Surveying the Bluesky landscape over breakfast and amazed to see @dankaszeta.bsky.social still, like brave Horatius on his bridge, locked in single combat with hordes of Americans who refuse to believe that other countries and peoples exist.

We now go live to Kuwaiti anti-aircraft headquarters:

We now go live to Kuwaiti anti-aircraft headquarters:

'Asakusa Kannon Temple' - Tsuchiya Koitsu, 1933. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

In an interview about his First World War service, Corporal Harry Forrester of the Royal Field Artillery recalled a mule that refused to cross a bridge while pulling an ammunition limber. The driver beat it for stopping. 1/3 📸IWM Q5940 #MuleMonday

HMS Belfast always looks cool silhouetted against Tower Bridge.

Can't help thinking that the UK should leave the US and Israel to their insanely reckless war in the Middle East, and have nothing to do with it.

Unreal Tournament (1999)

Replaying a bit of F-Zero GX via the Nintendo Switch Online service. Still a thrilling sense of speed, more than 20 years after its first release. 🎮

A little earlier I wondered how long it would be before we saw footage from the Burj Khalifa of ordnance falling nearby. Probably not long, I'm guessing.

Laura Knight (1877-1970) British. Nuremberg Trial [1946] Oil on canvas, 182.8 x 152.4 cm, Imperial War Museum, London. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Apparently the Board of Peace got Bored of Peace.

The SAS, storming the Iranian Embassy in Operation Pass Me That Flashbang We're Going Abseiling.

More and more seeing the logic of the UK Ministry of Defence giving random made-up names to its operations.

So, err, what the fuck are Trump and Netanyahu playing at now?

Recently digitised; near Nyaungbintha on the Shwebo plain in Burma in January 1945, British gunners of 1st Medium Regiment bring a camouflaged 5.5-inch gun into action, and play cards after the shoot. #filmcataloguing #ww2 #history Full film: IWM FUB 52 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

The Tea plantation of Katakura in the Suruga province https://www.wikiart.org/en/katsushika-hokusai/the-tea-plantation-of-katakura-in-the-suruga-province

RIP, Gordon Corrigan.

Unfortunately, I never had the pleasure of meeting Gordon Corrigan but his work led the way for many of us who followed. Sepoys in the Trenches is a book I have read time and again and which I frequently consult. My thoughts are with his family at this sad time.

'Where's your stopcock?'

Made me think of this - a Beretta M1934 with the monogram of the Duke of Aosta, one of a number thought to have produced as a patronage gift for local leaders during the Duke's viceroyalty of Italian East Africa in the 1930s. Later captured during the Second World War.

Of course Goodwin loves roundabouts. They give way to the right.

Somewhere Matt Goodwin is proudly adding 'Parliamentary candidate' to his CV.

Recently digitised; in northern Burma, near Pinwe, in Dec 1944, British gunners of 36th Div (probably 178th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery) haul a 25-pounder into a newly dug gun pit before enjoying a cup of tea #filmcataloguing #ww2 #history Full film: IWM FUB 14 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Labour, seeing this: 'It's clear we need to be tougher on immigration... '

The best episode of #RedDwarf is Marooned in series 3. Discuss.

Sad to hear of the death of Rob Grant, co-creator of Red Dwarf. One of my all-time favourite series in both comedy and sci-fi. Maybe I'll watch an episode or two in his honour tonight.

London hellhole latest: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Ten years since this was uploaded and it makes me howl every time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSGV...

I wonder how many politicians would love to be as well known as Pikachu.

Recently digitised; at Kalewa on the River Chindwin in Burma in December 1944, a cameraman in a light aircraft films the construction of a floating pontoon Bailey bridge by Indian Army engineers. #filmcataloguing #ww2 #history Full film: IWM FUB 17 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Cat Kryten Rimmer Lister

Did Gandhi write this?

Imagine how delighted the Britons must have been when this bloke rocked up to bring them socialism.

Seeing a post that begins 'There's a thing going on on X....'

Seen flying over my local town hall today. Slava Ukraini.

Saw this and immediately wondered who you might cast to play Bill Slim. Daniel Craig comes to mind. About the right age and appropriately square-jawed.

I know the whole point of science is that it's not miraculous, but it certainly seems that way sometimes.

Finally a chance to put a name to the unknowable beast that leaves chicken bones all over London.

Nigel Farage can get fucked.

This shit is absolutely revolting. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

An aircraft designer's office. 'So we're designing a new transport aircraft. Going to be massive. Need a strong-sounding name for it' 'Does it have a lot of wheels?' 'Yes, why?' 'How about "Millipede"? 'Perfect!'

I've a vague memory of being made to watch Dirty Pretty Things while in sixth form, and finding it unbearably boring.

Playing #GhostOfYōtei. 42hrs in and only 33% complete. Have learnt a lot more about the Ainu people than I ever knew before.

In other news, the Trump administration now modestly proposes to allow the poor to sell their children for meat.

Lord knows algorithms have a lot to answer for, but YT has just served me this. What a sublime piece of music. youtu.be/1OZDaRhHHyM?...

Seen in the bookshop recently - has anyone read it? #BattleOfTheArctic #ww2 #history #histbookchat #navalhistory

Watching - or rather listening to - a bit of #ABridgeTooFar (on iPlayer now, UK folk) while pottering about, having not seen it for years. Struck by the film's critical verging on satirical streak, then remembered that Attenborough directed Oh What A Lovely War a few years before. #warmovies 🌉💥🪖🍿🎥