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Huw TD

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At Southampton there is a house I have admired, because from the side it looks so flat. Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester Egyptian literature, literacy, textual transmission, and religion. 🏳️‍🌈

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · Nov 14

Out in print today: The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara!

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/transmiss...

Also available Open Access from the Bloomsbury website

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 10h

interesting, let's see what happens to her in hour 265

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 10h

"Gentlemen, from these heights, 40 hours of sleep look down upon you!"

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 10h

has anyone suggested putting their organs in canopic jars to them

i feel someone should suggest putting their organs in canopic jars to them

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 13h

*extremely theresa may voice*

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 13h

Ah, but you see you aren't distinguishing between God's prevenient grace aa will-to-do and his postcellulose will-to-be, which [cont p94]

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 14h

Anita Bryant would be devastated.

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 14h

20 years on, the assumption that mid-2000s liberal consensus was the endpoint of both economic and social policy also looks... a tad naive?

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, it makes very little sense when you actually look at history. The most egregious example in Civ4 is probably that the alphabet being necessary for the printing press. Even in 2005 the origin of printing was pretty widely-known!

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 16h

Actual experts are, apparently, impossible to find...

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 20h

Good thing it wasn't tried before and didn't work... 🙃

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 1d

Normalise admitting you don't know enough about a subject to form an opinion of it.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 23h

stop thinking right now

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 21h

Hey, some of us didnt need twitter...

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 21h

Into what pit thou seest / From what highth fall'n...

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 22d

"Yogurt is excellent for the stomach, the kidneys, the appendicitis, and apotheosis."
- Ionescu, 'The Bald Soprano'

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 21h

The Balding Primadonna strikes again.

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 21h

Brekekex throw-axe, throw-axe

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

people will be like 'we've digitised these manuscripts, thus preserving them!' sorry mate if you want to preserve the data on your server copy it out onto parchment, the chats on your server won't survive as a paste-down in an old gradual stuffed on a shelf in a damp cellar for 1700 years

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Look at us, spending to prop up the economy! Not like the feckless youth, who are *checks notes* spending too much money and not saving up.

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Son of Bengt @sonofbengt.bsky.social · 1d

I try my best not to
#TOTP

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 1d

The voice goes forth, and the earth is inundated with silence, for the Sole One came into existence in the sky before the plains and the mountains existed. (BDF)

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Tales from the Two Lands @talestwolands.bsky.social · 1d

This is a delightful pot, painted with a drake (as in male duck, not dragon) as the centrepiece of the decoration. It’s about 16cm tall (a little over 6 inches) and was found at Abydos by the EEF (now EES) excavations in 1904. 🧵1/4

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A photograph of an ancient Egyptian pot. It is round bottomed and narrows from a widest point at about ¼ of the way up towards the neck. The neck itself does not continue to narrow & is a straight sided cylinder. The pot itself is a reddish brown in colour but not much of that is showing because it is painted. The decoration looks a bit like a broad collar necklace around the shoulders of the pot (leaving the neck bare) coming to about ¼ of the way down, and there is a bib with further decoration running from this to about the widest point of the pot. The decoration is painted with a white background, and the collar part has lots of vertical blue stripes as well as a yellow, red and blue horizontal strip. The bib is outlined with blue and red lines, and the centre has a drawing of a duck with a white body, a blue head, yellow & red wings, and red legs. Surrounding the duck are a few lotus flower motifs and a basket with two eggs.

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 2d

He should be glad it wasn't the Bald Soprano.