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dr joshua phillips
@woolfianjosh.bsky.social
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Woolf Doctor | Turns squiggles into angle brackets | modernism, digital humanities, bad puns | he/him | would prefer not to
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · Aug 27
*ahem* now for a professional one.

I am excited to announce the publication of The Digital 'Anon', a new digital edition of Virginia Woolf's final, unpublished essay drafts which makes this remarkable corpus available as an OA resource.

It is available here: www.digital-anon.com.
The Digital Anon
www.digital-anon.com
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 3h
Tbh I don’t think he needs the inducement.
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 4h
Then perish.
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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Dr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social · 5h
Of course the bigots and fascists don’t want you to study English.

The enemy of fascism is:
Close reading
Clear communication
Questioning the meaning of what you read
Accurate spelling & grammar
Thinking for yourself
Creativity
Understanding the mechanics of argument
Imagination
Enjoyment
Joy
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 4h
Well, we can’t expect SKS to learn a classification system that isn’t racist and homophobic, can we? Easier just to nuke everything than to learn LOC
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 5h
(Libraries that don’t use Dewey Decimal System get the full H-bomb treatment)
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 5h
Not to be outdone, Sir Keir Starmer announces that he will go harder and faster in delivering patriotic renewal by detonating tactical nukes underneath every university library library’s 800 shelfmark section.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 8h
UK Tory Party Conference: Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch declares war on English degrees.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 18h
Arthur Miller played Pokémon Ruby but didn’t care much for Hoenn as a region. 7.8/10, too much water
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 19h
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 21h
Guessing it’s for Joe Wicks and CvT. they get tetchy if they go for too long without diet-shaming anyone
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 21h
And that’s really saying something given AHRC has pretty much gone lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ good luck byeee
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d
Not entirely unlike the “Singapore-on-Thames” imaginary which I suspect has at its root less any actual engagement with Singaporean policy, more a penchant for corporal punishment
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d
🤞🤞🤞
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d
It's the start of the new academic year, lessons to plan, cover letters to write and t-one week for the biggest funding application of my entire life.

All things told, the perfect time for my copy of MS Word to decide it no longer wishes to identify as a word processor.
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d
J.R.R. Tolkien, dismayed: “am I a joke to you?”
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 2d
low poly cyberpunk (complimentary)
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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 2d
Epic; no notes
Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 2d
babe wake up new transvestigation just dropped
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 2d
"average person says 100 bits per second" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person says 0 bits. Language Kev, who lives in dunder mifflin & says over 10,000 each second, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window and says `` me '' .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window and says `` me '' .
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 2d
An actual flag could show more capacity for critical thinking about the Union flag than the government.
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 3d
DELIVER patriotic renewal dammit it was right there
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 3d
(Gotta give him the weekend for the cogs behind that shiny pink face to creak into action. His father, the toolmaker, didn’t do such a good job with them)
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 3d
Starmer, on Monday: we will bring about patriotic renewal by going harder and faster than ICE. Labour will terrorise and illegally deport everyone of colour and everyone who doesn’t fantasise about the flag
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d
Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice
Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice
Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands. The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 4d
There is truly not an oof big enough
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 4d
How does one become the sort of person who sources books by the yard to furnish the libraries of rich people without the taste to fill their own shelves? Asking for a friend
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 4d
Podcasting with a concentration in direct-to-consumer mattress sales
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