Ben 🦝
@melbenian.bsky.social
Melbourne 🇦🇺 (formerly YEG 🇨🇦)
Thoughts on politics, architecture, hockey, and tennis. Unofficial #1 Casper Ruud stan account.
You can take the boy out of Edmonton, but you can't take Edmonton out of the boy 🧡💙
Thoughts on politics, architecture, hockey, and tennis. Unofficial #1 Casper Ruud stan account.
You can take the boy out of Edmonton, but you can't take Edmonton out of the boy 🧡💙
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Mandatory voting is a best practice democratic institution that enables representative democracy to work as best it can. When everyone votes, representatives have to worry about everyone's interests or risk being voted out. When only some vote, those who don't are vulnerable to exploitation.
When Australia holds its federal elections tomorrow, it’ll do so with the requirement that all eligible citizens head to the polls and vote.
If they don’t, the Australian Electoral Commission will fine them $20 AUD (that’s roughly $13 USD). boltsmag.org/compuls...
If they don’t, the Australian Electoral Commission will fine them $20 AUD (that’s roughly $13 USD). boltsmag.org/compuls...
“An Egalitarian Pressure”: Australia Has Been Requiring People to Vote for 100 Years
As Australia compels voters to show up at the polls this weekend, a scholar lays out the genesis of
boltsmag.org
May 3, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Mandatory voting is a best practice democratic institution that enables representative democracy to work as best it can. When everyone votes, representatives have to worry about everyone's interests or risk being voted out. When only some vote, those who don't are vulnerable to exploitation.
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HISTORY MADE 🇨🇮🎾
Eliakim Coulibaly wins the Challenger in Côte d’Ivoire — becoming the first African ATP player to win a Challenger title.
At home. In front of his people. A moment for the ages.
Eliakim Coulibaly wins the Challenger in Côte d’Ivoire — becoming the first African ATP player to win a Challenger title.
At home. In front of his people. A moment for the ages.
April 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
HISTORY MADE 🇨🇮🎾
Eliakim Coulibaly wins the Challenger in Côte d’Ivoire — becoming the first African ATP player to win a Challenger title.
At home. In front of his people. A moment for the ages.
Eliakim Coulibaly wins the Challenger in Côte d’Ivoire — becoming the first African ATP player to win a Challenger title.
At home. In front of his people. A moment for the ages.
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I want politics to be about a better everyday life.
Here's what that can look like:
Here's what that can look like:
April 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I want politics to be about a better everyday life.
Here's what that can look like:
Here's what that can look like:
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young men don’t need a “left Joe Rogan” they need sports betting regulation
April 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
young men don’t need a “left Joe Rogan” they need sports betting regulation
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Ahh yes gay men expert... Tony Abbott.
March 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Ahh yes gay men expert... Tony Abbott.
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Christ in a Red Robe, by Minerva Teichert, 1945, 📸 by Brian Babineau
February 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Christ in a Red Robe, by Minerva Teichert, 1945, 📸 by Brian Babineau
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HANG IT IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA!!!!
February 21, 2025 at 4:42 AM
HANG IT IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA!!!!
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looking forward to the new policy of Access, Community, and Belonging (ACAB) at the UofA
In an op-ed, U of A prez Bill Flanagan says the university is moving away from a policy of equity, diversity, and inclusivity (EDI/DEI) toward "access, community, and belonging." Says the "language of EDI has become polarizing" and that U of A is the first major Canadian university to go this route.
Bill Flanagan: Why the U of A is moving from EDI to access, community and belonging
Why the University of Alberta is moving from equity, diversion and inclusion to access, community, and belonging.
edmontonjournal.com
January 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
looking forward to the new policy of Access, Community, and Belonging (ACAB) at the UofA
Praying that 2025 is the year Goodreads finally updates their app 🙏🏻
December 31, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Praying that 2025 is the year Goodreads finally updates their app 🙏🏻
Flying into LAX and can't believe how much they based LA off Los Santos...
November 19, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Flying into LAX and can't believe how much they based LA off Los Santos...