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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I told them I don't roll on Schabas!

Michael Schabas is inviting you to attend his virtual townhall on his alternative proposals for the Alto high speed rail project, October 8 from 9-11 EDT live on Teams.

Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yesterday there was a big event called the "Ontario Intercity Travel Summit" at the Ted Rogers School of Management in Toronto, with VIPs from the governments of Ontario and Canada, Air Canada, VIA, Metrolinx, Alto, etc. I have seen zero media coverage of this event. transportfutures.ca/ONintercity/

A kind of overwrought (though possibly not AI-generated) image from the Transport Futures project website—they were the organizer of the Ontario Intercity Travel Summit. The image features a bunch of icons representing different travel modes and considerations (air, rail, busses, trucks, bicycles, parking, fuel, etc.) in circles connected with lines, all overlaid on a background of an elevated expressway passing through a big city with lots of tall buildings and the sun rising or setting behind. Superimposed over everything are the words "advancing mobility pricing, infrastructure and multimodal solutions together." It's a lot, y'all.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Or, and just hear me out on this one...

George Clinton, funk legend and leader of Parliament-Funkadelic.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Still waiting for somebody to come into this thread like

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My dad splurged and got a CGA card and RGB monitor, but otherwise my first childhood home computer looked exactly like this. It used the IBM PC DOS operating system.

An IBM Personal Computer, Model 5150 with Model F 84-key keyboard, Model 5151 monochrome CRT display and Model 5152 dot-matrix printer, first released in 1981.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sikhs were physically assaulted in the weeks following 9/11 by bigots taking their anger out on brown people in turbans.

An article from the New York Newsday on September 24, 2001, with the headline "Sikhs Face Attacks, Discrimination." It includes a photo of Pardeep Singh, a Sikh man who was physically assaulted in Queens.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What about the circumstance where "plastic" is both exploding and inevitable?

A concert poster for Andy Warhol and his Exploding Plastic Inevitable (show), featuring the new sound of the Velvet Underground with Nico—Pop Girl of '66.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When I was a kid, these were a popular cinnamon-flavoured candy. They apparently still exist, but I don't know how common they are in the U.S.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

When the USS Abraham Lincoln returns to NAS North Island.

A black and white image of three moustachioed Russian sailors looking skeptical, from Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 silent film BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Dr. Norman Bethune (born 1890, Gravenhurst, Ontario, died 1939, Heibei, China): thoracic surgeon, Communist, medic in the Spanish Civil War and the Second Sino-Chinese war, early proponent of blood transfusions and universal healthcare. Donald Sutherland portrayed him three times in film and on TV.

Dr. Norman Bethune posing with his field ambulance and blood transfusion equipment in Spain, 1937. Library and Archives of Canada photo.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Coming soon to a discount pharmacy near you!

An image from Disney's THE LION KING, featuring adult Simba looking majestically off to one side as a flock of birds flies over his head and a fiery orange sunset fills the sky, except he's looking at a giant blue Viagra pill and underneath it are the words "Simba's Viagra, Hakuna Matata."

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I had to look up the Toronto Globe from 90 years ago today, and man, what a front page!

The front page of the August 14, 1936 edition of the Toronto Globe newspaper, with the banner headline "Don Prisoners Steal Dope, Hold Orgy." Several other stories on the front page are nearly as wild as that one.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The great Ed Levy, a brilliant thinker and writer about public transportation and a person I was privileged to know as a friend, has died. My condolences to @beth66.bsky.social and to all of his family and loved ones. May his memory be a blessing. benjaminsparkmemorialchapel.ca/ServiceDetai...

A head-and shoulders photo portrait of the late Ed Levy, an older white, Jewish man with white hair and glasses, wearing a dark coloured suit and a blue patterned tie, half-smiling at the camera.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Shark week is here everbody. Post a Shark.

Me, sailing on the International Shark Class sailboat "Calypso" in Ottawa with my friend the late Tadeusz Grygier in 2003.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Politicians in cosplay can be both relatable *and* reliable.

