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@akafarm.bsky.social

artist and local (he/him)

created June 9, 2023

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Profile picture Rick Paulas (@rickpaulas.bsky.social) reposted

It is officially *3-mile walking audio ghost story starting at the Pulaski Bridge* season

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2/9/2025, 1:47:19 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

skew horizon

2/9/2025, 12:40:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lake Erie! Live! (@lake-erie.live) reposted

Current* conditions near Cleveland, OH:

View looking WNW over Edgewater Beach and Lake Erie. // Image captured at: 2025-09-02 11:21:57 UTC (about 3 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Cleveland: 57.25 F | 14.03 C // Precip: scattered clouds // Wind: S at 3.444 mph | 5.54 kph // Humidity: 81%
2/9/2025, 11:24:27 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

vaporwave horizon

2/9/2025, 4:08:12 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

this fuckin' rules

2/9/2025, 3:41:35 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Baudrillard Warned Us (@baudrillardwarned.us) reposted

"Embalmed and pacified." - Simulacra and Simulation

2/9/2025, 3:07:02 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

surely there's a one ring / oura / palantir joke that someone who gives a shit about hobbits should be making right now

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Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social) reply parent

nice - looked like charismatic offshoot of the cactus šŸ˜…

1/9/2025, 5:04:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social) reply parent

what is the little Memphis-style noodle on the lower left, the black-and-white thing???

1/9/2025, 4:50:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture the Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) reposted

absolutely terrible news

1/9/2025, 3:30:30 PM | 338 148 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lake Michigan! Live! (@lake-michigan.live) reposted

Current* conditions near Grand Haven, MI:

View looking north over Grand Haven beach and its iconic lighthouse and pier jutting into Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-09-01 14:36:10 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Grand Haven: 69.65 F | 20.92 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: S at 5.010 mph | 8.06 kph // Humidity: 65%
1/9/2025, 2:36:34 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social) reply parent

watched with sound on. Technology!! 🤩

1/9/2025, 2:43:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture š”š”žš”¤š”«š”¢š”±š”° 🧲 (@magnets.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

bsky.app/profile/bria...

1/9/2025, 1:15:57 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist (@lizaadamczewski.bsky.social) reposted

The first of September, who knows where the time goes? Painted on beautiful larger than average vintage Italian folding panels; This icon of a ringed plover and her chick will be available in my September exhibition.

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Profile picture Baudrillard Warned Us (@baudrillardwarned.us) reposted

"Quadrophonics, hyperstereo, or hifi constitute a conclusive debasement." - Seduction

1/9/2025, 9:36:58 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lake Erie! Live! (@lake-erie.live) reposted

Current* conditions near Sandusky, OH:

NW view from the Power Tower overlooking the Top Thrill 2 ride and others in Cedar Point Amusement Park, on the shoreline of Lake Erie. // Image captured at: 2025-09-01 10:24:03 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Sandusky: 57.90 F | 14.39 C // Precip: mist // Wind: N at 0 mph | 0 kph // Humidity: 70%
1/9/2025, 10:24:27 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

specular horizon

1/9/2025, 2:20:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pattern Loops (@patternloops.bsky.social) reposted

2025.08.31

1/9/2025, 1:14:15 AM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

horizon humped high, humped up, humped higher and higher, black as stone horizon sits with its head like a carving in space and the little green cat is a bug in the grass

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Profile picture Stan Kelly (@kartoonistkelly.bsky.social) reposted

Fixed it.

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1/9/2025, 12:25:12 AM | 2029 334 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sal9009.bsky.social (@sal9009.bsky.social) reposted

When a kid is raised by graphic designer parents, even if he is a different sort of designer, he can still make his parents proud: (Also he’s far from a kid now) #freeDC #releaseTheSandwich #sandwichPower

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Profile picture Moby Dick (@mobydickatsea.bsky.social) reposted

there’s no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my throat. And when that’s done, ten to one I sing ye the doxology for a wind-up

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Profile picture not an art thief (@famousartthief.bsky.social) reposted

you’ll know if the president buys the farm because really weird shit will start happening in the crypto markets out of nowhere at least three or four hours before anybody says anything publicly

