🦋Cosmo the Shaggy Dog🦋

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!'" Hunter S Thompson. "Stay Waggy!" CTSD

Ahoy beachcombers, vagabonds and funlovers. The tides rise and fall twice a day. You never know what they wash ashore or what they take away. “For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.” Douglas Adams “Wake the neighbors. Go howl at the moon. “ CTSD

Ahoy Bluskees wanderers and wonderers. It’s a great day to find something that makes you happy and hold onto it for as long as you can. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Robin Williams

The Andromeda Galaxy, low in the sky over New South Wales, Australia.

Almost every shallow-water coral reef on the planet faces ecosystem collapse by 2075, UN advisors say Assessment finds global heating is endangering 96% of coral reefs across 80 countries – a figure scientists say should serve as a ‘wake-up call’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...?

“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time.” ― Carl Sagan

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Ahoy there gigglers, gagsters and all who guffaw. The morning cup of coffee is just not the same since they took Stephen Colbert off the air. So Cosmo wrote a poem. Have a waggy day yawl.

Nicolas Reusens captures a Kingfisher diving underwater to snag fish at 600fps. #AGoodPlace

Record El Niño threatens Great Barrier Reef with ecological shift Researchers are worried about the impact the strongest-known El Niño will have on the Great Barrier Reef, and whether anything can be done to avert the World Heritage Area’s demise www.newscientist.com/article/2592...?

Congrats to Navi Pillay. Poor Felonious really wants a Peaz prize bad. Cosmo wrote him a poem.

Stop Musk’s Space Base action.eko.org/a/stop-musk-...

A giant clam kept a 30-year diary of the Great Barrier Reef’s climate in its shell: www.earth.com/climate/gian...

The ghostly particles shed light on the distant universe

Hunting cosmic ghosts: Why neutrino detection won the Nobel Prize in Physics The 2026 prize was awarded to Francis Halzen "for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin." www.space.com/science/part...?

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In Chesapeake Bay—the largest Osprey breeding colony in the world—and up and down the East Coast, the 2026 Osprey breeding season was the worst documented since the DDT era. What happened? Menhaden, a fish rich in fat and calories, are a principal prey of #Ospreys.

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NYT: The Trump administration’s talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

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Amazing editorial cartoon re artificial intelligence by @mackinnonart.bsky.social

Dog refuses to leave his unwell owner's side. Loyalty

Political cartoon by Michael de Adder.

I tend to lean toward the most intelligent and thoughtful, not the attention-seeking man babies who have only stolen credit and amassed unthinkable wealth but contributed little to society. IJS.

Ahoy travelers dawdlers and renegades it’s a wonderful day to find yourself going somewhere without any plan of how to get back. As long as you stay waggy. “The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.” Douglas Adams

“The many sorrows of our recent history suggest that we humans have a learning disability.” ― Carl Sagan

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A FUTURE GAME SHOW: “Sorry, Arthur, your answer was correct, but Paul shouted his opinion louder, so he gets the point. And, an extra bonus point goes to Sue, as she was offended by your answer.”

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: 365 million Hiroshimas. "The explosive addition of thermal energy, which was almost 40 times greater than all the energy humanity used that year, comes amid far-reaching changes to the deep water bodies fundamental to life on Earth."

"On Tuesday, President Donald Trump gathered the most powerful technology executives on the planet at the White House, stared down the existential risks of artificial intelligence, and emerged with a deal he described as 'morally binding.'"

More plastic, less glow? Pollution threatens deep sea's bioluminescent life, experts warn ->Mongabay | More on "Deep sea plastic pollution threatens bioluminescence" at BigEarthData.ai | #DeepSea #Plastic #Ocean #Pollution

Sperm whale families sleep standing up in the water, huddled together for safety while their brains rest one half at a time.

Mussolini did not seize Italy. He was given it. The story of how Italy's democracy was surrendered one step at a time. #alpolitics

"How wonderful it is, that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank Anne wrote this in the darkest of times! If she could then, when the whole world was literally crumbling around her, while she was locked in an attic.. Then.. can't we too? #resist

Ahoy sand hoppers,beach combers and stick chasers, today is a great day to get out there and do something waggalicious. “Sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is a beautiful as it gets.” Robin Williams

Australian Institute of Marine Science This timelapse captures just over two years of coral growth, between May 2011 and August 2013, in the central Great Barrier Reef. The footage was taken by our fixed underwater camera at AIMS' weather station at Davies Reef. linktr.ee/AustInstitut...