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Johnny Killoran @johnnykilloran.com · 21/02/2026

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 · 11/10/2025

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 · 21/02/2025

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.’)

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 · 11/11/2024

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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

(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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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 · 11/11/2024

(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 · 11/11/2024

(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 · 11/11/2024

(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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

(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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

(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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

(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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

The hell was I talking about. 15/25

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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 · 11/11/2024

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 · 11/11/2024

(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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

(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 · 11/11/2024

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 · 11/11/2024

(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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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 · 11/11/2024

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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

"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

(left to right) childhood photo of little Johnny, little Ellen, and little Katie

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 01/05/2022

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)

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 01/05/2022

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)

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 01/05/2022

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)

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 29/03/2022

Wordle 283 3/6 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 28/03/2022

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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 28/03/2022

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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 23/03/2022

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!

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 22/03/2022

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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 16/03/2022

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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 16/03/2022

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??

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 16/03/2022

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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 16/03/2022

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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 14/03/2022

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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 13/03/2022

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 t.co/Wwb2U7nZdY

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 12/03/2022

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

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Ellen Killoran @ellenkilloran.bsky.social · 12/03/2022

Looking into the #AshaDegree case, disappointed to find that the inmate who contacted a local newspaper with a tip died in prison in July. This wasn't reported but I learned it when I tried to contact him. LE interviewed him and another inmate, but said it was a dead end.

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