Ben Bowald

and so on and so forth

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Israel first seized Beaufort Castle from the PLO on the opening night of its 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Nearly two decades later, the cost and futility of holding the isolated hilltop outpost became the subject of the Oscar-nominated Israeli film Beaufort (2007), set during the final months before Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000.

A New York Times review of the film says it tells the story of Israeli soldiers defending a remote mountaintop position that was once deemed strategically vital. Director Joseph Cedar described it as a story about “any mountain captured in war.”

“One minute you are willing to die for it,” he said. “The next, it’s worth nothing.”

🎥 Channel 4’s @lindseyhilsum on Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon on June 1, 2026 below. Watch Drop Site’s breakdown in the linked post. ⬇️

[Ben Bowald @benbo247]

@kar_elnemr @unusual_whales Xx

[Ben Bowald @benbo247]

@Bananapotato555 @22Donovanwillis @ksorbs Human rights?

[Ben Bowald @benbo247]

@WhiteHouse It 6

[Ben Bowald @benbo247]

@lexfridman @JDVance You're a pathetic sell-out masquerading as an intellectual. For shame.

[Ben Bowald @benbo247]

@SAMOYEDCORE Idk it was pretty specific and slightly derogatory

I've been following you for a while and generally agree with everything but that one was a bit not phrased well

[im ave @tsve_]

my wonderful gay son is talking to a boy named BALATRO on his phone all the time

[Ben Bowald @benbo247]

@PERUANAANAPERU @ecomarxi What they did destroy is any hope of furthering their cause in any meaningful way instead of turning untold amounts of people against it

[Color Schemer @colorschemer]

victorian velvet

[the heart @Fredward3948576]

I have the sorrowful eyes of a circus elephant

[wint @dril]

Im getting reports that ohio just agent oranged its own citizens, while you were doing your fucking "Wordle" .

[Ben Bowald @benbo247]

Gotta swing by 7/11 real quick on my way home to experience true ego death outside of time and space

[dollar store kirk hammett @olivesagan]

it will never stop being funny to me that the most powerful and unpleasant psychedelic drug on earth was briefly legal and being sold in gas stations, and high school kids were lining up to have the worst five minutes of their lives.

[Ben Bowald @benbo247]

The mood in athens right now seems generally positive

[Color Schemer @colorschemer]

rainiest light navy blue
yarer grey blue
ironfisted gunmetal

[Claire Penis @ZeroSuitCamus]

This is easily the newest year so far

[Ben Bowald @benbo247]

@westonhchrist I'm just gonna like this one instead

[Chris (Simpsons artist) @getbentsaggy]

600 years ago today on a cold north pole night something magical happened under a star that shined so bright xox

[jib 🇵🇸 @mazzy_starfox]

the real non-fungible tokens were the friends we made along the way