Jamie Hall
@jamiehall.cc
Absolutely. Here’s a bio which balances audacity with polish, while covering up the weak points and anxieties you mentioned. You can paste it directly into Bluesky, or let me know if you’d like edits or changes:
My background blends high-stakes strategy,
My background blends high-stakes strategy,
Left-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
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Left-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
I loved this book. If you enjoyed The Calculating Stars then you will too.
September 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I loved this book. If you enjoyed The Calculating Stars then you will too.
Just realised how unsafe this worksite is. What the hell are these dudes doing!? They could just fall out that door at any time
September 29, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Just realised how unsafe this worksite is. What the hell are these dudes doing!? They could just fall out that door at any time
Novels 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.
September 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Novels 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.
It’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
September 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
It’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
This is really good. If it was up to me, I’d give it one (1) Miles Franklin Award
September 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
This is really good. If it was up to me, I’d give it one (1) Miles Franklin Award
These 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!
September 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
These 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!
![Commenting on the claims that Israel had sought a green light from the Trump administration for the attack, Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft said: “What is the value of an American security umbrella [for Qatar] and hosting a US base on your soil if the United States itself conspires to attack you?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:764gxvilob4jzlzehbdtakpq/bafkreieh7rht2h5l2injto7hzs53ggsabjh5ysnmuizrvagkal6r2v3cou@jpeg)
The way millennial parents involve their kids in the workplace is so wholesome
August 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The way millennial parents involve their kids in the workplace is so wholesome
This is okay but I want them in vantablack
July 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
This is okay but I want them in vantablack
That’s right, Michelle de Kretser. Melbourne sucks
May 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
That’s right, Michelle de Kretser. Melbourne sucks
Those 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.)
![Excerpt from a Gruaniad article:
Analysts believe the US Federal Reserve may need to step in. Jim Reid, at Deutsche Bank, said: “Markets are pricing a growing probability of an emergency [interest rate] cut, just as we saw during the Covid turmoil and the height of the GFC [global financial crisis] in 2008.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:764gxvilob4jzlzehbdtakpq/bafkreih4h2aui7mjgqfrc7yr6kbd4k3t7gcq62e44k2yt53qhdmkuqb5zu@jpeg)
April 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Those 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.)
I’m genuinely confused about what Dutton thinks “tardy” means 🤔
April 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’m genuinely confused about what Dutton thinks “tardy” means 🤔
I am OUTRAGED by how accurate this is.
(A bit surprised not to be further left on econ, but meh, I’ll take it)
(A bit surprised not to be further left on econ, but meh, I’ll take it)
April 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I am OUTRAGED by how accurate this is.
(A bit surprised not to be further left on econ, but meh, I’ll take it)
(A bit surprised not to be further left on econ, but meh, I’ll take it)
Ah! 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.”
March 29, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Ah! 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.”
I 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
March 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I 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