Democratic senators voted to make sure that there was more money for ICE to harass your community

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

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

Got some felt? You too can Frog Hat! 😍🐸 #DHmakes

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... 🥹🙏🏻

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).

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.

"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. 💞💻

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...

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 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. 🫠

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.

Somebody made some delightfully weird little guys. #DHmakes

Some days, email is full of requests, overdue things, and woe. Other days, email brings wonderful completed final projects and offers of free crafting tools. Today is a good day in my inbox.

Was on a call just this morning with some folks interested in collaborations around HPC for the humanities, after reading our chapter on it in this volume!

Miles draws the best little guys. 🥰 Donate to a food bank for an extra dose of delight. #DHmakes

Pros and cons of the Portland Frog hat pattern: - Pro: super bulky yarn means you can easily whip it up in one evening. - Con: size 15 needles is like knitting with Duplos and I hate how it feels. Nonetheless, success! #DHmakes www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Kid goes to birthday party, I sew a shirt. #DHmakes

Finishing and wearing my budget data sweater (even weaving in all the ends!) means it is time to make a frog hat. #DHmakes

#DHmakes for all! 🪨🎨

Another good zine to print copies of and share at my local "take an art, leave an art" box. #DHmakes

#DHmakes 😈

Halloween Eve was spent at the laser cutter turned armory. Bonus Kid 2 just had to be Zorro from One Piece, which requires three swords; another sword for his brother; and I whipped up a quick Minecraft bow for the local tween's exceedingly obscure Discord in-joke costume. #DHmakes

It is done! I knit a budget sweater for the first 7 years of the Textile Makerspace. One row in bright red, full circumference is $2k. Black lines are year dividers. The sleeves are paid student labor, with hours worked in brown. Sleeve on left is color coded by pronouns, right by gender. #DHmakes

Almond Job

The local 4th grader got their violin this week from the school music program but waited until they were at my place to decorate it (apparently permitted) because I've got good stickers. 🥰

#DHmakes 🔊

I love that NYC has what amounts to a #DHmakes contest and exhibition! 🤩

#DHmakes 🚫💩💻

Managed to #DHmakes even a meeting on technical web standards yesterday. 🥰 I knit my way through the day, briefly derailed the discussion on AI preference labeling with people sharing pictures of their craft creations, and by the end of the happy hour there was a group chat to plan a craft meetup.

TFW you're planning an outfit for tomorrow and conclude the @peculiarityshop.bsky.social guillotine is maybe a little too honest about your feelings for this meeting, so you'll play it subtle with the fang hoop earrings and the pendant with skull beads.

Had some more success crocheting with wax wire today and tried a little YarnLab piece. And I'm very happy with how the carved rings turned out! An excellent weekend of #DHmakes and practically no computers. 🥰

Starting the day enjoying some green flames in a bronze casting demo, and getting excited to see one of my rings on the sprue tree, fresh out of casting. #DHmakes

Everything matters and yes this does too.

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

Not too shabby for day one of three for lost wax casting! #DHmakes

#DHmakes 🐸🧶

This weekend I'm doing a lost wax casting intensive at the local jewelry school, and finishing up my Textile Makerspace budget sweater in between wax tasks. #DHmakes

Update: I am getting a second floor loom. 🥰 #DHmakes

Today is a good day to add some @ollycostello.bsky.social art to the YarnLab decor. #DHmakes

Lots of excellent #DHmakes ideas here. Also a link to sign up for an ICE patrol training on Zoom tomorrow.