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Cat with threatening aura.

Jasmine, a fluffy and normally entirely harmless grey longhaired cat, is nesting behind an open door in such a way that only half her face can be seen, with a single eye staring directly at the camera.

Pub Shakespeare does Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ❤️ (photo thread 🧵)

Guildenstern, as played by me in a tricorn hat with a big blue G on the side

Guildenstern, as played by Crow in the same hat, with Stew as Rosencrantz in the background

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I'm reading Wyrd Sisters to Crow in small installments, and it's such an absolute joy. Of course the danger of reading Pratchett aloud is that there have been a couple of scenes so far where I've struggled to get through them without being derailed by giggles 😆

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is freakin' funny. Thanks to Jenny's Pub Shakespeare series, we gathered in the back room of the Safari Lounge and played it from script, with pretty much none of us having read it before. After Jen handed out the roles, I ended up sharing the 🧵

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New front tyre/tube survived the ride to the office! Was worried about the tyre flexing, but it wasn't flat - I think it's just a more flexible tyre. And I'm not sure, but I reckon the new tyre gives less vibration :) It's an 80/20 road/dirt tyre and I think the old one was more dirt-biased.

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Movie concept from a mind wandering just before sleep: VIKING CHAINSAW BIKER WARRIORS Coming to a cinema near you next winter

camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Had the most lovely birthday: pub lunch with the family, then BBQ dinner with the poly fam ❤️ It started pelting down with rain just as we were due to light the BBQ, but Nate was an absolute star and just grilled in the rain 😍

Nate standing beside the just-lit barbecue with a colourful umbrella, with an expression that captures the absurdity of attempting to BBQ in Scotland

Nate, now wearing a giant high-vis waterproof jacket over his vest and shorts, putting corn on the cob on the grill with a pair of tongs

A shot from inside a comfy living room, through the window to a rain-sodden outside. Nate is pressed up against the window doing his best "let me iiiin" cat impression.

A shot through a rainy window of a BBQ well stocked with burgers and corn on the cob, with Nate (still in high vis) tending it.

Also also! My YouTube channel now has 50 subscribers, off the back of the videography I did for Beltane! ... they're probably gonna be a bit disappointed: I mostly use it to upload private tutorial videos outside of festival time. But still, that feels like a fun accomplishment 😄

Also today: fun hangouts, tasty hojicha cheesecake and brown sugar matcha iced tea at Pudding's dessert cafe :)

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Motorbike fixing day. Front wheel off, inner tube removed, tyre removed, new tyre fitted (first time I've done an actual tyre swap!), new tube fitted, tyre reseated *with the utmost caution not to pinch the goddamn inner tube this time*, wheel back on bike. A good day's work. 🧵

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Your gut bacteria have always dreamed of flying, and are doing their collective best to turn you into a hot air balloon.

camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Big props to #Fairphone for making a phone where swapping the USB port is fairly trivial, and for maintaining a stock of official parts for my three year old phone. Looking forward to a good few more years of life out of this wee workhorse ❤️

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

My Fairphone 4 stopped charging and ran out of battery on Sun. The USB port has been a bit finicky for a while. I cleaned it out but no dice. Welp, I think I figured out what happened... the left bit (the port) is *meant* to be attached to the right bit, lol. Wonder how long it's been like that?

Two tiny electronic parts, with an AA battery for scale which dwarfs them in comparison. The part on the left is a USB-C female port, which the cable plugs into. The part on the right is a flexible circuit board which attaches the USB-C port to the phone via a little push-in connector with many miniscule pins. The right part has some pads and cutouts that were obviously meant to be attached to the left part.

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

It's been a busy week! Crow's housewarming on Saturday (for which I embraced my uncle phase and ran a BBQ), Nate and my 22nd anniversary on the Sunday (I made macaroni with cheddar and smoked cheese, which was super tasty!) and then half•alive gig on Monday which was *so cool* with awesome choreo ❤️‍🔥

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

My Beltane video is finally on YouTube! I'm rather pleased with how this one came out, despite some technical hitches along the way ❤️‍🔥 I really enjoyed my time as a videographer. Thank you to Photopoint for accommodating me doing this weird solo project! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iElW...

