Thusitha Lakmal

🔥Climate change is fueling deadly fire conditions that threaten some of the world’s oldest trees🌳 New analysis by @wwattribution.bsky.social has found that climate change made the weather that accompanied recent wildfires in Chile and Argentina about 2.5-3 times more likely 🧵

Trump’s allies who are profiting from ICE and his mass surveillance agenda are trying to buy the midterms for Trump agenda-aligned candidates in both parties. We can’t protect our country if the people leading it can be legally bribed. End corporate and dark money in politics.

Reasons Trump is threatening to invade Greenland: 1. To hide the Epstein files. 2. To get the US expelled from NATO. 3. To divert European intelligence / support from Ukraine and the eastern front to the new western front. 4. He's a corrupt thieving greedy Nazi piece of shit.

In less than a month, the russian invasion of Ukraine will be longer than the Eastern Front of WWII with a death toll on track to soon surpass the russian empire in WWI.

The Pleiades (M45) is one of the easiest deep sky objects to observe. located ~440 light-years from Earth. A bright blue compact group of massive stars. Typically, 6-7 stars are visible without a telescope, though it contains over 1,000 stars! 📷Sony a6000 11 mins exposure 85mm F5.0

Look up at the night sky today! It's the first super moon of this year. 📸Sony a6000, 55-210mm F4.5-6.3 PiPP,AutoStakkert,Photoshop #supermoon2025

This sounds plausible to me. But if it’s true, it means that the age of social media might be over soon, with only the old and wrinkled (like myself) spending any actual time there.

"Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic." - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Trump is planning a rapid response military force to deploy domestically against Americans to crush their First Amendment right to protest. Suppression of civil liberties, politicization of the military, and a disregard for laws are hallmarks of authoritarianism. Pay attention. wapo.st/46UGmic

Another day of reminding everyone that: "If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

The universe is not obligated to make sense to you. But you are obligated to try.

Men who fetishize having a "traditional woman" and obsess over women being modest, obedient, quiet, submissive and homemakers are walking red flags. What they mean is they want a slave, a free SW, and someone to baby them. They want free labor.

Always good to remember.

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface. See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3

A good night's sleep starts during the day Here are 10 simple tips to improve sleep quality: www.universal-sci.com/article/ten-...

Carl Sagan when asked about the Evidence for God or a Creator.

"Questioning is the way of learning," Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.

Grok, the flagship chatbot behind Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, published a number of antisemitic posts, its second flurry of controversial responses to users in recent months.

The Trump regime, again, halted weapons that Ukraine was scheduled to receive to protect civilians and infrastructure, including PAC3 Patriots, 155mm artillery rounds, GMLRS, Stinger, AIM-7, and Hellfire missiles. This is a strategy to help Russia with its terror campaign. #StandWithUkraine

The world must be set free.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

When you lose your healthcare… your loved one’s nursing home closes… your local hospital is understaffed… your taxes go up… food insecurity sets in… Take solace in the fact that Trump and his oligarchs got richer because of their Bullshit Billionaires Bill.

To all my dear friends on Blue Sky.....

Floating around with mum!

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Chile, recently released its first images of the cosmos/deep space. Vera Rubin (1928-2016) was a pioneering US astronomer whose work provided convincing evidence for the existence of unseen "dark" matter in the Universe #WomensArt

I was lucky enough to have this memorable encounter with a Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) this evening. I occasionally go out & photograph nature in my free time. It never fails to surprise me!

If you plan to visit the US, don't. It is not safe to visit the US and you face being randomly detained, kidnapped, beaten, and / or killed by the regime. It's not worth the trip. Stay home.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power. - Carl Sagan, Contact

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

@signal.org Now it's a really good time to attract a whole lot of new users to your platform as Meta is rolling out Ads in WhatsApp.

US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

Best image of the day:

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves... If we become even slightly more violent, shortsighted, ignorant, and selfish than we are now, almost certainly we will have no future. - Carl Sagan

At this point, if I got abducted by a UFO, I’d just consider it a rescue mission.

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Yes he’s a dictator. No he doesn’t have to remove elections to prove that. He just hasn’t done it yet.

The situation in the Middle East is dangerous. I urge all parties to exercise restraint and prevent further escalation. Diplomacy remains the best path forward, and I stand ready to support any diplomatic efforts toward de-escalation.

IT'S FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH!!!

Feels like trump just made Newsom the 48th president of the US.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.