Kelsey
@agathafrye.bsky.social
Hi! I’m a middle-aged human muddling along on our marvelous terrible planet. Things I do: nonprofit directing, letterpress printing, community organizing, zine stuff. Librarian without a library. 💖 Currently working on: olympiamusichistory.org
I’m terrible about visiting this platform, but here’s a petition I feel strongly about. We can’t afford to lose organizations like the Hamilton Wood Type Museum, but we also need accountable and transparent boards in order to have continued organizational success.
sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...
sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...
We Demand a New Board of Directors at Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum
Key Issues with Board Actions
· Cancellation of Artist Residencies: The Board canceled fully funded residencies, disregarding restricted donor and grant commitments. This breached trust with funders a...
sign.moveon.org
September 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I’m terrible about visiting this platform, but here’s a petition I feel strongly about. We can’t afford to lose organizations like the Hamilton Wood Type Museum, but we also need accountable and transparent boards in order to have continued organizational success.
sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...
sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...
The way the board is handling this situation is shameful.
I broke my IG hiatus to speak out about the injustice Hamilton Wood Type Museum has done to IBé Crawley. I wanted to bring this over to bsky because this is now my primary platform, and the typography/print sky communities need to be made aware. 1/🧵
#typophiles #printsky #letterpress
#typophiles #printsky #letterpress
September 9, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The way the board is handling this situation is shameful.
Stoked about this class at Community Print… we are so lucky to get a visit from the talented @tenderheartpress.bsky.social in 11 days! 💖
You can register at community-print.org/classes
You can register at community-print.org/classes
June 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Stoked about this class at Community Print… we are so lucky to get a visit from the talented @tenderheartpress.bsky.social in 11 days! 💖
You can register at community-print.org/classes
You can register at community-print.org/classes
This movie was so excellent. Highly recommend. I will be thinking about it for months.
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Secret Mall Apartment | Official Trailer HD
YouTube video by Secret Mall Apartment
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June 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This movie was so excellent. Highly recommend. I will be thinking about it for months.
youtu.be/B9OCYOD-e9s?...
youtu.be/B9OCYOD-e9s?...
I am so very pleased with this outcome. This billboard has been a hateful scourge on Lewis county, WA, for decades. Justice has been served at last!
medium.com/@lewiscounty...
medium.com/@lewiscounty...
Chehalis Tribe Buys Billboard, Plans to Replace Messages with Accurate U.S. History
NAPAVINE, WA — In a development historians are calling “chef’s kiss levels of poetic justice,” the infamous Uncle Sam billboard along I-5 near Chehalis has been purchased by the Confederated Tribes…
medium.com
June 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I am so very pleased with this outcome. This billboard has been a hateful scourge on Lewis county, WA, for decades. Justice has been served at last!
medium.com/@lewiscounty...
medium.com/@lewiscounty...
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As a scholar, as a teacher, and now as a museum educator, Chronicling America has been invaluable.
Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.
Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
www.loc.gov
May 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
As a scholar, as a teacher, and now as a museum educator, Chronicling America has been invaluable.
Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.
Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.
In other news, we are well and truly fucked. This is what happens when monopolies are created. I’m disappointed with myself for being so reliant on Google and nearly all Google products. 😩
May 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
In other news, we are well and truly fucked. This is what happens when monopolies are created. I’m disappointed with myself for being so reliant on Google and nearly all Google products. 😩
Libraries need funding, for this and many other reasons. Defunding libraries is shameful and harmful to our communities.
Wanna reduce crime?
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Do public libraries help mitigate crime? Evidence from Kansas City, MO - Journal of Cultural Economics
We examine the relationship between public libraries and local crime rates. Previous studies have looked at different factors that could account for changes in crime, but few have focused on cultural ...
link.springer.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Libraries need funding, for this and many other reasons. Defunding libraries is shameful and harmful to our communities.
I really have no idea who sees anything I post on here, but any Olympia folks following along are invited to this art opening tomorrow night! We’ve got over 80 7-inch square collages related to themes of Dissent, Organize, Hope & Rage, and Renewal.
May 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I really have no idea who sees anything I post on here, but any Olympia folks following along are invited to this art opening tomorrow night! We’ve got over 80 7-inch square collages related to themes of Dissent, Organize, Hope & Rage, and Renewal.
I strongly agree!
i will absolutely never put on the top sheet. fitted sheet and a good blanket or two is all you will ever need. top sheet is a scam!!!! wake up !!!!!
May 6, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I strongly agree!
This is amazing!
