Johanna Edmond
@jvedmond.bsky.social
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Jean de La Fontaine would be feeling seen today.
March 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Jean de La Fontaine would be feeling seen today.
I used to love Lotus Notes email but I think I may be the only person ever to do that.
February 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I used to love Lotus Notes email but I think I may be the only person ever to do that.
It’s a puzzle. If you squint hard enough there’s cattle there somewhere?
January 22, 2025 at 6:29 AM
It’s a puzzle. If you squint hard enough there’s cattle there somewhere?
I grew up seeing doctors who were peers of my family members, or taught by them or their peers, or who knew them by reputation. Until I went to a doctor where there was no connection at all I had never experienced this. But it is common. When you find a doctor who listens, stick with them.
January 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I grew up seeing doctors who were peers of my family members, or taught by them or their peers, or who knew them by reputation. Until I went to a doctor where there was no connection at all I had never experienced this. But it is common. When you find a doctor who listens, stick with them.
Great. But all those people should be wearing new N95 masks with the particulate matter in the air. This is also an opportunity to teach how masks work which will help mitigate respiratory viruses.
January 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Great. But all those people should be wearing new N95 masks with the particulate matter in the air. This is also an opportunity to teach how masks work which will help mitigate respiratory viruses.
If you love this topic as I do I thoroughly recommend this book which us about far more than compulsory voting. www.textpublishing.com.au/books/from-s...
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting, book by Judith Brett
It’s compulsory to vote in Australia.We are one of a handful of countries in the world that enforce this rule at election time, and the only English-speaking country that makes its citizens vote.Not o...
www.textpublishing.com.au
January 3, 2025 at 5:13 AM
If you love this topic as I do I thoroughly recommend this book which us about far more than compulsory voting. www.textpublishing.com.au/books/from-s...
For Australia this is helpful. Note that although a kind of preferential, the Senate is primarily proportional. www.aec.gov.au/learn/prefer...
You may have to look up Hare-Clark separately, no one outside Tasmania really understands it anyway 🤣 but it is a hybrid of the single transferable vote.
You may have to look up Hare-Clark separately, no one outside Tasmania really understands it anyway 🤣 but it is a hybrid of the single transferable vote.
Preferential voting
How does preferential voting work?
www.aec.gov.au
January 3, 2025 at 5:11 AM
For Australia this is helpful. Note that although a kind of preferential, the Senate is primarily proportional. www.aec.gov.au/learn/prefer...
You may have to look up Hare-Clark separately, no one outside Tasmania really understands it anyway 🤣 but it is a hybrid of the single transferable vote.
You may have to look up Hare-Clark separately, no one outside Tasmania really understands it anyway 🤣 but it is a hybrid of the single transferable vote.
NZ has a form of PR, often ends up with a coalition so incompatible that no one satisfies their core constituency. One Ardern government was an exception. Rather than copy non-Westminster style European governments have a look at Aus (non-PR) and NZ (PR) examples more similar to yours.
January 3, 2025 at 3:25 AM
NZ has a form of PR, often ends up with a coalition so incompatible that no one satisfies their core constituency. One Ardern government was an exception. Rather than copy non-Westminster style European governments have a look at Aus (non-PR) and NZ (PR) examples more similar to yours.
Australia has PR in our Senate and every general election we are thankful you don’t draw the executive from there, but from the lower house. It’s a recipe for instability and fringe views.
January 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Australia has PR in our Senate and every general election we are thankful you don’t draw the executive from there, but from the lower house. It’s a recipe for instability and fringe views.
I can see why you’re pessimistic but to limit the goal to PR seems defeatist and counterproductive. I don’t know how badly the AV was explained in 2011 but Australia gave you secret ballots and our preferential voting is so simple 5 yo use it to elect class captains + understand why it’s best.
January 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I can see why you’re pessimistic but to limit the goal to PR seems defeatist and counterproductive. I don’t know how badly the AV was explained in 2011 but Australia gave you secret ballots and our preferential voting is so simple 5 yo use it to elect class captains + understand why it’s best.
Why do you think voluntary voting via PR would be any different? The answer to turnout is compulsory attendance. The answer to the silly FPTP system is either PR or Australia’s preferential system or Hare-Clark or something else. It’s not clear proportional would work well in a Westminster system.
January 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Why do you think voluntary voting via PR would be any different? The answer to turnout is compulsory attendance. The answer to the silly FPTP system is either PR or Australia’s preferential system or Hare-Clark or something else. It’s not clear proportional would work well in a Westminster system.
You are awesome. And your house is much tidier than mine. In any case, no one who visits you is there for any reason other than you- so as long as you are there it’s perfect. Though I do wish I’d talked you into buying that big rambly house near me.
January 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
You are awesome. And your house is much tidier than mine. In any case, no one who visits you is there for any reason other than you- so as long as you are there it’s perfect. Though I do wish I’d talked you into buying that big rambly house near me.
Australians, every year.
December 25, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Australians, every year.
1am in Australia on a school night so I will have to catch up later. But when China is the hegemonic superpower, how will they manage this kind of thing, given they like past superpowers will have an increasing reliance on world stability?
December 8, 2024 at 11:04 AM
1am in Australia on a school night so I will have to catch up later. But when China is the hegemonic superpower, how will they manage this kind of thing, given they like past superpowers will have an increasing reliance on world stability?
@drkatybarnett.bsky.social is this what you would like next July? If so, do you have a format of choice?
December 1, 2024 at 6:56 AM
@drkatybarnett.bsky.social is this what you would like next July? If so, do you have a format of choice?