This is what it feels like having to change trains to a dinky, busted Mark II at Commercial-Broadway

Oh good, I applied for this when I was desperate for work last year, and so it’s only taken…nine months for them to get back to me.

schmoovin’

So glad I got to see David Byrne live, like what an experience that was.

Rétro Station Service ⛽️ BP ⛽️ avec camionnette TGV Renault Master et une voiture Ami8 au garage Citroen, 3 DS et Panhard PL 24 ! (IA)

Kelmscott station in Perth, Australia has a somewhat unique layout where the bus bays run between the two rail platforms. Buses effectively cross the tracks and drive up and into the station itself

Took advantage of my day off to photograph The Canadian but it was held up for so long that I had to leave…anyway I didn’t come back empty handed at least.

they scorn me for an "email job". they mock my RSI injuries from using the keyboard. they dismiss my slide decks as frivolous. but when i finally unveil my triumphant 600 slide powerpoint that operates on the same principles as the euthanasia coaster, we'll see who has the last laugh

All it took was months of racist fear mongering about people losing their homes (when not a single person did) for politicians who pretended to care about human rights to completely reverse their positions. David Eby's legacy will be one of colonization

Today is Conrail day! 50 years on, I’d suggest we remember its least credited legacy: the Northeast Corridor. Without the region-wide network planning exercise that created Conrail, the NEC would still be full of freight—as it was until the 70s. Since Conrail, that feat has never been repeated.

Apr 1, 1976: the Consolidated Rail Corporation (commonly known as Conrail) is formed out of the wreckage of the Penn Central, itself an amalgamation of the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads—at one time two of the mightiest corporations in America—plus several other railroads. 1/3

9pm april 1 2026 on every channel

Yes… ha ha ha… YES

Running for president on a single issue: mandating that United Airlines return to their old colors and livery and eschew the Continental Airlines legacy. There are dozens of us who consider this to be of the utmost importance. Dozens!

meanwhile in vancouver's largest municipal politics facebook group, talk of the city's "real" residents "who have lived here for a long time" needing to "vote for anti-development parties" to stop the type of buildings "seen in East Asia"

TransLink selling the Sanrio-themed Compass cards

Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.

Separating art from its spatiotemporal position completely deprives it of its meaning. The totality of how we view movies today, camera shots, set design, line cadence, all film semiotics, were born of technological limitation and choices made from specific points in time. NO and fuck off!

RAIL (1967) | http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1319220/index.html

I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you

came across a car that had a sticker saying LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER so naturally it was parked in an accessible space without a permit

Moving day one of two over and done with.

Very nice! www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co...

GADIGAL, 1km from Central, is a spectacular new underground station surrounded by skyscrapers in Sydney CBD. It has two platforms accessed from a concourse at either end, each with very long escalators, lifts and gates. Each exit sits at the base of a new tower, as an integrated development (1/7)

This week #Japan's JR East launched its first all-freight bullet train, an E3 Shinkansen. Passenger seats were removed to maximize interior space. First run carried 800 containers, including scallops! www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...

life is so beautiful when you don't have to find parking

i was grinning down at my phone on the g train and the guy next to me went ‘is that your boyfriend’ and it was this image

Related, a very interesting read: bsky.app/profile/nick...

Waymo is making a push to come to BC. While the debate on the safety of self-driving cars is interesting, it misses the larger point. Self-driving cars means more total cars on our roads, which means more opportunities for serious crashes - and less space for bus lanes, bike lanes, and people.

We're getting our first look at Grand #Paris Express in action. The driverless trains will run at 110 km/h, putting this among the fastest metros in the world. ✅ 4 all-new metro lines ✅ 68 new stations ✅ 200 km (125 miles) of new tracks ✅ 1 major line extension (Line 14, both ends) 🧵

What pisses me off is Canada apparently doesn’t give a shit. The Canadian government isn’t willing to scream major “diplomatic incident” and defend its own people. This seems to be the case for virtually every western country in the face of Republican America.

happy Don Lockwood’s Lucky Day to all who observe

If you’re Canadian, PLEASE sign this petition to have endometriosis classified as a disability!!! Living with this incurable disease is horrible, it’s debilitating, it’s even humiliating sometimes. Please give us a break. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

In his 1992 novel Snow Crash, writer Neal Stephenson coined the phrase "Metaverse" to describe a VR world experienced through goggles. Now, Stephenson says he no longer believes face-worn computing is the future: “People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do.”

Today's historic pic: VLine X54 and AN 934 at the head of The Overland before departure on its overnight journey to Adelaide, at Spencer Street, Melbourne, between June 21 and June 28 1986. The Overland has run between Melbourne and Adelaide since 1887 - and it still runs today.

been thinkin a lot todaay #ntbts

i need a DND setting for my phone that explicitly tells people i'm in a movie, what movie i'm watching, and that i'm a better person than they are because i'm patronizing the movies

Feeling a lot of contempt for people that use Letterboxd as an outlet for their pithy one-line zingers. Some of the least funny people alive

People often forget about the most essential Microsoft products.

Moving to a neighbourhood on the Millennium Line where I won’t routinely get to ride shiny new Mark V trains any more

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly Forty years ago today, EMD diesel loco X34, long end leading, heads a Geelong-bound VLine passenger train through Werribee, Vic, March 22 1986. Since 2015, trains to Geelong and Warrnambool have run via Wyndham Vale rather than Werribee.

Love me some contraptions