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 Shame on you for covering up the beautiful night sky with your UGLY 1,000 lumen+ LED lights;Shame on you for never leaving ANYONE in darkness EVER in a place which used to be beautiful at night and where you could see the stars – NOT ANYMORE; Shame on you for making this JUST LIKE WHERE YOU CAME FROM – I can’t tell anymore I live on Big Pine Key, it just looks like everywhere else now; Shame on you for making everyone’s bedroom glow like we live in a city of a million +; Shame on you for never letting me have peace on my back porch because your lights are all OVER IT; Shame on you for causing everyone an increased risk of breast, colon, and prostate cancers (real medical literature supports this); Shame on you for causing pregnant women to have a longer duration of labor, more prenatal risks, lower birth weights, smaller length babies, and more premature babies (an Austrian study of 717,000+ pregnant women over an eight year period – again real medical literature); Shame on you for causing wildlife to live shorter duration of lives; Shame on you for claiming you are so much for the “environment” and then making it a hell-scape at night for everyone around you – most especially if you DON’T LIVE HERE OR ARE A RENTER; Shame on you for interrupting EVERYONE’S circadian rhythm because you’re afraid your stuff might get stolen; Shame on you for destroying my peace and everyone else’s around you because you’re afraid of the dark; SHAME ON YOU! |
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| Camel Beauty Pageant in Oman was roiled by a cheating scandal, with 20 camels disqualified for cosmetic enhancements. At the 2026 Camel Beauty Show Festival, inspectors found the camels’ appearances had been enhanced by Botox, dermal fillers, lip injections, silicone to inflate humps, and hormones to enhance muscle tone. Strict penalties would follow, the organizers warned. Camel beauty competitions in the Persian Gulf region, which have prize pools that often top $65 million, were marred by similar scandals in 2018 and 2021. |
 Matt Clark, an actor who appeared in an array of Western films alongside some of Hollywood’s most famous stars, has died. He was 89. Making his mark in Westerns during their heyday of polarity, he appeared in Paul Newman’s “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean” and John Wayne’s “The Cowboys.” He also acted alongside Clint Eastwood in “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” “The Beguiled,” and “Honkytonk Man.” Rounding out his tour of the industry’s leading men, Clark also appeared alongside Robert Redford in several films, including 1972’s “Jeremiah Johnson” and 1980’s “Brubaker.” He also appeared in the 1990 film “Back to the Future Part III,” playing Chester the Bartender |
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| [Diver Down] A Missouri man died in a hospital after he was found unconscious on the ocean floor while scuba diving at a popular Florida Keys shipwreck Friday morning, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. Lonnie Lee Higgins, 71, from Columbia, Missouri, was diving around 9 a.m. at the Eagle wreck off Islamorada. An instructor with a charter dive crew found him about 110 feet below the ocean surface. Link |
 [The Font Smuggler] If you are into a bit of hacking name brands, these fonts will make your phony site look real. You can get anything you want on the web. Link |
| The secret lives of six body doubles: ‘They wanted Julia Roberts to have curvier legs’. What is it like to be Michael B Jordan’s twin, Andie MacDowell’s hands or Rachel Weisz’s hair? Some of Hollywood’s best stand-ins reveal all. Link |
 [Doctors Gone Crazy] A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder. It is proposed that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included in future editions of the major diagnostic manuals under the new name: major affective disorder, pleasant type. In a review of the relevant literature, it is shown that happiness is statistically abnormal, consists of a discrete cluster of symptoms, is associated with a range of cognitive abnormalities, and probably reflects the abnormal functioning of the central nervous system. One possible objection to this proposal remains–that happiness is not negatively valued. However, this objection is dismissed as scientifically irrelevant. Link |
| [Surveillance] Meta funneled $2 billion through nonprofit shells to push phone age verification laws. Proposed laws mandate OS-level APIs creating permanent identity tracking in every device. Age verification bills target Apple and Google while exempting Meta’s social platforms. A Reddit researcher just exposed how Meta funneled over $2 billion through shadowy nonprofits to push age verification laws that would force Apple and Google to build surveillance infrastructure into every device—while conveniently exempting Meta’s own platforms from the same requirements. Link |
 [Duck and Cover] We inhabit a world order in which nuclear states can do whatever they want to non-nuclear states. International law is basically gone now that America, long leader of the international order, has abandoned the rule of law in favor of the law of the jungle. The only rational response for the rest of the world is to acquire nuclear weapons, as quickly as possible. I expect the next 20 years will see a great deal of nuclear proliferation as everyone from Canada to Germany to Poland to Japan to South Korea to Australia goes nuclear. Possession of nuclear weapons is now your only shield against aggression from Russia, China, and/or the United States. ~Jonathan V. Last in The Bulwark |
 The strange incident occurred on farmland owned by Allen and Rebecca Crouch on March 3, 1876. Witnesses said chunks of meat continued to fall from the sky for several minutes, scattering across an area roughly 100 yards long and 50 yards wide. The pieces ranged from tiny flakes to larger fragments measuring about two to four inches across. Two local men reportedly tasted the meat to identify it, saying it resembled mutton or venison, but no one could explain the bizarre phenomenon that would later be dubbed the Kentucky Meat Shower. Link |
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| Did you know there are hidden underground cities in the US? Some are bunkers built during the Cold War to survive nuclear attacks, others were born as ingenious alternatives to escape extreme weather conditions. Whether they are hidden inside a mountain or buried deep underground, here are 12 subterranean places in America that are hidden in plain sight. Link |
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| [“Sheriff’s Office receives error-free audit”] That’s really incredible and rare these days as it seems as though there’s too many crooks and far less honorable people. Lawmen keeping the law. What a novel concept. Go Sheriffs! |
 [Poop] You may not think much about bird drippings on your clean canvas, other than how annoying it is to clean them off. Biologists, however, have been thinking a lot about them. Having already established a connection between the nutrient-rich whale fecal plumes and increased growth of phytoplankton, the foundation of the ocean marine food web, researchers are trying to make the same link with seabirds.Researchers strapped rear-facing belly-mounted video cameras to 15 streaked shearwaters on Funakoshi Ohshima Island and observed their “excretion events” over two years. The study sought to shed light on the largely unknown bodily habits of the birds over open ocean. Their findings? Shearwaters poop a lot — every 4 to 1O minutes during daylight hours, researchers observed from the video. The seabirds almost exclusively pooped when flying and shed approximately 5% of their body mass per hour. Uesaka and his fellow researchers say they hope their study, published last August in the scientific journal Current Biology, opens a path toward evaluating seabirds’ contributions to nutrient cycles as well as their epidemiological interactions within marine ecosystems. |
| [Robin Williams Gets Serious] A connection we all have. This 15 minute video will make you think and maybe cry. |
 Why do we even have baby teeth? Those temporary chompers actually play an important role. Link |
| [Bird Watchers Hall of Fame] Watch the video that launched Cornell Lab scientist Ed Scholes and photographer Tim Laman’s monumental work to document all the species in the wild for the first time. Video |
 Everyone can’t be Irish, someone has to drive. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! |
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 [Cat Spies] The CIA once trained cats to be Cold War spies. Project Acoustic Kitty went about as well as you’d expect. Link |
| Why some people get motion sickness—and others don’t. When your eyes, ears, and brain don’t agree, it can mean bad news for your stomach. Link |
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| Mystery of the Kentucky ‘meat shower’ explained after 150 years. Link |
 Is this meat porno or just another one of my perversions? |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 3/17/26 at 9:50 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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