dr joshua phillips
@woolfianjosh.bsky.social
Woolf Doctor | Turns squiggles into angle brackets | modernism, digital humanities, bad puns | he/him | would prefer not to
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The Digital Anon
www.digital-anon.com
*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I am excited to announce the publication of The Digital 'Anon', a new digital edition of Virginia Woolf's final, unpublished essay drafts which makes this remarkable corpus available as an OA resource.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.
I am excited to announce the publication of The Digital 'Anon', a new digital edition of Virginia Woolf's final, unpublished essay drafts which makes this remarkable corpus available as an OA resource.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.
Star Trek Phase II
(Not a movie but let me have this)
(Not a movie but let me have this)
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Star Trek Phase II
(Not a movie but let me have this)
(Not a movie but let me have this)
If Austen’s letter is the final boss of modern palaeography, that must make Joyce’s reading notes the secret superboss locked behind the postgame, which has a trillion HP and can wipe your party in one hit
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
If Austen’s letter is the final boss of modern palaeography, that must make Joyce’s reading notes the secret superboss locked behind the postgame, which has a trillion HP and can wipe your party in one hit
Efficiency is at the forefront of my teaching practice. Especially when I get a roomful of students in floods of laughter about rotary printing presses and c19–20th American copyright law. Pure, uncut efficiency.
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Efficiency is at the forefront of my teaching practice. Especially when I get a roomful of students in floods of laughter about rotary printing presses and c19–20th American copyright law. Pure, uncut efficiency.
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Its self-alienation has reached such a
degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order, Charlie Brown
degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order, Charlie Brown
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake, Charlie Brown
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Its self-alienation has reached such a
degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order, Charlie Brown
degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order, Charlie Brown
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God is dead, Charlie Brown
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake, Charlie Brown
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
God is dead, Charlie Brown
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity, Charlie Brown
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity, Charlie Brown
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Never mind that they're paying a shitload just to come to welcoming, progressive, Global Britain to study. They're keeping universities afloat, helping local economies. But yeah, paint your fucking red cross all over education. Keep them all out. Extinguish the idea of 'students' while you're at it.
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Never mind that they're paying a shitload just to come to welcoming, progressive, Global Britain to study. They're keeping universities afloat, helping local economies. But yeah, paint your fucking red cross all over education. Keep them all out. Extinguish the idea of 'students' while you're at it.
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake, Charlie Brown
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake, Charlie Brown
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Multiple someones in the highest level of government are going to have a very hard time indeed when they find out the hard way that universities are anchor institutions for towns and cities pretty much everywhere.
Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?
Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?
'The prospect of hundreds of job cuts at Lancaster University could damage the city's economy, students have warned.'
'Could'? Surely 'will'.
'Could'? Surely 'will'.
Fears Lancaster University job cuts would hit city's businesses
Lancaster University is seeking to cut 400 full-time posts as part of efforts to save £30m.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Multiple someones in the highest level of government are going to have a very hard time indeed when they find out the hard way that universities are anchor institutions for towns and cities pretty much everywhere.
Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?
Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?
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Me, glancing at the headlines this morning
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Me, glancing at the headlines this morning
I think it’s reasonable to assume at this point that Labour wants UKHE to collapse.
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I think it’s reasonable to assume at this point that Labour wants UKHE to collapse.
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*pinches bridge of nose* Rachel explain to me again how the university funding model works
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
*pinches bridge of nose* Rachel explain to me again how the university funding model works
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Successive Labour and Conservative governments have basically told UK HE to go get any extra money needed from foreign students and now we're going to be punished for having been so overwhelmingly successful at it
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Successive Labour and Conservative governments have basically told UK HE to go get any extra money needed from foreign students and now we're going to be punished for having been so overwhelmingly successful at it
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Screw Labour, screw Reeves. An absolutely appalling act of self-sabotage that is all optics and no sense. Exactly what we’ve come to expect from this ship of fools. Utterly undermines the fee rise with inflation, which was already sucked up by National Insurance increases.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Screw Labour, screw Reeves. An absolutely appalling act of self-sabotage that is all optics and no sense. Exactly what we’ve come to expect from this ship of fools. Utterly undermines the fee rise with inflation, which was already sucked up by National Insurance increases.
So we’re nuking UKHE in order to be more racist cool cool cool
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
So we’re nuking UKHE in order to be more racist cool cool cool
If only she’d had congestive heart failure.
He would be pushing to build the greatest transport network the world has ever known
He would be pushing to build the greatest transport network the world has ever known
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If only she’d had congestive heart failure.
He would be pushing to build the greatest transport network the world has ever known
He would be pushing to build the greatest transport network the world has ever known
But Diogenes, where will you live now you’ve relinquished all your earthly goods?
How’re you going to get all that product across the water?
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
But Diogenes, where will you live now you’ve relinquished all your earthly goods?
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
They’re coining new ways to say vomit, because of boak.
They’re forcing left-backs to defend deeper against Scotland, because of Doak.
they're forcing kids to read "green eggs and ham" because of yolk
November 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
They’re coining new ways to say vomit, because of boak.
And lo! did The Voice of Beyond visit upon Montclair admin, bestowing them with great strategy and great insight
more coverage of this administrative buzzword coup
“vision new synergies of the future with the School of Human Expression”
"eliminating all the academic departments in a liberal arts college that is not hemorrhaging enrollment would be a very unusual step."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
“vision new synergies of the future with the School of Human Expression”
"eliminating all the academic departments in a liberal arts college that is not hemorrhaging enrollment would be a very unusual step."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
November 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
And lo! did The Voice of Beyond visit upon Montclair admin, bestowing them with great strategy and great insight
Zygon as in the angry red Doctor Who thumb villains who shapeshift Zygon? Huge if true
New issue of @zygonjournal.bsky.social is out! This one features two thematic sections—on Religion and Contemporary Crises and Boyle Lecture 2025 — Plus articles on green apocalypse, self-organizing systems, science and religion and more: Read now: www.zygonjournal.org/issue/1771/i...
November 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Zygon as in the angry red Doctor Who thumb villains who shapeshift Zygon? Huge if true
“Sir Keir Starmer has taken the unusual decision to deliver his statement on party management while wearing a hot dog outfit, in what critics have called a desperate attempt to seem good at poasting”
Keir Starmer has warned senior ministers & officials to stop briefing against one another & leaking details of budget
PM told cabinet last week’s political turmoil distracted from voters’ priorities & they shld focus on delivery not navel gazing 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
PM told cabinet last week’s political turmoil distracted from voters’ priorities & they shld focus on delivery not navel gazing 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer pleads for government to unite in fightback after difficult week
Prime minister tells cabinet budget leaks and infighting are distracting from priorities and delivering change
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“Sir Keir Starmer has taken the unusual decision to deliver his statement on party management while wearing a hot dog outfit, in what critics have called a desperate attempt to seem good at poasting”
It's a good job our entire body politic hasn't spent the past ten years scourging itself with increasing vigour over demographics! That sure would be embarrassing!
ONS is so bad. (This is about specifically British nationals.) www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It's a good job our entire body politic hasn't spent the past ten years scourging itself with increasing vigour over demographics! That sure would be embarrassing!
Not to be outdone, Sir Keir Starmer promises to deliver patriotic national renewal by putting anyone who’s ever bought anything during Lidl’s Eastern European week on a ferry across the channel, then nuking that ferry.
Reform would ‘cut benefits for EU nationals and hike NHS immigration surcharge’
Reform would ‘cut benefits for EU nationals and hike NHS immigration surcharge’
Party claims its policies would eliminate ‘black hole’ Rachel Reeves faces in the budget – but Labour says the ‘fantasy numbers don’t add up’
A Reform UK government would block EU nationals from receiving universal credit, a move that would rip up the post-Brexit trade deal with Europe and risk potential retaliation from Brussels.
It is among several proposals that will be announced by Nigel Farage at a press conference on Tuesday. The party claims its measures would save £25bn a year in total – enough to cover the supposed shortfall faced by Rachel Reeves in next week’s budget. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Not to be outdone, Sir Keir Starmer promises to deliver patriotic national renewal by putting anyone who’s ever bought anything during Lidl’s Eastern European week on a ferry across the channel, then nuking that ferry.
The British government is perhaps best understood as a decades-long, multi-party experiment in finding new reasons to be ashamed of one’s nationality
November 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The British government is perhaps best understood as a decades-long, multi-party experiment in finding new reasons to be ashamed of one’s nationality