Mastodawn

join a mail club = feed an artist (and their cat) 🤍
https://ko-fi.com/tyiart

#snailmail #penpal #monthlymail #monthlymailclub #birds #birdart #bird #birb #birbs

“I don’t have anyone, including family or friends beyond the wired fences. No one takes time to be a friend to a prisoner. Someone who does not know me, writes me. This changes everything.”

~Inmate at Baraga Max CF

#penpal #ministry

DoomsdaysCW May 5

Awww... 💌

Dear Readers: Yes, #PenPal programs still exist in a digital world

By HOLLY RAMER
Updated 5:27 PM UTC, May 5, 2026

Excerpt: " 'People are very interested in physical, analog things right now,” [Rachel Syme] said. 'I think it really has an appeal especially to a younger generation who grew up with a phone glued to their hand, to do something that’s more tactile, slower, more intentional, more mindful, but also just disconnected from the internet in every way.' "

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/P9gal

#PenPals #Handwriting #WrittenCorrespondence #Analog #LowTech #NeoLuddites

Pen pal programs endure in a digital age

A recent trip to New Zealand to visit her pen pal of 40 years made an Associated Press reporter from New Hampshire wonder about the history of programs that bring strangers together to write letters. While the program that matched them as teenagers folded years ago, others are still going strong. And even though the government postal service in Denmark recently stopped delivering letters altogether, some see signs of a letter-writing resurgence. More than 15,000 people signed up for a pen pal program created by a writer for The New Yorker during the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, an app called Slowly that mimics the anticipation of receiving a letter by delaying digital message deliveries has 10 million users.

AP News

Ask a Punk Netherlands May 4

Real Farmer // PenPal at OCCII

OCCII, Saturday, May 9 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Damage 10 presale

12 at door

https://calendar.askapunk.nl/event/real-farmer-penpal-at-occi

Robert Kingett May 2

I am currently living a real life romance trope, I just can’t find what this trope is. For weeks now, my neighbor and I have been exchanging text files on a flash drive rather than emails, because our inboxes are flooded and a lot of people have asked us, why not just exchange email addresses, but there is something revolutionary anticipatory about receiving a knock on my door, a flash drive tucked into a bag, with some kind of fruit, shampoo, or cookie or something the other might need. What really makes my heart swoon is these aren’t short letters either, they’re lengthy! Of course we talk to each other and we see each other often around the complex, but we don’t have enough time to converse the way we write to each other. #PenPal #PenPals

tyiart May 1

give some love to tiny birds with albinism in may mail club 🤍

on ko-fi, pick your tier based on what you want the most - a print only, stickers only or everything - https://ko-fi.com/i/IM4M31YLZQZ 🌺

#snailmail #handmade #mastoart #birds #birdart #birdsofmastodon #stickers #albinism #penpal

tyiart Apr 11

april print club. i made a theme that is about cats but also to ridicule the current ridiculous job market 🌺
https://ko-fi.com/tyiart

#catart #cats #printclub #monthlymail #snailmail #mastoart #art #artwork #penpal

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

Mar 27

Just got my final letter from my STEM penpal.

I’m part of a program that pairs K-12 students with STEM professionals for mentorship through exchanged letters. My guy is interested in gaming technologies.

It’s cute and fun. I had a good time. I’m honored that I was invited.

#STEM #Technology #Penpal #Mentorship

tyiart Mar 8

first batch has been already packed and will be sent on monday, but you can still join the shark mail until march 26th! next batches will go out on the 20th and 31st 🦈

monthly mail is a subscription that gets you monthly stickers, prints and a letter for the price of a large coffee and a croissant 💙

https://ko-fi.com/tyiart

#snailmail #artsupport #art #artsubscription #sharkart #sharkdrawing #drawings #sharks #ocean #oceanart #seashells #penpal #monthlymail #monthlymailclub