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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 09/09/2026

Hey. You may be having a bad day. But at least you’re not having as bad a day as whoever owns this boat.

A lovely little yacht, clearly someone’s pride and joy, in Dun Laoghaire harbour. I do mean ‘in’ quite literally here as the waterline is almost over the deck. She’s goin’ down, cap’n.

Aaaaand she’s gone. Photo taken from RNLI team attempting recovery showing nothing but a mast sticking up out of the water, rolled over at an angle that indicates the boat has found a new home on the harbour floor.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 10/08/2026

To quote everyone else in this thread of reposts: huh.

An odd statistical analysis of sentiment and behaviour based on my post history. High numbers in a category apparently mean more machine like. A “reading” is given based on a ratio of highest and lowest stats.

Huh.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 21/06/2026

Gunvor Anhøj is both very patient with us idiot learners and an absolute MONSTER with a hammer.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 21/06/2026

Too bad, social media; today I am busy MAKING KNIFE.

The guy at the anvil next to mine hammering a bit of red hot metal. This is fucking sick.

The template I’m working to and an EN9 steel blank forged and fullered out to roughly the right shape. This is fucking sick.

The anvil I’m working at with a dual burner propane slot furnace in the background. On top of the anvil are the hammer and tongs that I am using to hold red hot metal and beat it into shape with precise blows. This is immensely fucking sick!

A rack of smithing hammers, chisels, blocks, forks and tongs. It should go without saying that all of this is fucking sick as shit.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 23/04/2026

Here he is being a real good sport about the whole thing. Damn.

Late radio/tv presenter and musician James Valentine sitting in the ABC 702 studios for a full upper body 3D scan in 2014. I’m on the left, doing the scanning with an Artec Eva handheld structure light scanner. He was cracking jokes the whole time - made the job harder but much more fun.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 27/02/2026

Like, this was just sitting around for a couple of afternoons playing around with it on an iPad making a figure of one of my D&D characters. Must get around to actually rigging it so I can pose the thing and print off some minis.

Screenshot of Nomad sculpt on an iPad, showing a kind of alligator-looking Dragonborn character from a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 26/01/2026

While I’d still prefer that we change the date, in the meantime: Happy Australia Day to Aussies far and wide.

Two slices of toast with copious amounts of butter and Vegemite and a tin of Milo sit in front of a window showing a dreary Irish winter morning.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 07/11/2025

The Dublin Bay sailing club #dbsc awards are on in the national maritime museum this evening. Pretty dramatic venue for it!

A view from the back of an audience in the national maritime museum, Dublin. The museum is a converted church, but a standing over the dais is a massive fresnel lens assembly from a lighthouse. Which looks cool as shiiiiiiiit!

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 13/08/2025

As ever a bloody incredible show from #Karnivool tonight, their first time playing in Dublin and my first time seeing them outside of Australia. Huge news - NEW ALBUM END OF OCTOBER! They played a couple of new tracks including one called “Ghost”.

Karnivool, a progressive metal band from Perth, Australia, play to a packed audience at the Academy in Dublin. Hands are waving in the air, lights are flashing around, Ian Kenny is doing a weird dance - classic Karnivool.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 24/07/2025

Well I guess I’m a fountain pen guy now? I blame @aftermath.site. I’m looking at you, @papapishu.bsky.social . Honestly, if this is the closest I get to a midlife crisis then I’m fine with that.

Some fountain pens and bottles of ink sit on an office desk. Specifically 2 Parker Vectors, a Hongdian M2 and a Hongdian Dark Forest with a blade nib, a bottle of Watermans Tender Violet ink and a bottle of Diamine’s Matador red ink.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 12/07/2025

It’s a hard old life for us sailors, I tell you what.

The crew of J109 Something Else floating in Dublin Bay. The weather is uncharacteristically nice and calm.

Great for a float, not so nice for racing.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 08/07/2025

And the second drive by. My god what a show of naval power. 😏

Telephoto shot of Irish Patrol boat cruising past Shtandart in Killiney Bay. Presumably the Navy crew are shouting over to ask if they’d like a cup of tea.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 08/07/2025

Much better quality shot. Big lens beats phone.

Long telephoto shot of the triple masted tall ship Shtandart in Killiney bay, South Dublin. Someone is climbing on the bowsprit.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 08/07/2025

Decided they’d swing by for another look. Unusual start to the day, eh?

Irish naval PT boat cruises past the Shtandart, a triple masted square rigged replica of Peter the Great’s naval barque currently moored in Killiney bay, South Dublin.

Which is all most peculiar.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 08/07/2025

Half of Ireland’s navy vs what remains of the Russian fleet in Killiney bay? (Sail trainer replica of Peter the Great’s barque and one of Ireland’s PT boats.)

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 26/05/2025

When in Rome, do as Romans do. When in Scotland…

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 23/05/2025

Well, dang Scotland. Be like that then.

A lovely view of yachts on the waters of Loch Fyne outside Tarbert. It’s the Scottish series regatta and the weather is absolutely lovely… on day 1.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 25/02/2025

Performing my civic duty as an Australian while visiting England.

My hand, flipping off cans of Fosters on a shelf in a supermarket. Fosters might charitably be described as a beer, but more accurately as a mixture of cat piss, bile and human suffering in a can.

For some reason people believe it is still an Australian beer, despite no one in Australia enduring this curse upon existence in about 30 years.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 19/02/2025

Please advise, what is this strange bright thing in the sky?

A view of Grand Canal Docks in Dublin from the west side of the channel dock area. There’s actual blue sky!!!! It’s real! The sun!!?!?!!

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 16/02/2025

Huge congrats to #MiracleOfSound on finally making it out of the studio and onto the stage. Smashing first show at the Academy in Dublin.

