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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 19h

Wishing you the smoothest and best passage through this, and excellent cardiac therapy on the other side. <3

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 19h

Just verifying, this is such a perfect small wonder.

Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 6d

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 19h

And by "desktop app" I ideally mean "fancy website"

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 19h

Is anyone using a desktop app that combines ATProto + fedi feeds? (Openvibe looks like the way on mobile, but I am trying not to look at the feeds on my phone.)

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21h

That is my fear!

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 2d

Exodus 8:4.

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

John 18:38.

Comparative Calm or 'Hellscape'? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

Perfect, thank you!

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

(1989)?

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

Anyway the reason I came here to talk about info overload x channel proliferation instead of yelling into a tree is that I suspect that widespread feelings of precarity + low trust + responsibility-without-control can push a populace toward simplistic solutions that are also very bad.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

“An unauthorized pigeon walked through a school other than the one your child attends and then left and nothing happened.“

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

AND YET

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

I think we got ourselves into this state as a society by believing in the tool-sellers’ promises and now they are pushing a way to make the chaos more unaccountable and less connected to our actual desires (AI) as a solution to the problem they made

Nshrubs @nshrubs.bsky.social · 1d

I have 13 different accounts I have to log in to at school just to do my job. Email, SIS, reading curriculum, math curriculum, science curriculum, explore learning, employee online login, HR/contract login, PD login, Google drive login, parent square, staff resources login, OSPI/eVal login.

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.

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sara simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social · 1d

more work for mother, the twenty-first century edition

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

And our hospital‘s pre-check-in app they funnel you to to confirm appointments turns out to share data with advertisers 🙃

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

It is an entire third shift!

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

I’ve been feeling grim about my apparent inability to manage dozens and dozens of comms channels by ~building more and better toolchains~ or w/e and idk I woke up at 5am 100% certain that this is actually all a weird lie 🤷🏻

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

It’s ludicrous!

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

“Throw routinely away“ is my brain in a kernel panic

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

“Here are fifty emails saying something with a long tracking number is in a process, you’re welcome!”

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

The gmail filters that used to actually help now throw routinely away many of the things I most need ans which things they throw away changes from week to week. I really didn’t realize how bad it was till I did the accounting.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

Ours has seven apps. Seven. But two serve as PORTALS for the others.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

And that’s with a lot of consistent unsubscribing and filtering of all the unsolicited everything else. On “good“ weeks I guess I can spend the hours required to keep on top of all of this and sifting the crucial stuff from the rest but idk, I don’t think I should be.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 3d

It‘s either appalling and callous and vile or it’s the apocalypse and I guess we’ll find out

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