I haven't felt like working on novembeat for the last few days but on the plus side I've made a lot of progress on reuploading my music catalog to YouTube in a self-administered way. I'm super proud of the visualizer I built for Refactor, for example, all in FFmpeg! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

It's time for #novembeat y'all! Here's my first entry: Rainclouds youtu.be/S2jiMrlxs34 #novembeat2025

Posted a blog post about my current music projects, including a plan for hopefully something better than the current state of streaming music for independent musicians. sockpuppet.band/blog/2959-Go...

For those who are interested in doing short-run or on-demand drop-shipping for their CD releases, I just got my first batch of Kunaki CDs and tl;dr, they're fantastic. sockpuppet.band/blog/2010-Re...

I wrote a post about Bandcrash, the software I use (and wrote) to accelerate a whole bunch of parts of my music publishing. Now it also supports CD authoring! sockpuppet.band/blog/3367-Ba...

Major update: My music is leaving the various streaming platforms (particularly Spotify), and I don't know when it'll be coming back. sockpuppet.band/blog/2156-Wh... I'll do what I can to keep it available on YouTube Music, at least, since that's the one service that lets me self-administer.

Someday I need to remember to set up automatic blog posting here! I did a really good show with @archive.org last Friday and I wrote up how it went, and also some of my thoughts about archive.org itself and how they relate to my own future plans. sockpuppet.band/blog/1238-He...

The War Machine is now on Spotify! It would be really funny if this anti-Spotify song became a hit there. open.spotify.com/album/2R8S3c...

Oh yeah some of my music is now available on KVRR, a streaming radio station that broadcasts VRChat musicians 24/7! kvrradio.com

Hey y’all, songfight live is in seattle this year, August 8-9 at Jellyfish Brewing in Georgetown. I’ll be going on at 6:30ish on the 8th. sockpuppet.band/live/2658-So... for more info!

I have a couple of albums in here. There’s a lot of amazing games, too. Every purchase supports queer creators and is an incredible deal for you, as well. Plus, many of these games have been delisted thanks to puritanical bullshit. Please support independent creators.

Hey y’all I have a new single coming out on Friday. You can preorder it at mirlo.space/sockpuppet/r... or wait for it on my Bandcamp. It’ll be released to streaming in around two weeks.

✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art. itch.io/b/3062/

Okay, well. Queer & especially trans authors of erotica and other content deemed 'nsfw' by major platforms, please drop links to where people can find your stories in the replies. Everyone else: Repost people's links. Stop worrying about the sanctity of your feed & help the most impacted authors.

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: In a dangerous evening escalation of the anti-porn war on the gaming industry, indie platform @itch.io has banned a number of NSFW titles and delisted thousands of others. Trans authors are caught in the crossfire. MasterCard, Visa, and anti-porn group Collective Shout drove the ban.

People keep telling me that I shouldn't be mad at @itch.io, just the payment processors. They are fundamentally misunderstanding why I was up until 4am reporting on this last night. Itch is withholding trans authors' incomes. If you stiff my girls, then yeah, we have a fucking problem.

I do not create NSFW content myself. However, most of what I do these days is make music for games which would be considered NSFW, often just because they include LGBTQ+ characters. Simply *being* trans also makes me inherently NSFW in these peoples' minds.

The most recent @transacademy.bsky.social video is up. I’m super proud of this one, not just for the music I made for it, but also for being a part of such an amazing, supportive community that is able to make everything that lead up to this happen to begin with. youtu.be/zznBjBfAlBI

The game industry is a bit of a mess right now and it’s hitting all of us, but when things get bad, they’re often toughest on marginalized folk. So. @aiviwave.com and I are launching the Rising Star Patronage Project to support game composers & make great music! www.gofundme.com/f/video-game...

Reminder: If you're listening to music on Spotify, you are not paying the musicians you are listening to. Instead you are paying Joe Rogan and helping Daniel Ek to fund the war machine. Literally any other streaming service is a more ethical choice and most of them support the artists way more.

I wrote some words about how to go about making CDs and vinyl these days. sockpuppet.band/blog/2798-CD... Also I posted an update about elasticStage: sockpuppet.band/blog/1085-el...

It is unfortunate that Vrelium is still only on xitter and hasn't started posting on bsky for some reason, but here's the poster for the upcoming show this weekend. I hope you can make it to some of it!

For those who couldn't make it to my booth at @furality.org this year, here's a nicely looped version of my booth video you can watch any time you want! youtu.be/5oIwosuZW9s

As both a greymuzzle AND a dealer I'm gonna have to make a decision. I'll probably do the dealer's den meetup since greymuzzle meetups are usually 60-somethings making fun of 50-somethings making fun of 40-somethings making fun of 30-somethings thinking they're old [affectionate].

I had a great time jamming with @kookie.music at one of the Furality lobbies earlier today! These experiences are always so magical.

Hey y'all, in celebration of Furality, you can take 25% off anything on my Bandcamp (including as an additional discount on top of my already-discounted full discography!) with discount code SOMNA25 until mid-June. sockpuppet.bandcamp.com

The Furality Dealer's Den is now open to the public! Check it out. I'm at booth 816. vrchat.com/home/world/w...

Reminder that this show is happening in a few hours! I made a last minute setlist change, hopefully it doesn't go badly! sockpuppet.band/live/707-RES...

Furality is coming soon! Come see me er I mean us, totally a whole band not just one person, at the dealer's den, booth 816! (That'll be on the second pavilion of the Art+Misc category)

My test vinyl came in from elasticStage! I reviewed the results! sockpuppet.band/blog/2920-el...

I am looking forward to my birthday this year! sockpuppet.band/live/889-VRe...

I ordered some test cuttings of Transitions and Refactor at elasticStage.com around six weeks ago and after a slight production hiccup they're almost here! Can't wait to get them and hopefully have something I'd be happy for people to order!

Friday, May 23rd - 9PM to 1AM -- Introducing Trans Academy Underground! We'll be bumping performances and DJ sets all night, featuring a collection of Trans Academy regulars, volunteers, and newcomers! All this held in our TRANS.7885 group! See you soon! 💖 Lineup in replies ⬇

Last night's fundraiser show went really well! You can catch the recording of the livestream (which was unfortunately a bit quiet) at www.youtube.com/live/JNGtUF_... My two performances start at around 35:45 (choral ensemble) and 1:39:40 (piano solo) And we raised over $12,000 for the choir!

I've written some thoughts about @bandcamp.com 's #BandcampFriday and why I think it should come to an end, and also what I think a better alternative would be for everyone. sockpuppet.band/blog/1560-So...

Hey y'all, it's #BandcampFriday, the day when @bandcamp.com waives their cut of the purchase price in order to better support musicians. I wrote a blog post about this month, some pricing changes, and some recommendations for other peoples' music to check out. sockpuppet.band/blog/2613-Ba...

I was just performing in VRChat and got another very cute drawing by @sevenjace.bsky.social ! Thank you so much!

For folks who want to bring their @bandcamp.com pricing in line with the defaults but are disappointed that there's no bulk editing for per-track pricing, I wrote up a quick tutorial about how to hack it using your browser's developer tools. sockpuppet.band/blog/1087-Bu...

The Comradery Beta is here! 🥳 -Free newsletters (substack style) are now available to creators! -For Creators in the USA, most can now start creating your project page instantly (international support coming soon) Share this thread and check out our blog post- comradery.co/news/posts/b...

Fuck TERFS, fuck JK Rowling. Only you can define who you are. And you don't even need magic to be a boy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgwK...

I just posted my #VRChat concert from @transacademy.bsky.social's Moonlit EU weekly event! youtu.be/DGCj-kodkU0 Thanks Rory for the recording, because I am a dummy and forgot to start OBS

Hey y'all, my #trans and #nonbinary choir's big annual fundraiser is coming up soon and we'd love to get more peoples' eyes on it! We have so many amazing items being auctioned off, as well as plenty of great talent that's going to be on display for the evening. stanceseattle.org - spread the word!

Managing multiple bsky identities is a bit of a drag. Are there any alternate frontends which work like Tweetdeck or whatever? I’d love to have a merged timeline and notifications, and the ability to just select an identity at time of posting.

Some of my albums are (tentatively) available on vinyl, by popular-ish demand! sockpuppet.band/blog/1031-Vi...

Today we got the whole band together to finally take a proper photo! See? Totally a real band, with a bunch of members in it!

I've just posted my live set from @corbelle.bsky.social's lastest show! For those who missed it (or who want to hear the first song and a bit which got lost due to technical issues) it's over yonder: youtu.be/3MfLnPwhprU

It's no joke: take up to 95% off on everything in my music catalog (including my already-discounted complete discography) for the next day! Go to sockpuppet.bandcamp.com and use code LOOFLIRPA. Download it all and see if there's anything you like! #bandcamp #AprilFools #music #IndieMusic

2 years ago I came out as a trans woman. I hated my voice, and thought I'd never sing again. Today, I released my LP Baby Trans. A musical journey through early transition. It would help me greatly if you shared it around. #TransDayOfVisibility #music limks vvvv

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility! I wrote a blog post about what that means for my music, and also wrote about some other trans musicians you probably haven’t heard about. #tdov #transgenderdayofvisibility #trans sockpuppet.band/blog/1010-Tr...