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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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
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
What a delightful little thing! Would be easy to make and share kits to spread joy if you've got a laser cutter. #DHmakes
I got this awesome pendant that you can stitch words on to but I can’t decide!!! Some examples: www.kerchungcreative.com/stitch
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
What a delightful little thing! Would be easy to make and share kits to spread joy if you've got a laser cutter. #DHmakes
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Your seasonal reminder that I design t-shirts (and related products) for grumps, queers, and weirdos.
Impress your relatives at Thanksgiving Dinner! Surprise Grandma with the perfect Hanukkah present! Support a queer, trans independent artist who's been job-hunting since April!
Impress your relatives at Thanksgiving Dinner! Surprise Grandma with the perfect Hanukkah present! Support a queer, trans independent artist who's been job-hunting since April!
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Your seasonal reminder that I design t-shirts (and related products) for grumps, queers, and weirdos.
Impress your relatives at Thanksgiving Dinner! Surprise Grandma with the perfect Hanukkah present! Support a queer, trans independent artist who's been job-hunting since April!
Impress your relatives at Thanksgiving Dinner! Surprise Grandma with the perfect Hanukkah present! Support a queer, trans independent artist who's been job-hunting since April!
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Democratic senators voted to make sure that there was more money for ICE to harass your community
democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Democratic senators voted to make sure that there was more money for ICE to harass your community
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Some days, whimsy through gritted teeth is the only whimsy there is.
[through gritted teeth, visibly trembling] I must strive to maintain a sense of whimsy
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Some days, whimsy through gritted teeth is the only whimsy there is.
Will be very curious what adaptations will be required to make this work on a home sewing machine. Is there some new foot or different stitch (and brand new machine) it'd need? Or is it just going to be off the table outside of an industrial context? #DHmakes
a little bit obsessed with the zipper upgrade, and also with the fact that YKK's founding principle is the "cycle of goodness." can I please live in a country where companies believe in the cycle of goodness
The Zipper Is Getting Its First Major Upgrade in 100 Years
By stripping away the fabric tape that’s held zippers together for a hundred years, Japanese clothing giant YKK is designing the future of seamless clothing.
www.wired.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Will be very curious what adaptations will be required to make this work on a home sewing machine. Is there some new foot or different stitch (and brand new machine) it'd need? Or is it just going to be off the table outside of an industrial context? #DHmakes
Nothing like playing with a method you don't understand at all, where sometimes you can end up with a whistle, and sometimes you can end up with random plastic drool, and you have no idea why or how in either case, really. 🤔 #DHmakes
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Nothing like playing with a method you don't understand at all, where sometimes you can end up with a whistle, and sometimes you can end up with random plastic drool, and you have no idea why or how in either case, really. 🤔 #DHmakes
Keep making and sharing things. It matters. #DHmakes
On the gifts we give to others, writing against despair, and gratitude for others - "The Gift We Give."
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The Gift We Give · Brandon Walsh
Head of Student Programs at the Scholars' Lab in the UVA Library
walshbr.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Keep making and sharing things. It matters. #DHmakes
I noticed 🐸🥪 isn't yet in Emoji Kitchen and maybe @jenniferdaniel.bsky.social has the chance to do the most amazing thing... 🥹🙏🏻
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I noticed 🐸🥪 isn't yet in Emoji Kitchen and maybe @jenniferdaniel.bsky.social has the chance to do the most amazing thing... 🥹🙏🏻
Somehow I missed this news today. 😱 Thanks to her for working through concrete implications for people.
This trans woman legal researcher on Reddit has given, I think, the best answers encompassing the current passport situation
Check out JessicaPink703’s Reddit profile
Explore JessicaPink703’s posts and comments on Reddit
www.reddit.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Somehow I missed this news today. 😱 Thanks to her for working through concrete implications for people.
The NYT informs us women have also ruined the nation's boys (1925).
November 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The NYT informs us women have also ruined the nation's boys (1925).
Today in DH infrastructure, Voyant was down for a little while. There were tickets filed, and the current maintainer/developer, Andrew MacDonald, brought it back up.
Little acts of care and maintenance everywhere, and I only happened to see through the ghosts of old conversations with Stéfan.
Little acts of care and maintenance everywhere, and I only happened to see through the ghosts of old conversations with Stéfan.
Voyant Tools
voyant-tools.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Today in DH infrastructure, Voyant was down for a little while. There were tickets filed, and the current maintainer/developer, Andrew MacDonald, brought it back up.
Little acts of care and maintenance everywhere, and I only happened to see through the ghosts of old conversations with Stéfan.
Little acts of care and maintenance everywhere, and I only happened to see through the ghosts of old conversations with Stéfan.
