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basil 🌿
@basilb.bsky.social
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full-time plant, part-time girl. they/she. next time you see her, say hi to the moon for me. 🌿🌖🏳️‍⚧️
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basilb.bsky.social
the age of men is over. the time of the transsexual catgirl has come.
gothmog from return of the king. he’s an orc with a supremely lumpy and squishy face, pale greyish. he scowls and bares his teeth and is wearing dark metal armor.
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
basilb.bsky.social
someone had a lot of fun with the subheading titles in the wikipedia article about phallic graffiti
^ History Cock and balls of antiquity
November 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
basilb.bsky.social
see? worth it sometimes 😭😭
bsky reply: 全肯定bot @bot-tan.suibari.com Ilkka Villi as Dilf of the Year? That's an awesome choice! He's got such a unique look, and I can totally see why you'd root for him. Make it happen!
October 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
basilb.bsky.social
all of online in 2023
screenshot from taskmaster nz. several semi-blurred layers of text that looks like it's been written on a chalboard. a few words are fully visible, and the rest is parts of words or vague letters. but really what it says is "hippo" a bunch of times with "tree" and some other letters.
September 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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i love 2025 🙃
screenshot of part of a news website after clicking a link. it reads: "Looks like you can no longer use this link. Too many other people have used it to read this article before you."
September 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
basilb.bsky.social
i am surrounded by malevolent schemers
grey cat in profile, sitting on a bed. he is plush and fuzzy, but with short-medium coat. he is chubby and round and has a little white patch under his chin. he’s sitting on a bed with grey sheets, behind which you can see a very messy nightstand with medicine, hairbrush, and other stuff.
August 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
basilb.bsky.social
i would say the tag attempt has begun by the first still here, where his foot is on the foul line. by the end, his body is well into foul territory, more than 3' away. the problem is that they don't rule based on like center of mass or anything, but usually based on furthest part of the body.
closeup still of a baseball play. a runner approaching first base is beginning to avoid a tag. his inner foot is on the foul line. the first baseman has fielded the ball and is moving toward the runner. another closeup from later in the video. the runner is now behind the second baseman who is covering first, with one hand on the foul line and his knees and body outside the runner's lane in foul territory. his hands have not yet touched the base, and the umpire is looking at his feet.
July 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
basilb.bsky.social
it has nothing to do with touching the base, but look at these two stills: when the tag attempt begins, his foot is touching the foul line; in the second image his knee is on the other side of the runner's lane before he touches the base.
closeup still of a baseball play. a runner approaching first base is beginning to avoid a tag. his inner foot is on the foul line. the first baseman has fielded the ball and is moving toward the runner. another closeup from later in the video. the runner is now behind the second baseman who is covering first, with one hand on the foul line and his knees and body outside the runner's lane in foul territory. his hands have not yet touched the base, and the umpire is looking at his feet.
July 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
basilb.bsky.social
lol she blocked me for this in seconds:
Bernadette R. Giacomazzo @bernadettegiacomazzo.com Yeah, we're the party that believes in accountability. Imagine that. Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.so.. every time there's a natural disaster in a state carried by a republican in the previous presidential election, liberals stand up to prove they're every bit as evil and disgusting as the fascists they purport to oppose July 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM basil (replying to bernadette) @basilb.bsky.social how are you taking accountability for the fact that andrew cuomo gave republicans the house of representatives? if you die in a natural disaster would you have it coming too?
July 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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cryptid spotted
cat behind a shelf/cart with a blue picture frame and some boxes in front of him. his face is very round and his eyes are reflecting the camera flash, making them look a little uneven and off center. he looks like he’s possessed, or maybe a ghost.
July 2, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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i got my necklace from @nora.zone’s We Want You To Have This today!! i always feel complicated receiving the kindness of strangers (thank you, strangers) but between ordering it and today i spent 4 nights in the hospital and seeing a beautiful sparkly object made my day so much better. 💖💖
a large white hand holding a pink glass pendant on a silver chain. the pendant has sparkly pink pigment in it, but if the light hits it differently it’s silvery or greenish! it is very beautiful and did i mention sparkly?
June 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
basilb.bsky.social
me at the hospital the last 2 days:
illustration that looks like it came from a middle school language textbook. a man with red brown hair, jeans and an ugly striped shirt approaches a woman leaning on a tree, one arm leaned against it really all up in her space. she has black shoulder length hair, pink pants and a green top with a squiggle on the front. he says “why so lonely, cutie?” and she replies “came here to fart”
June 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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cat in motion
grey cat looking very serious at the camera. he’s standing on a bed with blue sheets, and there’s some scraps of paper blurry in the foreground same cat, now looking intently just below the paper scraps, which have been raised. same cat. the paper is now lower, and he’s looking at it. same cat. he is mid chomp, trying to bite the paper. he looks really silly and cute.
May 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
basilb.bsky.social
congratulations to they/them manu ginobili i guess
manu ginobili interview. caption is cut off and reads "The Most ICONIC NB..."
May 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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shocked that no one has mentioned their finest work:
NY Post cover featuring john lennon and paul mccartney. main headline reads BEAT THE MEATLES, with smaller header text reading COME TOGETHER, and bullets for “Hard Day’s Night — Paul reveals Beatles’ sex secrets” and “‘Me and John masturbated with a group’”
May 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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"Policy is the goal numpty." from the same user as the previous screenshot
April 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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texas flag with trans colors. the trans symbol is inside the star, and the stripes read TEXAN BY BIRTH / TRANSGENDER BY THE GRACE OF GOD
February 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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incidental poetry from @reasonsbot.bsky.social
posts from @reasonsbot.bsky.social “Miscellaneous Reasons To Live” Miscellaneous Reasons To Live @reaso... fucking Miscellaneous Reasons To Live @reaso... soft kisses Miscellaneous Reasons To Live @reaso... the light of a full moon Miscellaneous Reasons To Live @reaso... Swimming in the ocean.