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Profile picture Gumby Screens (@gumbyscreens.bsky.social) reposted

Frame #5264 from 60sE50 lawn party
31/8/2025, 10:00:15 PM | 19 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

avoiding a deadline today by playing w cyanotype chemicals

cyanotype on fabric featuring, like almost all cyanotypes, silhouettes of plants. there is also a lil bowl of plums nearby
31/8/2025, 8:48:54 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social) reply parent

(not the second floor of the suicide staircase nightmare thing, I mean the mall)

31/8/2025, 8:46:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Moira Donegan (@moiradonegan.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Somewhere the staff of a phrenology app have taken Molly and embarked on a techno and group sex project, but for once—I can feel it in the air—that place is not here.

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Profile picture Baudrillard Warned Us (@baudrillardwarned.us) reposted

"And this ecstasy is obscene." - The Ecstasy of Communication

31/8/2025, 8:36:55 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social) reply parent

second floor has the best public toilets in Midtown though, fwiw

31/8/2025, 8:44:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social) reply parent

yes but the overturn doesn't take effect until October for some reason www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/b...

31/8/2025, 6:06:59 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Eileen Clancy 🧿 (@clancyny.bsky.social) reposted

This is an artifact that should go into the Smithsonian.

31/8/2025, 5:47:55 PM | 33 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

is this one....gestating?

31/8/2025, 4:45:53 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

LOL sometimes this guy, you gotta just sort of let him talk and talk while you enjoy your food

31/8/2025, 3:31:50 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social) reply parent

I figure if I need to pay attention to her, others will report on it

31/8/2025, 3:30:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social) reply parent

Beetlejuice house vibes (complimentary)

31/8/2025, 3:25:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Galvin-Almanza (@galvinalmanza.bsky.social) reposted

This is FANTASTIC. We live in a country where more than half of people released from prison end up back in prison. Letting people earn real money, build a life, save a nest egg- this is the path to true safety share.google/J8EM2aYHEUXj...

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Profile picture Baudrillard Warned Us (@baudrillardwarned.us) reposted

"And there is no crisis of reality." - The Perfect Crime

31/8/2025, 1:36:53 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chia (@chia.bsky.social) reposted

I cannot "upgrade to macOS sequoia". i am seeing another world on my desktop

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Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

šŸ¤©šŸ¦‡

31/8/2025, 3:01:13 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

!!!! 🤯

31/8/2025, 12:49:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

Lake Erie encounters trouble entering hyperspace

31/8/2025, 12:22:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rachel Cohen (@cohen489.bsky.social) reposted

I got arrested yesterday! (real drop off from being a corporate law firm associate five months ago. or upgrade.) I was blocking vehicles leaving from ICE’s Broadview, IL, staging ground and de facto detention center at 1930 Beach St. full statement (for now) below.

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Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

Lake Erie has entered hyperspace

30/8/2025, 11:57:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist (@lizaadamczewski.bsky.social) reposted

At only 145 mm across when fully opened this Goldcrest in the thorns is about as small as I can go without a magnifying glass. Available in my open studio exhibition which runs from the 11th-15th of September

A goldcrest perched on a thorny twig against gold
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Profile picture Jacob Harris (@jacobharr.is) reposted

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

30/8/2025, 9:34:23 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell.bsky.social) reposted

Highly recommend this deeply reported story from AZ Mirror's @jerodmacevoy.com on a secret ICE facility at the Mesa airport. Weaves together something hyperlocal and specific with how it fits into the national without ever losing sight of the humans being harmed. azmirror.com/2025/08/29/t...

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Profile picture Tim Wilson (@wilsonti7.bsky.social) reposted

ā€œTransformerā€, Lamar, Colorado

Photo of graffiti on one of those green box transformers. Text: GRAFFITI KEEPS RENT LOW! with line drawing of what looks to be an antenna tower drawn as two lines coming together after a ways with a halo around the top, three cross lines, and a ā€œhorizonā€ lines that’s longer pointing to the phrase ā€œBIFF ā€˜24’
30/8/2025, 5:49:31 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

iridescent horizon

30/8/2025, 5:09:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ceej (@ceej.online) reposted reply parent

critically: it’s just as important to know a guy as it is to be a guy that someone else knows

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Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social) reply parent

that would not be popular in Oslo lol

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Profile picture old fruit pictures (@pomological.xor.blue) reposted

oranges, painted by james marion shull, 1910

oranges, painted by james marion shull, 1910
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Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

sir the people are waiting for something glorious to happen to you

30/8/2025, 12:13:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Lobel (@mlobelart.bsky.social) reposted

James Ensor, Skeletons Warming Themselves, 1889

Painting of three dressed-up skeletons in the foreground around a stove on which is written ā€œPas de feuā€ and under it ā€œen trouverez vous demain?ā€ā€”ā€œNo fire. Will you find any tomorrow?ā€ The skeletons are accompanied by a palette and brush, a violin, and a lamp, with skulls placed in various other places
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Profile picture Katie Mack (@astrokatie.com) reposted

I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -ā€œAn Ethical Grookā€ by Piet Hein

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Profile picture Armando Iannucci (@aiannucci.bsky.social) reposted

Autocrats’ Playbook: page 17. Criminalise your opponents. I mean, at this stage it writes itself. www.foxnews.com/video/637738...

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Profile picture A.R. Moxon (@juliusgoat.bsky.social) reposted

no corpse no corpse you're the corpse

30/8/2025, 11:26:12 AM | 651 45 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pattern Loops (@patternloops.bsky.social) reposted

2025.08.29

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something wonderful on the horizon

30/8/2025, 3:02:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture angela hudson jones (@angelahudsonjones.bsky.social) reposted

section of gallery floor (hauser & wirth, los angeles) exposing tiles under concrete.
30/8/2025, 2:53:32 AM | 36 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Good Boy (@goodboy.bsky.social) reposted

New Hampshire has the Indiana of New England vibes

30/8/2025, 2:38:46 AM | 26 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

well duh

30/8/2025, 2:37:22 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

oh now i get the swan lake jokes

30/8/2025, 2:13:00 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis (@kendrawrites.com) reposted

"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"

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Paradise Autoresponder: "Water Unavailable"

30/8/2025, 12:33:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

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Ernie is just offscreen watching Bert get his shit rocked, and you're laughing??

29/8/2025, 6:58:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Eaton (@sparrowpost.bsky.social) reposted

Roland Barthes on Proust's madeleine moment: #AContinuation25, The Neutral

From The Neutral: b. Outside the Field of Rationality A burst of brilliance of the kairos, of the moment in its pure status of exception, its absolute power of mutation = the satori (Zen word). Perhaps something like a Western example of satori: Proust's madeleine or, rather, the paving stones, the clinking, and the nap-kin: otherwise we would encounter Christian language: conversion, illu-mination, whereas the satori is not the descent in oneself of a truth, of a god, but rather a sudden opening into the void:
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Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social) reply parent

heh, when I was an HR flunky at a hedge fund my power move was booking otherwise-unused fancy conference rooms specifically so i could nap under the big tables...

29/8/2025, 6:42:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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grand blank horizon

29/8/2025, 6:39:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Fully Automated (@fullyautomatedluxury.com) reposted

Ah, the Ibsen play

29/8/2025, 4:30:35 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social) reply parent

lol windows10 www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/...

29/8/2025, 4:16:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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thank you for your service 🄹

29/8/2025, 4:14:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MoMA Paintings and Sculpture (@moma.bsky.social) reposted

Giacomo Balla, Circular Planes, 1924 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135898

The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation
29/8/2025, 3:34:01 PM | 34 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Wiseman (@lemonodor.bsky.social) reposted

Even in 2019 we knew that Twitter was no longer a place of honor or joy.

The Walt Disney Co. came close to buying Twitter, yet did not go through with a deal because CEO Bob Iger could not shake his feeling of dread, he revealed in a recent New York Times profile.
29/8/2025, 3:50:27 PM | 20 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Sommerfeldt is on vacation (@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social) reposted

Adams admin officials just confirmed this reporting by us on a briefing — that NYC's historically bad Legionnaires outbreak has been traced to Harlem Hospital and an EDC site. Before we ran this story, Adams spokeswoman Kayla Mamelak claimed we would be "wrong" if we published.

