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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
@ScholarsLab Director ✨💻📚🏳️‍🌈 (personal acct 🙃)
Just+joyful, critical+creative tech & culture

*DIY scholcom: letterpress+zine+blog+code
*Book-adjacent data+making
*Experimental/DH+library futures+community

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Hi new folks! I post on: intersections of tech/culture/justice, making+craft (zines, weird resin, letterpress/book arts, color+light, retro tech), directing a digital humanities research center, transformative justice, bookadjacent code/data. General enthusiast; laugh inappropriately loudly at puns.
Goudy, goudy! New printshop typecase labels & type finder I created (a 15-page list of just type distributed in standard job cases, not even all the type Virginia Book Arts has?!) have landed (thanks to VBA colleagues for applying labels & helping proof inventory updates):
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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I went ahead & printed a small stack during office hours because they’re cool & I like the typewriter

And correction HT to @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social who made the original
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
More lasercut print blocks I made: historical dancing skeleton! Beckoning Luddite leaders! #DHmakes
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Such a privilege to have something I made hanging in the @scholarslab.bsky.social, who represent all the good parts of academia to me 😊
New art in @scholarslab.bsky.social's Text Aisle! Huge thanks to #DHmakes colleague @fosis.bsky.social for letting us exhibit his bright & strong "Pride" banner in our public space ("Make your pride part of history"🌈):
November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
At @scholarslab.bsky.social Coffee+Code listening to UVA Spanish ABD & SLab Intern @winnieepm.bsky.social talk about using the static site generator (tool that helps you make very lightweight mostly-HTML websites) @11ty.dev (www.11ty.dev) to create her portfolio site #mincomp
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
New art in @scholarslab.bsky.social's Text Aisle! Huge thanks to #DHmakes colleague @fosis.bsky.social for letting us exhibit his bright & strong "Pride" banner in our public space ("Make your pride part of history"🌈):
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
#DHmakes <3s pre-digital text tech + textile-based styles:
A better image. Typewritten, but looks like needlework.
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Now that our edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Rant About 'Technology'" is (finally!) printed, bound, packed, & with campus mail, on its way to folks, we’re making approximately 60 of the internal poster available separately

If you’d like to claim one see the order form at forms.gle/BKJQWSmcnuq8...
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Seen at @virginiabookarts.bsky.social, Liz Schneiders & students' printing using just tetrapaks (eg broth & oat milks cartons!) & tiny plastic Sizzix craft/scrapbooker presses or etching presses #DHmakes
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Early morning makerspace still life. We 💜 how our community has filled the room with their art 🎨🪡🖨️
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Governor Elect Spanberger advises the UVA BOV to pause selection of a new President until they have a Board approved by the General Assembly. A good and fair call.
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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You look for cracks everywhere to exploit against fascists. Period. I think some people seem confused about the state of things in this country.
November 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Making things. (Lasercut two 9" tall Luddite printing blocks on bamboo wood; acrylic triangles to glue randomly across a wood board, for printing textured letterpress backgrounds
November 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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We are featured in over 50 news outlets today: PhD student David Mahoney's research using web archives, @archive.org, to measure historic website emissions, offering a new method and open-source code for analysing & highlighting online environmental impact. www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/11/c...
COP websites emit 10 times more carbon than average webpages - Energy Live News
COP conference websites emit more carbon per page view than typical webpages
www.energylivenews.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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The zine libraries unconference wiki has been updated with a statement from the organizers about someone who attended the event in order to spy on and record it without permission. www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/ This infiltrator is driving an effort to get a zine librarian fired. 📚
Zine Librarians unConference 2025 | zinelibraries.info
www.zinelibraries.info
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Zine/letterpress overlap: Chris Fritton's free zine about dayglo letterpress inks! itinerantprinter.com/wp-content/u... (Fritton runs Itinerant Printer—beautiful prints w/backgrounds I think made using press wash to swirl the ink before printing?) +
I ran across this while researching dayglo letterpress inks & I think this is ZineBakery.com's goal aesthetic 😂🌈 (Letterpress ink is so interesting re:pigments, opacity; most are translucent, so e.g. for a opaque black there's actual silver *metal*—not dye—to achieve that opacity.)
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I ran across this while researching dayglo letterpress inks & I think this is ZineBakery.com's goal aesthetic 😂🌈 (Letterpress ink is so interesting re:pigments, opacity; most are translucent, so e.g. for a opaque black there's actual silver *metal*—not dye—to achieve that opacity.)
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Free DHy zine alert! @capnpilot.bsky.social's
* "CTRL+S: Preserving Your Work for the Long Haul" (plan, preserve/archive resilient digital projects, so that when time to sunset them, is easy to preserve core attributes)
* "Web-Native Cryptids & Creatures: A Spotter’s Guide" (web safety+literacy)
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Set myself up a little printing press out of a slightly modified old pasta machine, kind of works! Not the result you'd get from the tonnes of pressure from the real presses, but still not too shabby :)
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Letterpress/DH/librarian satisfactions:

reorg'd printshop cases+assigned cabinets letters to help find case #

made new clear typecase labels

turned old word doc type collection list into a database=filter/sort, track type's foundry, print quality, acquisition history, example prints using it etc
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
At Jess Walter's @uvalibrary.bsky.social Zines Now! workshop in @scholarslab.bsky.social. Jess is starting us off w/reading zines they shared on our tables so we can share the different approaches to advocacy-via-zine we observe (& folks new to zines can get up to speed too).
"Can expressing and exchanging our experiences through zines provoke changes in perception, convention, or policy?" Tuesday 11/11 Jess Walters helps us explore—and then learn to make!—zines as tools for advocacy. (You may remember their past excellent SLab event on zines for disability justice!)
Zines Now! Workshop: Zines for Change
Join us for an interactive workshop for Zines Now!, a year-long initiative showcasing the history of zines as an art form, highlighting future possibilities for the making and...
cal.lib.virginia.edu
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Printed a version of this for nonbookmaker folks ("our community says" instead of "bookmakers & binders say"), with a neon green border under black ink:
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I got one of the wood lasercut blocks of @queermedieval.bsky.social's to print better: "We can be soft & brave / silly & right" and "hope comes from us" #DHmakes
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM