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alessandrawhite

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Gettin' Jacked with PUSHR 💪 Day 42 • 11 Nov, 2026

Gettin' Jacked with PUSHR 💪 Day 42 • 11 Nov, 2026

Greetings, to my fellow streakers! 👋 I’m late in the day to post about doing my daily pushups. I’m rather behind on work, so I recruited the loyal @bitterirony to help wake me at 5:45am EDT so I could

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revisesociology

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Sizewell C: a reliable supply of electricity... and investor returns?

Sizewell C: a reliable supply of electricity... and investor returns?

I don't have a fundamental objection to nuclear power. Reliable electricity with low operational carbon emissions sounds fairly useful, especially if we're going to electrify more of everyday life. What

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alessandrawhite

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Gettin' Jacked with PUSHR 💪 Day 41 • 10 Nov, 2026

Gettin' Jacked with PUSHR 💪 Day 41 • 10 Nov, 2026

Maintaining a streak can be useful modality to build consistency. But it can also be a set up for failure if the activity you’re doing isn’t desirable, even on its own. I noticed that if I were cast in

inksurgeon

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URBAN MOTION | A Sheffield timelapse and hyperlapse journey

URBAN MOTION | A Sheffield timelapse and hyperlapse journey

URBAN MOTION | A Sheffield timelapse and hyperlapse journey

zainalbakri

HiveSuite Community

14d

Beneath the Casuarina: Breakfast, Music & Acehnese Charm

Beneath the Casuarina: Breakfast, Music & Acehnese Charm

rumah bitata sudirman banda aceh

JUST last Tuesday, my family and I set off to enjoy breakfast at a truly one‑of‑a‑kind spot: a lovely old home transformed into a café and restaurant, blending traditional soul, open‑air spaces, and effortless

revisesociology

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TikTok has boosted the economy by £10 billion. Apparently.

TikTok has boosted the economy by £10 billion. Apparently.

There's a full-page TikTok advert in The Week telling me it delivered a £10 billion boost to the UK economy in 2025. Happy business owners, gardening, desserts, cleaning products. All very wholesome. My

revisesociology

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More North Sea gas... but when do we actually need less of it?

More North Sea gas... but when do we actually need less of it?

Reading the arguments about Jackdaw in The Week, I found myself agreeing with bits of both sides, which is inconvenient because this is apparently one of those subjects where you're supposed to pick a

revisesociology

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In praise of places where I don’t have to buy anything

In praise of places where I don’t have to buy anything

I once wrote a post about how much my cappuccino habit was costing me. The awkward bit was that I actually liked going for a cappuccino. Half the pleasure was sitting somewhere warm with a book and being

sunshine698

7d

My Garden and The Rain God

My Garden and The Rain God

Last week it continuously rained here and there was no respite from this continuous rain, the weather was pretty bad, forcing to stay indoor

zainalbakri

HiveSuite Community

11d

When a Plate of Nutritious Food Brings Only Worry

When a Plate of Nutritious Food Brings Only Worry

SMP Negeri 4 Banda Aceh, Peunayong

Src There is something deeply ironic in reading news of schoolchildren needing medical care after eating meals from the Free Nutritious Meals Program (MBG). Designed to ensure Indonesia’s children get

harveyword

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Shoreditch Street art - Part 1

Shoreditch Street art - Part 1

Shoreditch is one of the trendy, arty parts of London, even a boy from the colonies knows that, there are clothing labels named after it, I'm sure I heard it mentioned somewhere, I think there is a outpost

revisesociology

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Buying stuff is easy. Apparently owning it is a part-time job....

Buying stuff is easy. Apparently owning it is a part-time job....

Back in 2018 I wrote about whether my belongings belonged to me, or whether I belonged to them. This was after paying to move and store a load of stuff, then discovering that having it all around made

revisesociology

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Teach kids to speak up... but give them something worth saying

Teach kids to speak up... but give them something worth saying

I was reading The Week the other day and there was a piece on teaching 'oracy', which is apparently what we're calling talking now. TBH my first thought was here we go again, another perfectly sensible

dviney

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UK AI Market Size 2026: Five Numbers, One Government Bet and Three Things to Check Before You Plan Around It

UK AI Market Size 2026: Five Numbers, One Government Bet and Three Things to Check Before You Plan Around It

The UK tech sector is now worth $1.6 trillion (£1.2 trillion), and artificial intelligence accounts for roughly a third of it. Those are the headline figures from the Tech Nation Report 2026, launched

zainalbakri

INDONESIAN HIVE

7d

When Floods Displace Families, Compassion Must Come First

When Floods Displace Families, Compassion Must Come First

Amid the floods that have struck South Aceh, I am once again reminded that the most basic needs of our fellow citizens taking refuge are a sense of safety, compassion, and the assurance that they do not

revisesociology

11d

An Underwhelming budget...

An Underwhelming budget...

After the promises about breaking with the economic direction of the past 40 years, the budget felt a fairly cautious start. A hundred quid helps. Then what? The headline announcement was a £100 energy

revisesociology

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Karl Bushby’s 28-year walk: the best bit isn’t the distance

Karl Bushby’s 28-year walk: the best bit isn’t the distance

I was reading about Karl Bushby in The Week, and there’s something wonderfully absurd about setting off for a walk home which takes nearly three decades. Most of us would consider it a fairly serious planning

harveyword

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The Balls and the Building

The Balls and the Building

Two shots from London, Maybe they were taken the same day, early-ish on a Sunday morning, just as I was starting what was maybe the biggest day of photography in recent memory, maybe one is from then and

vynith

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A few eggs fried in milk, butter and leftover microwaved meat from yesterday

A few eggs fried in milk, butter and leftover microwaved meat from yesterday

I cooked up some eggs in butter and milk and decided to use the leftover microwaved mince meat from yesterday. Delicious. PS: Don't forget to follow for more carnivore diet videos. ▶ Watch on 3speak.tv

marabuzal

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📘 «Planetazo (uno más)» (ES/EN)

📘 «Planetazo (uno más)» (ES/EN)

Si algo ha demostrado la edición del Premio Planeta es que ya no hace falta ni disimular. Otorgar este año el galardón a Isabel Allende no es un reconocimiento literario: es una operación de mercado ejecutada

kiwithinker

15d

Today in Space History - October 28: A Quiet British Orbit

Today in Space History - October 28: A Quiet British Orbit

Today in Space History - A Quiet British Orbit 🚀 Stardate 554.5689 (OCTOBER 28, 1971) On a clear morning over the Australian desert, a slender British rocket rose from Woomera and placed a small satellite

revisesociology

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The AI boom has discovered it needs electricity... and money to repay its debts

The AI boom has discovered it needs electricity... and money to repay its debts

I was reading The Week’s briefing on the latest data-centre wobble, and the detail that stuck with me wasn’t some complicated financial forecast. It was a proposed AI facility in Essex struggling to get

adetorrent

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Sweetcombe Cottages - Stay near the donkeys

Sweetcombe Cottages - Stay near the donkeys

Sweetcombe Cottages STAY NEAR THE DONKEYS I finally found my booking details of where I stayed when I visited The Donkey Sactuary in Devon. I promised @molometer that I was going to post about it and show

revisesociology

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Britain needs more entrepreneurs... but who can afford to take the risk?

Britain needs more entrepreneurs... but who can afford to take the risk?

I was reading in The Week a summary of Mihir Sharma’s Bloomberg column about Jensen Huang’s verdict on Britain. Apparently we have plenty of talent but not enough entrepreneurial spirit. Give us a million