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If you have a Costco membership now is a good time to contact customer service and tell them you won't be renewing unless this decision is reversed.

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"Florida native Neill Holland became a charter captain at age 18. In 2015, after traveling internationally for a decade, he returned to St. Petersburg, Florida, to resume his fishing charter operation with his partner Danielle Dawley. 

Time and again on their charters, Dawley and Holland came across derelict traps, also known as ghost traps. 

Ghost traps are fishing traps that have been swept away in storms and currents or simply abandoned over time. 

Once lost, these rusted traps often pose risks to coral reefs below and passing boats above — all while trapping and killing marine life that die long before they are pulled to the surface. 

Those decaying fish, in turn, attract more sea animals into the trap, starting the cycle anew.

After ghost traps continued cropping up in their day-to-day, Dawley and Holland founded Ocean Aid 360: a conservation organization that works with fishing industry professionals, community volunteers, and government agencies to find, retrieve, and recycle marine debris — including ghost traps.

Their most popular program? Ghost trap rodeos: fishing tournaments that reward entrants for salvaging abandoned fishing gear.

“We started in October of 2018 through a grant from NOAA, which enabled us to hold seven tournament-style marine debris events around Tampa Bay,” Holland told the Port Charlotte Sun in mid-July. 

“In that first year, our target was 15,000 pounds of marine debris. We ended up collecting 27,000 pounds, and had fabulous numbers of community members coming out to participate,” he said. 

“Since then, we’ve worked all over Florida and the Bahamas, with more than 60 event days and about 60,000 pounds of marine debris collected — including more than 8,200 derelict traps.”

The latest ghost trap rodeo — hosted on July 19 — pulled in 4,000 pounds of trash, including 128 ‘ghost traps,’ from the Tampa Bay. 

Two minutes into the event, Holland was already reeling in a ghost trap. 

“This is a textbook example of a derelict crab trap,” Holland told the Tampa Bay Times. “It’s been left out, and as you can see it’s pretty darn crusty and rusted.”

Holland estimates that 10% of all traps placed in the water become ghost traps.

“It’s a recurring problem here, and we really have to stay on top of it,” said Peter Clark, the president and founder of Tampa Bay Watch —  one of many local organizations that helped host the ghost trap rodeo competition.

“We’re helping to protect fish and wildlife, we’re taking marine debris out of the bay, and it’s a great project to get the community involved to help restore and protect Tampa Bay.”

-via GoodGoodGood, July 28, 2025

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The weather is supposed to be nice tomorrow and I am STRESSED so I want to go hiking, but uh. I think my car's battery might be dying? And maybe I shouldn't drive an hour and change away without fixing that.

But all my next few days off have shit weather forecasted so I have to go tomorrow or not at all.

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pioneering something called "gritted teeth optimism" where everything is gonna turn out okay even if i have to bite and claw and gnash my way through it

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Today is my 7th day in a row, this week has been a shitshow, and I'm stressed re: the whole dad having cancer thing. So if course my period started today.

Usually stress knocks it back a few days BUT NOT THIS TIME I GUESS. It's a day EARLY.

The good news is I'm off tomorrow, then I work Saturday, and I was complaining to someone that I never get two days off together, but then realized I have my normal Sunday off, and then I usually work Mondays but one of the managers is off next week, so my schedule got shifted around. So I'm off Monday too. TWO DAYS OFF TOGETHER HOORAY.

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The main character of the last TV show you watched is now your therapist. How’s it working for you?

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sports bra and boxers can be lingerie if you're enlightened and impure of heart

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Get. Onto. Your. Representatives.

(And romance fans / writers? THIS MEANS YOU.)

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by tucker

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So I was thinking for Halloween I could do Kelvin's TCFM awards outfit cause I mean. Who doesn't want to look like a disco ball?

But now I'm thinking.... Keefe's wedding outfit would be a super fun challenge.

Like that would be a lot of money and effort (I don't even know where I can buy fabric anymore) for nobody to know what my costume is (and idek what I'm doing for Halloween) but. I mean. Look at it.

And I've talked to Tony Cavalero a few times on Instagram so maybe I could get him to send me reference photos lmao.

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no purity tests

Voter suppression is very real, and it doesn't just show up as long lines, gerrymandering, and other physical barriers to putting your ballot in the box.

Voter suppression most frequently means demoralizing, discouraging, and other emotionally manipulative ways to convince people that their vote doesn't matter. One of the most common and effective tactics online is to work people up with purity tests, to convince people that, for instance, it's a good idea to kneecap the one guy who is currently the loudest and most effective voice countering Trump, because [fill in whatever the reason, usually that he's a lame centrist].

Newsom is my governor. He leaves a LOT to be desired for leftists like me, but he's a powerful, effective, unflinching and relentless voice speaking truth to Fascism. We need him. We need more voices like his.

So when you hear someone praising him for speaking up, when you see one of his clever posts skewering shitler, and you see people responding positively to his willingness to fight, and fight hard, just join in that celebration. And shut down anyone who does "yeah, but ..." because now is not the time.

We are all in this together. Fuck Trump, fuck Maga, and fuck everyone who supports them.

They are our enemy -- a word I don't use lightly -- and we need to remember that. Stay on target.

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Views From The Potomac: Nothing says “government efficiency” like active military just hanging around a low-crime area at 12:00 noon in the middle of the week.

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Real and implied birds.

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