andrew phillips
@herfst.bsky.social
forð onsendon ænne ofer yðe
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New soundtrack!
Made for the surf Scottish ‘Silent Roar’ film which is now on BFI player 🏄♀️
Didn’t ever think I’d get a chance to release this, but super fun to make its eccentric sound. Trombone heavy, colliery brass, marimbas, synths, choir and guitars…
🌊🎥 🌊
silvascreen.ffm.to/silent_roar
Made for the surf Scottish ‘Silent Roar’ film which is now on BFI player 🏄♀️
Didn’t ever think I’d get a chance to release this, but super fun to make its eccentric sound. Trombone heavy, colliery brass, marimbas, synths, choir and guitars…
🌊🎥 🌊
silvascreen.ffm.to/silent_roar
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
New soundtrack!
Made for the surf Scottish ‘Silent Roar’ film which is now on BFI player 🏄♀️
Didn’t ever think I’d get a chance to release this, but super fun to make its eccentric sound. Trombone heavy, colliery brass, marimbas, synths, choir and guitars…
🌊🎥 🌊
silvascreen.ffm.to/silent_roar
Made for the surf Scottish ‘Silent Roar’ film which is now on BFI player 🏄♀️
Didn’t ever think I’d get a chance to release this, but super fun to make its eccentric sound. Trombone heavy, colliery brass, marimbas, synths, choir and guitars…
🌊🎥 🌊
silvascreen.ffm.to/silent_roar
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Stealing refugees' jewellery won't make anyone's life better.
Deporting children won't make anyone's life better.
Making people wait 20 years to settle won't make anyone's life better.
If Government chooses hostility over helping communities, more division and racism are the only possible results.
Deporting children won't make anyone's life better.
Making people wait 20 years to settle won't make anyone's life better.
If Government chooses hostility over helping communities, more division and racism are the only possible results.
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Stealing refugees' jewellery won't make anyone's life better.
Deporting children won't make anyone's life better.
Making people wait 20 years to settle won't make anyone's life better.
If Government chooses hostility over helping communities, more division and racism are the only possible results.
Deporting children won't make anyone's life better.
Making people wait 20 years to settle won't make anyone's life better.
If Government chooses hostility over helping communities, more division and racism are the only possible results.
Scholars in Mesopotamia continued to study Sumerian nearly 2000 years after it stopped being spoken, and well after Aramaic replaced Akkadian as the language of everyday life. In this late 1st millennium BCE tablet the scribe Bēl-upaqqa wrote a list a Sumerian entries and their Akkadian translations
November 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Scholars in Mesopotamia continued to study Sumerian nearly 2000 years after it stopped being spoken, and well after Aramaic replaced Akkadian as the language of everyday life. In this late 1st millennium BCE tablet the scribe Bēl-upaqqa wrote a list a Sumerian entries and their Akkadian translations
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The @lmumuenchen.bsky.social cancels a seminar titled "the Targeting of the Palestinian Academia". They claim that there were "doubts this event's academic standard would be acceptable".
This is outrageous. Yet again, a German university silences Palestinian academics
www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...
This is outrageous. Yet again, a German university silences Palestinian academics
www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...
Die LMU als Ort des pluralistischen Diskurses
Stellungnahme zur geplanten Veranstaltung „The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia“ an der LMU München
www.lmu.de
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The @lmumuenchen.bsky.social cancels a seminar titled "the Targeting of the Palestinian Academia". They claim that there were "doubts this event's academic standard would be acceptable".
This is outrageous. Yet again, a German university silences Palestinian academics
www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...
This is outrageous. Yet again, a German university silences Palestinian academics
www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? Good memories with this one
November 17, 2025 at 5:40 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? Good memories with this one
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✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers
gjhilton.github.io
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
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" The heart "
#Tamasheq : ulh
#Tamajeq : əwəl
#Tadaksahak : əwəl
#Tetserret : ul
In most Amazigh languages it's /ul/
Only Tamasheq dialect has retained the *h. And the WL form of Tamajeq and Tadaksahak is strange perhaps a metathesis of *LH/*LB ?
#Tamasheq : ulh
#Tamajeq : əwəl
#Tadaksahak : əwəl
#Tetserret : ul
In most Amazigh languages it's /ul/
Only Tamasheq dialect has retained the *h. And the WL form of Tamajeq and Tadaksahak is strange perhaps a metathesis of *LH/*LB ?
