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Ferguson, MO, USA
Joined August 2007
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Retrocomputing site: breakintochat.com/blog
GitHub: github.com/kirkman
BBS: guardian.synchro.net
Josh Renaud | @kirkman.bsky.social retweeted
Recycling ANSI Art: Tracing the Origins of BBS Logon Screens ift.tt/4sQJBbx
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This tweet by Laura Loomer has been widely circulated and shared by the Indian right wing, who, until yesterday, were outraged by her racism and anti-India prejudice.
Thank you for proving my point. Racism and anti-India bigotry are intolerable, until the target is Muslim.
Josh Renaud | @kirkman.bsky.social retweeted
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How much did St. Louis-area public servants earn in 2025?
From mayors to teachers to police, the Post-Dispatch's Public Pay database has the answers: stltoday.com/pay
We wrangled 100+ records requests and cleaned up messy data to bring it to you.
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How much did St. Louis-area public servants earn in 2025?
From mayors to teachers to police, the Post-Dispatch's Public Pay database has the answers: stltoday.com/pay
We wrangled 100+ records requests and cleaned up messy data to bring it to you.
Josh Renaud | @kirkman.bsky.social retweeted
Public Pay: Government and teacher salaries for the St. Louis region graphics.stltoday.com/apps/p…
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Over the last several years, response times for lower-priority calls in the city have more than doubled. The cops and experts say police staffing has a lot to do with it. The latest from me and @Kirkman via @stltoday : stltoday.com/news/local/crim…
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A profile package on David Hoffmann, majority shareholder of Lee Enterprises, is running in all @LeeEntNews papers this weekend. We support his goals but also support independent, editorial integrity. Please read the @Poynter story and our full statement: poynter.org/reporting-editin…
Josh Renaud | @kirkman.bsky.social retweeted
Newspapers owned by Lee Enterprises will see strikingly similar front pages this weekend, according to an email sent to the company’s properties, telling them all to run a positive three-story package on their new billionaire chairman David Hoffmann.
Union leaders at the company, which publishes the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Buffalo News, among others, are troubled by the move, which they said raises questions about editorial interference in each paper’s decisionmaking.
poynter.org/reporting-editin…
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The mystery of the Solar Realms Elite title screen:
🔗breakintochat.com/blog/2026/…
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If you add in the Open Cup win over Chicago, City SC has won 3 of its past 4 games, all against MLS opponents, which can probably be considered progress. Or at least better luck. The gamer, with reaction from Damet, Lowen and Totland stltoday.com/sports/professi… via @stltoday
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A year after the tornado, only a few hundred St. Louis homes are being repaired
Via @Kirkman and @ahuguelet stltoday.com/news/local/gove… via @stltoday
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A mountain of shingles was dumped in Kinloch. It sat hidden for years. Via @Kirkman @cschrappen and some crazy video from @PDPJ stltoday.com/news/local/gove… via @stltoday
It has been said that J.R.R. Tolkien wanted to make a "mythology for England," but echoes of Middle-earth can be found among the monuments, mounds, and muddy rivers of the American Midwest.
Excited to share my presentation from last year's Westmoot.
youtube.com/watch?v=vbQohw4t…
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City SC notebook: MacNaughton's two-way help, Joyner's trip to Argentina, Lowen status update. stltoday.com/sports/professi… via @stltoday
Are you ready for tomorrow's elections? Get prepared with @stltoday's nonpartisan Voters Guide. See who and what is on your ballot. Read candidates' answers to questions. And get summaries of propositions and ballot issues.
stltoday.com/votersguide/
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Before Webcomics: Selling Political Cartoons On BBSes In 1992 ift.tt/iCnu6GS
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A Sunday #longreads rec:
In 1992, a Texas small business owner tried syndicating weekly political cartoons to BBSes.
His "telecomics," as he called them, are an overlooked early experiment in online comics, at a key moment in U.S. politics.
breakintochat.com/blog/2026/…
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Mistigram: this nifty-galifty portrait (and logo!) of the puppet #XtheOwl from #MrRogersNeighborhood was drawn by @Kirkman and placed 5th in the 2025 #ATASCII art compo of #textmode art for Atari 8-bit computers. It was also included in last month's unthemed MIST0226 artpack.
ALT An owl's face, surrounded by a radiant nimbus, peers to the side beneath hooded eyes. In a separate panel to the right, a giant letter X is traced out in text character textures with crossbars on top and beneath it.
Josh Renaud | @kirkman.bsky.social retweeted
This guy has some nerve. He works for an organization that was held liable for defamation and paid $787 million for false claims about the 2020 election, and then last month he claimed on the air, without evidence, that Alex Pretti pulled a gun on the ICE agents who killed him. He might want to sit out all commentary on other media.
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Mistigram: and because the bottom of the top nine are ranked so very near to the top of the following nine, here's one further set of your collective favorites of the posts we made last year!
ALT a 3x3 grid of varied science fiction and horror subjects, plus a cat, drawn in various semigraphics and textmode art formats, plus two high resolution screens.