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oscillatr.bsky.social
A Matt, of all things
@oscillatr.bsky.social
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Greying. Sometimes cycling. Have a lot of records I don’t listen to so much these days. Occasionally draw things. Edinburgh
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Also noted they’ve moved the location outside the Usher Hall to the inconvenience of private bike owners now too. Cues from ground markings would really help here I think.
A bunch of dockless bikes parked among and in the way of the bike rails
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Me at the middle o Lidl holding a fkin laithe when I went in for a bap.
Bilbo looking at the ring with That Look.
October 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Saw an old garage. Walked to a viaduct.
Square cropped image looking along the side of a small stone viaduct among autumnal bracken on an overcast day. It’s maybe 100m long or so and runs along a hillside just below the crest. An old dilapidated garage with peeling wooden doors between red brick pillars. Above is a ghost sign. A small fir tree has taken root out front.
October 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Had offcuts. Made a thing. I should make more things.
A simple face made from a circle of light plywood with two eyes drilled through and three pieces of curved dark hardwood arranged to look like hair.
October 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Did not think a squirrel would nap in such an exposed spot.
Side view from very slightly above. A squirrel is hunched up on the top ridge of a felt roofed garage with its eyes closed, basking in the sun.
October 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Need to add plinths and a there’s a wee open shelf to go under the unit but all told, I’m pretty happy with this. #woodworking #diysky
View through an open door towards a small utility made of plywood cabinets . The bottom row of drawers is painted white with the other drawers and doors in lacquered birch. The faces are all inset and instead of handles there are cutouts matched in the frame and drawer fronts to give a place to grip. The worktop is dark green and the wall behind is a mustard colour. Above on the wall is a shallow, wide plywood cabinet with sliding doors. The grips for sliding are circular cutouts backed with a bright 1970s orange. A view looking down across the cabinet fronts. Close up of the round sliding door handle in bright orange.
October 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Oh hullo, ya creepy wee gargoyle.
A squirrel is crouched on the corner of a shed roof staring directly at the camera.
October 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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🤔
A leaflet for a restaurant called Herringbone. Features an image of a waiter setting a table. The small H logo has been placed on his forehead which looks odd. Arnold Rimmer from the show Red Dwarf featuring the trademark H for hologram on his forehead.
October 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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It has come to my attention that I can make my sliding door cutouts into Weird Little Guys and apparently there is no law to prevent me. #woodworking
A circle cut out of a light plywood cabinet door. The remnant circle has two holes drilled in it and is placed inside so as to appear to be peering out the gap.
October 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Detail of the drawer pulls. I regret not making the milling on the back narrower than the nick I took out the top so that the curve would carry through from front to back a little better but hey ho. There is a hint of it at least.
A plywood drawer front. The back has been milled out to creat a space to grip and then a slight notch has been routed from the top edge with a radius at the edges.
October 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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C’mon c’mon, drawer fronts going on. #woodworking
Inset Birch plywood drawers under a petrol blue worktop and yellow back wall.
September 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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LOL at just how vast the hinges are if you build inset doors - it’s like I’ve got a pair of bloody Transformers in there!
An open cupboard door showing two large and complex looking hinges at full extension
September 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Stunningly awkward set-up. I choose to believe these two were working here throughout the construction, rain or shine, palms jammed against one ear as they holler down the phone and occasionally stumbling down the rubble to the flooded pit where the laserjet lives.
A newspaper cutting under the headline "Conference centre work starts next month" which shows two men at a desk which is precariously balance on a pile of rubble with construction site in the background. The men are dressed in suits with hard hats, with pens in hand, signing paperwork. The effect is stunningly awkward.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Lights test ✅
A slim plywood wall cabinet on a yellow wall which is illuminated above and below by hidden lights. The inside back of the cabinet is exposed as are the wires.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Impressed this lad is still standing. Piles for miles.
A building on the edge of bloody great sink hole where one corner now appears to be held up by 20 metres or so of ground piles.
September 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Cactus offspring has feets!
A little off cut of a cactus which looks like a small round body with two giant feet ending in little round furry toes.
September 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Today, drawer boxes.
Four sides of a drawer box glued and corner clamped to make sure everything is square
September 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Had a brain fart and pocket holed the wrong side of the cleat didn’t I? Thankful for the backs that’ll cover various of my sins
Two visible pocket holes in the back top corner of the cabinet.
September 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Test fit of the wall cabinet. Need to sort out the backs and doors but nice to finally see it up there!
A part finished long, shallow plywood wall cabinet with no doors hung on a French cleat against a yellow wall
September 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Transatlantic synchronicity in the timeline.
September 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Accidentally flag.
A corner with one white wall and one yellow wall, a dark green cooktop & upstand and a white sink. Turned on its side it looks like a flag.
September 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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This is where I post from.
Picture of the fairground ride spacecraft from the film The Explorers
September 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Couldn’t help cutting out a scrap to try it out. #diy
September 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Cheeky reveals.
A light birch ply drawer front with a dark hardwood reveal behind the grip.
September 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Pretty gruesome accident visible on Google Maps here.
A google streetview screencap showing a pedestrian's legs - and only his legs as the upper part of the view must be from a different shot.
September 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM