Madeleine Clews 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 ⚓️
@byzantium-bound.bsky.social
PhD in Linguistics, recovering ex-public servant, professional worrier. Fremantle ⚓️💜 tragic. Seeking consilience
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From quacker to quokka | John Benjamins
Abstract
In charting the history of Australian English, little attention has hitherto been paid to Western Australia, an
extremely isolated colony established in 1829, some 40 years after the First Fl...
doi.org
Excited to see first-ever linguistic analysis using 19th-century texts from Western Australia hit the public domain.
Featuring that little rock-star of Australian fauna, the quokka ❤️
Open access!
#linguistics
#lingcom
Featuring that little rock-star of Australian fauna, the quokka ❤️
Open access!
#linguistics
#lingcom
Worth tuning in wherever you get your podcasts
I am restarting my podcast, 'Not Today, Thank You' tomorrow. Well, midnight tonight. Eckhart Tolle gonna make you holler, Greedy Pigs In Space, & a book recommendation (Paradox Lost by @vrling.bsky.social , if you can't be arsed to listen)
If you CAN be arsed, subscribe: podnews.net/podcast/i6vne
If you CAN be arsed, subscribe: podnews.net/podcast/i6vne
Jake Yapp presents: Not Today, Thank You
Listen to the politics audio show Jake Yapp presents: Not Today, Thank You from Swanburst Media in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Overcast and other podcast apps
podnews.net
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Worth tuning in wherever you get your podcasts
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Music doesn't need to change your life to matter. Sometimes a song just needs to make your Tuesday commute better. That's valuable too. Joy doesn't have to be profound.
November 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Music doesn't need to change your life to matter. Sometimes a song just needs to make your Tuesday commute better. That's valuable too. Joy doesn't have to be profound.
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Good ideas spread slower than bad ideas because bad ideas are simpler. "It's complicated" loses to "they're evil" every single time.
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Good ideas spread slower than bad ideas because bad ideas are simpler. "It's complicated" loses to "they're evil" every single time.
🇨🇦❤️ Why does Canada exist? These answers tug at my hearstrings.
These virtues are all relative of course. There are dark shadows in Canada's history too.
But the net direction is progress.
In the general direction of good.
These virtues are all relative of course. There are dark shadows in Canada's history too.
But the net direction is progress.
In the general direction of good.
To prove:
That decency can be a national value. That freedom and compassion aren’t opposites. That healthcare, education, and dignity aren’t luxuries, they’re rights.
That looking out for each other works.
That you can have freedom without guns. That kindness and diversity are strengths.
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That decency can be a national value. That freedom and compassion aren’t opposites. That healthcare, education, and dignity aren’t luxuries, they’re rights.
That looking out for each other works.
That you can have freedom without guns. That kindness and diversity are strengths.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🇨🇦❤️ Why does Canada exist? These answers tug at my hearstrings.
These virtues are all relative of course. There are dark shadows in Canada's history too.
But the net direction is progress.
In the general direction of good.
These virtues are all relative of course. There are dark shadows in Canada's history too.
But the net direction is progress.
In the general direction of good.
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A statement from me, on behalf of the Australian Cartoonists Association:
October 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
A statement from me, on behalf of the Australian Cartoonists Association:
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New review of Peter Prince and my edited collection, ‘Subjects and Aliens’, feat. @sophiecouchman.bsky.social , Margaret Allen, Emma Bellino and Margaret Allen
"First Nations people being defined and treated as aliens in their own country—the country of their birth."
Michele D. Dominy reviews ‘Subjects and Aliens’, a powerful study of race, law and belonging in Australia and NZ, in @pacificaffairs.bsky.social.
pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews...
Michele D. Dominy reviews ‘Subjects and Aliens’, a powerful study of race, law and belonging in Australia and NZ, in @pacificaffairs.bsky.social.
pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews...
SUBJECTS AND ALIENS: Histories of Nationality, Law and Belonging in Australia and New Zealand | Edited by Kate Bagnall and Peter Prince
book review of SUBJECTS AND ALIENS: Histories of Nationality, Law and Belonging in Australia and New Zealand | Edited by Kate Bagnall and Peter Prince
pacificaffairs.ubc.ca
October 22, 2025 at 5:35 AM
New review of Peter Prince and my edited collection, ‘Subjects and Aliens’, feat. @sophiecouchman.bsky.social , Margaret Allen, Emma Bellino and Margaret Allen
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Pls. repost and share: #OA #OER free scholar-produced resource for teachinge and readinge *The Canterbury Tales* at the Universitye level: THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales – The new way to learn about old books
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Pls. repost and share: #OA #OER free scholar-produced resource for teachinge and readinge *The Canterbury Tales* at the Universitye level: THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
Have read it! Life and opinions. Thereof.
October 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Have read it! Life and opinions. Thereof.
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This is a huge moment in linear broadcast TV. When I began my TV career in 2005, even history documentaries were expected to get 2 million viewers
Last month, something unusual happened in TV - none of the main channels got a million viewers at 9pm. The bigger problem was it happened a 2nd & 3rd time soon after.
Another unwelcome landmark for linear TV & our shrinking shared TV experience.
Does it matter?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...
Another unwelcome landmark for linear TV & our shrinking shared TV experience.
Does it matter?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...
‘It was a binding experience’: TV producers mourn decline of hot 9pm slot
UK broadcasters used to rely on big audiences at 9pm, but as viewing habits change, figures are falling below the 1m mark
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This is a huge moment in linear broadcast TV. When I began my TV career in 2005, even history documentaries were expected to get 2 million viewers
Very much worth reading. Every. Word.
Hold fast
Hold fast
My latest in the @australia.theguardian.com isn’t just about how we must regulate tech - it’s about how WE CAN.
