Ellen Killoran

13 Jan 2022

I’m going to need more information

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Johnny Killoran

@johnnykilloran.com

21 Feb

To @ellenkilloran.bsky.social, on what would have been her 50th birthday. I would not be making some aging joke at her expense today—not out of fear of hurting her feelings (it would not), but because that shit’s hack and it wouldn’t get a laugh.

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Johnny Killoran

@johnnykilloran.com

11 Oct 2025

Replying to @johnnykilloran.com

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.

Ellen Killoran reposted

Johnny Killoran

@johnnykilloran.com

21 Feb 2025

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.’)

Ellen's brother Johnny here. While I'm finishing setting up her space on this site, I'm going to (temporarily) leave up a cut-and-paste of a quite delberately overlong (25-part, not including this one!) explanation from the other site. ("This place" means "that place," and vice versa.) 0/25

(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

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

(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

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

(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

(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

(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

(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

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

(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

........ 14/25

The hell was I talking about. 15/25

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

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

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

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

(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

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

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

(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

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

(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

First, THE BAD NEWS: 1. (Gestures sheepishly to America) 2. I don't know if you're much for current events but word on the street is that this particular website has rapidly devolved over the last 2 years & last week reached its nadir as a sort of NazIncelCryptAIChudNet. 2/25

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

"BAD NEWS/BAD NEWS?/GOOD NEWS?, AND SOME STUFF ABOUT 'LADYHAWKE'" - A 25-Part Thread to Close Out Ellen's Twitter Account (By Ellen's Brother Johnny) 1/25

1 May 2022

I want to say again (as I've mentioned to several of Ellen's friends & colleagues directly) that my family and I greatly appreciate your support and your kind words about her over the last, very difficult, month. Life will never be the same, but staying connected helps. (5/5)

1 May 2022

So I'll be popping in intermittently to maintain this account as a place where we ("we" including "all of you who knew her") can share stories and remembrances of Ellen; I might also post (or re-post) some of her work on occasion. (2/5)

1 May 2022

This is Ellen's brother Johnny. Given Ellen's scope of work and presence on this platform she hate-loved, our family wanted to make sure we could preserve it. (1/5)

29 Mar 2022

Wordle 283 3/6 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

28 Mar 2022

So are the people who’ve decided they no longer need to wear masks on the subway going to set up a fund for immunocompromised people and parents of small children to take Ubers/taxis? Or have you all decided we don’t deserve to have lives

28 Mar 2022

This is despicable, on one of the coldest days of the year. https://t.co/j0kLTWbANq

27 Mar 2022

come on https://t.co/3tFFZpYgIb

27 Mar 2022

This is infuriating https://t.co/GTAIqNRhuO

23 Mar 2022

I know someone looking for a studio, 1 bed, or even a room in Brooklyn ASAP (April 1 move-in), if anyone knows of anything. Thanks!

22 Mar 2022

I had a dream I interviewed Britney Spears in the smallest bathroom of my childhood home

20 Mar 2022

This thunderstorm is dope

17 Mar 2022

https://t.co/QTq7uH7C88

I’m in hell, aka a taxi riding in a bike line while i and cyclists scream for him to get out

People are aggressively, unapologetically refusing to wear masks on the subway where they are still required. What are you planning on doing about this @NYCMayor??

There are a lot of people mysteriously missing in the US right now and not a lot of updates

Yeah, I did that https://t.co/yDxXN2lOLU

The amount of interest that you earn on savings accounts is embarassing for everyone involved

14 Mar 2022

Severance is upsetting but I like the same skirt on Day 2 and I hope it continues. It’s a good skirt and how is anyone supposed to not repeat outfits

13 Mar 2022

This archive is still all there for free because I have low executive functioning so give it a whirl and consider a paid subscription as I work on the next mystery & a possible Kubacki bonus entry https://t.co/Wwb2U7nZdY

12 Mar 2022

I'd still really like to know what Marcus Mellon had to say.