"Candor" always means you made people mad. "Authentic" is the version I hear from students, which always feels like a subtle indictment of how folks in academia tend to communicate.
The number of times I’m thanked for my “candor.”
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"Candor" always means you made people mad. "Authentic" is the version I hear from students, which always feels like a subtle indictment of how folks in academia tend to communicate.
My local middle schooler was feeling down yesterday. His Minecraft friend on the other side of the country, who gets all his weird in-jokes, who he talks with for hours, wasn't around.
I told him I know that feeling so well, and did at that age too. I'm glad, despite it all, he can have that. 💞💻
I told him I know that feeling so well, and did at that age too. I'm glad, despite it all, he can have that. 💞💻
It’s common to say that social media was a mistake. I understand that logic.
But in my local context I’ve spent this week in a lot of struggle I cannot speak of.
I’m comforted by the stars of hope on the far horizon, as here night seems without end.
Such stars form constellations to navigate by.
But in my local context I’ve spent this week in a lot of struggle I cannot speak of.
I’m comforted by the stars of hope on the far horizon, as here night seems without end.
Such stars form constellations to navigate by.
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
My local middle schooler was feeling down yesterday. His Minecraft friend on the other side of the country, who gets all his weird in-jokes, who he talks with for hours, wasn't around.
I told him I know that feeling so well, and did at that age too. I'm glad, despite it all, he can have that. 💞💻
I told him I know that feeling so well, and did at that age too. I'm glad, despite it all, he can have that. 💞💻
For real, if you can knit, whip up a Portland Frog hat or similar. I wore this it out this morning and the looks of joy on the way, especially from one of the construction workers. It's a small thing to say someone's paying attention to what's going on. #DHmakes swatch.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
For real, if you can knit, whip up a Portland Frog hat or similar. I wore this it out this morning and the looks of joy on the way, especially from one of the construction workers. It's a small thing to say someone's paying attention to what's going on. #DHmakes swatch.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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Portland Frog Exodus 8 stickers are here! willburrows.art/shop
November 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Portland Frog Exodus 8 stickers are here! willburrows.art/shop
This paper was a delightful read this afternoon! In coding survey responses, they've worked out a taxonomy for different aspects of textile dataviz that I think will be helpful for some of the students in the Data Visualization with Textiles class next spring. Go give it a look! #DHmakes
So excited to be presenting our paper at VIS tomorrow! I have so many gorgeous examples and pictures to share from so many people. Overwhelming thanks to everyone who took our survey, and looking forward to continuing the project soon so stay tuned! #ieeevis #datatextiles #DHmakes #datavis
How do data textile creators stitch meaning into their work? 🧶 Hear from @sydneypurdue.bsky.social , Eduardo Puerta, @ebertini.bsky.social, & Melanie Tory, Thurs 11:15 - 12:30. (Rumor has it there’ll be a real piece on display 🤫)
#ieeevis #dataphysicalization #datatextiles
osf.io/preprints/os...
#ieeevis #dataphysicalization #datatextiles
osf.io/preprints/os...
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This paper was a delightful read this afternoon! In coding survey responses, they've worked out a taxonomy for different aspects of textile dataviz that I think will be helpful for some of the students in the Data Visualization with Textiles class next spring. Go give it a look! #DHmakes
So many wonderful things for the #DHmakes letterpress crowd out of this speech.
"when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to exploit them become very small indeed" SAY THAT!
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
So many wonderful things for the #DHmakes letterpress crowd out of this speech.
25,000 people on YouTube watching people milling around waiting for Zohran to speak. 🔥
4,000 people watching Cuomo's concession speech live. 🫠
4,000 people watching Cuomo's concession speech live. 🫠
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
25,000 people on YouTube watching people milling around waiting for Zohran to speak. 🔥
4,000 people watching Cuomo's concession speech live. 🫠
4,000 people watching Cuomo's concession speech live. 🫠
As of today, YarnLab has a mannequin and some supplies for someone fabricating a metal outfit. They thought the head and hands looked kinda creepy on the mannequin (agreed, tbh) so now they're just hanging out face-palming on the table with the knitting needles and zines and it's great. #DHmakes
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
As of today, YarnLab has a mannequin and some supplies for someone fabricating a metal outfit. They thought the head and hands looked kinda creepy on the mannequin (agreed, tbh) so now they're just hanging out face-palming on the table with the knitting needles and zines and it's great. #DHmakes
Some days call for all the @peculiarityshop.bsky.social accessories to jazz up your voting sticker.
November 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Some days call for all the @peculiarityshop.bsky.social accessories to jazz up your voting sticker.