Jack Layton and Olivia Chow wearing Star Trek: The Next Generation uniforms sometime in the 1990s. Layton is holding a Tricorder.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Architect was D.E. Kertland, of Toronto. (Architect's rendering from the Ottawa Journal, May 14, 1948, pg. 18)

An architects sketch of the new Canadian Bank Note Company headquarters in Ottawa (from the Ottawa Journal, May 14, 1948, pg. 18).

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Nah, Sanders was a Kentucky Colonel—not an actual military rank. He's not on there, but I'd go with the St-Hubert chicken myself.

The St-Hubert chicken mascot, with his luxurious red pompadour-style comb and classy minimalist bowtie.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

No, a Shark is a keelboat, but not a Kiel-boat.

Shark-class sailboat No. 1101, sailing on relatively flat water with a wooded shoreline behind it.

Actor Richard Kiel portraying James Bond movie villain Jaws.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I thought it was all reel-to-reel.

John Travolta operates a reel-to-reel tape recorder in the 1981 film Blow Out.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Can't wait until everyone in the U.S. military looks like these guys.

A still from the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, featuring 21st century soldiers with padded uniforms that include drug dispensers to control their behaviour, plus Q, dressed in a 21st century judge's robes and hat, watching over the scene judgementally.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Can't believe I forgot the tenth anniversary of this tweet yesterday.

A tweet from July 13, 2016, saying "now just hear me out, okay?" over a map of a hypothetical Toronto Island Subway: a red line running from Ward's Island ferry dock to Gibraltar Point, with a single intermediate stop at Centre Island. No, it does not go to the airport.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I mean, there were in the past.

German U-Boat SM UC-97 in Toronto Harbour, 1919.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Compare with this map created by Francine Berish and Laura Murray, showing the location of Swamp Ward, which I think most Kingstonians would agree is not part of downtown. There's only a little overlap between their southernmost extent of Swamp Ward and my northernmost extent of downtown.

A map showing the Swamp Ward area of Kingston, Ontario, bounded roughly on the east by the inner harbour, on the south by Queen Street, on the west by Division Street, on the northwest by a diagonal line from Division two blocks south of Stephen toward Belle Island.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My definition vs. nine other people's (so far) definition.

Two maps showing the location of downtown Kingston, Ontario, relative to the borders of the overall municipality. My definition of the boundaries is shown on the left, a fairly small, irregular orange shape. The consensus definition of me and nine other people is shown on the right, same general area, but mapped as a cluster of overlapping orange squares of varying colour density.

Two zoomed in versions of the map of Kingston, showing my definition of the boundaries as an irregular blue shape superimposed over the map at left, and the consensus definition as a cluster of yellow and orange squares at right, again, illustrating pretty much the same area of the city.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

June 25, 1973. Freiman's famously ran a special Santa Claus excursion train from Ottawa out to the village of Vars and back every Christmas season from 1956 until 1972. Thousands of kids every year got to ride the train, and many of them still remember it fondly.

The first Freiman's department store Santa Claus mystery special train prepares to depart the village of Vars for its return trip to Ottawa via the Canadian National Railway on November 19, 1956. Santa Claus and a gaggle of children wave from the rear car of the train, over a large banner mounted to the back identifying what it is. Photo from the Andrews-Newton Collection, City of Ottawa Archives.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Last weekend I was visiting Lower City Joinery in Hamilton (www.lowercityjoinery.com) and I asked how old their machine tools were. Turns out some of them are over 120 years old!

A view into a high-ceilinged wood shop, with various large machine tools including a drill press and band saw on the left and a large table saw in the centre of the room. Two unfinished canoes hang from the ceiling and various partly completed woodworking projects and bits of sawn lumber line the walls.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

And here's a Toronto Star photo of self-identified Klan members in Toronto in 1981, lest we think that particular part of our sad, racist history all happened long ago.

