Quinn Dombrowski

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Tribute Post for Fobazi Ettarh - ACRLog With immense sadness, the writers of ACRLog acknowledge the passing of Fobazi Ettarh, library worker and influential LIS scholar. If you are able to contribute, there is a GoFundMe established for Fob...

My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t...

Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe

A sticker on a graffitied post office box with flowers growing out of the crumbling word "empire" and the text "we will outlast empire"

"We will outlast empire." A good sticker this morning in Berkeley.

I would read it with gusto!

#DHmakes 📃🐙!

Follow along for some satisfying updates of people working together to move in old type for new prints! People fixing things and setting things up to enable future creative making, it's a salve in these times. #DHmakes

C'mon, lean into it next year! Everyone loves a good "all taxonomies suck, but here's the reasons why this one in particular is a problem".

This is the sign from the universe I needed to get back to making terrible drawings. They still suck enough that it's not exactly a boost to make one, but I do think they got better when I was trying every day. #DHmakes #DHtries

Have you considered writing a retrospective of DH Awards categories? If you're not happy with how it goes you could submit it to the Failure category to jazz it up! 😜

Are there enough collections that come out per year to add that as a category next time?

Failure category fails once again, thereby succeeding in a sideways manner! 🤣

Better luck next year?

The back and underside of the octopus ring with textured tentacles.

A couple of the tentacles go all the way around, which makes for a most satisfying texture to fidget with.

I picked up an octopus and amber pendant a little while back but the matching ring was tragically too big.

And then this delightful creature showed up on one of their Goblin Hoarde ring trays and there was fate taking care of that problem. 🐙

Yes. I think this may be an Every Day Always Octopus Ring now. Because octopus ring.

A hand with sparkly purple blue painted nails, a ring with three stones stacked vertically, and a ring with an octopus.

The package from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social showed up just in time for going into a stressful meeting this afternoon.

Cats! I have those as a room-divider curtain and they bring me great cheer.

They didn't go full-on find-and-replace in the script, but I was impressed that the local second-grade class that adapted the book "We Came to America" for their play gave a speech beforehand about what "America" encompasses and what they're referring to in the book/play is the United States.

for what it cost for our allies to shoot down three of our own planes by accident in a murderous illegal war we could have funded the NEH at 150% of its historic peak funding for a year

AWS storage (several separate buckets) was a big part of it, yeah, though we had non-Amazon locations too. Also ran the Browsertrix Cloud infrastructure on AWS.

For folks in the Bay Area, it might make more intuitive sense: Internet Archive depended on our known-awful local power company. 🫠

The number of times I had to explain to people while archiving Ukrainian cultural heritage websites in 2022 that "the cloud" is physical servers that exist in the real world, and are at risk of being destroyed, along with power outages, network connectivity problems, and the like... 🫤

Oh there are more pictures. 😹 Maybe I'll try to keep track of more of it and we can make that one of these days!

Yeah, the current website doesn't do the place justice in any way. Or, like, allow class registration or membership renewal online. So several things to address!

Is there a recommended STL file for said whistle, by chance? 🙏🏻 There doesn't seem to be one yet on the list of favorite files.

This one was randomly floating up in the loft area of Lacis, open but with all the pieces. I've been helping them build a new website, so I've been discovering all kinds of interesting odds and ends. This is the second version of it, there was an earlier one from the 60's I've seen the packaging of.

Pretty different -- I've never seen anything like this one! It's not a tapestry loom with a shedding device like the LF11, it's... something else. Sort of like a rigid heddle loom but the heddle doesn't double as a beater. He got a patent on it, in fact!

The cardboard bow loom, flat, getting red warp threads over and under the shed stick

The cardboard bow loom, all set up, viewed from the front

Side view of the bow loom, where you can see where the name comes from with how the cardboard bends

Fry the half blind cat, being helpful during loom setup

It's such a kick to have gotten this 50-year-old cardboard loom configured as intended. Pretty excited to try weaving on it. 🥰 #DHmakes

A Trader Joe's Honeycrisp Apples bag filled with ziploc bags of 3d printed whistles in gold, silver, and rainbow.

1,000 whistles sent off into the world today for the next step in their journey. #DHmakes

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A package of the Kliot Bow Loom on the table along with Fry the half blind cat. A giant unicorn head in the background.

Fry plays with little pieces of cardboard and maybe looks like he's thinking but actually he's not great at thinking.

I've been wanting to try to figure out this 70s cardboard loom for a couple months now, but life hasn't been cooperating. I've got a handful of my best brain hours to myself this morning and we'll see if I can make it happen! (With "help" from the cats, naturally.) #DHmakes

Apologies if you've tried this already, but I was surprised on mine what a difference it made to wash the plate with a sponge and Dawn (specifically, according to the forums) dish soap. Now I do that any time the previous build required any touching to get loose and it's been much better.