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@revisesociology
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about 8 hours ago
spt
Splinterlands Slumlord Update
So it's been a while since I last looked at my SL land stack, which I think is the way to go given the slow progress! Basically plan on and dont' check too often! The region…
@revisesociology
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1 day ago
uk
£54.7m for the Shareholders, £31.8m for the Dead
Kenan Malik, writing in The Observer, calls Arconic's Grenfell settlements an indictment of our times. He is right, but the phrase is almost too gentle. What the numbers describe…
@revisesociology
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2 days ago
uk
Migration: the mega-dinghy and the limits of smashing the gangs
A boat carrying 230 people arrived in Dover a few weeks ago, and the vocabulary arrived with it. Monster boat. Mega-dinghy. Crushed like sardines. Longer than a double-decker…
@revisesociology
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3 days ago
chiuna
China's oil stockpile is the reason your petrol isn't £3 a litre
The Economist has an editorial on China's grip on the global oil market which treats the story as a problem: an autocracy has accumulated enough market power to move prices…
@revisesociology
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4 days ago
life
On Leak Patrol: Drones, Drought and the Thirty-Year Hosepipe Record
There is a particular genre of business journalism in which a reporter is invited to a field, handed a hard hat, and shown a drone. The company in question then explains that it…
@revisesociology
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5 days ago
work
Jargon is what insecurity sounds like
Jargon is an annoying aspect of work, but more interesting than the irritation factor is some recent research on who reaches for buzzwords... A study published in…
@revisesociology
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6 days ago
uk
Grievance Is a Broad Church
Victim politics — that supposedly left-wing habit of organising identity around injury — is now thriving rather more vigorously on the Right than anywhere else... The traitor…
@revisesociology
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7 days ago
cine
Bring Back the Terrifying Films — But It Won't Work
Sarah Ditum has a piece in The Times arguing that Britain should revive the public information film. Her prompt was telling off a young man for lighting a cigarette in a…
@revisesociology
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8 days ago
runningproject
Weekly ish Running update... Slowest every Park Run
But it was deliberate, so that's OK! My last three runs: Tuesday Octopus... I headed out for 4 isk Ks easy and then 4* 300M - at 4.05 but I overdid it, according to Claude.…
@revisesociology
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11 days ago
life
The Grain Bill Always Arrives Late
Tom Tugendhat used his Telegraph column this week to point at something most of us have been comfortably ignoring: the world's grain trade is in serious trouble, and Britain is…
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