John

I miss the days when my brain's primary association with the name Donald was with the last name Bradman

Brown falcon at organ pipes NP today (binocularised)

Was so bummed out reading this this morning. I've loved visiting the fruit bats in brimbank park several times in the last few years.

We are the Rising Tide Climate Catastrophe and Courtroom 3.2 Newcastle Court

I’ve been in court this morning ✊
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Pleased to announce that 2026 only has two factors, 2 and 1013

Idiolectal observation of the day: intrusive R can also be strengthened to a trill in styles when I would trill other Rs. For example, trying to sound fancy singing Christmas carols, I noticed "hosanna-[r]-in excelsis" come out.

Angry thread👇

Love to attend the Melbourne Interstitial Jazz Festival, or maybe it's Intentional? Intestinal?

Sriracha Conan Doyle. That's all I have to say.

graphic of a gold star written "has never even opened ChatGPT"

Boland! We could be heading for a three-day thriller here

Vale William Labov.

Inspired by a colleague on X, I think my favourite Bill Labov quote is:

“I have resisted the term *sociolinguistics* for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.”

Thank you for everything, Bill.

Youtube seems to think I want to watch videos with a couple of hundred views from random guys with a handful of followers solving crosswords and things. They look irredeemably tedious and I don't know how many times I've clicked "not interested", but they keep being recommended.

I too have been following the world chess championship with interest.

In the realm of being boring, nothing is more thrilling than top-tier chess | James Colley www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I need to get out and exercise some of this anxiety away but unfortunately it's 32 degrees out there. Might go out and dissolve into a pile of sweat anyway.

Reading up on important historical events

Hiatus Resolution would be a good band name

Happy 32 and halfth birthday to me! I only get to be exactly six months out from my birthday every four years.

The cool change has arrived!

Test cricket is so bloody good

It is rather an odd little verb. Don't you dare omit the subject in a negative imperative for example.

That sentence doesn't even make sense

Successfully made it down to Sisters Beach. Got a great view of the whole coastline from the plane as it landed

Fun fact about 2024 - it's divisible by both 22 and 23

Dove Actually Usman Khawaja and the ICC’s gormless aversion to ‘controversy’

Gideon Haigh, freed from the Oz, in fine form skewering the International Cricket Council. cricketetal.substack.com/p/a-fucking-...

When it sounds fine to you, it's the object in a relative clause, "Any questions (that) you want ___ answered"
If you put it in a main clause, you get "you want these questions answered". This is different from having the questions as subject, as in "these questions want answered"

The cool change has reached Maribyrnong!

I was so excited when I spotted (ha!) one of these for the first time earlier this year. Seen them a few times now, and it's a delight every time

8 runs an over for the first 10, 4 runs an over for the last 40. What a turn around. #cwc23

Very similar but I think 'smarter' has a marginally shorter vowel for me (AusE - Melbourne)