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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌
@christaggart.bsky.social
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Heatpump Papa. Software Engineer. Climate. Cargo Bike Dad. I build software to accelerate residential electrification. @electrify613.bsky.social @ferncomfort.bsky.social https://electrific.co https://ferncomfort.ca https://electrify613.ca, YOW
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 8h
Why not Tourists to Help Pay for Transit Budget or Tourists to Help Pay for Affordable Housing?
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 12h
Great team of folks over there too.
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For Our Kids Canada @forourkidscanada.bsky.social · 1d
Coming up on Thursday, Oct 23 - join us for Clean Air, Healthy Kids & Communities: The Case for Strong Methane Regulations.

Explore the impacts of methane on kids and communities - and the policy solutions we need in order to end emissions.

Registration is still open. RVSP now!
Clean Air, Healthy Kids & Communities: The Case for Strong Methane Regulations
www.forourkids.ca
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 21h
There’s also affiliate ids in the url which hints that they’re paying out scammers that drive traffic
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 21h
Reported to Google safe browsing and ads, but seems like we need better reporting tools for stuff like this.
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 21h
Stumbled across this pretty crazy foreign inference(?) ad on youtube spreading misinformation.
They cloned the cbc site to make it look legit.
Fake thumbnail image Fake cbc site spinning misinformation Seems they’re running one ad per verified advertiser account, so expect there to be more accounts pointing to this domain
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 1d
@forourkidsog.bsky.social
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Ladybugspicnic @ladybugspicnic.bsky.social · 1d
#ThanksFossilFuels
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Wildfire evacuation underway north of Sharbot Lake | CBC News
People in the potential path of a wildfire near Ompah in North Frontenac were asked to leave their homes Sunday evening, according to the township and Ontario Provincial Police.
www.cbc.ca
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 1d
Any beige-pantsed vessel will do
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 1d
Just have track down the people in the background.
Blurry background photo of someone doing stretches on the field.
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 1d
“Do you think the construction costs will go down? It never does”

1 minute later

“Good news, 2 years ago we estimated costs would be more, but it’s going to cost even less”
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alexcullen.bsky.social @alexcullen.bsky.social · 1d
This is an abuse of process, to permit one member of Council to have the advantage of receiving this report on this multi-million$ project and frame the discussion before his Council colleagues have had a chance to even read the report. #notcool
seandevine9.bsky.social Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 1d
An entire day has gone by and still no release of the Lansdowne 2.0 report. Meanwhile, Mayor Sutcliffe has had time to brief the press, frame the story, and produce a feel-good video. As for those who oppose the project? Well, they're just "spreading misinformation". www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x-T...
Lansdowne: More for less
YouTube video by Mayor Mark Sutcliffe
www.youtube.com
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 1d
That video was much longer and more desperate sounding than I had expected. Funny he fails to
mention the city was supposed to receive a share of the non-existent profits from Lansdowne 1.0
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 5d
Oh good, it's been too long since I was scared absolutely shitless.
Methane leaks multiplying beneath Antarctic ocean spark fears of climate doom loop
Researchers have discovered dozens of new methane seeps littering the ocean floor in the Ross Sea coastal region of Antarctica, raising concerns of an unknown positive climate feedback loop that could...
www.livescience.com
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 1d
We’ve joked about a “big fucking tank” setup for a while where everything dumps heat into a single hot water tank, and appliances give or take heat as needed. I haven’t seen any modelling where it pencils out quite yet.
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 2d
One bonus of having a chest freezer in the same space as your heat pump washer/dryer is that the extracted heat from the freezer provides heat to the dryer.
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 2d
Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.

www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon
www.worldscientific.com
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 2d
And exhibit during a Lansdowne market
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 2d
We need to assemble a photography exhibit where we photograph all the people behind the local businesses that never got paid on L1.
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Bike Ottawa @bikeottawa.bsky.social · 2d
Tomorrow is provincial day of action against the removal of life saving speed cameras in Ontario.

Two events happening in Ottawa
* Woodroff School 8:15am
* Queen Elizabeth School 8:45am

Join our family friendly protests if you can. Details in the poster.
Poster of Provincial Day of Action, Oct 20, against the removal of speed cameras in Ontario. Two locations are given at two different schools.
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 3d
They did it, they nabbed an Aventon Level 3 Step Thru. 🎉
Aventon Level 3 Step Thru EBike
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 3d
Most batteries on the UL models are removable, we bring ours inside during winter to charge. Even the downtube battery models have removable batteries.
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 3d
“Line for tow truck rides starts here”
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 3d
Probably drank his own “both sides” koolaid that he sells to cities as a starting point, and now he believes it.
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Eugenie Waters @eugeniewaters.bsky.social · 4d
Update: the event has been postponed to Sat. October 18th at 8pm. New location: Prince Albert block 270.

Please tell anyone who may not see this message
eugeniewaters.bsky.social Eugenie Waters @eugeniewaters.bsky.social · 4d
Come show your support for this precious child’s family and community.
Neighbours in Overbrook have shared that there will be a candle lighting ceremony around 630pm tonight, October 17th at 394 Presland Road.
All are welcome to attend, please bring a 🕯️if you can. 💔
#OttBike
bikeottawa.bsky.social Bike Ottawa @bikeottawa.bsky.social · 4d
A five-year-old dies on our streets. When will the City of Ottawa finally commit to Vision Zero?

Our heartfelt condolences to the family of this young boy.

bikeottawa.ca/2025/10/17/a...
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