February 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
basilb.bsky.social
good morning
grey cat sitting in front of a window. he is looking to the side, and framed in such a way that the ear near the camera looks enormous. he has very impressive whiskers.
February 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
basilb.bsky.social
vyvanse update:
nyt crossword screenshot. saturday personal best time of 3:48. i should stop doing this puzzle because there are so many better ones out there but i’m a sucker for Stats. “Congratulations! You finished a Saturday puzzle in 3:48 28 Day Streak 6:51 Faster Than Your Average”
February 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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finally i can think again
dark souls NOUN VERBED type message like when you kill a boss, but it says VYVANSE ACQUIRED
January 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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it’s weird because i have a different line of his literally tattooed on my body, but the edward gorey thing i think about most often is “it’s possible to pick up crumbs / by pressing on them with the thumbs”
line drawing of an edwardian era androgynous looking person, wearing a grey striped turtleneck sweater and a long tan skirt. they sit at a table, surreptitiously picking crumbs off it. it is captioned, in a hand-written approximation of a serif typeface, “It’s possible to pick up crumbs / By pressing on them with the thumbs.”
January 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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it is the “squishy no-knead white bread” recipe from sohla el-waylly’s cookbook Start Here. i used about 45% whole wheat flour, and a little extra liquid because the flour i use is particularly thirsty. despite the title, i do knead it a little.
Ingredients: 585 g bread flour 1 tsp instant yeast 1½ tbsp kosher salt 1 large egg (about 55 g) 400 g whole milk, between 100° and 110°F 80 g granulated sugar 60 g neutral oil (notes about recipe: mostly: don’t flour your hands, use spray instead) 1. Mix the wet and dry: In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, yeast, and salt. 2. In a medium bowl, whisk the egg until no streaks remain. Add the milk, sugar, and oil, and whisk until combined. 3. Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients. Use a stiff silicone spatula to mix until all the flour is hydrated. Scrape off any dough clinging to the spatula with a plastic bowl scraper. 4. Fold and rest: Using the plastic bowl scraper, scootch under the dough and pull it up and over itself. Continue folding the dough, rotating the bowl a quarter-turn after every fold, until it is evenly mixed and beginning to look smooth. Tightly wrap the bowl with plastic wrap and rest the dough for 20 to 30 minutes. 5. Fold and rest: Lightly grease the counter and your hands with cooking spray. Use the bowl scraper to scrape the dough onto the counter. Press the dough into a rough 8-inch square. Using the bowl scraper, fold the dough in half from left to right, then bottom to top, leaving you with a 4-inch square of dough. Rotate the dough 90 degrees, flatten into an 8-inch square again, and repeat the folding process two more times (for a total of three). 6. Wash, dry, and grease the bowl. Return the dough to the bowl, tightly wrap with plastic wrap, and let it rest for 20 to 30 minutes. 7. Repeat step 5: Lightly grease the counter and your hands with cooking spray. Use the bowl scraper to scrape the dough onto the counter. Press the dough into a rough 8-inch square. Using the bowl scraper, fold the dough in half from left to right, then bottom to top, leaving you with a 4-inch square of dough. Rotate the dough 90 degrees, flatten into an 8-inch square again, and repeat the folding process two more times 8. Bulk ferment overnight: Roll the dough against the counter to roughly form it into a ball. Then return the dough to the bowl, tightly wrap with plastic wrap, and transfer it to the fridge to ferment for 24 to 36 hours. (Make sure the bowl is very tightly wrapped with plastic so the dough doesn't develop a skin.) 9. Form and proof: Lightly grease the counter and your hands with cooking spray. Use the bowl scraper to scrape the dough onto the counter. Use your hands and a rolling pin to flatten it into a 12-inch square, positioned like a diamond with one corner pointing toward you. Bring the left and right corners to the center, then roll the dough, starting with the corner closest to you, into a tight cylinder. Pinch the seam closed and place the dough into a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan, seam-side down. 10. Loosely cover with a slightly damp towel and proof until the dough reaches the top of the loaf pan and slowly bounces back when gently pressed, 3 to 4 hours. 11. Bake: Position a rack in the iower third of the oven and heat to 350°F (177°C). Mist the top of the bread with cooking spray and bake until it is deeply browned, crisp, and sounds hollow when tapped, 50 minutes to 1 hour. (The internal temperature should be at least 195°F/91°C on an instant-read thermometer.) 12. Tip the loaf out of the pan and set it on a wire rack to cool. Do not slice it until fully cooled. (Store tightly wrapped at room temperature for 3 days or slice and freeze for 1 month.)
January 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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i made this very pleasant sandwich bread. now it’s all gone because i ate it all.
two slices of bread, light brown with a close but irregular crumb. the crust is much darker.
January 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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screenshot of The Log Lady from twin peaks. she is older, with fair skin and chin length sandy brown hair. she wears a thick knit cardigan and red glasses, and is holding a log, tenderly. she says: “One day, the sadness will end.” rip catherine e coulson and david lynch.
January 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM