heliomass

heliomass, 2 months ago to Montreal

📖 “The Money Pit That Is Montreal’s Olympic Stadium” https://thewalrus.ca/montreal-olympic-stadium/

As much as I like the stadium as a piece of unique architecture, I say nuke it and build a TOD with affordable housing by the two metro stations.

#Montreal

heliomass, 2 months ago to random

📺 “Airports are a Stain on Our Society” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPIu6_pbIs0

heliomass, 2 months ago to random

📺 “Dark Forest: Should We NOT Contact Aliens?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXYf47euE3U

heliomass, 2 months ago to random

Regret is having chilli for lunch, and then realising after the fact there was a giant bag of nachos in one of the cupboards.

straphanger, 2 months ago to random

TIRED: Those raucous pedal pubs that poison "party-towns."

WIRED*: The SpåraKoff, the Pub Tram of #Helsinki, Finland, where you can drink your Olut in peace, without annoying everyone in the city.

• As in, Overhead Wired.

🚋🍺🧵

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heliomass, 2 months ago to Montreal

“City of Montreal encourages tenants to register their rent to help curb soaring rental prices” https://cultmtl.com/2024/03/city-of-montreal-encourages-tenants-to-register-their-rent-to-help-curb-soaring-rental-prices/

#Montreal

heliomass, 2 months ago to random

📖 “‘A portal to a new world’: when the Trocadero was the centre of the video game universe” https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/mar/18/trocadero-london-arcade-segaworld-funland-portal-troc

heliomass, 2 months ago to Canada

📺 “This is The City to Beat on Housing Reform” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoblQBTQDwo

I’d never given Edmonton much thought for good urbanism, but this looks very promising.

#Canada #housing #urbanism

jfmezei, 2 months ago to random

@heliomass looking at your status reports over time, I am starting to suspect that the STM is playing politics here to augment outages to justify gettinf more money. They have switches at Frontenac, so no sure why they need to stop servive to Viau. There seems to be a LOT of outages that take out service over a much greater area than appears necessary.

heliomass, 2 months ago to random

It annoys me intensely there’s still good content on birdsite.
https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/112153458720146348

heliomass, 2 months ago to random

“Equipment on the tracks problem” 🤔

My mind is racing.
https://mstdn.ca/

Phil_James, 2 months ago to music

My albums of the week #music #albums #lastfm

jfmezei, 2 months ago to random

@heliomass Your assertion that spring has arrived will eventually become true (by mid june ...) 🙂

heliomass, 2 months ago to random

Always, in my life, is the feeling that DNS latency is letting me down.

heliomass, 2 months ago to transit

🚇 New on the blog today! Station Stories: Peel – https://heliomass.com/posts/2402-station-stories-peel/

In the first of a new series exploring random stations, we visit a brutalist gem in downtown Montreal.

#transit #Montreal #architecture #brutalism

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heliomass, 2 months ago to random

Ended up running into a macOS issue which completely broke the Find Items Shortcuts action for @things. Turns out this Shortcuts bug even affects Apple’s own apps.

Annoyingly, this has crippled a personal shortcut I depend on at work.

There’s something amiss at Apple when they keep managing to break Shortcuts with such frequency, and often in a way where it looks like it’s the fault of an app misbehaving. That’s completely unfair to app developers who surely have to take the initial blowback.