thundertick
@thundertick.bsky.social
Greenie and lefty. Sometime lecturer; sometime painter and decorator.
As a general thing I've come to realise that if I'm putting all my strength into a given DIY job, I'm doing that job the wrong way. Sometimes disastrously so.
September 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
As a general thing I've come to realise that if I'm putting all my strength into a given DIY job, I'm doing that job the wrong way. Sometimes disastrously so.
I think it's about time that the USA should get around to accepting that the reason Trump is in the White House, fucking up the world, is because the Democrats have been spineless, useless, dicks for so long. Perhaps it might be a good idea for them to stop being like that? Just a thought! :)
August 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I think it's about time that the USA should get around to accepting that the reason Trump is in the White House, fucking up the world, is because the Democrats have been spineless, useless, dicks for so long. Perhaps it might be a good idea for them to stop being like that? Just a thought! :)
Ah, fun times. I kept swinging at a sticking-out brick with a pickaxe, which was moving, but not falling off. Very confusing. But after some five swings I realised that the reason it wasn't falling off was because it was taking about two thirds of the wall with it every time I hit it. Spiffing!
August 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ah, fun times. I kept swinging at a sticking-out brick with a pickaxe, which was moving, but not falling off. Very confusing. But after some five swings I realised that the reason it wasn't falling off was because it was taking about two thirds of the wall with it every time I hit it. Spiffing!
Oh yes ... that, but also knowledge and skills. Get something like that wrong and you can literally bring down the side of a house. (As, indeed, I nearly did, once!)
August 3, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Oh yes ... that, but also knowledge and skills. Get something like that wrong and you can literally bring down the side of a house. (As, indeed, I nearly did, once!)
Best instruction I ever saw: "1) Cut a hole in the wall 90 cm by 60 cm. 2) [Etc]....".
July 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Best instruction I ever saw: "1) Cut a hole in the wall 90 cm by 60 cm. 2) [Etc]....".
... And that's how they get people to buy ten light switches instead of just one.
July 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
... And that's how they get people to buy ten light switches instead of just one.
Every week, Israel achieves a new level of despicable.
July 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Every week, Israel achieves a new level of despicable.
You do not grasp the awesome and majestic power of stupidity.
May 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
You do not grasp the awesome and majestic power of stupidity.
Was Jürgen in that film 'Smile'? He sure has perfected a truly alarming one there. :)
May 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Was Jürgen in that film 'Smile'? He sure has perfected a truly alarming one there. :)
They won't answer that. Instead, they'll ask a million questions, in outraged tones, about Gary Lineker and his 'antisemitism'. And it'll be a long, long time before people realise that the whole point of all those added questions was to deflect from the original and crucial question.
May 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
They won't answer that. Instead, they'll ask a million questions, in outraged tones, about Gary Lineker and his 'antisemitism'. And it'll be a long, long time before people realise that the whole point of all those added questions was to deflect from the original and crucial question.
I genuinely don't think it's good to allow Israelis into my country, the UK, any more. What our government thinks, and still tries to compel us to think too, is immaterial. Israelis (barring a few percent of objectors, it seems) are just disgusting people. That's that.
May 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I genuinely don't think it's good to allow Israelis into my country, the UK, any more. What our government thinks, and still tries to compel us to think too, is immaterial. Israelis (barring a few percent of objectors, it seems) are just disgusting people. That's that.
Israel deliberately helped put Hamas in power, to thwart the PLO. You're either stupid, or lying, or both.
May 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Israel deliberately helped put Hamas in power, to thwart the PLO. You're either stupid, or lying, or both.
Say what you like about Trump, but you have to admit he's completely unhampered by any sense of taste whatsoever.
May 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Say what you like about Trump, but you have to admit he's completely unhampered by any sense of taste whatsoever.
He got angry because he didn't understand the term, is my hunch.
May 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
He got angry because he didn't understand the term, is my hunch.
I strongly suspect he doesn't know what Photoshop is, or does. He doesn't know that images can be manipulated. He doesn't know, because he's a moron.
May 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I strongly suspect he doesn't know what Photoshop is, or does. He doesn't know that images can be manipulated. He doesn't know, because he's a moron.
I prefer non-biological women, tbh. They clean just as well, and don't give me rashes.
April 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I prefer non-biological women, tbh. They clean just as well, and don't give me rashes.
I don't know why that made me laugh so much.
April 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I don't know why that made me laugh so much.
Likewise: I respect the statistical fact that trans people aren't the menace the TERFs claim them to be, over the bigotry that produces their paranoid terrors.
April 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Likewise: I respect the statistical fact that trans people aren't the menace the TERFs claim them to be, over the bigotry that produces their paranoid terrors.