Martin Kirk

@markofcalth.bsky.social

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Wargamer, amateur historian, metal-head, LARPer, nerd. He/him

Screenshot of John C (@badsocialism, the OP) saying "Ah, bugger"
Screenshot reading "Around Westminster he is known as self-serving and Territorial. "A little shit", is how one minister has described him"
Pacific Rim Double Event meme - with no text because I can't be bothered 😂
My results from this internet quiz showing views on certain things. I got 86% Woke Vs 14% Chud, 45% Techbro Vs 55% NeoLuddite, 69% Hopepilled Vs 31% Doomer, and 86% Davos Vs 14% Dubai, giving me a final 'closest match' of Santa Marin
Map of France showing heat warnings across the entire country, with most of the country being marked as "exceptionally high heat"
Batman panel showing him breaking a gun while saying "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."
A screenshot from the linked Wikipedia article on the USS Reuben James, saying "The destroyer was not flying the ensign of the United States and was in the process of dropping depth charges on another U-boat when she was engaged"
Image of a finisher's medal for the 2026 Ultra Trail Snowdonia 20k race.
A Saint-Chamond armoured box on tracks with a 75mm cannon. The crew can be seen on top.
A picture of Charles de Gaulle, a President of France who advocated for self-reliance, particularly on national security
A screenshot from the article saying "End the US air campaign and let Israel fight alone in its own way to achieve its own goals?"
A screenshot from the article, which reads "by the close of the session, the five elected and non-salaried members of the Foxboro select board were left, once again, exasperated. FIFA, whose tournament it is, were nowhere to be seen.
4 tiny kittens, all curled up together and sleeping. 2 are tabby, 1 is grey (blending in against the sofa), and 1 is black
A screenshot of the linked article reading: The Empire may be a dictatorship, Last wrote, but it's "a dictatorship people can do business with. They collect taxes and patrol the skies. They try to stop organized crime... The Empire has virtually no effect on the daily life of the average, law-abiding citizen."
"Or Even Eagle Flew" by Harry Turtledove. The cover shows 3 Hurricanes, with the one in the foreground piloted by Amelia Earhart
An Airfix Sherman Firefly set in 1:72 scale
Winnie the Pooh thinking "I am a batter of very little brain, and long innings bother me"
"On April 10, 1941 a pogrom broke out in Antwerp's Jewish quarter. The rioters were members of right-wing movements who had been spurred on by local German authorities. They attacked two synagogues and a rabbi's home, and we're not restrained by the fire department or police"
"DeBlasio understood the situation. "I could have corrected him," he said. Instead, he played along. He used ChatGPT to compose a response criticizing Mamdani's tax plans, in particular, as unlikely to raise the requisite revenue. "It was all in good fun. I never thought it would make it to print," DeBlasio said. He assumed the reporter would "have all his people check it out." The Times deleted the article from its website, and issued a statement claiming that "our reporter had been misled by an individual falsely claiming to be the former New York mayor." DeBlasio was particularly annoyed at the idea that, by operating under his own name, he could be labelled as an imposter or, as The New York Times put it, a "de Blasio impersonator."
"That's bait" meme from Mad Max Fury Road, saying "that's a tank" Because, as Alex definitely knows, the M10 is a tank destroyer or self-propelled anti-tank gun, but definitely not a tank
Screenshot from the article, reading "in the complainant itself, the customer said the employee who spoke with them was a "transgender 'woman', ie, a biological male" and stated this was "obviously the case" because the person was "at least 6ft 2in tall""
A map of fielding positions in cricket (for a right-handed batter). Cow Corner is on the bottom right of the field, Silly Mid Off is in the centre, slightly to the left. The batter is in the centre, slightly above the centre point, facing towards the bottom, where the bowler will bowl from
An old post saying "We already have a machine that can give you the wrong answer to any question. It's called "a guy at a bar". Information has to be true to be useful"
A picture of the Battle of Beneventum wargame taken at Salute 52, featuring a very subtle grid map suitable for Strength and Honour. There are fields along the bottom of the picture, with Pyrrhus' troops at the edge of the fields, and the Roman legions towards the top of the picture
Picture of Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France and Supreme Allied Commander in 1918
M24 Chaffee light tank... Or heavily armed reconnaissance vehicle
X-ray image of the Sturmtiger in the video game War Thunder, showing the layout of ammunition and crew (half of whom are crammed into the superstructure between the ammunition racks)
"Why should I change? He's the one who sucks" meme
England cricketer Joe Root in test match whites
28mm-scale models of an M26 Pershing (thick) and a Char B1 (thin). Miniatures from Warlord Games, painted by me
Imperial Storm Troopers take cover in a snowy woodland - Star Wars Legion miniature wargame
A Warhammer 40k Chaos Knight painted in Iron Warriors colours (silver, with bronze trim, and detailing in black and yellow)
Star Wars Prequel meme - Anakin saying "Is it possible to learn this power"
Picture of 4 model Leopard 1 main battle tanks