Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 26/10/2025As an arty-farty member of the woke liberati it drives me mad when I see politics full of bigots 010
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 11/10/2025The voicemail transcription is ‘low confidence’ but far more poetic than the actual message from my garage 000
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I imagine anything that prioritises empathy, the articulation of human complexity and the questioning of lazy assumptions must seem like a rip-off to someone like Badenoch, who seems to know the price of everything and the value of nothing. 030
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Assoc Prof Sam George launches the 2nd day of #gothicmermaids #seachanges @ogomproject.bsky.social Looking forward to more tales and tails of watery wonders - starting with the Ningyō 062
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Back in the days when I had attack eyebrows and enjoyed eating items of religious symbolism while dressed only in bath towels 000
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 23/07/2025‘And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gaze into you.’ Thinking of growing (or perhaps buying) a Nietzsche moustache. 020
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 21/07/2025I know universities are worried about numbers but I didn’t know they’d started recruiting wildfowl… 110
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 02/07/2025For anyone whose thoughts are turning to the coast, beaches, the sea, floating, just floating, away, away, away 000
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 27/06/2025So proud of our graduating cohort of UH Model Design students and the fantastic team of dedicated colleagues who support them. 9 of 20 awards at New Blades 2025 yesterday - amazing achievement and fully deserved! Not only are they a phenomenally talented bunch but they’re also lovely human beings 000
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Marking final-year undergraduate essays: the post-retinal detachment method 000
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Sensible policies for a happier Britain. Thank you Mr Wells. 000
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Following his announcements on film industry tariffs and the reopening of Alcatraz, Donald Trump is now planning to tax unAmerican air and reenact both the American Civil War and the Battle of the Little Big Horn to prove the originals were fake news. 100
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 24/04/2025No, you’re not. And even if you were, I’m not the droid you’re looking for. 000
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 21/04/2025You never have to travel far down any thread on Lewis Carroll to realise why the world’s in the state it’s in… 000
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 12/04/2025A more than passing resemblance…? #doctorwho #metropolis #moloch #ai #robots 0102
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The train will be arriving soon! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday (13-15 March) I’ll be appearing in the Settlement Players’ production of The Girl on the Train. Please come and see us if you can. Tickets are £10, which is a pretty reasonable fare - and it’s going to be quite a journey… 010
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 25/01/2025People, please beware of vampire vegetables. Be especially wary of post-Yuletide pumpkins… 🎃 🧛🏻♂️ Source: Nick Groom, The Vampire: A New History (2018). 010
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 30/12/2024It’s possible I’ve just found my motto for 2025 000
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 28/12/2024On BBC4 now: Caroline John as in the 1967 Zeffirelli version of Much Ado with Derek Jacobi, Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens & Ronald Pickup. As both a Who nerd & a Bard nerd this is a bit of a treat #doctorwho #shakespeare 1/2 410
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Scrooge in towel form… Merry Christmas one and all! x 000
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Our soles fell apart at the same time on Christmas Eve. The boots are over 30 years old - we got them in the first year we got together - so they’ve done us all right 🥾 🕰️ 🎄 #sole #soul #homophone #boots #sharpenhoe #walking #christmas #wearandtear 010
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 18/12/2024I really don’t think Charles Maturin hits the #Gothic note quickly enough in his play Bertram… 010
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Waiting to have the clouds lifted from one of my eyes with Sylvia, Lolly and Vanessa 010
