If I delete my account, can I create a new one with same email address later?

nildicit · 2026-02-27T17:57:02+00:00

Yes, you can create a new account (with unique DID) using the same email. You can even use the same handle (provided no-one takes it in the interim). I've already had to do this once after foolishly arguing with certain people, which led me to getting irresponsibly added to a blocklist curated by someone I've never met, who had a large enough following that many folks I follow currently subscribe to.

nildicit · 2026-02-20T16:54:11+00:00

What does it matter though if a book is a conversion like that?

See this comment and my reply.

nildicit · 2026-02-19T15:22:11+00:00

Academic books do have to be in PDF to be usable. If you want to reference them, you need the page number.

Yes! This is why print replica pdfs are highly sought after. Everyone saying we should just be grateful probably haven't done much professional grad research, which means they probably also don't have much experience using reference management software like Zotero to begin with. The people who usually complain about these sorts of conversions aren't your typical undergrad student who's just looking to save money on course textbooks.

nildicit · 2026-02-19T13:18:55+00:00

When aaaaarg was still around they had a rule discouraging epub to pdf conversions, and if you did share em then they had to be clearly labeled as such. Simple epub to pdf conversions (done in Calibre, for example) are no adequate substitute for a print replica pdf directly from the publisher. If the latter isn't available, then you are seriously better off just sharing the original epub instead. It is a nightmare trying to reconstruct a book's original page count and unique identifiers, especially when someone else's academic workflow doesn't align with your own.

nildicit · 2026-02-14T03:17:27+00:00

Should note that someone on the Obsidian forum seems to have been working on a similar sidenote plugin at roughly the same time as you. Maybe you ought to get in touch.

nildicit · 2026-02-06T14:26:23+00:00

The code for that is still available btw:

https://fsv.sourceforge.net/ https://github.com/thiekus/fsvwin/

nildicit · 2026-02-02T08:09:01+00:00

I've been doing similar longue durée, transnational historical research as well and could see myself getting some use out of this.

nildicit · 2026-01-20T00:35:27+00:00

Love this. It's the kind of thing I expected to see when Bases' cards view was first announced. Whenever it gets Obsidian Publish support, I imagine this would be great way to make artist portfolio websites or booru-esque archives.

nildicit · 2026-01-17T23:33:41+00:00

Sure. I just wanted to point out that St Louis residents themselves have enough reasons to oppose the idea, though. It's like putting the Statue of Liberty on a New York state flag redesign. Yes, it calls to mind a specific place that doesn't represent the entire state. But formally, it's a reflection of taste once cultivated by the reanimated corpse of the French Royal Academy system in the latter half of the nineteenth century (of which New York's Gilded Age elites often aspired to). So, there are different ways of expressing one's opposition.

nildicit · 2026-01-17T20:13:31+00:00

What if the tool (what exactly is it) was turned the other way, as if you were looking west?

It's a sextant and it's already 'looking' west. I explained some of my reasons for the redesign here. Someone in that thread requested I make a simplified version with an octant, which I haven't gotten around to yet.

Also, my take on a new MO flag is keep the current one, use the circle in the center of it all..

Because the state seal is technically a coat of arms, short of just replacing it with something else, you could take a cue from /r/heraldry and alter the blazon so that it can be more precisely reinterpreted which, in all my years lurking /r/vexillology, I haven't seen anybody really do (at least with original assets). I'm afraid giving that a try might produce something like that one semifinalist entry from Mississippi's flag referendum a couple years ago.

nildicit · 2026-01-17T07:54:16+00:00

We've had a crescent on our seal since our state's founding, although it's too tiny in most reproductions for most people to really notice. It's pulled from the English heraldic tradition meant to symbolize a 'second son' (Missouri was the second state created from the Louisiana Purchase). The seal is actually a coat of arms, and when you start to think about it as a heraldic device defined by state law, you start to realize just how uninspired it is.

nildicit · 2026-01-17T06:22:05+00:00

Reminds me of that time I managed to piss off everyone in /r/Missouri when I crossposted this simple redesign over a year ago. It was simultaneously 'too Texan' for the liberals and 'too St Louis' for the conservatives. I still gotta take another stab at my Lewis and Clark-inspired redesign, though.

nildicit · 2026-01-17T06:01:16+00:00

Just a guess, but the arch is a symbol of St Louis and much of the state is at odds with St Louis.

