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Sustained Decay

@xmissedthespot.bsky.social
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SF CA Bay Area weirdo passionate about the arts but especially synth sound nerdery. Nazis are not safe around me. People of color, lgbtq, the elderly, immigrants, the disabled, poor huddled masses are. Big fan of democracy.

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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Behold, Synth Mother in all her glory!
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Was extra drained from a hot Monday shift so I brushed my teeth, rinsed with mouthwash, flossed, rinsed with mouthwash again & went to bed. Just realized i didn't eat dinner but hell no, I ain't doing all that again. Goodnight moon. (ADHD flare up problems) Follow me for more money saving tips.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🎯 💯When I was homeless in SF, OAK, Portland, Seattle... there were countless stories similar to this. Heavy drug use, alcohol abuse, & crime follow when families fail to show us a better path. Small towns don't have proper homeless resources to help so many migrate to large cities, self included.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Been a few years but finally accepted she isn't coming back. I can tell because last night i decided its ok to sleep in the middle of the bed instead of on "my side". First night I slept all the night through without my arm hanging off the bed and carpal tunnel waking me up. It's a Happy Sunday!
Adam Jones album art from Tools Salival release depicts a grey humanoid with tubes extending from its spine and fingers.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was so proud of myself not buying weed or junk food & paying most of my bills on time this month. Just realized i forgot my phone bill. & I ran out of milk this am. Still no bites on the stereo, guitar, or PA I posted on CL. Running out of things to sell that I don't need. Recession indicator? F
A letter F is between two roses.
Underneath, a fortune cookie fortune reads "a healthy way of living is be good to your health"
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Its close enough to spooky season... im wearing a hoodie, so I'm officially in Halloween mode now! This is some next level pumpkin carving!! Check the OPs comments, he does a big showing of his and his family's art... if you're in the DC area, go check it out! #JackOLantern #PumpkinCarving
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just lost $147 of my paycheck to late fees & overdrafts. Being broke is sure expensive. Done swimming in insulation for the month, plastic going up, so at least next week won't be as rough. Been close to 100° & covered in fiberglass since Tuesday. The things i do to pay my #PoorTax Happy Friday!
Fiberglass insulation is exposed in the walls of a metal frame building. The ceiling is covered in plastic sheeting with metal banding to contain its insulation. Scaffolding is set up on the corner.  An extension ladder protrudes through a hole in the floor.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bounty! Gonna make some sauce this weekend!! 🤌
A stainless steel kitchen colander is full of various colors, sizes, and shapes of different varieties of fresh grown tomatoes and a beet.
The bunch has been recently washed and is covered in a few shiny drops of water as the camera's flash reflects off of them.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man... take a better stand, so I can put money in my mom's hand, and get my daughter this college plan so she don't need no man. Stay far from timid. Only make moves when your heart is in it. And live the phrase sky is the limit. -BIG
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
IRL conversation @ the gas pump after holyfucking @ an $87 tank to fill my lil Subaru— Guy: "Don't worry, he's going to give us $5000 soon." Me: "Yeah right, just like the tarriff refund & the DOGE refund... we ain't getting shit." G:"they sent out that DOGE refund... did you not get one?" M:"No."
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Or how about this... STOP USING AI!! STOP BUILDING DATA CENTERS!! don't try to sell us on something we don't need or want. Just because OP likes to train AI with Joule and thinks its neat... WE DON'T NEED OR WANT YOUR AI AGENDA SHOVED INTO OUR LIVES!! OUR COMMUNITIES DONT NEED DATA CENTERS!!
