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

sonnivate:

post-cactus:

Shout-out to the university for scrubbing last year’s summer course transfer credits from my record >:C

Iktf dude. They fucked me out of stat credits.

Rang up Admissions and they told me that I have to get the credits reevaluated because of “mishaps” with the “student information system migration” are you fucking kidding me.

THEY KNOW I TOOK THE COURSE. THEY READ OUT THE COURSE NAME AND CREDIT NUMBER OVER THE PHONE

Why the hell do I need to get it reeval’d if they passed the first time!? And then they go on to say that they don’t count for Physics 212 anymore are you for real. Clearly they are because that’s what you said back in November and that’s what’s on my old transcript.

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It’s only 4 measly credits but I’m pissed the fuck off regardless.

There’s three stages of reactions I have with regards to blogs/people who are mostly dedicated to political and social justice stuff.

  1. Simple Agreement/Disagreement: Also known as the normal stage. This shouldn’t need explanation, but it’s basically your average reactio
  2. Annoyance: Now that you know that the guy you saw is a political type, you start seeing him everywhere. Mainly on reblogs and in the form of long and rambling paragraphs leading up to calling OP an idiot or some other Tumblr insult. And he starts getting repetitive and more aggressive over time and it becomes annoying as high hell. You wish they would fucking shut up once in a while and hate everything they talk about.
  3. Concern: But they never shut up, instead growing louder and more nonsensical in their responses to the point where you think that there’s something seriously wrong with them. Because you know, obsession is unhealthy. And you have to wonder if actively trying to be mad and reactionary to every political topic of the hour is really the sign of man who’s lost his way. He used to have a way with words and you wonder if he can ever recover from his battles. Return to his family. Retire happy. Maybe this is a plea for help. Maybe you should intervene. Send a little message, “Are you okay?”

And then he responds. “haha cry some more”

It’s really awkward when a race discourse (white vs. black) comes up because every time it does, it forces me, a Peruvian-American mestizo, to ask where I fit into this whole equation.

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Or more importantly, should I really care about fitting in these silly American things.

Another day, another logo change.

And another mob of people complaining about said logo change.

I’ve haven’t seen too much of it, but prior experience knows it’s there. Somewhere.

post-cactus:

In which I sprain my finger in the dumbest way possible.

Brother puts a bunch of bananas on the top of the fridge.

Now, this would be okay if we didn’t have a new fridge with a giant hinge thing.

I open the fridge, react to a bunch of bananas falling above me, and manage to get all of its weight onto my middle finger and mess it up.

Fuckin’ bananas.

Honestly, stop getting news from social media in general. That includes this site.

Because the point of social media is to be shared. And obviously, news stories that attract more eyes and clicks are gonna be shared more. Even if they’re bullshit like covfefe or some misleading/overblown article on Mic or something.

You’re gonna get lied to. Or have information hidden from you because they think you have an attention span of 140 characters.

If you’re seeing more memes than actual content in your primary news feeds, you’re doing wrong. So wrong.

taliasturm:

mean-dauphin:

oddbagel:

maptitude1:

The most popular grocery stores in each state

walmart needs to be defeated

I grew up in Indiana and so did my mom and now we’re in the midatlantic and she calls every grocery store “krogers”

the new york one not being wegman’s and instead being some shit I never even heard of before sounds fake as hell or Extremely City

I pulled up the source of this image and it says that New York’s most popular store is Tops.

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But that’s clearly not what’s pictured in the map?? What the heck even is that??

(Source: reddit.com, via dreamofhircine)