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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

At least in Terminator, the humans all eventually agree letting Skynet kill everybody was bad

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Save the Games 2.0 at the @thestrongmuseum.bsky.social was a fantastic experience. Presenting at a video game preservation conference is not something I ever saw myself doing, and I thank @borman.bsky.social for the opportunity.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Handy Guide to the death count in The Odyssey. #Homer #epic #film #Nolan

Text, explantion, and sources: https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/30/the-odyssey-deaths-chart-data-visualisation
"When they arrive at Circe’s island in a single ship, the survivors likely number two bands of 22, plus one leader each, including Odysseus: so 46 in total. I have based my estimate of the crew of each ship on this, plus the six for each boat killed by the Cicones, which gives 52. This is in line with the amount of oarsman you would need for a penteconter plus a couple of extra crew, so it works for me but I have also shown the possible range based on 50 to 120 for each ship." ---Nick Evershed

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Andrew Borman @borman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Tickets are on sale for Save the Games 2.0: A Digital Preservation Symposium. These tickets are required if you are planning on attending the conference and are NOT presenting. There is an early bird special for $55 from now through Memorial Day. store.museumofplay.org/webstore/sho...

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Finding out I’m presenting at the same conference that @jparish.bsky.social and @philsalv.bsky.social are either proves my parents right or wrong that I wasted my youth playing video games

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

As my own institution devalues library work (by offering 16/18 full time staff a voluntary severance package) AND it begins a new AI initiative I feel a lot of this. I use AI for scripting bc I’m not a dev, don’t have access to one, and it helps me get shit done, but I’d still rather burn the looms

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

stupid happy to have my proposal for Save the Games conference at The Strong Museum of Play accepted! really excited to talk about a schema for encoding video game playthroughs and how it can be applied

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Photo of the signing of the 1933 Treaty on Friendship, Non-Aggression and Neutrality, colorized

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

And a foreign student said to me Was it really true There are

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Hegseth the kind of guy who was cheering for WOPR in Wargames

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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

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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

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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?...

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Castlevania: Awakening in the Moonlight - English Subtitles

YouTube video by Castlevania Fangirl

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Until at last, I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

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

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S03E04 - Fat Tony on Bread and Cigarettes

YouTube video by The Max Power Way

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

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

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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?"

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

what's worse: 1 emailing a listserv "unsubscribe" 2 using Outlook reactions to listserv messages

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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

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Archive Request

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

it's been a "dig through my email for evidence that 'yes that did indeed happen and your office approved it'" sort of day

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The Video Game History Foundation Library is now in early access. For free. For everyone. Wherever you are. Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...

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library.gamehistory.org — Now in early access

YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

That feeling when a coworker needs “something HDMI” to test a monitor and you give them a NES mini from your office stash

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Truly a shit week but glad for my colleagues who remind me the work is worth doing

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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.

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

That feeling when you close the terminal window halfway through converting 13k tiffs to jpgs

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Why does every major library saas provider have trash tech support

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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

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Ian Isherwood @iaisherwood.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

“So that’s that.” First letter of peace by Lt Col H.J.C. Peirs after four years of war and three years of bitter fighting at the front. Read in full here #ArmisticeDay #WWI #FWW

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11 November 1918 – My dear Father

Transcription11. 11. 18.My dear Father,So that’s that. Our next difficulties will arise in keeping the men occupied before peace is declared & afterwards t

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

R. C. Miessler (Gettysburg College ) starts off #keystonedh24 with one of the most exciting title slides we’ve ever seen!

R. C. Miessler starting his talk, with title slide, “Kart Racing at the Fall of the Berlin Wall”—featuring an animated Mario on a moving cart !

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

did ExL really think they created the course management system? #eluna2024

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

You know you’re getting old when you’re excited to see oatmeal at the conference breakfast buffet

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Well shit, Onodo is shutting down in June. It was obvious they weren’t going to do any more development but it was still the best tool for teaching networks and I’m surprised it didn’t break before now #EmbraceEphemerality

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

back in Indiana for a couple of days, my daughter is bewildered about how nice people are compared to PA. I on the other hand am reminded how awful Hoosier drivers are

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