R.C. Miessler
@iconodule.bsky.social
Doing digital archives and digital humanities things (sometimes with video games)
In a meeting:
Them: the <system> is an archive right
Me: no the archive is the archive
Them: the <system> is an archive right
Me: no the archive is the archive
January 22, 2026 at 5:35 PM
In a meeting:
Them: the <system> is an archive right
Me: no the archive is the archive
Them: the <system> is an archive right
Me: no the archive is the archive
“Like 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.”
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Part One: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult
Podcast Episode · Behind the Bastards · 03/11/2025 · 1h 12m
podcasts.apple.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:45 AM
“Like 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.”
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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
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
January 21, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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
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
hey @oharawe.bsky.social what are we proposing?
Save the Games 2.0 Call for Papers is open! The symposium will be held at The Strong in Rochester, NY on July 29 and 30. The deadline for submissions if February 20, 2026! www.museumofplay.org/save-the-gam...
January 20, 2026 at 6:59 PM
hey @oharawe.bsky.social what are we proposing?
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?...
Castlevania: Awakening in the Moonlight - English Subtitles
YouTube video by Castlevania Fangirl
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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?...
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
January 9, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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
Until at last, I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside
December 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Until at last, I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside
Me trying to explain to my daughter how video game history works youtu.be/i6q_2zZXHMg?...
S03E04 - Fat Tony on Bread and Cigarettes
YouTube video by The Max Power Way
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Me trying to explain to my daughter how video game history works youtu.be/i6q_2zZXHMg?...
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
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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
Library conference swag idea - branded reusable food containers for everyone who makes two plus meals out of the lunch
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Library conference swag idea - branded reusable food containers for everyone who makes two plus meals out of the lunch
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?"
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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?"
Day ??? of CONTENTdm -> Quartex metadata cleanup
a computer screen that says ' pacoime ' at the top
ALT: a computer screen that says ' pacoime ' at the top
media.tenor.com
March 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Day ??? of CONTENTdm -> Quartex metadata cleanup
what's worse:
1 emailing a listserv "unsubscribe"
2 using Outlook reactions to listserv messages
1 emailing a listserv "unsubscribe"
2 using Outlook reactions to listserv messages
February 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
what's worse:
1 emailing a listserv "unsubscribe"
2 using Outlook reactions to listserv messages
1 emailing a listserv "unsubscribe"
2 using Outlook reactions to listserv messages
Amateur hour, I want to see the printout of the DIALOG search xkcd.com/3052
Archive Request
xkcd.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Amateur hour, I want to see the printout of the DIALOG search xkcd.com/3052
it's been a "dig through my email for evidence that 'yes that did indeed happen and your office approved it'" sort of day
February 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
it's been a "dig through my email for evidence that 'yes that did indeed happen and your office approved it'" sort of day
Reposted by R.C. Miessler
The Video Game History Foundation Library is now in early access. For free. For everyone. Wherever you are.
Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
library.gamehistory.org — Now in early access
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
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January 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Video Game History Foundation Library is now in early access. For free. For everyone. Wherever you are.
Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
That feeling when a coworker needs “something HDMI” to test a monitor and you give them a NES mini from your office stash
January 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
That feeling when a coworker needs “something HDMI” to test a monitor and you give them a NES mini from your office stash
Truly a shit week but glad for my colleagues who remind me the work is worth doing
January 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Truly a shit week but glad for my colleagues who remind me the work is worth doing
The Switch 2 is ... sure. It will sell a billion units and we'll all buy the Deluxe 2 versions of the games we've been buying for 40 years. But weird Nintendo is still the best Nintendo.
January 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Switch 2 is ... sure. It will sell a billion units and we'll all buy the Deluxe 2 versions of the games we've been buying for 40 years. But weird Nintendo is still the best Nintendo.
That feeling when you close the terminal window halfway through converting 13k tiffs to jpgs
January 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
That feeling when you close the terminal window halfway through converting 13k tiffs to jpgs
Why does every major library saas provider have trash tech support
December 23, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Why does every major library saas provider have trash tech support
Since I have no idea how PATH and Python work together on a Mac I’ve had the same terminal window up for around 6 months once i started running scripts—the shell of Theseus
November 11, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Since I have no idea how PATH and Python work together on a Mac I’ve had the same terminal window up for around 6 months once i started running scripts—the shell of Theseus