Stopping by after a very long absence to introduce you all to Mabel:

I am OBSESSED with her and I am just showing her off to every single person I’ve ever met.

Just poking my head in after a very long absence to let everyone know that as of 3:15 today I am henceforth to be known only as Dr. Omoikiri 💪

It was good, honestly. Was definitely long though, and not exactly lighthearted.

Why would it? That’s not what the film is about.

Look, I get the point you’re trying to make here, Seagoon, but that’s not what I’m getting at. My work, my research, the organisations and individuals I work for and with are about making known the human consequences of nuclear weapons and nuclear testing. Not just the victims in japan, but the Marshallese from Bikini Atoll, the First Nations displaced because of British testing in Maralinga and Emu Fields, the downwinders of Utah, the Kazakh of the Semipalatinsk Test Site. The people who, if they survived the bombing or the test, are still living with the consequences. Nuclear weapons are created and wielded by those countries with money and power and they’re the ones who control the narratives around it, the stories were told about them, not the survivors, even though it’s their story to tell. They’re the only ones who truely understand it. My worries about the film were that it was going to be a bunch of nuclear propaganda, that fed the false narrative that nuclear deterrence is the only way forward, and I was pleasantly wrong. Forgive me if I’m touchy on the subject but at 90 seconds til midnight I don’t find these kinds of comments helpful.

Everyone do yourselves a favour and go and watch this, read through this site and watch this interview with my good friend Mary talking about how the American government let her, her family and her community down after exposing them to massive amounts of radiation from all of the testing they did. Did you know that the brunt of radiation affects are born disproportionately by women? Or that it’s inherently linked to colonialism? Or that just the use of one bomb can and will cause a nuclear famine that will mean 1/3 of the worlds population will starve to death?

This is what people need to be aware of when going to see Oppenheimer.

The trailer was quite deceptive. The trailers made it look like war propaganda, which is was not (not entirely anyway, and not in the way I was expecting). There were still a lot of inaccuracies that were conveniently glossed over, but as dumblederp said, it’s for entertainment purposes, you can’t expect 100% accuracy

My worries aren’t about what it covers, it’s about the narrative it tells and the motives behind it. Anyway, I’ll reserve judgement until it’s done.

We are in the cinema about to see Oppenheimer. I’m very nervous. I have spent the entire day translating the account of a doctor who spent the days following the bomb treating the victims so I am in a very biased mindset, I know. But god I hope this is done well. A group of colleagues and people I put out a private and public plea to Nolan and Atlas entertainment to include epilogue text in the film and acknowledge the plight of the hibakusha and the downwinders and the Marshallese and all the other global hibakusha. They were ignored. Urgh Urgh Urgh. I’m trying to not be pessimistic.

Leftover pizza 🍕

In my car waiting to head in for this official event. Dilemma. I need to do a poop really badly, but I don’t think I’d ever get over the mortification of doing a poo in a diplomats house. I would, however, like the experience of pooing in a house that costs at least $15,000,000. The toilet alone probably costs more than my car.