Dr Caitlin Noakes
@cernoakes.bsky.social
Creative Writing | History | Futures | Higher Ed
Views are my own 🦘
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Views are my own 🦘
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climMIGRANTS
Flash-fiction multiauthor book about migrations in 2050. 100 stories. 100 authors.
www.oneday2050.org
Excited to be part of OneDayIn2050's #futures narrative & climate activist experiment climMIGRANTS, asking what migration might look like in a future fraught by climate change. They’re still seeking authors, so if you're a futures thinker who can craft a world in 120 words or less, check it out :)
We launched the Sunshine Coast Futures Hub with guest Sherman Cruz, CEO of the Center for Engaged Foresight and UNESCO Chair on Anticipatory Governance and Regenerative Cites! He guided small groups through playing his game Dreams and Disruptions. 🔮
November 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
We launched the Sunshine Coast Futures Hub with guest Sherman Cruz, CEO of the Center for Engaged Foresight and UNESCO Chair on Anticipatory Governance and Regenerative Cites! He guided small groups through playing his game Dreams and Disruptions. 🔮
Literature is not about how language succeeds, but how it fails 💘
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Literature is not about how language succeeds, but how it fails 💘
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
11. Implement blue, Margaret Preston (1927)
11. Implement blue, Margaret Preston (1927)
November 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
11. Implement blue, Margaret Preston (1927)
11. Implement blue, Margaret Preston (1927)
Reposted by Dr Caitlin Noakes
Man goes to doctor. Says his ego is out of control. Doctor says "Look on works of Ozymandias and despair". Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor, my name is Ozymandias, King of Kings".
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, especially that one. Proud of that, took me ages.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and no worries if not.
October 30, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Man goes to doctor. Says his ego is out of control. Doctor says "Look on works of Ozymandias and despair". Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor, my name is Ozymandias, King of Kings".
Reposted by Dr Caitlin Noakes
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my Works, ye mighty, and this pear
Look on my Works, ye mighty, and this pear
October 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my Works, ye mighty, and this pear
Look on my Works, ye mighty, and this pear
Reposted by Dr Caitlin Noakes
Ozymandias
Time destroyed his statue
Yes
YES
The statue is just feet
Time destroyed his statue
Yes
YES
The statue is just feet
Ozyman, Ozyman-
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
This is just to say
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
October 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Ozymandias
Time destroyed his statue
Yes
YES
The statue is just feet
Time destroyed his statue
Yes
YES
The statue is just feet
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I heard there was a statue tall
That sneered at folk and commanded all
But you don't really care for symbols do ya
It goes like this the feet the fist
The head that fell the aim that missed
The long lost king whose name was Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymaaaaandias
That sneered at folk and commanded all
But you don't really care for symbols do ya
It goes like this the feet the fist
The head that fell the aim that missed
The long lost king whose name was Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymaaaaandias
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
There was an old man you could gaze
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
October 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I heard there was a statue tall
That sneered at folk and commanded all
But you don't really care for symbols do ya
It goes like this the feet the fist
The head that fell the aim that missed
The long lost king whose name was Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymaaaaandias
That sneered at folk and commanded all
But you don't really care for symbols do ya
It goes like this the feet the fist
The head that fell the aim that missed
The long lost king whose name was Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymaaaaandias
Nobody will remember:
Your salary
Your promotion
How busy you were
Your Works
People will remember:
Your shattered visage, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things #Ozymandias
Your salary
Your promotion
How busy you were
Your Works
People will remember:
Your shattered visage, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things #Ozymandias
October 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Nobody will remember:
Your salary
Your promotion
How busy you were
Your Works
People will remember:
Your shattered visage, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things #Ozymandias
Your salary
Your promotion
How busy you were
Your Works
People will remember:
Your shattered visage, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things #Ozymandias
Last Christmas, you gave me your Works
But the very next day, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stood in the desert #Ozymandias
But the very next day, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stood in the desert #Ozymandias
October 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Last Christmas, you gave me your Works
But the very next day, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stood in the desert #Ozymandias
But the very next day, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stood in the desert #Ozymandias
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a traveller from an antique land, must be in want of a colossal Wreck #Ozymandias
October 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a traveller from an antique land, must be in want of a colossal Wreck #Ozymandias
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
10. The red model, René Magritte (1935)
10. The red model, René Magritte (1935)
October 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
10. The red model, René Magritte (1935)
10. The red model, René Magritte (1935)
YES!! Joe can’t even hit it anymore. Because of broke
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM
YES!! Joe can’t even hit it anymore. Because of broke
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
9. Crab canon, MC Escher (1963)
9. Crab canon, MC Escher (1963)
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
9. Crab canon, MC Escher (1963)
9. Crab canon, MC Escher (1963)
Reposted by Dr Caitlin Noakes
The ABC’s Top 100 books poll lacks diversity. Here are my 10 First Nations ‘books of the 21st century’ theconversation.com/the-abcs-top...
The ABC’s Top 100 books poll lacks diversity. Here are my 10 First Nations ‘books of the 21st century’
Just three Aboriginal writers appeared in Radio National’s poll. There was little sense of the breadth and creativity of our First Nations writing scene.
theconversation.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
The ABC’s Top 100 books poll lacks diversity. Here are my 10 First Nations ‘books of the 21st century’ theconversation.com/the-abcs-top...
Reposted by Dr Caitlin Noakes
Sums it up nicely
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Sums it up nicely
My personal hypothesis is that I dream about my teeth falling out when I’m grinding (I have these dreams a lot and bruxism has wrecked! my teeth)
‘An unsolved mystery of science’: why do I dream about my teeth falling out?
‘An unsolved mystery of science’: why do I dream about my teeth falling out?
Experts say such dreams of dental distress may relate to the processing of various emotions and experiences
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
My personal hypothesis is that I dream about my teeth falling out when I’m grinding (I have these dreams a lot and bruxism has wrecked! my teeth)
Reposted by Dr Caitlin Noakes
In the sleepiest towns I found bustling, light-filled places eager for conversations about books and writing #libraries
A 3,200km tour of small Australian libraries taught me just how vital they are | Paul Daley
In the sleepiest towns I found bustling, light-filled places eager for conversations about books and writing
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
In the sleepiest towns I found bustling, light-filled places eager for conversations about books and writing #libraries
Reposted by Dr Caitlin Noakes
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
8. Altarpiece, no. 1, Hilma af Klint (1915)
8. Altarpiece, no. 1, Hilma af Klint (1915)
October 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
8. Altarpiece, no. 1, Hilma af Klint (1915)
8. Altarpiece, no. 1, Hilma af Klint (1915)
What do doughnuts have to do with economies? 🍩 💰
I had a sweet day at the University of the Sunshine Coast talking doughnut economics for better futures at a Global Doughnut Day organised by Camila Mozzini-Alister, Cassiana Buosi & Evelyn de Moraes, with speakers Theresa Ashford & Marcus Bussey 🍭
I had a sweet day at the University of the Sunshine Coast talking doughnut economics for better futures at a Global Doughnut Day organised by Camila Mozzini-Alister, Cassiana Buosi & Evelyn de Moraes, with speakers Theresa Ashford & Marcus Bussey 🍭
October 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
What do doughnuts have to do with economies? 🍩 💰
I had a sweet day at the University of the Sunshine Coast talking doughnut economics for better futures at a Global Doughnut Day organised by Camila Mozzini-Alister, Cassiana Buosi & Evelyn de Moraes, with speakers Theresa Ashford & Marcus Bussey 🍭
I had a sweet day at the University of the Sunshine Coast talking doughnut economics for better futures at a Global Doughnut Day organised by Camila Mozzini-Alister, Cassiana Buosi & Evelyn de Moraes, with speakers Theresa Ashford & Marcus Bussey 🍭
Reposted by Dr Caitlin Noakes
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
October 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
Reposted by Dr Caitlin Noakes
For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.
Reposts welcomed.
Reposts welcomed.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.
Reposts welcomed.
Reposts welcomed.
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
7. WAAAF cook (Corporal Joan Whipp), Nora Heysen (1945)
7. WAAAF cook (Corporal Joan Whipp), Nora Heysen (1945)
October 12, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
7. WAAAF cook (Corporal Joan Whipp), Nora Heysen (1945)
7. WAAAF cook (Corporal Joan Whipp), Nora Heysen (1945)
Fanning and Raworth have updated the doughnut model of social and planetary boundaries - and mapped rapidly growing human inequality. While the richest exploit the planet the most, the poorest are set to cop the impacts.
Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance - Nature
A revised ‘Doughnut’ providing a visual assessment of trends in social deprivation and planetary degradation over the past two decades shows more than doubling of global GDP accompanied by accelerating ecological overshoot but only a modest reduction in human deprivation.
www.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Fanning and Raworth have updated the doughnut model of social and planetary boundaries - and mapped rapidly growing human inequality. While the richest exploit the planet the most, the poorest are set to cop the impacts.