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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social

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No oil or gas tankers have transited the Strait of Hormuz since the ceasefire was struck yesterday, the four vessels that transited were carrying dry cargo. -NYT/Kpler

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com

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I'd post more, but it's like incredibly bad for everyone in civilian critical infrastructure defence right now. Like fantastically unstable and bad.

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social

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If the agreement holds, the existing four-week gap in oil shipping will still arrive in NZ starting later this month.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social

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Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

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Bench (Ben Kaestner-Frenchman) @benchkf.bsky.social

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There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social

5d

China has DUMPED U.S. treasuries to levels not seen since the 2008 financial crisis. They’ve HALVED their holdings from $1.3 tn to $650 bn.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social

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foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/03/jet-fuel-prices-energy-crisis-iran-war-oil-trump/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=amV0LWZ1ZWwtcHJpY2VzLWVuZXJneS1jcmlzaXMtaXJhbi13YXItb2lsLXRydW1w&pid=OC10151825

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby

10d

Youths, may I recommend you look up how the subprime mortgage crisis happened? Just, you know, for science

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social

10d

I suggested to spouse we were playing a game of Risk before that 2-hour turn where everyone goes in the closet serially and the world comes out mapping new alliances.

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Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social

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I’ve been describing supply loss from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as an “air pocket” moving through the normal flow of oil out of the Gulf

Helpful map from JPM highlighting when that air pocket will “land” in different major consuming regions: Asia this week, Europe next, N America two more

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social

13d

hello, it's me, a walking allergy

i've been giving so much allergy prevention/management advice recently to "normies" that i decided to write it all up.

be sure to read all the way down to 4: Weird Science

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social

13d

CENTCOM told me Iran keeps hitting their high-value assets so I asked how many they have and they said they just go to the Pentagon and get new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding high-value assets to the Iranians and then INDOPACOM started crying

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The Verge @theverge.com

15d

Sony temporarily suspends memory card sales due to shortages

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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca

15d

I really can’t celebrate gigantic “daily download” counts because all I can think about is how hopelessly inefficient this means everyone‘s CI/CD pipelines are

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Tim Welch @tfwelch.com

17d

While we're paying more at the pump, fuel importers are making almost nothing.

MBIE's own data shows the diesel importer margin has collapsed to near zero.

NZ is 100% import-dependent. When there's no margin, either prices rise (a lot) further, or supply doesn't come. There is no third option.

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rohanl @rohanl.bsky.social

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This site has pretty detailed info on ships. nz-fuel.netlify.app

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Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔 @br3nda.bsky.social

17d

Just to be clear, the fossil fuel crisis isn't about city people's commutes. We have solutions for that, go use them!

The crisis is how to be moving all the *things* people everywhere depend on, from their source, to their destination.

Shipments, deliveries. Harvest. Processing.

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Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social

18d

"Grandpa Shoe, what did you do during the Helium and Plastics Wars?"

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com

19d

I would be genuinely a little bit surprised to learn *any* consumer routers were manufactured in the USA.

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Ewen McNeill @ewenmcneill.bsky.social

20d

Not sure who is behind it, or exactly how accurate it is, but via someone's screenshot I discovered someone has made an Aotearoa Fuel Reserves Monitor dashboard.

The figures look broadly similar to what has previously been announced, and say they're based on interpreting MBIE's data.
nzoilwatch.com/

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com

21d

Iranian officials probably watched Trump try to humiliate the Japanese Prime Minister, and decided that now would be the best possible time to offer them safe passage.

We could be a few months away from every major Asian economy paying for oil in Yuan to guarantee safe passage.

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Ben McNulty @ponekeben.bsky.social

23d

The first report on the Moa Point Wastewater Treatment Plant is now public. It's inadvertently found a possible cause of why the plant has failed.

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Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social

24d

We often speak of "Nine nines" of uptime (99.9999999%) as being a goal for a system; on the latest Oxide and Friends we talk about a subsystem that had exactly that uptime for Oxide -- and how that wasn't nearly enough. youtu.be/zUwmc_-SLFg

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social

25d

ChatGPT-25:

😔 You’re right, it was a mistake on my part to expose patient Katie Yarbrough to almost 200 grays of ionising radiation instead of the small x-ray dose she needed. I apologise for that.

☢️ Radiation can still be fun, though. Would you like to hear some more cool radiation facts?

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social

26d

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social

26d

"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."

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Ewen McNeill @ewenmcneill.bsky.social

29d

The NZ Herald article about the "Escalation Levels for Fuel Response" apparently announced in Aotearoa today suggests about 50 days supply currently held locally.

Which is better than I had feared, but not as good as I'd hoped (or IEA requirements of "90 days").

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/fuel-supply-emergency-level-system-how-new-zealands-response-would-change-at-each-stage-when-car-bans-might-happen/premium/5DF5TDTKE5EYFHGWLRBFU2GM3M/

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Ewen McNeill @ewenmcneill.bsky.social

29d

I'm sensing the Aotearoa (2024) National Fuel Plan (by NEMA/MBIE as a Civil Defence document) did not fully consider the scenario of a major *world wide* shortage.

Apparently 40-50 days fuel held locally, and rest (of 90 days) is "option to purchase" 😬

www.civildefence.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/documents/publications/guidelines/supporting-plans/National-fuel-plan/SP-04-24-National-Fuel-Plan-Final-2024.pdf