Tory Franklin
@toryfranklin.bsky.social
Public Artist and Screen Printer living on Duwamish Land in Seattle
https://www.strychninefrostingpress.com
https://www.strychninefrostingpress.com
Pinned
Installation of Gather for Sound Transit’s Starlake Station. Created by Tory and Eroyn Franklin 2024
Drove by Friday to see how things are going at my lightrail station that opens in 2 FREAKInG WEEKS. It now has some landscaping instead of lots of earth movers!!!
If you’re in the greater seattle area on December 6th the new extension line opens at 11am.
If you’re in the greater seattle area on December 6th the new extension line opens at 11am.
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Drove by Friday to see how things are going at my lightrail station that opens in 2 FREAKInG WEEKS. It now has some landscaping instead of lots of earth movers!!!
If you’re in the greater seattle area on December 6th the new extension line opens at 11am.
If you’re in the greater seattle area on December 6th the new extension line opens at 11am.
Not only is this an amazing story I now understand the protagonists in the InCryptid series Sooooooooo much more and this just prompted a re-listen.
Because people keep asking, the Story of The Lizard In That Dude's Leg. Some caveats:
1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).
1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Not only is this an amazing story I now understand the protagonists in the InCryptid series Sooooooooo much more and this just prompted a re-listen.
I had dropped print due to working large and the cost of copper plates. Was working at an art supply with a shitty owner so F’d off as much as possible. Read a screen print book cover to cover on the clock. Used my heafty discount to try it. 25 years later it’s in almost everything I make.
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I had dropped print due to working large and the cost of copper plates. Was working at an art supply with a shitty owner so F’d off as much as possible. Read a screen print book cover to cover on the clock. Used my heafty discount to try it. 25 years later it’s in almost everything I make.
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go ahead and tell me charisma is a dump stat now, shithead
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
go ahead and tell me charisma is a dump stat now, shithead
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Today and every Wednesday through Dec. 17, get free admission to the Seattle Art Museum with a donation of at least two non-perishable canned food items, supporting the Pike Market Senior Center and Food Bank. Details below:
Discounts to Visit Seattle Art Museum
To ensure that everyone has the opportunity to experience art, SAM offers monthly free days and various discounts for visiting our locations.
www.seattleartmuseum.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Today and every Wednesday through Dec. 17, get free admission to the Seattle Art Museum with a donation of at least two non-perishable canned food items, supporting the Pike Market Senior Center and Food Bank. Details below:
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Zohran Mamdani says that New York City stands with Starbucks employees!
He points out their CEO made 96 billion last year.
That’s 6,666 times the median Starbucks worker salary.
Boycott Starbucks. Support the workers. Demand they receive a living wage.
He points out their CEO made 96 billion last year.
That’s 6,666 times the median Starbucks worker salary.
Boycott Starbucks. Support the workers. Demand they receive a living wage.
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Zohran Mamdani says that New York City stands with Starbucks employees!
He points out their CEO made 96 billion last year.
That’s 6,666 times the median Starbucks worker salary.
Boycott Starbucks. Support the workers. Demand they receive a living wage.
He points out their CEO made 96 billion last year.
That’s 6,666 times the median Starbucks worker salary.
Boycott Starbucks. Support the workers. Demand they receive a living wage.
Womp womp. Just found out that Gods Junk Drawer by Peter Clines is delayed until January. Got all ready to download and boom no book. Looks like I’m listening to something else while I print this edition.
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Womp womp. Just found out that Gods Junk Drawer by Peter Clines is delayed until January. Got all ready to download and boom no book. Looks like I’m listening to something else while I print this edition.
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NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
US firefighter detained on the job speaks out after deportation: ‘I feel betrayed’
Exclusive: Border patrol arrested José Bertin Cruz-Estrada while he was battling a wildfire in Washington. He is now in Mexico, separated from his family in Oregon
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
Install day went well. Can’t wait to see this without all the ladders and lift and install chaos. But it’s out of my house and hung so yayyyyy!
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Install day went well. Can’t wait to see this without all the ladders and lift and install chaos. But it’s out of my house and hung so yayyyyy!
Really glad that there was a sale on brioche sandwich bread because that makes a damn fine grilled cheese….both my close grocery stores this week are having big sales on staples to try and get people to stretch their buck. haven’t seen sliced cheese under a buck all pandemmy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Really glad that there was a sale on brioche sandwich bread because that makes a damn fine grilled cheese….both my close grocery stores this week are having big sales on staples to try and get people to stretch their buck. haven’t seen sliced cheese under a buck all pandemmy.
This is what one tier (out of three that stack) will hang like. The back of the Tyvek did get glazed after this hanging system test.
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This is what one tier (out of three that stack) will hang like. The back of the Tyvek did get glazed after this hanging system test.
Just finished trimming 9 banners for the piece I’m making for the Cornish staff show that opens Friday the 14th at The Behnke Family Gallery across the street from Cornish on the corner of Boren and Lenora. Opening is 4:30-7 pm if you’re in the Denny Regrade area of Seattle (South Lake Union)
November 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Just finished trimming 9 banners for the piece I’m making for the Cornish staff show that opens Friday the 14th at The Behnke Family Gallery across the street from Cornish on the corner of Boren and Lenora. Opening is 4:30-7 pm if you’re in the Denny Regrade area of Seattle (South Lake Union)
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
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A thing about the weird right wing reaction to masking for covid is like, you realize that even if your risk of death dropped with vaccination…not everyone has a low risk, right? And the people who are at a higher risk are the ones masking? So you’re just..haranguing people in danger?
October 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
A thing about the weird right wing reaction to masking for covid is like, you realize that even if your risk of death dropped with vaccination…not everyone has a low risk, right? And the people who are at a higher risk are the ones masking? So you’re just..haranguing people in danger?
This week has been all about getting these triangle frames cut, sanded and stained to hang the screen printed banners I’m putting in the Cornish staff show. Not shown is the pile of airline cable, wire snips, turnbuckles, eye bolts, quick links and crimps accumulating to assemble the hanging system.
October 25, 2025 at 5:51 AM
This week has been all about getting these triangle frames cut, sanded and stained to hang the screen printed banners I’m putting in the Cornish staff show. Not shown is the pile of airline cable, wire snips, turnbuckles, eye bolts, quick links and crimps accumulating to assemble the hanging system.
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
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I love Portland, so much.
Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).
OPERATION INFLATION
www.operationinflation.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I love Portland, so much.
Wait are all those people just spawning out of the lake?!?
October 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Wait are all those people just spawning out of the lake?!?
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I'm extremely resentful of Louis XIV. That motherfucker had a lawn and so now everyone has a goddamn lawn and we waste so much money, land, water and poison just to have lawns. Because of Louis XIV. Fuck that guy. The French aristocracy would have fallen because of anger about lawns eventually.
October 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I'm extremely resentful of Louis XIV. That motherfucker had a lawn and so now everyone has a goddamn lawn and we waste so much money, land, water and poison just to have lawns. Because of Louis XIV. Fuck that guy. The French aristocracy would have fallen because of anger about lawns eventually.
Been layering tons of layers of screen print on 10 long sheets of Tyvek for an upcoming piece in the Cornish staff show. Today’s fishes were two silvery blues to start getting some shimmer into the piece. I think I’ve lost track of how many sessions these are at now.
October 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Been layering tons of layers of screen print on 10 long sheets of Tyvek for an upcoming piece in the Cornish staff show. Today’s fishes were two silvery blues to start getting some shimmer into the piece. I think I’ve lost track of how many sessions these are at now.
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At my university computer lab when the networked printer would not work for any reason, the last resort was the Happy Printer Dance. This was on the resolution checklist, and was an actual dance the techs were taught. I saw them do it twice “to make the printer happy again.” It worked both times.
all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
October 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
At my university computer lab when the networked printer would not work for any reason, the last resort was the Happy Printer Dance. This was on the resolution checklist, and was an actual dance the techs were taught. I saw them do it twice “to make the printer happy again.” It worked both times.
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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
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I will never forget the story of “Cara”, a 16 year old who was bullied into removing her mask at school.
Staff and kids bullied her.
Her mom was immunocompromised and undergoing chemo, and Cara was trying to protect her.
She caught Covid & her Mom died.
We must be better than this.
Staff and kids bullied her.
Her mom was immunocompromised and undergoing chemo, and Cara was trying to protect her.
She caught Covid & her Mom died.
We must be better than this.
September 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I will never forget the story of “Cara”, a 16 year old who was bullied into removing her mask at school.
Staff and kids bullied her.
Her mom was immunocompromised and undergoing chemo, and Cara was trying to protect her.
She caught Covid & her Mom died.
We must be better than this.
Staff and kids bullied her.
Her mom was immunocompromised and undergoing chemo, and Cara was trying to protect her.
She caught Covid & her Mom died.
We must be better than this.