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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...

datasittersclub.github.io

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 23h

I'm glad to see it doesn't have to be a monstrosity! This in no way resembles what they were serving other than some shared high-level ingredients. 😂

Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

Another one for the embroidery, huh? 😥

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

I think I have found at least its equal, the kimchi grilled cheese at one of the awful food spots for students on Stanford campus, now defunct.

Maybe in the hands of a skilled and inspired chef there might be something there, but this was just... soggy.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

Woke up early and headed to the local makerspace to babysit the laser cutter while working on my little tapestry weaving of Portland Frog. #DHmakes

A weaving in progress, with variegated background yarn in trans pride flag colors plus black and gray, and the top of a bright green frog

A laser cutter engraving and cutting wood pendants with Portland Frog.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

Okay folks, if you or anyone you know would like a Frog of Portland necklace or keychain with @queermedieval.bsky.social design, fill out this form and Venmo me $10 (or $30 for 5). Half goes to Miles, half goes to supplies. Support a trans artist & share the joy! 🐸🌈 #DHmakes

Frog of Portland necklaces / keychains!

Frog of Portland design by Miles (@queermedieval.bsky.social), laser cutting & logistics by Quinn (@quinnanya.me). Venmo @Quinn-Dombrowski-1. Half the money goes to Miles -- supporting trans artists, ...

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

Honestly, all the anglerfish options for all age ranges are more what I'd have expected!

I guess until there's a video of one at a Portland dance party.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

Oof, supply and demand! It was definitely less a few days ago.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

Absolutely beautiful. #DHmakes

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

The costume (adult sized, admittedly, but recommended minimum height is only 5'3") is only like $30, just saying... 👀

Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

Frog of Portland necklaces / keychains!

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

It feels extra silly to run out of jump 🐸 rings on a project with @queermedieval.bsky.social Portland Frog but I will resupply and resume with the pendants and keychains tomorrow. 🙌🏻 #DHmakes

A pile of laser engraved pendants and keychains with the Frog of Portland

Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 2d

I don't have a printing press, but I do have access to a laser cutter and supplies for pendants and keychains. #DHmakes 🐸

A row of Miles's Frog of Portland images cut in a circle out of plywood on a laser cutter.

A keychain and pendant of the Frog of Portland image.

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Tracey Mollins @traceyehm.bsky.social · 2d

The Portland frog person is a protest genius.

And this art collaboration between
@quinnanya.me, @queermedieval.bsky.social, @literaturegeek.bsky.social and @ryancordell.org is sublime.

Way to be, American cousins. Safe landings to you all.

Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 2d

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 2d

One reason why the Constitution broadly protects speech without regard to its content, and why it also protects expressive conduct rather than words alone, is that you never know whether the most profound form of protest against authoritarianism will turn out to be a frog costume.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 2d

#DHmakes 🐸

Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 2d

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 2d

Text. There's some unusual stuff in the mix that I expect will break whatever (potentially in interesting ways; German written in Cyrillic, dialectal things), but what I was working with a few years back was extremely naive and it feels like this should've gotten a lot better?

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 2d

It's looking like I've got several projects that need language detection as part of the workflow. It's been a few years since I've used that and I assume there's been some (possibly vast?) improvements. Anyone have a favorite library / model / etc they'd recommend? #MultilingualDH

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 2d

#DHmakes 🖍️

Philip Nel @philnel.bsky.social · 2d

Harold and the Purple Crayon is a manifesto for human creativity disguised as a children's book. I wrote about it.
blog.oup.com/2025/10/turn...

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 · 3d

#DHmakes 🐸

Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 4d

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