RE: https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys/116844552183073846

Sir Charles Sedley, whose antics are recounted here by Samuel Pepys, was a member of parliament, and remained so until his death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Charles_Sedley,_5th_Baronet

RE: https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys/116844552183073846

Well that escalated quickly. I hope it was cheap wine.

RE: https://toot.community/@ProfundumPhoto/116827460991160049

I would guess that about two-thirds of the people on the boat when we visited Gunkanjima were Korean.

The island was the scene of forced labour of Koreans and Chinese during the Second World War, but it is likely that a major reason for the Korean interest was that it was featured in a Korean movie where a Korean workforce overthrows their Japanese overlords and escapes - a work of fiction, but rooted in historical brutality and injustices.

Scenes from our visit earlier this month to Gunkanjima / 軍艦島 (‘Battleship Island’) off the coast of Nagasaki.

The island was developed by Mitsubishi as a coal mine, starting in the Meiji Period and growing to the point where the workforce & their families housed on the tiny island apparently made it the most densely-populated place on earth.

When the main shaft flooded in the 1970s, it was too expensive to recover, and the island was abandoned, falling into ruins.

#japan #gunkanjima #日本#軍艦島

An interesting journey that gave me a new insight into English: I was in Ikea, and saw this on the wall.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys/116825664419714467

He uses code to describe his infidelities in his diary, but other bodily functions are out there in the clear.