<?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>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:45:57 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@zachnewell/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA["The End of Humanity" by Zachary Newell]]></title><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fiction/@zachnewell/the-end-of-humanity-by-zachary-newell</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fiction/@zachnewell/the-end-of-humanity-by-zachary-newell</guid><category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2018 21:54:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/21PRtjKRXPQyotRPt1Hd7fPufGf1WCpCvB7qBKbTkPNe9y2hKee4F3s3wSdokk2QYYzQZSNbWVvjU8vWheoHQbXaV7v9a2H7jaaAJitJZ5HpoEiUcaWEZVeXu6qkmhKNTUUeNW8GRqfYh1xCf8QXPft?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Excuses to Look at Old Photographs]]></title><description><![CDATA[So, there's a showdown going on thanks to @flaccidfervor, and I'm trying to come in as a contender: assuming, of course, that anyone will find my photography worth nominating. Still, it's a nice reason]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@zachnewell/good-excuses-to-look-at-old-photographs</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@zachnewell/good-excuses-to-look-at-old-photographs</guid><category><![CDATA[photography]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2018 03:05:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWPGGUiZ9pqnZoj8JHYxCCp9dtn2QVeKDWiyd7dTFxGT29XEUfRq63gN6Qy1BwwkWNNnajq1Rk8Arj6566xXh9b6S9dyaFndmzWiEGYjbz8W?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wandering Communist Posse]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you follow my blog at all, you may recall from a pair of my / recent posts that, in all honesty, I'm just trying to earn some minimal income from Steemit posts describing and/or including photographs,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@zachnewell/the-wandering-communist-posse</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@zachnewell/the-wandering-communist-posse</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2017 02:13:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WTySVi815wTBS1cviU2Mho5Jm3v8vrbhZLRxZfKjrAsiNYoeL3r3kzKdGQ3LeS5ecc4Yj6EH2oW42Tea8hjhxnAmjLYRtiaz25XshbksCRvRoejfXxheX9PMCBuHYXNWVXNpocYLhd3D2TjtBKoyZqVXCH2rmEaSMc?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA["Una Captura de Contemplación" (Blanco y Negro)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Foto por Edgar Avendaño Mejía]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@zachnewell/una-captura-de-contemplacion-blanco-y-negro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@zachnewell/una-captura-de-contemplacion-blanco-y-negro</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2017 20:21:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Zskj9C56UondJxcjVaienfhVaNb7LJVWG6e787gZytUXm7q5j3eo298LQzYtj2EEEQBJESnUhFrPnYCYsEUc5WDdN752cbaM7n4HAGv7bK1xiG5Nov46?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Cheated Death Three Times in a Single Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[Okay, here's the deal: as the tax year draws to a close, I realized that I can claim the costs of my travels this year as business expenses as long as I write about them here, earn at least a penny in]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@zachnewell/por-que-me-llaman-patrizio</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@zachnewell/por-que-me-llaman-patrizio</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2017 17:51:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWPGGUiZ9pqnZoj8JHYxCCp9dtn2QVdjgx2DWyuN1tTVSJ3fZj8xarJ6fpyXvBp8K2KnySCKGXTmVcniBRyShPpz75kkstWVpNRFzXShbEgn?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Useful Material You May Pass Along to Audiences Interested in Starting to Invest in Crypto-Currency]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello, fellow Steemians! Recent schoolwork has compelled me (i.e., Diaphora Media) to produce a DITA architecture for "Insight Green," a local firm with some interest in financial technologies.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@zachnewell/useful-material-you-may-pass-along-to-audiences-interested-in-starting-to-invest-in-crypto-currency</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@zachnewell/useful-material-you-may-pass-along-to-audiences-interested-in-starting-to-invest-in-crypto-currency</guid><category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2017 22:55:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8DAuGnTQCLpunQuGfHnXTmxWbRQScCVGspXNWFwLsQoakV4pBLyuf8Dy9s3fzPujgzh2yVSwsSPK8MAQoktctLLbv5KX9bZK8Fkx9qW3mtJj2hobUH8LdecQuyK8DFEcwrSmXE24owy8TLGA9XfbpMhXFG1YfzmX8EyuBc1ySHc?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The School of Life: "Art is Advertising for What We Really Need"]]></title><description><![CDATA[<iframe width="560" height="315" src=" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> I sometimes find "The School of Life" reductive, but I appreciated this video.