Heliomass
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🇨🇦🇬🇧 Transit / retro gaming / politics / cats Runs mainly on Yorkshire Tea and root beer. Blog: https://heliomass.com Correspondent for @lonrec.bsky.social Creator of @mtltransitstatusen.bsky.social On Mastodon too: https://mastodon.heliomass.com <*>
📖 | How to end rough sleeping in london Rough sleeping is complicated.
How to end rough sleeping in london
Plus: Hampstead Heath's new chain cafe review • Knightsbridge Ferrari rental scam • Can you spot the notable south London mum?
londoncentric.media
Doom 3 (2004) is now as old as Pitfall (1982) was when Doom 3 was released.
Good question! @englishrail.bsky.social @jonathanleetoronto.bsky.social @rmtransit.bsky.social @korichardson.bsky.social @sethlikestrains.bsky.social @chrislivett.bsky.social @jacktatttran.bsky.social What do you think?
Andrew Hunter@rexbron.bsky.social · last wk.So VIA is getting Stadler Battery-Diesel locomotives. I wonder if GO is going to buy the same locomotives given a refusal to rebuild Union station for overhead power. www.canada.ca/en/transport...
📺 | Downtown Halifax to 5k Café (Bayers Lake) Halifax’ bike infrastructure looks… pretty decent? #cycling #Halifax
Downtown Halifax to 5k Café (Bayers Lake)
In this video, I go on a requested trip by an out of town viewer wh...
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📖 | Under the Influence? A new report on alcohol at Westminster I’ve always wondered about how much government business is conducted under the influence.
liberalengland.blogspot.com
Impulse purchase from a charity shop. I remember doing some fun things with these at uni. Even though the book is quite old, I’m guessing these tools wouldn’t have changed that much over the years? (the previous owner seems to have bookmarked some pages on parsing SQL)
The Italian Navy’s training ship, the Amerigo Vespucci, paid a visit to Montreal’s Old Port this week. Really impressive to see up close, but having so many people there to see it made it difficult to get a good view.
📖 | Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font
Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font
ShieldFont is available today if you've got copy that needs protecting
theregister.com
Warning: Even Advisory System Level: Severe.
📖 | What is Britain’s second city?
What is Britain’s second city?
Manchester has the strongest case in the eyes of Britons
yougov.com
🔗 Holocloth is the coolest website I've seen in ages https://birchtree.me/blog/holocloth-is-the-coolest-website-ive-seen-in-ages/
Holocloth is the coolest website I've seen in ages
Good lord, play with this thing.
birchtree.me
@longbranchmike.bsky.social Seems positive they’re investing in the existing network in parallel with developing Alto.
𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇@taras-grescoe.com · last wk.THIS JUST IN: In #Canada, federal government announces almost $2B for 45 new battery-diesel Via Rail passenger locomotives The hybrid locos, first in North America, will be built by #Switzerland 's Stadler. 📷 Stadler's EUR9000 hybrid loco www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
📖 | DOOM on regex - find & replace as a computer This is impressive. I’m going to hope the RegEx wasn’t all coded by hand 😅
DOOM on regex - find & replace as a computer
4rh1t3ct0r7.github.io
📖 | Podcast Apps: A Framework for Dying Slowly with Dignity However this plays out, I’m glad my favourite podcast app is in the hands of someone who thinks so deeply about the medium.
Podcast Apps: A Framework for Dying Slowly with Dignity
Why I'm making the decisions I'm making for Castro
uncommonapps.nyc
📖 | This post title will not show until it is five minutes away. I think I may have discovered my favourite new transit blog. nowletsbeclear.substack.com/p/five-minut... #London #transit
This post title will not show until it is five minutes away.
It isn't good enough, but it's being fixed.
nowletsbeclear.substack.com
📰 | Risk of Parkinson’s disease may increase with prolonged exposure to road traffic noise
Risk of Parkinson’s disease may increase with prolonged exposure to road traffic noise
Pioneering study linking noise pollution to Parkinson’s finds 3% increase in risk for every 11.5dB rise in noise levels
theguardian.com
Yeah anyone recording you without your knowledge or consent is not your friend and framing them as such is an attempt at manufacturing consent for a suite of behaviors and a technosocial paradigm these people Know is wrong and are trying to justify to themselves. This is predator behavior.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w agoDefinitionally, these are not “friends.”
📖 | Chasing new skills, going back to basics and pushing for collective action: how software engineers are adapting to AI Too many sweeping opinions in this article from people who aren’t computer scientists or software engineers. Don’t believe all the hype.
Chasing new skills, going back to basics and pushing for collective action: how software engineers are adapting to AI
Software engineering was one of the best-paying professions in the US in 2022, but the advent of AI has disrupted it, leading to several layoffs and underemployment
theguardian.com
📖 | Random: "That Would Be Wonderful" - Count Binface Wants To Reboot London's SegaWorld I’ll be honest, this is a pretty good policy.
Random: "That Would Be Wonderful" - Count Binface Wants To Reboot London's SegaWorld
"Sonic The Hedgehog back in his prime"
timeextension.com
📖 | A blueprint for Canada’s food future As Ottawa invests billions in food security, Montreal’s urban farms are emerging as a model for local food production #Montreal
A blueprint for Canada’s food future
As Ottawa invests billions in food security, Montreal’s urban farms are emerging as a model for local food production
canadianaffairs.news
The Wide Wii of 2008: 4gamers' officially licensed 2.1 speaker system and base. Retailing for £70, it also included a Wiimote that functioned as a remote for it, and, as we can see, nunchuck styled satellite speakers.
📖 | How to tell if your boss is a narcissist: Scientists discover key new sign | BBC Science Focus Magazine Well, isn’t this interesting! 🤔
How to tell if your boss is a narcissist: Scientists discover key new sign | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Narcissists like to be admired in person, so may insist their team work in the office where they can enjoy being admired
sciencefocus.com
📖 | Norse by Northwest I think there’s a brand new prime minister who’d be interested in this… #tunnelling #Manchester #Sheffield
Norse by Northwest
Why I need to build a tunnel under the Pennines
limbostructure.substack.com
📰 | "Far too much business as usual": Transport for London fails to install a single cycle lane on its own network last year, damning new report finds #London #cycling
"Far too much business as usual": Transport for London fails to install a single cycle lane on its own network last year, damning new report finds
Transport for London did not install a single cycle lane on its own road network last year, instead relying on individual boroughs to build their own infrastructure, a new report shows.London’s Healthy...
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