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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

I’m going to need more information

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Johnny Killoran @johnnykilloran.com · 21d

My Irish-twin sister @ellenkilloran.bsky.social, who died way too young three years ago, won tickets to see the Diane Keaton movie BABY BOOM when she was like 10. But she got in a big fight with our dad about something and he didn’t let her go and I don’t think I can ever watch that movie.

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Johnny Killoran @johnnykilloran.com · Feb 21

The annual visit to celebrate @ellenkilloran.bsky.social on her birthday. (This year we got Neutral Milk Hotel’s ‘In the Aeroplane Over the Sea’ and John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s ‘Double Fantasy,’ featuring a bonus pickup of Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Guts.’)

Two little girls standing, back to back, facing the entrance to Amoeba Music on Hollywood Blvd. They each hold a bag from the store containing an LP.

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

I'm johnnykilloran.bsky.social if you have thoughts, questions, comments.

Here's to Ellen, getting to give this place the kiss-off.

To play off her last-and-forever pinned tweet (and now pinned...skeet? don't love that, neither would she): Let's keep sharing information. 25/25

Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

(Conclusion cont'd)
I'm going to keep tinkering, set up some block lists for her, try to follow the people she followed here who are over there, probably prune a lot of the migrated tweets that were just me posting updates (because of images that became urls and such). 24/25

Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

CONCLUSION
ellenkilloran.bsky.social
Account is up and running; I do need to (and will) change that bio to remove the panicked DO NOT FOLLOW warning. You can follow. 23/25

a screengrab of Ellen's (former) Bluesky bio. it reads "IN-PROGRESS BUILD OF AN IN MEMORIAM SPACE FOR ELLEN'S TWEETS BY HER IN-OVER-HIS-HEAD BROTHER WHO'S HAD TO DOWNLOAD PYTHON AND IS LEARNING CODING (??) IN AN ATTEMPT TO TRANSFER HER DATA. DO NOT FOLLOW UNTIL THAT'S ALL SET, TY. - @johnnykilloran.bsky.social"

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

(Good News? cont'd)
So as much as I'm doing this for my family, I'm doing it for a lot of other people who knew Ellen personally and/or professionally, appreciated her kindness & her smarts & her perspective, who might appreciate getting to hear her voice once in a while. 22/25

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

(Good News? cont'd)
and I can tell you that it's nice to be able to hear her voice by reading it every once in a while. Social media was not where Ellen *plied her craft*, but she was a writer--and good writing simply can't stop itself sometimes, regardless of the medium. 21/25

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

(Good News? cont'd)
2d. Ellen wouldn't give a shit about "maintaining" a single one of her tweets (I won't be migrating any of mine before I nuke my account), certainly not on a public forum. But she's gone, and I love her, and I miss her every day... 20/25

Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

(Good News? cont'd)
The process that I started from (before becoming a master hacker) explained that any tweet that was a reply, or started with an @ or included a quote of another tweet (or was a retweet) wouldn't post on Bluesky. So that explains at least some of it. 19/25

Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

(Good News? cont'd)
2c. Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed, in Point 1 of "Good News" (Tweet 7 of this thread), an asterisk on "(eligible)" in "(eligible) tweets." *Of the 26K or so tweets of Ellen's that I now possess, about 10K & a quarter made it back up on Bluesky. 18/25

Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

(Good News? cont'd)
and finally at around midnight last night I figured out a fix for the error that had plagued me for 24 hours all by my lonesome and activated the migration. I am legitimately proud of the achievement, far more than a reasonable adult would or should be. 17/25

Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

The Bluesky move!

(Good News? cont'd)

2b. It was super-complicated (for me, who hadn't attempted to input code since maybe high school computer lab) and it took all weekend and I had to join Github but I couldn't get anybody to talk to me (nerds) 16/25

Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

The hell was I talking about.

15/25

Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

........

14/25

Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

SAME GUY. John Wood, what a talent, RIP circa 2011. 13/25

still photo of John Wood as an evil bishop in LADYHAWKE

still photo of John Wood as a kindly scientist in WARGAMES

Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

It didn't, though. Great movie, great synth score, great Michelle Pfeiffer. Fun memory.

Know what's wild? The guy who plays the evil bishop who cursed Hauer & Pfeiffer and the guy in WARGAMES who plays the despondent but kindly genius who teams up w/ Broderick & Sheedy? ...12/25

Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

Our paternal grandmother had taken us to lunch at the Howard Johnson's in Somerset (Mass.); afterwards my sisters and I sat in her car and watched her call our mom on a payphone and ask her permission to expose us to a film I was certain would contain unimaginable violence. 11/25

Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

LADYHAWKE was an important film for me, as it was the first PG-13 movie I ever saw. I believe it was Ellen's first, too, and it might have been our older sister Katie's. We all saw it together; none of us was 13. 10/25

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

For my money, actually? In terms of Baby-Matthew-Broderick movies? I prefer LADYHAWKE to WARGAMES. So we'll keep me as Matthew Broderick from WARGAMES in this scenario, but make Ellen......

Rutger Hauer from LADYHAWKE. Such a badass & Broderick was very intimidated by him. 9/25

still photo of Rutger Hauer, holding a hawk, and Matthew Broderick, huddled behind Hauer as they both sit astride a horse, in the film LADYHAWKE

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

(Good News? cont'd)
2a. Just now briefly I thought, "oh, and it could be like Ellen was with me as Ally Sheedy" but then I remembered that they weren't brother-sister they were romantic so that doesn't work. 8/25

still photo of Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy in WARGAMES

Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

(Good News? cont'd)
1. I've created a Bluesky account for Ellen and migrated all (eligible)* tweets from this account to that one. I was able to do this because
2. I spent the weekend becoming a genius coder/master hacker, here's a current photo of me 7/25

still photo of Matthew Broderick in WARGAMES

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

THE GOOD NEWS?

Is Bluesky any better than this place? At the moment it is without question. Will it *stay* better, especially if a rise in popularity leads to more capital which leads to advertising & corporate boards & so on? THAT'S WHY "GOOD NEWS?" HAS A QUESTION MARK. 6/25

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

(Caveat Break cont'd)
2. Given that she was a fairly obsessive Twitter user, as I was until two years ago, Ellen would have preferred not to have had to bail on it--but, at the very least in terms of personal use, she would have fucking bailed on it. Roundabout now. 5/25

Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

CAVEAT BREAK:
1. I downloaded a raw data file of everything Ellen ever posted here *two years ago*, because I am what the French call "prescient" (same spelling, French-er pronunciation), so it's all saved, just in a different format. 4/25

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · Nov 11

Leading to THE BAD NEWS?

1. This thread marks the last time anything will be posted on Ellen's Twitter account, because
1a. I am deleting Ellen's Twitter account, later this week probably. 3/25