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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

If you think about it, #CriticalMass is like a real-life game of snake

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

The Radio-Canada website code is actually so terrible that I'm embarrassed for them.

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Ah, React. That explains everything.

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Why do websites no longer use any element IDs, and all the class names are gibberish? I'm reduced to using aria-labels and worse to select elements in my userCSS. Even Radio-Canada is like this... 😭

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Of course, the one asshole reply I've gotten to this is from a Bluesky user who isn't bridged. lol.

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

This leads me to a related thought about the current technological milieu: You probably remember the day that Rogers' network went down. Along with it went every payment terminal in a grocery store. I went to the store with cash, and they *still* couldn't sell me anything, because the inventory […]

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Nobody tell the urbanites that in some places you can only get AM radio, and only at night. You might scare them... /j

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

And to add a cherry on top of the shit sundae: the CRTC website that lists emergency broadcasters is on Cloudflare and I'm not allowed in! Yayyy!!! /s crtc.gc.ca/eng/television/services/…

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

This whole rant was sparked by my looking for a portable radio for when I go on a trip next year, because I knew I would be without cell connectivity for multiple days at a time in a region where weather can be extremely variable. I knew that the radio weather service existed because I used to […]

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

And I see programs like the one in Quebec to connect rural residents to high-speed internet — which is great, but the government is just paying private companies to install the connection. The company gets to keep the hardware they install. If we're going to pay for it, shouldn't it be a public […]

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Having connectivity, at the very least for emergency alerts, weather updates, and basic phone calls is something that Canada should be much more concerned about for its residents. It's a safety issue. I remember driving in the Okanagan and seeing a wildfire that had been sparked by lightning. We […]

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

In general, I lament the loss of services where you only needed a receiver in order to get access to the service. Radio is a perfect mode of disseminating information to people in a given area. There is even a visual version of this for television: many areas still have 6 or more channels […]

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I can't believe that the Canadian government shut down the weather radio service. How is anyone supposed to get weather updates outside of a city now? This was an essential service and they just turned it off and told people to use an app, when there is no public telecom operator, and the vast […]

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

If the VeggieKarte.de creator notices an uptick in traffic starting now, it's because HappyCow just sent out a weird email about how they're shifting focus and want more money, and now everyone is asking me about "the OSM equivalent".

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Literally begging Mastodon to allow me to filter posts by language even if they have a hashtag I'm subscribed to I do not speak German and it's over half of my feed sometimes 😭

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Anyone in #Montreal need some vermiculite? I have half a Uline bag and even though I have a lot of plants, I don't need *that* much. Y a-t-iel quelqu'un à #Montréal qui aurait besoin de vermiculite? J'ai la moitié d'un sac Uline et, même si j'ai beaucoup de plantes, je n'en ai pas besoin […]

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Might become a Jones H-bar person. 🚲🤔

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

For the love of— Is there a way to listen to #CBC podcasts without ads? They're literally being inserted into the middle of *sentences!* I can't take it anymore.

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

How is there no traffic cone emoji?? This is Montreal-phobic. /j

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

The manufacturer of my bike doesn't list the size needed on their website, nor on the spec sheet. 😒

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Wait, it's only $25? we are so back

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Sadly, I learned that my bottom bracket is a sealed cartridge type, so I will need to purchase something to fix it. :(

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Cavalcade gave me The Bug, and now I'm planning a ridiculous bike tour for next year all the way around the south half of Vancouver Island, from Nanaimo to Victoria to Port Renfrew and potentially longer depending how I'm feeling about it. I'll definitely need a new raincoat for that, given the […]

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I just noticed that my "voter information package" doesn't even contain information on my election day voting location. Such a joke. Luckily, it *does* have advanced poll information, so I guess I'll be voting today...

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Does anyone know if Foulab has a heat gun? Are we allowed to just come in and use things for a few minutes?

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@teinturs Elle va partir du Parc Lafontaine, spécifiquement la rue Calixa-Lavallée!

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@EdwinG I'm on Android, but you also need to have certain updates to see new Unicode characters. I've always been several versions behind on emojis because I never have bleeding-edge hardware.

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@EdwinG I can't wait for three years from now when I get a new phone and can read this toot! /j

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

The Nulea one that has a vertical axis for the buttons is horrible because the ball is still low, which is basically the opposite of ergonomic. I'm looking for one that basically has the ball on top.

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Someone needs to make an 85° (basically vertical) trackball. There is a hole in the market. I've got the most vertical trackball that seems to exist, and even it is not vertical enough.

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

*looks at the UCI map* yeahhhh, I think I'll get a metro pass for the week... also tfw no #OpenStreetMap attribution 😔

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@giggls In Canada, we would call the whole area a "campground" and each spot a "camp site"

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

okay but what if someone actually made a userscipt to make it so you use right-click to pan in iD? 🤔 #OpenStreetMap

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

@EdwinG It's fun to see the new occupations of some of these old vehicles. There's one that looks very similar that's inside a restaurant in Vancouver, and you can sit inside it to eat!

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Luckily, the Costco at which the pictured rack is installed recently got rid of one of these contraptions and replaced it with a half-decent rack.

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I feel like #OpenStreetMap contributors who are cyclists will hate this: in Montreal, we have a novel (and evil) kind of rack that chomps down on your bike like some kind of monster with big teeth. I have no idea how to tag them, but I avoid them at all costs.

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

@MartinNHamel Oui, cet été. C'était en juin, je crois.

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

@MartinNHamel Ah bon, je me suis demandé·e quand on verra un vélo fantôme pour lui. C'est sur mon ancien chemin et j'ai vu son vélo par terre après l'incident... :(

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

I feel like this is a uniquely Montreal thing. I had never seen a bocce court in a park before I moved here. I had never even *heard of* pétanque.

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

just #OpenStreetMap things: learning to identify the difference between a bocce court and a pétanque court based on shape and size

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

The most important component has finally been sourced!

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Some may call this overkill, but I'm trying to replicate the properties of having a basket without actually having a basket.

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Thank you to the City of Montreal for providing the free plastic for this project. 😉

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

With the rigid insert measured and cut, it's time to start gluing! I also picked up the bias tape that matches my fabrics today, so tomorrow I can start sewing. Foam is 5mm EVA from Imagine Le Fun. The sturdiest one I could still reliably bend at the radius […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

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une abeille @uneabeille.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Starting on a draft for the front rack bag. Looks like it will perfectly hold two six-packs! (I'm using the height of a standard can as the metric for the rigid section's height because the ratio looks good, and it's as good of a standard as any)

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