R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 05/10/2026You know you started watching Evangelion too late in life when you identify with Gendo 1. Kids these days wtf 2. My bosses are incompetent, need to bring the end of the world on my own terms 3. Wishing you had glasses that covered your eyes to hide your true intentions at meetings 000
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think we offer a class with exactly this premise 110
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Langley Soryu, A. (2015). Baka Shinji! Paradigms of self-actualizing failure in teenage battlefield tactics: a case study 010
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 21/09/2026static.klipy.comSimpsons: Kent Brockman on DemocracyALT: Simpsons: Kent Brockman on Democracy 000
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 20/09/2026New trail’s stuff is usually excellent. The version of this aged in bourbon barrels is a seasonal favorite 110
Reposted by R.C. MiesslerRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/08/2026At least in Terminator, the humans all eventually agree letting Skynet kill everybody was bad 28111994
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Wake me up when you’re folding your piece of Lou Malnati’s 020
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 13/08/2026static.klipy.comCeleste MadelineALT: Celeste Madeline 100
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 07/08/2026now do Ted Cruz's zodiac killer messageskotaku.comPreservationist Spent $900 And Strung Together 90 GPUs To Save A Lost Final Fantasy 7 Spinoff - KotakuDirge of Cerberus: Lost Episode was a fully voiced mobile game that shut down in 2018 000
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The past six months have been some of the shittiest I’ve dealt with personally and professionally and to be in a place where everyone cares deeply about the same thing was healing. It’s been a long time since I felt like I was actually part of a community that is trying to make a difference. 030
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Save 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. 2101
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 30/07/2026money, space, staff, resources. college/uni libraries typically have none of these to spare on things unless you have a $1B+ endowment 010
Reposted by R.C. MiesslerDr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Handy Guide to the death count in The Odyssey. #Homer #epic #film #Nolan 49029
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 29/07/2026link to the presentation: gettysburg-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person... (ignore the preview, it's public)gettysburg-my.sharepoint.comSign in to your account 010
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 30/04/2026When paired with “I discovered this in the archive” they unlock never having to return ILL books 040
Reposted by R.C. MiesslerAndrew Borman @borman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Tickets 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... 23112
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Finding 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 010
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I think AI can have positive impacts on humanistic research when it comes to working with data and helping undergrads deal with tech learning curves. But it’s part of the process not the end point. 000
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 23/04/2026As 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 210
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 08/04/2026stupid 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 010
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Photo of the signing of the 1933 Treaty on Friendship, Non-Aggression and Neutrality, colorized 010
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 06/04/2026And a foreign student said to me Was it really true There are 000
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 22/03/2026At first I thought this was some Temu thing because of the orange background. Then I thought “I guess most executives are probably all ‘man the temu spinner didn’t give me 100% off OH WAIT I GET A SECOND SPIN’” and it makes sense 110
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 11/03/2026The whole thing is a scam. March 10 was invented by Nintendo to sell video games. #mar10 000
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Hegseth the kind of guy who was cheering for WOPR in Wargames 000
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 02/02/2026cool, 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 000
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 22/01/2026In a meeting: Them: the <system> is an archive right Me: no the archive is the archive 010
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 22/01/2026My 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 010
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...podcasts.apple.comPart One: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death CultPodcast Episode · Behind the Bastards · 03/11/2025 · 1h 12m 000
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 21/01/2026faculty: 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 100
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Thanks to @feitclub.bsky.social I knew this existed and now I can watch a castlevania musical instead of working today youtu.be/uC_MQ3qK110?...youtu.beCastlevania: Awakening in the Moonlight - English SubtitlesYouTube video by Castlevania Fangirl 000
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 19/01/2026I definitely had the burger but the face was more pissed off, probably because the UK elected thatcher for the 3rd time 110
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 10/01/2026youtu.be/1eOaI6wSP5E?...youtu.besupra mayro 64 trailerYouTube video by reallyhandsomepeople 000
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 10/01/2026I’m assuming ALLIEN^5 STRIKER is a space-horror-soccer game, and PAC is demonic Pokémon 120
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 10/01/2026I think you’ve convinced me to get one to put up against the AP 010
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Me 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 000
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Until at last, I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside 000
R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 19/12/2025“I 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 110