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Another day, another holler... Yee, yee yeeeee! (The grateful sound I make when I touch solid ground again after working 25' up on scaffolding all day)
A 2 story metal building is partially unfinished with open walls, exposed metal framing, and scaffolding set up on its far side. One wall has metal siding installed.The same metal building is mostly completed with white metal siding sheets all the way around and just a bit of exposed metal framing on the soffit and fascia. The sscaffolding is now on the near side.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Make the money dont let the money make you. Change the game don't let the game change you. Of course I want dubs & a candy painted 'lac Watch the videos & get the girls in the back, but if that's what I believe in & the reason I rap then Uncle Sam is my pimp when he puts me on the track."-The Mack
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Dry Ass Gushy
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Peter Gibbons: "Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday and you're not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, "Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays?" Lawrence: "No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man." 👷‍♂️
A cedar shake shinglesided house has a large hole cut in the wall. A man in an orange shirt isstanding nextto a ladder working on framing out a window. The same wall now has a new window installed and painted trim around it.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ugh. Somebody wish me luck or something... I posted a bunch of stuff for sale/trade online this weekend to acquire some tools for work but got no responses. Also groceries... Kind of a need. Not getting another pay check for 2 weeks so I'm not sure how this is gonna work out, but it always does.🤞
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I turned the AI features on my phone off, including the setting that allowed you to access Gemini from the lockscreen. So why does Gemini open itself on my lockscreen at least 3-4 times a day? So AI Techbros can jerk themselves off with stats like user# 323185 used Gemini over 20 times this week!
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How I was greeted to SF last week: Exiting the highway, I hit a roundabout. I see a Waymo entering it ahead of us & I say to my passengers, oh look, its about to do something stupid like block traffic. It did. Pulled into the roundabout, puts left turn signal on & stopped, then emergency lights.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you use the fascist tool then you get blocked cause that ain't cool! STOP PUSHING AI CONTENT!!
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I drive diesel box trucks for my main gig. We haven't been booking many jobs with our new rates to reflect our higher transportation costs. $8.09/gallon is the highest I've seen yet. This is not sustainable.
A gas pump shows the price as $8.09/ga for diesel.
Supreme is $6.49, plus is $6.29 and regular unleaded is $6.09.
The pump show a $137.77 sale for 17.01 gallons of fuel.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Going out to do karaoke... Gonna try a Grateful Dead song... they are pretty popular... should be a hit... hmm... Blues for Allah... this one sounds easy.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Pour me... Pour me a drink mfr!
A black concrete hose is draped over rebar frames. Half of the rectangle has been filled with concrete. A building is being constructed nearby.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Make a band bigger you say? Aphex Quadruplets
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Most corporations aren't actually in the business of selling goods, they are in the business of exploiting people who sell goods.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Get em Petra and Peter! Pow, right in the kisser!! Jeremy Lang in an accidental Renaissance photo. Credit to the comic @girlautumn.bsky.social who drew Petra.
Petra Parker as Spidey alongside Spiderman fight fascist Jake Lang who is carrying a cross next to a man wearing a soldier's uniform while holding an American flag.

Spidey is coming in the frame from the left, swinging from a web kicking Jake in the face. A comic styled "Pow" is covering his face as nobody needs to see him ever again. 
Spiderman is winding up for a big flying punch.

Text at the bottom reads "Chris Juhn Photography"

There is also a stylized drawing of the "@" symbol from the artist who drew Spidey.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Beef??? It's uh... I think... what's for dinner. I dunno, I'm not sure. In other news, I'm a vegetarian now.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Pouring concrete is very hard work. Especially when your older & recovering from an injury. But I did it! Found a cool side gig with a local guy right around the corner, I can bike to work while I try to save enough for the next round of repairs on my car. Might even be able to pay rent. 🤘
Wooden concrete forms are built over a stepped sidewalk going down to a house's entryway. Concrete has been poured in the sides of the forms. Three men assess the job from below.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I just did something I haven't done in almost 20 years, apply to a job outside of CA... For a job making ~20% more than i do now, in a state with rent ~50% what I pay now. 🤞🤞 I love it here but I'm drowning with the HCOL and the job market is absolutely abysmal.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thicker than a Snickers! #ThickTrunkThursday
A person wearing blue jeans and a blue shirt sits inside a redwood tree trunk that completely fills the photo... its 2 trees that have grown into one... appx 40' wide. There are some ferns in the foreground.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The owls are a screetchin tonight!! 🦉🦉
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Roommate watching me eat 2 brownies at 9am: "Thats a crazy breakfast..." Me: "no but I worked out this morning so..." Roomate: "oh... ok." Me: "though I will admit, the third one i ate while you were in the other room may have been excessive..." 🤣
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Good working weather in San Francisco today... Foggy & 55°F... I need to work down there more often! Just got home right in time for a lil 4:20 jam 🌬💨 Smoke em if ya got em! Modular Monday BABY!! #SynthSky #SynthesizerMusic
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Feel'd
A cow field of wild grasses, oats, mustard, and wildflowers is shown spralling across a vast valley at golden hour with a blue sky overhead and a few low clouds over the hills off on the horizon. A person's shadow is long in the foreground next to a couple shadows from trees.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Come on do it baby! Give the thread a lyrical bump... Come on come on do it do it... Give the thread a bump! It's the perfect joke, it just needs a few more commenters to get it to the punchline.
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Humpty Dance: Do The Hump
Alt: Men wearing black clothing are dancing on stage and singing into a microphone. Text below reads: "The Humpty Dance is your chance to do The Hump."
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Just seen a joblisting for $20/hr saying that work life balance is encouraged at the company. At that rate, in this state, the balance is 96% work 2% sleep 2% being too worried and stressed to sleep. Get real! I would need 6 roommates AND foodstamps if I made that in CA.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
No paycheck last week cause work is slow so phone bill lapsed. Sold a keyboard to get phone bill money, figured out how to turn the dollars into digital funds without my bank because overdraft would eat it. Log into Verizon app on wifi-can't connect to pay. Go to store, can't pay in person. WTF?!
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Morning coffee at this hotel doesn't suck... cause I was able to make it myself on the balcony and enjoy a smoke with it. 13/10 work accommodations! The room even had a jacuzzi tub in it, my first soak since my accident!! Checking out was hard this time. Thanks boss!
A window and door are open to a balcony revealing a river and beach with the ocean on the horizon. The sky above is blue with a bit of haze.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Happy BandCamp Friday to all who celebrate!! BC gives more $ 2 the artists! Just another reason to hop on BC, browse about, & maybe spend some money on some other music. You can always get my weird sounds for free. download them here👇 #SynthesizerMusic sustaineddecay.bandcamp.com/album/goofst...
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Goofstep Vol. None.Oh, by Sustained Decay
6 track album
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Walk me out, in the morning dew today.
A foggy day offers a vie of a river where it meets the ocean sands. There are 2 deer wading in the water in the distance.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Grueling pace on meager rations'll do that...
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9hertfordstreet.bsky.social @9hertfordstreet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I hope that I live to see the day when "slipping something" into a bill that has absolutely nothing to do with the bill at hand is made illegal.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Of course my car registration and 6months insurance bill would be due at the same time I'm actively trying to source funds to make the car functional again. Might as well pay the state for the right to have a brokedown vehicle instead of actually fixing the vehicle. The system is broken!
A hand is covered in an orange nitrile glove stained with oil and grease. It is holding a car's thermostat with a burnt gasket.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Miss having this amount of free time to run sound experiments... sadly i had to experience tremendous pain to find the time to play... but I'm back to my~10hr workdays. Next week is 1 year since I broke my hand/arm. Still hurts to do anything but I've come a long way in mobility & strength. 🤙
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I was on a confrence call with Mitch McConnell and Harambe for ~20 minutes today. the topics were mostly our rubber stamp collections, tasty grasses ranked in the top 5, and our favorite places to pee, Mitch of course said his pants... however, both said Europe '72 was their favorite album. (~);}
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This one's for the pollinators and those who appreciate their earnest work. #bloomscrolling
A clover is blossoming, shown is a light purple flower in focus and green leaves with white highlights a bit out of focus with a messy yard in the background.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
KEXP is frickin going off tonight!! The Continent is honoring all the African countries that got in to the world cup by paying some music from each one of them. Egypt going particularly hard with Longa 79 by Al Massrieen. 🌍 📻🔈🔉🔊
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Since this was primarily a synthesizer account prior to the destruction of the democratic process and subversion of the checks and balances of power, I feel I should post something on topic again instead of just complaining. In other news, it's national #PunchANazi day. If you see one, punch one!
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Car blew up. Next day, phone spicy pillowed. Can't afford to fix car yet so not eating to save for repairs. Today I had to ride my bike for the first time since my accident to get to work on time. PTSD, low blood sugar, & anxiety combined into a mental breakdown & now I need a new friggin job. 🤌
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Mercury Retrograde Hnads Up
Alt: A bunch of people are in a gymnasium with their hands raised. Text reads: raise your hands if you've ever felt personally victimized by Mercury Retrograde. MR is known for disruptions in communication, travel, and decision making.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Somewhere, somebody's hell spawn is complaining about needing the crusts on an Uncrustable cut off.
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Sustained Decay @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Logged into Instagram- Meta: We're removing the setting that allowed you to disconnect your off app activity from meta's prying eyes & we will now sell all of your activity to the highest bidder. Me: permanently delete account. Meta: what? Are you sure? Me: uninstall app. Meta: wtf?! Me: 🖕🏼
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