Jack Cousteau ⚓️

Centcom update on Operation Epic Fail
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Well that was a fu**ing waste of money getting them done.

This image taken from a UGC video posted on social media on March 1, shows the Palau-flagged oil tanker Skylight engulfed in flames after being struck off the Musandam Peninsula of Oman.

📈 Oil and gas prices soared while stocks fell in Asia on Monday after US-Israeli strikes on Iran sent investors fleeing the prospect of an extended conflict in the crude-rich Middle East.
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YouTube video by Francis C Gumby - The REAL Small Planets (Yes, this is THAT one)

youtu.be/5itZW6ln4eU somewhere up there tonight: Gumby and Pokey. (ty cam)

Iran war spreads across region as US, Israel suffer losses.

The United States hit hundreds of targets across Iran, and Israel expanded its bombing to Lebanon on Monday as Trump vowed to avenge the first US deaths in the war he launched to topple Tehran's ruling clerics
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New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.

Reminder: The commerce secretary apparently still hasn’t come clean on his connection with Epstein.

Touch of moon glow, splash of alpenglow

YouTube video by afarTV Giant Humpback Whales Blow Bubbles & Sideways Breach Off the Coast of Maui

youtube.com/watch?v=oJ3b... wish we were here, water’s perfect

“A new war in the Middle East that looks a lot like the Iraq war. It looks a lot like the same people making the arguments for the Iraq war, and basically an argument that is mired in the past,” said Curt Mills of American Conservative mag.
It's like quicksand.

Never turn a/c off

A few people swimming in a calm ocean at sunset taken from a higher place. The water is a beautiful clear blue in the front. As it gets farther away, it transitions to pink from the reflections of the sunset. There's an orangish pink blanket of clouds above a yellow sky.

Peaceful

Zanzibar sunset

#Stunday #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #PhotographersUnited #photography

A hotter, wetter South is becoming a breeding ground for mold In Asheville, N.C, a housing crisis is colliding with a poorly understood health threat.

grist.org/health/in-a-... She scrubbed the apartment weekly, only to watch the spores creep back. As a single mom who works long shifts as a nurse, she felt she couldn’t keep up with the creeping damage.

We'll keep the light on for you.

Footage from near the Strait of Hormuz shows a Palau-flagged oil tanker ablaze after what Oman’s maritime security centre said was a hit from an unidentified projectile.

At least three ships have been struck in the area. More than 150 others have dropped anchor to avoid entering the strait.

Winter getting shorter in 80% of major US cities, new data shows Researchers find that across 195 US cities, winters are on average nine days shorter than they were in 1970-1997

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Across the country, they found that winter-defining temperatures are arriving later and ending earlier than in the 20th century...9 less days of winter.

roadside attraction, Washington state

We're having an early spring up here on the top left corner of the nation.

Never had a job that let me listen to anything on earphones…until now so

Broke Like Us: more are bankrupt in #pnw and USA

I was mythologized as the boy who falls asleep on deer stands

Jack’s quiet history: there are 700,000 active podcasts worldwide. South Korea leads the world in podcast listeners, with 58% of South Koreans listening to podcasts every month. For comparison, 32% of Americans had listened to podcasts in the last month.

My Texas family required all male heirs to go Dexter on a whitetail. Many parts.

Ambassador Mike Waltz v @michaelgwaltz X.com Freedom is never free. • U.S. Central Command • @CENTCOM • 3h CENTCOM Update TAMPA, Fla. - As of 9:30 am ET, March 1, three U.S. service members have been killed in action and five are seriously wounded

From Jack's Arcade of AI Hallucinations: AI is asked to map reasons why people call 911, by state.

This is an unassuming watercourse called Mouse Cteek, Grants Creek or maybe Dan Creek. Forgot already. Doesn’t matter.

About quicksand, I’ve seen it, before and after it swallowed a man, his dad and their two toylike airplanes. I was a kid reporter for the Tampa Trib. It was the Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In. One went down in the moonscape that's a Fla phosphate mine. Dad went down trying to save him. War is a strip mine:

Franchise quarterback.