Jeff Besitos💕

@jeff-besitos.bsky.social

I was a child soldier in the Posting Wars, but now I wish for a life of peace.

If this kind of thing happened in a book or a movie you'd think it was a hack writer trying REALLY hard to lampshade that a country was run by cartoonishly fascist thugs. But no, Israel really is just run by cartoonishly fascist thugs.

Truthout@truthout.org · yesterday

An Israeli court has temporarily blocked a plan, cooked up by far right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, to construct a moat full of crocodiles around a notoriously abusive prison that holds Palestinians, over concerns that the crocodiles would be harmed or mistreated.

cop: did he send any texts around the time of the crash? cop 2: he sent a post that reads "padding my three track album with 26 skits and interludes" cop: not bad but it ain't going viral cop 2: posting isn't just about going viral cop: (sighs) not this shit again

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

During COVID, medical workers filled latex gloves with warm water so the dying could feel like their hands were being held by another person as they died alone in hospitals pushed to the brink of collapse. People who downplay the horrors of the pandemic to focus on its inconveniences are fools.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d ago

There are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?

If you put together the season posters for Reacher they tell the story of a large man who can't remember where he put his keys.

Reacher Season 1 Poster. "Did I leave them in the bedroom?"Reacher Season 2, "No, I checked the bedroom. Did I leave them in the bathroom?"Reacher Season 3. "No, I checked the bathroom. Hey, have you seen my keys?"

ftr the slipperiest slope humanity ever invented is means-testing. the creation of vast publicly funded bureaucracies intended to sort people into those who deserve help and those who are greedy freeloading scammers is exactly as deleterious to the moral fabric of society as it sounds

Nicole DeWitt@catastro-v.bsky.social · 2w ago

interesting how helping people is always seen as a slippery slope to the moral and material collapse of society but paying people to beat the downtrodden with clubs is never considered a slippery slope to anything

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

working on a theory of history called "the worst guy" theory basically whatever movement you create will eventually come to be controlled by its worst guy, and will likely be defined by its worst guy, so you gotta be really vigilant about figuring out where your threshold for worst guy is

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences