Quinn Dombrowski
@quinnanya.me
Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Signal: quinnanya.823
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Quinn Dombrowski
@quinnanya.me
· Nov 10
The Data-Sitters Club Books
Check out our main series and our multilingual mystery series! Feeling lost? Check out our index of book topics, tools, mistakes, and more! Main series:,,, DSC #1 Quinn's Great Idea, DSC #2 Katia a...
datasittersclub.github.io
Hi, I'm Quinn, I run a Textile Makerspace and teach data visualization with textiles at Stanford, in a weird job between the library and non-English literatures. I post a lot of fun textile things via #DHmakes, along with digital humanities text analysis stuff, including the Data-Sitters Club.
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The Revolution will not have a Game Master, BBEG, boss fight, or NPCs.
It will have many, many meetings. And a lot of talking about hard & boring & vital things.
It’s all of us, every day, figuring out how to be human in better configurations than we have now.
It will have many, many meetings. And a lot of talking about hard & boring & vital things.
It’s all of us, every day, figuring out how to be human in better configurations than we have now.
February 1, 2026 at 7:13 AM
The Revolution will not have a Game Master, BBEG, boss fight, or NPCs.
It will have many, many meetings. And a lot of talking about hard & boring & vital things.
It’s all of us, every day, figuring out how to be human in better configurations than we have now.
It will have many, many meetings. And a lot of talking about hard & boring & vital things.
It’s all of us, every day, figuring out how to be human in better configurations than we have now.
I have such complicated feelings about this. The assumptions people make about craft work can set me off. But on the other hand, those assumptions make craft disarming and non-threatening, the perfect Trojan Horse to get stressed, anxious people to try and fail at new things. #DHmakes
I was running a craft workshop at the museum tonight and a woman looked at my name tag and laughed, saying: "I bet when you were getting your PhD your mom didn't think you'd end up helping people cut out pieces of paper."
Too many layers to unpack.
Too many layers to unpack.
January 31, 2026 at 4:11 AM
I have such complicated feelings about this. The assumptions people make about craft work can set me off. But on the other hand, those assumptions make craft disarming and non-threatening, the perfect Trojan Horse to get stressed, anxious people to try and fail at new things. #DHmakes
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Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
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Dear USians: I suspect many of us are grieving right now, whether for the death of our government, or of our institutions, or of our old lives in the before times. We should acknowledge it.
Your brain is very busy when you’re grieving. Part of it knows someone important is gone while another part keeps searching for them.
January 31, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Dear USians: I suspect many of us are grieving right now, whether for the death of our government, or of our institutions, or of our old lives in the before times. We should acknowledge it.
Vintage weaving references!
Makes me want to dream up a #DHmakes collaboration with book arts folks... 🤔
Makes me want to dream up a #DHmakes collaboration with book arts folks... 🤔
Shimachō (縞帳), 1893
www.instagram.com/p/DUIn_J8Eo6...
Shimachō are sample books used as design references for weaving striped textiles.
They were carefully preserved because they served as valuable resources for weavers.
www.instagram.com/p/DUIn_J8Eo6...
Shimachō are sample books used as design references for weaving striped textiles.
They were carefully preserved because they served as valuable resources for weavers.
January 31, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Vintage weaving references!
Makes me want to dream up a #DHmakes collaboration with book arts folks... 🤔
Makes me want to dream up a #DHmakes collaboration with book arts folks... 🤔
#DHmakes Free weaving draft, encoding text into textiles!
One of my fiber suppliers is giving this draft away.
You will have to give them information; as the delivery method uses their billing system.
What you get is four drafts, and four .wif files.
www.gistyarn.com/products/res...
You will have to give them information; as the delivery method uses their billing system.
What you get is four drafts, and four .wif files.
www.gistyarn.com/products/res...
Resistance is American
From the Homespun movement of the Revolutionary War to the abolitionist boycotts of cotton produced by enslaved labor, American textiles have always carried a rich history of resistance. "Resistance i...
www.gistyarn.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:26 PM
#DHmakes Free weaving draft, encoding text into textiles!
Delightful zines! 🌞 #DHmakes
Outside the Level 2 Reading Room in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk there is a wellbeing display. Here are some it's little zines that genuinely made me smile.
January 30, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Delightful zines! 🌞 #DHmakes
Rock garden #DHmakes joy!
I made a whole garden to encourage this! We need a little whimsy. A little time off from Big Things. Do a little silly thing now and then. www.instagram.com/rocks_onthe_...
January 30, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Rock garden #DHmakes joy!
Workshop for the #DHmakes zine crowd!
Anyways, we have another free virtual workshop coming up and I would love to see you there 🌱
(and stay tuned at @dairfutures.bsky.social for future workshop announcements)
luma.com/46m6hul0
(and stay tuned at @dairfutures.bsky.social for future workshop announcements)
luma.com/46m6hul0
Possible Futures: Crafting resistance with zine making · Luma
Join Identity 2.0 and DAIR for ‘Possible Futures: Crafting resistance with zine making’ - an online workshop mapping our everyday moments of resistance to…
luma.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Workshop for the #DHmakes zine crowd!
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Turns out we watched in our living room while having lunch (yes, 3:15pm lunch), going down the memory lane of the last ~6 years of DHMakes or Craftivism in DH.
What a joy to listen to @quinnanya.me!
What a joy to listen to @quinnanya.me!
January 29, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Turns out we watched in our living room while having lunch (yes, 3:15pm lunch), going down the memory lane of the last ~6 years of DHMakes or Craftivism in DH.
What a joy to listen to @quinnanya.me!
What a joy to listen to @quinnanya.me!
Starting in 10-ish minutes, registration link here: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
January 29, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Starting in 10-ish minutes, registration link here: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We think we've got it set up to not require authentication but DM me if that doesn't work and you need the meeting login info!
It's last-minute, but I'm giving a talk today about #DHmakes and craft and what the humanities can do in a crisis from 12:15-1:15 Pacific (3:15-4:15 Eastern). All are welcome, Zoom registration link below!
Craftivism in a Crisis: Making the Humanities Matter When It's All Falling Apart | Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis
The longstanding rhetoric of the "crisis of the humanities" has been largely drowned out by an omnicrisis equally affecting the sciences, the stability of the university, and society as a whole. What ...
cesta.stanford.edu
January 29, 2026 at 7:07 PM
We think we've got it set up to not require authentication but DM me if that doesn't work and you need the meeting login info!
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3:15 Eastern today on zoom! Quinn is very worth listening to:
It's last-minute, but I'm giving a talk today about #DHmakes and craft and what the humanities can do in a crisis from 12:15-1:15 Pacific (3:15-4:15 Eastern). All are welcome, Zoom registration link below!
Craftivism in a Crisis: Making the Humanities Matter When It's All Falling Apart | Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis
The longstanding rhetoric of the "crisis of the humanities" has been largely drowned out by an omnicrisis equally affecting the sciences, the stability of the university, and society as a whole. What ...
cesta.stanford.edu
January 29, 2026 at 6:12 PM
3:15 Eastern today on zoom! Quinn is very worth listening to:
It was fun making the slides for this talk and pulling in recent #DHmakes work by @literaturegeek.bsky.social @sararribas.bsky.social @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social @plach.bsky.social @afamiglietti.bsky.social & @abbymullen.bsky.social + older things from @halperta.bsky.social. 🥰
January 29, 2026 at 5:54 PM
It was fun making the slides for this talk and pulling in recent #DHmakes work by @literaturegeek.bsky.social @sararribas.bsky.social @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social @plach.bsky.social @afamiglietti.bsky.social & @abbymullen.bsky.social + older things from @halperta.bsky.social. 🥰
It's last-minute, but I'm giving a talk today about #DHmakes and craft and what the humanities can do in a crisis from 12:15-1:15 Pacific (3:15-4:15 Eastern). All are welcome, Zoom registration link below!
Craftivism in a Crisis: Making the Humanities Matter When It's All Falling Apart | Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis
The longstanding rhetoric of the "crisis of the humanities" has been largely drowned out by an omnicrisis equally affecting the sciences, the stability of the university, and society as a whole. What ...
cesta.stanford.edu
January 29, 2026 at 5:35 PM
It's last-minute, but I'm giving a talk today about #DHmakes and craft and what the humanities can do in a crisis from 12:15-1:15 Pacific (3:15-4:15 Eastern). All are welcome, Zoom registration link below!
TFW you go teach a guest class on digital humanities and computational text analysis in the professionalization seminar for Slavic grad students, and walk away with your own homework of needing to learn everything there is to know about the current state of Kazakh natural language processing. 🥰
January 29, 2026 at 12:10 AM
TFW you go teach a guest class on digital humanities and computational text analysis in the professionalization seminar for Slavic grad students, and walk away with your own homework of needing to learn everything there is to know about the current state of Kazakh natural language processing. 🥰
I love this use of music notation to capture protest chants! Now I'm musing over how to translate it into textiles... #DHmakes
Transcriptions of, and commentary on, protest songs and chants from Minneapolis January 8th-11th.
“ICE out for good” protests, January 8–11, 2026
Chants and Songs at ICE protests
medium.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:57 PM
I love this use of music notation to capture protest chants! Now I'm musing over how to translate it into textiles... #DHmakes
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We're going to win because their side has no good art and they know it.
January 28, 2026 at 5:48 PM
We're going to win because their side has no good art and they know it.
So very grateful for this deadline extension. 🙏🏻
ACH is holding our annual virtual conference, ACH 2026, from June 24 to 26, 2026. We are excited to announce that we have extended our call for papers to February 23, 2026: buff.ly/Rltfrcu
ACH 2026 CFP
Submit a proposal: ACH 2026 ConfTool
ach2026.ach.org
January 28, 2026 at 3:28 PM
So very grateful for this deadline extension. 🙏🏻
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Monetisation
The advert said
MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS
so he thought
he would respond
by painting them
in the changing light,
like waterlilies
in a pond.
The advert said
MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS
so he thought
he would respond
by painting them
in the changing light,
like waterlilies
in a pond.
January 28, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Monetisation
The advert said
MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS
so he thought
he would respond
by painting them
in the changing light,
like waterlilies
in a pond.
The advert said
MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS
so he thought
he would respond
by painting them
in the changing light,
like waterlilies
in a pond.