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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 04/09/2026

I am so looking forward to being DONE with this move. It's always amazing to me how much more there is than I think. Moving is the worst.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Each measles case in 2025 US outbreak cost almost $60,000, study estimates, or $134 million total The outbreaks are largely preventable through inexpensive, effective vaccination. Read more: bit.ly/4ilkJwV

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 19/08/2026

Even taken completely out of context, I stand by it.

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 18/08/2026

TFW your work lands on the front page of The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... #dataBS

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 15/08/2026

I am using math that I haven’t touched in 20+ years and it’s surprisingly fun.

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 14/08/2026

I absolutely did, and can’t even enjoy the satisfaction of having been right. 🤬

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 12/08/2026

not okay not okay not okay not okay not okay

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 11/08/2026

ICYMI: At @dataindex.us, we’ve been building tools to monitor notable changes to our federal data infrastructure. Yesterday, we released the Federal Data Terminations Tracker — the most policy-relevant, verified source of terminated federal datasets. #databsky

B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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I feel like the census gets sidelined as a "geeky" topic, but it's not an exaggeration to say it's the whole ballgame Bad count = bad political representation Bad count = bad public health Bad count = bad $ allocations Bad count = bad disaster prep & emergency response Bad count = bad economy Bad...

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 03/08/2026

PS — I've also been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be a "data person", a "scientist", an "analytical thinker" in this brave new world, & I'm working to collect those thoughts in writing. I'm not 100% settled yet on *how* I'll be sharing that, but, I guess, watch this space? 3/3 #dataBS

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 03/08/2026

As one of those gigs wraps up, I'm on the lookout for what's next. Could be advisory/fractional work, could be full-time; what makes me tick is using data/tech/problem solving skills to help subject matter experts do their jobs easier/faster/better. If you know someone I should chat with, LMK! 2/3

Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 03/08/2026

For the past 2.5 years, I've been splitting my time between running all things data at a startup, supporting short-term data needs for a variety of commercial, public, & nonprofit teams, and building the data strategy+tools that power civic tech projects like dataindex.us & essentialdata.us. 1/3

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 30/07/2026

I love it when the feed tells an accidentally but perfectly connected story.

Two posts. The first, by @steveolsen.bsky.social, says, “Why is everything this admin does so freaking incompetent and lazy?!
Oh, right, they fired all the skilled and experienced folks.”
He was re-posting @ericumansky.bsky.social saying, “A State dept map misplaced every African country it named.
Reuters found a watermark made by OpenAl.”

The next post in my feed is an @effinbirds.com illustration with a bird and fancy text that says, “oh no, are we dealing with the consequences of our own shitty behaviour?”

Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 30/07/2026

I asked a smart, but very non-technical friend to look over my consultancy site today for feedback from the perspective of someone very good at their domain who might need data help some day. The response was amazing. #databs

Dark gray chat bubble line on a black background with white text that reads, “Geck. Don't you do science rocks?”

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 27/07/2026

When my friend tells me their company is doing layoffs today and their meeting is in two minutes

Screen shot from Fools Rush in, where Isabel and her mother are lighting candles at the church and discussing Isabel’s husband’s employment situation. The mom asks, “Which candle am I lighting? To keep the job, or lose the job?”

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 21/07/2026

I can’t help but imagine what this would sound like, optimized for linkedinfluence: “Here’s what a massive outbreak of explosive diarrhea taught me about data quality management: [bunch of emoji (poop, thinking, line chart, light bulb)]

Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 19/07/2026

I mean, really, they should have just called Bad Bunny

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 19/07/2026

I can’t believe this is still going

Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 18/07/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot about the bear activity I see and hear about in my neighborhood. This makes me think about all the bear activity in my neighborhood that I don’t see or hear about. 😬🐻

Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 17/07/2026

Good morning to everyone except aws #dataBS

Screencap of my aws cost summary this morning, saying my MTD usage is $1,199,901,002,341.97

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 17/07/2026

Do you care about having accurate 2030 Census data? Spend 20 min checking this out:

Heh heh..I had a piece of an REM song stuck in my head the other day and was telling the kids how annoying it was that I couldn’t even google what song it was because I didn’t know any of the actual words to the part that had invaded my brain.

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Drums, chaos, free will…sign me up

But…”20%” is clearly the bullshit part of those sentences….

CONFUSIÓN DE IDENTIDAD TARJETA ROJA

Kinda feel like we’re all coming out losers here.

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This World Cup started out so promising, but it’s getting more and more unwatchable all the time.

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That’s just bad keepery.

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 11/07/2026

(Which I’m still bitter about)

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I’d be less annoyed about this match heading for extra time if the English didn’t play such incredibly boring football. Hopefully Norway can hurry up and score in the next 3 min so I can move on with my life.

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 11/07/2026

She’d write a sentence on the board, eg “The boy bounced the red ball.” We would have to write for 10 minutes, expanding on that prompt, without using any of the key words (boy, bounce, red, ball).

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 11/07/2026

I distinctly remember the day my 7th grade Humanities teacher practically yelled at us, “You have got to learn how to bullshit! You’re never going to get anywhere in life if you don’t know how to bullshit!” This was the intro to a series of daily writing exercises.

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 10/07/2026

Do you ever get a random word stuck in your head? Today, it’s “corpuscular” Except I really was trying to remember the word “crepuscular” 🙃

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Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 09/07/2026

I saw that shared earlier and it is what made me say, “oh, that’s for real?!” It’d be such a sin in the desert/drought-stricken west, and no amount of “extra water in the environment” would ever improve the Houston summer experience, so I totally get why this is not a thing anywhere I’ve lived!

Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me · 09/07/2026

Grew up in big city west Texas desert, spent a lot of time in Houston before moving to Colorado, and really just learned today that this isn’t just a tv/movie trope

Well, he had a good run

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Egyptian keeper’s having a career day

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This all just makes me more cranky about Mexico being eliminated.

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Matt Freese out here giving “data nerds” a bad name

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That was just textbook “forget how to be a keeper”