alec
thealecb.bsky.social
alec
@thealecb.bsky.social
Reposted by alec
Jack Smith, a disabled miner in Rhodell, West Virginia, gets wheeled down the street by his 16-year-old daughter, Donna. Smith had worked in the mines for just one year when a roof cave-in crushed his legs. He did not receive workers compensation for the accident for another 18 years.
April 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Reposted by alec
Satanic orgies, conversations with the devil, instant insanity, and murder: these were the calamities the American public in the mid-1900s were told would befall anyone who smoked marijuana.
April 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
April 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Reposted by alec
ok sorry . my lawyer has advised me to say that drinking israeli diarrhea is good actually no matter how many kindergartners they murked
March 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Reposted by alec
I will take an annoying world over a sterile one:
I Will Take An Annoying World Over A Sterile One | Defector
This week we’re running a small package of essays on the topic of nuisances. Why? That’s an annoying question. Last year, I started an essay with the following sentence: “Too often these days I find…
defector.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by alec
hard to believe that our public institutions are suddenly behaving in a manner that many many people have been warning is the logical endpoint of a capitalist government for a hundred years
February 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM