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I'm a big fan of the genre "what academia / libraries could learn from other communities" and this is a lovely example of thinking through a different kind of pragmatic metadata schema.

I love the shouting effect of the bold lettering on top of the doilies and more delicate textile objects. It's the right moment for it. #DHmakes

Wonderful textile coral reef community art! 🌊 #DHmakes

Given the laughably bad "knitting" on TV, a sci-fi novel with a detailed, specific knitted shawl description and a pattern to match is utterly delightful. #DHmakes

Love the genre of "small useful things made giant". My favorite today was a human sized wrench with the text "tradeswomen throwing a wrench in fascism". #DHmakes

Nope 👾 🪡 #DHmakes

TFW you search for #NoKings + your little hometown and there's a video of the protest downtown. 🥹

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Y'know what, I'm still with it "War don't sex" that's right brother, peace fucks

I am all in on more embroidery with wool. 🪡 🐑 #DHmakes

Protest sign quilt as sign! 🪡 🧵 #DHmakes

What a beautiful way for a community to physically instantiate a story about itself that will long serve as an inspirational reminder to future generations of “who we are.”

Ready with my sign for #NoKings SF. One of my kids will carry it, as I will be in rainbow frog mode. 🐸 🌈 #DHmakes

Zines and posters to print out and hang up around your community! #DHmakes

Sometimes you gotta go small to go big with your protest signs. #DHmakes

TFW you bring home 6 yds of fabric and wash it to start a sewing project... and the cat stretches himself out very precisely to call dibs on all of it. #DHmakes

I am already excited about all the posters that people are making tomorrow with their own hands. #DHmakes

Always always download it. Maybe also print it out? And while you're at it, consider doing the same for anything else you care about online. Here's some tips for how to do it.

ooh! It's not the same thing, but I think fellow fans of how @kateatherley.bsky.social talks about maths and knitting might enjoy @quinnanya.me's class.

When I start teaching Data Visualization with Textiles next week, I'll have parts of a handbook for doing this kind of craft to share. If you want to add data to your own weaving, knitting, crochet, etc or learn a craft to use with your data, you can sign up to join the virtual class here. #DHmakes

#DHmakes meets Egyptology! 😍

well the answer to 2 is definitely no

What a thing of beauty. 🏳️‍⚧️ #DHmakes

A bucket of wonderful making potential 🌈 #DHmakes

It's always exciting to come across new discoveries in textile history! #DHmakes

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🌟 Make something with your own hands today. #DHmakes

Starting the day off by bringing three happy gold fidget octopi to join their spider cousin in the local free art box. (Nobody wants to take the last thing, especially when it's a spider.) #DHmakes

Today was the quarterly library all-staff meeting and yesterday I reminded folks to bring a hand craft if they'd enjoy crafting in company during the meeting. For folks without something at the ready, I doled out embroidery supplies beforehand and some made beautiful things with it! #DHmakes

A craft horror story 🙀 #DHmakes

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Dealt with a bunch of personal website updates this weekend, including the debut of the new surname! 🥳 It warms my librarian heart that infrastructure like ORCID exists to keep things linked together even when you go change your name.

Boss, just got a new tranche of things that are no longer relevant. Yeah they fell out of the news cycle. Haven't been mentioned in years. Yeah, it's Russian. And the Middle East. And the digital. Sounds like everything's just been completely sorted out, in that respect. Germany, also wrapped up.

What craft in progress are you bringing to your next political gathering? #DHmakes

This was my word and this thread about where it went is wonderful. ❤️‍🔥 #DHmakes

This is lovely. #DHmakes: when you've got a craft skill to develop, you don't have time for hobbyless behavior.

A CFP for the #DHmakes crowd!

Beads but translatable to other crafts! 🔥🔥 #DHmakes

It's been heartening to hear shout outs to the lineage of emergency archiving projects that have built on each other's work, all happening in the last few years. First SUCHO for Ukraine in 2022, which helped shape @datarescueproject.org, which now informs new efforts in Europe & elsewhere.

I am struck at the difference in nature and tone between the kind of manifesto that is "here's a description of my ideal fantasy unicorn and what I'd name it" and the kind of manifesto that is "everything is a wreck and here's what we're going to do about it".

Wrapping up the Information Stewardship Forum at @archive.org we were supposed to make postcards for our future self with event takeaways. I decided to go all in and put a bad doodle on the back in a little act of resistance to AI. #DHmakes #DHtries

we gave an improv group the prompt "you fueled a man's delusions" and published the results

When things are getting too icky and AI and Silicon Valley techno-extractive, all I have to do is drop by Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles and spend a little while communing with the quirky craft-supporting semi-chaos and all is set right. #DHmakes

I hope the newspaper artist had as much fun drawing this as I have had looking at it. 😻🐴 #DHmakes

Got to partake in some embroidery and knitting today while listening (and while on a panel) at the Information Stewardship Forum at @archive.org. #DHmakes

RED DWARF on AI, circa 1988 Lister: They only do what you tell them to Rimmer: Ah, but they don't, do they? You say, "Keep an eye on that lamb," and they do -- they sit there for three hours and watch it burn

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Take 10 minutes for some truly delightful electronic literature this morning, which reminded me of when making digital things for the internet was fun. Nowadays I'm so quick to shut pop-up chat window boxes that I almost missed the entry to the story.

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