ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT30

 

Mistigram: to you, it's just an #OrangeShirt that AdeptApril has illustrated in #ANSIart.  But if you're in Canada, the shirt represents the imposition of the #ResidentialSchool system on Indigenous children for around a century and a half, removing them from the care of their parents and extinguishing their language and culture in a slow-moving campaign of genocide.  We wear the symbolic garment today in a gesture in support of #TruthAndReconcilation.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT29

 Mistigram: you can probably tell from AdeptApril's #ANSIart illustration that yesterday was World #Heart Day, but what you might not realise is that the occasion shines the spotlight on preventing and controlling cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT28

 Mistigram: look at this vast, imposing public building AdeptApril has drawn in #ANSIart! It represents a tremendous private library, a vast storehouse of information the government collects about the activities of you and everyone you know. But your taxes pay for it, and you are entitled to it! Write the FBI and request a copy of your file! If you don't have one yet, they will open one, free of cost!

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT27

 Mistigram: this red #ANSIart #scarf, drawn by AdeptApril, lacks only a neck to warm.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT26

 Mistigram: today AdeptApril celebrates the European Day of Languages, not quite mapping greetings in different tongues to each of #ANSIart's sixteen colours, but close! Typically the Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages are represented, but let's not sleep on the Uralic languages and the slippery Basque tongue!

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT25

 Mistigram: AdeptApril has introduced us (and, I suspect, you) to #MathStorytelling Day today in this #ANSIart screen, which is as best as I can tell an occasion to focus on using word problems in arithmetic to help keep all the numbers from getting too abstract.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT24

 Mistigram: the specific subject may? be more applicable to ASCII art than the #ANSIart that AdeptApril has here drawn, but today is (nonetheless) National #Punctuation Day! and there are all kinds of valid semantic uses for these marks... beyond the "creative" abuses we saddle them with here in the world of textmode art.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT23

 Mistigram: today is Bi Visibility Day, and if your local bi person is wearing this colourful flag, as illustrated in #ANSIart here by AdeptApril, they will certainly be visible. Its top pink stripe apparently means same-sex attraction, the blue stripe on the bottom representing attraction to the opposite sex. And that purple band in the middle? This is a Venn diagram!

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT22

 Mistigram: for unknown reasons, AdeptApril omitted the caption on today's #ANSIart screen, celebrating World #Rhino Day, raising awareness and promoting conservation of the world's five threatened varieties of #rhinoceros -- White, Black, Indian, Javan, and Sumatran.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT21

 Mistigram: AdeptApril drew this #ANSIart #ThankYou note for the callers to her Storm BBS, but we can all use a little #gratitude once in a while.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT20

 Mistigram: Do androids dream of electric sheep? DO colourless green ideas sleep furiously? How would you draw #gibberish? (How would it draw you?) (How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? How long is a piece of string?) Here's AdeptApril's attempt in #ANSIart. Why is a raven like a writing desk? I must speak with the dolphins now. Eeeee-eeee-eee-eeeeeee!

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT19

 Mistigram: w3rd up, d00dZ, anyone got 0-3 day wareZzz? (checks notes) Sorry, it seems I was talking like the wrong kind of #pirate on #TalkLikeAPirateDay. (Ah well, in for a penny, in for a pound. Hack the planet!) This #ANSIart #JollyRoger was drawn by AdeptApril for the occasion.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT18

 

Mistigram: every day is a good day to read a book, but today is a special subset of that general goal: AdeptApril has illustrated an #ANSIart celebration of "International Read An #eBook Day" today. Relish in that gloriously chunky e-ink screen in dark mode!

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT17

 Mistigram: If you rely on outside help to keep your home clean, today is the day for you to salute your professional house cleaners. With a broom, mop and bucket, they help you ... sweep and muck it. This #ANSIart screen was drawn by AdeptApril.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT16

 Mistigram: on this date in 1810, the Mexican War of Independence from Spain began with the Cry of Dolores. (Spoiler warning: #Mexico won!) AdeptApril celebrates the occasion with this #ANSIart adaptation of the Mexican flag, featuring a centre device retelling the founding myth for the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT15

 Mistigram: You saw a lot of these in '90s artpacks with the mainstream burgeoning of hip-hop culture bringing a healthy dose of "Black is Beautiful" ethos, but still most of us never got a chance to actually sport one on our heads. Today AdeptApril celebrates World #Afro Day in #ANSIart. In the words of the "Jive" ebonics translator: Slap mah 'fro!

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT14

 Mistigram: no need to keep it monochrome, AdeptApril has tapped half of #ANSIart's sixteen glorious colours to implore you all to explore some of the different hues today on National #Coloring Day.

MIST1020/STEPHANREWIND-FRIDAY_THE_13TH_PART_7

 Mistigram: a blast from the past, this #pixelart portrait of #JasonVoorhees from #FridayThe13th Part VII: The New Blood, was drawn by @stephanrewind (currently engrossed developing his PlayDate U-boat simulator Atlantic '41) and included in the spooky MIST1020 artpack collection released four years ago.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT13

 Mistigram: happy #FridayThe13th! You see AdeptApril's #ANSIart #BlackCat approaching! Are you bold enough to F around and find out? (Looks kind of like the cat already did.) Fear not, it's National Defy #Superstition Day, so give a big "forget you" to Stevie Wonder and all those old wives' tales!

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT12

 Mistigram: in 8-bit programming, the "oddly specific" number 256 is an important one, and if you go looking for it you will find it everywhere in this realm. AdeptApril of Storm BBS observes the significance of this number for programmers today, the 256th day of the year, in this nominal #ANSIart screen.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT11

 Mistigram: AdeptApril's #ANSIart screen of the burning #TwinTowers of the #WorldTradeCenter is an apt but likely unnecessary illustration for the occasion of "Patriot Day", an image already forever burned into the memory of anyone who was alive when it took place. This event memorializes the victims of the attack 23 years ago today, including a great many first responders.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT10

 Mistigram: back in the dark ages before Snapchat filters, we had something you could use to alter your appearance by rubbing pigment on to the skin of your face.  Today AdeptApril leads us in observing International #Makeup Day with this #ANSIart screen.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT09

 Mistigram: we don't want to celebrate computer bugs but it sure is useful to be able to find and address them! On this day in 1947, actual computer debugging was achieved for the first time by removing a moth that had gotten into the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator, being tested at Harvard University. AdeptApril has illustrated in #ANSIart the log of the incident, complete with taped moth!

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT08

 Mistigram: we're all big fans of various & sundry, this & that, and so forth & so on, &c., and the glue knitting it all together is the symbol known as the #ampersand, which AdeptApril celebrates in #ANSIart today for National Ampersand Day. It was originally a calligraphed "et", meaning "and" in Latin, but took on a life of its own.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT07

 Mistigram: Why has AdeptApril drawn a #PostageStamp in #ANSIart? Is it national philately day? Not quite: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" isn't just paraphrased in Laurie Anderson's "O Superman", this phrase (derived from Herodotus describing the courier service of the Persian Empire under Xerxes I) is carved into New York City's James A. Farley Post Office, which opened in 1914 on this day.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT06

 Mistigram: we have learned from AdeptApril's #ANSIart screen that today is Fight #Procrastination Day, but if you wanted to postpone engaging that particular challenge until the weekend... I don't think it would be the end of the world. (Maybe next month would be even better!)

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT05

 Mistigram: We have a tantalizing delicacy from AdeptApril's daily #ANSIart calendar to share with you today, celebrating the savory fried South Asian pastry on World #Samosa Day. Get out the chutney and save some raita for me!

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT04

 Mistigram: when AdeptApril first drew this #ANSIart calendar, a few years ago, today's date fell on the first Friday in September, which is designated Wear #Teal Day to raise ovarian cancer awareness. (Confusingly, there is another Wear Teal Day in April, to show support for survivors of sexual harassment and abuse. Maybe we all should just be wearing more teal, generally?)

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT03

 Mistigram: faceless black monolithic edifices, safe deposit boxes in the sky? Check and check! Look up, way up, and try not to get your wallet pickpocketed as you celebrate National #Skyscraper Day, as AdeptApril has done here in #ANSIart.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT02

 Mistigram: this greyscale #ANSIart image, adapted by AdeptApril (AdaptApril?) from a black and white photograph of a longago conflict, marks #VJDay, the closing of the final chapter of WWII with the end of the war in the Pacific. 78 years ago today formal documents of surrender were signed in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri.

ADEPTAPRIL/SEPT01

 Mistigram: to whom it may concern -- I hope this finds you well. I have learned through an #ANSIart screen by AdeptApril -- this very one! -- that today is World #Letter Writing Day. Perhaps someday I should tell you about the time I devised a packet switching-through-post project as an expensive piece of mail art, but there simply isn't enough room here today to do so. Yours truly, old suchandsuch.