It feels painfully apt that the present I am excited about on my 40th Christmas is the medical referrals I was hoping for.

Meanwhile, Fry, the half-blind divorce cat, is pleased with this elaborate cat bed I have made him. Maybe the embroidery stitches feel good on his butt. 😼 #DHmakes

Got 5 minutes? Fire up your rageful typing fingers and write a comment on the government's efforts to ban trans healthcare for kids. Tell them you're taking time out of your Christmas to write it because it's that important.

The end of the year is in sight, and with it, the end of the embroidery of the adults I have some meaningful interaction with, every day this year. Down to the last few spirals. #DHmakes

Tbh I'm more into etymology myself but I love some good needle felted entymology too. #DHmakes

Truthfully, this is good practice for y'all. People need to get in the mindset that important stuff is gonna disappear. So, what are we gonna do about it? Stand up. There are always clever ways. Find them. And, do your bit.

Keep making and sharing those zines, letterpress prints, and textile messages. DH folks know how to get the word out, whether it's archiving or sweaters. #DHmakes

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

Happy Solstice from the world's wiggliest Saturnalia Shrub ornament, trying to blend in with the cats that are supposed to be there.

Taking three kids to see Into the Woods. At intermission... 10-year-old: That was fun! I wonder what the next one will be about? Me: Oh no, you misunderstand, it's not over... 😈 10-year-old: 😱🤯

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

The Saturnalia Shrub has been successfully installed, no thanks to Fry the half-blind divorce kitten.

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Started reading through The Campus Crisis Toolkit and even in the intro I love where it's going. This turn towards practical advice for people on the front lines of the university omnicrisis - specifically name checking staff and students too! - is a wonderful to see. Looking forward to teaching it!

We have to do the work to kill this in the senate. There's nothing near a guarantee that it'll die on its own. Please, please contact your Democratic senators and demand they oppose it. This is literally a life-or-death bill for trans kids.

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.

Sliced my left index finger pretty good cutting bread, and my second thought after "wow, that's a lot of blood" is "oh no, this is awful news for my winter break knitting plans." Maybe what this means is I need to get over my knitting machine anxiety. #DHmakes

Knitting leads to sheep.

Let's hear it for ancestral craft practices! 🪡🪡🪡🪡 #DHmakes

#DHmakes Love a good manuscript little guy turned Christmas ornament! 🦔🔴🟢

Don't say "it will die in the senate" Say "I will kill it in the senate" And then call them. It takes so few calls, comparatively, to make it feel like a wave crashing over them. We need to be the wave, again and again.

I had to watch Alabama's ban on gender affirming care for minors go into effect. It impacted multiple people in my life. It is cruel beyond words. Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.

This is why we need our reps to be like Mamdani. If we don't hang together, they will hang us separately.

every trans kid brings more value to the world than any chickenshit politician willing to sacrifice them for political points

Inspo for the letterpress friends! #DHmakes

Spent a long time catching up with a delightful former student who's found an alt-ac dream job thanks in part to the #DHRPG class. Turned around and wrote a note to a former professor with some updates on interesting things I've been up to. Everyone needs that kind of joy right about now.

Feeling this so much right now. #DHmakes

Really seriously please take the 30 seconds and actually fill out the form.

Great #MultilingualDH food for thought, reflecting on global Englishes, the afterlives of British colonial education, and how that intersects with what writing is judged to be "human".

Fry, the now full-grown half-blind divorce kitten, approves of the children's Saturnalia present beanbag chairs, for his own dramatic luxuriating purposes.

Keep making and sharing zines. #DHmakes

I don't know how I never thought of this, but this is going to be HUGE for prepping #DataSittersClub books! 💖

No joke: as someone who struggled mightily with paleography during my time as a medieval Slavist, once @transkribus.bsky.social had a good model for the kinds of documents that tormented me (thanks to Achim Rabus), I'd sometimes run pages through it just for a small dose of joy, delight & wonder.

A beautiful favorite fruit in one of my least-favorite embroidery stitches! Now I'm pondering soft sculpture embroidery as a medium for textile dataviz... #DHmakes

It's extra hard to pour my joy into a bottomless chasm when I have only a thimble to spare, but I try. And that’s resistance, too. Make joy where you are and hope it radiates to people who need it even more than you, even when you need it too.

Wonderful and informative zines to print and fold and share! #DHmakes

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at some point, statistically, there has to be good news again

Last call for US digital humanists who aren't (super) morning people!

A friendly time zone reminder for digital humanities folks: if you're submitting to @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social, 11:59 PM on 12/15 in Korea is 9:59 AM Eastern and 6:59 AM Pacific. Get your proposals in tonight or set a (very) early alarm tomorrow morning!

Back at it with the public outreach #DHmakes at the elementary school holiday craft fair, giving out pendants, keychains and holiday ornaments with @queermedieval.bsky.social Portland Frog, along with zines of local information.

A friendly time zone reminder for digital humanities folks: if you're submitting to @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social, 11:59 PM on 12/15 in Korea is 9:59 AM Eastern and 6:59 AM Pacific. Get your proposals in tonight or set a (very) early alarm tomorrow morning!

Gotta love a good crochet topography map! #DHmakes 🗺️🧶

#DHmakes letterpress / textile crossover goodness!

Y’all take a moment with me to celebrate @divinetautology.bsky.social, an incredible colleague who helped make @skeuomorphpress.org what it is today—our program wouldn’t exist without her work these past 2 years—& if you need a community & arts focused librarian/museum professional—please hire her!

Some days call for extreme @peculiarityshop.bsky.social jewelry.

Never a better moment for #DHmakes. 🥰

Neighborhood skeleton and guardian of the take-an-art-leave-an-art box looking festive in exceedingly chunky knitwear this morning! I finally met one of his caretakers and learned his name is Stanley. #DHmakes