@jawanaka.bsky.social
Mediocre fan writer, lapsed historian, occasional bureaucrat. Reply guy on Swedish Bluesky.
One of my wife’s best friends is a very sweet Guatemalan lady who is very progressive in all things and also thinks Belize is a fake country that should return to Guatemala
Belize-Guatemala and Guyana-Venezuela; in both cases the former Spanish colony claims a large part of the territory of the former British, but the latter controls it, has done for decades, it's populated by its citizens, and "who actually lives there" trumps "who thinks their Empire had it first"
December 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
One of my wife’s best friends is a very sweet Guatemalan lady who is very progressive in all things and also thinks Belize is a fake country that should return to Guatemala
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Ooh so this is a really good question and worth exploring, because there's an interesting complexity in the answer! 🧵
Did the Choshu/Satsuma forces face similar discipline problems or was the lesser degree to which they did so part of the reason they won?
December 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Ooh so this is a really good question and worth exploring, because there's an interesting complexity in the answer! 🧵
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i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
Very good series on just how uninspired the design language of the upcoming Odyssey movie is and the genuinely harmful stereotypes it seem to be carrying forward.
Ok so my Nolan rant about removing colors and pizzazz from Greek late Bronze Age apparently interested a lot of people!
I knew studying Ancient Greek and losing my mind on Homeric grammar would pay off some day…
Here’s a few articles on the subjects from cool classicists and scholars ✨
I knew studying Ancient Greek and losing my mind on Homeric grammar would pay off some day…
Here’s a few articles on the subjects from cool classicists and scholars ✨
December 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Very good series on just how uninspired the design language of the upcoming Odyssey movie is and the genuinely harmful stereotypes it seem to be carrying forward.
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To coincide with the recent cinema release of #Nuremberg, my newest two-part Substack article is entitled 'Ripe for the Gallows: The Luftwaffe at Nuremberg'. It can now be read here:
-Part 1 (free): open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...
-Part 2 (paid):
open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...
-Part 1 (free): open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...
-Part 2 (paid):
open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...
'Ripe for the Gallows': The Luftwaffe at Nuremberg (Part 1)
Dr Victoria Taylor examines how the Nuremberg Trials both revealed and obscured Luftwaffe culpability in the Third Reich's atrocities
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
To coincide with the recent cinema release of #Nuremberg, my newest two-part Substack article is entitled 'Ripe for the Gallows: The Luftwaffe at Nuremberg'. It can now be read here:
-Part 1 (free): open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...
-Part 2 (paid):
open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...
-Part 1 (free): open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...
-Part 2 (paid):
open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...
The true colonists vs indigenous conflict of the Falklands.
The British should return the Falklands to their proper owners:
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The true colonists vs indigenous conflict of the Falklands.
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Every Western politician should know this quote by heart before opining on Russia-Ukraine. Of course the Russians want peace—it’s quite inconvenient for them that the Ukrainians are contesting their conquest!
“The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.” -Clausewitz
Not saying the soldiers who were sent there were evil, they were figthing for their country.
What I condemn was the actions of Margaret Thatcher wich caused hundreds of deaths.
And the dictatorship oppressing Argentina didn't care much about winning war, just sent thousands of conscripts
What I condemn was the actions of Margaret Thatcher wich caused hundreds of deaths.
And the dictatorship oppressing Argentina didn't care much about winning war, just sent thousands of conscripts
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Every Western politician should know this quote by heart before opining on Russia-Ukraine. Of course the Russians want peace—it’s quite inconvenient for them that the Ukrainians are contesting their conquest!
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Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."
Fascinating. Bibi did nothing wrong but leftishly.
And of course the main culprit for the situation in Palestine is the British Empire with its divide and conquer logic, opposed by Montagu. Just like the situation in India and Pakistan. Don’t blame “bigotry” by ordinary Indian and Pakistani people while forgetting British imperialism.
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Fascinating. Bibi did nothing wrong but leftishly.
Fallen for Finland and Nordic freedom. Glory to the heroes.
One who actually managed to join the 🇫🇮 army in time was 1st Lt Hans Fenger of the Guard Hussars who served in the 2nd squadron of the 🇫🇮 cavalry regiment Nylands Dragonregemente and was killed in action 17 February at Lake Ladoga.
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Fallen for Finland and Nordic freedom. Glory to the heroes.
