Ian Kikuchi

White House/Pentagon searches spiking for 'what is a sea mine?'

It is genuinely baffling that MAGA think this man projects strength when every post like this just signals pathetic weakness.

A perfectly ordinary name for an American city as imagined by Japan.

a video game with a smiley face on the top left ALT: a video game with a smiley face on the top left

I'm sure it'll be fine. Hegseth seems like the kind of bloke who spends a lot of his day playing Minesweeper.

So I hear, but I've seen them used interchangeably.

I'm sure the marine insurance trade are delighted.

I aspire to be a Mr and an Esq.

That definition doesn't strike me as very useful. It just shifts the question to defining 'Muslimness'.

Yes, like a very angry horse.

A photo showing the City of London dragon on Blackfriars bridge with the arms of the London Dover and Chatham Railway in the background.

Bimbling through Blackfriars earlier. Always fond of the City of London's dragons.

Mohammad Sidique Khan and his three friends, two from Leeds, were enjoying a day out on the London Underground when their lives drastically, er, ended.

Aaaaaaaaaaargh.

The huge beige crab is displayed against a black background, high up on the wall near to the ceiling. It has a sturdy body and ten arms or legs. The front two have strong looking pincers on the end of them.

This is our enduringly popular giant crab of Japan. It fires up the imaginations of children and they never forget it. #Bexhill

Perhaps you could give us all individual reference numbers.

I particularly enjoy watching the mules trying to work out whether they're meant to trample or jump the camera and/or cameraman in front of them.

This person apparently has five daughters and an entire section of his Wikipedia biography devoted to allegations of sexual assault.

I'm enjoying being among the dozens of people to appreciate this.

Love that bit of film.

It is absolutely amazing to behold MAGA's bottomless contempt for its voters.

The open cockpit leaves the crew particularly exposed when you've not got any wings.

Someone amongst you has tipped me over 4000 followers. Thank you all.

Will try and post some worthwhile and/or amusing things before the war bankrupts and/or kills us all.

Bit surprised they managed to find 8 Greens who don't know what they think. And 1 who's all for it.

We've tried everything else.

He stayed on-message right up to the 'yet'.

Well done Switzerland. Got there eventually.

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.

Where GPT stands for General Purpose Tory.

After Operation Epic Fury, it's now time for Operation Here We Come You'll Never Guess What We're Looking For.

After Operation Epic Fury, it's now time for Operation Here We Come You'll Never Guess What We're Looking For.

Your poilu should be hairier.