iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I'm going to begin phasing off my social media as I am routinely finding I am not in a good place and that access to these platforms is having a strongly negative effect on my mental health. Hopefully forever. Those who I want to hear from I already have their DMs.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

“The world is better with you in it!” Well sure but what the fuck do I get out of it? Everyone is so goddamn obsessed with having me around—and everyone is really invested in making sure I know I’m not their problem.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

my inner child to me for the last 2 years.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I mean... I could take this back to Aristotle...

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

who's studying how the process of industrialization has marginalized neurodivergent people by shifting the social paradigm to be as interchangeable as possible to fit demands for labour? links?

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Wellness Industrial Complex tells us that if we need to ask for help, we do not deserve it.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Just makes me sad because we're all out here, where the time and energy that our artistic compulsions need are owed first to self-care and/or putting food on the table. This kind of battle against internet mob culture is pushing us away from art.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

A friend of mine had been screaming over another artist copying their poses and content, but into their own style. My friend doesn't want to be confrontational, because fans will accuse them of being territorial—because their fanbase isn't as large as the copycat.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Sorry, bros... your passtime isn't relevant enough to really deserve a conspiracy theory. Just normal industrial exploitation. The only agenda is greed, or a handful of developers who would rather be underpaid and overworked to tell stories for which they are passionate.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

What I took out of this is that I think it's funny that "Gamers" feel like chosen artistic medium of escapism is important to the progression of cultural identity in the slightest. I like video games... But I don't go to video games expecting that any of them will hold any lasting relevance.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I find myself putting my phone on airplane mode just to control when I get notifications. Is that normal?

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

User @backintimeag:
The text “Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the fuck out of Minnesota” over a picture of 1850s immigrant and Minnesota-dwelling doll character Kirsten Larson in the snow.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Honestly I think I would prefer to live in a matriarchy. I don't really think that would make everything automatically perfect, like there would still be conflict and injustice in different ways; I also think we would need to rely on a little less cognitive dissonance to make it through the day.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The net-net is that we have this thing called 'industry.' And it needs it's machines (us) to behave in certain ways, and uses whatever tool it has in its disposable to have us reject our human nature in lieu of accepting what industry needs us to be as "normal." Gender/sex is involved somewhat?

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

But I do see an indirect discourse (not to say it doesn't happen more directly elsewhere) which points at the idea that independence and strength is highly exploitable in turn, but industrially.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Part of the problem is these vestiges of patriarchy where there is a mindset in a dominant masculinized population that sees ANY kind of sensitivity as an opportunity to be relationally exploited. We talk about how bad that is—and it is really really bad.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

If equality is the goal, why else is there so much discourse about equal opportunities for strength, rather than equal opportunities for all expressions of individuality? Industrialism has used patriarchy to weaponize and dismiss sensitivity as feminine weakness, I feel. But I'm not sure.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Patriarchy is good for industry because it generates a 50% of the population that has internalized that their only role in the world is to provide income, not for a family, but for an oligarch who uses the traditional family as a bargaining chip.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Part of me wonders if, as due to internalized industrialism, that the objective of gender equality is to push all gender expressions into that masculine independence. We're all told we are weak, and that we need to be better, and stronger. And that it is wrong and weak to need to rely on others.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Yes, we tend to over-focus on male suicide when we serially dismiss queer suicide in a 'they gotta realize life isn't fair, and that they chose this' mentality. But also consider the immense pressure put on men to be emotionless, and independent.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Where is a place for people who just want to be sensitive and feel the world? Industrialism has convinced us that none of us 'deserve' to be taken care of, until we demonstrate we can take care of ourselves.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

To the point where not only we do not acknowledge the fact that some people seek immense value in being the emotional (or financial) rock in a relationship, but that we label these behaviours as toxic, controlling, and financially abusive?

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This is certainly the case for me, but I don't wonder about others. Do we self-isolate, and lock ourselves together with the angst of lifelong unmet emotional needs because we are so over-conditioned to be strongly independent?

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Which led to me articulating something in my mind—that Wellness is the Millennial dowry. We want to be relational, but I think many of us dis-entitle ourselves to feeling like we deserve to be loved, because we have an incredibly dubious relationship with what we are entitled to at all.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I have a friend for whom I have harboured some incredibly strong feelings... Yet with me in an extraordinarily messy mental health situation... I don't feel comfortable being open about this because I don't have any emotional stability to offer. I am deeply afraid of people seeing me as a burden.

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I feel seen

a meme with two hands holding words : "the deep desire to be creative" vs "the inherent need to recover my energy from surviving reality"

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is such a lame ad... I mean... there's a 0-Effort photographer. Was this shot on a phone? I dunno who she is, but she's giving us nothing. And—I swear to god—is that just a clear plastic solo cup? Did no one wanna head to a thrift store or just buy an actual crystal glass as a prop?

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Where was this tagline when Michelle Obama was out and about?

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Can heaven be crowded? It is eternal, and also perfect. If something is crowded, it cannot be perfect. If something is eternal, then all those who have gone to heaven will be there. Heaven cannot be perfect if it is crowded. Erica, this is theologically nonsense.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

And then... the crash of Open AI happens. So what? There's nothing learned. It will happen again. There's no point celebrating it I don't think. We're waiting for these oligarchs to die of a thousand cuts, and they will, but while the world is on fire? They'll bleed out at the same rate we are.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Maybe I'm just sad in general right now, but my schadenfreude is by far outweighed that some tech dorks are slated to loose 14 *billion. Just gone. Not really in the economy anymore. Everyone threw money at it and nothing happened. But try to get money into something that helps and you get crickets.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Friendly reminder that you CAN safe word yourself. And if you do, you should probably respect it.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

*What’s a comic book costume you know is terrible but you love it anyways?* it was so ridiculously extra, especially by the highly sexualized standard of the 90s and early 2000s... but she ate it. Didn't even TRY to present realistically... and honestly I kinda miss that about older costumes.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Good art supports a plurality of interpretations. <3

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Hold on I realized it might be funnier like this.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The variances on these covers are outstanding. But I find there's something to read into where the "Sylvia" titles feature the illustrated women as being much more uncomfortable under the male gaze.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

If beige was a political body! Sheesh!

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Too remarkable to bother putting on the list, but not remarkable enough to make fun of? It sucks to be a middle child. At least Nebraska makes for a good punchline. : (

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Part of the problem is that nobody talks about it, but what the fuck is Wyoming?

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himbobottomus.bsky.social @himbobottomus.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The absolute accuracy of this.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I dunno what it is, but the redundancy of a fursona wearing a puppy hood drives me absolutely nuts.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I think it's worse to be the cat let out of the box, almost. They had no beginning that matters in this universe, for being praised on its ability to present like the old, former, dead thing. Outside the box they expect one of two outcomes. I think that's more manageable than the alternate outcome.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Did we just shrink the universe by half? Or where do the dead cats come from?

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

If the box is opened, and if the cat is alive, can the cat really be sure it is returning to the same universe that it came from? And does that mean the universe it came from is now without a cat, and replaced it with a dead one?

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

There are only two possibilities on the inside of the box; the dead cat or the breathing one. Seems like an interaction between two sets of realities: two on the inside, and fractally repeating exterior with so many cats in so many boxes.

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ntherrgott.bsky.social @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I just gad a conversation with myself for about 20 minute seconds where I said: "Wow... they made the internet suck..." to myself, whilst all of myself agrees uniformly in the shocked realization that this was, in fact, true.

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