The sex blog of record since 2002. Still going strong after all these years! Not the first sex blogger, very possibly the stubbornest. He/him
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Last Notes npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1lrv…tth9 It is amazing to me how the billionaire press increasingly offers nothing except an emotional barometer that reveals what the rich are afraid of. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub183k…4ghj Extremely powerful healing herb. As I type this I have a small yarrow poultice tucked inside my cheek against the gumline to help with [unpleasant dental consequences of being a peasant in the USA redacted]. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1cs9…al2f Such a tragedy! 😀 npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1cs9…al2f Azure Standard: https://www.azurestandard.com/shop/product/food/sweeteners/barley-malt/extract-dry/barley-malt-dry-organic/9038 npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Stages in evaluating a new bumper sticker I imagined in my mind: npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus I make myself a daily mocha beverage with coffee, almond milk, and unsweetened cocoa powder. Lightly sweetened with whatever. Now that I have malt powder, I think I may have invented the world's first malted mocha. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus I love the flavor of malt sugar. Always have. Malted milk ball candy, malts instead of milkshakes. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1thj…s9cv It is useful, I had wondered, thank you. I didn't use any hashtags and honestly figured it would only be seen by people following me. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus I blocked the asshole who told me that my post about the pernicious effect of ad blockers on the survival of the open web was "nonsense" and that I should just "pick another livelihood" instead of trying to make a living running a website. And the horse you rode in on, buddy. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub198t…hasj You are, as they used to say in a more civilized age, both a gentleman and a scholar. 😀 npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Someone with six thousand followers, who I don't want to start a fight with, posting on here in defense of total ad blocking: npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1vc6…tucg I think this was written to be a shitpost but to me it reads more like the literal podcast distribution system we'll all be using in about three years if present trends continue npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1336…hg95 I am not so foolhardy as to get a bumper sticker that says "Correct right three inches" but I promise to LMAO the first time I see one. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1hq5…qqsd Just clarifying; that link has now been edited to suggest that the shattered glass story was incorrect, based on further reporting. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub180r…zt85 When I saw the headlines today I was rooting for them to have been found dead in bed *together* but sadly, no. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus PS The image in the above toot is from a Sex And Submission shoot featuring Mr. Marcus and Lori Alexa. The direct link is: https://www.kink.com/shoot/2823?aff=3459&campaign=ebpost npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub10fm…x0qg Glorious indeed! In the ErosBlog post I called that book "quite literally the best $6.95 I ever spent in my life" and I didn't say it in jest. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1ylg…aeat I opened this thread with the observation that I voted for Hillary. This is not a thread about who to vote for. It's a thread about who to trust. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus The above toot has been brought to us by an extended needle-threading metaphor in a conversation about, among other things, sex work and misogyny. Did I, a man, fumble my attempt to get a small thing into a tight hole? Of course not! What a ridiculous notion! npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus One thing that happens when you spend twenty years writing 7,000 posts on a sex blog: double entendres become automatic in your writing. When choosing between two words, or two metaphors, you'll pick the one with the most salacious connotations and lewd associations. It's conscious in the sense of knowing that I'm doing it -- you could even call it a job skill -- but it doesn't require specific extra thought or work. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus One of the reasons I disliked candidate Hillary Clinton (though I voted for her, I'm not a total idiot) was: I didn't trust her on porn. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus A young Maureen O'Hara inflicting pain, and loving every second of it: npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Sex bloggers have memories like elephants. The community never forgets companies who fuck with us, and we blog that shit. And some of us our so goddamn stubborn that our links (with receipts!) just... never go away. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub126q…9mzz Haha, yes! I only really have one friend with fun kinks that I'm close enough to do this for. "Hey my man, I can't use this giantess-inflation-vore on my blog but I knew you'd want it..." npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus The nice thing about artwork that has no available "sauce" (provenance completely unavailable) and looks like it has a substantial AI pedigree is that, lacking context for the image, I get to make up my own. And that's how an image introduction accidentally turns into 120 words of flash microfiction! npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus I am profligate follower. Time/attention permitting, I "view profile" many who interact with my toots, and if I see any commonality of interest in the bio (not just adult stuff but also my other passions) I'll follow. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub185y…wcuq Nice! I never did figure out why I got blocked there, although one assumes it's the usual reasons. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus I think it's darkly hilarious that, after Tumblr spent years being laughed at for banning "female-presenting nipples", Etsy proves that it learned nothing at all from that debacle and included "female nipples" in the list of things banned under its new #pornocalypse rules. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus I am unimpressed by people on here who lecture and hector at us not to be playful with our orthography. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus "Do you want to die, bound and gagged in a dumpster fire, while malevolent idiots watch and jeer at you? npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1uy9…k05x To be clear, I don't actually care a whit about the rules for displaying our flag; I was mostly just being snarky. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1wpj…7m4z It would be really nice if you wcould have read the whole thread to date in order to see that we already had a discussion about the problem that was not the problem this thread is about. 😀 npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Heard a man at a garage sale today ranting that he got Covid three times, "even though I had that damned vaccine. My coworkers wouldn't shut up about it, kept giving me a hard time about how my wife had cancer and didn't I care about her? Did me no damned good." npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1lyx…m8m6 Please, I beg you all, nobody ask me how many hours I have spent in my lifetime watching defrags run, for no better reason than that I could not stop. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus In related topics, "boosting a toot" is nowhere near as much fun as "busting a nut", even though they sound like they should be in the same hedonic category. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus OK, that's too many flood-boosts already for tonight. I'll stop now. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus When y'all are done panicking, it might be time to return your attention to the search for tangible things you can do right now to keep yourself and your loved ones fed, housed, and out of the camps. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus My one little calendula flower brings all the pretty girls to my yard npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus My huge white fluffy dog was asleep in the hallway when I noticed a big dark-colored spider walking past his snout about an inch away. (Looked like it might have been a brown recluse, but my eyes were six feet away and I am not the spider whisperer.) npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus After my maudlin toot last night wondering just how thoroughly dead the old open web is, got a phone call 2day from my sister, who wanted to know the special trick (she knew there must be one) to get real search results from Google "without all the AI crap, sponsored results, and affiliate marketing spam." npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus It was true in 2009 and it's still true today: npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus I think I'll stop with my 15th anniversary post from 2017. I went into considerable detail in that one about both the rewards and the commercial challenges. Amazingly little has changed, except that search visibility for porn and social media platform hostility to adult content have both gotten much MUCH worse, starting from an already-bad place: npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus I guess I was feeling especially stubborn back in 2019, having just outlasted Tumblr. "I’m in a confident place. ErosBlog gives me space to do some things I want to do, and that won’t change while I’m hale." npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus "I’ve become one of the world’s leading professionals at finding old porn stuff. Did I just say a true thing? I suspect I may have. People don’t exactly put “professional porn researcher” on their LinkedIn curricula vitae, so it’s rather hard to check." npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Huh. Didn't mean for that toot to have a maudlin affect, but it sort of does. Apologies. Maybe I'll turn this into a thread by posting some links to blog posts where I've explored my own thoughts on what it is that I do, and whether or not it's (a) pointless and/or (b) unsustainable for lack of a business model. Might as well start with this one: npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Real talk now. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1uh4…swwr My father (aka Mr. "Nixon-was-the-victim-of-a-witch-hunt") didn't have any of these books. But we were very poor and lived almost 300 miles from the nearest book store. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Tell me you went to a red state garage sale on Saturday without telling me, and cetera… npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1tas…neph Well, exactly. I didn't get access to real bondage porn or any kind of discourse by and among genuine kinksters until I got to San Francisco after college and could shop in the really interesting bookstores. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1tgg…cfrq Yes, it took me a long time (including a few years in San Francisco) to get my head cranked back around into (what I hope is) a healthier understanding of kink. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1f6g…9nhx I know, right? I don't even know why I bothered with the circumlocution but it felt like I wasn't being at all vague or mysterious and I guess that's true. 😀 npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus In general I'm not a fan of "toots set to delete after whatever time period" because I dislike ephemerality in general as an internet phenomenon. However on Saturdays when I go back through my timeline to boost some recent highlights for the daytime/weekend crowd, I do tend to delete the worst of my subtoots, drunken ramblings, and overshares about my personal life, pets, and garden. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub129h…y2hs No it's because they can get custom images on demand without having to be nice to art people, whom they have disdained and/or bullied since middle school npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1d5s…jnqt Same billionaires own the legislature and the houses npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Set up a garden hose to feed another set of drip-irrigated containers and when I pressurized the hose, water started spraying inside my wall and pouring out from under The Nymph's kitchen sink. Whatever the opposite of brownie points is, I just earned them. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Saw this meme and had an emotional flashback to 1980 and some awkward adolescent "can they see on my face what I have been doing" moments after reading the infamous misogynistic slavegirl books and yanking myself raw. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus I built a moveable misting tower for my plant patio to help things through inferno summer. From 100% garage-sale items. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus "Please do feel free to contact me again in the future if your budget or needs change." npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Shoutout to the Chinese sex toy seller who was on my "problem customer" list for haggling over advertising products they did not buy back in 2021. (Ghosted me after much time-wasting.) I quoted them the problem customer price, firm; they tried to haggle. I explained their quote and they begged for one chance at the regular price. I said sure, regular price if you send money now without further haggling. They were like "no, your site isn't worth that price" and kept trying to haggle. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1tjl…jcnu Awesome, thank you! I love how unapologetic it is. Deal with it, kids! npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus There's a specific patterned flow of people into and out of my timeline that goes like this: npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Back in my day when somebody on a forum would make a dramatic exit, we called it "flouncing". npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1ugl…yvd7 These are easier and better but I don't like the need for an elastic band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58rYQbqymao npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1ugl…yvd7 See also simple campfire tongs cut from a flexible bit of forked greenwood. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus https://www.erosblog.com/2005/11/18/wild-naked-dinner-party/ npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Picked a double handful of pole beans just now, walked them inside and steamed them for four minutes, tossed them with a small pat of melting butter. They were RIDICULOUSLY good. Don’t let anyone tell you that garden-fresh ain’t better. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1ugl…yvd7 I do wish I understood the unwarranted faith most people have in the durability of the global food system. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Telling you I'm elder GenX without telling you I'm elder GenX, Saturday morning cartoons edition: npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Remember, an image doesn't have to be "art" to be useful or pleasant. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus I am never more happy to moderate blog comments than when intercepting angry creepiness. On a gag-themed BDSM post: "This is exactly what stupid women deserve when they spew disgusting filth and slander..." Followed by cruel suggestions that, in another context, could be a BDSM fantasy, but which, in this context, sound like someone ought to check the guy's basement. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Inside you there are two wolves. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Huge grin on my face as I watch meaner people than me trying to rickroll people into searching "Trump Rule 34" on the pretext that it's a loophole he can invoke to void his convictions. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus From now on, any news outlet that refers to the former president without using the phrase "convicted felon" is not serious, and you should entirely stop attending to any of their stuff. #Verdict #Trump #Felon npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus What does procrastination look like? npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus I love a good science fiction medical miracle technology as much as the next guy, but my joy at the prospect of regrowing a mouthful of lost teeth in 2031 or so is heavily dampened by the sick feeling that the treatment will cost $17,000 per tooth and (of course) not be covered by insurance because healthy teeth are not part of the human body. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus I don't think enough people on here understand just how humiliating it is for a wealthy conservative man of high status to be forced to admit that he cannot control his wife. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus So now I'm seeing wealthy (presumably) leftists doing a push-back narrative against people having fun with the "orcas sinking yachts" meme. "Billionaire mega-yachts are not threatened," goes this narrative, "just humble folks in simple sailboats. Your schadenfreude is misdirected!" npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Something I just now heard myself saying out loud to an offended geriatric dog on my front porch: "You got left outside and forgotten! Lucky for you I sometimes do a random nosecount." #Dogs #OldDogs #RescueDogs #SpoiledDogs #GeriatricDogs #AncientDoberman npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Boy, was I wrong. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus The first toot I saw about Nikki Haley writing pro-genocide messages on murder-bombs had three photos: contextless headshot of Haley, a three-quarters rear view of an anonymous woman with similar hair writing on a bomb, and a photo of the inscribed bomb. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus I have this suspicion about 90% of "highly-online" digital citizens, "netizens" as Wired called them in the 90s, people who are "aware of all internet traditons" and recognize that phrase as an old meme. These are people who know when not to click the rickroll or the goatse link or 2girls1cup, and tough enough not to care if they do. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub15lg…76mu Yeah, I should have specified, but character limitations. Context was USA, person's profile contains indicia of wealth. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Fuming mildly after seeing a personal anecdote designed to make men like me more comfortable with the notion of seeking emergency medical care in ambiguous situations that might be, but probably aren't, a heart attack. "Just go to the nearest ER and get checked out, it's the wise and smart thing to do, your wife will love you for your commitment to staying alive for her!" npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub165t…g3qt "THE CLAW DECIDES!" npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1h6h…ha4k Back in the days of 8" floppy drives, I was taught "GIGO" was a fundamental computing axiom. Are they not teaching that to the current generation of technologists? npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Because it is part of an invented backstory for a FB Marketplace scammer who claims to be selling an illegal exotic animal, I believe I might not be damned to perdition for laughing my ass off at a seller’s reference to “my sister who died of lungs.” npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus I would be thrilled to receive follow recommendations for porn-posting accounts on Mastodon that routinely (I do not look for or expect perfection) show provenance for the photos (any kind of metadata telling us who's in the photo, who took or published it, or where/when it was first published) and at least a good-faith stab at some alt text. I don't mind a bot account (if it does this stuff, which I haven't ever seen one do) but hand-rolled is nicest. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Speak of the devil. It's recommending cleaning your washing machine with bleach and vinegar RIGHT NOW. That'll do it! npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Direct link to Girl On The Net's rant (linked, quoted, and reacted to in the old blogging tradition at the ErosBlog link above) is here: https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/semen-morning-sickness-spit-or-swallow/ npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus How long, I wonder, before we see the first confirmed AI casualty caused by somebody who thinks an AI hallucination served up by Google must be reliable info and takes/follows the fatal advice? npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus My shitty but subsidized ACA health insurer just sent me a 16 page letter through the mail to tell me that a 15 dollar charge had not been paid to my provider because it was billed on the incorrect form. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1a3e…mxj8 Seeing those tags never fails to make me laugh. Plant propagation is a natural right. Also, just try and stop me! npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub1qas…ngll That article *almost* comes right out and says "Piracy is curation", which I haven't seen hitherto in the actual respectable press. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Today was a plant-torture day. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Until somebody who wants a sponsored post from me tells me what URL they want to have me include in the post, there isn't a price for me to quote at them. I don't even know if we can do business yet! npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus I sell sponsored posts to qualified buyers who let me vet their payload URLs so I can give quote. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus There is no such thing as a crime or criminal so heinous as to "deserve" unfair or violent treatment during their involuntary journey from crime to prison. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus Upon reflection I am forced to acknowledge that my default position about criminal law in the USA is that there's no such thing as a non-millionaire defendant who does not get the shaft, absolutely boned, totally buried under a complex pile of reeking violent injustices, during the process of their investigation, arrest, trial, conviction, and punishment. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus I thought this was a helpful and useful toot, but in fairness I do have a lot of cynicism about what passes for criminal justice in America. npub1qch5l8ehck8tvjqwcg889rucpd07ezk3tqmzrvj0pxfgqgfyekuqaz48cl ErosBlog Bacchus @npub198t…hasj It helps if you think about it as "the triangle is the noisy announcement bell"
