Nice, I didn’t realise they had any installed yet. /cc @ttcdoors.bsky.social

If you step back, it is truly extraordinary that so many people went to such great lengths and broke so many conventions and risked their political careers and the only outcome of all these efforts and risks was appointing a washed-up old spinner to an ambassadorial post

This gives me hope.

Tory MPs talking about Erasmus as if it’s a sleeper cell recruitment programme.

Fair point. I guess we’re not counting exo.

Surely this spot is now the new iconic Montreal transit photo?

A drone shot of a stretch of railway track curving through a cutting between a field and some woods. There are two sets of two tracks, and one has a train on it. At one end is a tunnel mouth and in the background are the two groups of skyscrapers of central London and the Docklands.

I had to screengrab this impressive shot from that video. This looks like the section of track on the East Coast Mainline between Hadley Wood North Tunnel and Potters Bar Tunnel, not far from my old stomping grounds. Looks amazing with central London framed in the background.

EXPLAINED: The work behind ETCS testing on the Welwyn Garden City to Hitchin stretch 🚆 YouTube video by Great Northern

📺 “The work behind ETCS testing on the Welwyn Garden City to Hitchin stretch 🚆” www.youtube.com/watch?v=Von4...

There's Bees Up Top Heliomass.com

🐝 From the archive: Did you know many of Montreal’s buildings house bee hives on top? We pay a visit to one in this post and try not to get stung.

#bees #Montreal

Great to see @transalt.org picking up our Women's Network campaigning & applying it to NYC. Piece touches on our campaigning to make cycling physically & socially safe & work beyond commuting for women: lcc.org.uk/campaigns/wo...

PS Take our Streets for Cycling action today! lcc.org.uk/streets

Friday Reads for 17 April * The government needs an infrastructure plan, w/ new Crossrails (Baldwin) * Flight cancellations loom as Strait of Hormuz closure triggers jet fuel crisis (E+T) * What if the DC Metro used Pictograms, & other pictogram ideas: Video (Trains Are Awesome) * The Night Ferry (Part 1) (Reading on Trains) * Why Japan has such

Friday Reads for 17 April:

Limbostructure What is stopping Leeds getting a tram?

📖 “Limbostructure” substack.com/home/post/p-...

What a great turn of phrase!

And you thought air travel couldn’t be enshittified further.

#Pinball

There’s something delightful in watching a tall structure try to rise into the clouds.

When it comes to work, forget inbox-zero, I’m all about meeting-zero.

The Junior Developer CRISIS: How to Build a Team When AI Does the Entry-Level Work Is a junior developer really comparable to AI? In this episode of Modern Software Engineering, Daniel Terhorst-North explores the junior vs senior developer dynamic and why equating a junior software…

📺 “The Junior Developer Crisis: How to Build a Team When AI Does the Entry-Level Work”

This is excellent.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHfk...

The lava lamp has gone all H. R. Giger today.

Salt and sauce.

Le 18 mai prochain, selon le bon déroulement des essais, nous mettrons en service l’antenne Anse-à-l’Orme, marquant l’arrivée du REM dans l’Ouest-de-l’Île de Montréal, avec quatre nouvelles stations. Des lignes d’autobus de la STM et d’exo ont été ajustées afin de faciliter la connexion au REM.

Cette histoire ne finit plus!

Le sirop d'érable falsifié de Steve Bourdeau se cache sous une autre étiquette

Ne pas acheter de canne de sirop d'érable avec les mentions :
❌ 9227-8172 Quebec inc
❌ Érablière Steve Bourdeau
❌ Le sirop d'Angela
❌ L’Érabeille

Awkward Primes - Numberphile OEIS founder Neil Sloane on lines of primes, awkward primes... and a 'party pooper prime'. More of this interview at https://youtu.be/u-_8wX4cECo Jane Street's puzzle at…

📺 “Awkward Primes” www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFoI...

I don’t think I’ve ever heard Brady sound so excited.

Vance? Name rings a bell. Wasn’t he the guy from that South Park episode?

‘Apple Frames’ shortcut gets massive overhaul, new CLI for the Terminal Federico Viticci at MacStories is out today with a major update to his Apple Frames shortcut that frames your screenshots with official Apple product bezels. Federico describes Apple Frames 4 as a “complete rethinking of the shortcut that is noticeably faster, updated to support all the latest Apple devices, and designed to support even more personalization options.” more…

‘Apple Frames’ shortcut gets massive overhaul, new CLI for the Terminal

Oh PLEASE

Questionnaire rapide La Presse

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#cycling

📖 “The damage that right wing populists do”

Monday's Friday Reads for 13 April We're doing a little spring cleaning today, and sharing some older but worthy links which had been gathering cobwebs in the Friday Reads spreadsheet. * Heavy SUVs & electric cars smash through guardrails (Slate) * How to Travel to Heathrow's 6 Stations for Free: Video (Geoff Marshall) * The Future Growth of Los Angeles

Monday's Friday Reads for 13 April:

I’m asking myself if a laptop really needed a remote 🤔