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zcmag.xyz/zine-idea-ge...
ZC MAG
Zine Crisis Mutual Assistance Group: Zinesters helping zinesters
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May 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM
This is amazing!
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Reposting this! Conversation has been slow! 😂
Printmakers, I’ve started a Reddit group for people running, volunteering, working, etc; in community print shops. If you’re interested in being added, let me know! #letterpress #risograph #printmaking
May 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Reposting this! Conversation has been slow! 😂
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Love this. 💖
Last summer, Maine Crafts Association gave me the opportunity to work w/Sturdy Production to make a short video about my letterpress printing work. Here it is: a love letter to letterpress & the power of political print. Lmk what you think. See more at radicalemprints.com or wholesaleradical.com. 🥖🌹
April 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Love this. 💖
Printmakers, I’ve started a Reddit group for people running, volunteering, working, etc; in community print shops. If you’re interested in being added, let me know! #letterpress #risograph #printmaking
April 15, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Printmakers, I’ve started a Reddit group for people running, volunteering, working, etc; in community print shops. If you’re interested in being added, let me know! #letterpress #risograph #printmaking
Olympia, this is coming up next Friday! I hope to see you there.
April 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Olympia, this is coming up next Friday! I hope to see you there.
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If the Democrats don’t make an absolute buffet out of this group chat national security scandal, primary each and every one of them. It’s literally on a silver platter.
March 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
If the Democrats don’t make an absolute buffet out of this group chat national security scandal, primary each and every one of them. It’s literally on a silver platter.
Next up at Community Print! Share with your book arts loving friends in the PNW.
March 24, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Next up at Community Print! Share with your book arts loving friends in the PNW.
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It's Mothering Sunday in less than a fortnight. I'll be reading out the names of our #RememberedMums in church on the morning of Sunday March 30th. If you'd like to add your late mother's name, let me know. It can be oddly comforting to know her name will sound out once again. Reposts welcome. ❤️ 👑
March 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients.
www.everylibrary.org/statementiml... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
www.everylibrary.org/statementiml... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Statement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries
www.everylibrary.org
March 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients.
www.everylibrary.org/statementiml... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
www.everylibrary.org/statementiml... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
One of our Olympia harm reduction icons has left the building. He influenced and assisted so many people in Olympia and beyond. Thank you LHD 💖
gofund.me/514ddbbd
gofund.me/514ddbbd
Donate to Support Long Hair Dave's Memorial and EGYHOP, organized by Meg Martin
Update: THANK YOU to everyone who has donated so far! Please keep sharing and … Meg Martin needs your support for Support Long Hair Dave's Memorial and EGYHOP
gofund.me
March 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
One of our Olympia harm reduction icons has left the building. He influenced and assisted so many people in Olympia and beyond. Thank you LHD 💖
gofund.me/514ddbbd
gofund.me/514ddbbd
We’ve got so many good classes coming up at Community Print! Here are the next two. Please share with your PNW/Puget sound area friends. More info:
www.community-print.org/classes
www.community-print.org/classes
March 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
We’ve got so many good classes coming up at Community Print! Here are the next two. Please share with your PNW/Puget sound area friends. More info:
www.community-print.org/classes
www.community-print.org/classes
This is a mess.
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This is a mess.
Oh, ya think? 😂😭
75% of Germans don't see the U.S. as a reliable partner anymore, new poll for ARD-TV finds. Majority open
to more debt for defence.
Full results (in German) here: www.tagesschau.de/inland/deuts...
to more debt for defence.
Full results (in German) here: www.tagesschau.de/inland/deuts...
March 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Oh, ya think? 😂😭
This is so so rich. February 4, 2925: “Judge Awards Proud Boys Trademark to Metropolitan AME Church.”
Thank you, Judge Tanya M. Jones Bosier. 💖
www.washlaw.org/judge-awards...
Thank you, Judge Tanya M. Jones Bosier. 💖
www.washlaw.org/judge-awards...
Judge Awards Proud Boys Trademark to Metropolitan AME Church - The Washington Lawyers' Committee
Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic Black church in Washington, D.C., sued Proud Boys International LLC after an attack on the Church in 2020. The court issued a default judgme...
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March 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This is so so rich. February 4, 2925: “Judge Awards Proud Boys Trademark to Metropolitan AME Church.”
Thank you, Judge Tanya M. Jones Bosier. 💖
www.washlaw.org/judge-awards...
Thank you, Judge Tanya M. Jones Bosier. 💖
www.washlaw.org/judge-awards...