iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes! This is what mine look like. I just use blank drawing paper, though. #AutChat

A complex tangle of straight lines, geometric shapes, spirals, and blocks, mostly done in black ink with occasional blue or red areas.

Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 19/09/2026

I haven't actually listened to the show yet to know who Pix is, but I do prefer to have blue hair and I have Memento Mori stickers on things and a book WIP called Memento Mori, so the picture at least feels appropriate. Also the description sounds pretty accurate.

A drawing of a dark-skinned feminine-presenting person with long blue hair, a gold hoop earring visible on one side, and a black shirt with "Memento Mori" written in a gothic font. Beneath the picture it reads, "Your Result: Pix. You're fiercely independent, nihilistic and an aggressively horny top. What a combo. A true artist at heart, you sometimes participate in life like a neutral observer, which also means you don't have to join in, get hurt or clean up anyone else's messes - WILDER. You can come off a bit prickly at first, but lurking underneath it all you secretly have a soft, squidgy heart (and a few deeply ironic monsters). And if anyone tells, you'll thump them."

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

Comic source: neilblr.com/post/5849066...

Two panels from Neil Cicierega's 2013 Little Mermaid comic, "Ariel Needs Legs." The first panel shows Grimsby lighting a pipe as he says, "Seven vagánias." The second panel shows Prince Eric's shocked reaction.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 07/09/2026

My morning: Boston Labor Day Parade 2026 with Mass50501, the Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance, Partners in Democracy, and the Fight Back Coalition.

A photograph of four guys holding a banner in the middle of a parade. The banner is white with large blue and red text that reads, "The people united will never be defeated" with a red starburst design on either side.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 31/08/2026

Give Lake Ontario your own fun nickname, why not: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario

A map of Lake Ontario, produced by MapQuest. The lake itself is relabeled with the name "Lake Erie 2: Electric Boogaloo."

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you see this, post your favorite Pokémon! It's hard to choose, but I have a soft spot for Jerry Nison. No, I don't know what kind of Pokémon he is. Managing Pokémon Go on my phone for the kids and now taking it over since they have their own phones is my entire experience with Pokémon.

A picture of a big gray Pokémon with a horn on his nose and round ears. He stands upright and has an armor plated belly. His name is Jerry Nison, and he's a Poison and Ground type. He weighs 68.75kg and is 1.42 meters tall. He was caught on March 23, 2017. He has 132 hit points and 1,696 CP.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 14/08/2026

You look at that timestamp on this post from my tumblr and take a wild guess. themightytej.tumblr.com/post/1403989...

A post dated March 3, 2016 that reads, "The other thing that scares me about Trump is that putting him into office normalizes and promotes the twisted mess he’s been calling Christianity this whole campaign, and I do not want the church in America to look like what it would under those circumstances." It has 18 notes.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 10/08/2026

Post you from a different "era" of your life. I drew that shirt! That was my senior year in high school.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 26/07/2026

Because of who I am, fundamentally, as a person, I got curious about how many domain combos are possible but unused in Daggerheart's base classes, and made a spreadsheet. I'm not saying I'm gonna build any, just. You know. They're there if anyone, including me, wants to build any.

A chart showing the 9 Daggerheart classes, each as a combination of two out of 9 available domains. This leaves 27 displayed possible two-domain combinations with no associated class.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 21/07/2026

She told me I have strong throat muscles and I was like "wait WHAT?" #TwitchStreamer #Clip

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 28/06/2026

For context to today's #AutChat, this is where I'm sitting while I answer these questions about clutter and cleaning.

A pair of desks set at a 90 degree angle covered in papers, books, headphones, cameras, snacks, and computer elements.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 11/06/2026

We don’t usually see each other‘s headers. Here’s mine. Quote post with yours. I actually just updated mine.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 11/06/2026

Yeah let me just upload my *checks notes* literal brain scans to the lying box so I can get a wrong answer quickly instead of just waiting a couple weeks for a real specialist to give me real life-and-death information. What are we doing here?

A conversation over a texting app. Sender says, "Thanks man. How is your health?" Recipient says, "Well, the migraines have been improving lately. My appointment for lab results concerning a possible cause for them in July 1." Sender asks, "July 1 for a follow up? Can you see your test results in a portal?" Recipient answers, "I can see the actual scans, but Lord knows how to read them. It was an MRV." Sender replies, "AI, my good man." Recipient says, "I'd rather let the bees at my dick than feed my medical records to an AI. We have bees now, BTW." Sender says, "I’m not one to kink-shame…LOL take your identifying marks off of the test and just run it through." Recipient says, "The radiologist gave some initial impressions, but the guy who sent me for the scan is a specialist and the condition he's looking for is pretty niche and only recently discoverable and treatable. So I'm just waiting for the official word." The conversation ends with the Sender saying, "Oh OK. Glad it seems treatable. Sweet goodness."

