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Quinn Dombrowski

@quinnanya.me

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Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Signal: quinnanya.823

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · Nov 10

Hi, I'm Quinn, I run a Textile Makerspace and teach data visualization with textiles at Stanford, in a weird job between the library and non-English literatures. I post a lot of fun textile things via #DHmakes, along with digital humanities text analysis stuff, including the Data-Sitters Club.

The Data-Sitters Club Books

Check out our main series and our multilingual mystery series! Feeling lost? Check out our index of book topics, tools, mistakes, and more! Main series:,,, DSC #1 Quinn's Great Idea, DSC #2 Katia a...

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1h

#DHmakes 🖍️

Philip Nel @philnel.bsky.social · 3h

Harold and the Purple Crayon is a manifesto for human creativity disguised as a children's book. I wrote about it.
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Turn off AI. Pick up a crayon.

Google Gemini offers “a new way to bring your imagination to life.” Adobe Firefly promises “The ultimate creative AI solution.” And Craiyon invites you to “Create AI Art.” Don't believe the tech hype.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

#DHmakes 🐸

Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 1d

3x3" reverse print block of @queermedieval.bsky.social's art (nondrawn areas will be inked); now cutting a big 10x8" version (drawing part will be inked). Rather than mess w/mounting .25"-thick acrylic, will print in 2 passes on top of sketched showing where type (.918") can fit around printed image

Photo of lasercutter work creating printing blocks using @queermedieval.bsky.social's art depicting the Portland Frog (person in full blown-up frog costume) facing off against two heavily armed government agents. In the foreground, a finished 3"x3" clear acrylic block is held up; the art has been etched on it horizontally flipped, so it will show the right way once printed with ink on paper. The drawing parts are cut away, so it'll be the empty non-drawn parts that are inked in the print. In the background, a large 10"x8" acrylic sheet is being lasercut with the same image but larger, and this time inverted so that the nondrawn parts are etched away, and the drawn parts of the image will be inked in the print.

Photo of yellow construction paper that's been used to outline the 3x3" image block, so that after printing it I can lay out moveable type to print on the same paper using a second pass, and know where that will show up in relation to the image

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 2d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

.... 🙃🫣
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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

If *you're* baffled, there is no hope for me on that one. Share updates if you get anywhere, though!

Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

This looks amazing. But I am slightly terrified by the description: "Challenge level: Decidedly. Especially rows 11-13." 😵‍💫

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SilverMoon FAFO 💙🦋💙 @silvermoonfafo.bsky.social · 2d

The Antiphibian of Portland is gearing up to be an iconic symbol of resistance

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 2d

"I don’t want to get used to any of this. I don’t want to lose the part of myself that still startles, still aches, still sounds the alarm. But I also want to keep my body. I want to keep my mind. I want to keep my people. I want to make it through."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you @queermedieval.bsky.social for creating the QTd drawing! I'm lasercutting it right now so I can letterpress print it w/added text #DHmakes (Researching this, I learned gov agents peppersprayed this person directly through the breathing hole of their costume)

Photo of a lasercutter engaged in etching a clear 3x3 acrylic plate with a horizontally reflected version of @queermedieval.bsky.social's drawing of the Portland Frog (costumed protestor) facing off with two heavily armored government agents

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 2d

Brought both my Textile Makerspace budget knitting and my Portland Frog tapestry weaving to the year's first Stanford Literary Lab meeting, in case I ran out of the yarn color I needed for the knitting. Embracing my role of putting the 🖐🏻 digits in digital humanities. #DHmakes

Striped knitting in shades of red and black on wood needles and a tapestry loom warped in white cotton yarn.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 2d

I've used Spoonflower several times and it's been fine for the poster, but if you want to slice it up later and turn it into clothes, the custom printing especially on cotton woven tends to fade pretty bad. Purple Seamstress is in many cases cheaper, it's faster, and IMHO holds up better.

Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 2d

Next time I've got laser cutter time, this is at the top of my list.

Printing press friends, what can you imagine with this one? #DHmakes

Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 3d

your wish, my command, etc., etc.

a woodcut-style black and white illustration of the face-off between ICE and that guy in the inflatable frog costume

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 3d

OMG @ryancordell.org your wish has been granted.

Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 3d

(I'm sure you've got a million things to do, but you are so excellent with frogs.) 🐸🥰

Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 3d

I took seriously the responsibility of bridging the Very Online world and the Very Offline world, and shared Portland Frog with all the older ladies at the library afternoon craft circle. Only the one from Portland had heard about this. 🐸

nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 5d

Portland Frog vs Fascist ICE.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 3d

#DHmakes klaxon!

Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 3d

I will add that if some talented illustrator wanted to create a line art/woodcut version of the ICE-Wizard Frog standoff & share it with me, I could probably be convinced to print news broadsides early-modern style @skeuomorphpress.org

Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 3d

Oh I am on it. Printing this template out and bringing my loom to afternoon craft time at the library to get started.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 3d

Oh I am on it. Printing this template out and bringing my loom to afternoon craft time at the library to get started.

Two SWAT team icon dudes, one with shield and one with gun, facing a screenshot of the frog wiggling his hands at them

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 4d

The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 5d

wizard frog is insane

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 4d

i don’t really understand why this made me start bawling i just really love seeing people try to help each other in creative ways and that this shit is necessary

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 4d

Now staying up irresponsibly late trying to finish this griffin proof-of-concept in order to free up a loom for the Portland Frog weaving idea I really want to be working on. #DHmakes

A sort of sketchy griffin icon in shades of brown on a white background, partially woven.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 4d

Maybe it's because I'm experimenting with weaving a griffin for a class next quarter while showing my kids this video but now I'm seriously pondering weaving ICE vs Portland Frog... 🤔 #DHmakes

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 5d

Oh no MAGA! Look at the Antifa Frog in Portland, Oregon.

Is this really what you guys consider to be “domestic terrorists?”

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 4d

TFW a silly idea that you jotted down on the internet turns into something delightful through someone else's imagination. 🥰 #MultilingualDH

Philip Allfrey @drpda.bsky.social · 4d

In honour of the release of "The life of a showgirl" I've finally gotten around to adding "Unicode burlesque" to my website of DH songs – "What is #DigitalHumanities? The Album" – after only two years!
Thanks again to @quinnanya.me for the inspiration
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Unicode burlesque

A #DigitalHumanities song inspired by 'Welcome to Burlesque' from the movie Burlesque

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 4d

It's been about a year since I moved to my own apartment and it's taken about that long to relax into the idea that it's a safe and comfortable place I want to be.

The menagerie of creatures drawn by friends has been a part of that! There's a pic of the whole thing, thank you all for this gift! 🙏🏻

Home

https://www.quinndombrowski.com/blog/2025/10/05/home/ A year ago this month, I went to look at an apartment. A ground-level unit in a big house, with the landlords living on the second floor, one of ...

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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 5d

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 4d

Filing this good news away for the next #MultilingualDH class. 🥳

Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 5d

Instead of playing video games, like an idiot I spent my weekend trying out some new-ish Latin parsers.

latinCy is pretty impressive, and does a great job for short sentences. It's also easy to integrate into a Python ecosystem and style so it looks great...

tree visualisation from latinCy for a sentence from Caesar's Gallic Wars