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Erin Kissane

@kissane@mstdn.social
mastodon 4.5.6

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system.

I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics.

Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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Joined November 04, 2022
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Pacific NW, USA
internet website:
https://erinkissane.com

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Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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Erin Kissane
Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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@kissane@mstdn.social · Jul 21, 2023

ok migrating instances 🦆

see you on the other side and/or goodbye forever 🕳️

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Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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Erin Kissane
Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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@kissane@mstdn.social · Jul 21, 2023

ICYM the (UTC−08:00) evening fedi-meta post but are interested, I wrote a whole lot about the ripple effects of interface confusion on Mastodon—and about Black Twitter and the recent troubles on Bluesky, and why people use things that are far from ideal, and also these dudes, whom I love.

https://erinkissane.com/the-affordance-loop

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Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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Erin Kissane
Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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@kissane@mstdn.social · Jul 21, 2023

Something that old (old old) Twitter was and that fedi has been maybe even more—despite a lot of the specialist communities not being here rn—is *incredibly generous* in response to requests for specialist recommendations/ advice, and it's extremely cool, and I'm grateful.

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Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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Erin Kissane
Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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@kissane@mstdn.social · Jul 21, 2023

@dadalo_admin@dadalo.pl Are you suggesting that this is an additional problem, or the root cause of the missing replies issue I describe?

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Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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Erin Kissane
Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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@kissane@mstdn.social · Jul 21, 2023

@myeyesaredim@mstdn.ca I see some helpful posts from you in my client but when I try to fave them it looks like they’ve been deleted, so I’m copying out the links—thank you for sending them!

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Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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Erin Kissane
Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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@kissane@mstdn.social · Jul 21, 2023

@DemocritusDiscoBall@mastodon.social I don’t actually think there’s any need for them to be linked. I think people are just (probably understandably bc humans) so defensive about free independent networks that they respond to most criticism as though it were a criticism of the ideals rather than the practices. I’ve seen *so* many masto posts calling people (Black and otherwise) clout-chasers and bootlickers for finding this place untenable or talking about racism here.

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Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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Erin Kissane
Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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@kissane@mstdn.social · Jul 21, 2023

@DemocritusDiscoBall@mastodon.social Happy to address it when you’re feeling up to it! (My own shit is flaring up rn so empathy as well as sympathy.)

For later: I’m pretty vigorously anti-capitalist and it has been wildly frustrating to see people’s totally legitimate complaints about affordances and cues (and racism) brushed aside as capitalist bootlicking. That’s…not how we win.

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Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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Erin Kissane
Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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@kissane@mstdn.social · Jul 21, 2023

@jmadelman@historians.social Thank you! I hope it's useful.

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Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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Erin Kissane
Erin Kissane
@kissane@mstdn.social

Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system. I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics. Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.

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@kissane@mstdn.social · Jul 21, 2023

But what is the actual PROBLEM with Mastodon?? Said one hundred dozen people over several months of threads here. So I wrote it up.

It's too long, but we got bad doors, stilt-walking French shepherds, water bugs, a bunch of @/shengokai@zirk.us quotations, What The Fuck Is Up With Bluesky, and more.

https://erinkissane.com/the-affordance-loop

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