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Erin Kissane
@kissane.myatproto.social
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Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, building at Unbreaking.org.

Cofounded the Covid Tracking Project, previously OpenNews, old web nonsense.
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kissane.myatproto.social
it is the year 2025
chaotic APA Psychnet screenshot for article “ Feeds, Feelings, and Focus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Examining the Cognitive…” with title hemmed in by tiny columns of nonsense
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
I will never fault anyone for using canned pumpkin but I have to say, doing it the ridiculously hard way paid off.
an adorable little Winter Luxury pie pumpkin with characteristic “netting” on the rind sitting on a countertop a white mixing bowl filled with brilliantly orange roasted pumpkin that tastes absolutely amazing
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
kissane.myatproto.social
Film still with Turnip-head and Michael and levitating shaggy dog Heen.
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
We are working on *lots of things* but last night we soft-launched a change I am psyched about that makes our timelines filterable. Now you can see all of a case's entries on a given timeline in one place:

unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
Screenshot of filtered timeline: Showing 5 entries related to Chicago Headline Club v. Noem. Oct 6, 2025 Several groups of Chicago journalists sue the federal government for its use of rubber bullets and tear gas against journalists covering demonstrations at the Broadview ICE facility. The suit comes shortly after Broadview officials announce that they have opened three criminal investigations into ICE’s activities (Chicago Headline Club v. Noem). Chicago Headline Club v. Noem Oct 9, 2025 Federal judge Sara Ellis issues a temporary restraining order forbidding arrests of journalists and nonviolent protestors — and the use of physical violence and chemical weapons against them — without probable cause or an immediate threat (Chicago Headline Club v. Noem). Chicago Headline Club v. Noem Oct 16, 2025 Judge Ellis orders federal officers in Chicago to wear body cameras after she reviews footage suggesting that they are continuing to use the violent tactics she restricted in her restraining order on October 9, 2025. Four days later, Judge Ellis questions DHS officers about their continued use of force and chemical weapons (Chicago Headline Club v. Noem). Chicago Headline Club v. Noem Oct 28, 2025 Following on her order requiring immigration agents to wear…
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
Building chrono timelines of hundreds of events for topics with very high info volume is that the timelines are incredibly useful for building *our* understanding and maybe to certain researchers, but for most people they can be kinda uninviting. There is just so much stuff.
Screenshot of Unbreaking immigration timeline entries: Nov 16, 2025 A New York Times investigation reveals that the Trump administration’s mass reassignments of DHS agents to immigration enforcement have compromised public safety work and efforts to combat child sexual abuse, human trafficking, and terrorism. Nov 17, 2025 Nearly 30,000 children (or about 21% of all enrolled students) are reported absent from schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district, where immigration enforcement agencies claim to have arrested more than 130 people. Nov 17, 2025 A report surfaces that DOJ attorneys have been briefed on plans for ICE and Customs and Border Patrol to raid Spanish-speaking churches during the winter holiday season. One attorney says that, following Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor in New York City, the plan has expanded to include mosques and “liberal synagogues.” Nov 18, 2025 404 Media reports that an ICE contractor is launching a pilot program to enlist members of the general public to physically locate immigrants for a payment of $300 per verified address.
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
I see a lot of people talking about the Catholic churches part, which they should be, but a DOJ attorney in New York says the Trump administration is specifically planning holiday raids on mosques and liberal synagogues "in the wake of" Mamdani's win
The attorney in the New York office spoke in depth about the plan being recently updated to include mosques and liberal synagogues in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the New York City mayor’s race. The attorneys spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. All three said the plan is not regional to New England, but a nationwide strategy.
November 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
Natural Grocers was out of BLASTER last week and I had to settle for CLEANSER
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November 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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for the record I did not ask anyone to do this lol
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November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
This moment will not last forever. The generative AI financial bubble will burst. The ongoing fraud and corruption will take a toll on everyone. Authoritarian governments are not known for their prosperity or their long-term stability. But neither will it be brief. Stable, legitimate institutions are not hastily constructed or easily repaired. Those who advocate for change have fewer allies than last time, when we had some limited success in appealing to the better angels of big tech’s nature. Those angels are no more. If we are going to repair democratic institutions, we are going to have to do it ourselves.
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
Banger alert.
It isn’t that my 2018 warning was incorrect, so much as it now strikes me as dismally incomplete. What I had not counted on was that the tech platforms would be much more responsive to the demands of a rising authoritarian than they would be from pressure from their workers, or their users, or their civil society peers. A nervous monopolist is a well-behaved monopolist, but we are not the ones making the monopolists nervous any longer.
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
A public apology: I misspoke earlier this week when I said I don't write about mod decisions because I don't do quick-turn analysis. That is true but the real reason is I cannot endure the state of my replies.
(11) after you Publicly Nuked a JOurnalist account, get caught LiEing about it; -- and pretend it ALWAYS only suspended to save face to dodge accountability. We can SEE the account was fully nuked and now only suspended. Icool you backtracked, not cool hiding behind autocratic opacity.
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
Ahh private window, here it is. Godspeed.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
Truly it is the journalists typing fast on devices known to introduce errors via increasingly deranged autocorrect who are the major societal problem
Bluesky post: I've read five posts from you in the last 2 minutes and every one of them had at least one egregious grammatical or typographical error which elementary schoolers in my family would know better than to offer I miss the days when people felt shame
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
in keyboard settings, at the bottom
screenshot showing how to turn off demonic stickers in ios with a switch marked Stickers in keyboard settings
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
Posts a lot: more than 50 times yesterday
November 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
okay but I made a genuinely badass Witch Hat Atelier costume for my kid and then I made another one for one of her bffs (not pictured)
November 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
I think my amateur guess was basically right, here. It's a game of chicken, played by awful people who want to terrify us and just don't care who gets hurt along the way.

thehill.com/homenews/555...
Among the people who were initially fired and then brought back were leaders in the Global Health Center, including all six of the CDC's regional offices around the world; the team that produces the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; and some of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) employees, known as "disease detectives." EIS employees are typically the first responders in an outbreak.
October 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
Oddly specific DM spam 🧐
Hello! I have a bunch of practical witchcraft books, oracle decks and tarot cards which I am willing to rehome. These books are neat and are in perfect condition. I am moving and won't have space for materials. Willing to ship if possible. I really hope they find a good owner ❤️
October 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
the level of official trolling here…
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September 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
the two genders
An interior wall, edge on. On the left side of the wall is a bookshelf. The book on the end—the only one visible from this angle—is Foucault’s Pendulum with Umberto Eco’s name printed in bright red. On the right side of the wall, on a little brick shelf, is a fuzzy mechanical Hei Hei with a bright red head. It screams, but you cannot see this in the photo.
August 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM
kissane.myatproto.social
get you a man who will bring home a wine bag filled with soy sauce, pickles, and mustard
a wine bag filled with soy sauce, pickles, and mustard. it’s purple.
August 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
kissane.myatproto.social
a.) we don't even do this in the US yet; b.) 3D still out there on every scene, flow intact, bless
Robert Del Naja, from the band Massive Attack, joined the sign-holders and said: "UK civil liberties are trapped in a manufactured crisis. Peaceful citizens of conscience - including pensioners - have become terrorists, at the will of a human rights lawyer turned authoritarian; who now lunges at opinions that expose the moral vacuum of his unrecognisable government."
August 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
ma’am
Is it just me but the 8,8 earthquake is being publicized a bit ... I am seeing these really I hate to say it but there is a "scare tactic" like speak This seems very 'orchestrated'
July 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
kissane.myatproto.social
Robert Blake in Lost Highway, twinkling like a demon.
July 16, 2025 at 5:07 AM
kissane.myatproto.social
Karen I baked a whole cake
two-tier midsummer almond cake with fluffy whipped coconut cream and strawberries on a red plate
July 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM