Martha Chiplis
@mchiplis.bsky.social
Artist, Designer, letterpress printer, coauthor "For the Love of Letterpress" https://chiplis.org
John has done some excellent work on the Sherwin Beach Press website this past week in support of my tabling at Codex X. He wrote about the relaunch last summer- Sherwin Beach Press website relaunched share.google/M5MrcbMSQe4u...
New Sherwin Beach Press website launched
Keeping in mind that any website is always and forever a work in ongoing progress, the new sherwinbeach.com is now ready for prime time.
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February 13, 2026 at 11:35 PM
John has done some excellent work on the Sherwin Beach Press website this past week in support of my tabling at Codex X. He wrote about the relaunch last summer- Sherwin Beach Press website relaunched share.google/M5MrcbMSQe4u...
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Good morning, friends! Here are some melodramatic whistle pics to celebrate the fact that the Whistle Avengers have now shipped...
350,000 whistles?!?!?!?!?
AND 59,253 of those were in February.
Need whistles? linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Want to help? linktr.ee/WhistleWishl...
350,000 whistles?!?!?!?!?
AND 59,253 of those were in February.
Need whistles? linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Want to help? linktr.ee/WhistleWishl...
February 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Good morning, friends! Here are some melodramatic whistle pics to celebrate the fact that the Whistle Avengers have now shipped...
350,000 whistles?!?!?!?!?
AND 59,253 of those were in February.
Need whistles? linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Want to help? linktr.ee/WhistleWishl...
350,000 whistles?!?!?!?!?
AND 59,253 of those were in February.
Need whistles? linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Want to help? linktr.ee/WhistleWishl...
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We’ve made it easy to email your senators and demand they reject any DHS budget that puts more money into Trump’s deadly deportation machine. With a vote expected later this week, it’s extra important for your senators to hear from you right now.
January 28, 2026 at 1:11 AM
We’ve made it easy to email your senators and demand they reject any DHS budget that puts more money into Trump’s deadly deportation machine. With a vote expected later this week, it’s extra important for your senators to hear from you right now.
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One hour from now, the No Kings coalition is hosting a training on how to exercise your right to monitor ICE, CBP, and other law enforcement agencies as they terrorize our communities.
In response to the regime’s political violence, over 100,000 people have signed up for tonight’s mass call on exercising our constitutional right to document and record ICE and other federal agents. We hope you can join us: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
January 27, 2026 at 12:01 AM
One hour from now, the No Kings coalition is hosting a training on how to exercise your right to monitor ICE, CBP, and other law enforcement agencies as they terrorize our communities.
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Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."
January 21, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."
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A really solid list of ways to support folks in Minnesota during this awful time. Trainings, food drives, other resources. Please share if you can 💚 mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...
Ways to Support Minnesota’s Immigrant Communities as ICE Activity Escalates
Food drives, fundraisers, trainings, restaurant specials, and other resources to support immigrant communities during ICE's massive Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
mspmag.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:56 PM
A really solid list of ways to support folks in Minnesota during this awful time. Trainings, food drives, other resources. Please share if you can 💚 mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...
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I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.
January 6, 2026 at 7:17 AM
I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.
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Happening now: a protest is underway in downtown Chicago against the overnight U.S. attacks on Venezuela, which included the kidnapping of its President Nicolás Maduro. Protestors are filing into the city's Federal Plaza despite the dark and below-freezing temperatures.
January 3, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Happening now: a protest is underway in downtown Chicago against the overnight U.S. attacks on Venezuela, which included the kidnapping of its President Nicolás Maduro. Protestors are filing into the city's Federal Plaza despite the dark and below-freezing temperatures.
Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad with cartoon illustrations by Heather McAdams and an amazing binding- one available from Sherwin Beach Press (fine press edition) sherwinbeach.com/press
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
The classic 1867 travelogue with text following the first edition—paired with twenty pages of cartoon illustrations by Heather McAdams retracing the journey in 1995
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December 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad with cartoon illustrations by Heather McAdams and an amazing binding- one available from Sherwin Beach Press (fine press edition) sherwinbeach.com/press
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Join us for our annual open house tonight! Presses are running, prints and cards are for sale, and we’ve got snacks. The metal type shown here (reversed) is Pastel, designed and cast in Chicago and made popular by silent film intertitles. #letterpress
December 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Join us for our annual open house tonight! Presses are running, prints and cards are for sale, and we’ve got snacks. The metal type shown here (reversed) is Pastel, designed and cast in Chicago and made popular by silent film intertitles. #letterpress
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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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People responding to this saying “the internet is forever”, but actually 38% of web pages that existed in 2013 are no longer online. Data, documents, and websites need to be archived and (importantly, this is a distinct thing) preserved or they will go away.
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
People responding to this saying “the internet is forever”, but actually 38% of web pages that existed in 2013 are no longer online. Data, documents, and websites need to be archived and (importantly, this is a distinct thing) preserved or they will go away.
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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!