Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)
@moudhy.bsky.social
Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet. My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Solar and wind now dominate global electricity generation. Worldwide, solar and wind power will each surpass nuclear in 2026. This surge has halted fossil fuel power generation rise, with renewables overtaking coal, supported by battery storage providing system flexibility at scale.
💯 So much this 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Can I recommend/plug “Between Two Rivers” by @moudhy.bsky.social to really highlight this point — we humans, connecting to humans in our deep past, who in turn were also connecting to humans in their deep past — through storytelling. The machines can *never* do this.
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 4mo agoI think one of the reasons generative AI is so deeply grating is that storytelling was an adaptive trait that made (and makes) us human. I'm writing my communication book chapter now and this struck me- not in a present sense but in a deep time sense.
“Lebanese hilltop border towns and villages are now hard to recognise. Once characterised by their winding streets lined with stone buildings overlooking sweeping valleys, verified videos now show how they have turned grey from dust and debris of explosions.”
Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyed
BBC Verify analysis found more than 1,400 buildings had been destroyed since 2 March.
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Just to make it fit my preferred format “All that he has, like smoke into the sky, will evaporate.”
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)@moudhy.bsky.social · 4mo ago“All that he has, Like smoke, Into the sky will evaporate.” - Sumerian proverb One side of the tablet has the neat teacher’s handwriting, while the other seems to show the less perfect, but still lovely, student’s copy. It was made in a Babylonian school around 1900-1600 BCE
Love this. The exception might be cuneiform…almost everything you read has not felt the light of day for thousands of years. Every ancient letter, receipt, star map, math problem, or fragment of a poem is new again. It adds to our knowledge and remembrance. It absolutely is thrilling 🧡
David Veevers@davidveevers.bsky.social · 4mo agoA lot of history as a practice is reinterpreting stuff that is well known, but every now and then you get to research and write about stuff that is genuinely unknown or certainly little known and you feel like you're actually tangibly adding to our collective knowledge of the past. It's thrilling.
BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists
Someone at NYT is unironically writing headlines with @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis is stunning.
What was taxation like in the ancient world? #TaxDay In the Assyrian Empire, the imperial core extracted resources in the forms of taxation and tribute from the settlements it took over, meaning wealth disparity increased as the empire expanded. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
On my timeline on the same day . . bsky.app/profile/asls...
Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 4mo agoTo have carved on the days of our vanity A sun A ship A star A cornstalk Also a few marks From an ancient forgotten time A child may read… —“A Work for Poets”: the final #poem of George Mackay Brown (1921–1996) who died #OTD, 13 April in CARVE THE RUNES (Polygon 2021) birlinn.co.uk/product/carv...
Next book! “Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History” by Moudhy Al-Rashid. As some of you may have noticed from some of the past few books I’ve read, I’ve become quite obsessed with ancient history, particularly…(1/)
If you return unwanted Reform local election leaflets to their party headquarters using their free post address, then it will cost the party £2.50 per envelope. Please don’t share this information; it could cost Nigel Farage a fortune.
Translation: you can't take it with you.
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)@moudhy.bsky.social · 4mo ago“All that he has, Like smoke, Into the sky will evaporate.” - Sumerian proverb One side of the tablet has the neat teacher’s handwriting, while the other seems to show the less perfect, but still lovely, student’s copy. It was made in a Babylonian school around 1900-1600 BCE
Bold to assume that the neater handwriting is the teacher’s
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)@moudhy.bsky.social · 4mo ago“All that he has, Like smoke, Into the sky will evaporate.” - Sumerian proverb One side of the tablet has the neat teacher’s handwriting, while the other seems to show the less perfect, but still lovely, student’s copy. It was made in a Babylonian school around 1900-1600 BCE
Supervisors an students. An ancient tale. This one is about ~4,000 years old. It always feels kinda special to think that I share a deeper Mesopotamian ancestry with the authors of these works, in particular astronomy topics or as I am now, a student!
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)@moudhy.bsky.social · 4mo ago“All that he has, Like smoke, Into the sky will evaporate.” - Sumerian proverb One side of the tablet has the neat teacher’s handwriting, while the other seems to show the less perfect, but still lovely, student’s copy. It was made in a Babylonian school around 1900-1600 BCE
“All that he has, Like smoke, Into the sky will evaporate.” - Sumerian proverb One side of the tablet has the neat teacher’s handwriting, while the other seems to show the less perfect, but still lovely, student’s copy. It was made in a Babylonian school around 1900-1600 BCE
She sounds absolutely perfect !!! This is Finn. He's 13lbs & 15 1/2 yrs old. His bff is a little special needs cat, whom he'd defend to the death. But being a happy & peaceful little warrior, he focuses on his activism.
My uncle died today. He raised us when my parents couldn’t. I feel like I’ve lost a part of myself. الله يرحمه ويغفر له ويرزقه الفردوس الاعلى
This is our foster dog Juno. She is as clingy as she is fierce. She is the only dog we have who would defend the household to the death. She steals cheese from the countertops, hates exercise, and barks at flies.
Its a really fun book and y’all should read it!
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)@moudhy.bsky.social · last yr.Happy Publication Day to me! 🎉😱🥹🧿 Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History is officially out! It’s a history of the region through objects found in an ancient museum in Princess Ennigaldi-Nanna’s palace, and I hope you all like it 💛 lnk.to/BetweenTwoRi...
NEW BOOK
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)@moudhy.bsky.social · last yr.Happy Publication Day to me! 🎉😱🥹🧿 Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History is officially out! It’s a history of the region through objects found in an ancient museum in Princess Ennigaldi-Nanna’s palace, and I hope you all like it 💛 lnk.to/BetweenTwoRi...
And there will have been frail elderly, seriously ill & severely disabled people who were unable to pick up and leave at such short notice - and who would be unable to survive for long on floors, in tents and in cars
A Treat for @EmpirePodUK Club Members- a conversation with my old friend, the remarkable Palestinians walker, human rights lawyer and Orwell Prize-winning author, Raja Shehadeh. What Is Life Like For Palestinians? –Empire: World History – Apple Podcasts linktr.ee/empirepoduk
This is not just a number. This is one million people who have had to leave their homes and often their beloved pets. They’ve had to leave behind Christmas cards their toddlers made, framed family photos, food, clothing, their father’s stamp collection, safety, and their memories.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe Lebanese Health Ministry says Israeli strikes have displaced more than one million people. That’s more than a sixth of the entire population.
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