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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 · 1h

Me, typing: '....a number of....'

MS Word: Ahem.

Me: What do you fucking want now?

MSW: More concise language would be clearer for your reader. How about 'a few', instead?

Me: ....

MSW: I'll fuck off and get back in my box.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · Aug 19

Me, typing: ...in all likelihood...

MS Word: Ahem.

Me: What?

MS Word: 'In all likelihood'?

Me: ...

MS Word: More concise language would be clearer for your reader. How about 'likely', instead?

Me: How about you fuck off and get back in your box?

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 2h

Perfect

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 5h

I don't know who said it first, but it's nice to see that the dictum that 'any new technology first gets used for porn' still holds true.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 6h

Computer, make me something that looks like a infographic, but is actually completely useless.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 6h

I don't, but I'm guessing it involved something uncomfortable being shoved somewhere unmentionable.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 7h

Oh god not the Mary Rose too. bsky.app/profile/mary...

The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 8h

Urethral syringe? You know where you can stick that...

This syringe was one of three recovered from the surgeon’s cabin of the Mary Rose. Of the three it is the only one made of pewter, with a bronze needle and a leather washer on the plunger.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 7h

This mostly amuses me for the implication that Corbyn ever apologised for anything.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 7h

Or trying to turn right on a red traffic light.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 7h

Either that or D for Dolly, H for Holly, or J for Jolly.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 7h

I think your new crate should have a name.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 7h

Idly wondering what % of the population have a spare £20,000 every year to save.

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 10h

I have a ticket to this and am getting*very* excited...

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

More rice, bigger chairs and reinforced toilets: sumo wrestling comes to London

Royal Albert Hall to host Grand Sumo Tournament marking only the second time a full competition is held overseas

www.theguardian.com

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 20h

You're going to have to add 'No Warlords' to your placards.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, but 'Battle of Battle' would've sounded shit.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 22h

K-ylie, surely?

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 23h

Heathrow. Passport control.

A smart young man presents himself. He's arrived for a new job in a specialised profession.

Border guard: Well this all looks to be in order. There's just one thing..

Man: Yes?

BG: I'm going to need to you to write 3,000 words on L P Hartley's 'The Go Between...'

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

One of these days @surgeonshall.bsky.social will post a picture that doesn't make me queasy. Hasn't happened yet.

Surgeons' Hall Museums @surgeonshall.bsky.social · 1d

This is a Kollmann’s dilator. It would be used to open up a urethra that may have become closed (also known as a stricture). It is inserted into the urethra & the expanding blades are opened like an umbrella. It was invented by German Urologist Arthur Kollmann.

A long curved metal instrument. It has a handle and you can see where the blades would expand out to help remove the blockage.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

I have curated innumerable world class exhibitions.

In my head.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

There's a translated copy in German in the university library in Heidelberg but the librarian there only works on bank holidays in leap years.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

Liked for the use of dope.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

Can't stop shooting, there's a camera.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

No shunting below the diagonal!

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

Hang on, this is just Christopher Nolan's Brexit Dunkirk all over again! This thing goes deeper than we ever imagined!

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

A devilish conspiracy, with roots so deep that the entirety of Cy Endfield's directing career was shaped by unseen hands towards cheering up the Welsh in 1964.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

Barbecue food? Muscle cars? Morbid obesity? Indian!