Quinn Dombrowski
@quinnanya.me
Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles, helped start #DHmakes. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Quinn Dombrowski
@quinnanya.me
· Nov 10
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...
datasittersclub.github.io
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.
What I marvel at is how anyone can engage in the hobby of 3D printer repair without being, or having access to, someone who is deep into textile crafts. How many things have I needed to pry free where that absolutely was not happening without a needle or knitting needle of some sort? #DHmakes
3D printing is a great hobby for people who like to spend their time wondering why a 3D printer won’t work.
February 19, 2026 at 12:25 AM
What I marvel at is how anyone can engage in the hobby of 3D printer repair without being, or having access to, someone who is deep into textile crafts. How many things have I needed to pry free where that absolutely was not happening without a needle or knitting needle of some sort? #DHmakes
I finished the @magicariot.com "Full Bloom" audiobook today and got choked up at the line "Magica Riot WILL continue" because, man, this series has been a whole emotionally load-bearing thing for me and the local tween during a rough few months. 🥹
Storm Maiden Studios
stormmaiden.itch.io
February 18, 2026 at 11:29 PM
I finished the @magicariot.com "Full Bloom" audiobook today and got choked up at the line "Magica Riot WILL continue" because, man, this series has been a whole emotionally load-bearing thing for me and the local tween during a rough few months. 🥹
Some hopeful anticipation for the cross-stitch crowd. #DHmakes
Inspired by @today-maybe.bsky.social and fuelled by my own self-doubt, I made a cross-stitch pattern. Read more on the blog, or don't and just grab it from the photos. (I also meant to just post this here, and not on my personal bsky, but whatever)
weftandweaving.com/maybe-today/
weftandweaving.com/maybe-today/
February 18, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Some hopeful anticipation for the cross-stitch crowd. #DHmakes
Reposted by Quinn Dombrowski
This entire piece is spectacular, but this bit is a little grenade
February 18, 2026 at 3:53 PM
This entire piece is spectacular, but this bit is a little grenade
Reposted by Quinn Dombrowski
2026 Basically
February 18, 2026 at 5:04 PM
2026 Basically
Incredibly beautifully written, vignettes of tiny moments connected to the larger narrative. Give this one a read. It made me cry.
Fuck this is stunningly good. Perfect snapshots of the Twin Cities.
"We are legion, the local moms and dads, we cruise the city in our minivans. You can’t shoot us all."
(Gift link)
"We are legion, the local moms and dads, we cruise the city in our minivans. You can’t shoot us all."
(Gift link)
Opinion | In the Resistance, We Drive Minivans
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Incredibly beautifully written, vignettes of tiny moments connected to the larger narrative. Give this one a read. It made me cry.
I love this idea, and it makes me imagine visualizing it with multi-colored 3d printing, like some of the models @suttonkoeser.bsky.social would make. #DHmakes
_for the sleepers in that quiet earth._ is a 2017 print on demand volume containing snapshots of an RNN trained (solely) on the text of WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Each copy as unique. Besides the novelty of this experiment, it has the great value of giving us a rare diachronic look at how the model learns.
February 18, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I love this idea, and it makes me imagine visualizing it with multi-colored 3d printing, like some of the models @suttonkoeser.bsky.social would make. #DHmakes
The group that's disappointed me even more is the anxious, innumerate multi-millionaire demographic that's joined them for arguing against the tax, on the grounds that the billionaires would be charged on non-liquid assets and wouldn't be able to afford it. 🙄
The fact that so many billionaire Californians are each dedicating tens of millions of dollars to fighting a proposed wealth tax — rather than using those funds to pay the tax — demonstrates just how much play money they have and evidences the extent of their delusional entitlement
February 18, 2026 at 3:26 PM
The group that's disappointed me even more is the anxious, innumerate multi-millionaire demographic that's joined them for arguing against the tax, on the grounds that the billionaires would be charged on non-liquid assets and wouldn't be able to afford it. 🙄
Muppets are totally a technology! So is weaving, and knitting, and sewing, and embroidery. I love helping people learn to make things with those technologies and find joy in it. People innovate there too: new threads! Superwash wool yarn! Making 80s knitting machines talk to new computers! #DHmakes
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
February 18, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Muppets are totally a technology! So is weaving, and knitting, and sewing, and embroidery. I love helping people learn to make things with those technologies and find joy in it. People innovate there too: new threads! Superwash wool yarn! Making 80s knitting machines talk to new computers! #DHmakes
#DHmakes because you can never trust that whale. Shows up in the most unexpected spots. 🐳
A mostly irreverent appreciation thread about @literaturegeek.bsky.social 's fun and fabulous prints:
1/4: Just in case you are on megalomaniacal quest to kill a great fish, you might try looking for it in my duct work, because that's where he lives now.
