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silly guy connoisseur | art and oc posting | 🇵🇷ESP/ENG | 🔞 | h: kazkazuki.bsky.social all art: #BASILART • #FFXIVART • #DRAGONAGEART • #OCART

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basil 🌱 @alabasterffxiv.bsky.social · Nov 17

hello! i'm basil. i'm that one insane nero tol scaeva guy. this is my art + writing + oc posting centric account :)

he/him • fae/faer | 🇵🇷 | occasional nsfw | currently obsessed with FFXIV, Dragon Age, and Transformers

ko-fi: ko-fi.com/albaaca
oc info carrd [wip]: alabasterffxiv.carrd.co

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Sam c: || Gale brainrotter @samoncd-rom.bsky.social · Aug 30

my weed smoking girlfriend...
#galedekarios

drawing of a shirtless Gale from Baldur's Gate 3. He is wearing a dandelion flower crown and is holding his mouth open to receive a smoking pipe held in a clawed pale hand

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💫 Cig @ COMMS @cigardoesart.bsky.social · 3h

You must love this drink, I've decided now! 🎵

#vocaloid #miku #cigart

Colourful illustration of Hatsune Miku in the style of a print ad for 'PoPiPo - Vegetable Juice', inspired by the Lamaze-P song. The Kagamines, Meiko, Gakupo and Kaito are around her, enjoying the drink (or proud of farming it, in Kaito's case)

The text reads up top reads "It costs just 200 yen!" and below reads
"Popipo! Mellow and Creamy Vegetable Juice. Fresh from Sapporo, Japan!"

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basil 🌱 @alabasterffxiv.bsky.social · 4h

its sooo good. dont add too much adobo tho bc it makes it too salty !

basil 🌱 @alabasterffxiv.bsky.social · 5h

tuna with a dollop of mayo and adobo seasoning + pita chips + fruit cup 😋❤️

Anne Mo 😷 @toughestfrail.com · 13h

What's your favorite low effort meal?

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Apr 15

Your Custodian (@clown_depot) on twitter: "some cunt is always observing me through their stupid crystal ball"

Shanns From The Crystal Cave (@Shannguin) quoted it with an image of Jennifer Connelly as Sarah in the labyrinth from Labyrinth with a speech balloon.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Apr 9

kamil-a on tumblr: "I NEED A SICKO... im holding out for a sicko till the end of the night ..and hes gotta haha and hes gotta say yess at the window with a look of delight"

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여백ㆍ黎帛 @temp38t.bsky.social · 13h

#FFXIV #EmetSelch

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Lychii @sweetlychii.bsky.social · 8h

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Kk 🌱 @aethercurrent.bsky.social · 1d

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1/2 Bit @pixelcat.wtf · 5d

Every time I see a friend starting a game multiple times in a row on steam this meme comes to mind

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basil 🌱 @alabasterffxiv.bsky.social · 15h

jack refuses to drink water if im looking at him. i swear i didnt see him ever drink water for the first 2 years i had him. i think he gets embarrassed

basil 🌱 @alabasterffxiv.bsky.social · 16h

this might gear up to be the worst song ever created

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 16h

Tones and I stuns in new photo ahead of her collab with Teddy Swims and David Guetta, “Gone Gone Gone.”

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asta 🌟 @soottea.bsky.social · 16h

the making of a doll

#PetraAvanya

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 16h

Doechii has released her own light stick for the ‘Live from the Swamp’ tour.

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basil 🌱 @alabasterffxiv.bsky.social · 17h

two-face/harvey dent is what would happen to alabaster after a very very bad day

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Ram Lightly @ramlightly.bsky.social · Jun 25

A Long Night

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 18h

collar gate is the latest instance of a trumped-up non-issue blossoming into a large-scale psychosis event – and possibly the dumbest. it's also the modern internet doing exactly what it was engineered to do

To be honest, I wouldn’t be mentioning this if not for the fact that it’s a microcosm of how online platforms work today: Somebody makes an accusation based on evidence that’s spurious at best, big names with something to gain (viewership or the downfall of a perceived enemy) uncritically boost it, internet sleuths obsessively piece together supporting evidence by amassing context-free clips and ignoring everything that doesn’t match their intended conclusion, and all of the aforementioned parties spread performatively apoplectic videos across Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and wherever else they can sucker in uninitiated normies.

Some version of this happens every week – every day, on a smaller scale – without fail. It accomplishes nothing aside from giving the disaffected masses a brief glimmer of what feels like purpose, but is actually a bloodsucking waste of their precious time on this dying planet. And of course, it provides platforms with sweet, sweet engagement numbers. As a result, platforms will probably never intervene to disrupt this corrosive dynamic, which has broken the general public’s ability to perceive anything resembling objective reality, even as society collapses around them and people like Piker attempt to identify the real reasons why (hint: they don't involve dog collars).

The internet has been like this at least since the Depp v. Heard trial, which wannabe sleuths similarly feasted on in 2022 while getting pretty much every important detail completely wrong. At least back then they were obsessing over something of consequence. Now they’ve taught viewers to regard every trumped-up non-issue they can surface with similar gravity.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.