Did you know? February 3rd is the only day where no one in history has ever been born. Despite much scientific study, there is no explanation for this phenomena. Historically it has been referred to as “the empty day” or “nobody’s birthday”.

Prob feels so good to be the bowling ball going thru this thing

🚨PRESERVATION NEWS ALERT🚨 FFV1 in a Matroska Container has been added as a “Preferred Format” to the Library of Congress Recommended Formats Statements! Read more here in our blog post on The Signal: blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2023…

i love you appalshop

hey! think i’m gonna leave twitter soon - anyone willing to pass along a Bluesky invite?

Been used CD shopping so hard and so long I see this in my dreams

someone had better buy this from this dude

Having a nice day recalling the dramatic assassination of Julius Caesar with my Julius Caesar desk pen holder. It is embodying the noble ruler’s tragic fate.

vice really spanned two eras, the indie sleaze one where it had its finger on the pulse and made cool content, and then the one where it proceeded to destroy one of NYC’s best DIY venues and then run itself into the ground doing actual journalism and extremely mid sponcon

Me 🤝Library of Congress present "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Data Points: Visualizing File Format Data"! here's some CHARTS featuring our fav format description documents! blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024…

knowledge is…sorry…power

Stereolab cofounder Lætitia Sadier talks to Jacobin about her new solo album, “Rooting for Love,” and its unmistakable message: love is the solution to the social and political predicaments we face today. jacobin.com/2024/04/laetit…

folks in DC : know anyone cool looking for a one bedroom apartment? the one adjacent to mine is opening up, we’d share a little courtyard. would love to see a mutual pal (esp one who likes dogs) in the spot!

great thread

Convergence of many rad and beloved elements of my life on this one! Very cool!

and they are union!!!

Nightlight makes living better.

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one of the most persistent and enduring elements of modern folk culture is the dulcet tones of a boomer’s full-blast ringtone in a quiet theatre, and the abrupt and somewhat violent rustling in an unsuccessful effort to retrieve and silence it