Yeah, mine arrived too. I'm struggling to figure out how I want to actually set it up in my studio, and the spring on it is suuuuuuuper firm.

Yep! I ended up ordering one and then stocking up on guitar picks while I had free shipping.

I'm tempted but the reviews on it are pretty dismal. It'd still be a nicer setup for my desk mic though.

Thanks!

It looks like my brid.gy account got added to the starter pack but that just mirrors my RSS feed, more or less, and is also janky and likely to break in the future. Actual interactions with me should be through my actual bsky (which also gets my RSS feed items in it, and will have a lot more stuff t...

I’m on bsky, at fluffy.beesbuzz.biz

I think he's been in a few ads with that song especially, but it's always cool to see him getting more visibility.

Yeah sentiment analysis in lyrics is super difficult, especially in any sort of automated way that would actually capture what’s going on. Like if you look at a lot of older pop songs, things seem super bubbly and positive but there’s definitely a more cynical undercurrent in a lot of them. Is “Plea...

Successfully get on disability benefits Find a reasonable level of sustainable productivity on things that I care about Finally finish at least one of my three backburnered albums Finish organizing my basement Get back into making pottery, and produce a line of items to sell on Etsy So I guess I'll...

I added a clause regarding that. Thanks for the callout, Ken.

Also note that mixing/mastering is not a generative AI process and it's really just generative AI we're trying to disallow here, but it's hard to capture that in a way that's future-proof and not prone to what-about-isms and so on.

Those are absolutely allowed, yeah, and I think would be covered in the first "acceptable uses" point but we can certainly call AI mixing/mastering out in that section.

Two quick obvious follow up questions and answers:

I have lyrics but I’m no good at making music.

Form a collaboration.

I’m good at making music but I can’t come up with lyrics.

Form a collaboration.

Valid reason to not work with them. I’d just not heard of them before today and they seem a lot better than distrokid, enough so that I’m switching away from distrokid after using them for like 15 years.

I mean they still fucking suck in a lot of respects but what in the streaming industry doesn’t?

Okay actually TooLost's catalog importer is fucking broken and not worth working with

But the rest of it seems a lot better

I just learned about TooLost which is like DistroKid back before DistroKid started to suck. They cost less than DK, offer way better services without it being piled up with little add-on nickel-and-dimes, actually gives you control over your ContentID shit (allowing you to greenlist YouTube channels...

EP is short for "electric penis"

I shared a six-song EP with your mom last night

I have a new album out! I wasn't intending to target Bandcamp Friday for this but it ended up being a nice coincidence.

https://sockpuppet.us/album/notions

I will also be filling my cart with a bunch of other peoples' music, as is tradition.

Congrats!!

Oh wait right I was thinking of Bad Boys at Bat Mitzvahs. He won the live fight primarily by bribing everyone with pot brownies or something. My bad.

(I blame me being, ironically, somewhat high at the moment.)

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(*) EDIT: Thanks for that Wayback archive link. This was a joy to revisit, right after I admitted that I was one of the small handful of participants in that competition.

I think you still owe a bunch of us some pot cookies from the 2011 livefight.

Yeah I started to take a break from songfight right before .com stopped updating and I'd missed that meanwhile was a thing until .org had taken over. I remember coming back during the prefight for Fool in the Middle. Unfortunately I can't find the prefight thread in the extremely spotty archives of ...