Heliomass
@heliomass.com
🇨🇦🇬🇧 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
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
Mince pies for breakfast? Don’t mind if I do!
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
#RetroGaming #Atari #Commodore
December 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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
#RetroGaming #Atari #Commodore
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
Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery
We’re onto the last box 😅
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
We’re onto the last box 😅
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
This train leaving Île-Begras definitely creates a pleasing effect as the winter sunbeams are unblocked.
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
There’s a surprisingly long stretch of operational track beyond the REM’s terminus at Deux-Montagnes. The depot is some distance away.
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
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. 🚲
📞 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
📞 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.
I sometimes think about this ZX Spectrum game.
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I sometimes think about this ZX Spectrum game.
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
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!
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
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
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
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
When the apocalypse comes: I’m ready.
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
When the apocalypse comes: I’m ready.
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
heliomass.com/posts/2411-rem…
#Montreal #REM
November 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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
heliomass.com/posts/2411-rem…
#Montreal #REM