Steven Buck
@lairddinnaken.bsky.social
Formerly Scottish ex-engineer ex-banker ex-portfolio manager ex-risk dude. Now an African Viking 🤔🤭
UK expat since ‘82 😬, South Africa, Washington DC and now (finally?) Cape Town.
MilAv, MotoGP, F1 & Movie (classic horror/gangster) Hist, terrible puns
UK expat since ‘82 😬, South Africa, Washington DC and now (finally?) Cape Town.
MilAv, MotoGP, F1 & Movie (classic horror/gangster) Hist, terrible puns
Thought I'd share a few books I recently read and thought worth recommending.
This one 👇 covers the four (much mythologised) air-sea battles that made up Leyte Gulf in October 1944.
Suffice to say that no myths are left standing, even more so than @alanallport.bsky.social!
4 1/2 ⭐️
This one 👇 covers the four (much mythologised) air-sea battles that made up Leyte Gulf in October 1944.
Suffice to say that no myths are left standing, even more so than @alanallport.bsky.social!
4 1/2 ⭐️
November 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Thought I'd share a few books I recently read and thought worth recommending.
This one 👇 covers the four (much mythologised) air-sea battles that made up Leyte Gulf in October 1944.
Suffice to say that no myths are left standing, even more so than @alanallport.bsky.social!
4 1/2 ⭐️
This one 👇 covers the four (much mythologised) air-sea battles that made up Leyte Gulf in October 1944.
Suffice to say that no myths are left standing, even more so than @alanallport.bsky.social!
4 1/2 ⭐️
Supreme Being™️ got a pic of this little guy yesterday: haven't seen this type before 🤷♂️
Anyone know what it is?
Unlike Oz where everything tries to kill you we don't have any poisonous spiders 🕷️ (that I know of 😬)
Anyone know what it is?
Unlike Oz where everything tries to kill you we don't have any poisonous spiders 🕷️ (that I know of 😬)
September 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Supreme Being™️ got a pic of this little guy yesterday: haven't seen this type before 🤷♂️
Anyone know what it is?
Unlike Oz where everything tries to kill you we don't have any poisonous spiders 🕷️ (that I know of 😬)
Anyone know what it is?
Unlike Oz where everything tries to kill you we don't have any poisonous spiders 🕷️ (that I know of 😬)
Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham: you called?
August 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham: you called?
This is generating a very BlueSky flood of responses 😑
August 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This is generating a very BlueSky flood of responses 😑
Very rare to see the majestic Brewster Buffalo get pride of place in a museum 😑
June 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Very rare to see the majestic Brewster Buffalo get pride of place in a museum 😑
The only Clegg worth listening to…
April 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The only Clegg worth listening to…
I see you more as a Princess Ben…
April 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I see you more as a Princess Ben…
Well, you can come down here next to the penguins (birds not biscuits) and eat a chokky bar EVEN better than a Mars, courtesy of Nestle Seth Effrika…
April 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Well, you can come down here next to the penguins (birds not biscuits) and eat a chokky bar EVEN better than a Mars, courtesy of Nestle Seth Effrika…
They do love their work…
April 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
They do love their work…
He looks like a clone of Musk combined with Reinhard Heydrich 😬
April 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
He looks like a clone of Musk combined with Reinhard Heydrich 😬
Amazon Kindle has a Celebrate Black Voices offer on its daily deals today.
All very well, except one of the offers is about Black…Holes 😬
All very well, except one of the offers is about Black…Holes 😬
February 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Amazon Kindle has a Celebrate Black Voices offer on its daily deals today.
All very well, except one of the offers is about Black…Holes 😬
All very well, except one of the offers is about Black…Holes 😬
Well, Sun Ra said ‘Space Is The Place’ back in the 60s…🤷♂️
January 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Well, Sun Ra said ‘Space Is The Place’ back in the 60s…🤷♂️
Hello! Just finished a splendid book you might like if you haven’t already read it: a lost /cursed silent film , really enjoyed it 👍
January 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Hello! Just finished a splendid book you might like if you haven’t already read it: a lost /cursed silent film , really enjoyed it 👍
During apartheid we had a bunch of fat uber-nazi Afrikaners, in uniforms and riding horses, called the AWB: of course English South Africans called them the Average White Band after the Scottish funk-rock band.
