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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 3h

Heavily leaning into English professor chic right now.

Alex wearing dark denim, tan oxfords, a grey button down, and a wool sports coat

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 5h

Scaring all the tourists by serenely dancing around the cars to cross the street in midtown.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 17/10/2026

I’m doing extremely well! ❤️

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 15/10/2026

I realized that even if being an addict isn’t within my control, doing something about being an addict very much is. So I did a thing, and here I am! For a bit longer at least. ❤️

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

hello! i am coming out of relative writing retirement (outside of flaming hydra, where you can still find me!) to announce that i have my own subscription-based newsletter. i’m still setting a few things up but you can subscribe for $5/mo here: buttondown.com/anyotherway

buttondown.com

Any Other Way

cultural criticism from the ground up

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 15/10/2026

Well, I accomplished all three, and that’s the important part.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 15/10/2026

They say that chihuahuas grow so old and refuse to die out of spite. I like that. And thanks! I’m letting myself be proud of this one.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 15/10/2026

I was gonna just kinda drift off into the ether, but then my hepatologist was like “You’re going to die.” and I was like “Fuck you!! You don’t get to tell me what to do!!” so I upped the punks all the way to straight edge and here I am.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 15/10/2026

It’s at least a ceasefire for now.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 15/10/2026

Thanks! Working on keeping it that way for now!

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 15/10/2026

148 days today! I’m getting it done slowly but surely.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 15/10/2026

I’m still quite a bit closer than most people, but I have been assured that this distance will continue to grow over time. One day at a time.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 15/10/2026

It was actually SRECon America’s fault. I went to Seattle just kinda resigned to fate and a bunch of complete jerks there told me I mattered and that they loved me and stuff like that. So now the entire industry has to deal with me a bit longer.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 15/10/2026

I just realized that there are people on here I haven’t really chatted with that need to be caught up on some stuff: 1. I almost died cause important organs decided they were fed up with my shit. 2. I went to rehab and stopped drinking. 3. Now I’m less almost dying. That basically covers it, tbh.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 15/10/2026

Oh, shit. Uh, a lot has happened. Just realized I might need to catch some people up.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 14/10/2026

*taps mic* Is this thing on?

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Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 21/04/2025

The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 21/04/2025

Oh, hi. I forgot about this place. How's everyone doing?

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 17/02/2025

This would absolutely solve all of the problems. I approve.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 17/02/2025

Yet we keep trying to make them work.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 30/01/2025

I just showed up to have lunch and they were filming. Ended up with a few lines that made it in to the episode and everything. I was like 20 years younger but I should be recognizable. Guy was not there. He apparently came on an entirely different day and took the back entrance into the kitchen.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 30/01/2025

That time I was in an episode of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. youtu.be/VNuhmsz6wYo

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The Village Cafe

YouTube video by coopdedrum

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nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I had a relative compelled into service to the enemy. He mistranslated all the manuals for captured equipment so that The Thing Don't Work. Mistranslate the manuals, whatever that means for you.

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Cat Hughes @celticqueen13.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Small rituals can help to keep us strong.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 21/01/2025

tbf we have to or we’ll die since we power wash ours with chemicals. Like a normal country does to their food, of course.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 21/01/2025

I thought Germans often ate one for breakfast like the Dutch do? With the little egg cup and the tiny spoon and sometimes even the little automatic device that chops the top off cleanly?

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 17/01/2025

Oh, wait. You’re talking about one in Charlottesville I didn’t even remember existed. I was talking about the OG Richmond location. hahaha

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 17/01/2025

The food was always mediocre but the vibes were always great. Best watch party for a VCU basketball game, too.

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cate @buny.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

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William Ravensbergen @willybubba.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

And that's a wrap on the first ever internal #Reliability #Meetup at #ING. Great speakers, good people and awesome topics. Thanks again @alex-hidalgo.com for presenting!

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Julien Lengrand-Lambert 🥑👋 @lengrand.fr · 14/01/2025

I don’t know much about #sre and it’s a new topic for me. Thanks @alex-hidalgo.com for helping make it so much clearer 😂. Great talk for real , learnt a lot I hope to apply soon 😊

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Joshua Timberman @jtimberman.name · 13/01/2025

Company layoff is impacting me, so I'm back on the market ya'll. I'm actively looking for DevOps/SRE/OSS and adjacent type positions as an IC or manager. Ideally, I want to build dope stuff with dope people. <3

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 14/01/2025

You’re being racist toward my nationality. I will not stand for this.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 13/01/2025

BE MORE SAD CHRIS MARTIN. I WANT PIANO BALLADS.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 13/01/2025

I remember you pointing out once that the reason so many people like L&O is because it’s how we all wish the police actually acted, not cause we’re all fans of cops. I liked that.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 13/01/2025

I liked their first two albums, but once Chris Martin married Gwyneth Paltrow and the music wasn’t just about him being super sad and lovesick literally all the time I lost interest in the band.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 13/01/2025

I hate it but also it’s strangely satisfying in the sense that you wake up, you’re hot as hell, you pull the blankets off and the sweat does its job and now you’re cold, so you move to the other side of the bed and now have to curl up under the blankets again to get warm. Repeat.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 13/01/2025

I also woke up covered in sweat and had to switch sides of the bed. But this always seems to happen to me the first few nights while trying to switch my internal clock. I have no idea why.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 11/01/2025

I don’t want to have to learn enough Pokémon lore to continue my stupid joke, unfortunately.

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 11/01/2025

Uhh… I think you need to sit down. I have some news for you. There have been some recent discoveries.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

mark zuckerberg’s entire adult life has been a revenge tour against women

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Alex Hidalgo @alex-hidalgo.com · 10/01/2025

I miss my 20s. This life did actually exist. We were all broke all the time, but we also all took care of each other. Whoever had money on any particular day paid. We all had keys to each others' apartments. I miss it, but I know that's gone now.

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