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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Aaand there's the Parmenides connection for the semester. Everyone take a shot.

Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good gravy, I started turning my scene notes into a to-do list. This is going to get worse before it gets better. Why am I committing-but-not-really to this?

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The thing stopping me is various grad school assignments ofc. Nothing makes me more ambitious than completing obligations.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My book series’s draft pile is turning two at the start of November. Part of me is tempted to see if I can pull together a mostly complete draft of book one before then. There’s only a few scenes entirely unwritten. Rest are in various versions through the pile.

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Game Wolf Advance (2001) @ator.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I LOVE YOU SENSHI. YOU JUST GET IT

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Even the potato can use alt text, guys. No excuses anymore. 😂

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Walked into a room and promptly forgot why I had entered. Spent several minutes trying to figure it out then gave up. Folks, it was my ADHD meds. 😑

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've tried similar before. Giving Claude history of all questions it has asked before and/or your answers will help prevent repeats, but it may get stuck in a cycle of only *building* on past questions/answers. I recommend some sort of "ensure one question is genuinely new" line in the prompt.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Me, doing assigned reading: This is great. I could write a 2000 word response here and now. Me, 24 hours later, in class: ... This author had a point, yeah?

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've now got an American Pie parody song forming in my head.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ADHD is such a weird experience, once you know what you're looking at. What do you mean that the same thing I was making rapid progress on yesterday is now hot lava to even attempt?

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Oh, yeah, completely agree. Apologies, many of the discussions I face about this tech in day to day have entirely disregarded that element and insist on the assumption we must find use for it. Which… why use Nail Hitter 5000 when I have a hammer right here?

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

One of the few uses I've found for LLMs doing research is to help find out what synonymous terms are in different fields when I am doing cross-domain research. But even then a research librarian inevitably can do it much faster. The LLM really only takes precedence if it's time sensitive.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Someone should invent a phone app that shuffles your app icons overnight so that when you reflexively go to open social media, you instead get your flashcards app. Half the time I'm opening Bluesky just to fidget anyway. Might as well be productive.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As someone who's had to fix a lot of zero-width spaces cropping up in text since the rise of AI text processing, I am instinctively horrified at the chaos a negative-width space would cause. 😂

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This DOES keep the citation from updating if you change the Zotero listing in any way, so make sure your metadata on that end is up to date first. OR go through and remove the spaces as your final editing pass and save them then.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oh they updated it over the summer. Ok, that prefix/suffix area is entirely on Zotero's end, so CSL edit is a bust. But... As a workaround, you *can* remove the space manually in the citation. Then click "refresh" in the Zotero plugin toolbar and this message should pop up. Yes saves it.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ohhh I mistook your screenshot for the Word plugin screen. On second look, realizing that's a screen I don't know if I've seen before! (And I'm also on Mac.) What citation style, if I might ask? I can prod it to see if there's a quick fix, but I may be just as lost as you.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Does the error occur if you use "Classic View"? (click the “Z” icon on the left side of the Citation box for a drop-down) It's helped me with odd behavior before. My next guess would be something in the citation style sheet borking (which would take a little investigation).

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

this channel is rapidly becoming one of my favorite atmospheric background channels when getting stuff done. Some great venues being shown!

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It’s an idea that has been in my head for at least 15 years. There just was always something “wrong” with the fundamentals. Over time, the idea developed and was shaped by the ideas around me, till finally the pieces clicked. So there is no one inspiration at this point.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve not reached a point where I am ready for beta readers but I have a co-author and we help develop each other‘s ideas well. Makes the process much smoother.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Today I found some paper drafts of the earliest echoes of my novel series. I stored them thinking one day I would turn them into a proper story. I am pleased to report my feeling rereading them is now more cringe than “hope I can write it someday”. The series is apparently coming along well! 😂

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The last place I went to was a Walmart. 😂

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Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Me: I want to carmelize these onions. Also me: fuck, this is a lot of standing.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I will need to stock up on reading incentive snacks and prizes, though. Now accepting recommendations.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I am only one week's assigned reading into this semester's philosophy class and already I can tell this is going to be one of those ones where I want to peel off my skin and ascend from humanity by the end. Which is to say... good stuff!

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Finally was able to sit down and try this out. I had a few records floating around in my repo from testing sites that I wanted to remove. The UI of Aturi made it VERY easy to do so. Definitely something to keep bookmarked.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I do wish there were some sort of recognition that two labels are the same text, just different labelers as source. If I subscribe to multiple pronoun labelers, it's going to get messy over time.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Such a mood... When I started FFXIV, I thought tanking sounded daunting because I would need to know mechanics. Now I realize that the beauty of tanking is the mitigation to survive things I don't know or mess up. It's DPS-ing where I end up on the floor all the time.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Because to me, fantasy isn’t wishful thinking, but a way of reflecting, and reflecting on reality.

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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 12/08/2026

If you have a Twitch account. Go to settings. By default it's training AI by using your account. Toggle that to off. 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Same for cool Tailscale tricks. I feel I am learning a lot and also nothing at the same time.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I have fallen down the rabbit hole of setting up a Jellyfin server and I am now trying to source online live TV streams. If anyone knows any good channels for background noise lmk.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

At this point the rain is over and I could probably get up but he so rarely snuggles up to me and he's not moved yet so...

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of my cats, absolute sweetheart of a boy, is afraid of everything. That includes heavy rain. So I've spent the past 20 minutes on the floor with him, sitting between him and the windows, making sure he knows the rain will get me first.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This whole process has felt like a strange re-wilding of my mind, ripping out the fancy garden beds someone tried to instill in me and letting my thoughts and ideas run free again. I love it and I feel so lucky to be in a place to do this.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I've started writing a book series with my spouse and we've both pretty much agreed that, while some cash would be nice from it, we'd rather self-publish and maybe get a few wonderful fans than have to change our narrative for marketability. And that has made the entire project so much better.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm working on a philosophy masters, and every time I get asked what I "want to do with it" I just shrug. I am taking advantage of an employee benefit to get the degree for free. I like my job. I'm not seeking to chase some new career, just strengthen myself as a person. And I love that.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Eventually, I realized that mindset had killed every ounce of joy I once had in doing the things I loved. That, so long as I was making enough through a day job to cover bills, the rest of my time could be spent doing whatever I wanted without having to justify my reasons.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

When I was nearing the end of college, it felt like every conversation about my interests and what I was doing with my time was hinged entirely on the notion of "how does that earn you money?" That persisted through my 20s.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I went to one karaoke place where they didn't have the actual music videos playing, but some very odd stock videos? We heckled the music videos more than anything. The combinations were genuinely strange. Ex: "My life would suck without you" was playing over a video of a wedding day breakup.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Would you say the original plan... got flushed? 😃 I'll see myself out.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

*logs into Semble for the first time* Fair guess, @semble.so. Fair guess.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

For every 100 words I write, a piece of laundry should magically fold itself. It seems only fair, right? I'll even put it away myself after.

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Writing is bs sometimes. What do you mean I can invent entire worlds, birth people into existence, and solve complex confrontations with simply the power of my own mind but the dishes still need doing?

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Archivist Moth @archivistmoth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Meanwhile, my ADHD is laughing at the idea of focus being something that can be summoned up on demand with music.

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