Niall Oddy
@nialloddy.bsky.social
Early modernist, working on travel and cross-cultural encounter. Book on ideas of Europe in c.16 France: https://tinyurl.com/5n6kvbun.
May post cat pics
May post cat pics
He’s paying me to imply that so he can get commissioned to write another op ed about being cancelled
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
He’s paying me to imply that so he can get commissioned to write another op ed about being cancelled
What if we could pretend that my cat could talk and we decided to act on the basis that the words we made up were in fact words uttered by my cat?
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
What if we could pretend that my cat could talk and we decided to act on the basis that the words we made up were in fact words uttered by my cat?
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What is ironic about a great power like Russia is the persistent status insecurity and need of recognition by the US and Europe. If you really parted ways with the West and are fighting for a multipolar order what do you care how people in the West see you?
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
What is ironic about a great power like Russia is the persistent status insecurity and need of recognition by the US and Europe. If you really parted ways with the West and are fighting for a multipolar order what do you care how people in the West see you?
Brilliant! Well done!
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Brilliant! Well done!
Undeliverable promises like no rise in income tax, NI or VAT???
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Undeliverable promises like no rise in income tax, NI or VAT???
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I don't remember where I saw someone say that AI is particularly bad for historical thinking, because by definition it looks for what is the most likely to happen based on a pattern, whereas as historians we particularly like the outlying things, the weird things, the things that make us go "huh"?
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I don't remember where I saw someone say that AI is particularly bad for historical thinking, because by definition it looks for what is the most likely to happen based on a pattern, whereas as historians we particularly like the outlying things, the weird things, the things that make us go "huh"?
Happy birthday! Sorry about the hip!
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Happy birthday! Sorry about the hip!
Recent elections are not like for like comparisons though, are they? Since there were three big candidates in this one as opposed to two
November 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Recent elections are not like for like comparisons though, are they? Since there were three big candidates in this one as opposed to two