages inspired by the emails my city sends out before and after every snowfall, and also by the current situation in the Twin Cities. #letterpress #abolishICE #iceoutofMN

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I have genuinely thought to myself multiple times over the last year that Stephen Miller et al. found themselves in Omelas they'd be looking for more kids to torture to see if that would make things even better.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The other thing is, in 2020, the locus of anger was internal, which is destabilizing. But this time, we ARE UNDER ATTACK. We are INVADED. All my neighbors are friends. All the feds are the enemy. No one wants to turn their rage on local streets or businesses; we are, specifically, protecting them.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

One thing that people don't understand is that the community base opposing ICE is extremely committed to avoiding anything that could trigger rioting, I think largely because of the 2020 experience. Trump thinks he can redo 2020 but shoot the protesters this time, but Minneapolis isn't the same.

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Washboard Press @washboardpress.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The purpose of a system is what is does (& not what it claims to do)

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Roses are red Our resolve hasn't faltered

WARNING
IT IS POSSIBLE TO SURVIVE THIS BUT NOT UNALTERED

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

There is no ethical, legal, or moral difference between a missile strike on a civilian boat in international waters and a missile strike on a civilian vehicle on I-95.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I am moderately obsessed with Old School Sesame Street for the same reason. So much of the older stuff is about presenting a vision of diverse urban community that is deeply rooted in relationship, resourcefulness, and mutual care.

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