1/4: Just in case you are on megalomaniacal quest to kill a great fish, you might try looking for it in my duct work, because that's where he lives now.
February 17, 2026 at 11:52 PM
#DHmakes because you can never trust that whale. Shows up in the most unexpected spots. 🐳
Reposted by Quinn Dombrowski
What about impact, you ask? I raise you SUCHO, DEFCON, the Colored Conventions Project. These are major and enduring interventions, with impact in communities and entire countries. They are actually changing lives 4/
February 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM
What about impact, you ask? I raise you SUCHO, DEFCON, the Colored Conventions Project. These are major and enduring interventions, with impact in communities and entire countries. They are actually changing lives 4/
This is brilliant.
I used to think of the dinosaur of disconnection as a bad thing, but anymore, it can feel like relief. A crochet version is pure joy. #DHmakes 🦖
I used to think of the dinosaur of disconnection as a bad thing, but anymore, it can feel like relief. A crochet version is pure joy. #DHmakes 🦖
February 17, 2026 at 2:04 PM
This is brilliant.
I used to think of the dinosaur of disconnection as a bad thing, but anymore, it can feel like relief. A crochet version is pure joy. #DHmakes 🦖
I used to think of the dinosaur of disconnection as a bad thing, but anymore, it can feel like relief. A crochet version is pure joy. #DHmakes 🦖
I still have such fond memories of making and enjoying things like the original All Your Base on the 2000's internet. Though it's this version that still pops up in my head. (You gotta listen through the ha-ha-ha's...)
February 17, 2026 at 12:12 AM
I still have such fond memories of making and enjoying things like the original All Your Base on the 2000's internet. Though it's this version that still pops up in my head. (You gotta listen through the ha-ha-ha's...)
#DHmakes folks with a few dollars to spare: here's a way to share the joy of craft.
I sent them 528 self-adhesive googly eyes because, c'mon, everything is better with self-adhesive googly eyes. And I've got ꙮꙮ tattoos. 😅
I sent them 528 self-adhesive googly eyes because, c'mon, everything is better with self-adhesive googly eyes. And I've got ꙮꙮ tattoos. 😅
Struggling with feeling helpless? Want to fix something, but not sure where to start?
Here's a thing you can do RIGHT NOW: Help me get the arts and crafts room up and running again at a shelter for women with mental health and substance-use diagnoses:
www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163
Here's a thing you can do RIGHT NOW: Help me get the arts and crafts room up and running again at a shelter for women with mental health and substance-use diagnoses:
www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163
Craft Supplies for Park Slope Women's Shelter
The Park Slope Women's Shelter serves unhoused women with mental health and/or substance-use disorder diagnoses in NYC.
Due to an incident this past year, the shelter is attempting to rebuild and re...
www.thingstogetme.com
February 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
#DHmakes folks with a few dollars to spare: here's a way to share the joy of craft.
I sent them 528 self-adhesive googly eyes because, c'mon, everything is better with self-adhesive googly eyes. And I've got ꙮꙮ tattoos. 😅
I sent them 528 self-adhesive googly eyes because, c'mon, everything is better with self-adhesive googly eyes. And I've got ꙮꙮ tattoos. 😅
Knitting chart for the times! #DHmakes
day 1143: I don’t remember if I shared this graph yet here, but this is how I’ve been making these patches 🧶
I made this purple and green one today 💜💚
#ICEOut #MeltICE #AbolishICE #Knitting #knitted #KnittedPatch #stockinette #colorwork #daily #art #MeltTheIce #quick #diy #knit #yarn #idea
I made this purple and green one today 💜💚
#ICEOut #MeltICE #AbolishICE #Knitting #knitted #KnittedPatch #stockinette #colorwork #daily #art #MeltTheIce #quick #diy #knit #yarn #idea
February 16, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Knitting chart for the times! #DHmakes
Local news on the Berkeley overpass protest, which is apparently organized by a Quinn who is not me. 🥰 (I'm the frog in the background of the third picture though.)
February 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Local news on the Berkeley overpass protest, which is apparently organized by a Quinn who is not me. 🥰 (I'm the frog in the background of the third picture though.)
