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| [Friday Joke] Do male witches have a Halloweenie? |
 Hackers steal $6.3 billion in Bitcoin from Binance in record heist blamed on North Korea. Link |
| Reddit is saying goodbye to the open web and moving primarily to a log-in model, saying it no longer wants its content subject to the prying eyes of AI web scrapers. |
 Touchscreen shirt shows photos, plays videos, and answers calls. The bendable touchscreen fabric was woven into a shirt that works even after 50 washes. The fibers support the functions early generations of smartphones could perform. The 96 by 54-pixel display can run a calculator, show a photo gallery, play a video, work as a compass, respond to voice commands, receive images over Bluetooth, as well as read and display body temperature. Link |
| [King Tides] I’m in Port Pine Heights, while the western side of the island is flooded the canals here haven’t risen as in the past. |
 Patrick Stewart the second commander of the Starship Enterprise, is dead. Link |
| [Friday Joke] What do you call a deaf gynecologist? A lip reader. |
 [King Tides] We’ve lived in the middle of Big Pine for forty years and this is the first king tide that covered the 6″ slab our house is built on. We have wading birds in our yard. Yesterday morning around 5am I was in my office and was startled by a heron flying into the screen door 3′ away from me. It was loud and really woke me up. The bird actually hung on the screen for a moment while my heart slowed down. I could see the flood had a current flowing quite fast from the west to the east. |
| [Commies] I’m not trying to argue so here is all I will say about communism: When the Berlin Wall fell, nobody ran to the Communist side. ~Ronald Reagan |
 [Crooks] Two South Carolina men were locked up in a Florida jail Sunday following a traffic stop where drugs and a gun were seized, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. Columbia residents Andre Coker, 44, and Alberto Gutierrez, 34, were arrested on multiple charges. Link |
| [Friday Joke] When I was a young lad growing into manhood, my parents told me I could be anything I wish, so, I became a gigolo! |
 [R.I.P.] J. Allison DeFoor, former Florida Keys sheriff and Lt. governor candidate, dies. DeFoor was 72. Link |
| [Seal Level Rise] It’s here! Our ground floor was under water this morning for the first time since living on the island. We don’t know what to do or if our small cars will be able to get to the main road through our flooded side road. It’s awful. Do you think the conspiracy people will believe in climate change yet? |
 Walter Koenig, actor best known as Chekov on Star Trek, dies aged 90. The actor appeared in the cult 1960s show as well as many of the films but also worked as a writer. Link |
| [Walmart vs Amazon] I tried to return a defective product I bought online at Walmart, and they said I had to return it to the Homestead store. What! I raised hell and kept comparing them to Amazon’s easy returns. They finally gave me credit. Walmart has long way to go to compete with Amazon from their lousy website to returns and more information about each product they sell. |
 [Digestion] A question for the ages: Does Candy Corn, like real corn, come out pretty much like it went in? |
| Your November AARP calendar of activities is here. Full Menu > Ongoing Events > AARP |
 [Holiday Shopping] Consumers are feeling dour, but they’re still expected to spend record sums this holiday season — with higher prices pulling much of the sled. The National Retail Federation and Bain & Co. recently projected separately that Americans will spend more than $1 trillion during the holiday shopping season for the first time |
| [Pancreatic Cancer Detector] A powerful new AI system could help doctors detect pancreatic cancer years before it becomes visible on conventional scans. The technology, called REDMOD, identified hidden warning signs an average of 475 days before diagnosis and was nearly twice as sensitive as experienced radiologists. By spotting cancer-related changes at their earliest stages, it could dramatically improve the chances of successful treatment for one of the deadliest forms of cancer. Link |
 [Income] Google Cloud revenue surged 103% year over year to $30.7 billion. Microsoft’s Azure cloud revenue grew 48% to $33.2 billion |
| [Friday Joke] Jack ‘n Jill went up the hill, they each had a buck ‘n a quarter, Jill came down with two and a half, do you think they went up for water? |
 [Friday Joke] Top 10 Signs You Are Too Old to Be Trick or Treating10. You get winded from knocking on the door. 9. You have to have a kid chew the candy for you. 8. You ask for high fiber candy only. 7. When someone drops a candy bar in your bag, you lose your balance and fall over. 6. People say, “Great Keith Richard’s mask!” and you’re not wearing a mask. 5. When the door opens you yell, “Trick or …” and can’t remember the rest. 4. By the end of the night, you have a bag full of restraining orders. 3. You have to carefully choose a costume that won’t dislodge your hairpiece. 2. You’re the only Power Ranger in the neighborhood with a walker. 1. You avoid going to houses where your ex-wives/ex-husbands live. |
 [Body Snatchers] In 1828, serial killers sold their victims’ bodies to science. Edinburgh’s medical schools needed bodies. William Burke and William Hare had a horrifying solution. Link |
| [November Blood Drives] This November give thanks and donate blood. Donors receive a sweatshirt plus either an e-Gift Card, Publix or Winn-Dixie Gift Card depending on the donation location. Link |
 [Spending] Companies continue to spend massively on AI infrastructure. For Google, capex totaled $51.4 billion in Q3, up 114% from a year earlier. Microsoft spent $39.4 billion in the quarter, a 103% increase from a year ago |
| [Florida Amendment 3] No Direct Tax Relief: Lower-income households in Florida are disproportionately renters rather than primary homeowners. Because the expanded homestead exemption only applies to owner-occupied primary residences, renters receive zero direct tax relief. |
 Did you notice that merchants skipped Halloween and Thanksgiving and went right into Christmas promotions. |
| [Friday Joke] Two witches were sitting on a riverbank fishing, they weren’t catching anything so one of them stands up and asks the other, “Should we cast a spell?” |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 10/30/26 at 9:49 am. |
 [REDUCED] 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. Now $75. 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. |