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Beltane Fire Festival 2025

YouTube video by Andy Walker

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I want to play this so bad 🐐

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

TIL that not only does Google have maps of Yakutsk, Russia (the coldest major city in the world) - it even has Street View and business reviews! Here are the reviews for an apparently not-that-great sauna called The Pirate Bay in Yakutsk: maps.app.goo.gl/bywjdFKuDJJF...

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

"I would like a motorbike with some quirks that I can tinker with and repair myself," I said. "I could have bought a Honda instead - it would be predictable, reliable, consistent ... and a bit soulless." Confronted with my *third* flat inner tube in a few months - this one fitted professionally - 🧵

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers' 30th anniversary show was *spectacular* ❤️‍🔥

Mugenkyo, a group of Scottish taiko drummers, in Queens Hall in Edinburgh. A giant ōdaiko drum sits sideways on a stand at the back of the stage at head height, with one drummer on each side. In front of that, Neil, one of the founders, plays a trio of medium sized okedo drums. Near the front of the stage are five floor standing nagado daiko drums, their players currently kneeling in a stylised pose, facing away from the audience. At the front, Miyuki, the other founder, plays a trio of small shime daiko drums. At the sides of the stage, two of the drummers are dancing with hand fans with large white silks attached to them, which float gracefully on the air.

camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Sang Deftones - Digital Bath at karaoke last night! As a teenager I absolutely loved Chino Moreno's voice and felt like I'd never be able to imitate it. I'm really happy to say that I can do a reasonable job of it now - I'm getting the hang of modulating my voice from clean to gritty and back 🤘

camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The new headlight works! I think I need to add a little support to the top, as it keeps sagging forward a little, but I'm very happy with my 3D printed mounts.

A view behind a motorcycle headlight from the top down. There are many black-wrappes bundles of wires. At the side, some 3D-printed headlight mounts can be seen, connecting the headlight to the bike frame.

A closeup of one of the 3D printed mounts. It connects one bolt to a second bolt which is a few inches down, a couple of inches forward, a little bit inwards, and at about a 32 degree angle. It was a right pain to get the measurements even close at all, and I'm still having to take advantage of the flexibility of the plastic.

A photo of the headlight in operation. It's a round projector headlight with two small lenses stacked vertically, and two rectangular side-lights on either side of them. There's a white ring around the light that is a daytime running light (DRL) but I haven't hooked up the power to that yet.

camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Who is this weird looking stranger in the mirror? It's been about twelve years since I last saw my chin underneath the beard. Figured I'd excavate it and remind myself what it looks like. I'll be regrowing the beard!

The owner of this account (a middle aged white man with spiked pink hair and glasses) minus the usual beard. Three quarter view, slight smile.

The owner of this account (a middle aged white man with spiked pink hair and glasses) minus the usual beard. Side on view.

The owner of this account (a middle aged white man with spiked pink hair and glasses) minus the usual beard. He looks skeptical.

The owner of this account (a middle aged white man with spiked pink hair and glasses) minus the usual beard. Face on, grinning.

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Bought a new LED headlight assembly for my motorbike, but it expects to fit into an existing mounting box. My mounting box is cracked, and the LED light could use more ventilation anyway, so I'm working on 3D printing some lightweight struts to mount the light directly to the bike.

A desk, with a hand drawn diagram of some angled struts, and three black plastic 3D printed objects matching the diagram. A round LED headlight and a battered round plastic box of the same size sit beside the diagram.

camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Sometimes you just really need a protractor in a hurry. The ironic thing is that we're an engineering office and our tool chest contains micrometers to measure lengths down to a silly number of decimal places ... but not a single angle measurement tool.

A printed paper protractor. It's made out of two sheets of paper for strength, with crudely applied parcel tape connecting the two layers (we didn't have any clear tape!)

camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

This absolute beast of a VW Bug engined trike 🤩

A massive tricycle built out of thick chrome tubing and flame-painted fibreglass, with a thick front tyre and two super-wide automotive rear tyres. The rear seats are black leather with red leather flame designs. Three exhausts sprout from the back. On it are the rider, clad in blue jeans, a brown leather jacket, and no helmet; and his pillion, a slim woman in thin trousers, puffy jacket and helmet.

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Yesterday: extremely chill house party, fell asleep on sofa in a cuddle pile. Today: Meadows, (alc free) beer, sunshine. It's been a seriously nice weekend 🥰

A man with glasses, a beard and pink hair, wearing a black vest with gold pattern, sits on a park bench in the Meadows, a large Edinburgh park. The sun is shining brightly and he is drinking an alcohol free beer from a bottle.

