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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 · 21/12/2024

riktigt roy-coded bild det här

Photo of a man in a suit with a sousaphone instrument, in front of a film set.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 21/12/2024

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.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 30/11/2024

Blue sky with silhouettes of trees.

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”.

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.”

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.

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.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 20/11/2024

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.

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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.”

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.

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.

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”

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 · 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.

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.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 06/03/2024

Café Kastar, Bruxelles

Bathroom wall tagged with the devise ”Ni Dieu ni maître” and an Anarchist A.

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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 28/01/2024

Sunday view.

View of a blue sky with thin clouds over several buildings with reflective windows, through an oval-shaped window.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 22/01/2024

Order restored.

Screenshot of the weather app showing Ixelles with mostly wind and rain and temperatures around 10 C all the time every day.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 22/01/2024

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.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 18/01/2024

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.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 15/01/2024

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."

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 09/01/2024

Lake Geneva from the moat of Château de Chillon.

Clouds and fog over mountains surrounding a lake with bridges in the foreground.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 01/01/2024

New year, new sunsets.

Empty sidewalk lined with trees, under an early sunset, casting long shadows.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 29/12/2023

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.”

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 28/12/2023

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".

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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 25/12/2023

A kind of Christmas, the good kind.

Me at a roof terrace by a pool, the sun shining.

Sunset and a visible moon over a beach.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 16/12/2023

Ambitious festive lights.

A rooftop with lights and seven bright pillars of light towards the sky.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 05/12/2023

Happy Krampusnacht to those who celebrate!

Old postcard with illustration of Krampus with a crying boy in a sack on his back, and a girl praying in front of him.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 01/12/2023

Brussels–Amsterdam

Green field under a cloudy sky in the sunset, through a train window with reflections of me and my phone.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 30/11/2023

Flagey being gothic today.

Massive fog over a distant church and a pond with a fountain, some branches hanging over it.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 30/11/2023

Like most other years, I just find that one album, then listen to it.

Screenshot from Spotify Wrapped with ”My Top Songs” all five from the same album by Sofiane Pamart.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 20/11/2023

Cleaning out stuff from my old apartment.

3.5 inch floppy disk marked ”Windows 2000 Startdiskett 3”.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 15/11/2023

Blue sky with tower.

Blue sky with a few clouds over a round, pinkish apartment building/tower.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 10/11/2023

had to do it

My Letterboxd review of The Killer: ”this happened to my buddy eric”. Four stars and a like. Watched 10 November 2023.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 04/11/2023

Who will be the lucky one?

Screenshot of follower count on Bluesky: 499 followers.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 30/10/2023

”I felt a great disturbance in Cloudflare, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”

Screenshot of email inbox with 54 unread emails and all visible ones are from UptimeRobot saying another website is down.

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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 28/10/2023

Field of clouds from above, looking out of an airplane window.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 28/10/2023

They are sliming us.

Soaped up plane window with a service truck outside.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 28/10/2023

DEN–ORD

Gray sky and rain on a tarmac with parked planes.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 26/10/2023

A deer in the sunset on a mountain road with pine trees in the background.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 26/10/2023

Boulder is beautiful.

View over Boulder, Colorado from a mountain top.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 25/10/2023

How it started / How it’s going

Marquee at August Hall showing Blonde Redhead playing on October 16.

Marquee at The Gothic Theater showing Blonde Redhead playing on October 24.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 24/10/2023

Denver Gothic.

Mural painting of a woman in a forest, dressed in black, and a black bird sitting on her hand.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 22/10/2023

First impression of Denver: this place really is a mile high.

Blue alien holding a donut and doing the peace sign at the Denver International Airport.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 21/10/2023

SFO–DEN

View over a plane wing in the air with a blue sky and mountains in the background.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 16/10/2023

At the peaks.

View over San Francisco from Twin Peaks, on top of a terrace.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 12/10/2023

It’s a vibe.

Various occult-looking sculptures outdoors among trees, against a blue sky with sun.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 10/10/2023

Beautiful flight path today.

View from a plane window over snowy mountains in the sun.

View from a plane window over thick clouds.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 09/10/2023

BRU–SFO

Grey sky over an airport with a few United airlines planes parked.

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Markus Amalthea Magnuson 🌴 @markus.polyscopic.works · 05/10/2023

It’s a vibe.

A table and some empty chairs with a computer, all drenched in eerie red light at night.