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Ian Kikuchi

@curatorian.bsky.social

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Historian & curator - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · Nov 6

Starting a thread (or possibly a thread of threads) to capture things I post from time to time.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 2h

Neighbours: who?

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 3h

It does have direct bearing - the prosecution tried to use it to prove the defendant had caused harassment, alarm or distress, which the appeal judge quite properly rejected.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 4h

Have you read the judgement? It makes clear that this was a political protest outside a secure building, addressing no individual person, and for which the protester was attacked by a man with a knife, and also by a cyclist. The threshold for a racially aggravated public order offence was not met.

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HELLFRAZIER @popnpizza.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Birthday to Sigourney Weaver, Patron Saint of Bad-Asses.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 6h

This raises the delightful possibility of bent bookies tranquilising or steroid injecting Nobel nominees in hope of making a killing.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 9h

There is something to be written, probably, about how simulated war experiences can be desirable and/or lucrative even when those experiences are totally artificial.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 10h

a man with glasses and a leather jacket says life finds a way

ALT: a man with glasses and a leather jacket says life finds a way

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 10h

Crikey.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 11h

Wondering how many people posting this kind of - sometimes very dangerous - protest advice ever go within sniffing distance of actual tear gas.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 16h

As far as I'm aware, there's no generally accepted definition of that distinction. I'm not even sure if the terms replica/reproduction/refurbished are generally accepted.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose it's a bit Trigger's Broom/Ship of Theseus - is it still a 70+-year-old system if some/all its parts have been replaced. The unknown overhaul date is presumably just as worrying.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently already suspended. Impressively quick.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

I assume Backseat Pilot was continuously critiquing Frontseat Pilot's technique.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

Public service announcement: probably worth reporting and blocking @sainsburyssupphub.bsky.social - either scam or spam.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how old the pilot was, but I think as a rule it's good to get such things looked at some point since the pilot's birth.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

Also 'WW2'. Come on, BBC.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

Bit amazed by this bit:

'Investigators said they found a degraded gasket had created a fuel system leak, which caused the power loss.

The agency found the system was "at least 70-years-old and its last overhaul date was unknown"'

WW2 Spitfire had to do emergency landing as engine stopped

A safety notice is now in place following the emergency landing in West Hythe.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

'You wouldn't know my girlfriend, she goes to another protest movement....'

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

The funny thing was I was a bit surprised to be surprised - I knew, in a historical sense, that Britain had had a presence in Cyprus for a long time, had Cypriot classmates at school etc, but somehow the sight of a familiar postbox made that connection very tangible.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

Holidayed briefly in Paphos in 2019 (I think). Hadn't done the reading and so was more than a bit surprised to find Royal Mail-looking post boxes and Sainsbury's products in the local supermarket.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

Hooray! Congratulations.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

What this situation calls for is months of articles about people who bought flats next to pubs claiming to be astonished that pubs make noise.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

It is very funny. A few years after the UK right denounced Black Lives Matter as a foreign import full of American race baggage, they're now shipping in American lunacy by the truckload.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, it's very impressive. Meanwhile Strictly has got to the point where I've heard of precisely one of this year's contestants - Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 2d

Good stuff.