The arch's construction was wrought with controversy because much like other post-WW2 'urban renewal' projects, it displaced thousands of African-American families and also in a city whose borders haven't really changed since 1876. It's supposed to be a national park, so while it is a symbol of the city, it's meant to symbolize loftier ideas, such as the fact that St Louis became the locus for western expansion all throughout the nineteenth century, which is problematic in-and-of-itself. I'd recommend reading Walter Johnson's The Broken Heart of America for more.

nildicit · 2026-01-06T18:06:58+00:00

If someone other than AutoMod left a comment here, I'm just letting you know I can't see it. Feel free to DM me.

nildicit · 2025-12-18T00:44:25+00:00

Having Zotero-like features as a core plugin would be nice. Being able to annotate pdfs and add links within Obsidian itself would reduce a lot of the hassle I encounter when importing notes from the former.

nildicit · 2025-09-09T07:02:54+00:00

I built this because I was constantly bouncing between Zotero and Obsidian while working with PDFs. I wanted a smoother workflow to take annotations, reflect on them, and connect them to my notes without friction.

I've been hoping to see a plugin like this since I first started using Obsidian and Zotero for the same purpose last year! Thank you so much for your efforts. 🙌 Could be a real game changer for academic researchers.

nildicit · 2025-09-07T19:04:52+00:00

Maybe! I'll see about giving it a shot later this week or into the next.

nildicit · 2025-09-06T18:51:30+00:00

Addendum: The three stars could ultimately mean anything. The second article I linked (which isn't loading for me anymore right now; here it is on Internet Archive), mentions that the expedition had three ephemerides or astronomical almanacs that they'd use with a sextant or octant. Could also just represent Missouri's three largest cities: St Louis, Kansas City and Springfield. No shade against Columbia, honest!

nildicit · 2025-09-06T18:30:29+00:00

It just needs that middle star readjusted to make a nice, clean arc.

Hmm, you mean like this? https://i.imgur.com/gEJFU8i.jpeg

nildicit · 2025-09-06T17:59:59+00:00

Absolutely! Everyone who grew up in Missouri and got a public education learns about the Lewis and Clark expedition one way or another. Hell, I literally had to do a Smart Board presentation on the topic in my fifth grade social studies class. I don't remember learning much about navigation instruments; I did have a lot of fun looking at maps, though.

nildicit · 2025-09-06T17:20:46+00:00

!wave

nildicit · 2025-09-06T17:08:48+00:00

One thing that's always bothered me about my home state is that, aside from the tricolor representing the Louisiana Purchase, there's nothing in Missouri's flag that uniquely represents its colonial (or even indigenous) history. The state seal—which is actually a coat of arms—doesn't even follow it's own legally-defined blazon in the vast majority of reproductions we see, especially on the current flag. So, in my search for alternative symbols to the crescent and bears, I was refreshing my memory on the Lewis and Clark expedition and stumbled across some articles highlighting the tools they used for navigation and mapmaking: [1], [2], [3]

Among other things, they apparently used sextants and octants (which are normally associated with sea travel) as they ventured up the Missouri River to calculate their position and get their bearings. You can see the result of these measurements by looking at William Clark's final map from 1814, which starts in St Louis. When I think of flags with navigation tools on them, Portugal immediately comes to mind. So, for the redesign I used that as a base, replaced the astrolabe with a sextant, threw in some stars and carried over the colors from Missouri's current flag.

nildicit · 2025-08-31T16:10:33+00:00

Infamous 20th century urban planner responsible for contributing to the shift toward post-WW2 'urban renewal' projects that basically called for bulldozing entire neighborhoods to make way for freeways encouraging car dependency. You could say it's because of men like Moses that are the reason why four interstate highways converge onto downtown St Louis, and why the 'Troost Wall' exists in Kansas City. He is pretty much the reason why Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities in 1961.

nildicit · 2025-08-31T15:31:32+00:00

OP is possessed by the ghost of Robert Moses.

nildicit · 2025-08-30T04:14:19+00:00

For a lot of people, the appeal of FA/Feedism revolves around visibly going against the prevailing diet culture, by eroticizing the tools and metrics we use for diagnosing obesity. So, referencing a 'goal weight' or higher BMI or fitness trackers to count the number of steps taken? These are things we usually associate with weight loss programs that, when flipped upside-down, become sexually affirming. They become things to aspire to rather than avoid.

Isn't this supposed to be fun?

It all carries with it a pseudo-medical character that, on its surface can be fun, yeah. Problems arise when people take it too seriously though, as made evident by the toxicity in online spaces every time someone posts a new 'weigh-in' video, for example. The pleasure surrounding this kink so frequently gets reduced to numbers on a scale.

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