Wet filament very plausible. At the moment I'm sprouting seedlings in the same room, spraying with the mister multiple times a day, AND it's on the bench [next to said plants] because I was working on it lol

I store filaments in ziplocs with silica that came with it, but whatever is on the printer sits out, and this spool was on the printer for a good while after I bought it.

ooooops retraction is 6mm at 40mm/s lol

Both are high suspects, but without retraction most filaments will look something like that. The type of plastic also matters as some just ooooooze and ooze.

These days there are lots of people who claim that you shouldn't even print from a fresh bag. Put it straight into a dryer and go from there there. A ziplock is not airtight, so, that's an easy upgrade.

I live in an extremely dry climate, so it doesn't tend to affect me much.

The other option is to use those uprights as a slow test print (in your slicer, move the rest of the model below the plate so it only prints the uprights) and slow all the movements down to ridiculously slow levels, then watch the nozzle. Is it oozing? Is it popping (this is water getting converted to steam), etc.

Cheers. I love that most of the things I like doing have people here who follow the hashtags. :>

Even that little tip, maybe I would've found it with google, or maaaaaaaybe I would've thought of it myself after many days of silly stuff, but being able to have someone casually glance at my post and go "look here and here and this is important context" with low effort on everyone's part is pretty much the Internet that I came here for.

Thank you, #Fediverse, for being here now. We need us.