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 [Developers] On Monday, April 15th, at 4 PM, Last Stand will be hosting Keys Conversations, featuring an enlightening discussion with renowned land development and environmental attorney Richard Grosso. The event will delve into the important topic of additional development and its impacts on various aspects of life in the Florida Keys. You should attend. It promises to be a valuable forum for discussion and community engagement about development. If you have any questions or want further information, please get in touch with me directly or visit our website at www.keyslaststand.org. We hope to see you at Keys Conversations!
Last Stand is a longstanding advocate for preserving the Florida Keys’ unique environment and quality of life. |
| [Getting Better All The Time…] 303,000 jobs added in March. Wages rose 5.1%. That’s nothing to sneeze about. |
[Wetstock 2024] Is it on? Date? Bands? |
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 [Ultrasound] Humans can’t hear these frogs screaming. The sounds are inaudible to the human ear, and may be a way to thwart off hungry predators. Link |
| [Tax Prepared Free] As we reach the end of tax season, UWCK’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program is operating at full throttle! If your household income was under $66,000 in 2023, you’re eligible to prepare and file your taxes for free with us! Link |
 Bible scholars believe Noah made over 977 trips to Home Depot during ark construction. |
| [Phone’s Dangerous Upload] I was going to upload some photos of the earthquake in Japan and Morocco on WhatsApp. The file is called Seismic Waves CARD. Do not open it, it will hack your phone in 10 seconds, and it cannot be stopped in any way. Pass the information on to your family and friends. DO NOT OPEN IT. They also said that on TV. |
 [Don’t Bully Old Ladies] Up at my kids’ West Palm Beach condo, the old maintenance worker got into an argument with an old lady resident who was feeding bread to the ducks in the retention pond. He told her to stop feeding them. She didn’t. He turned his leaf blower loose on the old lady and her bread feeding. She grabbed him and threatened to kick his ass. I can’t make this up! |
| [Dungarees Are Now Bad] Now scientists say wearing jeans is bad for the environment. Study reveals wearing a pair just once is the equivalent to driving a car for 6.4 miles. Researchers say that jeans sold in fast fashion produce 2.5kg of CO2 per wear. Buying second-hand or recycling old clothes can cut emissions by 90 per cent. |
 If you can’t fix it with duct tape, you’re not using enough. |
| [Richest Hater] Elon Musk Didn’t Want His Latest Deposition Released. Here It Is. Musk is being sued for falsely suggesting a 22-year-old Jewish man was part of a neo-Nazi brawl. The lawsuit against the billionaire, filed in October, alleges that Musk used his colossal social media platform to amplify a false far-right conspiracy theory linking 22-year-old Ben Brody to a brawl in Oregon between the neo-Nazi group Rose City Nationalists and the Proud Boys, a neo-fascist fight club. The brawl occurred during Oregon City’s first Pride Night Fest, when both groups came to disrupt the event and spew anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric. Link |
 [Eclipse] All I saw on Big Pine was a very very bright sun that didn’t even dim the light in the Keys. I couldn’t find anything to use to look at the Sun without burning my eyeballs. Sunglasses didn’t work. I could have looked through the phone’s camera I guess, or taken a picture, but that’s just not the same. |
| Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada. Link |
 [Big Pine Library Book Club] For April 20th’s discussion we are reading One Brilliant Flame by Joy Castro. LinkFor May we selected the Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosne |
| BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery soon with more range and even lower cost. BYD’s Blade batteries power Tesla, Ford, Kia, Hyundai, Toyota, and other popular electric vehicles from major automakers. The batteries are a major reason behind BYD’s success. By using lithium-iron-phosphate as the cathode material, BYD can make the batteries much cheaper. Not only that, but they also offer competitive power density compared to NCM batteries. BYD is the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer. Link |
A little black snake on my banana plant. |
| Pythons are eating the Everglades. Could eating them instead help fight climate change? Yum. Link |
 Google Drive is now listed as another storage drive in the File Explorer, making backing up your files a no-brainer. No more excuses for not backing up to the cloud. You get 15 gigabytes of free storage. You can buy 1TB for $24 a year and share your cloud with 5 others. |
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2024 Total Solar Eclipse through the eyes of NASA. Watch live with us as a total solar eclipse moves across North America. Video |
| Woman jailed after harming child with laxatives in England. A former auxiliary nurse convicted of harming a child with laxatives with “devastating” consequences has been jailed for seven years. Link |
 The “Big Book of Things that Piss Off Women” Volume one. |
| Green onions ignite voter anger in South Korea’s elections. In recent weeks, green onions have gone from a simple staple of Korean cooking to a powerful symbol of voter anger over rising prices in Asia’s fourth-biggest economy. Link |
[The Life of Riley] William Bendix – “Chester A. Riley” |
| [Local Pervert] Florida Keys pastor, Monte Chitty, accused of sexually battering teen arrested in Texas. Link |
[ Amy Winehouse] Back to Black review: Woozy Amy Winehouse biopic buoyed by extraordinary lead performance. Link |
| 1180 drawings of plant root systems. Link |
 When surgery was a public spectacle. Doctors perform surgery in an operating amphitheater at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Link |
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| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 4/9/24 at 9:30 am. |