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 [1774] South Seas Tattoos. They stain their bodies by indenting or pricking the flesh with a small instrument made of bone, cut into short teeth; which indentures they fill with a dark blue or blackish mixture, prepared from the smoke of an oily nut — used by them instead of candles. |
| It costs me $107 a year for a vanity email account with Microsoft. |
 I ordered building materials from Home Depot, and they were delivered in about two hours, but it did cost $35 for delivery. Last week I bought a door and it was free shipping and then I bought some hinges and that was free delivery also. I don’t know what’s free or not but it is a lot faster than Amazon. |
| [Big Kahuna Challenge] Good Health Clinic has officially launched the 2026 Big Kahuna Challenge, its signature community fundraising competition, culminating in the Kahuna Challenge Awards Celebration on Saturday, October 10, 2026, at Founders Park Beach in Islamorada. The event will feature live entertainment, great food and drinks, and the crowning of the community member who raises the most support for no-cost healthcare for the uninsured in the Florida Keys. Link |
 Bouncy, I mean Beyonce. |
| [Voting] July 20th, was the deadline to register to vote in the Florida Primaries. That election is August 18th. I don’t know if I’m registered, or if they’ve cancelled all registrations. Or if I need to buy a passport to vote. I’ve not rec’d a mail-in ballot as in previous elections. |
 [Banana Car] Everyone is bananas for the banana car, and for good reason. Michigan resident Steve Braithwaite took over the streets of New York City in his record-breaking, ginormous banana-shaped car. Link |
| [Ads Are Killing TV Too] I had CNN on this morning and in just 30 minutes there were about 20 minutes of commercials. This is one of the reasons young people get their news online. Bar Rescue often has 15 commercials at a time |
 Why is thunder so dang loud? It’s the atmosphere trying to get back into place. Link |
| The fate of Jimmy Buffett’s iconic, windowless recording studio at the Historic Seaport took a major step forward this week. At its July 15 meeting, the Key West Bight Management District Board voted 4–1 to recommend a comprehensive lease package for the historic Shrimp Boat Sound facility on Lazy Way Lane. The approved recommendation would hand the reins to David Bernsen dba Shrimp Boat Sound Key West, LLC under a 10-year initial term featuring two five-year renewal options. The unified vision aims to fully restore the concrete structure into a functional working studio, an interactive music museum, and a small, 20-seat outdoor tropical drink and margarita bar that will eventually expand into a major tourist bar. |
 [UFO] On July 19, 1952 at National Airport in Washington, D.C., air traffic controller Edward Nugent reported unexplained blips on his radar. The seven mysterious objects piqued America’s fervor around UFOs (now known as UAPs). Newspapers ran headlines like “SAUCERS SWARM OVER CAPITAL” and “Flying Saucer Epidemic Reaches a New Peak,” as other reported sightings flooded in.The U.S. Air Force later attributed the sightings to a meteorological condition called temperature inversions, as well as meteors, stars, and city light reflections. |
| Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI stunned developers on Thursday with a massive new model that may rival the best American systems at a fraction of the cost. Link |
 I wonder why old people die from heat and young people don’t. |
| President Trumps dog, if he had one, would be a Gold Retriever. |
 [Bollywood] No more dancing in every movie. The gimmick has run it’s course. |
| [Spying] A group of citizens with a history of criticizing the state agency that enforces conservation laws and boater safety recently discovered that agency employees have been pulling sensitive personal information about them from a state database designated for police to use in criminal investigations. The Miami Herald confirmed that Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission employees pulled 12 people’s records multiple times since 2023 and almost always cited “criminal investigation” as the reason. Link |
 The greedies are turning Jimmy Buffett’s recording studio in KW into a bar under the guise of preserving the recording studio. |
| A former Ku Klux Klan hall in Texas is becoming an arts center — one of several racist landmarks across the U.S. that communities are trying to turn from symbols of terror into sites of reparation. |
 Trump has moved to make the Juneteenth holiday less prominent symbolically. He declined to issue a Juneteenth proclamation in 2025, posting on Truth Social that America has “too many non-working holidays.” His administration also removed Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day from the National Park Service’s 2026 free-entry calendar. Instead, Trump made June 14 a free day for “Flag Day/President Trump’s birthday.” Juneteenth celebrations last year were scaled back, canceled or moved in places including Colorado Springs, Scottsdale, West Virginia and San Diego amid sponsorship losses, reduced city funding, dissolved DEI offices and rescinded arts grants. |
| [Live Avatars] VTubing is an online activity in which performers use animated models to portray themselves onscreen. Software such as Live2D Cubism allows the animated avatar to echo the real-life movements of the actor behind the camera. What once seemed like a niche form of online entertainment has proven surprisingly lucrative, especially in Japan. Based on the sales revenue of VTuber agencies in 2023, the Japanese VTuber market hit 80 billion yen. Link |
 A Koi Pond Mosaic made from 10 pounds of 3d printer waste. |
| New home ownership measure puts people first. An alternative way of calculating the homeownership rate tells us how many individuals own their homes—something the most commonly used metric fails to track. Link |
 [Brain Washing Capitalism] Big players like Google and Facebook build predictive profiles that are then sold to advertisers who then attempt to influence individual behavior for commercial/political gain. These business models have quietly reshaped society without public knowledge or consent. Surveillance Capitalism is not an inevitable feature of modern life, but a specific and correctable situation, one that requires informed and persistent civic engagement to reverse.“It has frequently been noticed that the surest long-term result of brainwashing is a peculiar kind of cynicism – an absolute refusal to believe in the truth of anything” — Hannah Arendt |
 Toxins lurking in oceans now discovered to be airborne… posing dangerous health risk. Scientists have discovered that harmful chemicals from Florida’s blue-green algae blooms are becoming airborne, potentially affecting people who live miles away from contaminated water. A new study reveals that toxins produced by cyanobacteria, commonly known as blue-green algae, are being released into the air in Southwest Florida, raising concerns about respiratory exposure to these harmful compounds. Link |
| A hacker has breached Romania’s cadastre agency and wiped the country’s entire land registry database following a failed extortion attempt. The hack has brought Romania’s entire real-estate market to a standstill as official apps and websites have been offline for a week. Notaries can’t record new transactions while citizens can’t obtain proof of ownership or detailed land records. The incident became public on July 14 as the hacker started deleting data. A day later, some of ANCPI’s stolen data was put up for sale on a known hacking forum. The posted data included employee credentials, internal documents, and details on the agency’s IT network. Link |
 [Free Game] Airport Simulator. Game |
| [Monopoly] Judge halts Paramount’s $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states. Judge grants restraining order, saying merger “likely to violate antitrust laws.” Link |
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 [For Sale] Scotsman 500 lbs ice bin. Good legs and in really good shape. Located in Marathon 305-731-6910, Eric. |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 7/21/26 at 8:59 am. |
 [For Sale Pellet Gun] Gamo Swarm Maxxim 10X GEN 2 Multi-Shot Air Rifle. Two 10-round .177 clips. 3 x 9 variable scope. Box of pellets. $200 new. Half price used $100. b33043@outlook.com Video |
 [For Sale] Folding scaffold 30L x 12w x 20h. 4 scaffolds (not sold separately) New $200, Big Pine Key pick-up half-price: $100. Excellent condition.b33043@outlook.com Link |
| Snapshots taken from 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. |
