Steven Buck
lairddinnaken.bsky.social
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
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 ⭐️
November 30, 2025 at 11:22 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 😬)
September 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham: you called?
August 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This is generating a very BlueSky flood of responses 😑
August 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
August 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Very rare to see the majestic Brewster Buffalo get pride of place in a museum 😑
June 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The only Clegg worth listening to…
April 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I see you more as a Princess Ben…
April 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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
They do love their work…
April 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
He looks like a clone of Musk combined with Reinhard Heydrich 😬
April 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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 😬
February 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Well, Sun Ra said ‘Space Is The Place’ back in the 60s…🤷‍♂️
January 28, 2025 at 2:34 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 👍
January 27, 2025 at 5:49 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 👀
January 21, 2025 at 5:04 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.
January 16, 2025 at 1:00 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.
January 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Presume he doesn’t mean this Kitsch (just checking 👀)?
January 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I presume that ISN’T Jelly Roll Morton? 👀
December 24, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Some wit already christened it the Incel Camino*

*Funnier IF you’ve actually heard of the Chevy El Camino obv… 😑
December 22, 2024 at 8:27 AM
I never trusted that Big Ears fella…
December 8, 2024 at 6:23 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…💃
December 4, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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!
November 22, 2024 at 2:45 PM
November 22, 2024 at 12:51 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 😊
November 15, 2024 at 8:57 PM