Josh Renaud | @kirkman.bsky.social

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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/2026/03/2…

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.

@jprutherford @mujschool @stltoday @TheAthletic Good luck to your daughter as she makes her choices. BTW, I wouldn't trade my experience at UMSL working for The Current for anything. It was formative — gave me everything I needed for my career. Hope you feel the same.

In the 1990s, my dream was to attend @mujschool. It didn’t work out, but for good reason. I was hired @stltoday and had a baptism by fire with a tremendous staff of reporters/mentors. That eventually led to my current position @TheAthletic, for which I’m extremely lucky and grateful. Today, my daughter Georgia toured the J-School. I’d be proud of whatever path she takes, but I’d be thrilled if she got to learn alongside these gifted faculty and students in a very impressive environment! Thanks for the fun day, even if it was 30 years after I planned!

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.

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!

@maraka77i Interesting. I was trying to square that with Jeremy Reimer's data on personal computer market share ... he has lifetime ST sales (1985-1993) at only 2.1 million, though it's unclear to me if his data is U.S.-only. jeremyreimer.com/rockets-item.l…

A bit of Atari hiSTory, March 1991, Atari announced they had sold 200,000 new STs in 1990, and reached the total worldwide sales of 2,500,000 #AtariST computers so far.

Rents soar across St. Louis region, especially where investors buy homes stltoday.com/news/local/gov… via @stltoday @StephKukuljan @Kirkman

@ericgarland Maybe share the original P-D story which resulted from dozens of interviews and hundreds of hours of reporting, instead of the aggregator site's copy? stltoday.com/news/local/gov…

St. Louis-area mayor admitted to impersonating law enforcement officer dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

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. stltoday.com/news/local/gov…

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: christianitytoday.com/2025/10/ice-ra…

@fiveironfrenzy So interested that I'm using this webzone to respond, even though I'd rather not. (but seriously, I'd buy a new FIF album sight unseen right now)

Anyone interested in a new FIF album? 💿 How interested exactly?

This is cool for #STLBlues fans

Post-Dispatch analysis shows Missouri congressional redistricting would cement GOP control for years to come stltoday.com/news/local/gov… via @stltoday

Read the story that got this premium comment from a reader stltoday.com/news/local/edu…

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.

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/show/st-louis-…

@kodacohen @PDPJ Shorn off, surely.

@PDPJ Torn off or worn off?

Today, I've seen two temp tags with the dates torn off them. #stl

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." stltoday.com/news/local/gov…