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Profile picture Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted

The current regional EPA head in charge of cleanup is Scott Mason, a former Oklahoma energy official who "was also an author of the Project 2025 plan that called for ending certain pollution regulations, toxic chemical clean-up programs, and research on the impact of pollution on human health."

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Profile picture amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) reposted

Pleased to report that they figured it out last night!! šŸ‘‹šŸ‘‹ I love all my fans.

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Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

...anyone else seeing wildly degraded web performance on the NYT site? Bush-league stuff like pageloads taking 30+ sec, links shifting out from under a click, etc? Happened in the last week or so.

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Profile picture Baudrillard Warned Us (@baudrillardwarned.us) reposted

"Do you want to jump me?" - Seduction

29/8/2025, 12:06:43 PM | 1 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Noah Rosenblum (@narosenblum.bsky.social) reposted

A better world is possible even now

29/8/2025, 3:12:28 AM | 19 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sjberger.bsky.social) reposted

Proud of my state senator. Any chance the GOP has a conscience?

29/8/2025, 3:13:13 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pattern Loops (@patternloops.bsky.social) reposted

2025.08.28

28/8/2025, 10:16:01 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lake Michigan! Live! (@lake-michigan.live) reposted

Current* conditions near Grand Haven, MI:

View looking north over Grand Haven beach and its iconic lighthouse and pier jutting into Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-08-28 21:06:07 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Grand Haven: 71.97 F | 22.21 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: NNW at 14.965 mph | 24.08 kph // Humidity: 46%
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Profile picture Peter Huestis (@peterhuestis.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

My favorite is Gamblin's Torrit Grey: they periodically have to clean out all their various pigment filters and screens, and instead of throwing it away, they make it into paint which is never quite the same twice: gamblincolors.com/torrit-grey/

28/8/2025, 7:17:29 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

called the two assholes who represent me in the Senate to get them to start proceedings to remove RFK jr, maybe try your senators as well? Gillibrand: 212-688-6262 Schumer: 518-431-4070

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Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

remembering how difficult it was to book an appointment when the COVID vaccine was first released - now we're making it even harder/illegal, for no reason. This administration is just an endless sequence of cruel and stupid own-goals

28/8/2025, 6:00:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

poetic artefacting here

28/8/2025, 5:54:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

people i follow here seem to really like the elephant graveyard youtube video about comedy or whatever, and I feel crazy: who **on earth** is watching 90+ minutes of a slideshow with voiceover?? i played like 90 seconds and had zero patience for it. And I make long, slow video art! what is going on!

28/8/2025, 4:27:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Stephen Jacob Smith (@stephenjacobsmith.com) reposted

Please, for the love of god, stop non-emergency helicopter flights to Manhattan! They completely ruin the experience of the Hudson River waterfront around West 30th St…just insane noise externalities for the benefit of so, so few people.

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Profile picture Tina Smith (@smith.senate.gov) reposted

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

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Profile picture Eryk Salvaggio (@eryk.bsky.social) reposted

Luddites of the World, Unite! www.cio.com/article/4022...

28/8/2025, 1:42:37 PM | 22 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social) reply parent

I chuckled and stopped reading when one of the bosses mentioned the offense of "selectively ignoring AI-generated recommendations without clear justification" šŸ˜…

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Profile picture Sam Biddle (@sambiddle.com) reposted

It remains staggering to me that, in the absence of meaningful penalties for the people at fault, this has simply become a part of ordinary modern life.

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Profile picture dorian (@doriantaylor.com) reposted

i am sure i have said this before but i feel like an email newsletter is just a degraded blog post like when i get your newsletter the first thing i do is go look at it properly on the web; i do not read it in my email client like it's just a very inefficient notification mechanism imo

28/8/2025, 12:43:23 PM | 24 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

so excited to see this

28/8/2025, 11:57:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture aka.farm (@akafarm.bsky.social)

the relief of realizing you're not Gussie Fink-Nottle / the horror of realizing you might be Bingo Little

28/8/2025, 2:51:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business. I am happy to stay on for two weeks to provide transition, if requested. This decision has not come easily, as I deeply value the work that the CDC does in safeguarding public health and am proud of my contributions to that critical mission. However, after much contemplation and reflection on recent developments and perspectives brought to light by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I find that the views he and his staff have shared challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people. Enough is enough. While I hold immense respect for the institution and my colleagues, I believe that it is imperative to align my professional responsibilities to my system of ethics and my understanding of the science of infectious disease, immunology, and my promise to serve the American people. This step is necessary to ensure that I can contribute effectively in a capacity that allows me to remain true to my principles. The recent change in the adult and children’s immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people. The data analyses that supported this decision have never been shared with CDC despite my respectful requests to HHS and other leadership. This lack of meaningful engagement was further compounded by a ā€œfrequently asked questionsā€ document written to support the Secretary’s directive that was circulated by HHS without input from CDC subject matter experts and that cited studies that did not support the conclusions that were attributed to these authors. Having worked in local and national public health for years, I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people. It is untenable to serve in an organization that is not afforded the opportunity to discuss decisions of scientific and public health importance released under the moniker of CDC. The lack of communication by HHS and other CDC political leadership that culminates in social media posts announcing major policy changes without prior notice demonstrate a disregard of normal communication channels and common sense. Having to retrofit analyses and policy actions to match inadequately thought-out announcements in poorly scripted videos or page long X posts should not be how organizations responsible for the health of people should function. Some examples include the announcement of the change in the COVID-19 recommendations for children and pregnant people, the firing of scientists from ACIP by X post and an op-ed rather than direct communication with these valuable experts, the announcement of new ACIP members by X before onboarding and vetting have completed, and the release of term of reference for an ACIP workgroup that ignored all feedback from career staff at CDC. Their desire to please a political base will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults. Their base should be the people they serve not a political voting bloc. I have always been first to challenge scientific and public health dogma in my career and was excited by the opportunity to do so again. I was optimistic that there would be an opportunity to brief the Secretary about key topics such as measles, avian influenza, and the highly coordinated approach to the respiratory virus season. Such briefings would allow exchange of ideas and a shared path to support the vision of ā€œMaking America Healthy Again.ā€ We are seven months into the new administration, and no CDC subject matter expert from my Center has ever briefed the Secretary. I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us. Unvetted and conflicted outside organizations seem to be the sources HHS use over the gold standard science of CDC and other reputable sources. At a hearing, Secretary Kennedy said that Americans should not take medical advice from him. To the contrary, an appropriately briefed and inquisitive Secretary should be a source of health information for the people he serves. As it stands now, I must agree with him, that he should not be considered a source of accurate information. The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer. I believe in nutrition and exercise. I believe in making our food supply healthier, and I also believe in using vaccines to prevent death and disability. Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun. The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud. I am resigning because of the cowardice of a leader that cannot admit that HIS and his minions’ words over decades created an environment where violence like this can occur. I reject his and his colleagues’ thoughts and prayers, and advise they direct those to people that they have not actively harmed. For decades, I have been a trusted voice for the LGBTQ community when it comes to critical health topics. I must also cite the recklessness of the administration in their efforts to erase transgender populations, cease critical domestic and international HIV programming, and terminate key research to support equity as part of my decision. Public health is not merely about the health of the individual, but it is about the health of the community, the nation, the world. The nation’s health security is at risk and is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest. I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for the opportunities for growth, learning, and collaboration that I have been afforded during my time at the CDC. It has been a privilege to work alongside such dedicated professionals who are committed to improving the health and well-being of communities across the nation even when under attack from within both physically and psychologically. Thank you once again for the support and guidance I have received from you and previous CDC leadership throughout my tenure. I wish the CDC continued success in its vital mission and that HHS reverse its dangerous course to dismantle public health as a practice and as an institution. If they continue the current path, they risk our personal well-being and the security of the United States.
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