I'd like to thank this Dornier 17 pilot for practically sitting up and begging for this 40mm round through his cockpit canopy, and this Potez pilot for completely ignoring me while I drilled rounds through his fuselage. #WarThunder
Ian Kikuchi
@curatorian.bsky.social
Historian & curator at the Imperial War Museum in the UK - 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.
Amused if reports are true that Ukraine is carrying out its own ad hoc twitter moderation by obliterating Russian bots farms at source.
Wondering why Terence the Caterpillar Tractor seems to be being driven by Saddam Hussein.
More and more convinced that people should be limited to 10 minutes of social media per day until you can show that you aren't going to start believing mad shit like 'immigrants are eating swans'.
Anna H@athenepallas.bsky.social · 2d agoLatest far right malign effect - unfounded accusations of immigrants stealing wild birds to eat have led to a physical assault on a volunteer rescuing a cygnet. The Greenwich Wildlife Network statement is long, but worth a read - it's thoughtful, courageous and impeccably argued:
Not a surveyor, but something about this building looks to be a tad wonky.
James Wright@jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 17h agoToday's venue... The Mayor's Parlour at Leicester Guildhall. Built around 1490 and significantly remodelled in 1637.
The A1(M) is the confused old grandfather of the UK road network. There were probably Roman cart-drivers waiting for a dual carriageway north of Morpeth.
Duncan Robinson@duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 2d agoLook at this half-empty map. Fill it in
Love* how every piece of news I see about museums in the UK is either 'Bayeux queue cock-up at the British Museum' or massive financial crisis. *hate
Catching up on Celebrity Traitors and having to restrain myself from calling out 'DRONE SHOT!' every time the camera goes swoopy.
It must be exhausting to be such a snowflake.
Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 2d agoHe’s going to be mad when he learns about French film festivals.
At a children's birthday party keeping half an eye on about eight kids, who seem to be able to scatter in about 12 different directions. 🎁
Was reading the news over breakfast and it's just pathetic to hear about the whining of this sad old man. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump fumes over Nobel peace prize snub and criticizes Norway
President complains about not winning prize in year he started war with Iran and says: ‘We will not forget, Norway’
theguardian.com
Watching #CelebrityTraitors and thinking that if they added some competitive baking it'd be the greatest TV ever made.
After a successful bout of ground strafing in a Sunderland flying boat I'm beginning to think #WarThunder arcade mode might not be terribly realistic.
Discovered this evening that my 'sod Deliveroo, I'll walk to the fish and chip shop' threshold is 18% - buggered if I'm paying £6+ in delivery and service charges on £33 of food that's already marked up. 🐟🍟
Next door are having some building work done and the noise is like the house is having dental treatment.
Car insurance claim handler: A meteorite, you say?
Brian Dunn@briandunn.bsky.social@briandunn.bsky.social · 3d agoOn this day in 1992, the Peekskill meteorite fell to earth. The meterorite struck a parked red 1980 Chevrolet Malibu and came to rest under the car owned by seventeen year old Michelle Knapp, who sold the 27 pound meterorite for $50,000 and the car for $25,000 to a collector.
Parenting hits different when you can't be arsed to do it.
🎃👻🧙♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙♀️👻🎃@viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 4d agothis is so fucking sad
Browsing in a bookshop earlier and idly noticing that their three-and-a-bit shelves of the world wars include 19 books by five authors, one of whom has seven titles and two who have three each. 40-odd authors total, and I think seven of them women.
Suddenly leafing through the Radio Times and channel hopping between four or five channels of linear terrestrial TV doesn't seem so bad.
Tom Jamieson@tomjam.bsky.social · 4d agoHow soon can the plague get here?
Happy First Misty Windows of the Year Day to all who celebrate.
Parachute silk gown worn #onthisday in 1945 by Gena Goldfinger at her #wedding to British Army Sgt. Norman Turgel in Lubeck, Germany. They had met in April when his unit liberated her from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; he arrested the camp's commandant, Josef Kramer. #OTD 📷️ Imperial War Museums
Wondering if I have any followers in #Iceland / #Ísland who might know where this church might be. A still from a film taken by a British military cameraman in August 1940. #filmcataloguing
Now you mention it, I suppose it does look like three rings of floating eyeballs... 👀
Ian Kikuchi@curatorian.bsky.social · 6d agoWhen left unsupervised in an empty octagonal reading room:
When left unsupervised in an empty octagonal reading room:
Waiting for a trim at the barbers. A bit of local history on the walls, from the Lambeth Millennium Pathway project.
Apparently one of the casualties of the disastrous Operation Ramrod 16, an attempt to bomb a Dutch steelworks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...
Operation Ramrod 16 - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Britain’s War Memorials@britwarmemorial.bsky.social · 6d agoWar memorial plaque. St. Mary’s Church, North Marston, Buckinghamshire. Commemorating Sergeant George Thomas Tattam of the Royal Air Force. KIA when his plane was shot down near Haarlem, Netherlands on 3rd May 1943. Second World War. #LestWeForget
