2025-09-17T08:08:07Z https://njump.me ErosBlog Bacchus has moved! https://njump.me/npub1206nk82rs9zfeg792canjy5044e3cvng6hsh0m90dlv6mpwwucms8d8rhu https://cdn.masto.host/kinkyelephant/accounts/avatars/109/366/065/084/165/975/original/5a3f0aa1c0c46230.jpg https://cdn.masto.host/kinkyelephant/accounts/avatars/109/366/065/084/165/975/original/5a3f0aa1c0c46230.jpg https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqvjfnzlngyfwtt5pzmvt42tfcg9hu08cyqzyjz3lg48a9v508d7gzypfl2wcagwq5f89rc4trkwgj37khx8pjdr27zalv4ahantv9emnrwj5eymd Maybe I&#39;m slow, the last man in America to understand this.<br/><br/>Every Halloween &#34;we&#34; (by which I mean Facebook, LOL, and dumb media of all kinds) get overwhelmed with &#34;check your Halloween candy&#34; panic memes.<br/><br/>I always just assumed these moral panics were emergent folklore, like other urban legends. <br/><br/>But I finally realized: the USA is heavily infested with evangelicals who hate Halloween, think it&#39;s demonic and shit.<br/><br/>What odds they&#39;ve been pushing/promoting the candy-danger memes all this time? 2024-10-31T22:19:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstr6mmdr02lmraxj0yxxpaq78efsw6jhhl6a8035lvf5ujzl0y42szypfl2wcagwq5f89rc4trkwgj37khx8pjdr27zalv4ahantv9emnrwxh0vmh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq786np0ggnjgp5yg3nl78mqqp0jtmkgvw8acccqefepluxa9fjsgd2fklj'>nevent1q…fklj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>When I was a child we were promised flying cars and rocket jetpacks in the futuristic 21st century. Now that we&#39;re deeply stuck into that scifi future it turns out that all kinds of technological miracles are possible! But we can&#39;t have them, because to own them (or, too often, subscribe to them) involves bizarre surveillance demands wrapped in thousands of words of densely-hostile legalese, or outright submission to indignities against basic autonomy and privacy. I am left growling. A lot. 2024-05-22T02:01:50Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8ktqqatu0pvwj3y6ffnms2kpe4gu4n9cmkfnxn3u4u95gvzykquszypfl2wcagwq5f89rc4trkwgj37khx8pjdr27zalv4ahantv9emnrwvplc6m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspzaheuhlk740xga89zuu7u6qw7243jxjny8zcw68f273t6tjrs5csxw8qc'>nevent1q…w8qc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I very badly want to have one of those continuous blood glucose monitors (and I could easily get a prescription, or wait for the OTC one out this summer) but they all demand a smartphone app to monitor them and I equally badly do not want my blood sugar information sold off into the predatory personal health data industry. There is literally no company in the tech industry I can trust with this info. So I can&#39;t have one, probably ever. Just like I can&#39;t get a DNA test/analysis, ever. #trust 2024-05-21T22:07:02Z