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Zebedee

@revisesociology

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Zebedee
@revisesociology Sep 3, 2026, 8:58 PM UTC

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 behaving as though thi…

246 upvotes 1 replies $4.42
Zebedee
@revisesociology Sep 2, 2026, 8:13 PM UTC

"Resilient" Is What We Say When We Can't Say "Growing"

Writing in The Times, David Smith looks at the British economy and finds it standing up rather well. The next quarterly growth figures wouldn't match the brisk 0.6% of the first quarter, he predicted…

284 upvotes 2 replies $12.09
Zebedee
@revisesociology Sep 1, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC

Happy September HPUD through 300K HP...

Evening evening and happy September HPUD to one and all. I have just Powered up another 2.5K Hive to take me through that 300K HP barrier.... Looks nice huh?!? ### Do you love the game...? I mean hon…

359 upvotes 23 replies $13.25
Zebedee
@revisesociology Aug 31, 2026, 9:43 PM UTC

The Death Tax Panic Has Nothing To Do With Dying

Andy Burnham has been Prime Minister for barely a month and has already reached for the policy that has destroyed more political careers than any other. A National Care Service. Free at the point of…

387 upvotes 0 replies $7.91
Zebedee
@revisesociology Aug 30, 2026, 7:15 PM UTC

Weeklyish Running Update - Intense Base!

So I put my August running stats into Claude and it came back and told me my Park Runs are too fast to be proper 'base' runs. My other runs are all fine - being mid 130s for the runs, but with the Pa…

309 upvotes 8 replies $11.26
Zebedee
@revisesociology Aug 29, 2026, 9:47 PM UTC

We Didn't Over-Educate. We Under-Employed

There is a particular British ritual that recurs every few years, usually when the graduate employment figures land. Someone senior announces that too many young people are going to university, that…

252 upvotes 3 replies $5.75
Zebedee
@revisesociology Aug 28, 2026, 6:10 PM UTC

The State's Best Defence Was That Nobody Could Be Bothered

The Economist has spotted a threat from artificial intelligence that isn't mass unemployment.... AI is very, very good at helping people complain. Tax appeals, benefit reconsiderations, planning obje…

291 upvotes 2 replies $6.51
Zebedee
@revisesociology Aug 27, 2026, 6:17 PM UTC

The Rise of the 1am Job Interview

A quarter of all interviews conducted through one voice-AI recruitment platform now happen between ten at night and two in the morning. For manufacturing employers it's over a third. Nobody has sched…

274 upvotes 3 replies $4.55
Zebedee
@revisesociology Aug 26, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC

Britain Has Become a Fire-Prone Country and Forgotten to Buy Any Aircraft

Britain now has wildfires. Britain does not have a wildfire capability. These two facts have been coexisting for several years and nobody in government seems especially bothered. ### A record that ke…

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Zebedee
@revisesociology Aug 25, 2026, 8:47 PM UTC

A Drought With a Hierarchy: Who Actually Gets the Water

There's been a fair amount of coverage about how much strain AI data centres are and are going to be putting on the National Grid, but not so much coverage about the strain being put on our water sup…

366 upvotes 3 replies $3.85