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dolorosa_12) wrote2021-03-13 12:16 pm
dolorosa_12) wrote2021-03-13 12:16 pm
A scattering of links
I've spent the morning watching the ABC's coverage of the Western Australian state election. (I'm not from WA, but my family are all either political journalists, political staffers, or just rabid Australian politics watchers, so obsessively watching Australian political coverage is kind of mandatory for me).
There are landslides ... and then there are landslides. (To decode this for non-Australians, the Liberal Party in Australia is the conservative right-wing party in Australia, the ALP is the Australian Labor Party, our centre-left party, and the NAT in the screenshot refers to the National Party, the conservative party that only stands in rural seats, and always contests elections as the junior partner in a coalition with the Liberals. So for the National Party to win more seats than the Liberals is basically unheard of.)
A few links that have caught my eye over the past few days:
Data visualisation of a survey done by Fansplaining about whether people in fandom prefer to read fic for fandoms with which they're familiar, or on the basis of tropes in fandoms that they haven't read/watched/etc. I found this really interesting, because it was basically a fifty-fifty split, with further data for each set of reading preferences. I fall solely in the 'only read fic for fandoms with which I am deeply familiar' (I don't even like reading fic for ongoing canons).
This long piece in The Guardian is a good look at the absolute shambles that was the UK Parliament, and 10 Downing Street last year in terms of being superspreader settings for COVID. The title of the article 'No 10 was a plague pit' pretty much says it all.
Like many Australians who grew up in Canberra, holidays 'down the South Coast' of New South Wales were a huge part of my childhood, and the old bridge in Batemans Bay was an icon of those landscapes. Now that old bridge is being replaced, and the operators (whose job is to lift the bridge two times a day to allow ferries to pass through) are out of a job (although my impression is that they were on the verge of retirement). This is a delightful interview with one of those operators about his experiences.
There are landslides ... and then there are landslides. (To decode this for non-Australians, the Liberal Party in Australia is the conservative right-wing party in Australia, the ALP is the Australian Labor Party, our centre-left party, and the NAT in the screenshot refers to the National Party, the conservative party that only stands in rural seats, and always contests elections as the junior partner in a coalition with the Liberals. So for the National Party to win more seats than the Liberals is basically unheard of.)
A few links that have caught my eye over the past few days:
Data visualisation of a survey done by Fansplaining about whether people in fandom prefer to read fic for fandoms with which they're familiar, or on the basis of tropes in fandoms that they haven't read/watched/etc. I found this really interesting, because it was basically a fifty-fifty split, with further data for each set of reading preferences. I fall solely in the 'only read fic for fandoms with which I am deeply familiar' (I don't even like reading fic for ongoing canons).
This long piece in The Guardian is a good look at the absolute shambles that was the UK Parliament, and 10 Downing Street last year in terms of being superspreader settings for COVID. The title of the article 'No 10 was a plague pit' pretty much says it all.
Like many Australians who grew up in Canberra, holidays 'down the South Coast' of New South Wales were a huge part of my childhood, and the old bridge in Batemans Bay was an icon of those landscapes. Now that old bridge is being replaced, and the operators (whose job is to lift the bridge two times a day to allow ferries to pass through) are out of a job (although my impression is that they were on the verge of retirement). This is a delightful interview with one of those operators about his experiences.