diff --git a/session-server/chat-manager.mjs b/session-server/chat-manager.mjs
index 0d2e993904..a97457183c 100644
--- a/session-server/chat-manager.mjs
+++ b/session-server/chat-manager.mjs
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ export const chatInstances = {
     // Dedicated topic — sotce chat pings must never fan out to the shared
     // "mood" topic that aesthetic.computer devices subscribe to.
     topic: "chat-sotce",
+    // And its own face in the notification, not the aesthetic.computer mark.
+    icon: "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/sotce-net/cookie.png",
   },
   "chat-clock.aesthetic.computer": {
     name: "chat-clock",
@@ -959,6 +961,7 @@ export class ChatManager {
     broadcastToTopic(this.db, instance.config.topic, {
       title,
       body: text,
+      icon: instance.config.icon, // undefined keeps the default mark
       urgent: true, // time-sensitive on iOS, Urgency: high on web
       ttl: 0, // don't store undelivered chat pings
       data: { piece: "chat" },
diff --git a/shared/push.mjs b/shared/push.mjs
index a9a2da3f4f..e0df524973 100644
--- a/shared/push.mjs
+++ b/shared/push.mjs
@@ -321,14 +321,17 @@ async function sendAPNsBatch(tokens, note) {
 }
 
 // 📦 Notification shape
-// note = { title, body, image?, data? (flat string map, e.g. { piece }),
+// note = { title, body, icon?, image?, data? (flat string map, e.g. { piece }),
 //          urgent?, ttl? }
+// `icon` is the small badge the OS draws beside the text. It defaults to the
+// aesthetic.computer mark, but a sender with its own face — sotce.net's
+// cookie — passes one and keeps it.
 
 function webPayload(note) {
   return JSON.stringify({
     title: note.title,
     body: note.body,
-    icon: ICON,
+    icon: note.icon || ICON,
     image: note.image,
     data: note.data || {},
   });
diff --git a/system/netlify/functions/sotce-net.mjs b/system/netlify/functions/sotce-net.mjs
index 8a84a24543..c2f38efb45 100644
--- a/system/netlify/functions/sotce-net.mjs
+++ b/system/netlify/functions/sotce-net.mjs
@@ -11240,6 +11240,7 @@ export const handler = async (event, context) => {
         {
           title: "Sotce Net",
           body: "A new page has been written.",
+          icon: "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/sotce-net/cookie.png",
           data: { piece: "" },
           ttl: 3600,
         },