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markalanmattes.bsky.social
First proof - chuggin' along...
#dhtries #dhmakes #letterpress
November 2, 2026 at 3:20 PM
quinnanya.me
'Twas the night before Halloween, costumes needed sewing, and Kiki the Fluffy Cat does not care less. #DHmakes
A fluffy tabby cat lounging on a cover stitch machine
October 31, 2026 at 2:58 AM
quinnanya.me
Good words for the #DHmakes letterpress friends today. ✍️
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 8h
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
November 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM
quinnanya.me
The ceramic craft video is amazing, and the interview led me to this equally amazing wool video. It's a beautiful bridge between physical craft and digital creation. #DHmakes
November 2, 2026 at 10:38 PM
markalanmattes.bsky.social
He's a printer! #printsky #printmaking #printculture #dhmakes #letterpress
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d
NEW — I spoke to Tom, the guy at the South Carolina Trump rally who compared the president's supporters to the Jonestown Massacre. We talked about his loathing for Trump, his love of death metal, and where he learned his impeccable comedic timing.

Read our full chat here:
I talked to Tom, the viral ‘Jonestown’ Trump rally guy
He planned to make good trouble. But he didn't expect to be handed a Fox News mic.
www.thehandbasket.co
October 30, 2026 at 3:10 AM
quinnanya.me
Excellent potential for the #DHmakes letterpress friends, who take lovingly handcrafting text to the next level!
raxkingisdead.bsky.social rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d
‘stop lovingly handcrafting our code’ is so funny my god. hey! i see you doing a good job at work! you stop that shit right now!
jasonkoebler.bsky.social Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d
this story is extremely wild, major investigation from @josephcox.bsky.social:

www.404media.co/manifestos-f...
October 29, 2026 at 4:58 PM
quinnanya.me
'Tis the season for #DHmakes. 💀
ryancordell.org Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 7d
TFW your medievalist colleague says “we should print these skeletons in the press from the 1499 Lyons edition of *La Grant Danse Macabre* for Halloween @skeuomorphpress.org” & there’s not time—but he laser cut it anyway & it’s just sitting & waiting for ink so catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9949...
October 27, 2026 at 7:52 PM
quinnanya.me
What does a digital humanist do when power is out on campus? Switch to the punch card knitting machine, of course. #DHmakes
A pile of punch card designs for a knitting machine
October 27, 2026 at 5:15 PM
quinnanya.me
It was a wonderful day to sit at a loom, show visitors how to weave, and play with variations on a single design.

Also to have a ridiculously delicious lunch with a friend.

Make something with your hands, eat something delicious, turn off the screens tonight if you can, friends. #DHmakes
Quinn peeking over the edge of the loom Different stripes on a white and gold woven motif Different stripes on a white and gold woven motif
November 3, 2026 at 11:47 PM
quinnanya.me
Put the typewriters and the letterpress and the looms in the hands of young people. ❤️‍🔥 #DHmakes
loriemerson.net Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 8d
I'm reading the most beautiful student papers right now (written by 18-20 year olds) about the beauty of typewriters; the value of slowness, of difficulty; about how genuine learning takes place, all unprompted by me! or, only prompted by my unbridled enthusiasm for analog tech 😍 we are not doomed!
October 26, 2026 at 6:17 PM
quinnanya.me
I love all the manicules and femicules available here. It's well past time for us to put more digits into digital humanities! #DHmakes
ryancordell.org Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 8d
The “femicules” we ordered for a forthcoming @sophie-rose-reads.bsky.social project have arrived @skeuomorphpress.org

