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 The stock market is on fire. I made over $85,000 last month on the stock market. I’m not a player. I haven’t bought stocks in 20 years. These stocks are from then, when I sold a house. 85k for doing nothing! That’s a nice boat or a Mercedes. Damn, one month! My friend made over $400,000K in the last 6 months—for doing nothing.It’s too bad youngsters don’t know that if they invest $10 a week using the Robinhood App that they can retire early and never have to work. A known fact is that the stock market never stays down. If you leave it alone and never sell, it always goes up, often it just takes time, but it always goes up. Robinhood is a US-based financial services company that offers a mobile app for commission-free trading of stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies. It aims to democratize access to financial markets, particularly appealing to younger investors. Link |
| [Trump’s War] During negotiations in late February, the Iranians “agreed to get rid of their uranium stockpile” and “suspend all enrichment for three to five years,” a step they weren’t willing to take in 2015. “But Trump got greedy” and decided to start a war to overthrow the regime. He failed, and now finds himself negotiating with an even more hardened Iran that has learned to use both the uranium and the Strait as leverage. |
 [“Tool to Opt Out of Ads”] Or you could save the grief and hassle by using DuckDuckGo or Firefox for your browser instead of Edge or Chrome. Both those browsers do a good job of keeping ads at bay. Link |
| [The Pope’s Visit to Spain] Factions want him to address the over 200,000 boys worldwide that have been diddled by Catholic priests. Alter boys are the cherry on top of the cake for priests. The Rectory is a playground for pedophiles. Is ‘rectory’ code for rectum? |
 [It’s The Hair] A rare albino buffalo in Bangladesh has drawn crowds due to its resemblance to President Trump. Owner Ziauddin Mridha said the buffalo has a striking resemblance to the U.S. president because of its “extraordinary” sweep of blond hair. |
| [Getting High] Can poppy seeds actually make you fail a drug test? Unwashed poppy seeds can even cause addiction. That’s because the seed pods exude a milky substance called latex, which is rich in natural chemicals called opiates, such as morphine. Dried-out poppy latex is called opium, and the chemicals it contains can be used as medical-grade painkillers or processed to make street drugs like heroin. Link |
 Deer Ed, unless it’s you, someone is using “The Coconut Telegraph Productions” name on Facebook. Scroll down a bit on this link and see. Good luck, my friend. https://www.facebook.com/groups/KeyColonyBeach/(Editor: Thanks for taking the time for the heads up, but I’ve been in the lower Keys too long to do anything about it. Everything’s too much trouble for me to get off the couch. I think Jimmy Buffett and I both heard the term for the first time in Nelson’s Dockyard in St John’s, West Indies around 1974. I didn’t see him, but his J-boat was there and ‘coconut telegraph’ was a popular phrase among the islanders and sailors.) |
| The fastest way to board an airplane, according to science. Better, faster boarding methods exist, so why don’t we use them? Link |
 [1962] Rare image of Vespa with airbags. |
| Sea level rise is speeding up and scientists now know exactly why. Warming seawater is the biggest factor. Earth’s oceans are rising faster than ever, and scientists say the forces driving it are now impossible to ignore. Link |
 [AI] Pope Leo urged governments to regulate AI developers to protect children from hypersexualized, violent, and fake information, and ensure that humans make all decisions about the use of weapons |
| [Free Speech] The state of Florida has to pay $485,000 to a biologist from a state agency who was fired last year for criticizing Charlie Kirk’s political views on social media. Brittney Brown sued the state, arguing her free speech rights were violated when Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission fired her for reposting an Instagram meme about Kirk’s opposition to gun control after the conservative activist was assassinated in September. |
 China is planning a crewed moon landing in 2030; the U.S. aims to put astronauts back on the moon in 2028. |
| [No Longer Cool] Americans rated marijuana as less cool than sourdough bread, math, and even country music, though comfortably above guns, sports betting, and—in last place— cryptocurrency. |
 [Delusion Confusion] Trump raises the dead he’s so great. President Trump, during a routine press event, claimed without evidence that there’s a new drug that can magically bring the recently deceased back to life. “We had a person given the last rites,” Trump said. “Gone. The kids are crying and everything. And [we] started them on this drug. And the person became better. It works.” |