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 07/06/2026

We played Mothership today and my Teamster character was killed by a man being puppeteered by an alien crab monster. He maybe could have survived, but he spent his turn throwing a grenade to save everyone else (he successfully killed the monster, even) instead of using his first aid kit.

A picture of Chief Miles O'Brien from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, looking side-eyed into the camera. The text on the top reads, "In loving memory of Freddy 'Freaky' Friday" and the bottom reads, "He was a union man."

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 04/06/2026

Looking for playtesters! My short rules-light #ttrpg, INNER LIGHT, is in playtesting. And I need people willing to try it out! Play an Aspect, one inner voice of a character, as you and the other Aspects determine who leads and how the rest will influence decisions. Grow by battling inner demons.

A banner that is mostly black, with partial blindfolded faces visible. The words "Inner Light" are written in glowy, blocky script.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 20/04/2026

Important things happening in our Discord, folks.

Text from user Tej | GM, with a nameplate that reads MFFO, and a timestamp of 7:12. The messages read:
The newest release of the Ravenloft setting is including Innsmouth as a Domain of Dread. Which means two very important things!
1. Lovecraftian horror!
2. Massachusetts is now a canonical D&D campaign setting
Odds of The Replacements stopping off for supplies at a Cumby's have increased marginally above zero.
[in italics] Walks into the fight three rounds late carrying a Potion of Haste [end italics] (Dunkin iced coffee)

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 19/04/2026

I've learned of the #CatsOfAutChat tag and wanted to share my precious anxious girl Cassandra with you all.

A black cat with white paws and a white nose curled up on a black sheet.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 14/03/2026

I'm looking forward to my official diagnosis as "A Real Piece of Work." #TherapyHumor #MentalHealth

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 19/02/2026

Something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 28/01/2026

Working on my first new non-digital painting in years. It took a while to convince myself that I can just do whatever I want to do, the way I want to do it, instead of trying to meet the standards from a class or emulate a specific style. Note: improvements upon my alt text are wildly encouraged.

Spray paint on canvas board. It's got some blueish blackish vertical bits? And a more blue mass at the bottom. Look I'm gonna be honest with you folks, I know I made the thing and all, but right now it's mostly just vaguely-defined zones of color made by layering multiple different colors of spray paint and then left to sit in a freezing garage among cobwebs for months and I'm colorblind so I don't have any idea how to properly convey this to you. It's unfinished. Let's go with that, this is unfinished, and it damn well shows.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 07/01/2026

I was unclear on what the difference between "stayed here" and "visited here" was, so I assumed "stayed here" means I slept over, "visited" means I spent some hours stopped, and "stopped" means, like, I got out of the car. I don't know if that's the intention. tenpages.github.io/us-level/us....

A stylized map of states in the United States in which Alabama, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Massachusetts are marked as "lived here;" New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, DC, Virginia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Florida, California, and Washington are marked "stayed here;" Kansas, West Virginia, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Maine are marked "visited here;" Georgia and Minnesota are marked "stopped here;" Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, and Wisconsin are marked "passed here;" North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Alaska are marked "want to be here;" and every other state is marked "never been here." Astute viewers will see my aversion to heat coming into play here.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 15/12/2025

The odds are not in your favor.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 10/12/2025

Consequences for the techbro types. That's the key to a functional society.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 05/12/2025

An annual tradition, slightly delayed by illness. But now the tree is up and we're enjoying one of the best Christmas movies available.

A television showing Gonzo and Rizzo looking into the camera during A Muppet Christmas Carol, next to a Christmas tree with multicolored lights, an array of varied ornaments, and topped with a black top hat.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 02/12/2025

We opened our livestream last night with a discussion on twitch drops, taking Amazon's money, and not being as cool as Josh Johnson.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 26/11/2025

As we enter the "is [x] a Christmas movie?" season, I cast my vote for "every movie except the one you're thinking about is a Christmas movie."

