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Erin Kissane

@kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
181 followers 6 following 216 posts

Doing uspol info mutual aid at Unbreaking.org. Squinting about knowledge and networks at wreckage/salvage. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Knight Moz OpenNews + […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mas.to/@kissane, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025
I think Mastodon's proposal for starter packs is a significant positive evolution of the way Bluesky rolled them out. I wound up on a bunch of packs there and it was…not a great thing for my specific brain and purpose. I do hope the people in Masto's comments saying […] [Original post on mas.to]
Firstly, it's important to us that users have control over whether they appear in Packs on Mastodon. Early design explorations with our concept of Packs led us to the following possibilities:

• Packs will become an extension of discovery. Users who wish to opt out entirely from Packs will be able to do so by disabling the existing setting, labelled "Feature profile and posts in discovery algorithms". This will signal that an account cannot be added to a Pack.
• Users will be notified when they are included in a Pack. Unlike on Bluesky, where users wishing to remove themselves from a Starter Pack must either report the Starter Pack, or block the user, users on Mastodon will have a more neutral mechanism to remove themselves from a Pack they do not wish to be part of. (note: we implemented something similar with the Quote Posts feature, where an original post can be removed from a quote post; this same idea would flow through to Packs).
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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2025
Another fast response is what the NYT does here, which is to throw the EO onto their big tracker (ty to the Times reporter who posted a gift link) to get it onto the board, and link directly to the EO itself […] [Original post on mas.to]
Screenshot of NYT tracker item reading “Feb. 19 Day 31
Ordered federal agencies to run regulations past the so-called Department of Government Efficiency
Read more ›” with the topical tags “DOGE,” “Regulations,” and “Executive order.”
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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2025
Reposting bc @boby_biq either found or made a gif of the *exact moment* I was thinking of when I wrote it Give me the Avasarala interface you cowards, I yelled into my desk drawer erinkissane.com/against-entropy
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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2024
gotta go turn into a bone horse, see you next year
A 19th-century Mari Lwyd from Glamorgan, now owned by the Horniman Museum. Displayed here at a temporary exhibition on hoodening at the Maidstone Museum. This one has cloth flowers and streamers and very winning little ears and dark eyes, an excellent bone horse.
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