<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:15:58 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@acolucky/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[One Thing I know for sure...]]></title><description><![CDATA[...when you type "Walmart shooting" into a search engine, you have to be more specific.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-168689/@acolucky/one-thing-i-know-for-sure</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-168689/@acolucky/one-thing-i-know-for-sure</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-168689]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 02:54:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corona Virus has ravaged the markets...]]></title><description><![CDATA[...but my toilet paper stock is on a roll.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-168689/@acolucky/corona-virus-has-ravaged-the-markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-168689/@acolucky/corona-virus-has-ravaged-the-markets</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-168689]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:30:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if the cure for Corona Virus...]]></title><description><![CDATA[...is a wedge of lime?]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/punchline/@acolucky/what-if-the-cure-for-corona-virus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/punchline/@acolucky/what-if-the-cure-for-corona-virus</guid><category><![CDATA[punchline]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 03:11:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern Chess Euphemisms]]></title><description><![CDATA[With all of the dramatic events happening on Steemit, it is easy to forget what matters in life. Chess has been around since the Old Testament, and it has driven many people just as mad. The game has changed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/humor/@acolucky/modern-chess-euphemisms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/humor/@acolucky/modern-chess-euphemisms</guid><category><![CDATA[humor]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 18:14:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2r8F9rTBenJQfQgENfxADE6EVYabczqmSF5KeWefV5WL9WFP315T3TbbCLpF4U5TagCba5SnC29yWCaQUKGw6udBnqLuJ9t3UdFaMKUEpg2KTJX2woZJDaWfdKGiNYmHG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Steemit Meme]]></title><description><![CDATA[I made this and put it up here a while back. For reasons you all know, it feels more appropriate now. The Painting: Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@acolucky/a-steemit-meme</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@acolucky/a-steemit-meme</guid><category><![CDATA[steemit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 20:36:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/32FTXiZsHoAW6noHJDhrg3W8ZKHVFSsLYM859aTDCF8iErMrR5TAQBp1cTgHUvitJ61oPjFPmtD1zP6WS9xXsU3fQQiZ17anWJSkn3wuxs3yjwZx2JjgsnkbokyaUiqL9tSUD2QfF59e18cn?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meme Challenge #159 entry 1]]></title><link>http://direct.ecency.com/memechallenge/@acolucky/meme-challenge-159-entry-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/memechallenge/@acolucky/meme-challenge-159-entry-1</guid><category><![CDATA[memechallenge]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:42:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2r8F9rTBenJQfQgENfxADE6EVYabczqmSF5KeWefV5WL9W9pBU5yiFtcYfK3ZgnVSpgJz9tvP9vfBoqCfijEqHDY5W4z88zzS2WZHD7iz2zSuRJXjbWWGN7x6wJ9b9DvN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classic Art Steemit Meme #2]]></title><description><![CDATA[Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/promo-steem/@acolucky/classic-art-steemit-meme-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/promo-steem/@acolucky/classic-art-steemit-meme-2</guid><category><![CDATA[promo-steem]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 12:48:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/32FTXiZsHoAW6noHJDhrg3W8ZKHVFSsLYM859aTDCF8iErMrR5TAQBp1cTgHUvitJ61oPjFPmtD1zP6WS9xXsU3fQQiZ17anWJSkn3wuxs3yjwZx2JjgsnkbokyaUiqL9tSUD2QfF59e18cn?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classic Art Steemit Meme #1]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Last Supper by Leonardo Davinci.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/promo-steem/@acolucky/classic-art-steemit-meme-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/promo-steem/@acolucky/classic-art-steemit-meme-1</guid><category><![CDATA[promo-steem]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 21:33:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/qjrE4yyfw5pEPvDbJDzhdNXM7mjt1tbr2kM3X28F6SraZguvNXXG2o4B6kRNCUQR1WWxr1YpFtPqfb56XSqQMC62YhEUUq6zvt6cFxh6rjZtCx1LhXdzXHJE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Coronavirus and What You Need to Know]]></title><description><![CDATA[This Coronavirus is an ominous event. Still, it will take quite a bit to top the Heinekenvirus of the early 2000s. Some experts warn this could get as lethal as the Spanish Flu (probably caused by a bad]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/coronavirus/@acolucky/the-coronavirus-and-what-you-need-to-know</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/coronavirus/@acolucky/the-coronavirus-and-what-you-need-to-know</guid><category><![CDATA[coronavirus]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 03:16:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next Colony--A Retrospective: The Fourth Planet, A New Frontier, and Never Give It Up]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pestilence, disease, pollution, rot, stink, perversions, incompetence, and a lack of basic respect for the health and welfare of fellow colonists. These are only some of the ways I have described conditions]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/nextcolony/@acolucky/next-colony-a-retrospective-the-fourth-planet-a-new-frontier-and-never-give-it-up</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/nextcolony/@acolucky/next-colony-a-retrospective-the-fourth-planet-a-new-frontier-and-never-give-it-up</guid><category><![CDATA[nextcolony]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2020 02:18:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2FFvzA2zeqoVJ2SVhDmmumdPfnVEcahMce9nMwwksSDdRvZexDkWxYA8rmhg9u8fCfG7h1jiiTAJCTuhJHZs9NK933BmD13UxS6WUwdm2CqNbQKXTeHXvfBiecbti?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next Colony--A Retrospective: The Third Planet, Progress, and Wipe Your Feet Before You Go]]></title><description><![CDATA[The stat sheet claims this Uncommon Ore planet is habitable: Opeth We lived there. Some of the old-timers remember. That was before the machines took over. That was the plan all along. "Get the machines]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/nextcolony/@acolucky/next-colony-a-retrospective-the-third-planet-progress-and-wipe-your-feet-before-you-go</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/nextcolony/@acolucky/next-colony-a-retrospective-the-third-planet-progress-and-wipe-your-feet-before-you-go</guid><category><![CDATA[nextcolony]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2020 04:36:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/HNWT6DgoBc14riaEeLCzGYopkqYBKxpGKqfNWfgr368M9UvymqSdyBzf7wceDBs2WJmszrbt6wPCZgY2jcm82XndMrjoApuqU8Uak9Brd3XEGws4oPxESNGnU4N?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next Colony-- A Retrospective: The Second Planet, Opening the Universe One Square at a Time, and Looking for War in All the Wrong Places]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eventually, after weeks of building and learning from the starter planet, my explorer skill made level twenty. As I admitted in my first retrospective post, things had become rather deplorable on Lucky-1:]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/nextcolony/@acolucky/next-colony-a-retrospective-the-second-planet-opening-the-universe-one-square-at-a-time-and-looking-for-war-in-all-the-wrong</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/nextcolony/@acolucky/next-colony-a-retrospective-the-second-planet-opening-the-universe-one-square-at-a-time-and-looking-for-war-in-all-the-wrong</guid><category><![CDATA[nextcolony]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:16:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2FFvzA2zeqoVJ2SVhDmmumdPfnVEcahMce9nMwwksSDdRvNgZAFfADEYqL5oSvVo67CHSQujURoBYNetmdZBM58Afa98EVfd3Y8qetJtZ2tnDCTJiNVzUz5UTgfXk?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Post Dedicated to Anal Retentive People Everywhere]]></title><link>http://direct.ecency.com/humor/@acolucky/a-post-dedicated-to-anal-retentive-people-everywhere</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/humor/@acolucky/a-post-dedicated-to-anal-retentive-people-everywhere</guid><category><![CDATA[humor]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 22:48:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3jpR3paJ37V8JxyWvtbhvcm5k3roJwHBR4WTALx7XaoRovsvnHokL2WzKRpsNDVKcBFNfkZPRYqaqSoFNioJ1uooNxc4pssWuFxGKoGiZDCX2owmfHXT1UirCd3Y61qtRQLSS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next Colony--A Retrospective: The First Planet, Survival of the Human Race, and These are the Days of Our Lives]]></title><description><![CDATA[A long time ago, I decided to try out a game through Steemit. What the hell, I thought, I like games and I like to make the Steem. So, I made a character in Drug Wars and played for about two days. 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Chichikov doesn't want]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/literature/@acolucky/dead-souls-by-nikolai-gogol</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/literature/@acolucky/dead-souls-by-nikolai-gogol</guid><category><![CDATA[literature]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 03:36:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3jpR3paJ37V8JxyWvtbhvcm5k3roJwHBR4WTALx7XaoRovcmhMTLx8wHE7utemuiM7nUTBopKDNRMrEvmCzDzoMkiP6CDuDZGFJ4oVMKYGfGo85Jm5HmAiej9HCAjDhj1meYE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Loaves and A Happy New Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have a good one everybody.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@acolucky/two-loaves-and-a-happy-new-year</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@acolucky/two-loaves-and-a-happy-new-year</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:47:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3jpR3paJ37V8JxyWvtbhvcm5k3roJwHBR4WTALx7XaoRovciHyySaGdtb6oHJVQQKysKSqJ82J3ypuJCf4HBb8pieWKsW73QMrMZZuVCcAXXK7FRiasWeaH3xrPM3NTrMUu5Q?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alert! A Community Service Announcement! DOUBLE ALERT!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a terrible rumor that Comedy Open Mic is coming back. Just when I thought my generation had suffered enough. And a Christmas theme? I haven't been this traumatized since seeing the three tittied]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/comedyopenmic/@acolucky/alert-a-community-service-announcement-double-alert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/comedyopenmic/@acolucky/alert-a-community-service-announcement-double-alert</guid><category><![CDATA[comedyopenmic]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2019 13:41:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Attend Our First Professional American Football Game]]></title><description><![CDATA[X-mas came early to the Lucky household. Last Sunday, the wife and I took a bus across uptown, Minneapolis, hitched a ride across downtown on the new multi-million dollar train line, entered the new billion]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@acolucky/we-attend-our-first-professional-american-football-game</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@acolucky/we-attend-our-first-professional-american-football-game</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2019 21:32:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/99pyU5Ga1kwqSXWA2evTexn6YzPHotJF8R85JZsErvtTWXuj1pyaEze4hJReWnmrH6ptXF8JSPuQYbJGd7EoEV1eDfDpwjpaiAQYMvaLgJ9wMDtNz1icg53qXZ4QxQL1BU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Road Home: Winter Arrives to Minnesota]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than one year ago, my wife and I began moving from The City to a piece of rural family land near our hometowns. My entirely inadequate documentation of this process is titled The Road Home. That brown]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@acolucky/the-road-home-winter-arrives-to-minnesota</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@acolucky/the-road-home-winter-arrives-to-minnesota</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2019 16:51:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2r8F9rTBenJQfQgENfxADE6EVYabczqmSF5KeWefV5WL9WPFuFRugL8Qhzv7VqPJJ7kfpFpgKiau7FG9bZbz2Z4tTsH8KEfha4mDDwgPYWhR3PWV428dJvRjKiBSkW4hL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next Colony: Friends and Foes]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have been grinding away at NextColony, a Steemit made game, for the past thirteen years. In that time, I've gathered a total of twelve planets, built hundreds of large battleships, and pumped up my skills]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/nextcolony/@acolucky/next-colony-friends-and-foes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/nextcolony/@acolucky/next-colony-friends-and-foes</guid><category><![CDATA[nextcolony]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acolucky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:23:21 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>