| [Queer Influx] Seattle may declare a state of emergency to address the influx of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and Two-Spirit transplants from conservative states. In a letter to Mayor Katie Wilson, the city’s LGBTQ Commission wrote that an emergency declaration would help provide food, housing, and other “essential services” to refugees from Florida, Texas, and other red states, as part of “an effective and empathetic response to protecting these internally displaced persons |
 [Drunk Picks Up Drunk at Cop Shop] Antone Gilonna, 25, of New York, was arrested for driving while intoxicated when he drove to a local police station to pick up a friend who had been arrested for driving while intoxicated. When Gilonna arrived at the police station, he drove into a restricted area. An officer came to check on him and quickly issued a field sobriety test before placing him under arrest |
| Pardoned Jan. 6 rioters began lining up for payouts from President Trump’s $1.8 billion “weaponization” fund this week, as the widely criticized cash pool drew new legal challenges and fierce pushback from some congressional Republicans |
 [Rescue] A U.S. Coast Guard crew from Marathon rescued three people clinging to an overturned boat in the Florida Keys Sunday evening, the agency said. The boat, which was anchored, capsized about five miles south of Little Palm Island in the Lower Keys, the Coast Guard said in a news release. The Coast Guard crew took the three people, who were not injured, to Bahia Honda State Park, which is just south of the Seven Mile Bridge. Link |
| [Hacked] Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers. Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and injected password-stealing malware into the code. Link |
 [Staying Young] The smiling axolotl, native to Mexico, keeps its juvenile features even after reaching reproductive maturity. This phenomenon is called neoteny, and if it happened in humans, we would look like toddlers for our entire lives. But neoteny isn’t just limited to animals. In fact, it’s surprisingly common in plants, too. Plants probably have more examples of neoteny than animals. Link |
| [When the Rockstar Coders Leave] Suddenly, you were asked to take over the rockstar’s projects. You dug into the code, and you found yourself buried alive. The flow of data was so hard to follow, it seemed like someone was trying to cover up a murder. You started with trying to fix a simple bug. Just getting the code to run on your laptop took a week. Half the code was written in a coding language you didn’t understand. The other half was written using coding libraries you never heard of. You tried to tell your boss that you think the code needs a rewrite. They didn’t believe you, because it was written by the rockstar himself. As you waded through the slop, you browsed job postings and fantasized about leaving… Link |
 Pesticides that are not approved for use or sale in the EU have been found in everyday food products such as rice, tea and spices. New laboratory tests on 64 products from the Netherlands, France, Austria and Germany detected residues of multiple pesticides — including substances no longer approved in the EU. Although these chemicals are not allowed on the EU market, they can still be exported from European Member States to third countries. From there, they can return to Europe as residues in imported food — a “toxic pesticides boomerang” that puts consumers at risk. Link |
| [Siri AI] Truly helpful. Truly yours. New Apple Intelligence features coming this fall. Siri AI coming in English later this year. (because it’s roll out last month was a disaster.) Link |
 [Crooks: Ticketmaster ] Why hasn’t there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet? It feels like every event/venue is selling tickets exclusively through Ticketmaster. Every other ticketing platform seems to only hold resale tickets in their inventory which just transfers the tickets to your Ticketmaster account when bought. With all the hate Ticketmaster has gotten and all the other ticketing platforms out there, I’m surprised Ticketmaster still has a hold of pretty much the entire market. How are they doing this? Why haven’t the other platforms been able to compete? Link |
| [Anti-social] It’s fads, not friends, which now dominate our feeds. Social media platforms used to be about communication between friends – now many are increasingly short video entertainment hubs. The business model is to increase the time people spend on their apps and increase ad revenue. But is there already a consumer backlash? Link |
 [Why Are Cells Small] Two physical constraints — surface area and diffusion — explain why cells are so small. Maybe sperm are small because the body needs to make many of them, and tiny cells cost less energy to make. (Sperm consist of little more than DNA and a few mitochondria, which are necessary for providing energy to spin their whip-like tails.) Link |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 6/9/26 at 9:44 am. |
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