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/video/@zachnewell/the-school-of-life-art-is-advertising-for-what-we-really-need</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/video/@zachnewell/the-school-of-life-art-is-advertising-for-what-we-really-need</guid><category><![CDATA[video]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:18:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eBZyzvvvzNCPkp9Be7jNoqzScTbXdFvP438?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fuck It, Just Blog Your Depression]]></title><description><![CDATA[Called my mom just now. She is a cheerful, happy person with a brooding, unhappy son. I eventually broke down and told her how sorry I am that she had me and not some other child who wouldn't have given]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/story/@zachnewell/fuck-it-just-blog-your-depression</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/story/@zachnewell/fuck-it-just-blog-your-depression</guid><category><![CDATA[story]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2017 03:21:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anecdote about Social Media]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alexis de Anda's Mea Culpa, the comedian's latest Netflix special, contained some thoughts on Instagram I found worth transcribing from the subtitles. (Here's a sample of her comedy, if you like.) "It's]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/comedy/@zachnewell/anecdote-about-social-media</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/comedy/@zachnewell/anecdote-about-social-media</guid><category><![CDATA[comedy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:54:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Day Without Leaving the House]]></title><description><![CDATA[The day begins, except it’s already noon. You fed yourself breakfast with half a grapefruit, and congratulated yourself for it, though only because you’ve been told that only if you appreciate these small]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/story/@zachnewell/6jnrqv-a-day-without-leaving-the-house</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/story/@zachnewell/6jnrqv-a-day-without-leaving-the-house</guid><category><![CDATA[story]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:46:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/X37EMQ9WSwsKQG7nhCXMsgXxUQHwtJm4rGgDFSP27G8NsdRKSQ4zrcjMZHRR2uV2Dr1yfXgwKXDtuCi9H6Jxo7XMd3WhojomLqW8E?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Day Without Leaving the House]]></title><description><![CDATA[The day begins, except it’s already noon. You fed yourself breakfast with half a grapefruit, and congratulated yourself for it, though only because you’ve been told that only if you appreciate these small]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/story/@zachnewell/a-day-without-leaving-the-house</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/story/@zachnewell/a-day-without-leaving-the-house</guid><category><![CDATA[story]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2017 02:40:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/X37EMQ9WSwsKQG7nhCXMsgXxUQHwtJm4rGgDFSP27G8NsdRKSQ4zrcjMZHRR2uV2Dr1yfXgwKXDtuCi9H6Jxo7XMd3WhojomLqW8E?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Announcing the Release of...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good morning, friends who have been following me, and anyone new to my blog! Alright, gotta make this a quick one, because my latest medication makes me sleep much later than usual, and I gotta jet in]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@zachnewell/announcing-the-release-of</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@zachnewell/announcing-the-release-of</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:50:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/DogN7fF3oJDTuidMLNGK1CtaL2tBERGm5op3XzMRqfZrMrj7DYcTRn9siPsVaxLHEUc795CZN3Epm4ubbTe2oWauHT6QMbS9e7McC7dnKdvPSww2GfJ2ux89RgPbsNmdbkNcN6azwVciAYHVDaSUFwm8Xi6SnN9YafuYVoqPWRYGKsPJkUuJCqiAQ7tAfzz6Mwu7foTiT3fbV?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism Kills]]></title><description><![CDATA[Given the recent change in rankings of the world's richest people--I don't know why people do this, but they do--I felt this image worth posting to Steemit. I have verified its contents. (Found on CAFE.)]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/meme/@zachnewell/capitalism-kills</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/meme/@zachnewell/capitalism-kills</guid><category><![CDATA[meme]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2017 02:03:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXa4Zb7fsVYPyCe4F8FSBfzyV6Y1jnGiSFuFGNTaHhC4FSCuSedPE7kVMUrxy1MmKCqbG5YnnCU6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-Inspired Addendum to an Ill-Advised Account]]></title><description><![CDATA[I wrote earlier that I’d describe what I’ve done to reach the targets listed there. Of course, I felt obliged to admit I chose not to take that course to become an instructor in English as a second language.