Nick Funk 🇨🇦

Nick Funk 🇨🇦

@nickfunk.com

Founder of @tightropesoftware.com Former lead maintainer of coralproject.net. Previously, Senior Engineer @vox.com. Previously, redgiant.com. Canadian 🇨🇦

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Happy to report some positive results for daily driving Linux desktop I have confirmed that a used Lenovo from 2020 gets 2 more hours of coding done on Kubuntu than on Win 11 Gaming is also interesting. When running Baldur’s Gate 1, it runs for 4-5 hours in Linux but only gets 2 hours in Windows

Software support has been great as well. Did y’all know 1Pass has a custom version just for Wayland desktops? It provides an always on UI that is more streamlined than on Windows/macOS for finding and searching passwords I thought I’d need a new MacBook, instead I’m using a $300 old Lenovo

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Canada's best game in World Cup history with a hat trick ⚽️ by Jonathan David. & Canada's worst game in World Cup history with a brutal broken leg for Ismaël Koné. ❤️‍🩹 The team played in a state of shock for 50 brutal mins & won 6-0 after seeing their teammate's leg break. 🤍🇨🇦

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Cecilia Vega, the first 60 Minutes Latina correspondent, was fired today, along with some of her colleagues, as Bari Weiss overhauls the news magazine. She has released this statement:

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This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

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Rosa Parks gets the boot from Alberta’s education system.

NigelBankes@nigelb.bsky.social

There is a long philosophical tradition of civil disobedience from many different sources including Thoreau, Ghandi & Peter Singer. Alberta UCP Bill 25 will make it unlawful to teach about social change through the disobedience of laws. #abpoli #cdnpoli

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In case you missed it, Utrecht, Netherlands has begun building the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21.5K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge.

nltimes.nlUtrecht to start construction on largest car-free neighborhood in the country next weekConstruction of a new neighborhood is set to begin in Utrecht next week. The neighborhood, called Merwede, is scheduled to be the largest car-free district in the Netherlands, with 6,000 homes. The ar...

As usual, Tanya is crafting away in the basement making something awesome 🤩 She made a clay “painting” for the upcoming release of #TheLongDark Ep. 5 that she’s been working on over the last year So proud of you @manta-rain.bsky.social and congrats to everyone at @hinterland.bsky.social 🎉

Tatiana (Tanya) Funk@manta-rain.bsky.social

Really wanted to make something to celebrate TLD Wintermute Episode 5, so here are Astrid and Mackenzie in my first attempt to "paint" using polymer clay! I very much hope players enjoy the episode, and am so thankful I got to play a part in its completion ❄️❄️❄️ @thelongdark.bsky.social

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I get almost as many comments about how ugly or fat I am on my workout posts as I did on my posts before I started lifting. I’m not asking for sympathy. I just want to remind Black women that the point isn’t if we are pretty or skinny or not. The point is they want us to not exist.🙄

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Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."

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Anyway all of this is endemic of the mode through which we monetize video game development. It's shifted to offloading risk from the wealthy publisher that can afford it (tencent) to the poorer developer that cannot (wildlight) we don't have to make games like that aftermath.site/indie-game-p...

aftermath.siteMeet The Unconventional Publishers Trying To Unfuck The Games IndustryDevelopers turned publishers like Innersloth and Pocketpair are leveraging their success to help other indie games thrive.

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Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If we didn't do what we're doing right now, you would've had a nuclear war and they would've taken out many countries. Because you know what? They're sick people. They're mentally ill sick people. They're angry. They're crazy. They're sick. Thank you very much. Thank you very much everybody"

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They literally spent the past 4-plus years blasting Biden over the withdrawal from Afghanistan and how "rushed" it was.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Commercial air travel is severely restricted in the Middle East. Thousands of Americans are stranded. Why wasn't there an evacuation plan? TRUMP: Because it happened all very quickly

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1. The Supreme Court just handed down its 5th anti-trans decision in less than a year. It could lead to forced outing of trans youth across the country, with 40 cases pending that it may impact. It also forces CA teachers to misgender some trans students. Subscribe to support our journalism.

erininthemorning.comThe Supreme Court Just Handed Down Its Fifth Anti-Trans Decision In Less Than a YearThe decision could mandate forced outing of trans youth across America.

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The West can recognize it was a mistake for Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons because it left the door open to the invasion from Russia, but will not accept that countries like Iran and North Korea desire them to stop Western meddling and attacks.

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social

Ok its a funny meme that if Iran really did have nuclear weapons, they wouldnt be getting bombed right now by the worlds most fearsome air power. Their political and military leadership would not be killed, nor their misslie bases & air defences destroyed, nor their cities bombed.

Given how problematic Boy Scouts was when I was a kid, I’m not all that surprised they’re capitulating It’s sad though, my Dad was a troop leader and actively fought against bigoted ideas like this within our community Scouts returning to its hyper Christian roots… so disappointing 😔

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that under a new deal with Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, trans scouts will be forcibly outed and segregated from peers of their gender. The policy is the latest cruel capitulation. www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...

Back in the day, the Christian parents were rejecting any boys who weren’t Christian… or weren’t white… My Dad fought hard to let more people of any background join our troop… Ultimately though, he was overruled by the higher ups and forced to kick them out Boy Scouts is pretty close minded imo

Given that “AI” is backed by the richest people in the world… I think they can handle “solidly negative” and anyone arguing otherwise is should reevaluate why they they’re shilling so hard for billionaires who couldn’t care less about them In short: critique “AI” hard… they deserve it

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social

I've learned A LOT from @abeba.bsky.social and others working in this space, and I think there is positive value in critical work --- even when solidly negative on "AI", there are positive messages in there about the shape of scholarship that respects people looks like. >>

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This is it, right here, right now. The whole game. All his voter suppression, gerrymandering, and other election cheating has led to this. If Trump takes over elections, it’s game over for democracy in the United States. If the people aren’t willing to shut down the country over this, it’s over.

JB Pritzker@jbpritzker.bsky.social

Donald Trump’s plan to steal the 2026 midterm elections is already underway.

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This is not a good day for anyone to lecture me on how he can’t do this.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social

This is it, right here, right now. The whole game. All his voter suppression, gerrymandering, and other election cheating has led to this. If Trump takes over elections, it’s game over for democracy in the United States. If the people aren’t willing to shut down the country over this, it’s over.

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com

NEW: With Trump calling for a federal “take over of the voting,” state election officials asked the administration to publicly affirm a basic constitutional fact — that states run our elections. They were met with silence.

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A Nashville comedian created a fake ICE deportation tip line. Neighbors, coworkers and even a kindergarten teacher called in—trying to get families deported. Drew Harwell sits down with Sam Stein to discuss how a viral stunt became a window into America’s darkest impulses.