Happy ApeFest Day to all who celebrate! On this date in 2023, more than 60 collectors of the the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs who attended ApeFest in Hong Kong woke up blind after experiencing "welder's flash" from high intensity UV strobe lights at a dance party. #otd
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German composer, pianist, organist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn died #onthisday in 1847 aged just 38. Pictured here, more than 50 years later, his music as a "thought form" emanating from a church: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/victorian-occultism-and-the-art-of-synesthesia #otd
It's #NationalSandwichDay! Celebrate with a peruse through the 1909 classic The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, which includes such delights as Fudge Sandwich, Dyspeptic Sandwich, and Whipped Cream Sandwich: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-up-to-date-sandwich-book-400-ways-to-make-a-sandwich-1909/ #otd #OnThisDay
45 years ago
"Nazi Punks Fuck Off" is the fifth and most important single by the Dead Kennedys, released in late October/early November 1981 on Alternative Tentacles.
The single included a free armband with a crossed-out swastika on it.
Wikidata turns 14!
Created to link data across Wikipedia and its sister projects, it’s now one of the world’s largest free, open knowledge graphs, with machine-readable data that developers and researchers use every day.
Over 44,000 editors edit it, powering infoboxes and queries across 300+ Wikipedia language editions and now supporting under-resourced languages with lexicographical data.
Cheers to 14 years of free structured data, built by people for everyone! #wikidata14 #opendata #otd
In memory of Darren Henley aka D. H. Peligro, longtime drummer of the Dead Kennedys and short-term drummer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who passed away unexpectedly four years ago today
Photo by Glen E. Friedman
#punkdrummer in heaven 💔
#punk #punkrock #deadkennedys #dhpeligro #history #punkrockhistory #otd







