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Heliomass
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🇨🇦🇬🇧 ex-Londoner in Montreal. It’s an experience.

Transit / retro gaming / politics / cats

Runs mainly on Yorkshire Tea and root beer.

Blog: https://heliomass.com

Correspondent at @lonrec.bsky.social

Creator of @mtltransitstatusen.bsky.social
Mince pies for breakfast? Don’t mind if I do!
December 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Unscheduled stop at Édouard-Montpetit on the way up in the elevator.

(Context: one of the elevators doubles as a service elevator, and a REM employee needed to get on half way up).

#REM #Montreal #transit
December 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Weekend project: The wires may be arranged like a rat king, but the retro station is up and running! The Commodore and Atari had been out of commission for too long. But yeah, that wire situation 😅

#RetroGaming #Atari #Commodore
December 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
To spice up your Saturday, dumping a few REM photos I’ve taken since its opening. I still have to pinch myself we have a system of this quality in Canada.

#Montreal #transit
December 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
As a special Friday treat, some photos of the “Great Northern Inners”, London’s creepiest railway.

Enjoy the moodiness of it all.

#London #transit
December 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Christmascore cat.
December 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Piss off LinkedIn.
December 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
@bsky.app Why do you need to know my DoB all of a sudden? Starting to think your platform doesn’t value privacy so much.
December 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Ughhh.
December 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A view from the morning.

#Montreal
December 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery
December 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
We’re onto the last box 😅
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Me too crow/raven sticker. Me too.

#TFIFriday
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This train leaving Île-Begras definitely creates a pleasing effect as the winter sunbeams are unblocked.
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
There’s a surprisingly long stretch of operational track beyond the REM’s terminus at Deux-Montagnes. The depot is some distance away.
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The one thing I wasn’t expecting to see on the North Shore? A Bixi dock. This one by the new Grand-Moulin station. This is waaaay outside Montreal. 🚲
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
📞 Surprised to see one of these in Montreal. I especially appreciated the sketches on the placard of the other types of phone boxes once found in the UK.
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I sometimes think about this ZX Spectrum game.
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Paris too, apparently!
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Uncle Bezos has done it! Amazon deliveries which have no mass and no discernible dimensions and best of all no origin. We can finally have emissions-free Amazon deliveries from the ether, and about time too!
November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This still blows my mind.

Last week it took 23 minutes and two changes to get from the office to Édouard-Montpetit.

This week it takes just 3 minutes with zero changes.

#Montreal
November 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Mistakes were made 😅
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
November 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
When the apocalypse comes: I’m ready.
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Big day for Montreal’s transit! If you’re curious as to how the REM is run, then this article has a visit to their signalling and control centre. It explains the amazing work which happens behind the scenes in order to run an automated metro system.

heliomass.com/posts/2411-rem…

#Montreal #REM
November 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM