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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

@chaz I just got a "post removed" notice. I can't comment on it since I can't see the full post nor the context. Only allowed to see first line. The system that advises one of such moderation shoud show the offender the full post and allow to show it in context of what it was responding to […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

USGS has produced a recap of S24E41 that happened an end of January atr Kilauea. S24E42 is expected this or next week. This episode had a lava fountain that behaved differently die to height and wind directly and dropped tephra all over inhabbited places. Nice […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

Interview de 37 minutes de un des candidats voulant remplacer Annie Hidalgo comme maire de Paris. Ce candidat veut continuer dans les pas de Mme Hidalgo pour rendre Paris meilleure pour cyclistes et pietons et transport en commun (autobus). À la différence de Montréal, le cyclisme et piétons […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

RE: mastodon.quebec/@lapresse/116047323… Towards the end of her campaign, she seemed to tone down her anti-bike rethoric. But the new mayor is back to herself and Montréal's progress in weening outrselves from car dependance is at stake, as predicted. Morale: it is the […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

Heard on the Youtbe machine: Some US skater trained for the Olympics using soundtrack of one of the "Minions" movies. After he was selected to the team, they had to clear the rights to perform "in public", and Universal Pictiures refused. Went to social media and generated enough anger against […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

Heads up: Wednesday fro 16:30 to 18:30 EST Transport Committee, House of Commons www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en… Improving VIA Rail's Safety and Customer Service Witnesses Coalition pour le retour des services d'un train de passagers en Gaspésie • […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

#Parigo 295 - Bientôt la fin du RER C ? restructuration le la ligne RER-C, incluant une branche sous-terraine où les nouveaux trains sont trop hauts pour le tunnel. Une partie sera renplacée par la ligne Y. 14:39 youtu.be/Akq51f8GeXk

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

The Emperor has affected Canadian,s ability to take vacation in the sun. Statement from Air Canada on Cuba: www.aircanada.com/ca/en/aco//home/b… -free change of date -or credits for value of ticket for futrure travel if you […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

This morning Deux Montagnes to Ste Dorothé was closed on REM. Now full network open but reduced frequency due to lack of equipment. Am wondering if this is all about lack of budget to run proper maintenance and operations.

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

@Milnoc It’s here !!! Enjoy your Monday Morning™ while it lasts !

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Chad :mstdn: @chad.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

The irony isn't lost on me here. #epstein #uspol

A screenshot from the US DoJ Epstein Library asking if the reader is of 18 years of age or older.

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

Some videos are surfacing of the opening day for Toronto's Line 5. They are *Alstom* Flexity vehicles. Alstom did not obtain rights to the "Bombardier" brand and prohibited from using it. (But OK to mention that are of Bombardier heritage). The half underground, half stuck in traffic model is […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

For those old enough ! Mr Newberger has done a Spoof of "It's a Mad Mad World" in a post Trump workd. 12:12 youtu.be/sPWBJxvbpIY

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

An annual ritual, update my GPS maps 😞 Eventually the download will magically instatly go from less than a few percent to 100%.

Step 2 of 2: Updating Maps

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Downloading files... Rate: 2.0 MB/s Time Remaining: 118 hours and 27 minutes

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

La place Félix Éboué à Paris Critique (positive) de sa pédestrinisation Altis Play: youtu.be/kdHoJOa3_7A Photo 1: Avant, avec les feux de circulation que les piétons devreint traverser ( 6 ;à gauche, 4 à droite). Photo 2: après: (note: l'édicule de métro […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

Has the Eglington LRT derailed yet ? 🙃

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

@Milnoc OC Transpo has seen overcrowding at uOttawa station with not everyone able to get on the single car trains.

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

Picture 1, Ottawa train station in 1933. Note the yards to the east of it. Picture 2: same in 1965 as the new station out in the boon dock was being built, and shos MacKenzie King bridge being built over the tracks, a feature which remains today and why the bridge […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

Listening to OC Transpo technical Briefing on their LRT amusement ride. Question on whether Toronto Finch line will be experiencing same problems since they bought same vehicles. Answer is basically: Remains to be seen whether they will experience same problems, but it is early days and may […]

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This is still one of my favourite videos ever, perfectly explaining the staggering amount of public money that’s going into NOT solving traffic congestion. “It means you spend a lot of money now for a very short-term benefit." Jevon’s Paradox via Australia’s great show “Utopia.” Please share!

