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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

#USPol I’d say these numbers looks pretty bad for the incumbent party: • STRAIT OF HORMUZ — TONNES (KT) PER DAY tankermap.com/analytics/straits/hor… • WTI Crude Oil Price Chart www.liveoilprices.com/commodity/WTI • Weekly U.S. Ending Stocks of […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Graph showing precipitous drop in tonnes transported through the Strait of Hormuz over the last year. Starts off with numbers in the 4000kt then dropping off to almost nothing. There is a brief period where tankers get through during the “ceasefire” at the beginning of the summer, then that abruptly ends.

Graph of WTI crude oil prices over the last year. Bottom timeline of graph is cut off. We see prices peaking at $120ish early in the war, then dropping a bit, now coming back over $100 and at $90.32 for a barrel today.

Graph of US strategic petroleum reserves over the last few decades. It rises around the gulf war, then drops around the start of the Ukraine war, comes back up, now dropping to lowest level ever, 298,694 1000s of barrels.

Chart of regular gasoline prices in the US as of this month showing the average in the country is $4.187 a gallon, which is up $1.305 from a year ago.

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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Where in the hell did the portrait mode go in the Camera app in iOS 26??? What kind of stupid “designer” made such a dick move as hiding all the cool Apple camera modes inside an invisible toggle you only see if you happen to press and hold the button? I just […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of the Apple Camera app in photo mode, with two cats sleeping on my bed in the frame. No sign of portrait mode, just a toggle looking bottom with video on the left and photo on the right.

Screenshot of Apple Camera app in iOS26, now with additional camera modes revealed, like portrait, but you had to KNOW how to find this. It was absolutely not visible until I clicked and held the toggle button and has a HIDDEN INVISIBLE MENU AGGGGGGGHHHHHHH I HAD TO KAGI THIS

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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

So very proud of my elder daughter Sarah’s participation and becoming a finalist in this year’s national SkillsUSA competition in Atlanta, Georgia last week for her team’s game, Flickers. She worked so hard and I am so genuinely impressed by their work […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot:
FINALISTS IN
INTERACTIVE APPLICATION AND VIDEO
GAME DEVELOPMENT
HIGH SCHOOL
NEW JERSEY
P. STOUT / S. TURNER
WASHINGTON
T. SIKA / S. ALDRICH
COLORADO
J. HARRIS / E.
HARSHBERGER

Sarah and Tyler receiving their finalists award on stage at the national SkillsUSA competition in Atlanta, Georgia on June 5,2026

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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

I see that #NoKings is organizing a national protest concert watch party, but they have invited musicians and other people that don't exactly spark associations with a youth movement. I wouldn't have named any of these people. Not sure what the organizers are thinking, but THINK BIGGER, FAST.

Rise Up Sing Out
A Concert for the First Amendment
Sunday June 14, 2026 | 7:30pm ET | at The Town Hall NYC
Rufus Wainwright, Bette Midler, Patti Smith, Sasha Allen, Joy Reid, and Jane Fonda — with more to come

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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@dalias/11628654092556… Y’all, this is the same Seldo who got NPM sued for union busting www.theregister.com/2019/07/18/npm_… I don’t normally post these kinds of posts, but I’m just really […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

I keep forgetting to post this goofy picture my elder daughter took of Pixel a few weeks back. #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfHachyderm

Grey and buff mackerel tabby cat, close up of his face with ears pointed back and whiskers all whiskering

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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025

Thurston Co. Scanner, News, & Weather Blog: A trooper with the Washington State Patrol just called out a traffic stop on a semi that's towing a semi, which is towing a box truck that's also towing two vehicles on I-5 south at Pacific Avenue. The trooper reported […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

THIS DOESNT SOUND AT ALL RISKY OR RESEMBLE THE CONDITIONS LEADING TO A SPECTACULAR CRASH “Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Here is where the bubble dynamics get
complicated. Tech firms don't want to
formally take on debt—that is, directly ask
investors for loans—because debt looks bad
on their balance sheets and could reduce
shareholder returns. To get around this, some
are partnering with private-equity titans to
do some sophisticated financial engineering,
Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial
consultant, told us. These private-equity
firms put up or raise the money to build a
data center, which a tech company will repay
through rent. Data-center leases from, say,
Meta can then be repackaged into a financial
instrument that people can buy and sell—a
bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this:
Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive
Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence,
issuing bonds backed by Meta's rent. And
multiple data-center leases can be combined
into a security and sorted into what are
called "tranches" based on their risk of
default. Data centers represent an $800
billion market for private-equity firms
through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its
arrangement with Blue Owl that the

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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025

Today is October 18th, 2025 and a historic #NoKings rally has taken place in #Coupeville, #WA, attended by thousands of peaceful protesters practicing their 1st Amendment rights.

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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

I’ll be speaking at Cloudflare Connect in Las Vegas on Oct 16 about resilience in distributed systems. Not just redundancy, but how clients, protocols, applications, and infrastructure each need to handle failure without assuming the others will work. #resilience #distributedSystems #netEng

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