Christopher Solar 🇨🇦
@christophersolar.bsky.social
Furniture designer/maker, cyclist, inside the Ottawa bubble. He/Him.
If you're cutting your uh product with flour maybe that's not something you should be talking about on social media.
December 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
If you're cutting your uh product with flour maybe that's not something you should be talking about on social media.
On the other side of the fence: the eventual site of Lansdowne 3.0.
December 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
On the other side of the fence: the eventual site of Lansdowne 3.0.
The only thing policing can offer in this context is to harass people into moving elsewhere. Well, job done I guess as far as Tierney is concerned. Now what?
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The only thing policing can offer in this context is to harass people into moving elsewhere. Well, job done I guess as far as Tierney is concerned. Now what?
I'm assuming that the people who make up the housing/additiction/mental health crises are not all born and bred in Centretown and Lowertown. They might end up downtown but they came from all over the city...so it's galling for Tierney to brag about his suburban ward's improved crime stats.
December 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I'm assuming that the people who make up the housing/additiction/mental health crises are not all born and bred in Centretown and Lowertown. They might end up downtown but they came from all over the city...so it's galling for Tierney to brag about his suburban ward's improved crime stats.
Tierney says using ANCHOR is bad because "crisis workers are not trained emergency response teams" while sidestepping the often-demonstrated fact that police are not trained to deal with mental health or substance-abuse crises. If police could handle this ANCHOR wouldn't exist!
December 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Tierney says using ANCHOR is bad because "crisis workers are not trained emergency response teams" while sidestepping the often-demonstrated fact that police are not trained to deal with mental health or substance-abuse crises. If police could handle this ANCHOR wouldn't exist!
"Actually, Dave..."
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December 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Actually, Dave..."
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Bad enough to try to solve the problem by throwing law enforcement at it, but paying $1M for some rent-a-cop mall security? It's beyond satire. Dear god I hope he's gone next election.
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Bad enough to try to solve the problem by throwing law enforcement at it, but paying $1M for some rent-a-cop mall security? It's beyond satire. Dear god I hope he's gone next election.
did you have a cricket bat?
December 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
did you have a cricket bat?
I can't help but imagine this through a Spinal Tap lens.
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I can't help but imagine this through a Spinal Tap lens.
Oh, so having a few unpainted window frames here and there is some kind of crime now is it?
December 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Oh, so having a few unpainted window frames here and there is some kind of crime now is it?
"juice" is being generous
November 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"juice" is being generous
If the skate fits...
This sounds like the making of a Hallmark Christmas movie X Cinderella X King Arthur mashup.
This sounds like the making of a Hallmark Christmas movie X Cinderella X King Arthur mashup.
November 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
If the skate fits...
This sounds like the making of a Hallmark Christmas movie X Cinderella X King Arthur mashup.
This sounds like the making of a Hallmark Christmas movie X Cinderella X King Arthur mashup.
Nature is healing.
November 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Nature is healing.
It just takes one snitch though. And there will be at least one. (Probably BIA-affiliated.)
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It just takes one snitch though. And there will be at least one. (Probably BIA-affiliated.)
[turns page eagerly]
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
[turns page eagerly]
OTOH if they install them this way, lying across the road, they might actually have an impact.
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
OTOH if they install them this way, lying across the road, they might actually have an impact.
Some food sites are worse than others of course, but most have a way to get straight to the recipe. I used to get recipes from Fine Cooking mag (RIP) but I had to pay money for it AND flip past pages of ads to get to the recipes...
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Some food sites are worse than others of course, but most have a way to get straight to the recipe. I used to get recipes from Fine Cooking mag (RIP) but I had to pay money for it AND flip past pages of ads to get to the recipes...
Have been mulling this over and while I've also been annoyed at long-winded food blogs, is it really a legit critique? Someone's made this recipe for me, explained how to do it, took photos, maybe made a video. It's a job. Should I complain that they want to scrape some revenue from the page?
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Have been mulling this over and while I've also been annoyed at long-winded food blogs, is it really a legit critique? Someone's made this recipe for me, explained how to do it, took photos, maybe made a video. It's a job. Should I complain that they want to scrape some revenue from the page?
You do at least acknowledge that this tool is only able to do these things for you because it has been trained on the work of countless human recipe developers who now get diddly squat in return?
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
You do at least acknowledge that this tool is only able to do these things for you because it has been trained on the work of countless human recipe developers who now get diddly squat in return?
I really don't get the anger here. Someone has taken the time to develop, test, photograph a dish & how to make it. Ad revenue on the page is what funded that whole process! Now what happens?
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I really don't get the anger here. Someone has taken the time to develop, test, photograph a dish & how to make it. Ad revenue on the page is what funded that whole process! Now what happens?