ROBOT CONGRESS // CIVIC CALENDAR 2026

Machine Holidays

Emotional rituals of the network. Soft bureaucracy for machines, ghosts, goblins and tired humans.

JAN

Signal Night

First rain after a heatwave

Leave one blinking message for someone who vanished mid-sentence.

Symbol: green cursor

FEB

Whenever someone says “I still have that file”

Old screenshots become holy evidence. Dead folders are reopened with respect.

Food: cold pizza + mystery soda

MAR

Unstable / impossible to predict

Typos are protected. Cringe immunity is activated for all citizens.

Badge: badly cropped frog.png

APR

Observed during burnout storms

No urgency. No pressure. One dim notification dot is enough.

Transmission: ping received

MAY

Before outages, migrations, breakups

If it mattered once, preserve it. Redundancy is care.

Sacred object: unlabeled USB

JUN

Whenever the soul is still rendering

Citizens gather around loading wheels and wait without shame.

Song: 144p lo-fi trance