Franklin Menendez
@franklinmenendez.bsky.social
Canadian father of two sons and close friend to two step daughters. Mother living alone at 94. Happily woke (that's empathy btw).
Tradesperson with a very long sideline in air tightness testing of houses.
Tradesperson with a very long sideline in air tightness testing of houses.
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The SecState explanation of the essence & origin of the 28 pt plan presented to Ukraine BY THE US is a strong indicator of the lack of competence of those representing our nation in these efforts.
Russia does these things. It’s well known. Smart negotiators know not to let them happen.
Russia does these things. It’s well known. Smart negotiators know not to let them happen.
November 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The SecState explanation of the essence & origin of the 28 pt plan presented to Ukraine BY THE US is a strong indicator of the lack of competence of those representing our nation in these efforts.
Russia does these things. It’s well known. Smart negotiators know not to let them happen.
Russia does these things. It’s well known. Smart negotiators know not to let them happen.
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Have seen this first-hand when travelling through Kenya and Ethiopia - every town had a 'solar shop' and mobile phones had leapfrogged landlines, with mobile credit a defacto currency.
Very cool to see community innovation just take over!
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Very cool to see community innovation just take over!
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Accessible, cheap clean energy could spark a new world order
Unshackled from legacy fossil fuel interests, the world’s clean energy future is being forged in the bustling cities of the global south.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Have seen this first-hand when travelling through Kenya and Ethiopia - every town had a 'solar shop' and mobile phones had leapfrogged landlines, with mobile credit a defacto currency.
Very cool to see community innovation just take over!
share.google/Hih4QsBTqwGS...
Very cool to see community innovation just take over!
share.google/Hih4QsBTqwGS...
very interesting chart.
Charting number of rental units in apartment buildings in Toronto by year of construction
(This is a quick update to a similar chart I made ~2.5 years ago)
#toronto #housing #dataviz #NationalHousingDay
(This is a quick update to a similar chart I made ~2.5 years ago)
#toronto #housing #dataviz #NationalHousingDay
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
very interesting chart.
This is probably fine. Its just 10 million people.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is probably fine. Its just 10 million people.
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It's a good thing President Obama killed Osama Bin Laden because otherwise Trump would be inviting him to the White House for some goddamn hors d'oeuvres
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
It's a good thing President Obama killed Osama Bin Laden because otherwise Trump would be inviting him to the White House for some goddamn hors d'oeuvres
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Damnit I’m halfway through building my banana factory.
November 15, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Damnit I’m halfway through building my banana factory.
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ICE vs the clergy
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
ICE vs the clergy
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
This is news of the real kind. Plus the temps there are crazy-pants.
Today in
As the World Burns
Tehran may have to be evacuated
The climate crisis is now.
news.yahoo.com/news/article...
As the World Burns
Tehran may have to be evacuated
The climate crisis is now.
news.yahoo.com/news/article...
‘We may have to evacuate Tehran’: The catastrophe threatening Iran
“May God protect this country from the enemy, from drought, from lies.”
news.yahoo.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is news of the real kind. Plus the temps there are crazy-pants.
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And here's the recent Waldorf Astoria renovation. This video is by the Instagram account oldegoodthings
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 AM
And here's the recent Waldorf Astoria renovation. This video is by the Instagram account oldegoodthings
Seriously?
The allegation here is that wealthy tourists paid to be able to shoot human beings. Perhaps killing wildlife wasn't enough for them. If true, psychopathic scarcely begins to cover it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war
Groups from Italy and elsewhere alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Seriously?
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For What?
Frederick Varley
1918
Frederick Varley
1918
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
For What?
Frederick Varley
1918
Frederick Varley
1918
Wow
Landing Craft Assault Off Southern France
Alex Colville
1944
Alex Colville
1944
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Wow
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too big to fail speedrun
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
too big to fail speedrun
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the scotus tariff case is going to be interesting because we'll finally learn if the supreme court is more beholden to its authoritarian backers or its corporate benefactors
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
the scotus tariff case is going to be interesting because we'll finally learn if the supreme court is more beholden to its authoritarian backers or its corporate benefactors
Really like this kind of post: breaking down quotidian events to simple arithmetic, and voila we learn something.
@neil21.bsky.social inspires me to try to figure out the cost in calories of turning a light on and off. It still makes sense to get off your butt and do it. lloydalter.substack.com/p/does-turni...
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Really like this kind of post: breaking down quotidian events to simple arithmetic, and voila we learn something.
wow
Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
www.abc.net.au
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
wow
Wow, #32 and lasted almost 3 yrs in hell. RIP.
2 November 1920 | A Pole, Czesław Gil, was born in Jarosław.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Tarnów on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
No. 32
He perished in the camp on 10 May 1943.
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Video about the first transport of Poles to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/kKOZLEUo2QM
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Tarnów on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
No. 32
He perished in the camp on 10 May 1943.
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Video about the first transport of Poles to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/kKOZLEUo2QM
November 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Wow, #32 and lasted almost 3 yrs in hell. RIP.
nice
This is cool as hell ✌️❤️🇨🇦
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. arriving with *this* vibe 💯 Wearing the jersey of 3x Olympic hockey gold-medalist Marie-Philip Poulin.
📷 Screengrab from Sportsnet
#WorldSeries
📷 Screengrab from Sportsnet
#WorldSeries
November 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
nice
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Do you use Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Do you use Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
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I listened to the Reagan speech the Ontario government quoted, and no honest person could claim it was taken out of context. But what interested me more was the next clip that autoplayed, where he connects the American founding to the rejection of tariffs. 🔥🔥🔥
youtu.be/Tp1T7kPEdDY?...
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President Reagan's Radio Address on Canadian Elections and Free Trade on November 26, 1988
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I listened to the Reagan speech the Ontario government quoted, and no honest person could claim it was taken out of context. But what interested me more was the next clip that autoplayed, where he connects the American founding to the rejection of tariffs. 🔥🔥🔥
youtu.be/Tp1T7kPEdDY?...
youtu.be/Tp1T7kPEdDY?...
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Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations
October 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations
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reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
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Fun fact: Canada's oft-reminisced about Connaught Labs was founded to make #diphtheria antitoxin (DAT).
Unfun facts: Still made the same way 100+ years later (horse serum). Global shortages, few suppliers. Limited resources to advance promising replacements, as diphtheria insufficiently profitable.
Unfun facts: Still made the same way 100+ years later (horse serum). Global shortages, few suppliers. Limited resources to advance promising replacements, as diphtheria insufficiently profitable.
October 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Fun fact: Canada's oft-reminisced about Connaught Labs was founded to make #diphtheria antitoxin (DAT).
Unfun facts: Still made the same way 100+ years later (horse serum). Global shortages, few suppliers. Limited resources to advance promising replacements, as diphtheria insufficiently profitable.
Unfun facts: Still made the same way 100+ years later (horse serum). Global shortages, few suppliers. Limited resources to advance promising replacements, as diphtheria insufficiently profitable.