Yes. They initially reported problems with videos (which are definitely having problems), but it seems to include image embeds too now :-/

bsky.app/profile/stat...

Bluesky Server Status in app post saying: <video error> We are seeing elevated errors and timeouts on video uploads, and are investigating. With a link to: status.bsky.app

Screenshot of the linked status.bsky.app webpage, with an UptimeRobot logo, and a Warning "The Status Page has been suspended. Please contact support@uptimerobot.com for further information".

Seems like there's been too much Bluesky Status recently for the host of their status page 😬

(And/or the status page is also being DDoSed 🤔)

It will be interesting to see where fuel prices go in the coming weeks and how closely/quickly they track crude prices.

In MBIE's latest fuel stock update, on-shore diesel stock slipped below 20 days.

Worth noting: retail price data is 11 days old, and fuel stock data is 6 days old.

21:15 tonight (456.149 cubic metres/second) is 80x the same time 3 days ago (2026-04-17 21:15, at 5.682 cubic metres/second).

Which makes rather more sense of why I heard a couple of the (lower) bridges over the river were being closed overnight 😬

Academy ratio - Wikipedia

Even 4:3 itself was a compromise choice (from SD television, and original film), as was "Academy Ratio" (1.375:1, for movie film with sound) a compromise choice (with audio tracks shoved into the side of 4:3 cells).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy...

It'd certainly be interesting to have a definitive history, and probably about the right point to make one (long enough ago to be "history", recent enough the people are still alive).

My assumption has always been HD television / DVDs choosing 16:9 (as 4:3 SD + widescreen movie compromise).

Safety Advice: Plugs and Fuses | Electrical Safety First It’s a good idea to check plugs and their cables regularly for cracks or damage. Find out how to with this useful guide from Electrical Safety First.

"A common UK plug is generally fitted with a 3A or 13A fuse."

(Where 3A fuses are for low wattage items, and 13A is generally used on everything with non trivial current consumption.)

www.electricalsafetyfirst.org.uk/guidance/saf...

I'm almost afraid to ask, but: is that "make CPI this quarter 5%", 5% up in this quarter alone (with 9 more months to go to get an annualised figure)? Or an "annualised 5%" of increase *as of* this quarter?

(Either way sounds... bad. But 5% in a quarter, with worse to come would be especially 😬)

Indeed.

And some payment providers (eg PayPal) both insist on collecting a “billing address” *and* have made it increasingly difficult to enter a post box address as the billing address (even for digital only items that don’t need any shipping address).

April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem - Jim's Pckt Hey all! I'm Jim, and I do system-y things at Bluesky. I'm here to give you some details about what happened on Monday of this week that caused Bluesky to go do...

What are they gonna name this one, “April 2026 Outage” is already taken? pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a...

I wonder if it's being used as "floating storage", possibly due to the local tanks still being sufficiently full that they can't take a full unload right now.

(Given regional tanker deliveries, I suspect we're going to have regional shortages too, in May/June/ish.)

That one's *explicitly* in the Road Code as a no-no:

"Don’t pass any vehicle that’s stopped, or is slowing down, for people on a pedestrian crossing."

"Illegal passing near a pedestrian crossing"

:-/

www.nzta.govt.nz/roadcode/gen...

Also FWIW, the 15 days diesel stock seems consistent with other trackers, assuming the ships waiting to unload hadn't been unloaded/counted. (Which I assume are the ships whose unloading was delayed by the cyclone, so I guess they're partially/fully unloaded now.)

FWIW, I read the statement as "it's too costly to maintain" (properly; in time, and money), rather than "data integrity issues" to date.

I assume the "too costly" is due to the choice to use multiple "AI" models in collaboration (plus time to hand check results periodically).

Debian does that but only for "sid" ("unstable", ie fastest rolling packages).

From watching the downloads, I *think* they're doing something like generating daily index diffs kept for about a week, and hourly index diffs kept for a day or so. An update after a few days downloads a bunch of diffs.

Explosions as one of Australia's last oil refineries erupts in flames An "unprecedented" fire has broken out at one of two remaining oil refineries producing fuel for Australians, with residents in parts of Geelong told to stay indoors due to smoke.

Also, it seems that... Australia's refining capacity is even more impacted today than it was yesterday 😬

(Geelong is apparently 50% of Victoria's fuel, and 1 of 2 oil refineries left in Australia; the other is in Queensland. Australia also imports most of its fuel.)

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Explosions as one of Australia's two oil refineries erupts in flames An "unprecedented" fire has broken out at one of Australia's two operational oil refineries, with residents in parts of Geelong told to stay indoors due to smoke.

The oil refinery in Geelong, Vic (Australia) is the one on fire, as of the early hours of this morning.

Which is... surprising timing.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

That sign seems rather... out of date.

Anyone who started in 2021, and has kept up the 6-monthly schedule would be up to their 9th/10th vaccination shot now. Even counting the first two as "initial vaccination", that's still 7-8 boosters.

But it looks like sailings from Asia are taking around 3 weeks, eg ~22 days from Korea, and ~19 days from Singapore (both estimates for recent departures), counting from "loaded up tanker leaves origin port".

(Sanctity in QT now listed due 23rd.)

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In case your math question is serious:

(a) yes 13-21 is -8 days of diesel; but
(b) there's 11 days of diesel about to be unloaded; so
(c) net gain is (13-21)+11 = (13+11)-21 = 3 days

Thus:

15 (now) + 3 (gained over 3 weeks deliveries) = 18 days on ~2026-05-06

Gaining 3 days margin helps a bit 😬

Unfortunately I think the only possible fuel source that would take less than 3 weeks transit time to get here would be Australia.

And (a) they have their own supply concerns, and (b) "less than 3 weeks from Australia" presupposes an empty tanker there ready to load.

So that seems... unlikely :-/

Latest update

Long ago, being below minimum stocking requirements was seen as a reason to escalate to a higher Fuel Alert level. As of today's update not just one, but all indicators are below minimum stocking levels.

The numbers (in the fuel projection section) do seem consistent with the other trackers I know about, so I'm happy to believe them.

As you say, it looks like something someone extended from an existing dashboard. And I'd guess it was a "big screen" dashboard from the start.

That... seems like a very convoluted way for the RBNZ to ensure that NZ businesses continue to spend the same on debt-servicing as they do on fuel :^)

Thanks for the link.

It's a weird choice of site name, and a weird rendering choice (cramped tiny diagrams/text that seemingly do scale up with browser width, but it appears the "download diagram" is a low resolution PNG, not SVG).

Someone's internal "big widescreen" dashboard I guess 🤔

:-/

My understanding of the latest clarification is that it's only *funded* yearly, but still permitted six monthly in most adult age bands (in which case presumably one would have to pay for the alternate one).

Hopefully you can get it sorted out 🙏

The fuel trackers did indeed show a drop from 22 days to 17 days of diesel yesterday and no confirmed arrivals after 23 April, at which point there will be 24 days of diesel left.

Yeah, our "air bubble" (gap in shipments) arrives here around that point. Given that the ship transit time is at least a couple of weeks, it'll get awkward if there aren't at least some new *departures* by the end of April (to arrive in May) 😬

(Not convinced our Government understands the problem.)

Firefox "HTTPS-Only Mode Alert" saying "Secure Site Not Available" for www2.metservice.com

That "text version" site seems to follow the (Australian) Bureau of Metrology approach of only working on HTTP (not HTTPS -- "Unable to establish SSL connection"), despite the fact most modern browsers default to HTTPS-only mode, and throw a "scary warning" for HTTP-only sites these days :-/

Is there an official start date to campaigning? I'd always thought it was just a spending cap, and an end date (be done *before* election day).