Quinn Daedal

Glad I got to catch Chia Hwu's art installation at Hotel Biron. Clay is outside my current skill set but I have ChiaWare bowls for when I need a little pick-me-up and her faces are incredible. chiahwu.com

'Tis the season for #DHmakes. 💀

What does a digital humanist do when power is out on campus? Switch to the punch card knitting machine, of course. #DHmakes

Be the zoning edge case you want to see in the world. 💀

I love all the manicules and femicules available here. It's well past time for us to put more digits into digital humanities! #DHmakes

divorces are good. breakups are good. ending connections with family is good. ending friendships is good. it all hurts. it all sucks. but the alternative, which is people *not* being able to leave relationships they don’t want to be in, is so much worse. and it is a much more entrenched problem.

Put the typewriters and the letterpress and the looms in the hands of young people. ❤️‍🔥 #DHmakes

"help each other." Lasercut luminaria, using text I like from a neighbor's yard sign. (I'm going to add tissue paper to diffuse the light, when I get a chance) #DHmakes

The three genders.

On the Caltrain headed up the peninsula to SF and the comedic/hostile nature of transpo here (and in the rain!) sent me back to @annaleen.bsky.social’s “A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI” www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...

"Press and hold to confirm you are not a bot." 🤖 Handinked gradient on lasercut historical 👉 printers fist/pointing hand block, letterpress. #DHmakes

Have you heard about the supply chain book? It's out of stock everywhere.

Succeeded at making the digital knitting machine make an image of the embroidery double back stitch. Failed at producing the elaborate student design I'm two years behind on. #DHmakes #DHtries

I really appreciate the careful and specific wording of this to accomplish the desired goals of not replacing humans with machines, but also not placing arbitrary additional restrictions on, eg, computational literary analysis of these works that use machine learning methods.

Today's weaving was in orange. The first draft I loaded was a riot of color and I had no idea what it would do. Turned out like a 90s ponytail with lots of hair bands. Switched to something more legible for a while. Some shafts were misbehaving so I had to tack down those warp threads. #DHmakes

On the basis of this recommendation, I saw it today with a friend who agreed before seeing the runtime. The runtime was not a minute too long. We both desperately had to pee but could not leave the theater. Seriously, go see this in the theater. The confirmation from strangers is essential.

I've been reading more about craft lately and am musing about a #DHmakes book review series. This amazing book on Sashiko embroidery was the most embodied-human writing I may have ever read, an effort at cultural translation, also touching on themes of collaboration, power & supply chains. 💙

A new addition to the collection of pets interfering with #DHmakes 😸

More progress on printing @robotleblanc.bsky.social's poem, which is still tearing me up when I work on it. The middle-left section really wanted to pop up bits of spacing & add them to the print every pass 😓 The top, middle right, and bottom byline sections remain to be printed. #DHmakes

About 3 weeks left to get the message out for Yes on RTM and save transit in the Bay Area - want to put up a yard sign or pass out materials? Fill out the form here! docs.google.com/forms/d/1QTS...

Batman Returns for Tax Purposes

I really really really hope people vote for the RTM so I can keep bringing scary needles on the subway (to embroider during that hour of my commute) instead of contributing to traffic.

If someone wanted to lure me to an unknown campus building to murder me, leaving a poster like this in my door mailbox would be very effective. (Of course I went. It was delightful. Though all the anthropologists and the yarn were in neutrals or B&W so it was pretty obvious I wasn't from there.)

The Baby-Sitters Club for Tax Purposes

Sometimes I come to YarnLab and find things like this absolutely perfect spider-silk thickness spinning on the wheel and it's so wonderful all I can do is marvel at it. #DHmakes

Also if you read it and really love it, there's a Fan Edition we're mailing around where you can comment and highlight your favorite parts and in the end it goes back to @walshbr.bsky.social. Sign up here!

Love it. (And you should minor in digital humanities. An excellent educational choice.)

Sharing the Good Word of Broadsheets on my office door at Stanford. #DHmakes

Capturing the vibe of the @michelleb.bsky.social piece on craft and websites beautifully. #DHmakes

Shout-out to Purpleseamstress Fabric who already shipped the Halloween order (including a custom print fabric) I placed last night. Their website doesn't have the bells and whistles of Spoonflower but prices are better, W Coast shipping is faster & you can call & talk to a real person. 💖 🪡

This is among the things we were worried about in 2022 with SUCHO, trying to protect Ukrainian cultural heritage websites from physical attacks on data centers in Kyiv. It ended up not being a major issue then, but 4+ years later we're seeing it happen on the other side.