Cactus Codex

Pony blogger, actual cactus, artist, writer, computer scientist, and linguist. New Jersey / Pennsylvania | 21 | male, he/him/his | asexual hispanic | Cereus repandus, or Peruvian apple cactus

I need to do more mod things.

Instead of doing short quips about everyday life and shit.

Then again, I don’t exactly know what a mod is supposed to do (besides work on his/her blog).

Halp.

fishermod:

fishermod:

If you know TJ, you know that the man’s withstood a lot.

Between vicious family drama, Tumblr shenanigans, having to move back home, being unable to find a job despite several months of continued job-hunting, and others, it’s painfully obvious that the man needs a break. He needs something to go his way, something (or should I say someone) to help him out in this time of need.

Hence, the foundation for this drive. If you want to read what he said on the above topic, his vent can be found here. (Note: please treat it with the respect vents would normally be given, aka don’t be a douche).

I went around to all the artists I knew and proposed to them that we get together and draw commissions to help him out, and a motley crew responded. Big artists, small artists, even a musician came out and agreed to work together in order to help him out! I’m sure that many of you will recognize many of the drawblogs represented in the above images.

Now, we need your help. By clicking this link or this link, you can access spreadsheets that give the details as to what sorts of things you can commission in order to help TJ. The first is sorted by Artist, and the second is sorted by Money. That way, if you’re only interested in getting something from a particular artist, you can look at the first spreadsheet, but if you have a set budget and want to see what you can get from who, you can use the second spreadsheet. To navigate them, you can either use the provided links or the sheet navigator on the bottom.

(Even if you want to just donate, please commission something. He’s the sort of person who feels guilty when someone who donated money doesn’t get anything in return.)

Once you’ve decided what you want, please email Fisherpon at aaron_siebenga@hotmail.com with the information. Which artist you want to commission from, what you want to commission, and necessary references. That will start the process of this drive, which is explained in a seperate post to keep this post from being super-long.

If you want to ask questions regarding the drive, feel free to send me messages about it. You can also send your Skype address via this method if you want, which will be answered privately. All publicly answered questions about the drive will be tagged #teej drive.

As you may notice, this drive has no specific end date. This drive will go on as long as there are artists willing to donate their work for it. Hence, you should get your commission as soon as possible, in case the artist you want it from drops out before you go for it. 

If you are an artist and want to participate, everyone and anyone’s welcome to join! Just use the same contact methods as above to get ahold of me and let me know. I’ll need the name you want to be identified as, any drawblogs/tumblrs/DAs/FAs you have, the types of things you want to offer, the prices you want to offer those things at, and examples.

Hopefully our help can alleviate the pressure TJ’s under, so that he can enjoy life more and we can continue to enjoy his friendship and work.

FOR TJ!

…I realize that starting this drive right after Christmas probably wasn’t the best idea, since everyone would have already spent all their money.

However, now that we’re into February, I think this is a good time to repromote this! (I would’ve done it right on Feb 1, but I felt that with the Morones drive in full swing then that was a more deserving cause.)

The drive is still going on, and we’ve raised about $440 so far. Teej’s troubles are far from over, though. Between bills, the US job market being complete shit, and other shenanigans, he’s far from being able to return and be everyone’s favourite pun pirate. Help us help him out by commissioning an artist today!

(via fisherpon)

wholocked-john-out:

lumos5001:

so remember yesterday when people were joking that the guy responsible for the Olympic Ring malfunction better get his ass outta Russia, i don’t think it’s funny any more guys… [x]

You forgot the most important part. Russian officials are playing it off as an “accident” like maybe he just “fell onto a set of knives” or something.

It’s the Daily Currant.

A satire site. IT’S FAKE.

Jesus fuck, guys. This is, I think, the 4th time I’ve ever seen this site used as a source! You’d think that people would recognize it by now…

(Source: friendlyneighborhooddungeonmom, via jykinturah-mod)

Last night, I decided that the next PC update will be partially animated.

Today, I realize how much work that would be. ._.

BUT I AM TOO DEDICATED TO LET THIS SLIP BY. ANIMATION HERE I COME.

tenaflyviper:

cyrilthewolf:

broniesagainstbullshit:

(Spread the word and get searching!)

#SafeSearchWrapUp is heavily community driven effort to help make the SafeSearch features on image-search engines such as GoogleImages be free of NSFW content. Every cartoon from “Avatar: The Last Airbender” to “Young Justice” contains fan made pornographic works referred to as Rule-34. Rule-34 is a catch all term detonating porn of ANYTHING and EVERYTHING, cartoon or not. However searching up images of any animated series will likely turn up these images, even on the first few pages.

As the teen and adult fans of the show, we have to be considerate of the younger target audience. A lot of parents and their children may be looking up images of their favorite characters to print out and put on their wall or such. So lets come together …. no wait. As a community we can make image searching safer for the young ones and their parents. No shutting down or deleting things from existence, simply keeping it off SafeSearch as a courtesy for others.

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The Game Plan:

Everyone should pick at least one search term they think would commonly used by kids and their parents, such as “My little pony twilight sparkle”. You can search at your leisure through a few pages… say 5-10 at least? However, on the 7th and 20th of every month we can all do it in large droves. If the call is sent out all at the same time, like a tradition then more people are likely to participate. Additionally, if Google or Bing gets a lot of flags for the same image from a lot of people- we can assume they will be more likely to remove it.

What to look for? Gore, blood, penises, vaginas, and perhaps lingerie. Just use your best judgement. Honestly if its something you wouldn’t look at while at work or show to a kid, then its probably not something we want showing up in a safe-search! If you think it should be done out of safe search as well, then thats your call to make.

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How To Flag:

On Google, simply enlarge an image and go to Send Feedback circled here and enter comment notifying them the image is “not suitable for children” or something along those lines:

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On Bing, simply click the flag image in the lower left corner when you hover over an image. Then check the “Adult” checkbox. Quick and easy! Lets do this!

Also see #SafeSearchWrapUp’s sister projects:
http://broniesagainstbullshit.tumblr.com/Campaigns

Note: The original date was going to be the 15th of every month, however I decided to do it en masse twice a month instead.

I am so down for that you don’t even understand

Oh hey, look!

People actually doing something that would make a difference, and not just pretending to be doing something worthwhile as an excuse to harass others!  I fully approve of this.

(via fisherpon)

What'd'ya do at that 7/11? There a reason why the clerk gives you looks?

Asked by dead-mare-trotting

I think he’s just grumpy when shady teenagers with hoodies walk into his store.