Luke O’Sullivan
@lukeosullivan.bsky.social
Writing about freedom, uncertainty, and precarity in early modern France.
https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/content/dr-luke-osullivan
https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/content/dr-luke-osullivan
Keep reading 'robotaxis' as if it were Greek. A rhetorical figure; when clauses crash into each other maybe?
September 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Keep reading 'robotaxis' as if it were Greek. A rhetorical figure; when clauses crash into each other maybe?
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RQ 77.4!! 🎉🥳
Read about brazen, desirous, grim lady knights; women in early humanist circles; Indigenous authority in the 16th-century Andes; the rhetoric of precarity in early modern politics; & the story of a disabled Roman woman who self-advocated to write her own will.
Go check it out!! 😍
Read about brazen, desirous, grim lady knights; women in early humanist circles; Indigenous authority in the 16th-century Andes; the rhetoric of precarity in early modern politics; & the story of a disabled Roman woman who self-advocated to write her own will.
Go check it out!! 😍
May 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
RQ 77.4!! 🎉🥳
Read about brazen, desirous, grim lady knights; women in early humanist circles; Indigenous authority in the 16th-century Andes; the rhetoric of precarity in early modern politics; & the story of a disabled Roman woman who self-advocated to write her own will.
Go check it out!! 😍
Read about brazen, desirous, grim lady knights; women in early humanist circles; Indigenous authority in the 16th-century Andes; the rhetoric of precarity in early modern politics; & the story of a disabled Roman woman who self-advocated to write her own will.
Go check it out!! 😍
A few years ago, I found this manuscript which changed the course of my research. Delighted my article on early modern precarity and how 'précaire' went from being an obscure bit of jargon to a contentious buzzword has now been published in Renaissance Quarterly.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
May 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A few years ago, I found this manuscript which changed the course of my research. Delighted my article on early modern precarity and how 'précaire' went from being an obscure bit of jargon to a contentious buzzword has now been published in Renaissance Quarterly.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.
April 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.
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Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
www.ft.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment
To be modern is to know what is no longer possible
periodically I look around at the state of the internet and the way it is clearly contributing to making the world worse in so many ways, and I think back to dicking around in a computer lab in the early 00s and how full of promise it all felt, and I feel sad
it didn't have to be this way
it didn't have to be this way
January 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
To be modern is to know what is no longer possible
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'How did this happen?' asks The Times, which has run thousands of pieces inciting hatred of trans people.
January 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
'How did this happen?' asks The Times, which has run thousands of pieces inciting hatred of trans people.
2025
OUT: microplastics and forever chemicals
IN: Galenic medicine
OUT: microplastics and forever chemicals
IN: Galenic medicine
January 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
2025
OUT: microplastics and forever chemicals
IN: Galenic medicine
OUT: microplastics and forever chemicals
IN: Galenic medicine
Also recently put up this portrait of hector brought back from Mexico by a friend 🐈⬛
January 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Also recently put up this portrait of hector brought back from Mexico by a friend 🐈⬛
Psyching myself up for the start of term
January 12, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Psyching myself up for the start of term
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A guy from Paris, Roger Thiberville, left his fortune to a town called Thiberville. The mayor, Guy Paris, thanks this guy from Paris, Thiberville, for supporting his town, Thiberville. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Tiny French town left €10m fortune by a man who had never been there
Thiberville in Normandy receives windfall worth five times annual budget from a Paris resident who was named after it
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A guy from Paris, Roger Thiberville, left his fortune to a town called Thiberville. The mayor, Guy Paris, thanks this guy from Paris, Thiberville, for supporting his town, Thiberville. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
A guy from Paris, Roger Thiberville, left his fortune to a town called Thiberville. The mayor, Guy Paris, thanks this guy from Paris, Thiberville, for supporting his town, Thiberville. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Tiny French town left €10m fortune by a man who had never been there
Thiberville in Normandy receives windfall worth five times annual budget from a Paris resident who was named after it
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A guy from Paris, Roger Thiberville, left his fortune to a town called Thiberville. The mayor, Guy Paris, thanks this guy from Paris, Thiberville, for supporting his town, Thiberville. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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We had a thriving, even competitive HE system without "market exit", because we were competing a) internationally and b) for knowledge. We don't need to compete against each other for student numbers, or funding, or drive other universities to bankruptcy to be competitive. Academia is collaborative.
November 21, 2024 at 11:10 AM
We had a thriving, even competitive HE system without "market exit", because we were competing a) internationally and b) for knowledge. We don't need to compete against each other for student numbers, or funding, or drive other universities to bankruptcy to be competitive. Academia is collaborative.
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An owl teaching a cat the art of hunting mice, c. 1700
November 9, 2024 at 7:56 AM
An owl teaching a cat the art of hunting mice, c. 1700
I’ve spent the summer writing about precarity and violence, often contra Butler. But keep thinking of this in light of talk of ‘her right’ etc etc
October 2, 2024 at 8:13 PM
I’ve spent the summer writing about precarity and violence, often contra Butler. But keep thinking of this in light of talk of ‘her right’ etc etc
This guy has literally never had a good idea about anything. Impressive!
Raise tuition fees to ease pressure on English universities, says Peter Mandelson
Raise tuition fees to ease pressure on English universities, says Peter Mandelson
Labour peer says costs should rise in line with inflation but that universities would still have ‘tough choices’
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2024 at 5:12 AM
This guy has literally never had a good idea about anything. Impressive!
Went to Scotland.
September 23, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Went to Scotland.
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Le poète Joachim Du Bellay identifié dans un cercueil retrouvé à Notre-Dame de Paris
La résolution de ce « cold case » constitue le point le plus spectaculaire du bilan des fouilles archéologiques réalisées sous la cathédrale, présenté mardi 17 septembre.
www.lemonde.fr
September 17, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Me, Lucy, and Lucy’s Infected Thumb going on our holidays
August 30, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Me, Lucy, and Lucy’s Infected Thumb going on our holidays
Emmanuel Carrere looks way more like a pro wrestler than I would have expected…
August 29, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Emmanuel Carrere looks way more like a pro wrestler than I would have expected…
Having said that, here's some complaints about precarity (sort of...) at the Université de Paris, 1616
August 14, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Having said that, here's some complaints about precarity (sort of...) at the Université de Paris, 1616