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How to Fix Traffic Congestion In Australia | Utopia

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

Since this is #caturday, here is a cat video on Youtube 😉 2001 A Cat Odyssey youtu.be/Ue-v39IaCkg

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026

I have moved inside the deep rabbit hole in which I fell ! Behold, the Dominion Land Survey. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Land… The Dominion Land Survey (DLS; French: arpentage des terres fédérales, ATF) is the method used to divide most of Western Canada into one-square-mile […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026

With all of what is going on in the world this video of à otter rescue shows there is still some good. Warning: cuteness overload. youtu.be/VjwnJfJwXiA

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

Got some answers on the STM simulator: The 211 has different route depending on time of day. So prior to taking the bus you need to do archeological search on the STM web site to see if the next bus will take one route or the other. (apparently one is peak only […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

@Milnoc Be patient! Only a couple of days before Monday Morning™. 🙃

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

@chad FYI, I got this a while back, and I kept clicking on the red X to acknowledge it and make it turn into a green check mark, but nothing happened 😞

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

The "Kirkland" REM station has been moved a few times. At the time of "network drawn on back of a napkin" for approval, the station was on west side of St-Charles and the tracks at same height as st-Charles overpass of highway 40 necessitating a level crossing on a […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Breaking: Greenland is open to tourism from the South Pole. Report on the first tourists arriving 🙂 Why isn't Nunavut doing the same to attract tourists from the south pole? 😉 youtu.be/zKSU-sJLQmw

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Jens Zalzala @anakin78z.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

@chris I really think rebates are the wrong approach. Car companies will always adjust for it and then complain when the rebates go away. My simple solution: Don't allow advertising of ice cars. If a car company wants to advertise, they'll have to advertise their EVs. Just watch how quickly […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

The 200 vs 203 routes to the fairview REM station from the south. It likely adds 10 minutes to do that detour in traffic with all the traffic lights wheras the 200 takes the on-ramp to the trans canada highway but stays on service road to the station.

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Ev Delen @evdelen.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

After a MONTH of trying to reach the "Minister of AI and Digital Innovation" Evan Soloman's office and getting not a single human response, I finally got a pickup from the constituency office. The constituency assistant first told me it was a constituency office, not a policy office, to which I […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Communiqué de Presse de la STM sur la refonte des bus. Cette transformation majeure du réseau touche près de 80 lignes, dans six arrondissements et neuf villes liées sur l’île de Montréal -implanttaion pas avant le 23 mars […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

With the loss of the bus terminal (magenta on image) at one of its entrances, the Fairview Centre Pointe Claire will become even more car centric. The good news is that the space used by the bus terminal will be converted back to parking lots, increasing parking capacity.

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

ald Trump's insistence in revuiloding Washington to something he likes will including doubling the domes on the capitol so they look like boobs 😉 (credit Daily Show).

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

STM finally stopped refusing to divulge its sceret plans for its bus network. They have re-enabled the "simulateur de trajets" map. refontebus2026.s3.amazonaws.com/ind…

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

The TLDR on Canada Computers: According to the company, the breach affected customers who checked out their purchases as "guests" on its website, and who also entered their personal information, between Dec. 29 and Jan. 22.

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Official CIA statement on withdrawal of the World Factbook. www.cia.gov/stories/story/spotlight… What a pathetic move by Trump regime but not surprising as this is part of their war of facts. Gives Trump more creative freedom to write his […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Some additional news on Washington Post from a freelance photographer in DC: The layoffs includes ALL of the staff photographers at the Washington Post.

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

Reputable news agency (22 Minutes) documents Canada setting up its own nICE agency to check foreigners. youtu.be/S1yYGb1U31o

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

From back in the old days when winters were fun in Montréal 🙂 youtu.be/SqGmHHC84Ww

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

Note: If you are running on older version of OS-X, sending links in iMessage appears to work, but it doesn't actually get sent. Even if you remove the https:// from the URL, it will be filtered out and not get sent, yet you get no error message, no warning. But if you look carefully, you won't […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

The ISS expedition returned early because of of the US crewmembers was ill. NASA wouldn't say who it was. But Jarec Isaacman said "her" at a press conference. "the crewmember of concern is doing fine, we will share updated on HER health as soon as it appropriate to do so […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

With Canada Day now less than 6 months away, here is the Canadian Anthem played on rubber chickens. youtu.be/CirrEChyg60

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

A while ago, I fell into a very deep rabbit hole because Natural Resources Canada had border lines that didn't match between Manitoba, Sasktchewam, Nunavut and NorthWest Territories. (The Nunavut act states it should be at -102,0 longitude. The Manitoba border, has its east/west borders defined […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

Remember Lac Mégantic rail disaster ? Despite an agreement in 2021, CP didnt start paperwork till 2023 and nothing approved yet. The accident was in 2013. La Tribune […]

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

the STM has sterted to convert our current bus stops into the new undisclosed bus system forced to bring us to the distant REM station. Not disclosing what the bus routes will be is s asign they know we won't like the loss of transit in west island due to CDPQ's […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

a bus stop wth a tempoprary cover on it with red bands above and below and a jacket containing the old bus stop printed on paper, hiding the new bus route number that will be at that bus stop.

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

@newstik Was unaware that the SpaceX transaction also included Twitter. This means that twitter's debts will be absorbed into SpaceX and weight down SpaceX. Not good.

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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

Update on Kennedy Center: Trumo said the building won’t be torn down but the interior will be gutted. Will Congress wake up and stop him?

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