This is so fash

In the grand tradition of my people, here's a plate of freshly fried oliebollen. Wishing you all the best for the coming year. #newYear #olliebollen #Netherlands #NewJersey #food #foodSky 🍽️

From street fairs to gallery shows, 2025 was full of creative milestones. Here is my artistic year in review and a sneak peek at my upcoming solo museum show. art.monospace.com/newsletter/

I’m pleased to announce my upcoming solo exhibition, Reflected Lowlands: Wetlands on the Urban Edge, on view at the Hoboken Historical Museum’s Upper Gallery from January 25 through March 8. Live-streaming interview by museum director Bob Foster on January 23, 7pm. art.monospace.com #art #artSky

Last market of the season, and then I start preparing for my big solo exhibition at the Hoboken Historical Museum in 2026 I’ll tell you all about that in a later post. See you Sunday at the Jackson Street Plaza in Hoboken NJ. art.monospace.com

#artAdventCalendar Sunset over the mudflats in DeKorte Park in the New Jersey Meadowlands. Acrylic on canvas panel, 4”x4”, private collection. art.monospace.com/dekorte-park... #art #artSky #fineArt #acrylic #landscapeArt #NewJersey

#artAdventCalendar Hackensack River County Park, Hackensack, NJ (#3) Format: Painting Medium: Casein Surface: Paper Size: 10" × 8" Year: 2025 On view at The Collective Hoboken

#artAdventCalendar My piece “Ducks in a Pond, Mill Creek Marsh”, displayed in the front window of Louise & Jerry’s Tavern during the Hoboken Art Walk, October 2025. art.monospace.com/ducks-in-a-p...

It’s been a while since I posted a picture of Fritz. So here you go. #cats #catsOfBluesky

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

conservatives used to mock anti-vaxxers as clueless libs but as soon as it became associated with the right it took over the party and became a mainstream threat to public health

Het fascisme van onze tijd kondigt zich zelden aan met laarzen en vlaggen. Vaker verschijnt het in de gedaante van spreadsheets, coalitieakkoorden en de geruststellende taal van het redelijke midden, waarin elke politieke keuze wordt gepresenteerd als onvermijdelijk.

This weekend I’ll be showing my work at two markets: Night Owl Holiday Market 🗓 Saturday, 12/13, 4–8 pm Highland Park, NJ Tenafly Holiday Fair 🗓 Sunday, 12/14,| 12–5pm Tenafly, NJ Stop by to see my latest paintings, and find something unique for your collection. art.monospace.com/market-dates/

And this is why gen AI is by no means the beginning of some new era of 'democratized' cultural production, but just the obvious next step of the cultural industry making the mass production of branded & standardized content even more efficient & normative

“Huuu zal zo vaart niet lopen” Ja, dat zeiden een hoop hele deskundige mensen afgelopen november ook over de tweede termijn van Trump. Het loopt wèl degelijk zo vaart. En erger.

I’ve been doing this at my markets and it’s a fun way to interact with potential customers. #guessWhere Find out about my upcoming markets, events, and exhibitions at art.monospace.com #art #artSky #fineArt #acrylic #penAndInk #landscapeArt #urbanSketching #NewJersey

#artAdventCalendar Taking reference photos on a visit to Pittsburgh. Fresh, affordable landscape art: art.monospace.com

#artAdventCalendar Sunset over the Hudson, as seen from The Bronx. Waxed casein on laminated MDF, 14”x11”. Private collection. Affordable art and custom orders: art.monospace.com #art #artSky #fineArt #casein #landscapeArt #HudsonRiver #TheBronx

been having too many people blaming Americans for the abuse we are enduring right now and they seemed to get really upset when you point out that they are basically siding with the abuser in a domestic abuse situation America has been under attack from these monsters for 50 FUCKING YEARS

Lots going on this weekend! I'll be at the Art House Affordable Art Show opening in Jersey City this evening. Saturday, I'll be at the Heights Holiday Market in Riverview Park. Sunday, I'll be at the Holiday Artisan Market at the Jackson Street Plaza in Hoboken. See the events page for details.

#artAdventCalendar Autumn sunset at Mill Creek Marsh in the New Jersey Meadowlands. Gouache on paper, 10”x8”. art.monospace.com #art #artSky #fineArt #landscapeArt

A container ship and gantry cranes in the Port of Bayonne. Black and sepia ink on paper. art.monospace.com #artAdventCalendar #art #artSky #fineArt #NewJersey

changing my title to secretary of war and immediately wetting my pants after doing war crimes in front of everyone

I missed the start of #artAdventCalendar yesterday (I was too busy artsing) so here’s a photo of Fritz checking a sketch I did of Desmond’s Tavern a while ago. More at art.monospace.com

This is my foiled portrait of a horse! #art #animal #horse #sciart #printart #handmade

The Gaza Health Ministry says more than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, with attacks continuing despite the ceasefire deal that came into effect last month. 🔗: aje.io/kunho7 | #Infograph

Today I learned that Wilhoit's Maxim— "Under conservatism, there are in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, and out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect"— was enshrined in Nazi Germany under the "Dual State Theory." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Joe Biden was old but he wasn’t a fucking xenophobic racist dictator wannabe.

If you have the option, shop at Lowe’s instead of Homeland Depot.

Young men nowadays are not more conservative than before. If anything, that’s a distortion perpetuated by focusing too much on what happens in adolescents’ online spaces.

I’m just a naïve professor of politics, but it seems to me that it wouldn’t be *that* hard to mandate that every data center project add sufficient renewable capacity to zero out its impact on the grid. … and when the bubble bursts we’d at least be left with *some* kind of economic & social good.

Here are eighty-one (81) of my miniature landscapes, available in person at select Artisan Markets throughout Northern New Jersey this holiday season, and online starting this coming "Cyber" Monday. Shop small, shop local. More info at art.monospace.com #art #artSky #fineArt

Fuck “AI”. Make art.

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.

Well this 2,600-year-old clay letter was a journey. It comes from the archive of a goldsmith named Nabû-zeru-iddin in the heart of ancient Assyria. We’ve got someone left on read, a lawsuit, a mean step-mom, and people who get drunk and steal silver.

I have two pieces at this year's Art House Gallery Affordable Art Show in Jersey City: December 5—January 24. All works under $500. Lots more to peruse at my website: art.monospace.com #art #artSky #fineArt #ArtHouseGallery #landscapeArt #NewJersey

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Found this in my FB “memories”, from 17 years ago. Still one of my favorite YouTube videos, ever. The internet, indeed the world, was a different place back then.

It’s software. Endless lines of code running on millions of machines in airconditioned warehouses. Nifty, for sure. But still just software. A finely tuned probability engine. Not particularly intelligent, and certainly not conscious. Always remind yourself of that.

It sure took them long enough. The Netherlands has a bit of a fascist disinformation problem.

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

AI coding has revealed just how many people in our industry don’t appreciate that for any long lived code the cost of initial implementaion is absolutely dwarfed by the cost of maintenance. So much that for long lived projects we can consider: cost of code = cost of maintenance.

This chimes with our new open-access @polcommjournal.bsky.social study of French-language immigration posts, which shows how far-right users flood feeds with hyper-partisan sources for political purposes: doi.org/10.1080/1058...

LLMs aren’t “neutral” by default — they’re products. Products reflect the goals, risk tolerance, and incentives of the companies that build them.

He doesn't even need to do much "pushing", as our billionaire owned media are more than happy to oblige.

Wanneer je tante hardop je tweets voorleest tijdens het kerstdiner.