Ridiculous response

 

She just said the obvious. And fortunately, many sports organizations are recognizing that too.

So Medium should have let her post her opinion.  This Daily Mail article accomplishes that.

Black lesbian Harvard law grad is CENSORED by blogging site Medium for 'hateful' post saying transgender women should not be allowed to compete in women's sports

She wrote:

" 'Further, I was silenced for expressing my belief that inclusion of biological men in women's sports, prisons and other historically protected spaces potentially undermines the rights and safety of biological women and lesbians.

'Yet the act of deplatforming my article was, itself, proof of the marginalization I lamented in my article."

She also wrote this:

" 'Testosterone's effect on every cell in the male body is profound and explains why elite females cannot effectively compete against elite males.

'I suspect this is also why transgender inclusion has largely focused on women's sports, as transgender men are probably less likely to want to compete with biological men.

'Yet proponents of DEI choose to ignore this biological reality. They insist that excluding transgender athletes from women's sports is discriminatory because it favors people who were born female over people who identify as female. Because identification trumps science.' "

All of which is just plain sensible. So she should have been allowed to say it (and I'm OK with the Daily Mail letting her say it). 

Lighthouse of the Week, July 30 - August 5, 2023: Jeongja Hang North Breakwater Light, South Korea

 

After I discovered that South Korea has lots and lots and lots of lighthouses, with a wide variety of designs, I vowed not to use too many of them as Lighthouses of the Week. And I have kept my vow. But I was casting about for ideas for lighthouses this week, I happened upon this one, and I couldn't resist.  There aren't many pictures of it, so this will be a short and quick article.

First of all, let's find where it is in South Korea.  And that would be here. Zoom out to get a better geographical idea of where "here" is.

Here's what the Lighthouse Directory knows about it.

"Date unknown. Active; focal plane 16 m (52 ft); two red flashes every 6 s. 11 m (36 ft) sculpture of a whale; the light is perched above the whale's nose. Entire lighthouse is red. ... This unusual design was selected after a public competition. Formerly a whaling port, Ulsan calls itself "Whale City," has a whale museum, and is a base for whale-watching cruises."

Here are the pictures.  By the way, the other breakwater has a white whale lighthouse, so don't make any Moby Dick jokes, or any dick jokes, for that matter.  Remember South Korea has one of those, too (a dick lighthouse). 

For what serious reason why?

 

Republicans can't help messing with success. In this case, messing with success means massive failure.

But hey, they're Republicans. Sanity doesn't apply.

House GOP seeks billions in cuts to rail, water infrastructure spending

Here are some excerpts from this painful-to-read article.

"A series of GOP bills to finance the federal government in 2024 would wipe out billions of dollars meant to repair the nation’s aging infrastructure, potentially undercutting a 2021 law that was one of Washington’s rare recent bipartisan achievements."

"The emerging House battle underscores the massive chasm between Democrats and Republicans over the nation’s fiscal health, only weeks after the two parties brokered what was thought to be a political truce."

"Two years after Congress approved $55 billion to improve the nation’s water supply, for example, House Republicans last week proposed to eliminate $1.7 billion from the two primary federal sources for drinking water and wastewater grants to states."

"After weeks of haggling, House appropriators are expected to finalize that bill this week. Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine, the top Democrat on the panel, described the spending measure in a recent hearing as “one of the most harmful attacks on America’s efforts to tackle climate change.” "

Government shutdown, here we come.  But not down the tracks, because they're cutting funding for that, too. 

It might work. But it's not a good idea.

 

While the world swelters (OK, the Northern Hemisphere, technically, but temperatures are above normal almost everywhere), this idea for blocking a bit of solar radiation came up. The administration says it's a legit idea -- and it is -- but the potential for unforeseen side effects is always there.  (Reference:  Snowpiercer.)

White House cautiously opens the door to study blocking sun’s rays to slow global warming

A Biden administration report required by Congress outlines research options for a last-ditch effort to slow the heating of the planet. But the White House says it’s not changing its climate strategy.

" “A program of research into the scientific and societal implications of solar radiation modification (SRM) would enable better-informed decisions about the potential risks and benefits of SRM as a component of climate policy, alongside the foundational elements of greenhouse gas emissions mitigation and adaptation,” the White House report said. “SRM offers the possibility of cooling the planet significantly on a timescale of a few years.”

Below is a bit more information.  We could always consider triggering a couple of volcanic eruptions;  that's a natural process, right?

"The 44-page document considers a few plausible ways to limit the amount of sunlight that hits Earth, all of which could have significant drawbacks. One method is to multiply the amount of aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect the sun’s rays away from the planet — a process that can occur naturally after a major volcanic eruption. Others include either increasing cloud cover over the oceans or reducing the amount of high-flying cirrus clouds, which reflect solar radiation back to Earth.

There are risks associated with each form of solar radiation modification, the report said, that can affect human health, biodiversity and geopolitics. That’s because modifying sunlight could alter global weather patterns, disrupt food supplies and lead to abrupt warming if the practice was widely deployed and then halted. It also wouldn’t address air pollution from fossil fuels or ocean acidification, a major threat to coral reefs’ ecosystems driven by the overabundance of carbon in the air and seas.

At the same time, the White House emphasized that it was important to compare those uncertainties with the present dangers associated with a hotter planet."

Link to the report.

The graphic below isn't from the report, but it does illustrate some of the ideas under consideration. 

Political and environmental commentary from the orcas

 

This cartoon comes from Brian McFadden.  (Here's his website.)

Big dino discovery in the 'burbs

 

Laurel, Maryland is a suburb;  it depends on which direction you're looking as to whether it's a suburb of Washington D.C. or Baltimore.  I think opinion would lean toward it being a suburb of Washington D.C. more than Baltimore.

Regardless of which way it leans, it also has a place to dig up dinosaur bones.  And just recently, it was revealed that it's not just a few stray fragment of dinosaur bones, but it's a place with a whole lot of dinosaur bones.

Rare dinosaur bone bed discovered in D.C. suburb

" "Matthew Carrano, a paleontologist with the Smithsonian Institution, called the find “the most significant collection of dinosaur bones discovered along the Eastern Seaboard in the last hundred years.” Dinosaur fossils, Carrano said in a statement, “are exceptionally rare in the eastern US, and among these only Maryland has produced dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Period. Typically, only one or two bones are found at a time, so this new discovery of a bonebed of fossils is extremely important.”

The article mentions that a tooth of Astrodon johnstoni, the state dinosaur of Maryland, was recently found at the site; below is an artist's depiction of AJ.

 

Let's reemphasize that

 

I'm going to make a point again, via the New York Times opinions.  This one is illustrated.

Even ‘Safe’ Places Are Experiencing Climate Chaos in America

Once more, with feeling.

"For each degree Celsius of warming, the atmosphere holds 7 percent more water vapor, driving the extreme precipitation events in New England that have increased by 55 percent since 1958, according to the Fourth National Climate Assessment."

And further down:

"On Sunday [July 9], eight inches of rain fell in a few hours near West Point, N.Y. — a “once in a thousand year” event — even as an entirely different band of violent storms buried the Oklahoma City area in floodwaters, too."

Extreme rainfall is due to climate change and extreme rainfall events are increasing.

That's physics.  That's weather.  That's reality. 

 

Evaluation of the tilted Supreme Court

 

This op-ed in the Washington Post, about a Mitch McConnell op-ed in the Washington Post, is a GREAT read. Ruth Marcus rarely disappoints.  

(BTW, Mitch had a bit of a problem at a press conference today, July 26. I hope it's not a big problem. Just enough to convince him to resign his seat.  Unlikely, but one can hope.)

McConnell built a conservative Supreme Court. Why doesn’t he want you to know?

"Under McConnell’s no-holds barred stewardship, Justice Antonin Scalia was replaced — not by President Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, but by President Donald Trump’s, Neil M. Gorsuch. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy retired to make way for Brett M. Kavanaugh. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died just before the 2020 election, and McConnell muscled through her replacement, Amy Coney Barrett.

Roberts, Kavanaugh and Barrett are not centrists, not even close. They are committed conservatives who happen to occupy the center of a court that has veered dramatically to the right."

Climate change (global warming) and floods

 

Let's just keep this clear, one more time (and again and again and again as necessary).

Vermont Floods Show Limits of America’s Efforts to Adapt to Climate Change

Here's how it starts.  You'll probably be able to figure out the part I want to emphasize, which so many stubborn climate change deniers, wedded to their misconceptions and their tribal loyalties, cannot bring themselves to admit.

"This week’s flooding in Vermont, in which heavy rainfall caused destruction even miles from any river, is evidence of an especially dangerous climate threat: Catastrophic flooding can increasingly happen anywhere, with almost no warning.

And the United States, experts warn, is nowhere close to ready for that threat.

The idea that anywhere it can rain, it can flood, is not new. But rising temperatures make the problem worse: They allow the air to hold more moisture, leading to more intense and sudden rainfall, seemingly out of nowhere. And the implications of that shift are enormous."

Did you figure out the important part? I hope so.

Lighthouse of the Week, July 23-29, 2023: Staberhuk Lechtturm, Germany

 

I decided to feature this lighthouse after a random search with a random search word (I won't even bother to tell you what it was).  So knowing that "Lechtturm" is "lighthouse", of course, this is the Staberhuk Lechtturm of Germany?

Where is it?  It's here. It's northeast of Hamburg and Lübeck, east of Kiel, on the way to Denmark.

So, let's find out the details of this one.  (Lighthouse Directory is the source.)

"1904. Active; focal plane 25.5 m (84 ft); white or green light, depending on direction, occulting twice, separated by 3 s, every 20 s. 22.5 m (74 ft) round brick tower with lantern and gallery. Tower unpainted, lantern and gallery painted red. A complete light station, with 1-1/2 story keeper's house and other buildings. ... This lighthouse has two unique features. First, the original yellow brick of the tower did not stand up to the harsh weather of Baltic winters, so it was replaced by red brick, but only on the north and west sides of the tower. As a result, the tower appears from the distance to have a yellow vertical stripe on its seaward (southeast) side. Second, Staberhuk's lantern room and Fresnel lens were originally installed by the English lighthouse agency Trinity House on the Helgoland Light in 1870, while Britain administered that North Sea island; they became available for this tower when the lighthouse on Helgoland was replaced by a taller tower in 1901."

Pictures are below.

 

Lost, found, lost?

 

This is an interesting article.  Because it describes the discovery of the very rare saola, a bovid (like cattle, sheep, goats, and all the many different kinds of antelopes).

It was only discovered to exist in 1992, and that is astonishing in itself.  Now, due to its rarity, habitat loss, and how little is know about it, it may disappear into extinction -- and like the ivory-billed woodpecker, that might not be a certainty for a couple of decades.

Scientists step up hunt for ‘Asian unicorn’, one of world’s rarest animals

"In 2001, the saola population was estimated to number 70 to 700 in Laos and several hundred in Vietnam. More recently, experts have put the number at fewer than 100 – a decline that led to the species being listed as critically endangered on the IUCN red list in 2006, the highest risk category that a species can have before extinction in the wild. The animal was last camera-trapped in 2013 in the Saola Nature Reserve in central Vietnam. Since then, villagers continue to report its presence in areas in and around Pu Mat national park in Vietnam and in Bolikhamxay province in Laos."

 

OK, I'll say it again; yet another reason I wish there was a democratic world government. Impossible, right?  Probably -- but it would sure make things easier.  And it would enable the passage of a worldwide Endangered Species Act. 

Can I just say ...

 

... how amazing the mature beauty of Salma Hayek is?

Salma Hayek, 56, flaunts her incredible curves in a skimpy bikini in VERY racy video as she thanks her 25 million Instagram followers: 'Seeing as you like my bikini pictures the most!'

OK, I said it.  After I saw it.

A commentary on climate change deniers

 

This comes from "Tom the Dancing Bug" by Ruben Bolling.  Here's the GoComics site, so I hope it's OK to show this great commentary comic below.

The last Ariane? (5)

 

The final launch of the big lifter Ariane 5 rocket took place a short time ago.

Airbus satellite SYRACUSE 4B successfully launches on the final Ariane 5 mission

Bring on Ariane 6.  Coming in 2024 (at least that's the current plan).

Trump threatens violence --- again

 

Well, you can't fault ex-terrible President Donald Trump for not being consistent.  Asked (basically) what would happen if he went to jail for the crimes he has committed -- noting at this point technically he hasn't been convicted of a jail-able offense -- this is what he said, according to the very biased viewpoint of TownHall.com:

"During an interview on The Simon Conway Show, Trump was asked how his massive group of supporters would react if the 45th president were behind bars at the hands of the Left’s politically motivated scheme— sparked by Special Counsel Jack Smith.

“I think it’s a very dangerous thing to even talk about,” Trump added, “because we do have a tremendously passionate group of voters, much more passion than they had in 2020 and much more passion than in 2016. I think it would be very dangerous.”

Uh, yeah. He wants there to be an actual threat of danger, as if it would be a deterrent to putting him in prison.

I hope that it doesn't come to that -- when he goes to prison, I hope there isn't any violence.

Lighthouse of the Week, July 16-22, 2023: Bass Rock Light, Scotland, UK

 

I happened to see this lighthouse (several times) during the TV sports coverage of the Scottish Open 2023 golf tournament, won by Rory McIlroy this year.  It's called the Bass Rock Light, and in addition to being a strikingly big rock with a lighthouse on it, it also hosts what I believe is the world's largest rookery/colony of gannets.

So let's learn more about it. First off, it is located here.  It's up the coast (east) of Edinburgh.

From the Lighthouse Directory, naturally:

"1903 (David A. Stevenson). Active; focal plane 46 m (151 ft); three white flashes, separated by 2.5 s, every 20 s. 20 m (66 ft) round cylindrical tower with lantern and gallery, attached to a 1-story keeper's house. Tower painted white with buff trim, lantern buff with a black dome. ... Bass Rock is a steep crag on the southern entrance to the Firth of Forth, rising 107 m (351 ft) above the sea. ... It is an important nesting ground for seabirds, especially gannets; the common northern species was named Morus bassanus for the island. The island is privately owned. Located about 5 km (3 mi) northeast of North Berwick. Accessible only by boat."

And so, some pictures:

There are indeed several gannets on the island

It's about time for this

 

Olivia Culpo, hot woman/model/pageant queen/content creator/TV personality/etc., for whom I have collected a lot of linked articles over the years, finally got engaged to footballer Christian McCaffrey.

Olivia Culpo and fiance Christian McCaffrey celebrate engagement with all-white party: 'Thank you God for the love of my life'

Here's a shot from the party:

I just checked;  I have links to 148 articles about Olivia Culpo, going back to 2015. Does anyone remember she used to date Nick Jonas?  Or that she posed nude in Treats! magazine?  (Seriously, she did, and pretty much completely.) Or that she dated another football player named Danny Amendola?  Or that she posted in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue (with one nearly nude shot)?  Or that she has a younger sister named Sophia who's hot too?  (Actually, they were all in a brief reality TV show, so you might have known that.)

Anyways, it's all in those links. 

Product placement

 

This Venus Sheer Babydoll features one (actually two) of the more attractive lingerie modeling shots I've seen in awhile.

If you want to get one for yourself or a loved one, here's the link to the webpage (and it's on sale!).

Sheer Babydoll

Also available in black, navy, and wine.

Also big in Texas

 

Hope Beel is a fitness model and content creator who I have featured here before.  Here's her Instagram account for those interested.  

https://www.instagram.com/hopebeel/

She recently posted the picture below to her account, which demonstrated that she has a very big ... 

hat.

And it's OK for her to keep her hat on.

Hailstones are big in Texas

 

A really, really, really big hailstone fell out of a thunderstorm in Texas a couple of weeks ago.

This Daily Mail article calls it a record-breaker, and it turns out it was, for North Texas, so it was a regional record-breaker.  I'm not sure what the regional boundaries are.

In any case, it was a big chunk of ice. 

Record-breaking 13-ounce hailstone that's almost SIX INCHES long is discovered in Texas after huge storm

Here's the National Weather Service description of the big one.

I still don't quite get this

 

I'm just going to mention this in passing; recently, in ruling for a plaintiff that didn't want to make wedding websites for gay couples (she doesn't have to), it turns out that the supposed request to make such a website never happened, and one of the two people supposedly in the gay couple turned out a) not be gay, 2) is married (to a woman), and 3) never made such a request.

So there was no event/incident/request that the woman bringing the case actually objected to, but the SCOTUS still took the non-existent case and ruled on it.

I know this has been remarked on before, but still -- isn't this, on some level, fraud?

Man cited in Supreme Court LGBTQ rights case says he was never involved

The man says he has been married to a woman for 15 years and never asked for services from a Christian website designer

This somewhat explains it.

"But the high court didn’t require that Smith had received a real request from “Stewart & Mike” or anyone else. Smith filed a “pre-enforcement challenge” to the Colorado statute because state would have probably moved against her if she had posted a statement about her intention to refuse service to same-sex couples on her website."

Still, how can someone bring a case before the Supreme Court if there really isn't a case? It bugs me, but hey, this Supreme Court bugs me, all going back to Mitch McConnell stealing two seats from Democratic Presidents to get to its current skewed alignment.

Lighthouse of the Week, July 9-15, 2023: Mukilteo Lighthouse, Washington, USA

 

I featured Mukilteo Lighthouse last week in my special with lighthouses and fireworks, and was slightly surprised to discover that I hadn't featured it as a Lighthouse of the Week yet. This week fixes that oversight. This is an easily-visited, off-photographed attraction right off the ferry lines (which you can see in a couple of the selected pictures)

So, if you want to see where it is, click on this link. I've been to Seattle several times, and rode the ferries various places, but I never had occasion to take the short route between Mukilteo and Everett and Whidbey Island. 

The Lighthouse Directory can give us the basics, and I'll provide a couple of other links below that, before the pictures.

"1906. Active; focal plane 33 ft (10 m); white flash every 5 s. 30 ft (9 m) octagonal cylindrical wood tower with lantern and gallery, rising from a 1-story wood fog signal building. 4th order Fresnel lens (1927) in use. Fog horn (3 s blast every 30 s on demand). Lighthouse painted white, lantern roof red. Two identical 2-story Victorian frame keeper's houses. The light station is a museum operated by the Mukilteo Historical Society; the 4th order Fresnel lens from the former Desdemona Sands Light is on display. ... Ownership of the station was transferred to the city in 2001 and in 2003 the city also took ownership of the former Mukilteo State Park adjacent to the lighthouse. Substantial restoration work has been done and more is planned."

There's a link in that Lighthouse Directory entry to an article about the lighthouse:  Historical Marker Place at Mukilteo Lighthouse  (sadly, I think they wanted the word "placed".)

Other links:

Mukilteo Lighthouse (Washington Lighthouses)

Mukilteo Lighthouse (Lighthouse Friends)

City of Mukilteo / Lighthouse Park

So now pictures, and a video (from Lighthouse Buffs). There are so many pictures, and paintings, and artworks, etc. of this one, it's hard to find those without commercial connections and watermarks. There are many good ones.  The final picture shows the lighthouse with Comet NEOWISE in the night sky. 

Little Caesars?

 

The scientists conducting archaeology on the ruins of Pompeii recently discovered pizza on a fresco.

The jokes are obvious, as the title of the post indicates.

Excavators find image of pizza’s possible precursor among Pompeii ruins  (Washington Post)

Here's the official statement: 

Pompeii: a still life discovered by the new excavations of Regio IX

"Whilst it looks like a pizza, this image from a Pompeian painting from 2000 years ago obviously can't be, since some of the most characteristic ingredients are missing, namely tomatoes and mozzarella. However, as shown by a first iconographic analysis of a still life fresco, which emerged recently as part of the new excavations in the inula 10 of the Regio IX in Pompeii, what was represented on the wall of an ancient Pompeian house could be a distant ancestor of the modern dish, elevated to the status of a World Heritage element in 2017 as the “traditional art of the Neapolitan pizza chef”.

Further down, it says:

"The fresco has been found in the atrium of the house in Insula 10, Regio IX, that is now being excavated. This house was connected to a bakery, partly explored between 1888 and 1891; researchers reopened investigations last January."

Get out your napkins.

There used to be a Pompeii Pizza in Baltimore, but it appears to be closed. I found a Pompeii Pizzeria outside Minneapolis in Elk River.  

I wonder if they have a Plinian special on the menu.

Some black-and-white glamour

 

I haven't done this for awhile, so here are some black-and-white glamour shots.

Nicola Cavanis

Heather Monique

Tsara Lunga

Kyra Belanger

Ali Rose (prior to recent motherhood)

Liz Cheney has it right

 

Republicans don't like Liz Cheney, by and large. Some Republicans with morals and rectitude like her and respect her, but there are very few of those (especially in politics).  When the Wyoming Republican party kicked her out for basically doing the right thing, it was an excellent demonstration of the problem.

So when Liz Cheney assesses her party's problems, she's a truth-teller.

Liz Cheney on what’s wrong with politics: ‘We’re electing idiots’

OK, so she wasn't singling out the Republicans for this problem. But I think current events, and the current crop of idiots in Congress, demonstrate which party has the bigger infestation of idiots. 

"That prompted [moderator of the discussion] Rubenstein to ask whether Cheney would run for president as an independent next year if presented with polling data showing such a bid would damage Trump.

“Look, I think that the country right now faces hugely challenging and fundamentally important issues,” Cheney responded. “And what we’ve done in our politics is create a situation where we’re electing idiots.”

After laughter from the audience subsided, she continued: “And so, I don’t look at it through the lens of, is this what I should do or what I shouldn’t do. I look at it through the lens of, how do we elect serious people? And I think electing serious people can’t be partisan.”

Got a short span here

 

Any way you examine it, this is not a very long period of time.

Physicists do amazing things, by the way.

Trillionths of a second

"Physicists at the University of Konstanz generate one of the shortest signals ever produced by humans: Using paired laser pulses, they succeeded in compressing a series of electron pulses to a numerically analyzed duration of only 0.000000000000000005 seconds."

For comparison, in case you were wondering, the "blink of an eye" takes between 0.1 and 0.4 seconds.

Just an article about Cheryl

 

Having frequently expressed my admiration for Cheryl Tweedy/Cheryl Cole/Cheryl in years past, I am aware of when the Daily Mail has an article featuring her.

As they recently did.

Cheryl looks effortlessly chic in a white linen waistcoat and matching smart trousers as she attends The Pillowman press night

Here's chic Cheryl. 

Unmanned and unforgettable

 

The 2023 Drone Photography Awards are in.

From a breathtaking Icelandic waterfall to a neighbourhood in Dubai where all the houses look IDENTICAL: The spectacular winners of the 2023 Drone Photo Awards revealed

The pictures featured in the article are remarkable.

Here's the website with all of them.

Drone Photo Awards 2023

Of course I chose this one, by Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove.

"Skýjasnúningur / Cloud Inversion"

What "2001: A Space Odyssey" told us

 

In the novel (not the movie) 2001: A Space Odyssey (which was a novelization of the movie by Arthur C. Clarke), a model of the rings of Saturn -- which is where the spaceship Discovery was bound, until the special effects of the rings didn't meet Stanley Kubrick's demanding specs -- indicated that the rings were quite young, in astronomical terms.

Now, even though the reasons are different than they were expressed in the novel, it turns out that the rings are young.

Saturn’s Shiny Rings May Be Pretty Young

"Because the rings don’t have a lot of silicate dust on them, they likely haven’t had a lot of time to collect it. Knowing the speed at which dust streams into the Saturnian system is therefore key to determining just how long the rings have been around.

Cassini’s Cosmic Dust Analyzer did just that. Over 13 years, it detected more than 2 million dust particles. The research team analyzed the trajectories of each particle and found only 163 dust particles that likely came from beyond Saturn.

“It was a real needle in a haystack problem,” [U. Colorado physicist Sarah] Kempf said.

Considering how small an area of the rings Cassini sampled, 163 dust particles over 13 years extrapolates to a lot of dust moving through the rings. The team found that at that rate, the barely dusty rings have likely been around for just 100–400 million years. These results were published in Science Advances.

Let it be noted that this is a lot older than the rings were in the novel. But that's a detail.

I did a quick search and found some art that shows Discovery at Saturn, where it should have gone in the first place.  Iapetus is still much brighter on one side of its orbit than the other (even though now it doesn't appear to have a monolith on it).

A married couple sighting!

 

Gorgeous Michelle Keegan and ... well, hunky Mark Wright are, well ... married.

However, they aren't seen a lot together.  That concerns me for a number of reasons, one that a married couple needs time together, and two, that Michelle Keegan deserves the best that life can provide, and Mark should be providing. All that a woman needs.

So, it's good to see them together. And it's always good to see Michelle in a bikini.

Bikini-clad Michelle Keegan and husband Mark Wright head out on a boat in Formentera after hitting back at trolls who claimed they 'don't see other'

The pictures in the article aren't that great, but there's good news, as Michelle's summer collection has been released. 

Here's a sample.

Lighthouse(s) of the Week, July 2 - 8, 2023: Lighthouses with fireworks

 

I've done this before, but since I'm starting off the week (and the month) with this post, I'm going to do lighthouses with fireworks again.  So check below for this year's installment.

Mukilteo Lighthouse

Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse

Biloxi Lighthouse

Fond du Lac Lighthouse

Happy Fourth of July!