Ted Landrum

There is no such thing as "sustainability" in a world that wages war whenever bullies and thieves get their egos hurt.

is the escalator image a subtle reference to mechanically assisted consumer driven fascistic plutocrapitalism, or am I just reading in?

(Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse)

wow - reminds me Roland Barthes - in bc a good way.

Shawn Micallef: Toronto is facing its worst police corruption scandal in decades. Here are three things that need to happen soon The corruption revealed by Project South undermines the public trust that is the foundation of policing.

Two weeks ago I wrote a column about the egregious escalation in violent Toronto police corruption in one of the biggest daily newspapers in Canada. I wrote that they are bullies & the chief should be fired. I take none of that lightly. 1/3

What you have to understand is that Carbon Capture and Storage is driven not by environmental concerns but by fossil fuel industry demands. It provides both a new revenue stream (at our expense) and the mother of all greenwashing schemes. Whether it works or not (it doesn't) is entirely irrelevant.

This guy gets it.

soap opera

On the left: a photo of President Donald Trump speaking in front of an American flag. On the right: text that reads: “The Canada Pension Plan is funding Trump’s fossil fuel and AI ambitions. The US is waging a trade war on Canada and destabilizing the climate. The CPP is pouring billions into the effort”

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board earned a D on Shift Action’s latest climate report card, in part due to its major US investments in fossil fuels and fossil fuel-powered AI expansion, putting Canadians’ pensions—and the environment—at severe risk. https://ow.ly/b0ym50Yj7zM

the cost of advancing technology for the sake of advancing technology is and always has been the planet.

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Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Devastating!!!!

The LAPD sent officers to train in Israel. Officials can't explain what they learned The Police Commission’s Office of the Inspector General found that the LAPD lacks a system for tracking employees who train with foreign law enforcement agencies.

The LAPD sent officers to train in Israel. Officials can’t explain what they learned flip.it/u3R4vZ

may the middle powers be with you

remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 92, Resolutions for Toronto leadership - Spacing Toronto The October 2026 Toronto election may seem like a long way off, but intentions to run have already been declared and campaign plans are well underway. So we asked Spacing co-founder and Toronto Star c...

New @spacingradio.bsky.social! The 2026 Toronto election has started! Now? Yes, now. So what do we need from the people who lead our city in the face of [gestures wildly] this? I ask @shawnmicallef.bsky.social and @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social to help set some resolutions: spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

The Real Glenn Close (@glennclose) on Threads I can't sit on the sidelines.

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To those blaming Walz for not mobilizing the Guard, he did that six days ago. I have to say it's disturbing to see people angry at Walz instead of the government agents that just executed a man. As though we should all be experts about what to do when a secret police force invades an American city.

ICE escalates war on civilian accountability - Salon.com Critics say federal agents are following a playbook to give themselves an excuse to react violently

“It is not stalking to follow a law enforcement officer to document what they’re up to — that’s constitutionally protected conduct,” @seth-stern.bsky.social tells @salon.com.

Today, we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s enduring call for justice, dignity, and equality.

I call it #Crapitalism

Nearly 2 million Canadians are of Chinese descent, many with family and friends across the Pacific.

As we renew this relationship, China has committed to soon allowing Canadians to visit without a visa.

The x-ray that revealed Andy’s tumor: denied by insurance. The doctor-mandated hospitalization as he struggled to breathe: denied. The insurance co even called him *in the hospital* to say so. The hospital is appealing all, and they explained that this is how it always goes. It’s all so fucked up.

War is obsolete, an unjustifiable waste that only amplifies and perpetuates local and global disequilibriums, it must be declared taboo and rejected by all who are willing and able to think. - paraphrasing Umberto Eco:
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EPA to stop considering lives saved when setting rules on air pollution.

Air pollution kills over 100,000 people every year in the U.S., about 5 times all homicide combined. But you won't see wall-to-wall coverage of Trump's deadly announcement. The *volume* of news coverage affects who and what we are afraid of, and which larger threats we ignore.

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