Members of the Ku Klux Klan, on the verandah of a Dundas St. East house in May, raise arms in Nazi-style salute and shout at marchers from Riverdale Action Committee Against Racism who were protesting the Klan's activities. Photo by David Cooper, Toronto Star.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Here's a KKK rally in Kingston, Ontario, in 1927. I live about 2 km from where this happened.

Ku Klux Klan Losers in white robes and hoods pose with a large cross in a field in Kingston, Ontario in 1927. Photo from the Archives of Ontario.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Was the movie A River Runs Through It?

Vann Gravage, Tom Skerritt and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the movie A River Runs Through It (1992).

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

He was motherfucking Lando Calrissian!

Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian in the 2018 film Solo: A Star Wars Story, looking dapper in a fur coat, side-parted afro, Van Dyke-style beard and moustache combo and trim, mutton chop sideburns.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I still remember fondly when then-Minister of Transportation Glen Murray said that the Union Pearson Express would be electrifying by 2017. That was in March of 2013. I'm still waiting. x.com/Glen4Climate...

An old tweet from former Ontario Liberal Minister of Transportation Glen Murray on March 14, 2013, saying that the Union Pearson Express train would be electrifying by 2017.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Long history of this sort of thing.

Arthur Read the Aardvark from the eponymous animated series, sits at a piano while wearing headphones, however the earpieces from the headphones sit where a human's ears would be, on the sides of his head, rather than where his actual ears are, on the top. The resulting image looks very incongruous.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Grew up in Ottawa, moved to Toronto for university and spent years adjusting to the water and the downtown being south instead of north, then moved to Kingston, where to this day I still sometimes get turned around.

A map of downtown Kingston, Ontario, with major waterways to the south and east, and streets oriented to four different survey grids with gores in between them.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I also don't mind the name Slush Puppie Place for Kingston's arena, and prefer it to the previous two names. The cowards didn't take my suggestion for a rooftop sign, though.

A photo mockup of Kingston, Ontario's downtown arena, currently called Slush Puppie Place, with a giant rotating Slush Puppie cup mounted on the roof.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build everywhere."

An illustration of a motte and bailey castle with wooden palisade walls.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Heck, I'm in favour of upper storeys being cantilevered out over the street, like in the good old days. Gardyloo!

The Shambles, a very narrow old street in York, England enclosed by timber-framed buildings with overhanging upper floors that date to as early as the fourteenth century CE.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Assuming a southern corridor, I think it would be smarter to diverge east from the existing Ottawa-Smiths Falls line and cross over the CPKC tracks east of the Smiths Falls Yard.

A Google Maps aerial photo of Smiths Falls, Ontario, with a crudely drawn red line indicating a potential route for a high speed rail line, diverging southward off the existing Ottawa-Smiths Falls VIA route and crossing the CPKC mainline east of their Smiths Falls yard, before crossing the Rideau Canal and again bending toward the southwest.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Do you think this was the Bush Derangement Syndrome that Krauthammer was talking about?

An older white woman with a microphone stands beside a life sized cardboard cutout photo of President George W. Bush in the 2006 documentary film Jesus Camp. Behind her are several other women, one holding an American flag. In front of her are many young children, reaching out their hands toward the Bush cutout.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Or Jack Black from Mars Attacks!

Jack Black as Billy Glenn Norris, holding an American flag on a pole as he is vaporized by a Martian ray gun in the 1996 movie Mars Attacks!

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I still remember the proposed northern connection that would have joined the top of the Yonge line to the top of the University-Spadina line and made it into a big distorted loop.

A map from the TTC's abandoned Network 2011 plan, showing a then-proposed (later built) extension of the University-Spadina subway to York University and Steeles Ave., a never-built east-west connector along Steeles that would have joined the north ends of the Yonge and University-Spadina lines, the Sheppard Subway (partially built) and the Eglinton West subway (never built, now the western half of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line).

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