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Artist. Immigrant. Citizen. Dutch uncle.

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Hens Breet @monospace.com · Oct 11
My website just got a big update! You can now order my artworks directly online.

I built a custom ordering system for originals and commissions — landscapes, urban sketches, or personalized pieces. Simple, secure, and ready for you.

Check it out: art.monospace.com

#art #artSky #fineArt
monospace ART | Landscape Paintings & Urban Sketches by Hens Breet
Explore landscape paintings and urban sketches by Hens Breet at monospace ART.
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Many modern day Tech Guys are not classically trained engineers but smooth talking marketing dudes.

(No reason why they couldn’t also be well-read but it’s a different mindset.)
jowiph.bsky.social Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 13h
This is absolutely the case. Tech Guys of previous generations, to the extent that that category can be read back into the 19th and 20th centuries, were shockingly well-read by modern standards
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h
it’s also notable how the techbros of today really don’t read *books* anymore - this was really not the case for the Tech Guys of earlier generations, far as I’ve been able to tell
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Again, not a triptych, but using the same palette. Three scenes from a Christmas Day walk on the Goosepond trail near Chester, NY, in 2012 or so.

Acrylic on canvas panels, 4”x4”.

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#art #artSky #fineArt #acrylic #snow #landscapeArt #trail #NewYorkState
The image shows three small landscape paintings on a wooden work surface. Each painting depicts a winter scene with snow patches, leafless trees, and distant hills under a pale sky. • The left painting shows a winding path leading toward a hazy mountain ridge, with dry grasses and traces of melting snow. • The middle painting presents a forest path bordered by bare trees, with snow-covered ground and darker, shadowed tones creating depth. • The right painting features a woodland edge with scattered snow and a cool, blue-gray hill in the distance, framed by slender tree trunks.
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Tteokbokki is a delightful dish and super easy to make at home. Just get a bag of rice cakes, some fish cakes, gochujang, and you can improvise the rest. I added homemade chicken stock, dashi powder, scallions cilantro, a boiled egg, and a dash of cream to make it “rosé.”

#food #homeCooking 🍽️
Tteokbokki “rosé”
Tteokbokki is a delightful dish and super easy to make at home. Just get a bag of rice cakes, some fish cakes, gochujang, and you can improvise the rest. I added homemade chicken stock, dashi powder, ...
food.monospace.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Two miniatures. Even if they’re not triptychs, it’s efficient to use the same palette for multiple paintings. Both of these scenes are from reference photos of a drive through the Poconos on a rainy day last August.

Acrylic on canvas, 4”x4”.
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#art #artSky #acrylic #landscapeArt
Small landscape painting of a misty forested hillside under a pale blue sky. Dark evergreen trees stand tall in the foreground, with lighter green and bluish tones suggesting distant hills fading into fog. Small landscape painting of soft green hills and trees receding into mist. The foreground shows loose dark-green foliage, while pale blue-gray tones in the background create a hazy, atmospheric distance beneath a light sky.
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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silverseafoam.cryptoanarchy.network
Between Link being banned and Sarah Kendzior being suspended, the people on here who have been speaking truth to power are getting erased...and that does not bode well for us all.
edroso.bsky.social Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 1d
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
Sarah Kendzior • 4m I've been suspended from BlueSky. I don't know why. I wasn't online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation. It seems there's a crackdown. If you enjoy my work and want to make sure you can access it, subscribe! It's free - I would never paywall in times of peril — and voluntary paying subscribers keep it going. It would be great to have your support at this time. Thanks!
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
monospace.com
“Any simulation is inherently algorithmic—it must follow programmed rules,” he says. “But since the fundamental level of reality is based on non-algorithmic understanding, the universe cannot be, and could never be, a simulation.”

Same reason why “Artificial General Intelligence” is impossible.
riannejar.bsky.social Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 1d
Physicists prove the #Universe is NOT a #SIMULATION [via UBC Okanagan] 🧪🥼🌌❌🔢

“[From] [math] theorems [of] incompleteness and indefinability, we [show] that a fully consistent and complete description of reality cannot be achieved through #computation alone”

news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/10/30/u...

