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Jack Cousteau ⚓️

@angrywaterman.bsky.social

Working-class writer, salty rescue swimmer, complexity wrangler, ex-journalist, #climate refugee in the Pacific Northwest. Let’s go deeper.

created July 31, 2023

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Profile picture NPR (@npr.org) reposted

Ports across the country were planning to become economic hubs for the growing offshore wind industry. The Trump administration is cancelling grants to build the infrastructure for it.

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(FT) - Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b86b...

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lost in translation, a series

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www.fox13news.com/news/baby-se... Experts say small actions, like closing blinds and turning outdoor lighting can help.

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Profile picture Moby Dick (@mobydickatsea.bsky.social) reposted

And there they stand—miles of them—leagues.

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Profile picture mari (@amari.bsky.social) reposted

After a summer of all plans being dashed and everything falling apart, September floats in with a late summer sun like a balm for a wounded soul. These are the moments that sustain.

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If not for foresight of those that came before us and preserved few shoreline public parks, views like this would be reserved only for wealthy. Northbound Amtrak Cascades 15 May 2019, but today train doesn't take water lever route. Stielacoom, Titlow Beach parks maintain Olympic Mountain public view

Rocky, snow capped peaks line the distant horizon. In front of those, much closer, is a line of trees, with a line of houses along a shore. The bottom 1/5 of the photo is water, between the shoreline and the camera.
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separated at birth

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the conqueror not emperor www.imdb.com/title/tt1477...

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fair

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jack is grilling at home—they call it I-5 because that’s the speed

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discuss

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see the documentary hollywood fallout, about howard hughes’ disastrous choice of st george utah for location to shoot The Emperor they killed john wayne

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hell

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wordlove: binnacle list

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steel, grain and milk, fabric of a country

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youtube.com/watch?v=6VpO...

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lost in translation, a series

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quiet history: In 2002, the Centers for Disease Control estimated that every American who has lived since 1951 has been exposed to nuclear fallout from atomic bomb tests, which collectively raised earth’s ambient radiation level worldwide. but cancer is a mystery.

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🏆

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Profile picture Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) reposted

#LaborDay2025

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he has no neck

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Trump has consistently put corporate interests first in his second term as he has taken dozens of actions that hurt workers

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Profile picture Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social) reposted

If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.

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tourists spoil everything everywhere

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Sunrise on the Cascade Range

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new feature: lost in translation

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youtube.com/watch?v=v8U3... lmao these incorrigible gun kooks

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insideclimatenews.org/news/0208202...

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Now watching The She Creature S8E8

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MST3K therapy has helped me more than all the MS BS PhDs I’ve known. Put together.

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Oh yah

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good light today in the scenic 206

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⭐️⚓️

31/8/2025, 11:06:21 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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everybody going for the bag

31/8/2025, 10:31:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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coyotes on mustang island stole my rain fly and sweater. pales in comparison.

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nio sure, but here is a sweet page called Don’s Maps with more beauties and some museum cites www.donsmaps.com/canoesnwc.html

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www.politico.com/news/2025/08... ready to push House Speaker Mike Johnson and the White House for transparency in the Jeffrey Trumpstein case

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back to boats First Nations people of the Pacific Northwest are renowned for their elegantly engineered canoes. Ranging 3-20 meters, canoes were essential for travel, transport, hunting, and trade. Coastal communities developed distinctive styles to suit their particular needs. Here, a Haida build

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now for something completely different

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www.fws.gov/story/rainfo... Their dens have three things in common: they’re located in old growth, on elevated ground (an important consideration in such wet conditions) and within 100 meters of freshwater.

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Profile picture Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) reposted

The Trump plan for Gaza includes the relocation of the entire population - 2 million people - a US “trusteeship” and the creation of a tourism and tech hub. Landowners get digital tokens worth $5,000 and rent subsidies. Investors are promised 4x return on $100 billion.

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not paywalled, knucklehead

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insideclimatenews.org/news/2808202... data centers are cooking the planet. “bad for consumers, bad for the environment and even bad for data centers.”

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call me skipjack

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axial.acs.org/earth-space-... 1971: The Year I Turned Angry. Research emerges showing remarkable levels of neurotoxic mercury in skipjack tuna.

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youtube.com/watch?v=zI8x...

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Profile picture Dr. John W Cavanaugh, PhD ⭐🇺🇲 🇮🇪 (@drjohncav.bsky.social) reposted

@angrywaterman.bsky.social

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Jacques-Yves Cousteau and wife Simone with their beloved dog, Scaphandre, 1959

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self-contained underwater breathing apparatus

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we fondly recall the day Commandant Cousteau vanquished the Daleks

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Hurricane forecasts are now much more accurate, 20 years on — largely because of federal government research.

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Profile picture Cam Walker (@walks30.bsky.social) reposted

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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sunscreen

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jack is not etsy

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nypost.com/2025/08/29/u...

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The midwife of Labor Day, PJ McGuire, American Federation of Labor

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the cutest thing ever seen in boiling sulfur and arsenic. May be satan

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Celebrating Organized Labor this weekend, Union Coffee, PJ McGuire and brats on the grill. More tk

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so much time saying so little

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"Dude, it’s Labor Day Weekend. Let it go." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

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sink into a scalding bath of arsenic and hydrogen sulfide? that’s the self-care routine for Paralvinella hessleri, a deep sea worm that “is the only animal that colonizes the hottest part of deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the west pacific,” according to a new study./404media

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reason.com/2025/08/27/i... it’s a fun read: “powerful figures around the globe, including American businessman Peter Thiel, the former director of Israeli signals intelligence, and 2 in Vladimir Putin's circle”

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aww Blondie

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🎯

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youtube.com/watch?v=cW5d... is it safe to go back in the water?

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grist.org/accountabili... “I would love to be able to have him put a cup under the tap if he was thirsty.”

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insideclimatenews.org/news/3008202... Amid rising repression of climate science domestically…

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youtube.com/watch?v=Vtt2... the dying Med: too much plastic , too much heat, too much pollution

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surely will

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Sen. Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, we hardly knew ye.

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Evergreen Voters please bug your goddam lawmakers, calls work.

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Thank you my Boo💚

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You cannot get even half-decent lunch at Jack in the Box for $7.25. Jack will have a cup of hot water and four ketchups please.

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💯🎯

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This is some bullshit. $20 MINIMUM WAGE NOW

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environmentamerica.org/washington/t... keep roadless public lands roadless

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doctor junk

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