Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions
@paulshortt.bsky.social
Artist. Signs, videos, art books, and public art with a bit of humor. Also, experimental music and Risographs.
https://paulshortt.com/ and https://www.shortteditions.com/
https://paulshortt.com/ and https://www.shortteditions.com/
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This Spotify Wrapped season, don’t outsource your love of music to AI @lizpelly.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
Spotify Wrapped is taking over our feeds, but you don’t have outsource your relationship with music to AI | Liz Pelly
The streamer’s annual charts are just another version of the tech that’s alienating us from our inner lives. Hold on to your musical memories and reclaim ownership of your taste
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December 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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A close up so you don't miss the sign: "The space people call our earth - trouble planet."
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A close up so you don't miss the sign: "The space people call our earth - trouble planet."
I just bought 30,000 sheets of paper. I will be reprinting my How To Art Book Fair guide in late 2026/early 2027 in an edition of around 2000. Which feels overwhelming just typing.
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I just bought 30,000 sheets of paper. I will be reprinting my How To Art Book Fair guide in late 2026/early 2027 in an edition of around 2000. Which feels overwhelming just typing.
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
laist.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
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I wrote about sheer spite's sliding scale pricing, and some thoughts on the economics of running a very small press:
sheerspite.ca/on-sliding-s...
sheerspite.ca/on-sliding-s...
on sliding scale zine pricing, and the economics of running a tiny press - sheer spite press
Pricing creative work is notoriously difficult. I find it especially so for zines. In running Sheer Spite, two things that are important to me are supporting people in making...
sheerspite.ca
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I wrote about sheer spite's sliding scale pricing, and some thoughts on the economics of running a very small press:
sheerspite.ca/on-sliding-s...
sheerspite.ca/on-sliding-s...
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I created a public spreadsheet that other publishers can add to so people can decide whether different fairs might be effective for them. Please add to it! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Art Book Fair / Zine Fest Public Sales Transparency
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November 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I created a public spreadsheet that other publishers can add to so people can decide whether different fairs might be effective for them. Please add to it! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
She seemed happy not to have won the Booker Prize; it was like “having been invited to a party but not having to stay and clean the dishes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
She Has Taken 30 Years to Write a 7-Part Novel About 1 Day. It’s a Sensation.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
She seemed happy not to have won the Booker Prize; it was like “having been invited to a party but not having to stay and clean the dishes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
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Feeling like all my posts are the same these days. Undermining academic freedom and instructor safety--and just making everyone's life harder--under the guise of helping students is the opposite of what the affordability movement is all about. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Fla. Board Says Syllabi, Reading Lists Must Be Posted Publicly
Faculty at some Florida public universities argue the new policy is less about transparency for students and more about chilling academic freedom.
www.insidehighered.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Feeling like all my posts are the same these days. Undermining academic freedom and instructor safety--and just making everyone's life harder--under the guise of helping students is the opposite of what the affordability movement is all about. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
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Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
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A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
October 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Ein Buch Haus in Berlin experienced water damage to their gallery/bookshop. Here is the link to learn more and donate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebui...?
Donate to Help Rebuild einBuch.haus in Berlin after Water Damage, organized by Jae Kyung Kim
>> Help us rebuild Berlin’s independent artist's book spac… Jae Kyung Kim needs your support for Help Rebuild einBuch.haus in Berlin after Water Damage
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October 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Ein Buch Haus in Berlin experienced water damage to their gallery/bookshop. Here is the link to learn more and donate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebui...?
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one of the greatest single pages of the twentieth-century, a masterpiece
October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
one of the greatest single pages of the twentieth-century, a masterpiece
I love how harsh this last sentence is from this quote: His unruly life can remind you of something Clive James said about E.E. Cummings — that he “was as hot against materialist society as only a poet living on a trust fund can be.”
October 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I love how harsh this last sentence is from this quote: His unruly life can remind you of something Clive James said about E.E. Cummings — that he “was as hot against materialist society as only a poet living on a trust fund can be.”
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It’s almost #OAWeek, which means an extra busy calendar and a new addition to our OA critter sticker collection. Files CC0 for anyone who needs some extra joy drive.google.com/file/d/1WCg7... #DHmakes
October 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It’s almost #OAWeek, which means an extra busy calendar and a new addition to our OA critter sticker collection. Files CC0 for anyone who needs some extra joy drive.google.com/file/d/1WCg7... #DHmakes
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Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.
Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education
Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.
I wrote a bit about how I make my art book publishing somewhat sustainable for @burnaway.org: burnaway.org/magazine/mak...
Making (Book)Ends Meet: Making Artist Books in Florida
In a special week-long editorial series on zines in anticipation of Burnaway’s Book//Zine fair, Florida-based artist Paul Shortt speaks to the art of tabling a zine fair.
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October 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I wrote a bit about how I make my art book publishing somewhat sustainable for @burnaway.org: burnaway.org/magazine/mak...
My 3 year old son and his friends at daycare like to run around pointing at themselves and others and say "You're a Cheeto". It's to the point where when we are in stores he will just point at people and say it too. For about a day I thought he meant cheetah, but no, he means Cheeto.
October 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
My 3 year old son and his friends at daycare like to run around pointing at themselves and others and say "You're a Cheeto". It's to the point where when we are in stores he will just point at people and say it too. For about a day I thought he meant cheetah, but no, he means Cheeto.
"The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,” according to a person familiar with the discussions." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out
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October 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
"The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,” according to a person familiar with the discussions." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
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👏 stop 👏 requiring 👏 recommendation letters 👏 in 👏 the 👏 first 👏 round 👏 of 👏 academic 👏 job 👏 applications
September 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
👏 stop 👏 requiring 👏 recommendation letters 👏 in 👏 the 👏 first 👏 round 👏 of 👏 academic 👏 job 👏 applications
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The new call for entries for the Herzog August Bibliothek Artist’s Book Prize 2026 is now open. Create a new work in response to the collection. Prize: €6,000 plus a four-week residency at HAB in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Application deadline: 31st December 2025. Info at:
www.hab.de/en/artists-b...
www.hab.de/en/artists-b...
September 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The new call for entries for the Herzog August Bibliothek Artist’s Book Prize 2026 is now open. Create a new work in response to the collection. Prize: €6,000 plus a four-week residency at HAB in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Application deadline: 31st December 2025. Info at:
www.hab.de/en/artists-b...
www.hab.de/en/artists-b...
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This piece is smart throughout, but the ending really knocks it out of the park💥
September 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This piece is smart throughout, but the ending really knocks it out of the park💥
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Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones.
The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars
The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...
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September 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones.
The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...