Their leader (and I’m not joking) was Eugene Terre Blanch 👀
Their leader (and I’m not joking) was Eugene Terre Blanch 👀
January 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
During apartheid we had a bunch of fat uber-nazi Afrikaners, in uniforms and riding horses, called the AWB: of course English South Africans called them the Average White Band after the Scottish funk-rock band.
Their leader (and I’m not joking) was Eugene Terre Blanch 👀
Their leader (and I’m not joking) was Eugene Terre Blanch 👀
If you like your crime novels to be backwoods noir, you won’t find much better than this, set in opioid-crippled east Kentucky.
Fourth J Todd Scott novel I’ve read: all brilliant.
Fourth J Todd Scott novel I’ve read: all brilliant.
January 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
If you like your crime novels to be backwoods noir, you won’t find much better than this, set in opioid-crippled east Kentucky.
Fourth J Todd Scott novel I’ve read: all brilliant.
Fourth J Todd Scott novel I’ve read: all brilliant.
Hi Benjamin: I just saw your name in the acknowledgments of the splendid Night Film by Marisha Pessl! 👍
Really enjoyed it, superbly written (if overlong at 850 pages IMHO), will be back for more.
Really enjoyed it, superbly written (if overlong at 850 pages IMHO), will be back for more.
January 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Hi Benjamin: I just saw your name in the acknowledgments of the splendid Night Film by Marisha Pessl! 👍
Really enjoyed it, superbly written (if overlong at 850 pages IMHO), will be back for more.
Really enjoyed it, superbly written (if overlong at 850 pages IMHO), will be back for more.
Presume he doesn’t mean this Kitsch (just checking 👀)?
January 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Presume he doesn’t mean this Kitsch (just checking 👀)?
I presume that ISN’T Jelly Roll Morton? 👀
December 24, 2024 at 10:04 AM
I presume that ISN’T Jelly Roll Morton? 👀
Some wit already christened it the Incel Camino*
*Funnier IF you’ve actually heard of the Chevy El Camino obv… 😑
*Funnier IF you’ve actually heard of the Chevy El Camino obv… 😑
December 22, 2024 at 8:27 AM
Some wit already christened it the Incel Camino*
*Funnier IF you’ve actually heard of the Chevy El Camino obv… 😑
*Funnier IF you’ve actually heard of the Chevy El Camino obv… 😑
I never trusted that Big Ears fella…
December 8, 2024 at 6:23 AM
I never trusted that Big Ears fella…
What you fail to realise, Ian, is that the Nazis were running out of straight lines by 1944 and the Jagdtiger in profile uses only EIGHT…💃
December 4, 2024 at 9:02 AM
What you fail to realise, Ian, is that the Nazis were running out of straight lines by 1944 and the Jagdtiger in profile uses only EIGHT…💃
Been on a bit of a reading binge the last few weeks: here’s the four latest 👇
Each as good IMHO as the reviews, far from the norm in my experience…
Alt Text included for once!
Each as good IMHO as the reviews, far from the norm in my experience…
Alt Text included for once!
November 22, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Been on a bit of a reading binge the last few weeks: here’s the four latest 👇
Each as good IMHO as the reviews, far from the norm in my experience…
Alt Text included for once!
Each as good IMHO as the reviews, far from the norm in my experience…
Alt Text included for once!
I say, @harkaway.bsky.social, this fully lived up to the laudatory reviews, which doesn’t happen that often!
I could almost literally see and hear Alec Guinness in every Smiley moment: Esterhase and Guillam too.
We, the people, demand MOAR! Loved it 😊
I could almost literally see and hear Alec Guinness in every Smiley moment: Esterhase and Guillam too.
We, the people, demand MOAR! Loved it 😊
November 15, 2024 at 8:57 PM
I say, @harkaway.bsky.social, this fully lived up to the laudatory reviews, which doesn’t happen that often!
I could almost literally see and hear Alec Guinness in every Smiley moment: Esterhase and Guillam too.
We, the people, demand MOAR! Loved it 😊
I could almost literally see and hear Alec Guinness in every Smiley moment: Esterhase and Guillam too.
We, the people, demand MOAR! Loved it 😊