Order your own here mckellier.com/products/fem...
October 26, 2026 at 11:46 PM
literaturegeek.bsky.social
Bake bread => take photo of 🍞 => lasercut printing block from photo => print bread. #DHmakes #DHbakes
Photo of a letterpress print on folded white greeting card paper with light violet ink on an image of a cut-open loaf of bread. Photo of a square of birch plywood lasercut to leave a raised relief printing block of a cut-open loaf of bread Photo of two loaves of homemade bread on a cutting board, both sliced open to show their inner texture
October 28, 2026 at 4:58 AM
literaturegeek.bsky.social
"Be excellent to one another."
Luminaria #4. Wisdom from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, a fave you may remember from my August glitterpress & queer pirate letterpress boat as well. #DHmakes
Grocery bag luminaria that is lit up to say "Be excellent to one another" in a striped lined font
October 27, 2026 at 9:49 AM
literaturegeek.bsky.social
"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
Grocery-bag luminaria that says "help each other." in neatly lasercut letters, light by LED candles inside
October 25, 2026 at 9:53 PM
plach.bsky.social
Some more of our DH Center chalkings, courtesy of our wonderfully creative student workers. Each of these makes our space feel more human and joyful #DHmakes
A structural pillar painted with black chalkboard paint featuring a blue manatee and octopus A structural pillar painted with black chalkboard paint featuring a bunny. Above it reads: Somebunny loves you! A structural pillar painted with black chalkboard paint featuring mermaids, an homage to one of our DH faculty members who works on mermaids
October 27, 2026 at 8:59 PM
plach.bsky.social
I made my own curiosity cabinet at this year’s Archives & Special Collections “Cabinet of Curiosities” themed Halloween party #DHmakes
A black cardboard box with various curious items glued on its shelves. Curious items include a heart, shells, potion bottled, scary skulls and a creepy doll’s head A black cardboard box with various curious items glued on its shelves. Curious items include a heart, shells, potion bottled, scary skulls and a creepy doll’s head
October 27, 2026 at 7:05 PM
walshbr.bsky.social
BEAUTIFUL mail from @jajrk.bsky.social today. I’m obsessed. #dhmakes
Blend of zine, thank you note, and data vizualization
October 22, 2026 at 3:11 PM
markalanmattes.bsky.social
Lol I need to make some big changes... Not even close! Will get back to this by and by #dhmakes #letterpress
October 23, 2026 at 4:37 AM
kjkillackey.bsky.social
Does anyone have a better term than “low-tech” to describe physical media formats that are easily reproducible and distributed, relatively low cost, and have a low training/skill entry point?
#DHmakes #SciArt 🐡 #Archaeology 🏺
October 23, 2026 at 1:57 PM
quinnanya.me
Enjoyed blowing some middle-schooler minds with textile dataviz today. I told them we'd be using technology to represent fractions, then busted out the looms and yarns and the Ursula K LeGuin quote about technology. Everyone picked a fraction to weave and tried their hand at it. 😈 #DHmakes
October 23, 2026 at 8:07 PM
literaturegeek.bsky.social
More paperweaving experiments, dropping the letterpress misprint strips until I figured out how to make 2! vaguely cubic! shapes (going for a cube pattern). Need to restart the whole with a couple changes to make it easier on myself (3rd layer is tight, paper has no stretch). #DHtries #DHmakes
A partial paper weaving consisting of green paper vertical strips, and red and blue strips woven in at 30 degree diagonals; you can see the eventual pattern of cubes via 2 cubes emerging on the left side A partial paper weaving consisting of green paper vertical strips, and red and blue strips woven in at 30 degree diagonals; you can see the eventual pattern of cubes via 2 cubes (more properly, cube-aspiring rectangular prisms) emerging in this closeup A partial paper weaving consisting of green paper vertical strips, and blue strips woven in at 30 degree diagonals Closeup on a partial paper weaving consisting of green paper vertical strips, and blue strips woven in at 30 degree diagonals
October 24, 2026 at 9:34 PM
plach.bsky.social
I got to share a little about my #DHmakes journey. How I overcame my perception of not being crafty to experiment w embroidered data viz. I reflected on how my weaving instructor celebrated our mistakes as we clumsily learned to weave, encourage us to embrace our “makers’ marks” as distinct to us
October 22, 2026 at 11:15 PM
quinnanya.me
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
Double back stitch design from the RSN stitch bank, yellow on green A long design with a ton of dropped stitches for where the yellow yarn broke
October 21, 2026 at 10:28 PM
mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Can I nominate this as an honorary #DHmakes post? paulhicksminiatures.com/blogs/from-p...
Why I Still Sculpt Miniatures by Hand
I first tried sculpting when I was about twelve. I had just got my first Osprey book, Men-at-Arms 182: British Battle Insignia 1914-18, and I wanted figures that looked like the illustrations. You sim...
paulhicksminiatures.com
October 21, 2026 at 5:15 PM
literaturegeek.bsky.social
"Press and hold to confirm you are not a bot." 🤖 Handinked gradient on lasercut historical 👉 printers fist/pointing hand block, letterpress. #DHmakes
Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with dayglo orange-red gradient ink on a background historical pointing hand, and dark purple ink on text and a platen printing press image. It says "Press and hold to confirm you are a human and not a bot", with the letters if "not a bot" set up and down jaggedly Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with dayglo orange-red gradient ink on a background historical pointing hand, and dark purple ink on text and a platen printing press image. It says "Press and hold to confirm you are a human and not a bot", with the letters if "not a bot" set up and down jaggedly. The print sits on a wood table next to a coppery L ruler.
October 22, 2026 at 1:35 PM