#real
UBCO study debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation - UBC's Okanagan News
New study uses logic and physics to definitively answer one of science's biggest questions
news.ok.ubc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Twin Star Orchards in New Paltz, NY, August 2025.

Acrylic on laminated mdf panel, 10”x8”.

art.monospace.com #art #artSky #fineArt #acrylic #orchard #landscapeArt #NewPaltz #NewYork
This painting portrays a sunlit orchard beneath a wide, blue summer sky. A pale dirt road curves gracefully through the foreground, drawing the viewer’s eye toward the distant horizon. Rows of fruit trees flank the path, their canopies rendered in rich, varied greens that catch the light and shadow of the afternoon sun. In the background, a dense tree line separates the orchard from the open sky, where thin white clouds stretch across the calm expanse. The composition balances structure and openness — the ordered rhythm of the orchard contrasting with the winding road and free-flowing sky — evoking a quiet, spacious rural atmosphere.
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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junlper.beer
it’s moments like today that make it really clear that it was imperative for zohran mamdani to oust andrew cuomo and prevent all these republican-lites from controlling anything
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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anatosaurus.bsky.social
Credit where due, fucking with air travel was genius MAGA move. It impacts upper & middle class and, more importantly, a powerful business interest. Starving millions of poor people doesn't piss off Wall St.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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sandy.meangirls.online
now trump gets to be like “we don’t know what the shutdown was about, democrats just held the country hostage for 2 months for no reason” and he would be sort of correct
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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notdred.bsky.social
There is literally only one strategy and that is to take your ball and go home and let the party that controls the entire government figure out the mess they’ve created
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
The smartest thing a politician can do in 2026 is to come up with a bold plan for shoring up and EXPANDING public libraries. Call it Project 2050. It's a way to reintroduce the grammar of commoning and the commons to a new generation in a way they can easily grasp. Such low hanging fruit.
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
The Gospel of Professional Christian Mike Johnson:
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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casmudde.bsky.social
Of course Gavin Newsom also speaks about the “crisis” of men in the US, as always adopting the framing of the far right. Not a peep about the progressive turn of young women? Let alone how they could power the Democratic Party?
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask.

Cowards
November 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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kiswanson.medsky.social
Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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thefarce.org
Why the Mamdani campaign must be the future of politics

In an era of rapid authoritarianism consolidation, what Mamdani has built isn’t just inspiration; it’s essential for preserving our freedoms.
Why the Mamdani campaign must be the future of politics
This is something we do, or it is done to us.
www.thefarce.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
monospace.com
The mighty Delaware is an impressive river no matter where you catch it. We were on Rte. 80 in the Poconos, on the way to Pittsburgh on a rainy day when we crossed it and took this quick snap.

Acrylic on MDF board, 10" × 8"

#art #artSky #fineArt #acrylic #landscapeArt #DelawareRiver #Poconos
Delaware River | monospace ART by Hens Breet
monospace ART by Hens Breet – landscape paintings and urban sketches.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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kevinpowers.bsky.social
Let's also call it what it is... they know what they are supporting is deeply unpopular and evil, which says more about them than anything and living on military bases keeps them from being publicly protested because they are snowflakes.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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deepseadawn.bsky.social
Thank you Andrea Foster (arfoster49 on Threads) for fixing the headline.
🧪
Images of the alternative NYT headline which reads: “James Watson, Who Stole the Structure of DNA, is Dead at 97. The theft, with Francis Crick, made him one of the most infamous scientists of the 20th century. He went on to write a memoir and later to ignite an uproar with racist views as an outspoken white supremecist.”
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.
Seven more families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT's role in suicides, delusions | TechCrunch
In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin had a conversation with ChatGPT that lasted more than four hours.
techcrunch.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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werd.io
It's still so weird to me that the idea of universal healthcare is so political here. It's a given in so many other places, and I miss it. And people don't realize how good it is for innovation. You can take so many more risks when your health and well-being aren't tied to a salaried employer.
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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thewanderingjew.bsky.social
we may have finally discovered the underlying problem: young men are dumb as rocks
maxread.info Max Read @maxread.info · 4d
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1 But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM