Who's got the story of today's calamity on 75?

Edit - I like to check the traffic cams before the drive home. Got to watch this unfold for awhile before they cut the feed.

They’re called flock security cameras. They take a picture of your license plate along with other identifying characteristics, dents, truck racks, bumper stickers etc. They then upload them into an ai managed database and link them with other images of your vehicle from a nation wide network of flock cameras.

These cameras are being used to track our movements and suppress our rights. This is against the 4th amendment yet still persists.

Please speak out at your local town halls or county commissions.

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This one is further south in Estero, I’ve always wondered what this building looked back then, it’s located literally round right off U.S. 41.

As Sparks of Tomorrow - Kyoto Animation's alternate-history steampunk drama based on Hiro Yūki's novel 20 Seiki Denki Mokuroku (二十世紀電氣目録) - premiers globally on Netflix, viewers will encounter something that most steampunk fiction is never rigorous enough to attempt: an alternate 1907 Kyoto whose coal-smoked skies and steam-dominated industry rest on a specific, historically coherent economic mechanism. In this case, it is the Edison incandescent lightbulb, which is pioneered by Kihachi Sakamoto, a timid-but-intelligent inventor who is determined to bring the "Age of Electricity" to steam-powered and conglomerate-controlled Japan.

In real-life history, Japan's electrification proceeded with unusual speed and liberal regulatory policy. Electrical illumination reached Tokyo in 1887, seven years after Thomas Edison demonstrated the incandescent bulb. The Keage hydroelectric plant - the first commercial hydroelectric station in Japan - opened in Kyoto in 1891, and was among the first plants in the world to adopt three-phase AC power generation at scale. Kyoto's electric railway, Japan's first, began operating in 1895. Japan's Ministry of Communications adopted a policy of relatively free-market electricity from the early 1890s onward, and Japan's early electrical utilities launched without needing municipal franchises - unlike their counterparts in Germany and the United States, who had to negotiate with local governments.

After Japanese inventor Ichisuke Fujioka visited the International Electrical Exhibition in New York City in 1884, Edison continued to have a profound influence on his career. Fujioka - often called the "Thomas Edison of Japan" - co-founded Hakunetsu-sha Co., Ltd. (later Tokyo-Shibaura Electric Co.), the corporate giant that became known as "Toshiba", in 1890 with Shoichi Miyoshi, and established Japan's first domestic incandescent lamp production. When he and Fujioka met, Edison famously challenged him to manufacture lightbulbs using a source of domestic bamboo and local materials in Japan, rather than rely on imports.

In Episode 3 of Sparks of Tomorrow, Kihachi "discovers" bamboo filament for lightbulbs, and uses the "Fujioka method": Or, slice local bamboo into paper-thin strips; bend them into hairpins; pack them with carbon powder; and bake them in high-temperature furnaces to transform the cellulose into pure carbon filaments. However, unlike in the show, Fujioka had to train local Japanese artisans to blow uniformly thin glass bulbs and import mercury vacuum pumps, as Japan lacked the advanced industrial glass-blowing and vacuum-pump technology required to prevent carbon filaments from immediately burning up in oxygen.

Edison discovered that carbonized bamboo was the ideal filament for incandescent lightbulbs by systematically testing over 6,000 different plant fibers and materials. The breakthrough occurred in late 1879 when his team noticed a bamboo folding fan in their laboratory; carbonizing it created a filament that burned brightly and lasted over 1,200 hours. After this chance discovery, Edison dispatched scouts worldwide to find the absolute best variety of bamboo to use for filaments. They ultimately determined that a specific species of bamboo (Madake bamboo, or Phyllostachys bambusoides), harvested from a grove near the Iwashimizu Hachimangu Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, was the most durable. This Japanese bamboo became the standard filament for his commercial lightbulbs, until it was eventually replaced by tungsten in 1904 by inventors Alexander Just and Franjo Hanaman.

Edison later imported Kyoto bamboo to his estate in Fort Myers, Florida, and finding a suitable domestic climate to cultivate this Japanese bamboo was one of the primary reasons he purchased the property in 1885. When Edison first visited the area, he noticed planted bamboo growing along the Caloosahatchee River. As shipping continuous supplies of Madake bamboo directly from Kyoto was highly expensive, he bought the 13.5-acre Florida estate with the explicit goal of turning it into a tropical botanical laboratory. He imported the precise Kyoto bamboo species (Phyllostachys bambusoides) to plant on the grounds, hoping the subtropical climate would allow him to grow his own local supply of lightbulb filaments. Over time, his botanical experiments expanded dramatically, and today, the Edison & Ford Winter Estates still feature more than a dozen distinct varieties of bamboo planted by Edison there.

Hello all. I am visiting Fort Myers/Sanibel/Captiva this week and was wondering if anyone could recommend some GREAT seafood markets and/or restaurants that serve LOCAL, fresh fish. I have found so many places that serve the same frozen seafood that can be found anywhere in the US. It doesn’t matter to me if it’s a hole in the wall or something fancier. Thank you all in advance!

I’m not working this week and have some time off. Was just wondering if anyone wants to go paddle boarding somewhere. Open to options on where to go. I’m 32/Female. ❤️

Lee County Bank in downtown Fort Myers

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help? anyone, please?

I don't want to bore y'all with a sob story, but I also want y'all to have context.

I'm a 26yo female on my own living in a motel. my grandparents, and my dad have passed away leaving me on my own.

I haven't seen my mom since I was 8, and they were the only family I had. I have no siblings at all.

I work 40 hours a week and it takes every cent to cover this place to keep a roof over my head. I I was short this pay period due to rolling my ankle and being out of work a few days. I picked up overtime this week so I should be ok come next pay period. I'm really just looking for help with a meal to get me by. I don't need cash, I'll gladly take leftovers if you're near me (clewiston fl) or I'll send my motel information for a doordash order. I'll even take a doordash egift card. I've even been rummaging through dumpsters and ate what I could find that I thought wouldn't kill me lol

I haven't eaten since Sunday, so my stomach is literally touching my back. I've tried 211, and the few pantries that are here but no luck. I did an interview this morning with food stamps so hopefully I'll get that. I'm literally doing my best and I'm absolutely mortified to have to post this. I've only had scammers or jerks asking for nudes inbox me to "help me". please, anyone? thank you in advance.

Looking at this development in Miramar to buy a place. Does anyone know what it’s like?

Hey 😊 I'm a 35 bisexual woman, and am looking for places to meet singles, I'm not looking for a serious relationship, I'm career focused at this time and I hate dating apps. I'm so new to the dating game, haven't gone on a first date in over 10 years lol, and I'm new to the area. 😊

Im also hoping to know where to find the LGBTQA dating community

Thanks for any and all advice

I'm not looking for dates off reddit. Just information on where I can go to meet other singles.

I'm searching the traditional sites (e.g., VRBO, hello landing...) to find a studio or 1 BR rental for the entire month of February, preferably in Ft Myers, but would consider other nearby coastal cities. I'm 55+ and I don't need anything extravagant. Are there any good 'under the radar' websites that I should check, or private owners to help cut out the middleman?

Budget: 4-5k

Need: parking for a van (~7.5 feet tall, too tall for many parking structures), basic kitchen facilities

Nice to have: pool access, walkability to restaurants

Any Red Sox fans around here preferably under 40!

I'm a member (not being paid for this) of the recently soft opened F45 located at the corner of Winkler and College Parkway. They're looking for additional members to help get them to gain opening approval by the franchise; I believe it's about 50 members needed.

While they build up membership, they're offering free classes M, W, F at 6pm and Saturdays at 11am. To reserve a spot you need to contact them by phone, Facebook or Instagram.

This is the first F45 location in SWFL and offers a variety of HIIT based workouts. I've enjoyed the workouts and would hate to see this place close.

They just renovated the Edison Mall Books-A-Million not that long ago. So it surprises me that they are relocating back to Page Field Commons.

Built in 1924 by wealthy furniture manufacturer John Morgan Dean. The Dean Hotel eventually became professional office space and Ford’s Garage restaurant.

I think this goes to show that new stations should hire accredited folks with degrees in meteorology instead of social mediarology. https://www.news-press.com/story/news/local/2026/07/15/florida-tv-news-personalities-fight-over-fake-tornado-photo-fort-myers-anchor-wink-meteorologist/90930088007/

We’re look into renting in Harlem Heights area at sail harbour condos which it’s near Lexington country club. Can anybody give me feedback on that area?

Beautiful view looking north over the river tonight.

Thought these were interesting photos of the interior dating back to 1900. One is Heitman’s grocery store and the other is Hunter drugstore, both in downtown Fort Myers.

I’m flying into RSW domestic soon. I’ll also be flying out on my way home. I’ve been hearing a lot of people say they fly with more liquids than the quart size bag as long as they’re all under 3.4 fluid ounces. I’m not as worried about my flight down out of my home airport, but just wondering if TSA tends to be strict at this one.