The government today:

My meanderings keep bringing me back to Scott Enderle, and I ended up reading his last blog post re: WordPress and I teared up a little at how it ends: "At some point, I will create a much better blog ... We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In the meanwhile — thanks for reading."

This is so good I need to repost it again with the #DHmakes letterpress friends klaxon.

This is why I identify as queer, not just bisexual! Queer because fuck your taxonomy! Queer because I refuse to go into one of two boxes! Queer because I have an adversarial fucking charge! Print it on my tombstone! ADVERSARIAL FUCKING CHARGE!

#DHmakes 😍 🤖

ACH now has 3 joint VPs: Brandon, Mandy, and whoever stole the Craft Keychain of Power. 👾

sometimes folks tweet things & then i typeset & print them 2 hours later

Having some feelings about materiality and offline preservation, taking a Polaroid of some of the data weavings I've done, to stick in my handwritten letter to the person running the Dear Dyke Mail Club. #DHmakes

The #DHmakes we need right now.

Me: I need to do some book scanning today. Fry, the half-blind tabby cat: I am now a book.

I implore you. Like things. I don't mean to hit an engagement button on social media sites. I mean enjoy stuff. Don't be beige. Cringe is a manifestation of internal fear and other's condiditoning shame for no reason. It's bs. Be weird.

A textile font for the zine people, so many wonderful crossover opportunities! #DHmakes

I always love it when people doing textile dataviz walk you through their decision-making process. #DHmakes

In the most literal sense, this took me 30 seconds. Please do this right now. Do not put it off.

Magical, delightful things from the @peculiarityshop.bsky.social Dragons Den box now guarded by half-blind fluffy dragon-wannabe, Fry.

The zines have arrived and they are beautifully done! I decided to share some of the postcards that came with them in the local "take art/leave art" box while dropping off some more of the 3d printer waste / resin keychains that seem to be a reliable hit. #DHmakes

Always fun to find friends in the NEH-ODH grant data! The most recent is @roopikarisam.bsky.social DH Advancement Grant for "Networking the Regional Comprehensives". #DHmakes

Local fiend rips down metadata key essential for current weaving project, proceeds to bask in sun. #DHmakes

#DHmakes and you can too

We're high on cuteness and low on effective loom tension over here on the @neh-odh.bsky.social grant weaving this morning. #DHmakes

I've always wished I had more textile dataviz examples riffing on qipu, and the #DHmakes SIG meeting gave me both that and a referral to a book on the topic, "Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu" by Edgar Garcia. 😍

Fun thread of sewing patterns from the Bicentennial, which also works out to be the most fun anything-at-all I've seen related to the 250th. #DHmakes

So excited to see / meet (@markalanmattes.bsky.social!) other #DHmakes folks synchronously for our ACH SIG picnic / show-and-tell while I'm futzing with the loom for the second @neh-odh.bsky.social weaving.

Who’s in for a #DHCooks book?

Oh I'm pretty sure by the traditional scales of academia, #altac life dictates I'm this friend over here.

#DHmakes Because you know your local makerspace needs a few copies on that Table of Assorted Interesting Things.

I always procrastinate on mending tasks but I bet even I could get through the pile on a boat with other people! Delightful opportunity for the NYC-adjacent. 🪡

Trying my hand at #makeaterriblecomicday with a true story from today. #DHmakes #DHtries #makeaterriblecomicday2026

Fellow Californians! Please email your state Senator on this, today.

Joining the Association for Computers in the Humanities general meeting on the first day of @ach.bsky.social conference today, and I’m just so impressed by all the great work being done by this volunteer-run scholarly society.

Attention #DHmakes zine crowd!

Ari Orr & @emgrumbach.bsky.social share a zine talking to creators from age 85 to 9 about creativity and AI, and talk about moving from Canva to manual collage work when they realized that Canva's options were too constraining. "Think about not just the text but how it makes you feel." #DHmakes

Erin McCabe's talk on collective assemblage art practice, tied into an old Lithuanian girls' game of creating and hiding colorful things, and a personal response to the US government's anti-DEI mandates, is incredible, beautiful #DHmakes right here.

#DHmakes ✊🏻

This is a beautiful thing that's digital but has all the feels of a scrapbook that you can contribute to.

“Digital humanities gives us a space for connecting people who care about this kind of thing and who have the linguistic and cultural competence to be appropriately skeptical of the machine's results.” - @quinnanya.me and Regina Pieck 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #ACH2026

Here's my letterpress contribution to the #ACH2026 (digital humanities conference) #DHmakes mail art packet. See @sararribas.bsky.social's QT for a sneak peek at the riches (including a good cat). Transcription follows:

A wonderful offer at the intersection of #DHmakes (risograph!) and data. I've pre-ordered mine!

Even (maybe especially?) when the result is kind of a disaster, like my Awful Cursed Drawings! The caring is still there and it matters. #DHmakes #DHtries

From the department of "we all approach craft differently", I literally never noticed that the circular knitting machine has numbers on the red part so when I replaced a needle, I put it back in some random way, totally confusing someone who is used to looking at the numbers for stitches. #DHmakes

Ran a little craft night at YarnLab last night, getting to know my new punch card bulky knitting machine with help from @thalassalib.bsky.social. Not too shabby! #DHmakes

Last month two library workers reached out to Public Collectors to ask about making a booklet version of Fobazi Ettarh's essay "Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves" for a Celebration of Life event. We did, and it is now available for all: halfletterpress.com/vocational-a...

I've taken my Awful Cursed Drawing practice to a new level of Terrifying by incorporating imagination. Like turning Bonus Kid on the couch into a literal potato. #DHmakes #DHtries

Test prints to assess graph paper, of a quote from @megsmith.bsky.social's #ACH2025 talk. Lighter pressure & ink shows character of well-used wood type better (left); slightly more pressure & ink covers that up for more-solid letters (right). #DHmakes

I'd been practicing basic tatted chains for the last month and finally took a workshop. Learned some things but honestly, did almost as much un-tatting as tatting, ended up with a mess, and burned out my patience for the day. Lovely examples to aspire to another day, though. #DHmakes #DHtries

For those interested in critical AI literacy, a hopeful thread: This past semester, for their final project, I asked my @uoe-llc.bsky.social Digital Humanities students to make "AI literacy objects" (AILOs): multimedia digital artefacts intended to foster critical literacy around generative AI +

Historical socks! (Look upthread for the original.) #DHmakes 🧦

+"What knowledge (whose?) does your tech value? Digital Humanities forms change (apps! CD-ROMs!) What holds: critical, creative, ethical community knowledge-making experimental for social good "Is this DH?" Does it get us closer to our values & goals?...Does Al? #DHMAKES" 💜

As reading flow isn't perfect: "Craft is DH method & technology TECHNOLOGIES aren't only digital A TECHNOLOGY is just a human attempt to solve a need. Telegraph, loom, wheelchair, PUNCHCARD, printing press: tech has always been about practice, access, making different worlds, for better & worse. +

ChatGPT is to DH tools what Wario is to Mario. If you really don't know from Mario, and aren't paying that close attention, maybe you could confuse the two. But it requires missing all the ways in which everything about Wario is wrong, from the subtle (mustache angle) to the extreme (evil goals).