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| [Missing Critters] Where have all the racoons and opossums gone? In the past when I’d shoot an iguana, by the next morning the dead iguana would be gone. Sometimes I’d hear the racoons at night. Not anymore. Lately the dead iguanas just lay there for days until some other critter eats it, but where’s the racoons and opossums. I haven’t seen any marsh rabbits in months. Is something eating our small critters, like a python? Where Have All the Flowers Gone — Peter, Paul & Mary |
 [Our Dying Reef] Abnormally hot surface water temperatures have created conditions ripe for an unprecedented coral bleaching event. This side-by-side shows the same elkhorn coral in August 2022 before bleaching and in its bleached state in August 2023. The marine heatwave that gripped Florida in 2023 was hotter than anything Florida has seen in 150 years and claimed at least two victims — species of corals now marked ‘functionally extinct’ from Florida’s reefs. Link |
| Saving sea turtles with solar-powered fishing nets. The LED lights reduced entanglements by 63 percent. Link |
 [Horror] In an age of polarization, institutional collapse, climate anxiety and the breakdown of a shared reality, horror has emerged as the genre most capable of processing our fractured moment. Once reviled by respectable film critics as being only a short step up from pornography, horror today is not just having a moment; it is revealing itself as the defining genre of the 21st century. Link |
| Freeze warnings active across US, some areas to see temps in low 20s. Video |
 [Andy’s Sliding Glass Door Repair] As I find solutions for problems I have, I like to post them here in case someone else might be interested. I called Andy’s Sliding Glass Door Repair to fix a sliding glass door that felt like it had square wheels. The owner and his helper took the doors out of their tracks, removed the bottom and replaced the rollers with all new hardware. They then put stainless steel covers on the tracks. My doors work better than new. I will call them again if I ever have any problems with my other doors. Call them at 305-998-8953. |
| [Much Ado…] They are making the policewoman who arrested the unarmed man in the Atlanta airport a hero. Yes, the man’s family alerted the police that the man was dangerous, but that doesn’t make her a hero arresting an unarmed man who offered no resistance, even though she thought he was armed. Video |
 I want to complement the crew that picks up yard waste on Little Torch Key -Oceanside on Wednesdays. They do an excellent job. Waste Management is lucky to have them. |
| [Friday Joke] A married couple was in a terrible accident where the man’s face was severely burned. The doctor told the husband that they couldn’t graft any skin from his body because he was too skinny. So the wife offered to donate some of her own skin. However, the only skin on her body that the doctor felt was suitable would have to come from her buttocks. The husband and wife agreed that they would tell no one about where the skin came from, and they requested that the doctor also honor their secret. After all, this was a delicate matter. After the surgery was completed, everyone was astounded at the man’s new face. He looked more handsome than he ever had before! All his friends and relatives just went on and on about his youthful beauty! One day, he was alone with his wife, and he was overcome with emotion at her sacrifice. He said, “Dear, I just want to thank you for everything you did for me. How can I possibly repay you?” “My darling,” she replied, “I get all the thanks I need every time I see your mother kiss you on the cheeks.” |
 Small Craft Advisory conditions are expected tonight for all the coastal waters of the Florida Keys. Northeast to east winds will peak at 25 to 30 knots Friday night through Saturday night. |
| [Friday Joke] This ‘getting old’ is a terrible thing. I blacked out for twenty minutes this morning, then I realized I’d put my hoodie on backwards. |
 [Comet] I googled, “How to see Comet C/2025 A1 from the Lower FL Keys” and it said it was a hoax.(Editor: Watch comets Lemmon (C/2025 A4) and SWAN (C/2025 R2) make their closest approach to Earth on Oct. 24. Video) |
| [Extreme Lengths] Doctor is arrested while performing illegal penis enlargement procedures in the back of his Toyota Corolla. You can get anything in Bangkok—anything! Video |
 [No AI Photos] AI has blurred the line. Now, how we take, share, and create images has changed. Social media has made sharing images easy. Generative AI now creates any image we can imagine. We’ve started to lose sight of what is real. We’ve lost our ability to find our bearings in an endless sea of copies and AI-generated noise. By combining attested sensor data, zero-knowledge proofs, and a tamper-proof environment, we’ve built Roc Camera to capture verifiably real photos. Link |
| [Welcome Republicans] Our November meeting will be held five days before the Marathon City Council election, November 4th. Peter Amendola, the Director of Engineering for the Florida Keys Electric Co-op, will give a presentation on Storm Hardening and System Reliability. Q & A to follow. Sheriff Rick Ramsey will talk on current County law enforcement issues and outlook. Our three Republican Marathon City Council candidates will again introduce themselves and take questions. Robin Still, Debra Struyf, and David Perry. Local elected officials may update us on any County issues. We will hold our first 50/50 Raffle, details to be announced at the meeting. 5:30 Social Hour, 6PM meeting. Please invite any interested registered Republicans to the American Legion, 4117 Overseas Hwy, Marathon. For questions, concerns or issues, contact Dale Schumacher 415-310-5915. See you next week. |
 Today the Moon is in Sagittarius which is probably the best time to have a party. When the Moon is in Sagittarius people are usually happier and in good moods. Party on! |
| French post office rolls out croissant-scented stamps. Link |
 [Big Pine Book Club] The book we ordered for November did not arrive, so we selected a book from the Big Pine ‘Books-in-a-bag’. We will be reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. There are copies available at the library’s front desk. We will meet again on November 15 at 10:00am at the library. Full Menu > Ongoing Events > Book Club |
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 Where have all the White Crowned Pigeons gone? They are usually here in abundance in June (I only saw 2 this year) and haven’t seen another one until Wednesday morning. There are no remaining berries on the bushes they favor and the berries the poisonwood put out haven’t appeared this year that I can tell. |
| A liver transplant from start to finish. Link |
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| [Friday Joke] I got so drunk last night, when I walked across the dance floor to get another drink I won the dance contest. |
 If Martians did land here, we would try to kill them. We kill everything we don’t understand or frightens us. That may not be so easy because in order to get here they would have to be an advanced civilization with advanced weapons. Weapons we’ve never even heard of. They wouldn’t let us kill them. |
| [Wisdom] I may sound cliche when I say this, but this is what I was taught my entire life that One: You don’t get something for nothing. Two: If it’s too good to be true, then it’s not. Three: (This is the part that’s very hard) Don’t ever want to believe something more than you want the truth. If you want to believe something so badly, you will discard everything to get to your belief, to see your belief confirmed. Four: Don’t be a dumbass” |
 The 14th annual Stone Crab Eating Contest is coming back to Keys Fisheries November 1. Video |
| [Retirement] The most successful way of assuring that your money will last through retirement is to not retire until you are at least 110 years old. |
 [Vaccines] In just six weeks, Florida school children will no longer be required to receive a range of vaccines to attend classes, all part of a scheme by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his surgeon general, Joe Ladapo, to eliminate vaccine mandates altogether. Note: almost all measles sufferers and deaths have been unvaccinated people. |
| [Conspiracy] I suspect AWS’s outage this week was more than faulty equipment. I think it was a cyberattack they aren’t telling us about because that would highlight the vulnerability of cloud storage where they make their money. |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 10/24/25 at 9:25 am. |