Martha Chiplis
@mchiplis.bsky.social
Artist, Designer, letterpress printer, coauthor "For the Love of Letterpress" https://chiplis.org
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Some good printers created a site documenting Hamilton Wood Type Museum board's actions (wearehamfam.info) & linking to a petition (I signed!) calling for new governance that includes museum staff & community members (sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...). If you do letterpress, please consider signing:
We demand a new Board of Directors at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum
Our beloved printing museum faces an unprecedented situation. Board overreach has cancelled programming, rescinded residencies and cancelled exhibits of Black and LGBTQ+ artists, and silenced communit...
wearehamfam.info
September 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Some good printers created a site documenting Hamilton Wood Type Museum board's actions (wearehamfam.info) & linking to a petition (I signed!) calling for new governance that includes museum staff & community members (sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...). If you do letterpress, please consider signing:
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Wherever you went to college and grad school, write the presidents and urge them to stand up to Trump and with other universities. This will take you maybe 20 minutes to do.
September 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Wherever you went to college and grad school, write the presidents and urge them to stand up to Trump and with other universities. This will take you maybe 20 minutes to do.
An article about Bloomsbury's recent AI licensing offer- societyofauthors.org/2025/08/07/b...
Bloomsbury explores AI licensing deal - The Society of Authors
Our campaign for the rights and interests of authors in the face of big tech companies using copyrighted work to train their generative AI models continues this week.
societyofauthors.org
September 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
An article about Bloomsbury's recent AI licensing offer- societyofauthors.org/2025/08/07/b...
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Read the story here: chicagoreader.com/news/ice-sho...
What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez
An immigration agent killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago. The initial narrative was quickly disproven by witnesses.
chicagoreader.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Read the story here: chicagoreader.com/news/ice-sho...
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Setting up a print for folks to pull at the Ravenswood Art Walk this weekend. The ‘Chicago’ type was designed by @chgohoods.bsky.social based on the Starsiak store signage; I had it laser cut as a wood font. #letterpress
September 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Setting up a print for folks to pull at the Ravenswood Art Walk this weekend. The ‘Chicago’ type was designed by @chgohoods.bsky.social based on the Starsiak store signage; I had it laser cut as a wood font. #letterpress
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“At a time of growing concern about declines in insect populations, native plants are having a moment … ” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/11/i...
Gaining ground: Native plants surge as gardeners try to save bees, butterflies
Gardens benefit insect population, a vital link in the food chain and one that is in steep decline.
www.chicagotribune.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
“At a time of growing concern about declines in insect populations, native plants are having a moment … ” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/11/i...
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I found 8 of my things in here and 10 of Todd's. GRRRRR.
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I found 8 of my things in here and 10 of Todd's. GRRRRR.
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Incredible showing for democracy and against occupation today.
This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
September 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Incredible showing for democracy and against occupation today.
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Read our blog to get an overview of the Anthropic settlement. There’s an FAQ for authors, too. We hope you find it helpful.
authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
September 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Read our blog to get an overview of the Anthropic settlement. There’s an FAQ for authors, too. We hope you find it helpful.
authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
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Nothing outsmarts autocrats like humorous resistance: The latest unlikely people’s hero famously flung a Subway sandwich at Border Protection officers last week in Washington, DC.
Sub-versive DC Protester Becomes Memeorable
Tributes to the “hero with a hero” who flung a Subway sandwich at a federal agent have emerged across the nation’s capital and online.
hyperallergic.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Nothing outsmarts autocrats like humorous resistance: The latest unlikely people’s hero famously flung a Subway sandwich at Border Protection officers last week in Washington, DC.
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The CODEX Emerging Artist Fellowships are a great opportunity. The deadline is approaching! Please help spread the word! www.codexfoundation.org/opportunitie...
#bookarts #letterpress #bookbinding #printmaking
#bookarts #letterpress #bookbinding #printmaking
Emerging Artist Fellowship - Codex Foundation
The CODEX Emerging Artist Fellowships aim to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the world of book arts by helping to reduce the financial barriers to exhibiting at the CODEX Book Fair. […]
www.codexfoundation.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The CODEX Emerging Artist Fellowships are a great opportunity. The deadline is approaching! Please help spread the word! www.codexfoundation.org/opportunitie...
#bookarts #letterpress #bookbinding #printmaking
#bookarts #letterpress #bookbinding #printmaking
It was a wonderful day!
Thank you to everyone who came out and helped yesterday morning at our planting event around St. Mary of Celle Church. We got 22 native trees and shrubs planted on the grounds, and we planted a native garden at the corner of 14th of Wesley.
