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 [Ceiling Fans] I would like to see the RPMs listed on the box. I have 12 fans in our house that all rotate at different speeds. I would like the fastest one to be over the kitchen table and another over the living room couch where I mostly sit. The office fan is the slowest, but they are all not interchangeable because the base plates are different and it’s a hell of a lot of trouble. |
| [R.I.P.] Longtime GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness’. U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, the longtime South Carolina politician and influential voice on national security and the judiciary, has died at 71. Link |
 [Election Workers Needed] The Monroe County Supervisor of Elections Office is seeking additional Election Workers! Supervisor of Elections Sherri Hodies is encouraging anyone interested in serving their community and participating in the democratic process to join the Election Worker team.We are currently looking for 5–10 additional Election Workers in each office: Middle Keys Office Call 305-289-6017 and ask for Rachel. Upper Keys Office Call 305-453-8740 and ask for Belinda |
| ICE killed a dark-skinned person in Maine Monday Morning. The agents involved in the incident did not have any body cameras or dashboard cameras. |
| ICE killed a dark-skinned person in Houston Wednesday who wasn’t even the target. The agents involved in the incident did not have any body cameras or dashboard cameras. |
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| Just A Few Friends brings Jimmy Buffett‘s Shrimp Boat Sound Studio to life through music, storytelling and history. Presented in partnership with the Key West Art & Historical Society, filmmaker Michael J. Kirk takes the audience inside the making of Shrimp Boat Sound: Echoes From the Edge during a special lecture at Williams Hall during Just a Few Friends. Through stories, never-before-seen clips and conversations with special guests, Kirk explores the history, music and enduring legacy of Jimmy Buffett’s legendary recording studio. Link |
 Congress plans vote on Daylight Saving Time. Daylight saving time year-round! Link |
| Self regulating cars. Video |
 [Greed] Halloween decorations July 11, upstate South Carolina. |
| [Running Amok] Amok is a bastardization of the So Pacific tribe, the Mohawks; and these people are denominated from a corruption of the word Amock. To run amuck is, to get drunk with opium, and then seizing some offensive weapon, to sally forth from the house, kill the person or persons supposed to have injured the Amock, and any other person that attempts to impede his passage, till he himself is taken prisoner, or killed on the spot. |
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| [Injustice] In the 18th century the lawyers of the island of Batavia [India] are partial in their administration of justice to a very reprehensible degree. When an Indian has committed any crime deemed worthy of death, he is impaled, hanged, or broken on the wheel, without ceremony. On the contrary, if a Christian is capitally convicted, execution very seldom follows the sentence; and what is more extraordinary, no pains are taken to apprehend the offender, till time enough has been allowed him to run away. |
 [Two Worlds] Natural world so we can try to exert some control over it and improve our lives. And then there’s the imaginary world, the one that exists in our minds, and that we share with others through the arts. |
| [ICE] It used to be kids with automatic weapons that I was afraid of. Now it’s white men with automatic weapons that I’m afraid of. Body cameras should be mandatory. There’s only one reason ICE officers don’t want body cameras. Is this really America? |
 [Ernest Shackleton] Deep sea submersibles snap first photos of ship where Ernest Shackleton died. One of the remotely operated vehicles also discovered the Titanic 40 years ago. Link |
| I thought ICE agents were required to wear body cameras. I thought that was part of the outcome of the Minnesota killings. |
 [Phallic Mushrooms] Charles Darwin’s daughter had an unusual hobby: Hunting phallic mushrooms. Eccentric “Aunt Etty” also edited several of her father’s most important works. Link |
| Brazilian soccer star buys $8.7M Miami-Dade condo. See inside the beachfront home. Retired Brazilian soccer legend Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, better known by the nickname Kaká, bought a three-bedroom, 3,345-square-foot condo in Bal Harbour. Kaká, who played on Brazil’s victorious 2002 World Cup squad, is considered one of the greatest players of all time. Link |
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| [Pervert Video] It’s a four-minute long video showing some furious Scotrail passengers confronting a drunk middle-aged pervert who is quietly filming a group of quiet, sober 16- and 17-year old girls heading home from a night out. It really is worth a watch, because it’s a four-minute long documentary masterclass in bystander action, documenting offenses, holding perpetrators to account, centering the victims, and somehow staying calm and focused even when you want to batter the fuck out of someone who has it coming. Video |
 [Free Daytime Electricity Is Coming] Starting this month energy retailers in NSW, South Australia, and South-East Queensland must give households at least three hours of free electricity every day. No solar panels required. No need to own your home. You just need a smart meter and to opt in through your retailer to have access to free daytime electricity. Link |
| [Salvaging Lithium] Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries and it could be a major breakthrough. Link |
 Notable Knot Index. The website is best when you have a rope in your hand. |
| [How to build a circular LCD clock] In our kitchen, the only device that displays the time is our oven! Flashing :D. Looking at it was always a bit annoying. So I recently built a wall clock from a circular LCD screen! It’s really great because it can display any clock face you want, even ones you code yourself. Link |
 The Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold. Long before photography became the visual language of empire, one Englishwoman was sketching the people she encountered across India with unusual curiosity and precision.Emily Eden, a gifted artist and writer, belonged to one of Britain’s most influential political families. She travelled across northern India in the 1830s while accompanying her brother, George Eden, first Earl of Auckland, the governor-general of India. Link |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 7/14/26 at 10:35 am. |
| 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. |
