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@nickyonge.bsky.social
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He/him, hi 🦆 “A cinnamon bun in a leather jacket” 🍊 It’s pronounced “young” 🪐 Playful design, mental health, queer anticapitalism, ducks ☀️ Electronics, artgineering, enthusiasm 🎨 @nickyonge everywhere 🌱

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Omg yeah. I lived in Ontario for a bit and being able to commute between small towns (Strathroy) to cities (London, Toronto) and even take trips out to Montreal or whatever by train was AMAZING. Like we’ve got the west coast express but a legit intercity rail network is something else entirely.
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This is the sound of removing King Arthur’s sword from the stone if it were held in by a MasterLock
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Soooo nice out today omg. I’m catsitting in New West, laying in a sunbeam with two lazy kitties atm
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Rude of you to end your day by knocking me out tbh
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I’m sorry but also not!
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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.com · 03/02/2026
I recently returned from an incredible trip to Antarctica and need everyone to see these penguins.
A penguin on a rocky shore facing the camera with its its wings extended and one leg raisedA penguin on a rocky shore with its back leg extended behind it and its head tilted at a rakish angle while looking at the cameraA parent penguin sitting on a rocky nest with two adorable fuzzy baby penguin chicks underneath itTwo penguins who appear to be having a conversation on a rocky shore looking to each other while one has its beak wide open and appears to be shouting at the other
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
www.wikihow.life/Make-a-Water...
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3 Ways to Make a Water Fountain - wikiHow Life
Water fountains are the perfect way to add a little Zen to your home, bringing beauty, calm, and nature to your doorstep. In this wikiHow you'll find three fountain designs, all of which can work indo...
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I feel like a dingus but I can’t stop giggling at The Mamarcade Fires And The Papas
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Jfc you’d think after running their “oops we’ll do better” non-apology update they’d at LEAST remove their affiliate sales links or page ads. It’s not “we made a mistake”, it’s “we’re getting Cancel Culture’d but we don’t really care so we’ll profit from the outrage”. Babby’s first war profiteering
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Me whenever that fucker hears me open a package of cookies
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Nanampbell River
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Nope but lol that’s absolutely something I tested for. String.charAt is… not an array 😭
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I just lost like half an hour to debugging a strong contender for my dumbest typo in the 2020s so far. Try and find it, this is JS. If it takes you fewer than thirty Gregorian minutes you're doing better than me. Brb gonna go eat chocolate because am baby.
It's a block of Javascript for a string function called count. I guess I'll just copypaste the whole thing into the alt text? I can't believe it fits lol 


String.prototype.count = function (countString, allowOverlap = false) {
    if (isBlank(countString)) { return 0; }
    // a string cannot contain another string longer than itself
    if (countString.length > this.length) { return 0; }
    if (countString.length == this.length) { return this == countString ? 1 : 0; }
    let count = 0;
    switch (countString.length) {
        case 0:
            // theoretically this should already be caught, but, failsafe 
            return 0;
        case 1:
            // one character, simply iterate through the whole string 
            for (let i = 0; i < this.length; i++) {
                if (this.charAt(i) == countString) { count++; }
            }
            return count;
        default:
            // more than one character 
            // optimization, don't substring unless first char matches 
            let firstChar = countString.charAt(0);
            // optimization, only search to this length minus one less target length 
            for (let i = 0; i < this.length - (countString.length - 1); i++) {
                if (this.charAt(i) == firstChar) {
                    let sub = this.substring(i, i + countString.length);
                    if (sub == countString) { count++; }
                    // if overlapping values aren't allowed, skip ahead 
                    if (!allowOverlap) {
                        i += countString.length - 1;
                    }
                }
            }
            return count;
    }
};
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
He’s a bootleg Spongebob who fucks. He’s perfect.
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Oh my gosh! I absolutely do remember :) that’s wild, yeah I’d be down with that. I’ll try and dig up the old files, I suspect I’d be able to but it might take a bit. Can you DM me your email?
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Drew an amblypygi, or tailless whip scorpion. They’re sweethearts! Fully harmless to humans, and among the only arachnids to exhibit social bonds - mother/child, and even siblings, grooming each other. Taking lil art breaks in between other projects is nice~ #sciart #insect #arachnid #procreate
Digitally drawn image of an amblypygi, an arachnid sorta halfway between a spider and a scorpion. It has six distinct legs, with its frontmost two legs having adapted into long slender “whips”, sensory limbs that give the bugfriend its name. Its pedipalps, grippy “arms” beside its mouth, are spiky and scary but harmless unless you’re a cricket or something. Its carapace is drawn purple and pink with a seafoam outline, against a pale yellow background. Colours are not true to life but stylistically chosen.
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
holy fuck IT LOOKS INCREDIBLE
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Oh mannnnnn, I'm reminded of this absolute bop that sampled his speech. Big nostalgia for 2000s-era chiptunes 💖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7IE...
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Untie and Unite
YouTube video by FantomenK
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Ooh that’d be a fun cross-section to draw! They’re kinda just upside-down pourovers :P
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I'm supposed to be cleaning right now, so naturally I drew this picture of how a coffee machine works instead :) #sciart #engineering #industrialdesign #productdesign
An illustration of how a coffee machine works! Water goes into the reservoir in the back, and flows into a tube around the bottom of the machine. The tube passes through the heating element, which both heats the water and the coffee carafe. The heated water becomes vapour, a mix of both liquid and gas. The hot vapour rises through the tube and passes a bubble valve, which lifts to allow rising water but lowers if water tries to backflow, ensuring water is forced up towards the grounds. A sprayer ensures the hot water is evenly dispersed over the grounds, which leach their delicious flavour into the water. The water then pours into the carafe, and you're left with a hot pot of fresh bean juice.
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Garden Birds if they talk, Sleepy Voles if they don’t 🥹
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I love you lol. You'll be happy to know that I make sure my maps ALWAYS include NZ
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Maps are fun but they're a LOT (Other hiccups include whether to draw the Aral Sea as a sea; where "Eurasia" is; and Iturup, that lil island north of Hokkaido that Russia and Japan both claim sovereignty of. Is the Iturup vector childed to Japan.svg or Russia.svg? I just wanna draw pretty maps lol)
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
But oh my GOSH there's so many differences and alternatives (Australasia, Meganesia, Sahul, Australinea, learning some cool new words today) and even the Wikipedia article itself bounces between Australia and Oceania in different sections.
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Some sources refer to Oceania as a "geographic region", not a "continent", and I'm reminded of that XKCD comic that's like [There are 14 standards] "That's too many standards, we need one universal standard to simplify and unify everything!" [There are now 15 standards]
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The english speaking world usually uses "Australia" as the country and continent name, and dependd on context to clarify which. But, geographers - and like the entire non-English speaking world - tend to use Oceania, which is what I'm gonna use.
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Labeling maps is a WHOLE THING. Like, just the names of the continents - specifically, Australia / Oceania.
A screenshot of the art app Procreate, with a world map graphic that has Australia in the center. Above it in large text is the word "Oceania".
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Making closed captions is fucking delightful and I apologize in advance if this messes with anybody’s screenreader.
Picture of a caption editor showing a still image from a video. The text caption at the bottom reads “just walked everywhere”, the image shows me trying to paint a map projection onto a canvas while a cat strolls over my attempted art, and also there is secret bonus closed captions of a emoticon cat face. Emoticon, not emoji. We’re going OG MSN Messenger mIRC style baby.
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
It takes so much lot of trial and error to figure meds out but omg what a worthwhile endeavour 💖💖💖
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
So I take 2 med-strength dosages a day. Initially it really spiked my anxiety, so I just gave up coffee for a couple weeks til my body adapted. I was drinking coffee to wake myself up for productivity anyway, Vyvanse just GAVE me executive function, so, worthwhile tradeoff 😅
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Vyvanse enjoyer here :) or rather, Lisdexamfetamine, since it’s now genetically available (yay). It’s def critical for my executive function, I take it at a relatively high dose too. I found that a single dose wasn’t working out, the peak had me too anxious and it tapered off too quickly,
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Visualization of latitudinal and longitudinal distortion on the Grieger Triptychial map projection. You can see how landmasses end up being largely accurate, thanks to distortion being centered in the oceans. #sciart
Distortion of Latitude and Longitude visualized on the Grieger Triptychial world map projection. Three maps are visible, a Tissot indicatrix and two heatmaps, that show lat/long distortion. This map projection manages to make landmasses very accurate because centers of distortion are located in the oceans.

The Galápagos islands, given their location, happen to be comically oversized lol
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
SAF, flattery will get YOU everywhere and ME nowhere 🫠
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Side-by-side view
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Would love thoughts on which animation transition you prefer, simple (flat) or bumped. Having a hard time choosing. I've def lost objectivity over if the bump animation looks "good", and whether it takes away from the fact that the animated linework is superimposed over the painted lines.
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Video rendering 😪 I’m getting a blistering 5FPS on a ~3 minute 30FPS video. I hate tasks that both hold up your entire workflow and can be measured in “seconds per second”
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Ugh sorry you had to experience whatever prompted you to write this
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Animation I made for a project I’m working on involving map projections~
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I love that Green Day track
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Totally nails it. AI is a panacea for people who not only hate doing the work, but who don’t understand why our teachers asking us to “show your work” - annoying as it was - were right to ask it of us.
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Listing point 3 as point 3 is the biggest “you interrupted my goddamn lunch break” energy
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
1/8 Fun update on that GenAi Christies show. They lie quite a bit about their own show. Here’s a few: Lie #1 Christies says work on the show comes from data which was trained on participants own inputs in this article below: techcrunch.com/2025/02/08/c... This just isn’t the case.
"The artists represented in this sale all have strong, existing multidisciplinary art practices, some recognized in leading museum collections," said a Christie's spokesperson. "The works in this auction are using artificial intelligence to enhance their bodies of work and in most cases, Al is being employed in a controlled manner, with data trained on the artists' own inputs." Says Christies
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
God PCB layouts are gorgeous. Like this in and of itself would make an incredible print 😍
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The combat is great and feels very playful and rewarding! …it was the butts
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Tysm!! It’s definitely a labour of love haha
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
"Omg the cubes have eyes that's so cute - OH MY GOD"
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Progress! I'm making an animation that details the Grieger Triptychial world map projection. Frame-by-frame animation takes TIME but it's so fun and rewarding. Next up: highlighting the equator, and (time permitting) latitude and longitude in 15º increments. #animation #cartography #sciart
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
2/2 "...identity pieces to be just another opinion or belief. And they’re not. The pieces of who we are deserve to be held as they are.. This book helped me. I’m not sure what helps boomers. lol."
A link on the website Thriftbooks showing the cover of "A Quick & Eay Guide To Queer & Trans Identities, by Mady G & Jules Zuckerberg"
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
@fluttersprite.friendandfairy.space 1/2 From a friend: "To me, one of the things love looks like is trying to understand your Loves as fully as you can, even if you don’t get it or agree with it. I think that gets muddy for people if that they consider..."
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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I don’t, unfortunately, but I’ve (anonymously) asked a couple friends to see if they do. But, god, that’s so hard. I’m sorry you’ve got to experience that. Kudos for reaching out ❤️‍🩹💖
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