Well done Switzerland. Got there eventually.
09.03.2026 11:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@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.
Well done Switzerland. Got there eventually.
09.03.2026 11:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The vast number of overseas human remains held by UK museums is a shameful legacy of colonialism, with many items kept in ways that are sacrilegious, according to MPs and archaeologists.
The first para of that article put me off. 'Sacrilegious' is a ridiculously loaded term to use here.
09.03.2026 08:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Where GPT stands for General Purpose Tory.
08.03.2026 22:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0After Operation Epic Fury, it's now time for Operation Here We Come You'll Never Guess What We're Looking For.
08.03.2026 17:53 — 👍 31 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0After Operation Epic Fury, it's now time for Operation Here We Come You'll Never Guess What We're Looking For.
08.03.2026 17:53 — 👍 31 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Your poilu should be hairier.
08.03.2026 17:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Whatever size the genitals are the brain seems to be very small.
08.03.2026 17:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Other tunes in their playlist: include this banger:
youtu.be/DETcRs4ubD8?...
Illustrating this point with a gif from a 30-year-old film only because I couldn't find one from my first choice, from 40-odd-years ago, of Kyle Reese in Terminator.
08.03.2026 17:04 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ahahaha. Perfection.
08.03.2026 12:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gosh.
08.03.2026 10:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Furiously racing around in circles at great expense but ultimately going nowhere? F1 sounds like all British politics since at least 2016.
08.03.2026 08:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0To aid public understanding the Strait of Hormuz has been renamed the Strait of Oil And Gas.
07.03.2026 16:55 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If it's alive, it presumably has the moral right of self-defence if you try and turn it off.
07.03.2026 16:50 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Things can be both conscious and delicious.
07.03.2026 16:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Your wee bit hill and glen...
07.03.2026 15:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Fifty points?!?!
07.03.2026 15:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0If it was a British operation it would at least get a rousing name like OPERATION ALLOTMENT
07.03.2026 14:49 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0What annoys me is that 'just popping in for a few bits' now regularly costs more than £30.
07.03.2026 14:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Every time Hegseth crosses my timeline - even after muting his name, ffs - he sounds like more of a bellend than last time.
07.03.2026 14:03 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Last time I took the Tōhoku Shinkansen, it's very striking how once you're off the Kantō Plain there are always mountains quite close by.
07.03.2026 13:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm sure Napoleon enjoyed his Spanish Ulcer very much indeed...
07.03.2026 11:25 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yes, you can see troops with bicycles in the film and photos of the landing. They must have been very bulky and awkward on the landing craft.
07.03.2026 11:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Me neither. The contrast with Iraq is striking.
07.03.2026 11:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ah yes. Who can forget how Saddam Hussein had to liberate Kuwait from invasion by George Bush Sr...
07.03.2026 09:16 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Imagining something like the Italian Campaign of the Second World War, only without Italy's bountiful opportunities for amphibious landings.
07.03.2026 09:05 — 👍 63 🔁 13 💬 5 📌 0One of my favourite accounts on here, from the beautiful Northumbrian coast.
07.03.2026 09:03 — 👍 41 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0
Struck by how massively laborious these howitzers were to emplace. I wonder if any of them made it out of France when things went pear-shaped a month or so after this was shot.
bsky.app/profile/cura...
Quite amused by the top stories on the BBC News Channel.
07.03.2026 07:55 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1