Some fun words for the edgy #DHmakes folks to craft 🍆

This is such a beautifully clear articulation of what I'm seeing happen all around me. #DHmakes

Love this case for buttons and stickers. Make them, wear them, share them. #DHmakes

#DHmakes tactile book history! 😍

Wonderful #DHmakes news today! 🥳

An excellent thread if you're ready to break out of the monolingual world of English. You can also learn some great tricks we know in area studies, like how to get something out of a talk that's about something in a language you don't speak. Come join us! #MultilingualDH

Every time the Secretary of Masculinity starts crapping on "diversity is our strength," I think of language diversity in WWII. Navajo code talkers. Jewish Americans who eavesdropped on German prisoners. Gay intelligence officers who spoke French/German/Spanish because they were art historians.

regretfully before I moved to Tucson (!) I had basically 0 Spanish (but several other languages through immersion/study, including French, several Germanic languages, and Scots Gaelic). While my spoken Spanish is like talking to a 2 year old building my skills has been fun. everyone can do it!

The base plate is always hot and the filament is always flowing around here, too. Join us... 👹 #DHmakes

My favorite point in another good thread on craftivism. I've always loved embedding messages in the clothes I make, and now is the moment for it. #DHmakes

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Another good thread (with pointers to articles, too) on craftivism and its backlash. #DHmakes

Super ancient little guy 🦉 #DHmakes

Happy Superb Owl Sunday. Go forth and make your own little guy with enormous eyeballs. #DHmakes

A good thread on craftivism and its place within the ecosystem of resistance tactics. #DHmakes

For #Caturday #DHtries, my kids encouragingly told me this one "isn't even very cursed". #DHmakes

My hot take – Oscar the Grouch is an archivist, with a focus on ephemera and social histories. Grumpy, yes, but he's also devoted to ensuring preservation and community access. A truly passionate steward of monster cultural heritage. open.spotify.com/track/2brIWd...

I am certain that whenever someone posts about “gatekeeping art” or whatever, they’re talking about posting drawings online for clicks. They never mean arranging rocks in the back yard. They never mean whistling to yourself and finding a tune that makes you happy. They never mean napkin doodles.

We invited our student workers to create personalized welcome signs for their shifts in the #DigitalHumanities Ctr (rather than use a generic one). We wanted them to have fun designing something to reflect their vibe. I needed help w the assignment. Here’s mine, joyfully created by Sofia D #DHmakes

If you RTd the news of Fobazi's passing, work in LIS, or have ever uttered the phrase "vocational awe", it's time to put your money where your mouth is. We owe her that much at least. Please donate.

I am now That Person in the local whistle chat who's asked for other people's misprint disasters for Art Purposes, and I'm inordinately excited at this glorious mess of my first misprint. #DHmakes

I wish current events would stop giving me material for future digital humanities / computational text analysis classes illustrating how, if you're searching a corpus at scale, you really need to be careful and actually look at your results to make sure it's doing what you think it is.

As someone with an interest in medieval Slavic manuscripts only at all accessible through very cursory (important, but also culturally shaped) indexing work, I'm so excited by what we could turn up here. I gave a speculative talk about it in 2021 and now we're even closer.

When the mods're away, the crafters go wild. 😈 #DHmakes

Digital making continues to find its way back, yearning for the physical world. #DHmakes

Remembering Fobazi Ettarh‬ by reading her brilliant work. I read about vocational awe in my last year of library school & she provided the vocabulary I needed to describe some of my observations & experiences as a BIPOC worker. She will be missed. www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocatio...

"Bosses, if you're running a business with lots of clients, this is us asking you to remember that you don't have to take all of them. This isn't an equal-rights question — asshole is not a protected class." This is really good 👇

'If yours is an org where bad shit happens unremarked, the most important tool at your disposal is that you can remark...the thing the entire room is waiting to see is if this is a place where bad shit goes unremarked. Or if this is a place where we stop, stare at it, say not in my fucking house'

Short, good read. "How to dissent w/your mouth when you've already clocked that you dissent with your brain" as a "brave doesn't mean not being scared"—helpful knowing where you choke+figuring out ahead what you can do (eg "we don't do that here" on repeat vs arguments why bad impact can continue)

Need a new knitting project? Consider a thoughtfully-designed resistance daffodil cowl! #DHmakes

I love a good celebration of mistakes and failures! #DHmakes #DHtries

My actual job description is activist and here’s what I tell people in despair all the time: do not underestimate how much harm you can prevent by being just a little bit annoying.

As someone who's just started mass printing whistles, I love this idea. #DHmakes

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

This is a powerfully-worded, clear call to action for (especially) middle managers from Raw Signal Group. Not all these are available to folks in academia, but things like thinking hard about what grants you seek and what donors you work with absolutely are. Read it and pass it up to your boss.

The "filament stuck" error defeated me last night, even after watching a bunch of videos. The tube just would not come out no matter how hard I pulled. But this morning, I had an insight: what if I tried this as a normal height person? Climbed on a chair... And the tube popped right out. #DHmakes

Cross-stitch some hopeful anticipation! #DHmakes

Also more excellent history / process of more textile crafts in these slides! #DHmakes

#DHmakes This is definitely going in the Textile Dataviz syllabus, a wonderful writeup of textile history, how they work, and how they intersect with coding.

Ngl the "draw something every day" New Year's Resolution hasn't been going great this last week, but this is the pep talk I needed. Gonna put the insomnia to work. #DHmakes

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

If ICE is around your city, you can print out a few to share some helpful tips with neighbors!

#FiberuaryChallenge Day 2: New Beginnings. I totally blew up my life in 2024. Now I'm finishing a dataviz scarf of 2 years of daily texting w/ my girlfriend girlfriend. Text counts, mapped to a color representing a numeric range. The loops are for the days w/ < 5% messages had images. #DHmakes

Are your hands cold? Are you angry? This may be the mitten pattern for you. #DHmakes

This weekend was for starting to wrap my head around how the 3D printer works, and making one requested thing per kid. Tomorrow is Monday so tonight it gets down to business, printing 50-ish whistles with our local immigrant legal support number. It will take 10 hours then I start again. #DHmakes

🤭 Oopsie as resistance. Food for thought as I muse over the dissertation on digital humanities and failure.

All right, I'll play along with the #FiberuaryChallenge. For day 1, "Hello, it's me", I teach data visualization with textiles at Stanford as part of my digital humanities job. Can often be found posting to #DHmakes. I do a little of almost all fiber things except cross-stitch. I hate that one. 😅

The Revolution will not have a Game Master, BBEG, boss fight, or NPCs. It will have many, many meetings. And a lot of talking about hard & boring & vital things. It’s all of us, every day, figuring out how to be human in better configurations than we have now.

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