Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝)

@fletch.online

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Occasional Mechatronic engineer, games adjacent, apparently can’t stop starting companies. COO 👉 @turbotem.com Also 🐝 buildbee.com Also Also 🖨️ me3d.com.au 🇦🇺 but in 🇨🇮

A view from the back of one of Sydney’s fleet of fast ferries, heading west through Sydney harbour right next to Cockatoo Island. Balmain’s shoreline it’s in the foreground, with the Sydney CBD, centrepoint tower and harbour bridge all rising up behind. Looks pretty tops even on a cloudy day.
Behold, my blade! It is very shiny.
Gunvor Anhøj (of Calnan & Anhøj) demonstrates manual forging of a knife blade, using the hammer face to taper out the knife edge and level the work, carefully managing heat and work angle the whole time. She’s also an absolute legend.
The guy at the anvil next to mine hammering a bit of red hot metal. This is fucking sick.
That one picture of Ben Affleck standing outside having a smoke where he looks like he’s just absolutely had it with the world.
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.
Screenshot of Nomad sculpt on an iPad, showing a kind of alligator-looking Dragonborn character from a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
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.
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!
View across grand canal dock from a cosy coffee shop. There’s a riverboat, and gentle rain on the water. In the foreground there’s a really really good flat white and a passable flapjack. And now I have to go to work. Boo. 👻
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.
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.
Another view of the crew. You can see right up my nose!
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.
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.
Long telephoto shot of the triple masted tall ship Shtandart in Killiney bay, South Dublin. Someone is climbing on the bowsprit.
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.
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.
A photo looking back along the deck of a yacht at a lovely blue sky with a few clouds. The effect is absolutely ruined by my grinning idiot mug squinting in the sunlight.
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.
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!!?!?!!
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.
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.
A dumb phone background I made when I was trying out glitch art and dithering for fun. It’s all in two-tone black and white and shows a repeating pattern of comic-style round bombs with fuses; each bomb has an 8-bit stylised hand on the side that resembles a common mouse pointer icon, only instead of the index finger being extended it’s the middle finger. lol and also lmao. The pattern is overlaid on a background of an angled gradient that has been posterised, dithered and rotated. It’s dumb but I made it and I like it.
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.
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.
Picture of BBC headquarters near Oxford Circus in London. It’s a nice day!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #250,899, Fletch (🔬+🐝) ‪@fletch.online‬, joined on Jul 5, 2023"
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.
A wide angle view of a beautiful green forest glade with cable walkways and obstacles criss-crossing between tall trees.
View of Dublin bay from the South. The sky is lit by a band of simmering green and purple light from the aurora.
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.
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…
Two people clink cocktail glasses full of Umeshu sour together. One of them is an idiot - that would be me.
“We’re all trying to find the guy that did this” meme image from the show “I think you should leave with Tim Robinson”
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.
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.
Station Arts et métiers in Paris. The walls are arched, and clad in copper plate with gentle ambient under lights. 4 wooden laminate chairs are cantilever suspended from the wall. It’s really cool!
Two books: on the bottom is “How to Invent Everything” by Ryan North. Sitting on top is “Norse Mythology” by Neil Gaiman. Both excellent reading.
Screenshot of stats of a cluesky post with a measly 3 likes and one reply. Inset beneath is the "OMG a hit tweet” meme with Parappa the Rapper, only Tweet has been scribbled out and replaced with Skeet. FUNNY JOKES ON INTERNET.
Anthony “Spice” Adams meme: a huge man wearing a bright yellow suit jacket is leaning out from behind a large tree and licking his lips salaciously.
A photo of Coliemore harbour viewed from the rampway where I’m sitting in the sunshine, with Dalkey island in the background. 5 small dinghies are tied up in the harbour. In the foreground you can see my bare feet and the cup of tea I’m sipping. Not bad.