Josh Renaud | @kirkman.bsky.social
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I am mostly not here anymore. Find me on Bsky and Mastodon by searching for "Kirkman", or on Threads under "Kirkman14".
Ferguson, MO, USA
Joined August 2007
Find me on other platforms! M*stodon1: @kirkman@mastodon.social (journalism) M*stodon2: @kirkman@digipres.club (retrocomputing) B*sky: https://t.co/7UD7aI1TwA Retrocomputing site: https://t.co/pPDy3PGZul GitHub: https://t.co/qXUloOHmGf BBS:
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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. https://t.co/kvtUlZpo6g
breakintochat.com
Don Lokke Jr. drew hundreds of political "telecomics" in the early 1990s in the ANSI art format as part of a business selling syndicated content to sysops.
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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.
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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.
Amazing that a place of employment can lose $100 million annually and fired workers believe that should go on in perpetuity…
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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!
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Rents soar across St. Louis region, especially where investors buy homes https://t.co/uAXHfhos45 via @stltoday @StephKukuljan @Kirkman
stltoday.com
Rents across the region are soaring, but nowhere more so than neighborhoods that have become the targets of real estate investors.
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New data obtained by @stltoday indicates hundreds of the buildings mangled by the May 16 tornado in St. Louis were likely vacant before the storm even hit. That could hobble the city's efforts to rebuild the neighborhoods hit hardest by the storm. https://t.co/BYQKUbY79V
stltoday.com
The Post-Dispatch found that 1,175 structures, more than half of those declared unsafe, were likely or definitely vacant before the May 16 tornado.
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Many Korean American churches have stayed silent on recent ICE raids, seeking to protect undocumented members and to preserve unity among congregants who hold differing political views. @CTmagazine reports: https://t.co/zbeJ4vHEfn
christianitytoday.com
Christians in the community are divided on how to respond, yet more churches want to prepare their congregants.
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Post-Dispatch analysis shows Missouri congressional redistricting would cement GOP control for years to come https://t.co/9bpsIFAILU via @stltoday
stltoday.com
Had the boundaries been in place in 2020, Republicans would have secured double-digit margins of victory in seven of the eight Missouri congressional districts, a Post-Dispatch analysis found.
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I wanted to quantify exactly how insane each PDF is making me. So I made a site, WTF PDF, that scores how bad your PDFs are. My high score is 188 - I'm sure someone can beat it.
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The salary of many public sector employees in our region is just a click away. That due to the longstanding work of St. Louis Post-Dispatch data journalist Josh Renaud, who's worked to produce the paper’s massive, annual database of public salaries.
stlpr.org
St. Louis City took a “glacial” 100 days to produce salary records, said journalist Josh Renaud.
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The Corps said safety assessments are outside of its purview. "It's shocking to me that they said that," said one expert. "As a licensed engineer, your first duty is to protect public safety and welfare." https://t.co/dOhfLFk0rH
stltoday.com
Deaths have been on the rise since the Army Corps of Engineers piled 4,700 tons of rock onto an old dam that crossed the river in Jefferson County.
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Last weekend at @kansasfest, I gave a new presentation on the lesser-known legacy of the late Yaakov Kirschen. Best known for @drybonescartoon, he also developed computer games and software in the '80s. But his projects were almost lost to history. https://t.co/GP2By4WFwP
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@kansasfest @drybonescartoon In this video, you'll learn how this celebrated cartoonist got into computers and see his Apple II games in action — including "Nosh Kosh," a Jewish take on Pac-Man. https://t.co/GP2By4WFwP
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #apple2forever #appleii #kansasfest #kfest2025
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Last weekend at @kansasfest, I gave a new presentation on the lesser-known legacy of the late Yaakov Kirschen. Best known for @drybonescartoon, he also developed computer games and software in the '80s. But his projects were almost lost to history. https://t.co/GP2By4WFwP
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@mobotgarden @stltoday @nprasadreports How much did St. Louis-area public servants earn in 2024? From mayors to teachers to police, the new edition of the Post-Dispatch's Public Pay database has the answers. https://t.co/Dankr88EW6
graphics.stltoday.com
See what police officers, teachers, elected officials and other government workers earn.
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Self-proclaimed explorer Tom Croat of the @mobotgarden is one of three local employees in the @stltoday public pay database who have been serving the public at their respective agencies since the 1960s. Profile by @nprasadreports. https://t.co/f9xrKbeL0Y
stltoday.com
MoBot's Tom Croat is one of the region's longest-serving public employees, according to the Post-Dispatch public pay database.
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