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 [Earth In Hot Water] The surface of the ocean is warming four times faster than it was 40 years ago, scientists have warned. As the Earth absorbs more heat and reflects less back into space, this increase is only set to grow without urgent action. Record breaking ocean temperatures in 2023 and 2024 may become the new normal in the coming decades. Link |
| If everyone in the world turned on the lights at the same time, what would happen? A big spike in lighting would dramatically increase sky glow. Link |
 I just took the test to enter this year’s Florida Python Challenge. Check out my score. When the going gets weird, Florida hunts snakes. Link |
| [The Rise and Fall] Every human kingdom, like Babylon, eventually becomes corrupt and oppressive. We should resist evil kingdoms by loving people and trusting that Jesus will not let evil go unchecked. He will return to remove evil from the world and make all things new. |
 Small Habits that actually reveal a lot about your personality. Link |
| [Going] I have a lot going for me for someone my age. My back is going. My knees and ankles are going. My eyes are going. My patience is all but gone. So there’s that |
 This Is the No. 1 Tourist Trap in America. 1. Fisherman’s Wharf, 2. Four Corners Monument. Link |
| [The Start of the Nuclear Age] Forgotten photos of the Trinity detonation show the immensity of the project. Link |
 [A-10] That was a cool video from last Friday CT about the Coast Guard sniper taking out the motors on a drug smuggler’s boat from a helicopter. But here’s a story that slipped through the cracks. The USCG has acquired a squadron of old A-10’s from Davis–Monthan AFB for drug interdiction |
 Memorial Day Remembrance: Evolving as a Soldier/Marine over the course of 77 years, I’m given pause by our Nation’s compulsive involvement in a steady stream of violence, as it relates to our government’s military entanglements in combat operations “round-the-world”. During my lifetime there’s been 55 years in which my country has been engaged in prolonged and endless conflicts/wars; none of which bringing a decisive victory.
Often our Nation’s justification for their actions in these impetuous hostilities that have maimed, mutilated and killed millions of human beings; many of them innocent children, women and non-combatants; has been founded upon flimsy and inconsistent rhetoric, often lacking accurate, substantiated and verifiable data justifying the carnage and gore resultant from said government’s armed intrusions. An objective analysis of the reason and rationale given for repeatedly invading and launching attacks upon a sovereign nation and their citizens, reveals that in many cases these assaults were ill-advised, imprudent and without merit. The destructive and destabilizing consequences resulting from violent aggression around the world has left us with torn and shredded bodies, minds and civilizations. A dystopian wasteland of cultures torn apart, warring against one another, grasping for any respite in one’s suffering; is an absolutely horrible way to exist… Continued Full Menu A Soldier’s Journey |
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| [Free Tech Support] Tech help this Sat, 10:30 a.m. at the Community Center, Winn Dixie Plaza, Big Pine Key. Bring your phones, laptops, tablets and passwords and volunteers will try to fix it and make it better. Full Menu > Computer Club |
 [The History Of Erasers] Humans have marked stuff with graphite for thousands of years. However, modern pencils—which encase graphite, or a mixture of graphite and clay, in wood—date back to the 17th century. Link |
| World War II shipwrecks captured in stunning detail. From the towering 440-foot-long Japanese destroyer Teruzuki to the shattered bow of the USS New Orleans. Link |
 Raccoon toes and nose in a trap that moved her to her new undisclosed home in the woods. I was afraid to get too close to this pissed-off female who was laying upside-down in the trap trying to claw and chew her way out. |
| [Internet Browsers] The good, the bad, and the ugly. Not all web browsers are created equal when it comes to protecting your privacy. Here’s which browser to avoid and which ones to use instead. Link |
 [Bad Vanity Plates] That got rejected by the DMV. Link |
| [Astronauts] It’s 35 years since the first British person went into space. Helen Sharman was a 27-year-old food scientist when she stumbled upon a job ad to be part of an Anglo-Soviet commercial venture, Project Juno. Sharman told BBC News in 1991: “All along the selection process, I never really believed that it could be me.” One of the lesser-known moments to take place during the Cold War space race involved the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. On his way to the launchpad in 1961, just before he became the first man in outer space, he asked to stop the bus and took a last-minute toilet break. Link |
 [Boil Water] Another water-main break triggers boil-water notice: A transmission pipe burst on 65th Street in Marathon on Tuesday, causing major traffic backups on U.S. 1 and water-pressure drops across the island chain. The Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority issued a boil-water notice stretching from Lower Matecumbe Key down to Boca Chica Key. |
| [The Death of the Brick & Mortar Toy Store] It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why more and more local stores are going defunct. A short trip downtown makes the destructive nature of Amazon et al. apparent: the city center is littered with for-sale or for-rent signs, stuck on dirty windows of almost every third building. Link |
 Cuban defense minister, Gen. Álvaro López Miera (right) and Cuba’s leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel, during the burial in Havana of 4 of the 32 Cubans bodyguards killed during the U.S. military attack to capture Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, Raúl Castro’s grandson, is behind them.Cuban drone threat downplayed: Florida Keys Sheriff Rick Ramsey urged calm after a report that Cuba acquired 300 military drones that could potentially target Key West, Guantanamo Bay and U.S. military ships. Ramsey said he has not been contacted by federal or state authorities and has not ordered deputies to change their routine, as U.S. officials do not believe an imminent threat exists. Link |
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| Friday Joke] A man is speeding down the highway when he sees flashing lights in his rearview mirror. He pulls over, and a state trooper approaches his window. The trooper says, “I’ve been waiting for you all day.” The man replies, “Well, I got here as fast as I could!” The trooper, trying to suppress a smile, asks for the man’s license and registration. “Why were you speeding?” the trooper asks. “Officer, I’m late for work.” “Oh, and what do you do?” “I’m a juggler in a circus.” “A juggler? Well, that’s interesting. How about you show me what you do?” The man agrees and gets out of the car, opens his trunk, and takes out some juggling balls. He begins juggling right there on the side of the road. Just then, another car speeds by, and the driver looks over, sees the juggling act, and says to himself, “I’m never drinking again! Look at the sobriety test they’ve got!” |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 5/22/26 at 8:25 am. |
| Big Pine Key looking North between Annette Key and Mayo Key every Friday evening since 2023. You may hover to view a photo, see the date of the photo, or use the left or right arrows on the images to advance. |