A picture of Oscar Wilde with the text, "every movie is a Christmas movie except Christmas movies / Christmas movies are about power" Astute readers may recall that what he actually said is "everything is about sex except for sex. Sex is about power." Which makes a lot more sense but doesn't work for this post.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 22/11/2025

You might not like it, ladies, but this is apparently what peak performance looks like. According to TikTok filters. Yet more impossible standards for women.

A white man in his forties with dark eyes and brown hair and eyeborws, a short-cut gotee, bags under his eyes, shaved sides of his head, and some hair on the very top pulled back. He's wearing a hoodie.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 27/09/2025

IT'S BEEN FALL FOR LESS THAN A WEEK

An aisle in Walmart that has been staged for Christmas stock and already has Christmas inventory on the shelves. Admittedly, not much Christmas stock, but I mean, it's September.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 26/07/2025

No cheating, post your lock screen. It's art I made for my urban fantasy and paranormal horror book series that I happen to be particularly proud of.

A digital painting split in half horizontally. On the top half is a night scene in a forest, with a mass of trees in the background and two large pine trees on either side of the foreground. Between the pine trees is a full moon hanging low in the sky. The bottom half is black with faint soil texture, with a gray church upside down. The church looks decayed, with broken stain glass and a glitchy aura around its outline. The roots from the pines stretch across the top of the bottom half, partly wrapping around or breaking into the church. There is an analog clock near the top, white numbers and white hands indicating the time as 11:43. Just above that is the date of Friday, July 25, with a crescent moon icon and the temperature of 72°. Near the bottom is white text indicating the battery level is at 40% and it will be full in 1 hour 38 minutes. The phone is connected to AT&T.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 25/07/2025

I lost many VHS tapes over the course of moves and lending them to people and damage. The last one I owned was Buffalo Soldiers, a film set in the last days of the Berlin wall and following a guy more committed to drugs, sex, and theft than his job in the US Army. I might still have it, actually.

Poster art for the movie "Buffalo Soldiers," which has the title at the bottom third with a cast list embedded between the two words. That cast list is Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, and Anna Paquin. At the bottom is the tagline, "Steal all that you can steal." The poster has a dirty red background, with Joaquin Phoenix on the left in a white shirt and black jacket, holding a lit blunt with cash sticking out of his breast pocket. Anna Paquin, in a black leather jacket, is behind and partially leaning on him. On the right edge of the image, Ed Harris stands in a dark jacket. All three are looking at the viewer.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 04/07/2025

Anyway, my pne friend asked me to keep an eye out for any oak pallets because he needed some, so today I sent him, Good news: I think I found some oak pallets. Bad news:

A tall pile of pallets with an outhouse on the top of it.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 19/06/2025

Human artists? Use one piece to convince people to follow you!

A mostly grayscale digital painting scene split in half vertically by the ground level. Above the ground, a man walks away from the viewer into a forest, framed by two large pine trees, under a full moon. Underground, the roots of the trees are entangled with an upside-down church that shows signs of decay and has glitchy shapes around it. In the doorway of the church is a flying raven.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 27/05/2025

Age yourself with a toy from your childhood. I don't remember when I got my own My Buddy doll, but the original style (before Playskool got a hold of the brand in the 90s), which is what I had, started production the year I turned 3 and went out of production around the time I started kindergarten.

A "My Buddy" doll, in its original packaging, which consisted of a high cardboard back, tapered sides, and low front that looks like the doll is sitting up in a wooden structure with "My Buddy: A Real Pal" written on the front and sides. The doll itself is a white boy with blue eyes, freckles, a blue baseball cap, red overalls, blue shoes, and a multicolored horizontal stripe long-sleeve shirt.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 19/05/2025

Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know. openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac... You know what, this checks out.

A photograph of Fox Mulder, from The X-Files.

Photograph of Connor MacManus, from The Boondock Saints.

Photograph of Dr. Sean Maguire, from Good Will Hunting.

Photograph of Gandalf, from the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies.

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 10/05/2025

I asked my wife if the custom-made dice we had as party favors (each guest had a pair of them at their seat) were the nerdiest part of our wedding, and she said, "probably."

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Tej @themightytej.northsky.social · 11/04/2025

Ah, yes. The fabled April "showers."

A photograph of a paved rural street lined with trees. The trees have no leaves. The trees and the ground and a small building just visible through the trees, but not the street, are covered in a layer of snow thick enough to lack any significant gaps. It is actively snowing, but I honestly can't tell if you can see that in the picture. Just know it, in your heart, that when I took this picture, there was snow actively falling on me, as this fact influences the reason this picture exists.

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