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Thick blankets of smelly sargassum seaweed are currently washing ashore on Palm Beach County beaches. Tourists and locals can barely tolerate the stench, choosing to stay away from the beach areas.
Poor Rump. Those Antifa criminals are everywhere!!
greatauntoftriplets
(179,740 posts)tavernier
(14,600 posts)to dump the weeds on his beach.
Will they never stop the madness???
greatauntoftriplets
(179,740 posts)It's good trouble.
rzemanfl
(31,520 posts)lame54
(40,529 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(179,740 posts)maxrandb
(17,580 posts)Saw someone dressed like a frog with an "I Am Amphibfa" t-shirt at the reflecting pool.
I am still laughing
greatauntoftriplets
(179,740 posts)Blue Owl
(60,283 posts)😂🙌🏼‼️
Goonch
(6,112 posts)
the_liberal_grandpa
(359 posts)La Urraca
(20 posts)😂‼️🙌🏼‼️
calimary
(91,731 posts)BEST comment - and thats quite an accomplishment when this Trump disaster just dishes em out with shovels.
No. Not shovels. Earth-movers. Maybe with truckloads of dynamite.
Ocelot II
(132,052 posts)Mysterian
(6,803 posts)Kid Berwyn
(25,715 posts)Fighting fascist flora and fauna for fucking too long.
surfered
(15,449 posts)malaise
(300,158 posts)in the Caribbean as well. Sometimes we just cant go in the water
LeftInTX
(35,273 posts)
Pinback
(13,783 posts)or Rick Warren (or whoever the current leading messianic televangelist grifter is). This all has to be some kind of divine signal, right?
progressoid
(53,649 posts)From 2008
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/hagee-says-hurricane-katrina-struck-new-orleans-because-it-was-planning-a-sinful-homosexual-rally-55b392a04322/
Pinback
(13,783 posts)its the Lord testing their faith or some such bullshit. Anything but a scientific explanation.
progressoid
(53,649 posts)It's best not to question it too much. Just put your donation in the plate.
FakeNoose
(43,387 posts)There's no political agenda, this stuff happens courtesy of Mother Nature.
MustLoveBeagles
(18,712 posts)I just love the timing 😜
yellow dahlia
(7,075 posts)Totally Tunsie
(12,270 posts)Chump better drain the ocean and call in his pool guy to lay a new lining! Damn vandals. They're why chump can't have nice things.
OMGWTF
(5,291 posts)RockCreek
(1,677 posts)Initech
(109,813 posts)It's understandable that it follows you everywhere!
calimary
(91,731 posts)Or maybe what happens after serving a stewpot full of beans.
Initech
(109,813 posts)peppertree
(23,612 posts)It's good for distracting from Cheeto's own stench.
Wonder Why
(7,576 posts)eppur_se_muova
(43,026 posts)A number of people, a horse, and a number of wild boars have died or been hospitalized in a part of France where huge blooms of seaweed had washed ashore and begun to rot. The Guardian published a very extensive, in-depth article on the situation: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/may/12/i-couldnt-breathe-the-sinister-spread-of-frances-killer-seaweed
Lots more articles online: https://www.google.com/search?q=hydrogen+sulfide+from+rotting+seaweed+claims+lives&udm=14
Above concentrations of 50ppm*, H2S has a way of "numbing" the sense of smell, which makes it possible for people to fail to notice how intense the smell is, after an initial exposure. H2S has an offensive, rotten egg smell (rotting eggs produce H2S) which is detectable at very low, non-hazardous levels (as low as 0.05 ppm*), but after a while, it just isn't repulsive enough to keep people away, and they can breathe in a substantial dose without being aware of it, until they wake up in the ambulance or hospital -- IF they're lucky.
* marks info from the Guardian article, which is very informative, but which can't be copied !! Please see the article https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/may/12/i-couldnt-breathe-the-sinister-spread-of-frances-killer-seaweed
calimary
(91,731 posts)Very long but also very chilling! Efforts are being made to get a handle on the seaweed problem and understand how it actually can kill. And how urgently AND intensely it has to be confronted.
I guess its one of those better the devil you know things
eppur_se_muova
(43,026 posts)Apparently, there were warning signs due to wild animal deaths but people didn't investigate them thoroughly enough.
tavernier
(14,600 posts)Our high school football team trains on their field, which is right next to the ocean. I will show this article to the principal so he is aware of the dangers.