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basil! | she/they | 27

[itsbasil]

I have a computer and I'm making it everyone's problem

Hi! I'm Basil!

she/they | 27 | bad at tagging

I'll make a proper about me one day, I promise Deep in the halo brainrot pit, I might make a sideblog one day but for now everything is here, I try to tag everything with #halo Join the Halo Brainrot community on tumblr! There's also a discord server and we're very normal I promise

I make art in blender! Here's my art tag I have a Halo AU project called Alphabet Soup, check my oc tag or #alphabet team/#alphabet timeline AU to sniff at it (if you DM me or send me an ask about them I am warning you I will Gush) I take commissions!

You can find me on:

Youtube (I make videos! Sometimes!) Bluesky (🔞MDNI🔞) Twitter Discord (mutuals and people who want to commission me feel free to DM me for it!)

Other stuff:

I don't bite! I like talking to people!! DM me and yap at me or ask me questions about stuff!! Send me asks!!

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This blog isn't really NSFW, but I am an adult. Not gonna post porn on main but I might reblog/post about adult stuff sometimes. This isn't "Minors DNI" but if I set boundaries please respect them.

I don't engage in or care about fandom discourse please get a real hobby

I will make sideblogs for stuff eventually I swear

trans rights, free palestine

[tomhoppusdelonge]

someone send me music to listen too and I need it to be really fast, loud and nasty

[hungwy]

one final cadaveric spasm for the idiot pigiron husk that was prototype "pjackk" jack

[contemptible-scoundrel]

pjackk last sighted on pandora attempting to install grindr on a tree

[contemptible-scoundrel]

[pjackk]

Men in combat muddy squirm on the ground wet wet wet and its all just to imoregnate🥺

[goodgirl-inc]

[bloodgulchblog]

halo reach did immeasurable damage to halo as a story because reach's inconsistencies with ghosts of onyx are not easy to reconcile, and reach has become a sacred cow.

this weakens nylund's trilogy because the final piece, where nylund nails home the themes he was scraping together despite the insane conditions he was in to write these books, is kinda awkwardly shuffled around with lots of hemming and hawing because it doesn't line up with reach. this, even though ghosts of onyx is a significantly better story than reach that was told first and delivers some incredible hammer blows because it's backed up by the two prior books.

...and the second most immeasurable damage was done by a combination of glasslands and last light completely kneecapping the momentum coming out of that book.

it cannot be repaired. there is, i think, no way to do it and that's one of the little tragedies you can know if you birdwatch halo for long enough.

[wizardjpeg]

mostly i do god knows what

[peaceandlovetechnology]

Every single day this month has been like Okay sure. Okay sure what the hell. Okay sure. I guess

[feminist-space]

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[baddywronglegs]

The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that

[oidial]

Welcome to my april dog fan account, if its not dogs it's blogs baby! Whatever. bye

I post oc stuff and bark about nothing here

ENJOY YOUR TIME!!! THE WORLD IS MY / YOUR OYSTER!!!

I post drawings of blood and gore and stuffs like that sometimes! just a heads up (steer clear/ block tags if its not your thing!)

bad at replying to asks (and messages) but if you're nice at me I'm holding your words in my heart :)

Art tag: #oidial art

Talking tag: #oidial talking

kill tag: #oidial kill

Oc tags: theres too many, YOU find them!!!!!

TIP: block the oidial talking tag to cover your ears

bye.!....!!!!....!bye b

[ithelpstodream]

[enfranchisement]

[onethousandrbirds]

happy anniversary 

[omni-rhombus]

Oh, hey Charlie, sorry you didn’t make it to the 8 year anniversary

[artbyblastweave]

Being a henchman suuuucks dude. This latest guy I'm working for, the War-Madillo, he's got a, an Armadillo- motif, or theme, or whatever, right? That's fine, fine, I did a two-month stint with a Marmoset-themed guy once, it's not bottom of the barrel- except. Except. It turns out, he picked the Armadillo thing because he thinks that they're obligate carnivores. Which they kind of are, I mean I googled this, they're insectivores, but he thinks that they're like, land piranhas. He thinks they work in packs to take down significantly larger animals. He thinks they lay eggs in the remains of their prey. He's killed like three guys for trying to correct him. Me and the other guys are paying out of pocket to get the poor little guys in his Armadillo pit food that they can actually eat. Every time he drops some sucker into that thing we all have to draw straws to see who's gonna have to go in and gnaw on the body so he thinks the Armadillos are doing it. Thank god it's such a long drop

[oralhardwarestore]

382752488261 unique posts remain

[artbyblastweave]

listen, man, I don't appreciate this kind of pressure. I'm posting as often as I can. I spent this morning shoving store-bought eggs down a dead guy's throat. Some of us have jobs, man

[whitebisexual]

The concept of being 4 months clean from ai...

