I use Facebook because my relatives are spread out across the world and that’s the way I know to stay in touch and also my brother, who is neurodivergent, mostly likes to communicate to the family as a whole that way and I want to be able to stay in touch with him too. On top of that, I’m stuck in a town I hate with no friends here and some old friends from my hometown are there so I can talk to them.
Anyway, ever since my brother started talking about how he was taking various hallucinogenic substances and calling himself a psychonaut (he’s almost 60, he got into it very late), most of the ads I see are for shroom gummies, ketamine and boner pills. I’ve done my “psychonaut” stuff back when I was in my teens and twenties. I’m not interested in the former two and the latter is, thankfully, not necessary yet.
The funny thing was that maybe 4 or 5 years ago, I kept getting shown an ad for a wooden hurdy-gurdy kit. Like the medieval instrument. I have no idea why. I have never expressed an interest in playing the hurdy-gurdy, listening to the hurdy-gurdy or building anything out of a wooden kit. It became a joke with me and my friends for a while.