Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 02/10/2026Here is the answer, based on AES data (thank you McAllister, Cameron, McEachern, Perry & Jiang, doi:10.26193/HJ3KT1) 101
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 06/09/2026A fun fact I learned from this book is that the horse was originally domesticated for meat. Grass on the Steppe is often below winter snow. Cattle and sheep would starve; horses instinctively dig with their hooves. The Proto Indo-Europeans discovered they could ride them later, by accident 100
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 04/09/2026Apparently people from Rhode Island sound like Australians?! mydialect.us/quiz-standar... 100
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 12/08/2026I’ve been reading “The Line of Beauty”, which has been on my list since @ppfideas.bsky.social’s series on political novels. It’s magnificent, and has an interesting new insight on the Thatcher era: everyone was incredibly horny. And gay. Five stars 010
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 22/07/2026It's interesting that these "Correct" scores are so low; you'd do better by flipping a coin 230
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 24/05/2026I only learned today, decades later, why the chorus of “I Might Be A Cunt, But I’m Not A Fucking Cunt” is Dominique-nique-nique 010
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 16/03/2026I, too, would like to slam the state-based levy. Land tax is no more than a “tax on the rich”. That’s right. It merely “funds public services” by “redistributing money from people who can afford it”, and it’s “fair” and “good”, 010
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 27/02/2026He’s right. This is why the US and its allies achieved a swift and total victory in Vietnam 010
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 31/01/2026Somebody made a self-authorised street sign next to Enmore Park. Love it! 000
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 22/11/2025I like how, in this story that’s mainly about political tactics, we get a glimpse of the alternative Treasurer’s stroke of genius: what if we had automatic de-stabilisers? 000
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 09/11/2025Left-wing NIMBYism is the most depressing NIMBYism. After guns and drugs, housing is the #3 most tightly regulated market in Australia. To look at the current pile of policy failures and blame “the free market” takes a huge amount of motivated self-delusion 040
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 30/09/2025I loved this book. If you enjoyed The Calculating Stars then you will too. 020
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 29/09/2025Just realised how unsafe this worksite is. What the hell are these dudes doing!? They could just fall out that door at any time 040
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 17/09/2025Novels used to get dinged from the Miles Franklin for not being Australian enough. This one’s about Australia/China, but mainly China viewed from Australia, and being a #BadChinese, so I’m glad it worked out. Also I really dig the Joan’s Book Club design ethos of the post-award reprint cover. 010
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 17/09/2025It’s a jokey tongue-in-cheek bit of metafiction which feels extremely 90s (complimentary). The modern journey into fake/real China is intercut with tall tales and ironical vignettes from the Jin Dynasty, which was an embarrassing historical cul de sac for the main arc of Chinese civilisation 100
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 17/09/2025This is really good. If it was up to me, I’d give it one (1) Miles Franklin Award 150
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 17/09/2025These two things are opposite and contradictory goals. You cannot have both, you must pick one! Implying that you can have both of them isn’t seriousness and Serious Reform Agenda, it’s just stupid! 100
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 27/08/2025The way millennial parents involve their kids in the workplace is so wholesome 010
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 09/04/2025Those two events were huge demand shocks; the Trump tariffs are a negative supply shock, which would call for an emergency rate _rise_, no? (Assuming that the Fed board keeps doing their job and don’t get fired or DOGEd or whatever.) 100
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 05/04/2025I’m genuinely confused about what Dutton thinks “tardy” means 🤔 130
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 02/04/2025I am OUTRAGED by how accurate this is. (A bit surprised not to be further left on econ, but meh, I’ll take it) 120
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 29/03/2025Ah! They mean “aesthetic” as a keyword for “like something you’d see on instagram”. A version of Rule 34: “there is a blonde-wood soft focus furniture/tchotchke Pinterest mood board of it. No exceptions.” 110
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 27/03/2025I tried that trend of asking ChatGPT-4o to redo a photograph of me in Studio Ghibli style, and I’m honestly impressed, it nailed it 030
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 04/03/2025“I guess we’ll find out what happens after it happens, and then we’ll figure something out, or something” 000
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 17/09/2024Considering that 100% of the kids at our local high school still use mobile phones every day, this last year has accidentally taught them a lot about how laws and policies really work 030