alex

$905 for the other half of duplex bought two decades ago? sign me up

i wanna know the vibe of luc rabouin’s tenant neighbour

magazines love to shoot themselves in the dick. they used to wire cash to wherever hunter s thompson happened to be, now they’re “ending remote work across brands.”

J’habite depuis 7 ans sur la ligne 165, la plus achalandée de Montréal, et la dégringolade du service dans les dernières années est démoralisante. Les nouveaux aménagements routiers entravent les autobus, le service est moins fréquent (surtout hors heures de pointe) et les retards abondent

public health decision-making being purely vibes based is unfortunately where we are at in 2025. less than ideal

Idk the language police is about to sweep montréal to ensure everyone is complying with new signage directives to make french bigger

most of the british in avoriaz also don’t know how to ski or snowboard but they don’t let that stop them

Démantèlements de vieux barrages au Québec | « Je pense qu’on est rendus là » Les démantèlements de vieux barrages se feront plus nombreux au Québec dans les prochaines années, afin de rétablir les écosystèmes et de s’adapter aux changements climatiques.

Dismantling old dams & restoring natural ecosystems.

"Démantèlements de vieux barrages au Québec "
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and as we all know, families with cars hurt no one and all their whims must be taken seriously

There’s lot of Covid going around at the moment, again. I don’t qualify for NHS jabs, which are now very restricted, but I just paid £90 for one at my local pharmacy. As a freelancer, that’s a lot less expensive than having to take a week or two off if I get ill, let alone risking long term issues.

The Pandemic Never Ended Five years after Covid arrived on these shores, many believe the anxieties of the plague years are in the rearview mirror. But the threat is far from over.

Apropos of nothing, here's my essay for @newrepublic.com from earlier this year about Covid's continued influence on our lives, whether we like it or not:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
(Thanks again to @dceiver.bsky.social for letting me write it.)

"À la lumière de ces données, Piétons Québec constate que dans 20 % des 184 collisions mortelles survenues pendant la période étudiée, le conducteur du véhicule avait omis de céder le passage au piéton."

Ouaip. Je ne tombe pas pantoute de ma chaise 🙃

having a monopoly on mail pre-internet was an infinite money glitch. post-email, the margins on parcel are thin and there’s competition

to be fair the post office was printing money at that time. mail made so much money it subsidized passenger rail lines until trucks took over

For all the fear mongering about Pfizer making millions on vaccines, it’s reached a point where most people will find it difficult to get one. Not exactly a profit optimized situation for big pharma

the american mind: only an idiot would make something too good

almost as upsetting as finding out one night in bangkok is from the musical chess by benny and bjorn of abba

just heard bangkok by alex chilton and somehow margaret trudeau isn’t the worst part of the song

Le plus absurde c’est les gens qui se plaignent que les cyclistes n4 font pas d’arrêt, lorsque peut être 1% des conducteurs font un arrêt complet, et seulement si autrement ils fonceraient dans une voiture

why is a 30 page document about colours $200

Ben is Brian’s son

Quebec to stop offering free COVID-19 vaccines to the general population | CBC News COVID-19 vaccines will no longer be free for all Quebecers starting this fall, the province’s Health Ministry announced Wednesday.

"However, he said that for people not in at-risk groups, vaccination against COVID-19 and the flu "is not a step we necessarily recommend."

Apparently Quebec's government is anti-vax.

Welcome to the dark ages of kakistocracy.

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Canadians fought for walkable streets.

Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, June 22, 1955, part 2:

After a driver injured a 7-year-old boy, about 40 women blocked the intersection of Clanranald and Van Horne avenues, demanding safer conditions for walking and letting no motorists through.

150 à 180 $, ouch… Au moins le vaccin pour la grippe reste gratuit, mais quel manque de vision. Tout le monde est à risque de la covid, un vaccin gratuit c’est le minimum.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Stancil certainly lacks an understanding of political ideologies, but as a broken clock he’s not wrong that the american left is practically insignificant and largely populated by people who are fundamentally liberal.

Unfortunately pretty hard too see given the useless frequency of the exo trains

for a guy allegedly “remaking the economy,” he can’t seem to offer much beyond more ressource extraction and emulating america. nice to know liberals haven’t lost any sleep over TMX or don’t see anything suspicious about AI giants rallying behind Trump

ROI would probably end up greater than removing poop out of the water. Between airborne viruses, road dust, VOCs, fine particulate and mould, you got a lot of potential health problems to minimize