All caught up to the present on my data weaving of chat messages with my girlfriend, and one week to go until it's finished! 🥳
I'm already turning schemes into plans for the next data weaving in the pipeline. #DHmakes
I'm already turning schemes into plans for the next data weaving in the pipeline. #DHmakes
February 16, 2026 at 5:02 PM
All caught up to the present on my data weaving of chat messages with my girlfriend, and one week to go until it's finished! 🥳
I'm already turning schemes into plans for the next data weaving in the pipeline. #DHmakes
I'm already turning schemes into plans for the next data weaving in the pipeline. #DHmakes
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As a historian and a sentimental, I'm not even comfortable with people's traces gracefully degrading until not even a memory is left. But the AI angle does feel worse when I'm in certain moods: like a zombie afterlife, a face twisted but recognizable.
February 16, 2026 at 3:25 PM
As a historian and a sentimental, I'm not even comfortable with people's traces gracefully degrading until not even a memory is left. But the AI angle does feel worse when I'm in certain moods: like a zombie afterlife, a face twisted but recognizable.
In "DSC 13: Goodbye Friends, Goodbye" I wrote about finding Scott Enderle's StackOverflow posts randomly when trying to solve a problem, even after he died. I loathe the idea of all those digital footprints of his getting turned into AI slop, and losing that trace of him in the process.
February 16, 2026 at 3:16 PM
In "DSC 13: Goodbye Friends, Goodbye" I wrote about finding Scott Enderle's StackOverflow posts randomly when trying to solve a problem, even after he died. I loathe the idea of all those digital footprints of his getting turned into AI slop, and losing that trace of him in the process.
So much of #DHmakes these days has been responding to the current awfulness but this essay on Heated Rivalry is a good reminder of the power of (and need for) imagining what a better world would look like for us all. 💖 I'll be thinking about this for a while.
Heated Rivalry shows us that the most transportive, visionary, speculative future isn’t one that looks different from our reality. It’s one that feels different. It’s a difference that we as the audience can feel as if we’ve already lived in that world too.
Heated Rivalry and the Art of Anti-Dystopia
Joy in the present makes joy in the future seem plausible.
jenka.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:43 AM
So much of #DHmakes these days has been responding to the current awfulness but this essay on Heated Rivalry is a good reminder of the power of (and need for) imagining what a better world would look like for us all. 💖 I'll be thinking about this for a while.
If this wasn't a gut punch: "Surveillance becomes “care.” Isolation becomes “us against the world.” Economic dependence becomes “being looked after.” And crucially, the harm is ... patterned, cumulative, and often invisible to everyone except [maybe also including!!] the person living inside it."
I regret to inform you one of the most on point takes I've seen about Heated Rivalry is on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pulse/heated...
Heated Rivalry and the Rejection of Romanticised Harm
Why audiences are craving intensity without entitlement and what that shift reveals about masculinity, safety, and control I didn’t expect a hockey romance to get under my skin. I certainly didn’t exp...
www.linkedin.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:29 AM
If this wasn't a gut punch: "Surveillance becomes “care.” Isolation becomes “us against the world.” Economic dependence becomes “being looked after.” And crucially, the harm is ... patterned, cumulative, and often invisible to everyone except [maybe also including!!] the person living inside it."
Bookmarking this to share with students in the Textile Dataviz class when they're struggling to get started on their final projects. Really appreciate how Kim lays out the struggles of a project like this: it's never just "stitch the color for the temperature". #DHmakes
2026 Temperature Project: A Cozy Garden (and a Chaotic January Catch-Up)
A whimsical garden cottage powered by sheer determination. January nearly broke me, but my 2026 temperature cross stitch project is officially underway. 🌱
A whimsical garden cottage powered by sheer determination. January nearly broke me, but my 2026 temperature cross stitch project is officially underway. 🌱
2026 Temperature Project: A Cozy Garden (and a Chaotic January Catch-Up)
A whimsical garden cottage powered by sheer determination. January nearly broke me, but my 2026 temperature cross stitch project is officially underway. 🌱
kimberlyfaye.blog
February 15, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Bookmarking this to share with students in the Textile Dataviz class when they're struggling to get started on their final projects. Really appreciate how Kim lays out the struggles of a project like this: it's never just "stitch the color for the temperature". #DHmakes
#DHmakes 🧶
"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
February 15, 2026 at 4:50 AM
#DHmakes 🧶