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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

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 · 2h

Good stuff.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 4h

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

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 22h

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.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 4h

Hurrah.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 9h

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

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 10h

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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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 10h

The other image that springs to mind is that of a certain kind of plantation or mine manager somewhere like Malaya in the 1930s. Lovely house, active cocktail- and sport-based social life, most of the hard work done by locals.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 10h

They give the impression of yearning to live in the Raj c. 1900.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 10h

Visited Portland with Mrs K very briefly back in 2016. Seem to remember its Time Out guide was nothing but sex shops and strip clubs. When in Rome etc...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 11h

You know things are bad when a Rest Is History episode about Enoch Powell feels timely.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 11h

I assume 'civilisational atrophy' is just a wanky way of saying that since 1945 the Church of England has become an irrelevance to most people.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, looks like a First World War-vintage field gun.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 12h

Today in 1940, cameraman Harry Rignold films #blitz bomb damage at the old War Office building in London. Close-ups include a shot of a rooftop telephone cable sheared by shrapnel. #otd #ww2 #history

Film: IWM AYY 44 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 12h

It's quite something when a Conservative wants to argue, in effect, that Shakespeare isn't a worthwhile topic for university study.

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 14h

Errol Flynn lives!

Äpplesche 💚 @aepplesche.bsky.social · 14h

Huiii... 🤣

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 14h

Errol Feline, surely?

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 15h

Best of luck

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

Keep buggering on, mate.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

I hope he was washing his spreadsheets frequently.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

One's a tedious reactionary buffoon devoid of all charisma, and the other's Arnold Rimmer.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

There's a joke about the Whigs in here somewhere...

Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 1d

No, no, I think there’s not enough puppetry work in modern political oratory.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

Oh dear I seem to have fallen down a rabbit hole marked 'Is Hong Kong part of Southeast Asia?'

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

Funnily enough the slow motion bit here perfectly captures the feeling when you get caught with a throw like this - a fraction of a second which feels like forever where you realise that you're airborne and there's nothing you can do about it except prepare for landing.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

The chap in blue is currently flying economy on Judo Airlines.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 2d

Had to share this. My Budokwai clubmate Ben Levy, splatting this Belarusian lad with his uchi mata. #ippon #judo #JudoIsTheWay
#一本 #柔道 🥋🇬🇧

youtube.com/shorts/RZUDM...

OTP Group ippon of the day, brought to you by Benjamin Levy! ☄️

YouTube video by International Judo Federation

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