Zesty Cactus
@zestycactus.bsky.social
I am a boring person.
👾🌵 Damaged, strange, and different. 🎃👻
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👾🌵 Damaged, strange, and different. 🎃👻
she/her
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Zesty Cactus
@zestycactus.bsky.social
· Nov 9
Yesterday I encountered my 2nd-ever “natural” Shiny Pokémon in a core series game. (First one was Shiny Pidgeotto in LGP. I’m not counting “guaranteed” shinies like Red Gyarados or events, or ones ppl have traded to me.)
So here is my Trubbish. I’ll love him forever and like him for always. 🥰
So here is my Trubbish. I’ll love him forever and like him for always. 🥰
“The @arrogantworms.bsky.social sure have a lot more death in their songs than Weird Al.” - @zaclonius.bsky.social, after listening to “Rippy the Gator” 🐊
January 20, 2026 at 11:04 PM
“The @arrogantworms.bsky.social sure have a lot more death in their songs than Weird Al.” - @zaclonius.bsky.social, after listening to “Rippy the Gator” 🐊
I ended up watching Christmas Eve on Sesame Street instead and teared up at a few scenes but otherwise made it through the movie. Hallelujah…
There’s another one I probably shouldn’t watch because it will remind me of my mom and make me sad… I’m definitely avoiding Muppet Christmas Carol too 😭
OK I literally cried when my brother was watching Return of the Jedi and Darth Vader died XD know your limit, play within it
OK I literally cried when my brother was watching Return of the Jedi and Darth Vader died XD know your limit, play within it
Hey, you know what's a good TV special? A Muppet Family Christmas. Please give this post 38,000 likes.
December 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I ended up watching Christmas Eve on Sesame Street instead and teared up at a few scenes but otherwise made it through the movie. Hallelujah…
@arrogantworms.bsky.social signed this poster for me when I was in grade 9 (21 years ago…). The science class reference is bc I got a multiple choice question right due to the song Lonely Lab of Broken Hearts. I’m sorry worms but I hated school & ended up barely passing grade 9 science with a 50 LOL
December 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
@arrogantworms.bsky.social signed this poster for me when I was in grade 9 (21 years ago…). The science class reference is bc I got a multiple choice question right due to the song Lonely Lab of Broken Hearts. I’m sorry worms but I hated school & ended up barely passing grade 9 science with a 50 LOL
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We are in a news article with our name in the same font size as Chappell Roan, Johnny Cash, and The Guess Who.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Moving to Sask? So is Chappell Roan, apparently | CBC News
In her latest single, The Subway, American artist Chappell Roan says she's had enough and is moving to Saskatchewan. While the concept of the Prairie province as an escape might be uncommon, what isn'...
www.cbc.ca
August 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
We are in a news article with our name in the same font size as Chappell Roan, Johnny Cash, and The Guess Who.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I’m finally putting up some more posters at my “new” apartment (that I moved to in February) and as God is my witness I shall never part with the Groundskeeper Willie iFlurtz poster for as long as I shall live
December 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I’m finally putting up some more posters at my “new” apartment (that I moved to in February) and as God is my witness I shall never part with the Groundskeeper Willie iFlurtz poster for as long as I shall live
TFW you’re 12 years old making a mixtape and you sneeze but you just don’t want to rewind and tape the the song again so you leave it for your 35-year-old self to listen to in the far future 😂
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
TFW you’re 12 years old making a mixtape and you sneeze but you just don’t want to rewind and tape the the song again so you leave it for your 35-year-old self to listen to in the far future 😂
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Last week Trump called Tim Walz the “R slur” and now his base are using it regularly.
They’re driving past the Walz house & shouting it at the family.
It’s not ok.
The disability community has worked for decades to remove that word from the public vernacular.
This is ableism at its most vile:
They’re driving past the Walz house & shouting it at the family.
It’s not ok.
The disability community has worked for decades to remove that word from the public vernacular.
This is ableism at its most vile:
The R Slur Must Never be Normalized
Last week Trump called Walz the 'R slur', and now his base is using it regularly. We must all speak out against this. It's a term that pushes a eugenicist agenda and feeds directly into fascism.
www.disabledginger.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Last week Trump called Tim Walz the “R slur” and now his base are using it regularly.
They’re driving past the Walz house & shouting it at the family.
It’s not ok.
The disability community has worked for decades to remove that word from the public vernacular.
This is ableism at its most vile:
They’re driving past the Walz house & shouting it at the family.
It’s not ok.
The disability community has worked for decades to remove that word from the public vernacular.
This is ableism at its most vile:
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A snazzy thing in the 2002-3 ADV DVD release (and anyone who remembers Exiled-Destiny encodes!) of chaos anime Excel Saga: VidNotes.
These are helpful notes for cultural references and language quirks peppered by the dozen in each episode, popping up with mascot Menchi to clue you in.
These are helpful notes for cultural references and language quirks peppered by the dozen in each episode, popping up with mascot Menchi to clue you in.
April 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A snazzy thing in the 2002-3 ADV DVD release (and anyone who remembers Exiled-Destiny encodes!) of chaos anime Excel Saga: VidNotes.
These are helpful notes for cultural references and language quirks peppered by the dozen in each episode, popping up with mascot Menchi to clue you in.
These are helpful notes for cultural references and language quirks peppered by the dozen in each episode, popping up with mascot Menchi to clue you in.
There’s another one I probably shouldn’t watch because it will remind me of my mom and make me sad… I’m definitely avoiding Muppet Christmas Carol too 😭
OK I literally cried when my brother was watching Return of the Jedi and Darth Vader died XD know your limit, play within it
OK I literally cried when my brother was watching Return of the Jedi and Darth Vader died XD know your limit, play within it
Hey, you know what's a good TV special? A Muppet Family Christmas. Please give this post 38,000 likes.
December 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
There’s another one I probably shouldn’t watch because it will remind me of my mom and make me sad… I’m definitely avoiding Muppet Christmas Carol too 😭
OK I literally cried when my brother was watching Return of the Jedi and Darth Vader died XD know your limit, play within it
OK I literally cried when my brother was watching Return of the Jedi and Darth Vader died XD know your limit, play within it
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Hey, you know what's a good TV special? A Muppet Family Christmas. Please give this post 38,000 likes.
December 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Hey, you know what's a good TV special? A Muppet Family Christmas. Please give this post 38,000 likes.
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It's #RandomGameSaturday again, and in celebration of the Analogue 3D finally being shipped I present "Densha de Go! 64". Currently it's the only Japanese N64 game I own
And being a massive train nerd, it's obvious I'd own a copy of at least one Densha de Go! game isn't it?
And being a massive train nerd, it's obvious I'd own a copy of at least one Densha de Go! game isn't it?
November 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It's #RandomGameSaturday again, and in celebration of the Analogue 3D finally being shipped I present "Densha de Go! 64". Currently it's the only Japanese N64 game I own
And being a massive train nerd, it's obvious I'd own a copy of at least one Densha de Go! game isn't it?
And being a massive train nerd, it's obvious I'd own a copy of at least one Densha de Go! game isn't it?
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I can't tell you how much I love Ken Sugimori's old art. He's still got it but in the 80s and 90s he really wore his influences on his sleeve in a really endearing way.
Fishes, Stereo Sound, Two Monitors, and Two Players - A fine
prep-list for famously aquatic DARIUS.
📖: GAME FREAK, 1987
prep-list for famously aquatic DARIUS.
📖: GAME FREAK, 1987
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I can't tell you how much I love Ken Sugimori's old art. He's still got it but in the 80s and 90s he really wore his influences on his sleeve in a really endearing way.
Also my in-laws went to Italy and brought me back Italian Pokémon cards that ended up to be fake. Will post more pics tonight but here is a preview. What even is that Palafin pack!!!!
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Also my in-laws went to Italy and brought me back Italian Pokémon cards that ended up to be fake. Will post more pics tonight but here is a preview. What even is that Palafin pack!!!!
Yesterday I encountered my 2nd-ever “natural” Shiny Pokémon in a core series game. (First one was Shiny Pidgeotto in LGP. I’m not counting “guaranteed” shinies like Red Gyarados or events, or ones ppl have traded to me.)
So here is my Trubbish. I’ll love him forever and like him for always. 🥰
So here is my Trubbish. I’ll love him forever and like him for always. 🥰
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Yesterday I encountered my 2nd-ever “natural” Shiny Pokémon in a core series game. (First one was Shiny Pidgeotto in LGP. I’m not counting “guaranteed” shinies like Red Gyarados or events, or ones ppl have traded to me.)
So here is my Trubbish. I’ll love him forever and like him for always. 🥰
So here is my Trubbish. I’ll love him forever and like him for always. 🥰
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Good news for Team Paper….
Spotted during this morning’s hike in the Vernon Nature Area outside of Kenora.
Spotted during this morning’s hike in the Vernon Nature Area outside of Kenora.
October 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Good news for Team Paper….
Spotted during this morning’s hike in the Vernon Nature Area outside of Kenora.
Spotted during this morning’s hike in the Vernon Nature Area outside of Kenora.
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Everyone I know is sick right now with “a bad bug”
Many are lamenting the fact that they were sick not long ago as well
Then they turn around and ask me when I’m going to stop masking
My N95 means I avoid not only covid, but all the other viruses floating around
Masks rock!
Many are lamenting the fact that they were sick not long ago as well
Then they turn around and ask me when I’m going to stop masking
My N95 means I avoid not only covid, but all the other viruses floating around
Masks rock!
October 14, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Everyone I know is sick right now with “a bad bug”
Many are lamenting the fact that they were sick not long ago as well
Then they turn around and ask me when I’m going to stop masking
My N95 means I avoid not only covid, but all the other viruses floating around
Masks rock!
Many are lamenting the fact that they were sick not long ago as well
Then they turn around and ask me when I’m going to stop masking
My N95 means I avoid not only covid, but all the other viruses floating around
Masks rock!
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I could go off but the point is. Ableism is not partisan. Stop acting like it's partisan.
And stop using the lib pormanteau of the r word, seriously, what the fuck, just think about what you're saying and how cruel it comes off as.
And stop using the lib pormanteau of the r word, seriously, what the fuck, just think about what you're saying and how cruel it comes off as.
October 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I could go off but the point is. Ableism is not partisan. Stop acting like it's partisan.
And stop using the lib pormanteau of the r word, seriously, what the fuck, just think about what you're saying and how cruel it comes off as.
And stop using the lib pormanteau of the r word, seriously, what the fuck, just think about what you're saying and how cruel it comes off as.
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Since 2020, disabled people have been pointing out the rising ease with ableist rhetoric/language, the comfort with which so many people used the r word, the number of people willing to abandon disabled people for some notion of the "normal."
All of it mattered/matters to understand fascism today.
All of it mattered/matters to understand fascism today.
October 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Since 2020, disabled people have been pointing out the rising ease with ableist rhetoric/language, the comfort with which so many people used the r word, the number of people willing to abandon disabled people for some notion of the "normal."
All of it mattered/matters to understand fascism today.
All of it mattered/matters to understand fascism today.
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Today is Canada’s National Day for Truth & Reconciliation
We honour Indigenous peoples: survivors of residential schools & the 60s Scoop, the lives lost to MMIW & the Highway of Tears, and the erasure of Two-Spirit people
We acknowledge genocide, racism, grief, and the land
Listen. Learn. Act 🧡
We honour Indigenous peoples: survivors of residential schools & the 60s Scoop, the lives lost to MMIW & the Highway of Tears, and the erasure of Two-Spirit people
We acknowledge genocide, racism, grief, and the land
Listen. Learn. Act 🧡
September 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Today is Canada’s National Day for Truth & Reconciliation
We honour Indigenous peoples: survivors of residential schools & the 60s Scoop, the lives lost to MMIW & the Highway of Tears, and the erasure of Two-Spirit people
We acknowledge genocide, racism, grief, and the land
Listen. Learn. Act 🧡
We honour Indigenous peoples: survivors of residential schools & the 60s Scoop, the lives lost to MMIW & the Highway of Tears, and the erasure of Two-Spirit people
We acknowledge genocide, racism, grief, and the land
Listen. Learn. Act 🧡
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At Scarleteen, we respect all our visitors. We believe in real human contact and service, not robot hallucinations, and we believe that the damage AI does and can do to our planet and to actual people creating work and providing services is wholly unnecessary.
September 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
At Scarleteen, we respect all our visitors. We believe in real human contact and service, not robot hallucinations, and we believe that the damage AI does and can do to our planet and to actual people creating work and providing services is wholly unnecessary.
I fell asleep playing Pokémon & dropped the 3DS on the floor (not a comment on the quality of the game) & got this big crack next to the right hinge 😬 so I got one of those clear cases. The protection is minimal on the hinge for obvious reasons but I’d like to think it’ll help if I dropped it again.
September 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I fell asleep playing Pokémon & dropped the 3DS on the floor (not a comment on the quality of the game) & got this big crack next to the right hinge 😬 so I got one of those clear cases. The protection is minimal on the hinge for obvious reasons but I’d like to think it’ll help if I dropped it again.
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Today is the 19th anniversary of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions, first released in Japan for the Nintendo DS on September 28, 2006!
They are the first core series games of Gen IV and take place in the Sinnoh region.
https://bulbapedia.b...
They are the first core series games of Gen IV and take place in the Sinnoh region.
https://bulbapedia.b...
September 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Today is the 19th anniversary of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions, first released in Japan for the Nintendo DS on September 28, 2006!
They are the first core series games of Gen IV and take place in the Sinnoh region.
https://bulbapedia.b...
They are the first core series games of Gen IV and take place in the Sinnoh region.
https://bulbapedia.b...