iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When your tastes are just plane damn cool.

Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am insulted by the very idea that a machine can have a messier creative process than I do. Let alone, a messier creative process to make what amounts to bad acid trip Lisa Frank artwork where everything is wrong, off, and uncanny to look at. What are these sign posts even doing?

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

39; Godzilla Meets Bambi is totally canon, I swear.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pretty sure I saw this anime series back in college.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is what I mean when I said "go into your thing with the enthusiasm of a soccer fan." I've run into pen channels like that and you don't appreciate the physics of writing/drawing till you start watching a video on pen nib geometry or ink viscosity. Also, that channel clearly has The Write Stuff.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The people who buy these are attention-starved little brats who get off to any sort of negative attention. I'll hate the thing with an undying passion, but I am not assisting in that Cybertruck owner's perverted shaming fetish.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"I am actively making this planet a crappier place to live, but damn does this job pay well" is literally how we keep perpetuating this god awful timeline, and I can guarantee you every terrible invention ever manufactured had factory employees saying exactly as much.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In re, a post of mine well below this one: Damnit!, he is like this on purpose!

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If anyone reading this can help with that, hit ero up.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The only thing that reeks more than the theory behind this is the desperation. Not the dudes, though; they will be obliterating the local AQI.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

J.Jonah Jameson is tsundere for Spider-man. That's the only lesson I am getting out of these latest memes.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Alright, who let Cronenberg open a restaurant? Cooking is another form of art, and it's important that any depiction of that art reflect what you actually create and serve. I don't think this place remotely knows what a burrito is if *this* is what they are telling me they're selling.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A list will tell me all I need to know to order. An AI menu will tell me all I need to know to order from someone else's place.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I was wondering who was holding the Monkey's Paw.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I dunno who follows me that needs to be told this, but you are in fact so much better than no-assing any of your work with AI. Follow ero's example, because it's a good one to follow with any work you do.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

There are many ways to produce a work of art.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

R2-D2 just started playing the transmission, and you are Cuber's only hope.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

People ask me this outside of the topic of art anyways, but that's now another reason I can give them.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Disney, if you don't give us this as a movie you're a pile of cowards!

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"If AI disappeared tomorrow... Imagine AI was suddenly banned..." I am holding the world's sickest kegger. Whole township would be getting hammered on my dime. Cops'll think we're a frat or something, it'll be that kind of blast.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It's a lack of criticality in sites and channels that traffic in any given subject, but don't actually specialize it, the result of people who don't know *how* to care, or have the time to do so, thanks to the publish-or-perish model so many live and die by: tis the enshittification of information.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

15/10, flawless set up and pay off.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I mean, this was I why I did. Also, peep the Strange Aeons Youtube channel. Absolutely unhinged internet lore to be had.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Escapist fantasy will do this every time the world starts to suck real hard, be it now or, say, 45 years ago, isekai or not. Often, though not always, with the message "well, you can't fight capitalism and win, so pretend you can fight this instead". The truck is literally capitalism, by the way.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Arguably the most magnetic thing you can do as a creator is go into your thing with the enthusiasm of a soccer fan. I coulda told you that they inject digestive fluids, I never woulda been able to explain the mechanics. And @travismcenery.bsky.social goes into detail beyond that.

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How Spiders REALLY Eat their Prey (and it isn't by just sucking blood)

YouTube video by Travis McEnery

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Bread and circuses" came out of a scathing critique about how depraved Romans in the capital had become morally and socially. And that's just on Rome itself, not the greater empire. There were fewer ways to push back against it all, but people knew what evil looked like when they saw it.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I could swear I did this day last week. Tuesdeja vu, this is.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Little Boxes, because being the embodiment of all of the lesser angels of two national governments' natures shouldn't bar him from engaging in a little social commentary once and a while.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Any mechanic where the player is presented with tangible effects of their actions, however small, is never a bad mechanic to have. Rockstar did this with Carl Johnson in San Andreas, and it was for good reason: *making you* pay attention to what happens to this character. More games should do this.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Because John Williams could write and conduct the score to footage of a trip to a DMV and make it worth the audiences' investment. Man just knows how to hook you with music.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Your art could look like a scrungly turd and it would still offer more to the world than anything a bot could barf up. Your writing could read like a scrungly turd and it would still offer more to the world than what a bot could barf up. Bad art you make yourself is still worthy art.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hands down the best take on fighting AI: Love the thing you are protecting as much as you hate the thing that you oppose. It's such a good take.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

What the Zuck is this crap? I'm so very glad I haven't had an insta or FB account for years now. Also, yes, Mark's doing this on purpose, because forcing bad technology down our throats is just his mission in life.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I read The Metamorphosis and I get the impression modern life just really, really bugged the guy.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Finding out the hard way satire is not immune from the scourge of "Challenge Accepted." The fact that it actually looks edible is only adding to the horror of it all.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Maybe it's the fact my last name is a fish, but there's something rather relatable about this weird little guy I can't put my fin(ger) on.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Yaoi, at the very least. Really need to watch that one again. Very Lynchian.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Scooting this across anyone's path who also watches Folding Ideas and can help out.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This post isn't even a year old, and I feel like it's going to haunt my thoughts for the rest of time for how absurd, and actually pretty funny, it is.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Every time I hear or read of "BookTok", all I can picture is the Tappet Brothers trying to diagnose the problem of an IKEA bookshelf a caller put together incorrectly.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

30 minutes into Folding Ideas' video on season 2 of Beast Games and I am convinced Jimmy could manage to muck up a game of Calvin Ball.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Using an AI generated pic of Snoopy demanding that AI not "be in every app" and whatnot is the single most infuriating thing I see polluting my timeline with regards to art and tech. And the most tasteless use of Charles Schultz's work I can think of to that end. Disrespectful, even.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I think it's a law that the illustrated covers for this story *have* to go that hard.

A cover of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick, or The Whale" showing the crew of the Pequod attempting to harpoon the titular cetacean.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

New rule: It's not allowed to be called Brutalism unless Nathan Explosion says "that's brutal" when looking at it.

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Andrew Herring @andrewherring.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Are you a fedposter? The law says if I ask, you have to tell me.

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