June 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It was a wonderful day!
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This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
www.gelliottmorris.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*
Very grateful for John's work on the new website!
Been working on this for little bit now. The new Sherwin Beach Press website is live! Fully responsive, fast loading, more usable navigation, and now with an integrated shop: sherwinbeach.com
Design idea is it should feel timeless, like the site might always have been this way.
Design idea is it should feel timeless, like the site might always have been this way.
Sherwin Beach Press
Sherwin Beach Press is a small fine press specializing in nonfiction prose. All of our books have been hand printed and hand bound.
sherwinbeach.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Very grateful for John's work on the new website!
Owner of our local-ish native plant nursery, Possibility Place-
“‘It took me almost two years to get funding for the tree planting, but in many cases, my buddy tree got the conversations going to make it happen,’ [Tristan Shaw] says.
‘If we want all the health benefits nature brings us, we have to take care of it.’”
vitalsigns.edf.org/story/stress...
‘If we want all the health benefits nature brings us, we have to take care of it.’”
vitalsigns.edf.org/story/stress...
In stressful times, nature can help
Research from around the world confirms: Connecting with nature is good for your mental health.
vitalsigns.edf.org
May 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Owner of our local-ish native plant nursery, Possibility Place-
I will be part of this tomorrow
May 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I will be part of this tomorrow
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Tomorrow more than 20,000 will not be silent.
www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-...
www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-...
Thousands to line Ogden Avenue Sunday to protest Trump administration
Thousands of people are expected to line Ogden Avenue from Aurora to Chicago Sunday as part of the Hands Across Chicagoland demonstration to protest the Trump administration
www.shawlocal.com
May 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Tomorrow more than 20,000 will not be silent.
www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-...
www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-...
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If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
April 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
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The annual blossoms of this lily magnolia in central Berwyn are always such a welcome site after a grey winter. The smells reach across and down the block.
April 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The annual blossoms of this lily magnolia in central Berwyn are always such a welcome site after a grey winter. The smells reach across and down the block.
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“Too often an afterthought in street design, urban trees make streets safer, longer-lasting, healthier and more pleasant.”
vibrantcitieslab.com/research/cit...
vibrantcitieslab.com/research/cit...
Complete Streets
Too often an afterthought in street design, urban trees make streets safer, longer-lasting, healthier and more pleasant.
vibrantcitieslab.com
April 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
“Too often an afterthought in street design, urban trees make streets safer, longer-lasting, healthier and more pleasant.”
vibrantcitieslab.com/research/cit...
vibrantcitieslab.com/research/cit...
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My demo for my letterpress class today. 12 line wood type printed on a Vandercook press. @booker.senate.gov
April 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
My demo for my letterpress class today. 12 line wood type printed on a Vandercook press. @booker.senate.gov
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Tune in on April 26 for real talk on running your own letterpress print shop, with Jennifer Farrell!
This month’s interactive Long-Distance Letterpress class is packed with useful topics, gleaned from 25 years of running @starshapedpress
⚡️Register at partnersinprint.org/events
This month’s interactive Long-Distance Letterpress class is packed with useful topics, gleaned from 25 years of running @starshapedpress
⚡️Register at partnersinprint.org/events
April 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Tune in on April 26 for real talk on running your own letterpress print shop, with Jennifer Farrell!
This month’s interactive Long-Distance Letterpress class is packed with useful topics, gleaned from 25 years of running @starshapedpress
⚡️Register at partnersinprint.org/events
This month’s interactive Long-Distance Letterpress class is packed with useful topics, gleaned from 25 years of running @starshapedpress
⚡️Register at partnersinprint.org/events
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Senator Durbin @durbin.senate.gov -- we implore you to join Senator Duckworth in voting NO across the board on the GOP's catastrophic funding bill!
🔥💙🔥 Just to be very clear: Senator Tammy Duckworth is HELL NO ON ALL OF IT. Thank you, @duckworth.senate.gov!
- See press release saying she is HELL NO on the CR: www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-r...
- See our screenshot of her Twitter post saying HELL NO on cloture:
- See press release saying she is HELL NO on the CR: www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-r...
- See our screenshot of her Twitter post saying HELL NO on cloture:
March 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Senator Durbin @durbin.senate.gov -- we implore you to join Senator Duckworth in voting NO across the board on the GOP's catastrophic funding bill!
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They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.
Trump: Gutting National Parks—And Hiding the Evidence
National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety.
This won’t go well—we love our parks.
National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety.
This won’t go well—we love our parks.
March 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.