Welcome to RSS Club!

What if I told you there was a secret social network, hidden in plain sight? If you're reading this message, you're now a member of RSS Club!

RSS Club is a series of posts which are only visible to RSS / Atom subscribers. Like you 😃

If I've done everything right⁰, this page isn't visible on the web. It can't be found by a search engine. It doesn't share to Mastodon or appear syndicated to ActivityPub.

Of course, that also means that I can't receive any comments or feedback about it. I'd love it if you dropped me a note to say you found this post. My contact details are on https://edent.tel/ - feel free to use whichever method you like.

So, what can you expect from this exclusive content? More of the same old nonsense - but probably stuff I don't want to argue about on Social Media.

As a first pass, let's talk about this "Let's write a constitution" post from Matt Ellery. In it, he discusses various fun / sensible things you could do with a written constitution. I particularly like the idea of having a "Prime Number Election".

In my modernist tweak, I'd set up something like this:

• Local council elections every 3 years.
• National MP elections every 5 years.
• Upper chamber elections every 7 years.

That ensures that no one party can dominate. Once every 35 years, the upper chamber elections would be brought forward by one year, with their next term lengthened to 8 years.

I'm less sure about having the locals be at the same time for every council. I think that could be a lot of work for democratic volunteers. Perhaps stagger them into thirds or quarters of the year?

Either way, I doubt we'll be getting a written constitution any time soon!