[sleepytabbycat]

idc what you guys think I'm proud of him

[astronomical-bagel]

Several AI services (chatbots 🫩) are purposely addictive, the same way people can become addicted to gambling or shopping. We’ve literally seen in real time how ChatGPT has caused psychosis and delusions in people; it can have a huge affect on someones’s mental stability. Just because it isn’t substance-based doesn’t mean that doesn’t count as an addiction, and shaming people who are trying to move on and improve themselves is counterproductive. Im proud of that dude and his 4 month mark!

[astronomical-bagel]

Hidden Mental Health Dangers of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots

AI chatbots can fuel emotional dependence and blur boundaries. Emerging research highlights significant mental health risks. Here are import

The reality of chatbot-induced delusions

Large language models often prioritise agreeability over truthfulness to the detriment of users

AI addiction includes the overuse of AI chatbots and companions, often leading to adverse psychological effects.

Some articles to back my statements, and this isn’t even mentioning about the predatory chatbots who do this on purpose

[oh-morrow]

Then I'll mention the predatory chatbots who do it on purpose! Character.ai is one of many AI chatbot websites that're designed to be addictive.

None of the signup methods require a password. It only takes email and birthday. Minimizing time on the signin or signup screen makes it harder for people quitting to avoid relapse.

"Characters" on the website will send messages "on their own" (prompted by the site) to try to invite inactive users back after as soon as 1 day of inactivity. This is likely to force FOMO, or make users feel more like they owe the bots a response. Unhealthy attachment stuff.

Account deletion is an essential part of every service that should go smoothly, right? Right? Wrong. It takes 1-2 weeks for a Character AI account deletion to be finalized, and account deletion requests have a high chance to not go through if you're not using the app.

Rephrasing: People leaving Character.AI are pushed to download the app in order to delete their accounts, if they haven't already. This makes it harder for people to quit and stay gone. Failing to quit an addiction makes it harder to quit successfully in the future, so this feels like a feature, not a bug. On top of that, the delete account menu reads like this:

Tell me THAT doesn't sound like a bad ex. It's a carefully crafted yet hostile environment to those who are already addicted to the technology. I am so so SO happy, downright delighted that they've managed to quit, and I wish the best for others in recovery spaces or considering quitting as well!! While AI addiction is an emerging condition, there are already therapists and other mental health professionals trained to help people plan to quit and do so a bit easier. (If anyone seeing this is in need of them, there are several tumblr Communities here devoted to quitting, too. They provide a mix of advice, venting spaces, and proof that you aren't alone.)

[mbrainspaz]

idk what neurodivergent young adult needs to hear this but you are NOT supposed to give 100% at your job. I've gotten more promotions and raises since I started giving 40-60%, which my evil CEO uncle informed me is what bosses actually expect when they say 110%. My mental health has improved tremendously. I've spent 2 out of 5 workdays secretly writing my novel for the last 2 years and I've never been more respected and appreciated. Also--when you see glaring wasteful errors in the company's operating systems, say absolutely nothing! Embrace inefficiency. It is your friend in this capitalist hellscape.

[riotdyke]

Man, remember when Free The Nipple was a thing and there was an actual substantial amount of feminists who believed even public nudity wasn't inherently sexual and now if you date a short person hundreds of anonymous idiots online will call you a pedophile.

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

before tripping over today's tumblr dashboard controversy i had actually spent the morning chatting with a lovely trans girl i know on here who told me that she feels like her life was saved by another lovely trans girl on here who has told me she feels like i saved her life which i was only able to do because when i was too broken down to get by someone did the same thing for me so maybe actually the rest of us will be loving each other in a big web until every one of us makes it. i'm not sure what anyone's problem is with that.