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In a world where techlords rule us by whim, Australia’s stance against deepfakes is reason to celebrate | Van Badham
Could courage be contagious? Let’s hope so, because in the absence of powerful regulation, the normalisation of awful blooms
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Very much worth reading. Every. Word.
Hold fast
Hold fast
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Being right on the internet follows a Gartner hype cycle:
- Make claim
- Everyone disagrees
- Provide evidence
- "Well ACTUALLY it's more complicated"
- Trough of nuance
- Five years later someone gets credited for your idea
- You're still mad about it
- Make claim
- Everyone disagrees
- Provide evidence
- "Well ACTUALLY it's more complicated"
- Trough of nuance
- Five years later someone gets credited for your idea
- You're still mad about it
October 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Being right on the internet follows a Gartner hype cycle:
- Make claim
- Everyone disagrees
- Provide evidence
- "Well ACTUALLY it's more complicated"
- Trough of nuance
- Five years later someone gets credited for your idea
- You're still mad about it
- Make claim
- Everyone disagrees
- Provide evidence
- "Well ACTUALLY it's more complicated"
- Trough of nuance
- Five years later someone gets credited for your idea
- You're still mad about it
Timeline cleanse
306K views · 8.6K reactions | Tiny Acrobats Moved by Wind (Credit: rauxacia/ig) | Enigma Elysium
Tiny Acrobats Moved by Wind (Credit: rauxacia/ig).
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October 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Timeline cleanse
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There are certain words that scream Canadian. You may be thinking "touque" or "Timbit." In her latest post for "Anatomy of a Entry," Emma Ferrett makes the case for quill pig (or quilly pig) as a true Canadianism. What makes a Canadianism? Find out here: www.queensu.ca/strathy/quil...
Quill Pig | Strathy Language Unit
Author: Emma Ferrett Date: September 18, 2025
www.queensu.ca
October 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
There are certain words that scream Canadian. You may be thinking "touque" or "Timbit." In her latest post for "Anatomy of a Entry," Emma Ferrett makes the case for quill pig (or quilly pig) as a true Canadianism. What makes a Canadianism? Find out here: www.queensu.ca/strathy/quil...
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Just realised we are coming into 'your time or my time?' season. Thoughts and prayers Australia
October 3, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Just realised we are coming into 'your time or my time?' season. Thoughts and prayers Australia
Vale Dr Jane Goodall.
I feel like I've lost a childhood friend.
The kind you love and respect and desperately want to be like for their pure virtues.
Unlimited intellect, curiosity, kindness, gentleness, discipline, tenacity, hope.
And sense of humour.
Imagine if we were all like Jane
I feel like I've lost a childhood friend.
The kind you love and respect and desperately want to be like for their pure virtues.
Unlimited intellect, curiosity, kindness, gentleness, discipline, tenacity, hope.
And sense of humour.
Imagine if we were all like Jane
October 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Vale Dr Jane Goodall.
I feel like I've lost a childhood friend.
The kind you love and respect and desperately want to be like for their pure virtues.
Unlimited intellect, curiosity, kindness, gentleness, discipline, tenacity, hope.
And sense of humour.
Imagine if we were all like Jane
I feel like I've lost a childhood friend.
The kind you love and respect and desperately want to be like for their pure virtues.
Unlimited intellect, curiosity, kindness, gentleness, discipline, tenacity, hope.
And sense of humour.
Imagine if we were all like Jane
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Jane Goodall understood better than most the impact humans have had on the planet. Having witnessed so much environmental deterioration during her lifetime, she was as much an activist as a scientist.
Read our piece from 2024 on the legendary primatologist. 💚
Read our piece from 2024 on the legendary primatologist. 💚
Jane Goodall Thinks It’s Not Too Late to Save the World
The world, the famed primatologist says, isn’t what it used to be—but there’s still time to save it, if we treat crises like climate change, biodiversity loss, and poverty as one.
www.wired.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Jane Goodall understood better than most the impact humans have had on the planet. Having witnessed so much environmental deterioration during her lifetime, she was as much an activist as a scientist.
Read our piece from 2024 on the legendary primatologist. 💚
Read our piece from 2024 on the legendary primatologist. 💚
In #barcelona now. The weather is extreme. TV news is reporting dramatic and catastrophic storm conditions. Absolutely *nothing* to be found in online "news" sources. Have we reached a turning point in media coverage?
September 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
In #barcelona now. The weather is extreme. TV news is reporting dramatic and catastrophic storm conditions. Absolutely *nothing* to be found in online "news" sources. Have we reached a turning point in media coverage?
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Guess What? Canadian! - Standard Time
September 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Guess What? Canadian! - Standard Time
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Thanks to the wonderful team at the Hachette warehouse for making this morning’s mammoth book-signing a lot of fun.
Words for Life is out next week. I hope you like it.
linktr.ee/WordsforLife
Words for Life is out next week. I hope you like it.
linktr.ee/WordsforLife
September 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Thanks to the wonderful team at the Hachette warehouse for making this morning’s mammoth book-signing a lot of fun.
Words for Life is out next week. I hope you like it.
linktr.ee/WordsforLife
Words for Life is out next week. I hope you like it.
linktr.ee/WordsforLife
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Margaret Atwood's response to Alberta's book banning.
August 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Margaret Atwood's response to Alberta's book banning.
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Wonderful, affirming article. And I'm pleased to see that one of the public statements in support of Mitch Brown is from Fremantle Dockers captain Alex Pearce.
August 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Wonderful, affirming article. And I'm pleased to see that one of the public statements in support of Mitch Brown is from Fremantle Dockers captain Alex Pearce.
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August 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM