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13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 06:00:51 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat
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@Diogenes this was genuinely fascinating, thanks @anon_opin

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  Diogenes (diogenes@fuerth.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 06:00:53 JST Diogenes
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  @anon_opin When you are trained, you can use both as a kubotan:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubotan?wprov=sfla1
  But both are not labelled as weapons for example at police control.
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    Kubotan
    
    A Kubotan is a self-defense keychain weapon developed by Sōke Takayuki Kubota in the late 1960s. It is typically no more than 140 millimetres (5+1⁄2 inches) long and about 13 mm (1⁄2 in) in diameter, slightly thicker or the same size as a marker pen. The material is usually a hard high-impact plastic such as Lexan. The body of the Kubotan is lined with six round grooves with a screw eye or swivel and split ring attachment at one end for keys. The term is a genericized trademark. History The Kubotan keychain was originally based on a small bamboo weapon called a "hashi stick", an invention by Kubota's father, Denjiro. Its popularity grew from 1969 to the 1970s when Kubota, at the request of California State Senator Edward M. Davis, the former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, created the weapon and began training female officers in its application. Concept Applied as a weapon, some of its uses can be similar to that of the yawara stick or koppo stick. The principal...
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  Anon Opin (anon_opin@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 06:00:54 JST Anon Opin
  
  Calling a torch or a fountain pen "tactical" doesn't make it better. I'm not sure what fountain pens the SAS use when signing letters but I don't think they need to be made from expensive, machined titanium.
  
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