Carlo Collodi is confused

I just found out why ads keep appearing in my Facebook feed, i.e. the browser extension, Fluff Busting Purity, I’ve been using to stop them from appearing wasn’t working… whether the thing just stopped behaving by itself or I neglected to actually install it after I started using Firefox rather than Chrome a few months ago (the latter being a distinct possibility) is something I don’t know; I always used my own properly chronological feed rather than the main FB page which barely knows what day it is, so I was never bothered by them until FB started fighting its way past the ad-blocking and FBP had to keep putting out new patches.

Anyway, they’ve been get more numerous of late and every time I see one I just curse and report it as spam, but I must confess that I actually was glad—before reporting it as the scam it surely is—that I was exposed to whatever the fuck THIS is:

How amazing is that? I mean, these things are usually bullshit, of course, but this has had an unusual degree of effort put into its bullshit. In the original version of Collodi’s story Pinocchio actually gets executed at the end, Collodi seems to have very much viewed him as a kind of warning about the sort of misbehaviour Pinocchio engages in. Admittedly I’ve never read the original, but I’m fairly sure the words “pineal gland” don’t occur in it and they certainly have piss all to do with the derivation of Pinocchio’s name. Really, the bullshit is above and beyond with this one; I almost had to admire it before blocking it.