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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.

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Well done Switzerland. Got there eventually.

09.03.2026 11:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The 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 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    📌 0

Where GPT stands for General Purpose Tory.

08.03.2026 22:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

After 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    📌 0

After 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    📌 0

Your poilu should be hairier.

08.03.2026 17:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Whatever size the genitals are the brain seems to be very small.

08.03.2026 17:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Free (Mood II Swing Radio Edit)
YouTube video by Ultra Naté - Topic Free (Mood II Swing Radio Edit)

Other tunes in their playlist: include this banger:
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08.03.2026 17:10 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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    📌 0
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Alt: Robin Williams in Jumanji saying 'What year is it?'

In the park with the kids. Teenagers dancing to the Macarena.

08.03.2026 17:00 — 👍 121    🔁 11    💬 5    📌 1

Ahahaha. Perfection.

08.03.2026 12:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gosh.

08.03.2026 10:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Furiously 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    📌 0

To aid public understanding the Strait of Hormuz has been renamed the Strait of Oil And Gas.

07.03.2026 16:55 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If 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    📌 0

Things can be both conscious and delicious.

07.03.2026 16:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Your wee bit hill and glen...

07.03.2026 15:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fifty points?!?!

07.03.2026 15:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If it was a British operation it would at least get a rousing name like OPERATION ALLOTMENT

07.03.2026 14:49 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

What 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    📌 0

Every 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    📌 0

Last 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    📌 0

I'm sure Napoleon enjoyed his Spanish Ulcer very much indeed...

07.03.2026 11:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes, 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    📌 0

Me neither. The contrast with Iraq is striking.

07.03.2026 11:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ah 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    📌 0

Imagining 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    📌 0

One 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...

07.03.2026 08:39 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Quite amused by the top stories on the BBC News Channel.

07.03.2026 07:55 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1