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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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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 25/12/2024
I just learned the French word for gender is "genre". Makes so much more sense. Correctly implies an infinite spectrum. What's your gender? Science fiction.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 24/12/2024
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) is a Christmas movie.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 23/12/2024
DJs put at least some kind of bio on your Resident Advisor page challenge [impossible]
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Just an incredible, damning headline.
The Times of Israel, December 20,2024: Netanyahu won’t attend Auschwitz’s liberation anniversary event, fearing arrest by Poland.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 18/12/2024
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte is the poster's Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. I can't explain.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 14/12/2024
when you create a new account on telegram and deny access to your contacts, the app still notifies every single user that has your phone number. this is one of many reasons telegram is known as best in class on privacy.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 02/12/2024
That is not what the article says. It says the EFJ itself will stop posting, not that all of its members will. If anyone cares.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 31/05/2023
Wait… skeet means ”sky tweet”? I feel both stupid and smart for thinking it had to do with skeet shooting. You know, where you launch little things into the blue sky. Also known as clay pigeons, because it’s originally about simulating killing birds… bird site…
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 02/05/2023
If you follow 20,000+ people, I will not follow you back, because you obviously can’t engage.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 01/12/2024
FINAL FANTASY VI (1994)
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 04/06/2023
ngl stands for not gonna lightmode
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 16/05/2023
People are going to remember the "social media wars", but do they remember The Succession Wars?
Selection screen from Heroes of Might and Magic 2: The Succession Wars.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 30/11/2024
Blue sky with silhouettes of trees.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 29/11/2024
also, here’s my reverse thread of blue skies.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 29/11/2024
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”.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 29/11/2024
the general solution to verification has the shape of a tree.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵
Saagar Enjeti tweets: "Probably a cold take but IMO Tokyo is the male fashion capital of the world: whether it’s western wear, suits, street wear the aesthetic is refined to the highest possible level

From the salaryman to the rebel teen they are impeccably dressed

It also helps no one is fat"
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 27/11/2024
The teacher is finally here.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 25/11/2024
actually, i updated this service with how to get "traditionally" verified on bluesky if you already have a verified e.g. instagram account. msg me your bluesky profile from your instagram, and the other way around, and you will get a verifysocial.org page that attests that cross-verification.
verifysocial.org
verifysocial.org
This website proves the owner of one social account is also the owner of another. Its primary use is for people on Bluesky to get “traditionally” verified.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 25/11/2024
Here’s an example: bsky.app/profile/jeri...
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 24/11/2024
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.”
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 24/11/2024
verification on here in the sense that people think of it on platforms such as instagram could be as simple as piggybacking on those platforms just via cross-verification. i created something like that with mastodon in mind a while ago, would work here too: verifysocial.org
verifysocial.org
verifysocial.org
This website proves the owner of one social account is also the owner of another. Its primary use is for people on Mastodon to link their Twitter account using Mastodon’s verification feature.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 24/11/2024
Calm sea in Blankenberge.
Daytime seaside view with layer of clouds and sun over a beach, mostly shadowed by buildings behind the camera.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 23/11/2024
Spooky sea in Blankenberge.
A night view of a seaside beach with some clouds and out at sea a string of red lights.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 22/11/2024
looks like my 2024 will outdo my record-setting 2023 in number of raves attended
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20/11/2024
Absolutely INCREDIBLE demonstration of what this platform can do: subscribe to this labeler and see which fancy private school different UK public figures on here went to, and how much those schools cost. bsky.app/profile/dadd...
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WhiskeyStu @whiskeystu.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
*A baker gatecrashes the Mathematics Symposium* [triumphant]"I have discovered a new kind of dozen."
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 20/11/2024
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.”
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 20/11/2024
Just autumn doing autumn stuff in Brussels.
A street light illuminating a tree with yellow and orange leaves, at night.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 20/11/2024
I wasted all my good skeets in 2023. Now, a mere shadow of my former account. Spent, exhausted, no… emaciated. Looking at the feast that is new Bluesky like Andersen’s little match girl peered into the tender flames.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as
"Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator.
"The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 15/11/2024
Y'all @rudyfraser.com maintains #Blacksky mostly by himself. It costs $3000 per month, and he's adding more servers to accommodate 🐦 folk so costs are rising. Let's support him! Click the link and scroll down to make a one time donation or a recurring $7 donation. Show ♥️ to the architect!
opencollective.com
Blacksky - Open Collective
An AT Protocol implementation built in Rust and prioritizing the community building efforts of marginalized groups; especially prioritizing Bluesky's community of Black users after which the project i...
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 15/11/2024
wow the feeds i made still work
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 15/11/2024
well well well, what’s happening here? hey @jcsalterego.bsky.social can you summarise the last five months of bluesky in one sentence?
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 16/07/2024
I just ordered pasta to go at a night-open hole in the wall, then waited outside on the curb, checking my phone. When the guy came out with my bag, a picture of pasta was coincidentally on my feed. I think he saw it and thought I had just spent the entire 10 minutes scrolling pasta, sooo eager.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 15/06/2024
Umm… Vince Gilligan is currently making a new sci-fi show starring Rhea Seehorn…!?
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 28/05/2024
Welcome to the Slow Internet portal: slowinternet.info
slowinternet.info
Slow Internet
Slow Internet is a vision of a more leisurely and inspiring virtual life. Three design principles offer a roadmap to reclaim the lost promise of the Internet.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 27/05/2024
I’d like everyone to DM me the most outrageous things they can think of. That’s what it’s for. I will remain unfazed. There is no amount of outrage that will cause me rage. DMs are now battlefields.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 27/05/2024
Did ”the archipelago is so beautiful… oh, mosquitoes” for the first time in years.
Archipelago sunset view with islands along the skyline.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 20/05/2024
What’s good in the Bay Area second half of June?
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 09/05/2024
Just remembered that Steve Albini recorded this. Out of this world.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 08/05/2024
you can't get more right than this RIP 👑
steve albini posts from 2022 responding to a guy saying 20 year olds should kill themselves working:

if you're working for somebody else, this is awful advice. in your 20s you're made out of rubber and nothing leaves a dent. live your fucking life drink all the drinks take all the drugs fuck anyone who'll have you stay up all night.  don't work a single minute off the clock.

you'll have the next sixty years to buckle down and be a professional, and by the time they give you your gold watch you won't have a mushroom guy in your phone any more.  I'm going to be 60 in a few weeks and I regret every hour of my life i traded for wages like I was robbed.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 05/05/2024
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”
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 24/04/2024
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.”
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 18/04/2024
"Of course I like to relax on a Thursday night" [Puts on Parfait's 2021 Boiler Room set projected on the living room wall with speakers on max, sips tea]
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 09/04/2024
Important update: I just talked to someone that actually went to this thing: "DON'T! Worst night out in ages. Dj just played 30 second fragmentS of top 40 stuff, constantly interrupted by the mc shouting at the crowd to drink more swamp juice (ONLY 9 EUROS AT THE BAR IN THE BACK!!!!!!!!!)"
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 08/04/2024
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.
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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
To copyright their look, clowns can submit their likeness to the Clowns International Group where their look will be painted onto an egg. This is then kept in the Clown Egg Register in the Dalston church where Grimaldi the Clown was buried in 1837. I did not make this up.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 27/03/2024
They put too much red in the tulips here.
A group of very red tulips outdoors.
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 13/03/2024
@jcsalterego.bsky.social Thanks for reposting, let me know if you think of anyone in particular – or, of course, if you're interested yourself :)
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