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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴
@markus.polyscopic.works
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Hacker and builder based in Brussels. I like house music, naked spa and psychonautics. polyscopic.works is a starting point.
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Photo of a man in a suit with a sousaphone instrument, in front of a film set.
December 21, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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Hittar inga bra bilder just nu, men den här visar ändå lite hur stökigt och litet det är.
Photo behind the scenes of a film shoot.
December 21, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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Blue sky with silhouettes of trees.
November 30, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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a ceiling i saw tonight. i just think it’s neat.
A blue ceiling with hand-painted zodiac signs and other creatures and a red banner with the word ”Antinous”.
November 29, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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Belgium: ”of course we’re trying to deal with our colonialist past”

Belgium trying to deal with its colonialist past:
Text from a statue plaque: ”THE MONUMENT OF LIPPENS AND DE BRUYNE. Lieutenant Lippens and, from Blankenberge, sergeant De Bruyne both served in the colonial army of King Leopold Il in the Congo Free State. Involved in the complex war on eastern Congo, ivory trade and slavery, they were killed in 1892 during the Arab campaign near Kasango. A monument by sculptor Guillaume Charlier of Brussels was placed through an initiative of former colonialists. The inauguration took place on September 9, 1900. During World War I, the Germans stole the bronze statues. On Septem- ber 10, 1922 the statue now with naked woman and child, was inaugurated for the second time.”
November 24, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Calm sea in Blankenberge.
Daytime seaside view with layer of clouds and sun over a beach, mostly shadowed by buildings behind the camera.
November 24, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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Spooky sea in Blankenberge.
A night view of a seaside beach with some clouds and out at sea a string of red lights.
November 23, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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One of the very first digital photos I ever shot was on a camera very similar to this. I know, because I did a test in a mirror:
Photo of me holding a digital camera in a mirror.
November 20, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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I learned just the other day that Audrey Hepburn was born around the corner from where I live.
A sign on a house facade that reads ”Cercle d’Histoire Locale d’Ixelles. Ici naquit le 4 mai 1929 la comedienne Audrey Hepburn.”
November 20, 2024 at 1:03 AM
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Just autumn doing autumn stuff in Brussels.
A street light illuminating a tree with yellow and orange leaves, at night.
November 20, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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Did ”the archipelago is so beautiful… oh, mosquitoes” for the first time in years.
Archipelago sunset view with islands along the skyline.
May 27, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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Photo of a Wall Street type guy looking at the camera, with the caption ”Ever since I was a little boy I have wanted to send and receive emails”
May 5, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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What the fuck is going on?
Instagram post by Regina Spektor: ”200 days First Seder came and went And you don't know it yet But we can quiet your chants With melodies and tastes of bitter herbs. They make us tear, but clear our heads as well. We see you, little pharaohs, with your dreams of From the river to sea, and ocean too. You cannot wash away your sins with salty water or our name. Blood libel comes so easy to your lips. Imaginary poisoned wells again. We put mezuzahs by our doors again. We light the candles, say our prayers again. We open doors to see the moon While you, our kind harasser, never ask yourself "How long will I be adding To the troubles of the Jews?" Is there a date or must the streets run red with blood again? Don't wait for that dark day, it will not come. While you repeat your history, we'll share ours. Bread of affliction tastes so sweet to us. We eat in gratitude, though there's an empty chair beside us.”
April 24, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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Sublime vibe in Brussels today.
A park with a field of flowers in the foreground and a triumph arc and trees in the background, under a blue sky with a few clouds and a lot of sun.
April 8, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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They put too much red in the tulips here.
A group of very red tulips outdoors.
March 27, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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Café Kastar, Bruxelles
Bathroom wall tagged with the devise ”Ni Dieu ni maître” and an Anarchist A.
March 6, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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Sunday view.
View of a blue sky with thin clouds over several buildings with reflective windows, through an oval-shaped window.
January 28, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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Order restored.
Screenshot of the weather app showing Ixelles with mostly wind and rain and temperatures around 10 C all the time every day.
January 22, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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Every day, in every way, I get incentives to get better at French.
A book in two volumes: Histoire Universelle des Sectes et des Sociétés Secrètes.
January 22, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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𝑆ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑘 𝑅𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑛𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑝 (Unknown artist, 2024)
Screenshot from Instagram with a sponsored post for a Shrek Rave in Antwerp with a photo of two people at a stage with mics, dressed up as Shrek characters.
January 18, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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REJECT knowledgeable audiences
EMBRACE whimsy
Screenshot of a grammar tool that suggests replacing "whimsy" with "whim" because "Even a Knowledgeable Audience might be unfamiliar with the word whimsy."
January 15, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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Lake Geneva from the moat of Château de Chillon.
Clouds and fog over mountains surrounding a lake with bridges in the foreground.
January 9, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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New year, new sunsets.
Empty sidewalk lined with trees, under an early sunset, casting long shadows.
January 1, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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Look at this ancient* relic.

* from July.
Screenshot of a merged pull request on GitHub: ”Desanctify hellthread. dholms merged 2 commits into main from remove-blessed-hellthread 7 hours ago.”
December 29, 2023 at 2:59 AM
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This guy.
Screenshot of a Wikipedia article with the text: The original aim of de Garis' work was to establish the field of "brain building" (a term of his invention) and to "create a trillion dollar industry within 20 years". Throughout the 90s his papers claimed that by 2001 the ATR "Robokoneko" (translation: kitten robot) project would develop a billion-neuron "cellular automata machine brain" (CAM-brain), with "computational power equivalent to 10,000 pentiums" that could simulate the brain of a real cat. de Garis received a US$0.4 million "fat brain building grant" to develop this. The first "CAM-brain" was delivered to ATR in 1999. After receiving a further US$1 million grant at Starlab de Garis failed to deliver a working "brain" before Starlab's bankruptcy. At USU de Garis announced he was establishing a "brain builder" group to create a second generation "CAM-brain".
December 28, 2023 at 10:42 PM