The Retired Commodore

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Ever notice how the temperature drops 10 degrees the second you walk under a big tree?

That’s not a coincidence. That’s nature doing the job we keep trying to replace with asphalt and parking lots.

We’ve turned our cities into heat islands by removing the very things designed to cool them down. The solution isn't some high-tech miracle—it's right outside. Plant a tree. Restore the shade. Bring back the cool. 🌳

"I would rather see you changed than destroyed."
Happy Pride.

We have about four hundred teeny tiny little lives in one of our currently unoccupied turtle ponds. A mom less than a mile away from us went to empty out her kids’ little pool, which was full of mosquito larvae, to prepare it for use this summer, and realized it was actually teeming with hundreds of tadpoles.

There are a lot of people who encounter this and simply dispose of the tadpoles without a second thought, which is a tragedy. Amphibians are facing an extinction crisis, with over 40% of amphibians currently threatened with extinction. Every little pinhead-sized tadpole is precious. And, since they have a brain and a central nervous system, we know that they can experience pain and fear just like us. We’re thankful she thought twice and called us!

It’s important to be aware that amphibians should never ever be relocated more than a mile or two, and ideally even less than that. Amphibians spend their entire lives in small areas, where the natural bacteria and fungi on their skin are unique to each individual neighborhood. Moving a frog or tadpole even a few miles can introduce pathogens to a new population that can’t tolerate them. Luckily, these little dudes are our neighbors and could be relocated— or rehabilitated— or relocabilitated. We’re not counting them as individual patients but we’ll be keeping them fed and protected while they finish growing.

If you’ve got tadpoles in your kiddie pool— it happens this time of year— please consider simply letting them be if you can. You can control the mosquito larvae with Mosquito Dunks, which are nontoxic to amphibians. Your kids can experience the joy of watching baby frogs grow up! But if you absolutely must empty the pool, please relocate the tadpoles to a safe body of water less than half a mile away and contact a rehabilitator if that is unavailable.

Let’s all work together to keep our tiniest and most helpless neighbors safe. 🐸

I've read that Argentina was popular with a certain demographic in the mid to late 1940s.

There is no Earth II. This is the only one we get. That's it.

"Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?"
-Obi-Wan Kenobi

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Jalopnick: Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million yacht cost more than a a year of employment for every person in the Seattle area that Meta just laid off.

The beaver’s not wrong.

Apparently No Lives Matter anymore.

Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn on Wednesday said President Trump is using his “anti-weaponization” fund to put Jan. 6, 2021, rioters on a “retainer” ahead of the next presidential election.

“This payment is going to serve as a retainer. People have retainers for their lawyers. So when they need them, they’re available,” Dunn said during a Wednesday appearance on CNN’s “AC360.”

“Donald Trump is putting a retainer on a mob, on a militia that’s already showed the violence that they’re willing to enact on his behalf. And he’s incentivizing it, too,” he added.

Now what.

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