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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 · 5m

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 · 2h

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 · 3h

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 · 4h

Crikey.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 9h

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 · 19h

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 · 20h

Apparently already suspended. Impressively quick.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 20h

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

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 20h

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

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 21h

Also 'WW2'. Come on, BBC.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 22h

'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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Good stuff.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

It probably never occurred to Henry II to have Thomas Beckett shot in the head with a pepper ball.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

Hurrah.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch's imagination isn't poor so much as living under a railway bridge in a cardboard box.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 2d

It is amusing watching Caroline Lucas, for instance, unironically arguing that nuclear power takes too long, for long enough to commission a nuclear power station.

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