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R.C. Miessler

@iconodule

Doing digital archives and digital humanities things (sometimes with video games)

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The whole thing is a scam. March 10 was invented by Nintendo to sell video games. #mar10

11.03.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hegseth the kind of guy who was cheering for WOPR in Wargames

08.03.2026 17:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

cool, thinglink's pricing jumped 1000% for the plan I was on, and they locked down all of the public-facing image annotations a class has been doing for the last few years because no way in hell am I paying for that 🫠 #dh #ephemerality

02.02.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’d like a coffee

26.01.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In a meeting:

Them: the <system> is an archive right
Me: no the archive is the archive

22.01.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My favorite part is when one of the colors fucks up and makes the entire pen unusable, which is also a metaphor for higher ed administration

22.01.2026 13:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Part One: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult Podcast Episode Β· Behind the Bastards Β· 03/11/2025 Β· 1h 12m

β€œLike boats and planes are both constant monuments to hubris, but a plane, its goal is to be in the air just as long as it needs. And then you get it back on the ground where it belongs. A boat's always mocking God in the sea.”

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

22.01.2026 01:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

faculty: we love librarians they're our colleagues
also faculty: f*ck you I'm not going to fill out the form you created to do the thing I need for my class, I'm just going to send you emails so you can fill out the form for me

21.01.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

hey @oharawe.bsky.social what are we proposing?

20.01.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Castlevania: Awakening in the Moonlight - English Subtitles
Castlevania: Awakening in the Moonlight - English Subtitles YouTube video by Castlevania Fangirl

Thanks to @feitclub.bsky.social I knew this existed and now I can watch a castlevania musical instead of working today youtu.be/uC_MQ3qK110?...

19.01.2026 13:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I definitely had the burger but the face was more pissed off, probably because the UK elected thatcher for the 3rd time

19.01.2026 12:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
supra mayro 64 trailer
supra mayro 64 trailer YouTube video by reallyhandsomepeople

youtu.be/1eOaI6wSP5E?...

10.01.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m assuming ALLIEN^5 STRIKER is a space-horror-soccer game, and PAC is demonic PokΓ©mon

10.01.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think you’ve convinced me to get one to put up against the AP

10.01.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Me in 1991: plays Mega Man Dr Wily’s Revenge on the GameBoy for 5 minutes, turns it off, wonders if my copy of the Tiger Handheld Karnov has batteries

09.01.2026 02:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Until at last, I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside

30.12.2025 03:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI Didn’t Beat Bionic Commando and Explode Hitler’s Head Just to Have a GameBoy Be Made Out of Weapons That Kill Kids”: Antifacist Encounters with Embodied Play

19.12.2025 19:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s fucked

19.12.2025 19:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
S03E04 - Fat Tony on Bread and Cigarettes
S03E04 - Fat Tony on Bread and Cigarettes YouTube video by The Max Power Way

Me trying to explain to my daughter how video game history works youtu.be/i6q_2zZXHMg?...

08.12.2025 00:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Digital humanities is freaking out that you’re going to have to do 5 years worth of WordPress updates on a project site and then realizing you can just bump up the very deprecated PHP to a slightly less deprecated PHP and delete a plugin you weren’t using anyway

05.12.2025 23:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A 60 minute meeting that was done in 5 minutes and drug out to 15 to get it just beyond β€œthis could have been an email” threshold

05.12.2025 23:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Library conference swag idea - branded reusable food containers for everyone who makes two plus meals out of the lunch

22.11.2025 23:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it really feels like us library kids who were doing DH summer camps a decade ago were the gifted and talented class who were told we could change the world, and look at us now, with a crumbling higher education infrastructure, AI slop, and "DH, is that still a thing?"

18.11.2025 03:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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19.06.2025 20:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a computer screen that says ' pacoime ' at the top ALT: a computer screen that says ' pacoime ' at the top

Day ??? of CONTENTdm -> Quartex metadata cleanup

10.03.2025 23:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

concerning will look into it

27.02.2025 17:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

what's worse:

1 emailing a listserv "unsubscribe"
2 using Outlook reactions to listserv messages

27.02.2025 17:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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25.02.2025 13:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also drugs tho

24.02.2025 00:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Archive Request

Amateur hour, I want to see the printout of the DIALOG search xkcd.com/3052

18.02.2025 23:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0