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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, "This is the way; walk in it." ~Isaiah 30:21

The Studebaker from The Muppet Movie coming to a fork in the road, which is a giant fork in the middle of a road.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

S-A-L-U-T-E technique, for reporting ICE

Spread information, not panic. When reporting or signal boosting potential threats, provide as much information as possible. The acronym "salute" (S A L U T E) is shown as a mnemonic, as follows:

S = Size/strength: "5–6 D H S officers"
A = Actions/activity: "Standing outside Burger King talking to each other"
L = Location/direction: "Astoria on 33rd Street and Astorial Boulevard"
U = Uniforms/clothes: "Plain clohtes with ballistic vests labeled Department of Homeland Security"
T = Time and date of observation: "7:55 A M, July 26"
E = Equipment and weapons: "2 clipboards. One has flexcuffs on his belt"

Not a useful tweet: "ICE spotted"
Where? When? What are they doing? How many? What are they carrying? Use your judgement! Take photos/videos.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm getting stickers for my modular synth case, and googled teapot stickers. This one came up. I was like… 418, what http error is that? Explanation of "The HTTP 418 I'm a teapot status response code": developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

On gold background, a black teapot with the caption "http 418"

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

OK, I finally get the whole "What are the Northern Sea Routes, why does Putin want them, and what puts him in direct conflict with Canada?" thing, and all it took was buying a globe and finding this explain-it-like-I'm-five website. discoveringthearctic.org.uk/activities/i...

Small globe on my desk with my laptop and that website.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That's right. DustBuster holster.

Big Dustbuster that was taking up way too much space on horizontal surfaces nicely holstered in an orange hooked cup from IKEA that's supposed to hang on a rail and hold little things, which I cut the bottom out of and a flap on the left for the Dustbuster handle to poke out of, but because I couldn't easily cut the bottom off the flap, it remains a supporting flap instead of just being a hole

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Two realizations: 1. Your front bag is back home 2. What you just bought … is a vise

Small blue 3 inch vice clamped to the rear leather straps of my saddleback

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why was my kitchen table like this for 5 days? GF wrecks knives, so I brought one home for rescue. Next day did my straight razor & kitchen knives. Then keychain mini-tool & son's tiny keychain knife. Can't find bigger EDC belt multi-tool. Soon as I clean this up, it'll appear. So I wait. Day 6…

Stainless steel mixing bowl with whetstone and flattening stones soaking. Whetstone on metal/rubber stabilizer to its left. All that on a probably ruined orange kitchen towel. Everything has dried whetstone slurry all over, and the water in the bowl is muddy with it.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's a day to be buoyed by good reviews. Just back from the frame shop with this.

Letter on aged paper, typewritten, with Mister Rogers' Neighborhood at top. It's now under glass in a blue wooden frame.

MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD
WOED
Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213

Keith Snyder
11926 Covello St.
N. Hollywood, Calif. 91605

Dear Keith,

Thank you for your interesting letter to Henrietta. She purred to know that you are thinking of her.

She is fine and is not scared of Bob Dog anymore after she found out that he was tame. X enjoys learning about new things and so we could pretend that he is excited about the new things he learned about Owl History.

Your poem about cats is a special one. Isn't it great to be able to write some of the things you're thinking? I am glad to know that you like to create with words.
You are a very special person and I like you exactly as
you are.
Your television friend,
Mister Rogers (signature)

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh, great. I'm between Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream.

Playlist:

Live Molten Modular – Gig coming up 3rd October supporting Globo in Norwich. https://www.thegarage.org.uk/shows/globo-pro-war-redux-album-launch/
Hélène Vogelsinger – Ceremony – Reminiscence 2021
EbE404 – Flora – https://ebe404.bandcamp.com/album/flora
Soft Cell via Electronic Sound Magazine – Elusive 2026
Alison Joy Gardner – Backlash – https://alisonjoygardner.com/
Panic Girl – Monotones – Cake on Jupiter 2019
Rob Jefferys – 4 oscillator drone – https://youtu.be/opkDAR7LBM4?is=zHkfDFZrrUtzlzaK
Richard Devine – Sort Lave – there’s 3 discs so I’ll pick a track at random
Jessica Tomlinson – Rise to the Occasion, Fall Into Bliss – 03 Mama Creeps in F# Phrygian – https://jessicatomlinson.bandcamp.com/
Hainbach – Gestures 1 – Gestures 2019
Alison Tavel – Resynator – Abandoned Mystery – Portrait of a Man – https://resynator.bandcamp.com
Julia Bondar – Ruby Red – Bonding 2021
Chain Home Low – The Inexorable Accretion – Shot in the A$$ –https://microindie.bandcamp.com/
Arthur Joly – Orgao Animal – At New Doors 2022
presenting trudi M – Without Tears – Miss Anna Sky 2023 – https://presentingtrudim.bandcamp.com/album/miss-anna-anna-skye
Kraftwerk – Ruckzack – Vertigo 1972
Keith Snyder – home isn’t there anymore – https://soundcloud.com/noteon
Tangerine Dream – Rubicon Part 1 (about half way in) 1975

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oo, a 33% "like" rate. I'll take that!

screenshot of the stats for "home isn't there anymore," showing 9 plays and 3 likes.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Disgusting AI slop is an automatic mute.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Canada does, indeed, have Republicans. She's who we were 15 years ago, when we thought we didn't have Nazis.

Post from @janeotn says: Canadian here. We don't have prayer in schools, or the Ten Commandments, or God. We also don't have dead kids. No Canadian child has ever died in a mass shooting in an elementary school. We have guns. What we don't have is Republicans. America has to get rid of Republicans."

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

They're Nazis. They say they're Nazis. "Don't call us Nazis!" ~Nazis who say they're Nazis

Tweet from US Department of labor says "One Homeland. One People. One Heritage. Remember who you are, America."
Tweet from millesini quotes the DOL tweet, adds an image of a Nazi seal with a big swastika and the words "Ein Volk. Ein Reich. Ein Führer," and says "Please don't look away when they warn you about who they are."

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

No cheating – share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.

Venice beach almost dark, a little bit of orange left in the sky, some palm trees still dark green, others silhouetted

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I hate ordering from Amazon instead of a small company, but artisanal was $38 vs AMZ $14—plus I don't actually need a beautiful maple warping peg, just two chunky little pieces of wood held to the edge of this cart so I can drill holes to hold these standoffs, mounting the ContinuuMini for open mic.

Me holding a Haken ContinuuMini over the front edge of a white rolling cart that also has some Eurorack stuff showing behind where the ContinuuMini will go. The ContinuuMini is a black rectangle about 18 inches wide, 2.5 inches deep, and an inch high, which you play by sliding your finger along the ribbon control surface that runs its length.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

GF texted me this and cracked me up.

Threads post from @booksbehindborders says: How do people who lived through the eighties and nineties stomach today? I can't fathom it. Surely you must be depressed?

Reply from @michiganfamilyadventures says: I am depressed. And don't call me Shirley.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

No, Republicans. No one's deleting their "I was vaccinated" stuff. Because unlike you, other people aren't a bunch of brain-damaged sheep.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm still failing to figure out what to do with all these books, as I make life more streamlined, but these are the first three going to the Little Library out in front of my favorite local lefty coffeehouse. #books #coffehouses #multitools

The Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, annotated and edited by Owen Hill, Pamela Jackson, and Anthony Dean Rizzuto, For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet, by Rebecca Rischin, and Images & Symbols, by Mircea Eliade, laid on my music keyboard with a laptop, scissors, and multi-tool in the background.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Easy enough. I'm speaking to him right now.

Tweet from Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) says "I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky."

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Today I got rid of the rower, the piano, and a whole bunch of boxes, cleared half the basement and ⅔ of the living room, and don't have it in me to get the Eurorack patched up and running tonight—but these little arpeggios from the Puremagnetik Etches are just right. #SynthSky #ambient #synth

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The only way weak minds can feel powerful

The photo going around social media today of a bunch of Patriot Front shitheads riding the Metro surrounding a Black woman.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Venice Beach this morning. Sound up.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I've got the coolest stuff coming out of Beepboop, plus a bunch more cables, plus a couple small tubs of gear that's been in the car since we were turned back from the Canadian border yesterday—but do I have the little piece I need for recording so the cool sounds aren't lost forever? Of course not.

Top view of table at coffeehouse, InDesign open on my laptop, Eurorack case a little bigger than the laptop with 10 variously sized and colored modules in it, a spaghetti tangle of patch cables of different colors connecting it all, and little plastic snack container next to it, which my girlfriend gave me with snacks in it and I appropriated for holding the little doodads this setup uses.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Know what I love about Coke Zero? You can leave it open all night and not worry about a dead bug in it, because they don't want it.

Me showing you the can I left open all night in the car and just finished

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Canada bound - with stick shift, road atlas, empty phone holder, dad, and son, as the Road Movie gods intended.

Dad view from passenger seat as son shifts, depicting all that and a pad of Mad Libs.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Maybe a tie between this and Firefly. Each ran for only one season, so I'm not sure they're franchises, but they should have been. "No Star Wars or Trek. Name your favorite sci-fi Franchise"

Scavengers Reign graphic showing the character Azi, a black female crew member, sitting on the ground of an alien planet, wearing half-gloves, reading a book.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Nice concept, but versions are like bicycles: Always N + 1

Leaf border with flowers and sun, around hand-lettered words that say: I release myself from the versions of myself I created to survive

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

People do tend to get irritated with the combination of extreme certainty and low understanding.

Dunning-Kruger curve with "You are here" at the dumbest, least informed point

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

White man in swastika necklace and 1488 cap takes picture of self failing to cross into California.

He's standing about ten feet shy of the California border, in front of a Welcome to California sign. Also wearing black tank top and dark sunglasses. All in all, he's a tool.

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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Non-Republicans: SEE!!?? Republicans: That's my guy! I want to be able to get away with it JUST LIKE HIM! Just something to keep in mind when you think you can appeal to their logic and decency.

Washington Post headline. Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll.

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