<?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>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:16:17 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@nonsqtr/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Sunset On Lake Malawi]]></title><description><![CDATA[Picture by author Taken late 2013. We were just free floating and enjoying some Carlsberg which is the most ubiquitous and affordable beer in Malawi. The fishermen came up to us and we had a chat about]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@nonsqtr/sunset-on-lake-malawi</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@nonsqtr/sunset-on-lake-malawi</guid><category><![CDATA[photography]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[nonsqtr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2018 19:09:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWPGGUiZ9pqnZoj8JHYxCCp9dtn2QVe6XEQMxAqGYfYhsy4V8WX39T7SH8Ww1Vmr3QPp5kF2nfMjoY3K7Ah8c2FEoLwAcihZfkjRYPsBjvnr?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stephen Hawking Dead at 76]]></title><description><![CDATA[Now go read about it on BBC on CNN, I'm not going to rewrite all that crap for free.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hawking/@nonsqtr/stephen-hawking-dead-at-76</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hawking/@nonsqtr/stephen-hawking-dead-at-76</guid><category><![CDATA[hawking]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[nonsqtr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 07:05:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/qjrE4yyfw5pQYiuVvgYiUBP16WHGGN7UNn1BCdGde1FAmE1wFzARdK5ojJFboAHT5p9mwwwPfx518AZsTs2jp8EGU25hXbRXCvkuAp7vwvsvGsc7QVJpjyuY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sunshiners – Reggae for Nostalgic GenX’ers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here's a lazy post, but it sure has more substance than half of the $200 earning crap out there. It brings me joy and if anyone else with memories of the 80s find some value in this on a Saturday morning]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/music/@nonsqtr/the-sunshiners-reggae-for-nostalgic-genx-ers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/music/@nonsqtr/the-sunshiners-reggae-for-nostalgic-genx-ers</guid><category><![CDATA[music]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[nonsqtr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2018 11:33:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eJK5TAWJsonbzL4hoNpB5rcFLU4XBnEAM4J?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generic Crypto Speculation News]]></title><description><![CDATA[Word-cloudy generic crypto image Seeing as actual blogging is not working for me on Steemit right now, maybe if I start repeating what all these well-upvoted posts are rehashing (cough) ten times per day,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/crypto/@nonsqtr/generic-crypto-speculation-news</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/crypto/@nonsqtr/generic-crypto-speculation-news</guid><category><![CDATA[crypto]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[nonsqtr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2018 07:52:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2r8F9rTBenJR3iqPxDrevHK3vDeQGnHc8Wj8C8neh9STwj6MJPw6g4ZpGkSGaFyBGvobMwAsGXN6WeGBUhoHSDTFVGy6Q3deqNA2QfF6Q5dwvds5mv9pRK4eYvqzpr3e6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a Planet Stuck to The Bottom of My Shoe And I Can't Get It Off]]></title><description><![CDATA[A LAYMAN'S MUSINGS ON THE NON-DETERMINISTIC NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE FRUSTRATION OF NOT BEING ABLE TO EXPLORE IT The tyranny of interstellar distances. A quote from one of the books in Dan Simmons's]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/space/@nonsqtr/there-s-a-planet-stuck-to-the-bottom-of-my-shoe-and-i-can-t-get-it-off</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/space/@nonsqtr/there-s-a-planet-stuck-to-the-bottom-of-my-shoe-and-i-can-t-get-it-off</guid><category><![CDATA[space]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[nonsqtr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2018 21:41:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXa41e2UZA5fHBQo9gAQHAJFGE91ofKu6J65CGcEdF1idisDNPHKW8qJEASkc8g27gXe5mKVpUFQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Double post]]></title><description><![CDATA[Double post, can't delete... apologies]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@nonsqtr/i-found-steemit-almost-too-sanitized-i-was-wrong-and-have-found-the-drama-and-fun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@nonsqtr/i-found-steemit-almost-too-sanitized-i-was-wrong-and-have-found-the-drama-and-fun</guid><category><![CDATA[steemit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[nonsqtr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2018 07:05:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Steemit Was a Bit Too Sanitized. I was wrong.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something that struck me from the first day was the lack of spicy language, flame wars and controversy. In real life, I swear like a sailor. Most people do. Sometimes I write like that, but am keeping]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@nonsqtr/i-thought-steemit-was-a-bit-too-sanitized-i-was-wrong</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@nonsqtr/i-thought-steemit-was-a-bit-too-sanitized-i-was-wrong</guid><category><![CDATA[steemit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[nonsqtr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2018 06:25:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/HNWT6DgoBc18GVREvvsnAjfLwLF5qHHFduNHKinq2v69smGLJ2qorHE9tvFzF3AUSaHQVuxn2wndfZSgi9keouA31FNHnNACvD3HiNUQCTdvpAahiFHdtGEhtPG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cactus and Succulent Labyrinth - Graaff Reinet, South Africa]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was fortunate enough to recently have passed through the town of Graaff Reinet for the first time in decades. I have history here as my uncle had a farm outside of the town and also a house in town.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/travel/@nonsqtr/cactus-and-succulent-labyrinth-graaff-reinet-south-africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/travel/@nonsqtr/cactus-and-succulent-labyrinth-graaff-reinet-south-africa</guid><category><![CDATA[travel]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[nonsqtr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:44:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/RGgukq5E6HBS5wvERDA3ZF4P2WKQy2VoZZet1QV2R9CsVHoBeCSYEXZA4E8VNYHvLbqhDZmC4qRvCuzjK6YrPQMLkVEETJpC1Bxy55ACB2iXQ9c6wKzgC9FnRdHjJo8?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Not Me Google, It's You - Invoking Article 50 On My Soft Gexit]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'm unable to pinpoint the year, but Yahoo! was my portal from the first day that I dialed into the web using a GUI browser. They were the cool kids at the time. 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There are thousands of users with nothing to contribute, just waiting to miraculously hit the mother lode through asinine comments and feeble upvotes This is to be expected as the apparent premise offered]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@nonsqtr/13-days-into-steemit-7-things-that-i-ve-learnt-so-far</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@nonsqtr/13-days-into-steemit-7-things-that-i-ve-learnt-so-far</guid><category><![CDATA[steemit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[nonsqtr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:45:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2r8F9rTBenJR3iqPxDrevHK3vDeQGnHc8Wj8C8nehA6r11kpbTYvBnoD7jbKH6wSnx2Y1t9U8jURbDfeV1eLSqvZ75KpFh7piFtekauBg2FUNCyaPqyATuJ56a7FdfcoY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tri-Polar: Depression's Knife-Wielding Evil Siamese Twin]]></title><description><![CDATA[About my mind I will never forget my first existential crisis. 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Also, never did the "proof" pic to show that I'm legit, so here goes...]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/introduceyourself/@nonsqtr/adddendum-to-introduction</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/introduceyourself/@nonsqtr/adddendum-to-introduction</guid><category><![CDATA[introduceyourself]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[nonsqtr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 06:41:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/RGgukq5E6HBS5wvERDA3ZF4P2WKQy2VoZZet1QV2GkxdxXtxHaCEXQfArwfyxp7nuxwdsyaKLMKEfqaGFS4n9Kjbrjw8h12QM93shaUR4S8rYh5qWc5KEEjHPpckxSz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disco 84 - Laura Branigan]]></title><description><![CDATA[No. 2 in my series of musical memberberries from my childhood. I just realised that the subject of my previous post had died some time ago and so it is for this post. 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Synthesizers were now affordable enough for many people to experiment with and this]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/music/@nonsqtr/at-the-height-of-chicago-house-darryl-pandy-brings-the-joy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/music/@nonsqtr/at-the-height-of-chicago-house-darryl-pandy-brings-the-joy</guid><category><![CDATA[music]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[nonsqtr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:01:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45e6fJWEvJLmKTf965nYoNDtbkHiLFmxvZKmx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Childhood - The Space Age]]></title><description><![CDATA[(In half a century, we never even came close again. I’m betting on you, Elon!) Even before being able to grasp much more than my immediate environment, I was obsessed with space. This probably had a lot]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/space/@nonsqtr/my-childhood-the-space-age</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/space/@nonsqtr/my-childhood-the-space-age</guid><category><![CDATA[space]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[nonsqtr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 12:51:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Zskj9C56UondJxcjVaienfhVaNb7LJVWG6e787ga1LQtw7XHU85nKEkoX7jnNrzR8gCLdAbn5oqeMwtgMYtqwwVZiTvGzarNxZj6wiPsXEAxkBja66jQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bill and Ed's Excellent Database Adventure.]]></title><description><![CDATA[No words of mine could improve on this. 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