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
" The heart "
#Tamasheq : ulh
#Tamajeq : əwəl
#Tadaksahak : əwəl
#Tetserret : ul
In most Amazigh languages it's /ul/
Only Tamasheq dialect has retained the *h. And the WL form of Tamajeq and Tadaksahak is strange perhaps a metathesis of *LH/*LB ?
#Tamasheq : ulh
#Tamajeq : əwəl
#Tadaksahak : əwəl
#Tetserret : ul
In most Amazigh languages it's /ul/
Only Tamasheq dialect has retained the *h. And the WL form of Tamajeq and Tadaksahak is strange perhaps a metathesis of *LH/*LB ?
Mesopotamian astronomers probably observed or were aware of aurorae, or ‘red glows’. The word ‘akukūtu’ meaning “blaze” or “firebrand” is attested in a few tablets in which it refers to a rare meteorological phenomenon, described as ‘išātu ša ina šamê innappaḫ’, a “fire that flares up in the sky”.
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Mesopotamian astronomers probably observed or were aware of aurorae, or ‘red glows’. The word ‘akukūtu’ meaning “blaze” or “firebrand” is attested in a few tablets in which it refers to a rare meteorological phenomenon, described as ‘išātu ša ina šamê innappaḫ’, a “fire that flares up in the sky”.
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From Sudan, to Palestine, genocide is a crime! 🇸🇩🇵🇸
November 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
From Sudan, to Palestine, genocide is a crime! 🇸🇩🇵🇸
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'I saw death': Palestinian bus drivers in Jerusalem fear for their lives amid Israeli football fan violence www.middleeasteye.net/news/arab-bu...
'I saw death': Arab bus drivers in Israel fear for their lives amid football fan violence
Drivers are 'routinely' targeted by Israeli football fans, as unions warn of escalating assaults and lack of police response
www.middleeasteye.net
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
'I saw death': Palestinian bus drivers in Jerusalem fear for their lives amid Israeli football fan violence www.middleeasteye.net/news/arab-bu...
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"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
🗣️📢
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
🗣️📢
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
🗣️📢
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
🗣️📢
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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“Four years ago, we suffered an earlier redundancy programme that we were told would secure the future of the university. That clearly was not true."
#UKHE
www.leicester.news/university-o...
#UKHE
www.leicester.news/university-o...
University of Leicester moves forward with plans to cut 150 jobs
A 'large number of staff' across several schools could be impacted
www.leicester.news
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
“Four years ago, we suffered an earlier redundancy programme that we were told would secure the future of the university. That clearly was not true."
#UKHE
www.leicester.news/university-o...
#UKHE
www.leicester.news/university-o...
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Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language.
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
The ChatGPT effect: We’ve all started talking like robots
The use of artificial intelligence is leading to a flattening of our language that is evident in the emails we write and the texts we compose. Studies have already confirmed this. Robotic verbiage era...
english.elpais.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language.
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
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Pleased that the @irishtimes.com has published this co-authored piece with a number of Palestinian academic colleagues on the destruction of higher education in Gaza.
And the fears that the same will happen in the West Bank.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
And the fears that the same will happen in the West Bank.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Higher education has been destroyed in Gaza
Academics call for sanctions as Israel’s actions against education in Gaza draw condemnation
www.irishtimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Pleased that the @irishtimes.com has published this co-authored piece with a number of Palestinian academic colleagues on the destruction of higher education in Gaza.
And the fears that the same will happen in the West Bank.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
And the fears that the same will happen in the West Bank.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
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Pages from a beautiful hand-written and illustrated treatise on firework design and manufacture published in 1785, including ‘blue-prints’ for the devices and explosive recipes. See the full book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/manuscript-handbook-of-firework-design-1785 #Fireworks
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Pages from a beautiful hand-written and illustrated treatise on firework design and manufacture published in 1785, including ‘blue-prints’ for the devices and explosive recipes. See the full book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/manuscript-handbook-of-firework-design-1785 #Fireworks
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#Palestine36 is performing well at the box office (for a small independent film). Thanks to all of you who have already seen it. Given the interest in the film it is showing at even more cinemas across the U.K. and Ireland next week. Please see the listings here:
November 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
#Palestine36 is performing well at the box office (for a small independent film). Thanks to all of you who have already seen it. Given the interest in the film it is showing at even more cinemas across the U.K. and Ireland next week. Please see the listings here:
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Offering bearers adding to the pile in the tomb of Horemhab. Just remnants of the colourful paint that once decorated these scenes remains. #Egyptology #Archaeology
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Offering bearers adding to the pile in the tomb of Horemhab. Just remnants of the colourful paint that once decorated these scenes remains. #Egyptology #Archaeology
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An interesting discovery: A manuscript (shelfmark Chambers 821 b) in #Qalamos that served as an English-Bengali dictionary or glossary, in which not only the Bengali words in the right column are written in Bengali script, but also the English terms in the left. .../1
November 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
An interesting discovery: A manuscript (shelfmark Chambers 821 b) in #Qalamos that served as an English-Bengali dictionary or glossary, in which not only the Bengali words in the right column are written in Bengali script, but also the English terms in the left. .../1
The Maqlû is a series of well‐known Akkadian anti‐witchcraft texts, to be recited by an exorcist. It survives in a number of tablets from the early first millennium BC, some of which also contain explanatory commentary. One such tablet belonged to the junior exorcist (‘āšipu ṣeḫru’) Kiṣir‐Nabû
October 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Maqlû is a series of well‐known Akkadian anti‐witchcraft texts, to be recited by an exorcist. It survives in a number of tablets from the early first millennium BC, some of which also contain explanatory commentary. One such tablet belonged to the junior exorcist (‘āšipu ṣeḫru’) Kiṣir‐Nabû
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The bodies of 54 unidentified Palestinians, recently returned by Israel under the exchange deal, were buried today in southern Gaza.
Families were unable to recognize their loved ones because of the severe mutilation and disfigurement the victims suffered while in Israeli custody.
Families were unable to recognize their loved ones because of the severe mutilation and disfigurement the victims suffered while in Israeli custody.
October 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The bodies of 54 unidentified Palestinians, recently returned by Israel under the exchange deal, were buried today in southern Gaza.
Families were unable to recognize their loved ones because of the severe mutilation and disfigurement the victims suffered while in Israeli custody.
Families were unable to recognize their loved ones because of the severe mutilation and disfigurement the victims suffered while in Israeli custody.
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This is (still, for a few hours EDT) the feast of Malchus of Syria, d. 390, whose Life was written by Jerome. Here's that text in an exceptionally handsome Humanist manuscript, BNF lat 1891.
Admire the Gs! I kind of love this script. I wonder whose arms those are in the inital Q.
Admire the Gs! I kind of love this script. I wonder whose arms those are in the inital Q.
October 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This is (still, for a few hours EDT) the feast of Malchus of Syria, d. 390, whose Life was written by Jerome. Here's that text in an exceptionally handsome Humanist manuscript, BNF lat 1891.
Admire the Gs! I kind of love this script. I wonder whose arms those are in the inital Q.
Admire the Gs! I kind of love this script. I wonder whose arms those are in the inital Q.
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Medical texts were transmitted in various forms in #Syriac literature well into the modern period—for example, manuscript DFM 00696, located in Iraq.
Take a closer look with Dr. James Walters, lead cataloger of Eastern Christian collections at HMML from 2020 to 2024: hmml.org/stories/seri...
Take a closer look with Dr. James Walters, lead cataloger of Eastern Christian collections at HMML from 2020 to 2024: hmml.org/stories/seri...
An Anonymous Syriac Medical Compendium
“Many medical works from antiquity were translated into Syriac and transmitted through the...”
hmml.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Medical texts were transmitted in various forms in #Syriac literature well into the modern period—for example, manuscript DFM 00696, located in Iraq.
Take a closer look with Dr. James Walters, lead cataloger of Eastern Christian collections at HMML from 2020 to 2024: hmml.org/stories/seri...
Take a closer look with Dr. James Walters, lead cataloger of Eastern Christian collections at HMML from 2020 to 2024: hmml.org/stories/seri...
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One favourite among runologists is this inscription with ciphered runes mentioning a carver “most rune-skilled west of the sea” kulturarvsdata.se/uu/srdb/9cfa...
October 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
One favourite among runologists is this inscription with ciphered runes mentioning a carver “most rune-skilled west of the sea” kulturarvsdata.se/uu/srdb/9cfa...