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PlatemarkX
@platemarkx.bsky.social
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Letterpress Printer, Book Artist, Music Lover

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portlandmercury.com
Portland-area printmakers gather to make art with the help of powerful construction equipment.
Photo Essay: A Smashing Good Time at PDX Steamroller Print Fest
Linocut printmaker Jane Pagliarulo knows how to drive a steamroller now, but she didn't the first time she rented one.
www.portlandmercury.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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freeformportland.org
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March 18, 2025 at 4:34 AM
platemarkx.bsky.social
Look what came in the mail!!!
Los Pirañas latest record!
March 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM
platemarkx.bsky.social
Check out Theo Kidd! It's a great collection of 5 songs.
March 8, 2025 at 2:15 AM
platemarkx.bsky.social
Don't know what to get for Bandcamp Friday? Let me help with my top 5 picks for this week:
1. New album by Los Pirañas: Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida
2. La Dosis Máxima by Gato e' Monte & Felipe Orjuela
3. Hagata by TEKE::TEKE
March 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
platemarkx.bsky.social
Record of the day - this is what I'm listening to in my art studio:
Mi nuevo disco favorito es La Dosis Máxima, by Gato e' Monte & Felipe Orjuela!
sayitloudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/la-dos...
La Dosis Máxima, by Gato e' Monte & Felipe Orjuela
12 track album
sayitloudrecords.bandcamp.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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bandcamp.com
Colombian supergroup Los Pirañas channel twitchy pointillism via a coterie of South American influences, particularly Peruvian chicha, for a bouncier take on math rock. Their new record is our Album of the Day.
Los Pirañas, “Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida”
The Colombian channel twitchy pointillism via a coterie of South American influences, particularly Peruvian chicha, for a bouncier take on math rock.
daily.bandcamp.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
platemarkx.bsky.social
Teaching mi hijo how to print. He carved his own block and made patches. #letterpress #platemarkx
March 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
platemarkx.bsky.social
Los Pirañas are coming to the US! They are the Colombian Power Trio! Check them out! You don’t want to miss them live! 🔥❤️🔥
los-piranas.bandcamp.com/album/una-op...
Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida, by Los Pirañas
8 track album
los-piranas.bandcamp.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
platemarkx.bsky.social
Working on a project. Prototype done and type set. Next step is printing!
Closeup of prototype of my latest artist book with the word un- raveling typed on paper but read from bottom to top. Pages are stitched together with red thread to create a scroll. Photo of hand-set metal type ready to be printed. Photo of my studio showing two of my tabletop presses- a 3x5 Kelsey made in 1970 and a larger 5x8 Kelsey made sometime around 1900.
March 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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waldo.net
18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.
March 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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bandcamp.com
Thousands of fans, artists, and labels came together for Bandcamp's February 7 Fundraiser. Thanks to our community and partners, we supported MusiCares' efforts for the SoCal wildfires. Missed out? Fundraiser tees are available through the end of February! bit.ly/41hlP2O
February 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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wadems.org
Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Kim Schrier are leading the fight against Trump & Musk’s reckless firings at Bonneville Power Admin.

⚡ PNW energy reliability at risk
💰 Families could see higher costs
🔌 Critical infrastructure is on the line
Murray, Schrier Lead Letter to Energy Secretary on Trump and Musk’s Indiscriminate Firings at Bonneville Power Administration, Threatening PNW Energy Reliability and Increased Costs - Senator Patty Mu...
ICYMI: Senator Murray on Trump Indiscriminately Firing Workers at Hanford and Bonneville Power Administration, Threatening Energy Security in Washington State ***FACT SHEET: Impact in Washington State...
www.murray.senate.gov
February 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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repbonamici.bsky.social
The Bonneville Power Administration is primarily funded by ratepayers, but Musk and Trump didn't consider that in their dangerous and chaotic purge.

www.opb.org/article/2025...
‘Unleash American blackouts’: Experts warn Bonneville job cuts bring immediate and long-term risks to Pacific Northwest
The lost talent means the agency will have a harder time responding to weather emergencies and planning for future power growth, according to those who study the region’s power grid.
www.opb.org
February 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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rob-sheridan.com
Today in Every Day a New Horror, the chances of power outages here in the PNW is about to astronomically increase, because DOGE is ripping wires out of the walls of our power grid for no fucking reason, of course. Time to buy a generator. Cool cool. via @thestranger.com
Are you paying attention to this? Elon Musk is making huge cuts at the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA). What? Isn't that "the backbone of the Northwest power grid." Indeed, it is, and it's being strangled by the hands of DOGE. An important note: BPA was not funded by taxpayers, but ratepayers. So cutting jobs there will have minimal to no impact on the deficit. But the price of the cuts will be huge. We can expect, as two BPA administrators predict, that the staff reduction "will seriously degrade BPA's ability to maintain reliable power service. To make matters worse, before the layoffs, the BPA had something like 50 openings. They needed more workers to ensure the resilience of the grid. And now they have lost a bunch of workers. Though BPA rehired 30 workers, it is still "eliminating about 430 total positions." So, the rehiring means jack. We are fucked. The BPA supplies 75% of PNW's power.
February 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
platemarkx.bsky.social
I promise to start posting more about art...

So here's a pic of one of the prints I did as a collaboration with my partner M Draper:
Floccinaucinihilipilification
by LMaster & MDraper.
#platemarkx #letterpress #Floccinaucinihilipilification #art
Close up view of a 3 color letterpress printed poster by PlatemarkX designed by MDraper. In a dreamy dark blue ink is the word floccinaucinihilipilification printed all in lowercase, below that is the phonetic spelling in silver, and below that is the definition of the word printed in a soft dark grey. In the lower right hand side is the word being used in a sentence printed in silver. Printed on natural white cotton paper.
February 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
platemarkx.bsky.social
The ripple effect of this will be huge. It will touch and harm every single one of us.
February 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
platemarkx.bsky.social
A lot of shit happening but first I must listen to BiciCumbia on freeformportland - Join me and tune in:
freeformportland.org/programs/
Schedule – Freeform Portland
freeformportland.org
February 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
There have been many signs of gross incompetence in the Musk-Trump sledgehammer approach. Now this:

"Multiple current and former employees described the situation as 'a national security crisis.'"
Hundreds laid off at US nuclear weapons agency: Sources
Hundreds of staff at the agency responsible for maintaining the U.S. nuclear stockpile were fired Thursday
www.goodmorningamerica.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
platemarkx.bsky.social
This is not good.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Bonneville Power staff departures under President Trump raise concerns about Northwest electrical grid
The Bonneville Power Administration could lose nearly 20% of its workforce because of President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal government, raising concerns about the agency’s ability to ...
www.opb.org
February 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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muellershewrote.com
REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
February 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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muellershewrote.com
ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF.

Now.

Print hard copies.

And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action. Here is a template: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...
Informal Grievance Template for Adverse Personnel Actions
There is a limited amount of time to oppose personnel actions. Time is short.
www.muellershewrote.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
platemarkx.bsky.social
FUCK Cards - Seems appropriate to post today.
24 business size cards, hand letterpress printed, that just say FUCK in big black letters with gold flourish in each corner of the cards.
FUCK Cards - Seems appropriate to post today. It was a limited edition of 24 business size cards, hand letterpress printed, that just say FUCK in big black letters with gold flourish in each corner of the cards. Made to hand out to who ever needs one and then when you don't have any left - well - then you have no Fucks left to give. Print like you mean it and Fight Facists Little Fucks!
February 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM