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 [Sheriff’s Office receives error-free audit] Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay recently announced that his office has received an error-free independent audit of its financial operations and procedures for the 22nd consecutive year. Link |
| [Lower Keys Life] Some of us can’t help being nutty. When I travel, I realize how abnormal I am. The lower Keys is one of the places with the best collection of us. Everyone down here is either Wanted or unwanted. Not so much anymore, but the nuttiest of us are still here. |
[ Who – Pink Floyd] I get so confused, I thought it was Pink Floyd who sang “Lets Twist Again Like We Did Last Summer”, but as the Who said, “We won’t get fooled again! (Editor: I should have caught that gross error of rock history. How could I be so callus? I’m going to go pee on my monolith.)… I’ll tip my hat to the new Constitution Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I’ll get on my knees and pray We don’t get fooled again Don’t get fooled again, no, no Yeah Meet the new boss Same as the old boss The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again |
| [Friday Joke] The CEO of IKEA has just been elected Prime Minister of Sweden. He should have his cabinet assembled by the end of the weekend. |
 I think a poster has confused The Who with Pink Floyd. I’m guessing he confused the orange sunshine acid with window pane acid. Not even close. Windowpane is the best. (BTY can anybody get windowpane anymore? Asking for a friend). (Editor: I hate it when I get busted. If I ever took LSD which I never did, I would say orange sunshine is better than windowpane because of the wonderful Peter Max colors and hallucinations it delivers. Let’s not forget purple Owsley. That had great hallucinations and euphoria also. But I’m just guessing.) |
| Judge dismisses red-light camera ticket and rules the law is unconstitutional. The court found that red-light camera cases, although labeled as “civil infractions”, function as “quasi-criminal” proceedings because they can result in monetary penalties, a formal finding of guilt, and consequences tied to a driver’s record. Video |
 Notes on Baking at the South Pole. Link |
| [Friday Joke] I went to the toy store and asked the assistant where the Schwarzenegger dolls are and he replied, “Aisle B, back.” |
 What a cold winter means for ticks and mosquitoes. Like many of us, the bugs have been hunkered down waiting for spring to return. Link |
| [“Iran: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”] I don’t see how someone here could confuse a Who song for a Pink Floyd song as the bands are musically completely different. |
 After Oz by Gordon McAlpine March 21 at the Big Pine library at 10am.Kansas, 1896. After a tornado destroys the Gale family farm, eleven-year-old Dorothy goes missing. As the days pass, the Gales are increasingly terrified the worst has happened. But when the girl turns up unharmed four days later, the townsfolk breathe a sigh of relief. That is, until Dorothy herself relates her account of the events that took place during her disappearance. In vivid detail, Dorothy describes a fantastical land and its magical inhabitants: a scarecrow, a tin man, a cowardly lion, a wizard, a witch. Her recollections are not only regarded as delusional, but also as pagan and diabolical in nature, especially when the body of a local spinster is found matching Dorothy’s description of a witch she claims to have killed. Authorities find incriminating evidence tying Dorothy to the real murder, and they sentence Dorothy to the Topeka Insane Asylum. When twenty-eight-year-old psychologist Dr. Evelyn Grace Wilford arrives at the asylum to interview Dorothy, she begins to wonder if Dorothy truly committed the crime or if something unfathomable has really occurred. In a small town full of insidious secrets, Evelyn sets out to save Dorothy from her terrible circumstances, but can’t help but fear whether something menacing may be lurking just out of sight. |
| [When No Internet] Ceno is a free mobile browser that enables you to access and share web information, even when your internet access has been interrupted or cut off. With the help of other users, Ceno helps you sidestep internet censorship. Join 566,565 other users. Link |
 Energy can only be conserved and can change forms but never created or destroyed. When we die our energy (soul) blends with the cosmos (Heaven). All energy was always here. Even when there was ‘nothing’ that energy was here in the cosmos. At some point that energy exploded (the Big Bang). Why did it explode? The faithful believe it was a conscious entity (God) because they can’t think of any solid reason. I don’t know either. I’m also just guessing. Do any of you know the scientific cause of the Bang other than a mythical being causing it? What scientific event ‘sparked’ the explosion? |
| [Forgiveness] Whatever genius who said ‘it’s easier to get forgiveness than ask for permission’ obviously has never been married before. |
 Computer Club meeting this Saturday, March 14, 10:30 a.m. at the Community Center, Winn Dixie Plaza,, Big Pine Key. Bring your problems, passwords and device with you and our volunteers will try to help. Link |
| [UPS Store] We are open, and fully operational! We again want to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, we worked diligently to get this technical issue resolved. |
 New psychedelic fungus rewrites origins of magic mushrooms. The fungi prefer to grow in cow dung. The discovery of a new magic mushroom species in Africa is forcing mycologists to take another look at the famous psychedelic fungi’s evolutionary history. Link |
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 I’ve just started watching Al Jazeera TV Live on YouTube. Unfortunately, Americans only get news from us and our allies. We seldom know the ‘other side’ of the story. Our social media feeds are almost all stuff we agree with and support. When I found out Al Jazeera was streaming on YouTube I connected. There’s certainly another opinion of the Mideast war. It’s similar to CNN or BBC but with names like Achmed and Fatima. It was real interesting because their reporters are allowed in areas restricted to the western press. Another bonus is you can click off commercials after 10 seconds. |
| [Age Verification] I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who’s behind the age verification bills. Every operating system provider must provide an interface at account setup collecting a birth date or age, and expose a real-time API that broadcasts the user’s age bracket (under 13, etc) to any application running on the system. Read that again. Every app on your device gets to query a system-level API (application programming interface) that returns your age bracket in real time. This isn’t age verification at the point of accessing restricted content. This is a persistent age-broadcasting service baked into the operating system itself, queryable by every installed application. Link |
 [One Man and His 7,000 Robots] A software engineers’ earnest effort to steer a robot vacuum with a video-game controller exposed a potentially massive surveillance tool. Sammy Azdoufal simply wanted better navigational control over his new self-cleaning vacuum, which was made by the Chinese electronics giant DJl. Azdoufal used Anthropic’s Al coding program to design a remote-control app for the device, but when this new app started communicating with DJl’s servers, it wasn’t just his one vacuum that responded: The servers granted him access to “a small army” of them. Azdoufal had stumbled onto a backend security bug that provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums sweeping up homes in at least 24 countries. Azdoufal immediately reported his findings, and DJl says the issue has been “resolved,” but the episode underscores warnings that popular smart-home devices “present attractive targets for hackers.” |
 [Posters of Black Americans on stage and screen] A new exhibition at New York’s Poster House celebrates the work of Black performers on the stage and screen from the 1880s to the 1940s. Many of these posters are the only surviving documentation of certain shows, with no recordings of plays and certain films having been lost over time. They offer a history of Black Americans trying to counter harmful stereotypes and provide vital and humanizing contributions to a growing Black culture. Link |
| [Sweden Code Leak] Full Source Code of Sweden’s E-Government platform leaked from compromised CGI infrastructure. Link |
 [Book Sale] Saturday, March 14th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. In front of the Big Pine Key Library. All books are only one or two dollars. Cheep! |
| [KW Stalker Cop] A Florida Keys deputy fired and arrested this week is accused by investigators of illegally searching sheriff’s office databases for information on an actress he met while moonlighting as security on the set of “Bad Monkey” and then pulling her over to flirt with her, according to his arrest report. Internal Affairs detectives also say the deputy’s in-car video shows him nearly causing a head-on collision when he drove into oncoming traffic on U.S. 1 so he could catch up to her vehicle last month. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office fired Lamar Eliseo Roman, 28, on Tuesday and also arrested him on a felony charge of misuse of law-enforcement computers, computer networks and electronic devices. He was released Wednesday. He even added her car’s information into a “hotlist” system that would alert him whenever she drove past an electronic license plate reader. Link |
 Easter Bunnies fighting to see who gets to hide the bunny eggs. According to folklore Easter Bunnies lay colorful eggs in the Spring. |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 3/13/26 at 9:13 am. |
[REDUCED] Big Pine Key. 3 bedrooms. 2 full bathrooms. House on stilts over full concrete slab. Bay window in Kitchen plus a pantry. Stainless steel appliances. Plenty of kitchen cabinets and granite counter tops. Dining area/living room. Big front porch. Large, locked storage room downstairs. Covered parking for two vehicles. Central air conditioning plus heat. Back two bedrooms have additional mini-split A/Cs for custom cooling. Very bright and clean and in a quite neighborhood. Laundry area in hallway. Only 3 houses are on the street and none are across from the home. $550,000.
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