Colin Mitchell @pixelpage

CTO/co-founder of agri-tech startup Sixty-5 Technologies Ltd, (@sixty5tech) hands-on code-tweaker, occasional blues guitarist crmitchell.co.uk Northern Ireland Joined July 2009

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Colin Mitchell @pixelpage

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Imagine facilitating genocide and it not getting a mention in Starmer's legacy. But that's the Guardian's sketchy morality for you. theguardian.com/politics/ng-in…

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It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

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Tom London @TomLondon6

10 hours ago

Some stats to put Starmer’s claims about Corbyn electability in context Corbyn 2017 = 40% of GE vote Corbyn 2019 (after the most vicious propaganda assault in modern history) = 32% Starmer 2024 = 33%

Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP

11 hours ago

From taking our party from the worst defeat in modern history, @Keir_Starmer turned it around and delivered a landslide majority just four years later.

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Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes

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MC Squared @mcsquared34

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Clark Wilson @clark_wils46212

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Sony Thăng @nxt888

22 hours ago

Most Americans are not evil. That would be too simple. And too flattering. Evil at least implies intention. A great many people inside the empire are not intentional enough to be evil. They are domesticated. Domesticated by convenience. By spectacle. By the narcotic rhythm of paycheck, purchase, panic, distraction. They live inside a system that trains them to mistake access for virtue. If I can still buy coffee, things must be normal. If Netflix still works, collapse must be exaggerated. If my neighborhood is quiet, the screams must be far away enough not to matter. That is how imperial consciousness works. Not as constant bloodlust. As managed distance. Distance from consequence. Distance from production. Distance from history. Distance from the people paying for your calm. And because the distance is moral as well as geographic, the average citizen can participate in atrocity without ever feeling like a participant. That is the masterpiece. Not just killing people. But teaching millions to live comfortably inside the kill chain without ever seeing themselves in it.

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William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill

2 days ago

No Cobra meeting @Keir_Starmer ? No headlines @BBCWorld ? Why are stabbed Muslims of absolutely no consequence to anyone in power in the UK?

Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf

2 days ago

Hey @RupertLowe10 you blew the dog-whistle this week, and people have reacted exactly how you wanted them to. Over 4m Muslims in the UK, and you have made every single one of us a target. You should be utterly ashamed of yourself.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel

2 days ago

It's wild that the term "Free World" emerged in Western discourse in the 1940s, at a time when the Western European powers exercised authoritarian control over the colonised territories and the US was an apartheid regime with institutionalised racial segregation.

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Hugh Grant @HackedOffHugh

2 days ago

All still suckling at the teat.

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Steve Hall @ProfHall1955

3 days ago

Dear Neoliberals, if you think private investment, technology and individualistic entrepreneurship will pull the West out of the quagmire into which it is sinking, you are very stupid. That is all. Thank you.

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Colin Mitchell @pixelpage

3 days ago

Readers notes: this is actually a Royal Mail mailship that left Hull in 1739 loaded with second class post.

BBC Newsline @bbcnewsline

3 days ago

Warrenpoint is used to seeing large ships sailing up Carlingford Lough, but this week a replica Spanish trading ship has berthed in the town. It cost five million euro to build. our south east reporter Cormac Campbell went on board.

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Sony Thăng @nxt888

3 days ago

Healthcare tied to employment isn't a policy accident. It's a leash. You cannot organize, cannot strike, cannot quit, cannot risk the job, because the job is the only thing standing between your family and a medical bill that bankrupts you. In countries with national healthcare, workers can walk away from a bad employer because their survival isn't contingent on that employer's goodwill. In America, the calculation is different. Quit, and you lose the thing keeping your kid's asthma medication affordable. Strike, and you risk the coverage that's keeping your mother's chemo paid for. This isn't a side effect of the system. This is the system working exactly as designed. A frightened workforce doesn't need a boot on its neck. It needs a spreadsheet showing what happens if it loses the insurance.

TBorNOTtb @baloniusthunk

3 days ago

@nxt888 Tying health care to one’s job is such a trap.

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Tyfanwy Prudence McPrude 💛 @tiffy201

3 days ago

Seriously, you should listen to this

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Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat

3 days ago

Most of the Ukrainians I’ve actually sat down with here in Slovakia the ones we’ve welcomed into our country, helped find work, and who are trying to rebuild some kind of life want the war to end. They don’t romanticize it. They’re tired. Many quietly say they feel used in a game much bigger than them. They see the interests at play. They want peace, even if it’s imperfect. And even the ones with strong national feelings never pack their bags and head to the front. Real people with real families tend to choose life when they have the choice. Then you open your phone. Suddenly the war must continue “until victory,” no matter the cost. The loudest voices come from people in Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Czechia, the UK, the US basically the places where no conscription notices arrive at the door, no air raid sirens sound at night, and no one is burying sons this month. They’re willing to fight to the last Ukrainian… from the safety of their living rooms. This isn’t courage; it’s comfort speaking. The people who will actually live with the consequences the mothers, the fathers, the young men who would have to die or be maimed mostly want the killing to stop. The people demanding it must go on are usually the furthest from the graves. I keep wondering what this reveals about us. When we cheer for war from a safe distance, are we really supporting Ukrainians… or are we supporting our own need to feel morally right, no matter how many others have to pay for it? If the people closest to the pain mostly want peace, but the people safest from it keep pushing for more fighting ... who are we actually listening to? And more importantly: if you were the one who might have to send your own son, or go yourself… would your opinion change? Read this slowly. Sit with it. Then tell me honestly what you feel. No slogans. Just your real thoughts.

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Colin Mitchell @pixelpage

3 days ago

Interesting

Jason Hickel @jasonhickel

3 days ago

I disagree that we are in a "New Cold War". Rather, we are in a continuation of what we might call the Long Cold War, or the Great Anti-Sovereignty War, which has been waged by the imperial core against liberation movements and sovereign-seeking states in the periphery that