A band play on a stage before an audience of hundreds, all bathed in red and yellow stage lights. A banner at the back of the stage proclaims this band to be Miracle of Sound.

For the uninitiated, Miracle of Sound is the long running solo project of Gavin Dunne, the long haired dude striding across the front of the stage, who writes songs in various styles inspired by video games, shows, movies and books. He liked like he was having a really great time. On ya, Gav.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 16/01/2025

So, Lisbon is just ridiculously lovely.

Monument in the middle of Praça do Pedro IV in Rossio, central Lisbon. There’s a beautiful blue sky and Jacaranda tree in the background.

Inside the delightful interior of the Casa do Alentejo.

Inside a ridiculously well stocked market/deli/providore/thing. I don’t know the appropriate word in Portuguese. There’s a bajillion amazing cheeses, many forms of chorizo, cured hams hanging from the roof and a vintage meat slicer in excellent condition. The walls are lined, floor to ceiling, with bottles of port, from standard Ruby and Tawny to super fancy vintages.

I could easily have spent thousands in here.

View of Castelo do São Jorge from below in the praça da Figueira. Theres a statue of John the first, whoever that is, riding a horse in the foreground. Sweet.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 07/12/2024

Hahaha, whoops. Apple Music should’ve just said “Fletcher is on his usual bullshit this year - Prog metal, spooky video game soundtracks and comedy songs that are also great bops”.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 13/11/2024

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in Dublin this evening on the Wild God tour. Bloody amazing as always.

Nick Cave, the dark lord of Australian music, singing at the front of a stage to a full house. He’s bathed in a warm yellow light.

Wise shot if the whole stage with Nick up front and the whole band banging away behind. Lights everywhere, hands waving, great stuff.

A snippet of “Red Right Hand”. The percussionist had a proper set of tubular bells on stage and boy howdy was he absolutely going to town on them during this song. Magic.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 19/10/2024

Halloween is a great time to have a 3D printer on hand.

A 3D printer (specifically a Me3D Me2) almost finished printing a human skull in white plastic. It’s vaguely reminiscent of a gothic Victorian scientist’s lab.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 12/10/2024

This is the BBC *sound of a coin jingling into a donation box* Thank you.

Picture of BBC headquarters near Oxford Circus in London. It’s a nice day!

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 21/08/2024

NOW WE ARE READY TO SAIL FOR THE HORN WAAAAAY HEEEEY ROLL AND GO

A mouse with a blue cloak and a tiny guitar absolute belting out a tune.

I had to dig through a chain of about 40 of these posts to discover it’s actually card art from magic: the gathering.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 02/06/2024

Went for a treetop ropes and ziplining adventure day. Had an absolute ball, even though my phone maybe fell 5 metres into a bush due to some unplanned spontaneous gymnastics.

A wide angle view of a beautiful green forest glade with cable walkways and obstacles criss-crossing between tall trees.

Looking up to the treetops and a few wobbly looking plank bridges across the sky above. I can confirm, they were indeed very wobbly.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 11/05/2024

Ahhhhh hell yeah! Right overhead! Same effect we saw here.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 11/05/2024

Whoa, holy crap the Aurora over Ireland this evening was INCREDIBLE! I’ve never seen anything like it!

View of Dublin bay from the South. The sky is lit by a band of simmering green and purple light from the aurora.

View of the Aurora from directly below, looking up.

My better half surrounded entirely by ethereal, otherworldly light. Hope we don’t wind up in a cosmic horror!

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 27/04/2024

Mine’ll be a whiskey sour, thanks!

A delicious Whiskey sour:
- 2 parts Teelings small batch Irish Whiskey
- 1 part fresh lemon juice
- 1 part limoncello (for an extra kick)
- 2 dashes of angostura bitters
- 1 tablespoon of simple syrup
- 1 tablespoon of agua faba
Shake over ice, strain and pour into a fancy glass over a large ice cube. If feeling fancy garnish with a peel of orange or lemon zest, or a maraschino cherry if you’re a proper 1930’s gangster.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 24/04/2024

Feeling a long way from home so since it’s #ANZAC day and all…

Melting butter, golden syrup and baking soda in a small saucepan, with a mixing bowl full of oats, flour, sugar and coconut in the background. This can mean only one thing…

Delicious ANZAC biscuits! Crunchy and crumbly on the outside, just a little chewy in the middle and utterly destructive to one’s weight loss plans but they’re just so good!

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 10/04/2024

Umeshu sours, it turns out, are amazingly tasty.

Two people clink cocktail glasses full of Umeshu sour together. One of them is an idiot - that would be me.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 17/03/2024

La fhéile Padraig shona duit! Happy st. Patrick’s day from Dublin

Busy street corner near Christchurch cathedral in Dublin. St Patrick’s cathedral is visible down the street in a the background. One half of the street is blocked off and crowds of people wearing green and sporting Irish flags are gathered waiting for a parade to pass.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 10/01/2024

Watch along here: www.youtube.com/live/OJC6HCs...

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 10/01/2024

Candlelit Tales @ Harbour Bar, Bray. Lovely and cosy.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 07/12/2023

Awful winter weather in Dublin turns everyone into an accidental techwear enthusiast. :P

Selfie while I wait at a train station in pouring rain, wearing my offshore sailing gear - a black waterproof jacket from Decathlon with a high collar and integrated hood. Look like a bit of an edgelord but at least I’m dry and warm.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 06/10/2023

Uhhhhh, so CozyBlanket is f%&@#in’ awesome?!

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 11/09/2023

Saw his portrait of Sylvia von Harden and a few others in the Centre Pompidou last week. Bloody amazing work, big canvases too.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 10/09/2023

Picked this up in Paris last week. Struggling through with my terrible French but couldn’t resist the incredible art and design of Guillaume Singelin.

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