The upper-left most quote always annoys me. Like common Emmanuel, “a good program is a program that works” is textbook Dengism not Maoism.
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The upper-left most quote always annoys me. Like common Emmanuel, “a good program is a program that works” is textbook Dengism not Maoism.
“By Order of the Peaky fookin Blinders!”
November 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“By Order of the Peaky fookin Blinders!”
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Part 100! of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap.
This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap.
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Part 100! of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap.
This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap.
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![On April 17th, 2020, meme creator Welcome To My Meme Page posted a parody infographic to Facebook,[1] Instagram,[2] and Twitter,[3] titled, "STOP DOING MATH" (shown below). The infographic describes various ridiculous reasons why people should stop doing math, including that "numbers were not supposed to be given names," and ends with the phrase, "they have played us for absolute fools." The post gained over 9,800 reactions on Facebook, 77,000 likes and 23,000 retweets, and 18,500 likes on Instagram in 10 months.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreier7r5uluprz24b47wich5lrs5tc4kxdkbc5kbu34cxlvf5ukzgbq@jpeg)
This interview is funny because he keeps digging himself a hole, and the pro-TERF journo keeps trying to help him out of it only for him to proceed to gleefully jump straight back into the hole.
im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad
This journalist basically agrees with Graham on everything and tries to write this sympathetically but also he is…mad archive.ph/2025.11.27-0...
This journalist basically agrees with Graham on everything and tries to write this sympathetically but also he is…mad archive.ph/2025.11.27-0...
archive.ph
November 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This interview is funny because he keeps digging himself a hole, and the pro-TERF journo keeps trying to help him out of it only for him to proceed to gleefully jump straight back into the hole.
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an underestimated threat AI poses is not convincing you that fake things are real, it’s convincing you that real things are fake
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
an underestimated threat AI poses is not convincing you that fake things are real, it’s convincing you that real things are fake
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Incredible how pretty much any sufficiently widely seen post saying "I think it's bad how people are prejudiced to trans people" inevitably attracts a whole host of replies going "But I don't see why you won't consider that trans people aren't real so prejudice against them doesn't count/matter?"
yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Incredible how pretty much any sufficiently widely seen post saying "I think it's bad how people are prejudiced to trans people" inevitably attracts a whole host of replies going "But I don't see why you won't consider that trans people aren't real so prejudice against them doesn't count/matter?"
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God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group
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absolutely excellent story about the *real* big energy of the decade/millennium unfolding before us
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Accessible, cheap clean energy could spark a new world order
Unshackled from legacy fossil fuel interests, the world’s clean energy future is being forged in the bustling cities of the global south.
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
absolutely excellent story about the *real* big energy of the decade/millennium unfolding before us
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Worth it, it's far better than every cinematic Star War made since 1980
www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
Disney Spent More On ‘Andor’ Than Any Of Its ‘Star Wars’ Movies
Disney has revealed it spent $60.5 million on Star Wars streaming series Andor in 2024, giving the show a total cost of $705.5 million - far higher than the spending on any of the movies in the saga.
www.forbes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Worth it, it's far better than every cinematic Star War made since 1980
www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
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This is fine meme breaks containment
BREAKING: The UN climate talks COP30 have been evacuated due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil.
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is fine meme breaks containment
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On one side of my family we have zero knowledge of our lineage before my grandpa. There was just nobody left to ask. He wasn’t even sure if his last name was real or made up. And there’s a story like this in almost every Ukrainian household.
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
🕯 Eternal memory to all victims of Holodomor. A moment of silence.
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
On one side of my family we have zero knowledge of our lineage before my grandpa. There was just nobody left to ask. He wasn’t even sure if his last name was real or made up. And there’s a story like this in almost every Ukrainian household.
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
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Europeans will have to handle chaos from Trump and Vance's erratic incompetence every few months so there is no use panicking.
Better to calmly find ways in the short term of slowrolling Washington diplomatically while preparing for a post-American world
Better to calmly find ways in the short term of slowrolling Washington diplomatically while preparing for a post-American world
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Europeans will have to handle chaos from Trump and Vance's erratic incompetence every few months so there is no use panicking.
Better to calmly find ways in the short term of slowrolling Washington diplomatically while preparing for a post-American world
Better to calmly find ways in the short term of slowrolling Washington diplomatically while preparing for a post-American world