A blue whale's anus is remarkably large, capable of stretching to about 3.5 feet (over 1 meter) in diameter, a size that allows for the passage of large fecal matter and even, theoretically, a significant number of smaller animals like raccoons

I think this is my best Mariana Trench video so far Sign our petition docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It's kind of weird how we're more than half way through the 2020s

I've worked jobs where the managers create incentives to compete and sabotage your colleagues This is another way of rethinking success www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

Just bought my tickets to see the Epstein Dancers! So excited! www.trumpkennedycenter.org

How do the British pronounce comb and catacomb? Playing Hogwarts Legacy and that's not what I expected

The powers that be want despair to settle in, to whisper that nothing matters and you are powerless. Don’t believe it. Your voice still carries weight. Use it now for the ocean, the communities that depend on it, and their living cultural ties. You have 16 days to make a difference.

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My prediction for the World Baseball Classic is Dominican Republic defeats Japan in the final

In 1990 I listened to this comedy set 500 times on cassette youtu.be/lIl4u48IEr4?...

Somewhere in Massachusetts or New Jersey right now, someone's uncle is buying a bunch of scratch off tickets to give out as presents tomorrow

If that guy from Impossible Metals wants to be known as the real world version of the short guy from the first Avatar movies-- it's working www.oceanhoptimism.org/post/the-tro...

Shouldn't this headline be, "Trump threatens invasion of Greenland?" www.bbc.com/news/article...

CEO of Impossible Metals Oliver Gunasekara shared his perspective of Chamorro culture -- my Native people of the Mariana Islands who have lived here for four thousand years -- in an interview with Grist today. Everyone needs to read this to see what we are dealing with grist.org/global-indig...

I have 12,000 followers across the 5 public social media platforms I currently use which is less than the followers I had on Twitter when I deleted it

Luis found new species near Guam -- not far from where Trump wants to allow deep sea mining www.npr.org/2025/12/21/n...

Two years ago I predicted the plot of Avatar 3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sacE...

You only know two names from the Avatar movies: Jake Sulley and Spider. Everyone else is the brother, the girlfriend/wife, the ocean one, or the marine, or the guy from Saving Private Ryan

The area being proposed for deep sea mining in the Marianas is more than 10x the size of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary and larger than the state of New York docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Here's a clip of my interview on the Guam Guy show yesterday youtu.be/0W_wq4BZCoA?...

This was a color beyond language. The purest blue she had ever seen. Saipan blue, she thought. A blue that belonged to no map, no empire. A blue that belonged only to the sea. And then the sharks appeared. www.angelovillagomez.com/2025/12/saip...

Here's the plan to roll back the Palau Sanctuary from 80% of the EEZ to 50% Even with this change, Palau remains the sovereign nation with the highest % of protected waters

It falls to the disciples of 30x30 to address its shortcomings, else it will be replaced by something new perc.org/2025/12/09/c...

Trump's plans to rip it down and just wing it applies to more than the White House It's also how they're approaching Healthcare, national security, and the economy apnews.com/article/trum...

A few years back I was doing some work in Fiji and the locals found my name -- Angelo Villagomez -- unpronounceable and renamed me Qio -- which means shark in Fijian

My people have been growing and eating rice for 3,500 years www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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It's weird how after all this -- looks around and waves hand wildly -- repealing or amending the Second Amendment isn't a major political movement in the United Statee

My biggest win for 2025 is the link I used to reference this George Orwell quote: “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

British pronunciation of "laggard" is so much better than the American

I wrote a Hallmark Christmas movie about BOEM's attempt to mine the sea floor near the Mariana Trench I believe the Spirit of Christmas can remind us all of how important it is to protect the ocean www.angelovillagomez.com/2025/12/saip...

Tried to go the big mistletoe kiss in DC -- they did the kiss an hour early and everyone is leaving early

We need a Hallmark Christmas movie where a BOEM official visits the Mariana Islands with the intent of ripping up the seafloor, but meets an Indigenous ocean advocate who teaches him the true meaning of Christmas www.postguam.com/news/local/d...

Deep-sea mining interests raise alarms among Mariana Trench communities news.mongabay.com/2025/12/deep...

6 years ago the communication professionals at @pewtrusts.org recommended we use LinkedIn because its a great way to connect with reporters. This year two of my LinkedIn posts were quoted in media stories directly - not to mention all the connections I've made over the years, so yes, it's useful

Nola said it best: We are the Northern Mariana Islands We need your help to stop deep sea mining near the Mariana Trench Drop a 🦈 in the comments if you support us Please sign and share our petition Si yu'use ma'ase

New story from @mongabay.com about deep sea mining near the Mariana Trench news.mongabay.com/2025/12/deep...

I like both James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett Democrats have a deep bench

Elected officials in Guam and Northern Marianas have separately questioned whether they want to maintain their territorial status -- invoking the recent announcement of deep sea mining in the Mariana Trench as a reason www.postguam.com/news/local/c... www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RJl...

Mining in the Mariana Trench? Not without community voice. Not without science. Not without care. 🌊 Sign the petition to protect the deep sea → bit.ly/4iKfW6x Deadline: Dec 11 • 5pm EST #NoDeepSeaMining #MarianaTrench

The fish aren't going to protect themselves! Please comment a 🐟 if you want to protect the Mariana Trench And please sign and share the petitions in my bio

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Someone asked to join my google group with this message: "I want to join a google group where the description says "---" and the question asked is "Reason for joining" you need short answer that would increase the chances of getting approved for the group give me a perfect and unique annswer"

We will fight you in the court of public opinion. We will fight you in the courts. We will fight you with public comments. We will fight you everywhere we can. And eventually we will defeat you at the polls. www.angelovillagomez.com/2025/12/deep...

One of the reasons the 1990s were better is we didn't have gender reveal parties

Many years ago a government official asked me, "How are you going to manage sharks, when we can't even manage sea cucumbers -- and they don't even swim?" www.seafoodsource.com/news/environ...

This sounds like Trump is preparing to abandon Taiwan and Guam www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

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One week of public comment left Drop a 🐙 if you oppose deep sea mining near the Mariana Trench We've made it easy for you to participate Click on the link in my bio for all the links

The East Wing will not be rebuilt in the next three years www.bbc.com/news/article...