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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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basil 🌿 @basilb.bsky.social · Feb 28

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

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 1h

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea

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basil 🌿 @basilb.bsky.social · 1h

it’s friday night where else are they gonna go

basil 🌿 @basilb.bsky.social · 1h

aj pierzynski once again wondering why nobody has left an extra inning winner take all playoff game at home at 9:15pm local time

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Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · 3h

Trans girl drawing putting her hand up in disagreement
Text says
USING DATING APPS OR MEETING SOMEONE IN THE REAL WORLD
Same trans girl looking in agreement but doing a thumbs up point
SHITPOSTING MY WAY INTO SOMEONE'S HEART

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basil 🌿 @basilb.bsky.social · 2h

big hand light weight

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ESPN @espn.com · 3h

Legends aren’t born. They’re built 😤

A’ja Wilson is the first player in WNBA & NBA history to win MVP, DPOY, Finals MVP & a scoring title in a season 👏

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17h

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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basil 🌿 @basilb.bsky.social · 14h

oh no, i’m sorry

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the nintendo shamecube @futuresushi.bsky.social · 16h

the peace prize is the second fakest nobel prize after, of course, economics

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basil 🌿 @basilb.bsky.social · 15h

you simply love to see it.

basil 🌿 @basilb.bsky.social · 15h

god bless Jim Amendments, keeping the faith for years now

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Friday Night @fridayyakuza.bsky.social · 16h

Friday at last…

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Felonious Monk 📚 @thefeloniousmonk.com · 17h

If anyone is going out for Halloween and needs a date, it's October 31st.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 16h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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basil 🌿 @basilb.bsky.social · 1d

idk you seem pretty good to me, from your posts

basil 🌿 @basilb.bsky.social · 1d

three couple's costume ideas:

sexy frankenstein's monster
frankenstein's sexy monster
sexy frankenstein's sexy monster

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basil 🌿 @basilb.bsky.social · 1d

we will win

basil 🌿 @basilb.bsky.social · 1d

oh that's a fun one! new to me but it would be more surprising if there wasn't a regional variation that did this out there somewhere with how much we love to drop bits out of things

basil 🌿 @basilb.bsky.social · 1d

this is one of my favorite weird language quirks. ubiquitous across canada and also present in a small mid-atlantic region from like central jersey to southern maryland and afaik nowhere else in the us.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

I’m normal and can be trusted with a she/they with a curly mullet

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basil 🌿 @basilb.bsky.social · 1d

study openings, practice tactics and endgames. reading helps, especially for the first part but does for all of them. also: just play a lot of games and look back at them afterward to see what worked and didn’t and what you might have missed.

basil 🌿 @basilb.bsky.social · 1d

I’m glad I’m not the first person to say it’s Joanna Newsom but I need to add my voice to the number because god DAMN can that woman write a fucking song. The whole section about the finch in Only Skin is some of the best poetry ever written in English.

basil 🌿 @basilb.bsky.social · 1d

“Now I work down at the car wash / Where all it ever does is rain” is perhaps the best metaphor for the futility of depression anyone has ever written

basil 🌿 @basilb.bsky.social · 1d

Brennan Lee Mulligains