Sri Lanka: a BOILING biodiversity hotspot
Here we showcase some of the challenges our island
could face due to a recent reversal in directives prescribed for forest protection.
https://t.co/upEKoE1Ren
@ConservationSP@alexbraczkowski#BiodiversityDay2021#BiodiversityDay
@SenWarren Meta employs about 80,000 people. How many do you employ? Plus he has hundreds of millions of people using his services daily. I'd say he deserves a yacht. What services do you provide that improve people's lives?
Piers Morgan asks a therapist to explain the gender pronouns he is defending.
The therapist cannot do it.
When Piers Morgan starts naming “official” gender identities, the therapist accuses him of making it up.
MORGAN: “When one human being says to me, ‘Call me they/them,’ I laugh. It’s absurd!”
THERAPIST: “And that shows that you’re not empathic.”
MORGAN: “How many pronouns are there?”
THERAPIST: “Multiple.”
MORGAN: “How many?”
THERAPIST: “I don’t know. I’m not an expert in that.”
MORGAN: “The last count is there are 74 official ones. Do you know [them]?”
THERAPIST: “Okay, you’re gonna say, ‘Cat’ and ‘dog.’ ‘I’m a cat. I’m a cat.’”
[Room laughs]
MORGAN: “No, no, no, no. Talking about gender pronouns. There are 74. One of them is astral gender — an affinity with space.”
THERAPIST: “Where are you getting this information?!”
MORGAN: “Google it! Literally Google it.”
THERAPIST: “Have you had someone on your show who said, ‘I’m an astral whatever’?”
MORGAN: “Yes, I actually got one on.”
THERAPIST: “And did you pay that person to go on? … That does not happen.”
MORGAN: “It does happen… There was a phenomenon called the furries. You know what it is?”
THERAPIST: “I know what furries are. Furries are not a gender. That’s its own kind of lifestyle.”
MORGAN: “With all due respect, this is where limitless self-identity takes you. It takes you to the absurd. Do you believe that you can identify as anything you like?”
THERAPIST: “No.”
MORGAN: “Oh. What are the exceptions?”
THERAPIST: “I think that most people, when they think about their gender identity, it’s he, him, she, her, they, ze. Those are the ones that people are [identifying as].”
MORGAN: “What’s ze?”
THERAPIST: “Ze is… Oh, God. Now, I can’t explain it. No, but ze…”
MORGAN: “You’ve no idea, have you?! It’s all complete baloney. What’s ze? ‘I have no idea.’ And you’re the guy trying to defend this nonsense!”
@RohanGunaratna@samarajiva Do you know why Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was known for appointing presidential committees for every little thing, never appointed a committee to investigate the alleged assassination attempt against himself and Maithripala Sirisena involving DIG Nalaka Silva and @RW_SRI_LANKA?
If Iran laid down its weapons tomorrow, there would be peace.
If Israel laid down its weapons tomorrow, there would be no Israel.
That's the difference.
If he is innocent, Salley must stay strong and fight his case.
That’s what we did. We prayed, exercised, read, met our lawyers and fought our cases. Salley who detained us knows that the conditions for us were worse than what it is for him.
#EasterSundayattacks
BREAKING: Iranian state media says Iran has fired a third wave of ballistic missiles toward Israel.
President Trump is being briefed on the situation, according to a US official.
Newton was a genius, but "Newton said it" is not an argument. It is an appeal to a very clever seventeenth-century man speaking before Darwin, genetics, developmental biology, comparative anatomy, natural selection, and modern evolutionary theory.
His point here is basically the old design argument from biological order: eyes look fitted for vision, bodies show symmetry, therefore an intelligent Author. Fine. Historically interesting.
But biology did not stop in 1727 out of respect for the Principia.
Bilateral symmetry has evolutionary and developmental explanations. Eyes are not a single impossible object dropped fully assembled into animals; they occur in many forms, from light-sensitive patches to camera-type eyes, with plausible selective gradients at each stage. "I can see function, therefore artisan" is not a proof. It is an intuition promoted to metaphysics.
Also, if people are going to quote Newton as a Christian authority, they may want to remember he was deeply unorthodox on the Trinity and would have been regarded by many orthodox Christians as a heretic. So by all means invoke him, but don’t pretend he was sitting there with a modern evangelical statement of faith and a Darwin-to-Jesus Twitter account.
92.62m! 🇱🇰🔥
Rumesh Pathirage delivers the throw of his life at the Rome Diamond League, launching the javelin to a stunning 92.62m.
✅ World Lead 2026 ✅ Sri Lankan Record ✅ Asia's 2nd all-time best ✅ 8th on the all-time world list
What a moment for Sri Lankan athletics! 👏🔥
"We should all be incensed by Henry Nowak’s murder and demand that it never happens again.
"But nothing ever gets better if you simply repeat the same mistakes."
Watch more Uncensored on the death of student Henry Nowak 👇
📺 https://t.co/4Phqtl3lA5
@piersmorgan
We describe a new forest mouse from Sri Lanka. It is one of the cutest of Sri Lankan mice. Mus (Pyromys) dumbara, a new endemic species of spiny mouse (Mammalia, Rodentia, Muridae) from Sri Lanka https://t.co/iPHTch8Ju5 via @ZooKeys_Journal
If there is no peace efforts through diplomacy and dialogue, continuous wars in the #Gulf and the #Levant will expand. It is not only #Iran and the #Arab World that will suffer. The threat will cascade to other parts of the world.
The Monetary Policy Board viewed that a tightening of the monetary policy stance is appropriate, given
▶ The elevated inflation forecast
▶ The potential second-round effects on headline inflation from energy price adjustments
▶ Continued expansion in private sector credit fueling import demand
▶ Pressures on the external sector, and
▶ Risk of de-anchoring inflation expectations
For more information - https://t.co/l7SIC56jaj
#CBSL #monetarypolicy #SriLanka #monetarypolicyreview #inflation #growth
When you compare Trump to Hitler
You encourage assassination attempts
Stop it
There’s *zero* legal or moral justification for violence against him
I invite all Democrats to echo this message