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@zachnewell/self-inspired-addendum-to-an-ill-advised-account</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@zachnewell/self-inspired-addendum-to-an-ill-advised-account</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2017 20:13:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/54TLbcUcnRm1VakV3Pn3u65vFAUuCtaMEAZshTdpW5cmFg5e4Mj3KcJUWnNgP6LcWmNmDfUAQx4qCHHCbDy276doZR87CwogYkCpSo7sCw9ySbkDsbzcPBkbpCGnBkpULj5GMQ2Y6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Account Delivered Against Sound Advice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Working alongside my friend @mada last week, and discussing my project to engage with a larger Steemit audience, my own good sense forced me to considered his advice, summarized (in tremendous paraphrase)]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@zachnewell/account-delivered-against-sound-advice</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@zachnewell/account-delivered-against-sound-advice</guid><category><![CDATA[steemit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2017 03:28:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/54TLbcUcnRm4iM9kej7MpMeuFqQyj6imNdj41eH42gVJYJ7fxVBS5At4SGFiGhAnpamyFJbAR68T8YKV3YeoUjGdyGeHG2y1GstJL4pPp3G3oT2gVzSdbkN1q1aECkkGWLxQw6Z1Y?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bonus Round [Short Story]]]></title><description><![CDATA[(Art via @senjukannon) ~ Vanessa’s friends all agreed, myself included, that she would kill herself eventually. None of us could say she didn’t have a reason, but that’s a privacy I don’t plan to breach.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@zachnewell/bonus-round</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@zachnewell/bonus-round</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2017 03:59:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/DogN7fF3oJDTuidMLNGK1CtaL2tBERGm5op3XzMRqfZrMrj7DYcTRn9siPsVaxLGzFABsUZmH64TUETpnjRV9ysECMi1aQeb4Zs5QFNV79bfKYSrAU6KoGxvvaASKtF2NYYkhaRoQC8ehpPQbkhSZExWqFPUhun9GsirfH7ZJNutfahWcA6kSc3XxLKbVMVDtF8moUru93Tir?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fragment of an Afternoon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Karl Marx claimed, "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." Today, I show you myself and @mada, two whom some might (perhaps]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@zachnewell/fragment-of-an-afternoon</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@zachnewell/fragment-of-an-afternoon</guid><category><![CDATA[steemit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2017 02:39:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3zpz8WQe4SNH8gRrhSTSyrfDuWnG8b6fFPGSpk8ngtTpCqhJaNfncfab4qcjW4yeSF6uaq5XxaL3eegM1DYPrkSy8tYyC7Gvnndxj6ELwuUJjeeH3vNLYQzb2d6kLkuwggJTuRLT6xxbYRHBHno8?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Plan Now Written in Rough Draft]]></title><description><![CDATA[At this precise moment in time, my life's target is to experience the kind of relief expressed in the following image from Breaking Bad, after Walter White killed all the neo-Nazis. From this point on,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/lifegoals/@zachnewell/the-plan-not-yet-written</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/lifegoals/@zachnewell/the-plan-not-yet-written</guid><category><![CDATA[lifegoals]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2017 18:06:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/HNWT6CKZBgnwTjkmLKQJMXiBL94RceC6M9N1rdkUvvvjNtqB1JgD2eis5zzEtE5jXiXdJ7nX2kCn42QDTrq9gNuDkFkNr79fFTndfCUbxWeS7xpL2x26efXZSVk?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live Blogging from Caffetto]]></title><description><![CDATA[Greetings, fellow Steemians! Here we are at Caffetto (we=@aron.wolde, @mada, and I) talking about the publishing industry--and not least about the revolutuonary potential of this network for building]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/appreciation/@zachnewell/live-blogging-from-caffetto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/appreciation/@zachnewell/live-blogging-from-caffetto</guid><category><![CDATA[appreciation]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:20:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming of an Inconceiveable Proximity (Spontaneous Poem)]]></title><description><![CDATA[I dream, now and then, Though almost never in bed, Imagining windmills As docks for dirigibles That only charge a few coins-- Or even none, on Sundays-- For a flight to a land Only hours from our own Where]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@zachnewell/spontaneous-demi-poetics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@zachnewell/spontaneous-demi-poetics</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zachnewell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2016 03:54:36 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>