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@Xyleniqq Grandma is out there doing the lord’s work! 👍🏻❤️

My grandma has been catfishing scammers for six months and she's weirdly good at it. Okay so my grandma is 74 and lives alone since my grandpa died. We got her an iPad last year so she could FaceTime with the grandkids and she's become dangerously online. She got one of those typical scam messages like two months ago. The "Hey beautiful, I'm a soldier stationed overseas, let's get to know each other" type thing. We've all told her about these scams. But instead of blocking him, she decided to "play along and waste his time so he can't scam real victims." Her words. So she's been talking to "Raymond," who claims to be a 58 year-old Army medic stationed in Syria (red flag central). But my grandma has created an entire fake persona. She told him her name is Carolyn (it's Janet), she's 62 (she's 74), and she owns a "successful cupcake business" (she's retired from accounting and once burned brownies so bad we had to replace the pan). She sends him stock photos of cupcakes from Google Images. He sends her clearly stolen photos of some random handsome dude in fatigues. Here's where it gets weird: she's actually doing research. She watches YouTube videos about common scam tactics. She's in a Facebook group about scambaiting. She has a NOTEBOOK where she tracks details of their conversations so she doesn't slip up. "Raymond" recently tried to move to the "I need money for a phone to call you" phase and my grandma strung him along for THREE WEEKS with excuses. "Oh the bank was closed." "My account is frozen, something about taxes." "I sent it but maybe it went to the wrong place?" She's never sent him a cent, obviously. She's just wasting his time. The family is divided on this. My mom thinks it's hilarious. My aunt thinks grandma's losing it and this is early dementia (it's not, she's sharp as ever). My uncle thinks she's going to accidentally get doxxed. But grandma is having the time of her life. She's started messing with two other scammers. One thinks she's a wealthy widow in Miami. Another thinks she's a former pageant queen. She showed me her notebook last week and it's incredibly detailed. Different backstories, different names, relationship timelines. She's put more effort into this than I put into my actual job. I asked her why she doesn't just block them and she said, "Every minute they're talking to me is a minute they're not stealing some poor lonely person's retirement money." Which is kind of sweet? In a chaotic way? Anyway "Raymond" is getting frustrated because she won't send money and keeps changing the subject to cupcake recipes. I think he's about to give up. Grandma's already got her eye on a new scammer who claims to be a widowed oil rig worker. She's workshopping a new persona. Thinking about being a "former Vegas showgirl." I've stopped trying to talk her out of it. This is her retirement hobby now.

Is the sauce in the room with us?

@Homeoffree61 I hope it’s 1

Grok gave me my perfect match. 😂😂❤️😍 I picked one. Who is it?!!!

@SouthDallasFood @NutterButter Cookie

Nutter Butter cookies or wafers?

@RichOToole @OKWildlifeDept You’re very cute

Me at the gas station at 1am after playing a show. 🙏🏽🦝 - @OKWildlifeDept

@DesireeAmerica4 I hope the “appropriate action” UPS took was firing that guy!

The cat's face at the end! 😂 Cartoon worthy!

@MarioRobertoP Such a waste of water here, and all those chemicals?! Just buy a new rug.

Me baño en menos de 5 minutos y cerrando la llave para que este señor pueda lavar estos tapetes.

@satanicghoul Damn, Death keeps getting the wrong address!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@metrofive5 This seriously looks like the same baby! ❤️

Recreating a photo of you and your mom in 1997 with your daughter in 2026 is one thing, but the uncanny resemblance is just mind blowing 🤯 🥹❤️

@japan_nobunaga Tone and context usually let you know if it’s nice or not.

Americans, I need a translator 🇺🇸 Someone told me "bless your heart" can mean kindness… or the softest possible insult. In Japanese we have phrases like that too — words that sound gentle but aren't. So I'm asking sincerely: when someone says "bless your heart," how do you KNOW which version it is? Tone? Context? Face? Please teach the Japanese guy 🙏

@seriss2012 Baby steps

@mapledonut Shame about the Canada bridge thing tho, an unfortunate L to go with these Ws

So, to sum up... Harvey Weinstein is having heart failure and is in hospital. Lindsey Graham is dead Mitch McConnell is MIA, presumed dead Conor Mcgregor got his ass beat and possibly ended his career. Just banger after banger for headlines

@japan_nobunaga People usually ask how far away something is so they know how long it would take to get there. But in many places in America, it can take a really long time. 10 miles in nowheresville could take 10 minutes but in Los Angelas it could take an hour.

Hello from Japan 🇯🇵 Something about America still confuses me. When I ask how far something is, Americans almost never say the miles. You say: "It's about 45 minutes." "Two hours, depending on traffic." In Japan we usually answer in distance. Kilometers. Exact. Is time really how you FEEL distance in America? I'm not joking — I genuinely want to understand. How do YOU answer "how far?" where you live?

@MemoryLaneTime I will never NOT use 2 spaces!

Just a friendly reminder to my friends older than 42: You don’t have to put 2 spaces after the period anymore. That was for the typewriter era. You're free

Can’t wait to get home and see this little dude after 10 days apart. 😻

One of my favorite TikTokers is this dude who makes his miniature poodle do competitive cheering haha

@ayojoestar He was abandoned by a mailbox, 8 weeks old at best. Maybe they thought he was bad luck? He’s 6 now and I wouldn’t change a thing! 😻

Do you ever look at your pre-owned cat and think how could someone have not wanted you?? Someone didn't love you?? Absolutely insane

I saw one post this morning that said women over 50 shouldn’t wear their hair long and another post that said women over 50 shouldn’t wear their hair short because it ages them more nd I just want to say that women of all ages should wear their hair however the fuck they want...

@NoFilterSkin Gen X and our Seabreeze have entered the chat…

Millennials survived skincare hell. We were raised on St. Ives Apricot Scrub, Oxy Pads, blotting sheets, and one rule: if you shine, you die. Now the beauty standard is gleaming rotisserie chicken.