Of all the things this meeting could have been, "an email" is the least interesting possibility.

We can do better.

This meeting could have been moment of unexpected kindness.
This meeting could have been an escape from the cold shackles of the ideologies that have held us apart for too long.
This meeting could have been the faint scent of cherry blossoms, unknowingly carrying the weight of memory with them on the gently wafting breeze.
This meeting could have been the rest of the owl.
@mhoye This meeting could have been the change you want to see in the world.
@mhoye This meeting could have been behind the wheel of a large automobile
@irvingreid I hope this email finds you in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife.
@mhoye this meeting could have been the delicious evening chill heralding the shifting of seasons from summer to autumn.
@gnomon @mhoye This meeting could have been a pumpkin spice—on second thought, no.
@juanejot @mhoye I don't know, man - I see that joke come out of folks who make a habit of belittling women. I'm not saying you have that habit, just saying it's a good joke to avoid because of that association.
@gnomon @mhoye Huh. Anyone can like pumpkin spice. I do, sometimes, to a very specific point.
Belittling anyone is not at all my intent, but if women feel I’ve done so, I’m prepared to take their concerns seriously and edit/remove the post.
@juanejot no worries. If I thought it had been your intent we'd be having a very different conversation, not a gentle exchange about how you might be coming across in a way you obviously did not anticipate.
Effects of using mobile instant messaging on student behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement: a quasi-experimental study - International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education

Mobile instant messaging (MIM) has become the most popular means for young people to communicate. MIM apps typically come with a myriad of features that educators may leverage to increase student learning. However, it remains poorly understood to what extent and in what aspect MIM can facilitate student engagement. We address the gap by comparing the effects of using MIM and asynchronous online discussion (AOD) on student online engagement, using a quasi-experimental study involving a historical cohort control group. Understanding which communication mode can better promote student online engagement is particularly important during the current widespread use of online learning. Specifically, we examined engagement from the behavioral, emotional, and cognitive dimensions. The results showed that the MIM group was more behaviorally engaged in discussion activities, producing more messages, more words, and higher rates of participation, task completion, and interaction. Emotionally, no statistically significant difference was found in students’ affective evaluation of course interaction and satisfaction between the two groups. However, MIM appeared to help students with improved intimacy and interpersonal relationships. Cognitively, the MIM group was more engaged than the AOD group. In particular, MIM seemed to facilitate interactive idea exchange and thus contributing to more “creating” activities. We conclude by providing suggestions for future instructional practice and research directions.

SpringerOpen
@mhoye This meeting could have been the wisdom to know the difference
@mhoye This meeting could've been all right, could've been here tonight, could've been sweet as wine, could've been a lady.
@mhoye This meeting could have been a final desperate attempt to escape the fate that They wrote for us in the Unexistence before time began. Iä! Iä! May They not turn Their burning regard upon us as They pass.
@gvwilson @mhoye This meeting could have been a coffee at Revolver :-)
@gvwilson @mhoye This meeting could have been us cooking spaghetti at Tom DeMarco's place :-)
@gvwilson @mhoye This meeting could have been a Stanley Park bicycle ride :-) !
@gvwilson @mhoye This meeting could have been a delicious Hapag takeout lunch at Jones park.
@mhoye This meeting could have been an adventurous descent into the lava tubes in a secret crater of Mount Snæfellsjökull, leading to a hidden world-under-the-world, and back again to the surface - thousands of miles from whence we started.
This meeting could have been foretold by Nostradamus.

@mhoye This meeting could have been Agnes Nutter's 3042nd prophecy.

#GoodOmens

"Of all the meetings in all the companies in all the world, she walks into mine." - An email.
This meeting is shocked - shocked! - to find that email is going on in here!
@mhoye Meeting, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful email.
@mhoye This email could've been a parenthetical aside.
@kiplet This email could have been little more than a footnote, and with the benefit of hindsight perhaps in truth it was.

@mhoye

This meeting could have been an RPG.

Roll for initiative.

@jrconlin @mhoye Can't tell if D&D or GTA 4 multiplayer.

@mhoye this meeting could have been a general strike!

sorry. sorry. i got excited. trying to delete

@mhoye This meeting could have been a V8!™️ 😃
@mhoye This meeting could have been an interpretive dance.
@mhoye This meeting could have been the first days of a better society (h/t @gvwilson)
@mhoye This meeting could've been the friends we met along the way.
@chutten @mhoye this is EXACTLY what I wanted to reply now. Glad I scrolled up first to not be that guy with the already-posted reply.
@chutten @mhoye This meeting could've been a gentle whisper, carried on the wind through a grove of willow trees.
@mhoye I can't believe it's (the meeting's) not email!
@mhoye This meeting could have been a pile of ashes that unburned itself into a poem of glass slivers and lost promises
@mhoye This meeting could've been the gonozooids of a siphonophore
@xorn that's the spirit.
@mhoye This meeting coulda, woulda, shoulda.
@mhoye This meeting could have been an intervention.

@mhoye I suppose I’ve done a similar one before:

https://fosstodon.org/@juanejot/109880458210656228

juanejot (@[email protected])

This meeting could have been a drinking game.

Fosstodon
@mhoye This meeting could have been an awkward glance at a convenience store at three in the morning.
@mhoye This meeting could have bees.
@mhoye This meeting could have been with the Buddha on the road.
@mhoye This meeting could have met my needs.
@mhoye This meating could have been tenderized better.
@mhoye This meeting could have been me just fucking off from work.
@mhoye This meeting could have been a well-deserved raise.
@mhoye A: This meeting cud tastes funny; you try.
B: Look, we talked to you about this at your last performance review…
@mhoye This meeting could have been a post-it and a little chocolate by your pillow.
@federicomena This meeting could have been flower petals scattered haphazardly about the duvet, subtly drawing the eye to the red rose on the pillow.
@mhoye This meeting could have been eating kosher dill pickle spears right out of the jar
@mhoye This meeting could have been an infinite set of successively shorter meetings.
@mhoye This meeting could have sent a poet
@mhoye this meeting could have been (and might still turn into)…. 4 meetings
@mhoye
this meeting could have been an informal boxing group with unnecessarily duplicated rules
@cathodion The first rule of this meeting is that it is not going to be an email. The second rule of this meeting is that it is _not_ going to be an email.