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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

"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

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

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

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

(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

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

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

........ 14/25

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

(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