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Final video DONE! 15m45s, 257 clips, surprisingly little colour grading needed (the Z6 II's built in curves are gorgeous), quite a bit of audio fiddling required to give a mostly-continuous drum soundtrack while still preserving as much crowd noise as possible. Youtube release soon! 🧵

A screenshot of a video editor timeline crowded with video and audio clips spread over multiple tracks. A tiny preview window at the top shows the first video clip: a shot of the National Monument atop Calton Hill, Edinburgh, with 'Calton Hill, 30th April 2025' superimposed on it.

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I just had a really lovely time dancing and singing along to tunes at a house party. Needed that 🥰

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

In today's "listening to music I grew up with": Culture Club - Greatest Moments compilation, prompted by 'Do You Really Want To Hurt Me' playing in Lidl while I was getting my lunch :)

camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Me and the Big Stick in action at Beltane, thanks to Dan B ❤️ (Photo copyright Dan B for Beltane Fire Society)

A silohouette in front of a sunset: the dome of the Calton Hill observatory and the top half of a man (me!) holding a small camera (an Insta360) on a very long thin vertical pole.

camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Bye old moto boots, you've given me many miles of adventures 🖤

A very battered pair of motorcycle boots. The leather is scuffed, the stitching is starting to come undone, one of the soles has detached, and the other seems to be on its way.

camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Beltane rough draft video finished! 441 clips, 37 minutes. I've just watched the whole thing for the first time and I am VERY EXCITED! 😀🔥 I'm planning to cut this down and replace most of the sound, but I'm definitely releasing this as an Extended Edition some day with the original soundtrack.

A screenshot of a video editor with a very crammed timeline. Two separate media bins full of thumbnails are open on the left, showing videos from Camera and from 360. The central pane shows a large crowd around a bonfire at night.

camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Post festival video editing is going well... 😅 My rough draft is currently sitting at half an hour and I'm not even done. I want to trim this down to about 10-15 minutes or so 😰

A screenshot of the timeline portion of a video editor, showing a timeline crammed with video clips. A hand-drawn red circle with an exclamation mark next to it highlights a label saying '354 clips'. Only one of the clips is long enough in this zoomed-out view to show a frame preview - this one shows the bright orange flame of a fire sword, and a figure dressed in a white dress.

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Also, without context: LEGS LEGS LEGS LEGS LEGS LEGS LEGS LEGS LEGS LEGS LEGS

camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Today I tasted *purest pink*, in the form of a donut ice cream sandwich from Considerit on a raspberry+honeycomb donut with raspberry sauce. My teeth are aching just thinking about it, but it was pretty tasty! Next time I will definitely share one 😅

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Happy Beltane! May your fires ever burn bright ❤️‍🔥

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It's so damn good to feel like myself again. Haven't had spoons to dye or cut my hair for months, as Nd the beard was getting mighty scruffy.

A head shot of a middle aged white man with bright pink hair, a reddish beard, and large glasses with thin black metal frames. He looks happy and (fairly) neatly groomed.

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Hah! New versions of vim have a solution to the issue where you go to quit but hit q: instead of :q, causing a weird command line window to appear It's a little popup that says 'You discovered the command-line window! You can close it with ":q".' 😄 👍 to EgZvor who provided the initial patch.

camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I swear this bike is home to gremlins who eat fasteners. I was wondering why my bike was even more rattly than it normally is!

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

My favourite The Police song: Wrapped Around Your Finger. I live for that part halfway through the third verse where the drums suddenly kick into gear and the song just takes off ❤️

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Taking video of fire spinners in the dark is so much fun. There are few other things which are relatively accessible and yet so consistently beautiful and exciting (and which you can film while standing relatively still!) Last time I did a lot of running, with the theory that in slow motion, 🧵

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Kaylee 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🔜 BLFC @littlemacha.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up. I’ll add more as I find them. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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camtarn @camtarn.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Sudden vivid tactile memory of the Sony Discman that soundtracked my teenage years. I sticker-bombed the lid of it with homemade stickers. I remember the feel of those stickers and the plastic buttons under my fingers, fumbling for the controls while listening to albums in the insomniac dark.