I'm off. Find me on Mastodon, buddies. Links are on meljoann.com

During his life, Scout Hardcastle's free-spirited creativity struggled under the confines of the major label system. Now, he is free. RIP, sweet prince. Read his story at: mustics.com

Hyperjack producer Meljoann (@meljoann.bsky.social) is our #MirloMondays pick for this week (and comes with approval from Pitchfork)! Based in #Brighton, UK, she has also been a tireless advocate for the #Fediverse and the #IndieWeb. Listen to “Data Ghost” below. 👻🐦‍⬛ mirlo.space/meljoann/rel...

Remember when Synergy Myers was offering AMAZING deals on life coaching? I snapped them up in 2020. My life has not improved since then, but it's only my own fault. I think I need another course of life coaching.

TW. Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

It is such a tragedy my favourite book of all time — 'I Deserve This', by Dr. Synergy Myers — never received a finished audiobook release. Thankfully, I rescued these raw gems from the dustbin of history. I'm sharing them with only the most LOYAL of paying Mustics™ customers. mustics.com

This Thursday’s gig at Spirit of Gravity, Brighton!

Thanks a million to all the crew & sound heads at All Together Now. Had a blast! 💜💜💜

r/scarytoilets has some pretty good stuff www.reddit.com/r/scarytoile...

JUST for Mustics™ Members! You get to see the worst experience of my entire life. Hooray? Sign up to mustics.com ... you also get all my music.

Playing a great local #electronic night this Sunday! #Brighton #UK

Mustics™ members just got more of my EXCLUSIVE talkshow interview. Yes, the one that got me 100% CANCELLED 😢 I'm now at 17/185 of my Subs Goal! As I'm no longer ALLOWED to be a Content Creator, you can sign up at mustics.com to help me pick up the pieces of my life.

I really believed this talk show interview would catapult my showbusiness career into the stratosphere. Instead, it catapulted me into the toilet. tv.gravitons.org/w/tjExKoeB44...

yep, i get steady "growth" on my empty substack page that just links to where i've actually been writing for the last 18 months

It's not just Spotify, it's the streaming industry as a whole but definitely get off Spotify to start.

Goodbye #Spotify! Goodbye, you bloodthirsty genocide-loving fascist racist TERF-platforming scumbags xx meljoann.com/posts/hellsc...

I implemented my own VOX ADPCM (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogi...) encoder and decoder in Rust! The purpose is to apply the sound quality of a codec to a sample—in this case, it's a 4-bit telecommunications algorithm that sounds fizzy and crackly #Programming #Coding #Developer #Rust #Audio

Trembling as I write this. The Mustics™ superstar host announced me as their first EVER guest. What happened next, I will regret for the rest of my life. Next week, I will show the world. tv.gravitons.org/w/4idKPpPAsu...

Fedi music livestream festival in July! All taking place on ethical no-billionaires-allowed platforms. Full schedule here — you can even sync the dates to your phone calendar: cal.gravitons.org All becomes possible outside of bleedin Facebook Events shite! Imagine 🐣

Today I want to share a classic self-help book, that helped me enormously.

Heading over to the Fediverse with a little nudge from @meljoann.bsky.social 👍🤘 Connect if you're over there! mastodon.ie/@of_one

“I’m Queer and the Algorithm Hates Me”. Me and Dwayne made a radio show! Tonight at 5pm IST on DDR: listen.dublindigitalradio.com Happy Pride season everyone xx

gwan the GOTHS

Check out the beautiful pdf.mag - poetry, art and an essay by me about women, music and cyborgs in the 1980s 👾💋🤖 sites.google.com/view/pdf-mag...

I’m playing All Together Now festival! Catch me in Waterford, Ireland, Aug 2nd. I’ll be the one with the Business Cigar.

Once you’re away from The Algorithm, it’s very hard to go back. You post. No-one sees it. You’re pressured to modify your behaviour and self-presentation to please the algo. Repeat. Repeat. How is this not psychologically damaging? How is this not changing our society in gross creepy ways?

I was so excited by the prospect of being on TV, I may have ignored some big red flags tv.gravitons.org/w/15bh6T6gTS...

Back when I was on Pitchfork, I got a LOT of exciting media offers. This one was perhaps the most exciting of all. I deeply regret what transpired tv.gravitons.org/w/8Ei51MSvZB...

“… it feels very uncanny valley to see people confirming so hard… to see people reacting in a non-human way, specifically in order to appeal to a computer.” - Casey Johnston, talking about her experience of “Fitness” Instagram: the algorithm shaping society pca.st/episode/ab9a...

Thanks to @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena for having me on the show last night to chat about my new album, 'NEST', and the upcoming @corkmidsummer.bsky.social performance at St. Fin Barre's Cathedral next week! Listen back: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

@meljoann.bsky.social live session for @2fm.rte.ie and the wonderful @talldanhegarty.bsky.social is now live. 💜🫶🏻🎸🎙️ Such a lovely day in the radio centre. ✅ Thanks to all involved.

My Studio 8 session aired last night! Thanks so much to the lovely @talldanhegarty.bsky.social for having us! A total pleasure. & cheers Shane for loaning yer guitar! And thanks to me legendary manager @dwaynewoods.bsky.social 🫡💜 Listen here: www.rte.ie/radio/2fm/2f... #radio #2fm #irishMusic

In 2022, I appeared on a TV talk show that ruined my life. Go to mustics.com for the inside scoop. Soon, I will tell the world.

My biggest ambition is to appear on 90s Jerry Springer or Ricki Lake... and find out if I SHOULD be ashamed of myself.

In the coming months, I'll tell my tale about when I went on THAT talkshow.

Anyway, it's up now and it's got trinkets, trains, puppets and bums/butts (depending on your locale), made from well over 150 scanned in sheets of paper. 🖨️ https://youtu.be/-nP-nIF_SrU #music #musicvideo #videos #musicians #fedi #fediverse #paperart #fedimusic

"Being starved systematically to death may reduce obesity" is Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal all over again for the 21st century.

That time I had to justify myself on Jerry Springer

We are working to highlight the impact of Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling on our communities. If you're a trans (including non-binary) person, intersex, a cis woman that disagrees with the ruling and/or doesn't meet White western beauty standards. And..

Hey hey, it’s publishing day! In North America you can go into your local bookstore and buy Words for My Comrades. Thank you to the stores, libraries and especially readers for their support. I’m also excited to announce that right this second you can read an excerpt over at @literaryhub.bsky.social

I was on Ricki Lake, back in the 90s

bandcamp friday! and jaysys, it's fairtrade music friday as well! check out my new album 'Status'. genre: hyperjack (electronic R&B New Jack Swing avant hyperpop) - faircamp.meljoann.com/status/ - boyscoutaudio.bandcamp.com/alb…#fairtradeMusicFridaya#bandcampFridayay

“Pitched as ‘avante hyperpop’," Meljoann's "music can sound like what Mariah Carey might cook up if she spent more hours hanging out in video arcades and reading radical literature,” writes @deanvannguyen.bsky.social. www.dublininquirer.c...

Interview 🎙️ @meljoann.bsky.social had a chat with the excellent @adhamhocaoimh.bsky.social at The Goo about her latest offering ‘Status’ 💩 💰 👔 🎧 Grab a copy in all the usual haunts around #Dublin ✅ Support ethical tech solutions for artists ✊🏻 #meljoann

Reminder: Less than a Week Left to Apply! The Cosmos, The Earth & Us We invite artists to scroll through and reflect on our brief for our upcoming group exhibition this summer. Link to full brief and application form here: a4sounds.org/the-cosmos-t...

KEEP WRITING! KEEP SHARING! Guidance on what to say in an email to your MP about the Supreme Court ruling last week and (text now revised) the dreadful remarks by govt ministers re their plans for trans women. Whatever the govt hopes, this ISN'T over. www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...