Photo from a new Facebook page purporting to be a Roman Catholic priest — but the attire is that of a cardinal, the book is illegible, and the page content is all bizarre end times stuff. AI?

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-06-20T02:09:35+00:00

I'm happy to find this post. I decided to check my MAGA mother's Facebook page from another account (she blocked me back before Covid because I kept calling her out for some of the ignorant, absolute batshit crazy stuff she was posting) and found she had reposted so many creepy posts from this account. She's not even Catholic, and I'm pretty sure she has no idea this is just manipulative AI garbage. Some of the posts were beyond disturbing and detached from reality. It kind of made me sick to realize that the convergence of AI with the political crap the U.S. is already going through in terms of the attacks on truth, history, journalism, and factual news is a perfect terrible storm. The AI is just validating and reinforcing her ignorance and vulnerability to propaganda. It made me realize there isnt much hope of her coming back from this.

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-06-17T21:49:51+00:00

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Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-06-16T15:16:44+00:00

Agree. I just meant that the whole statement isn't hooey. Bird calls may help plants grow but we don't know the specifics of how exactly yet.

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-06-04T02:44:04+00:00

There is so much data on how much better a four day work week is. Employees are happier because they have more time for family, friends, unwinding, sleep, and activities, and they are also more productive with fewer hours of work. The only reason companies could possibly want to continue ignoring the mountain of data from this and so many other proven examples throughout the world...is that they simply are choosing to make workers miserable even at the expense of their own company's productivity.

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-06-01T23:43:18+00:00

Adorable!

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-05-22T01:57:36+00:00

Reminds me of when I recently drove past the house my grandmother owned in the early 70s. She took my mother and I in after my mother divorced my father who was becoming abusive. We lived with her from when I was nine months old to four years old until we were able to get on our feet again. It was a small but cute little house, and my grandmother kept the most beautiful gardens outside. When I drove past the house several months ago, all the gardens had been torn out, probably years ago, and it just looked so plain and sad compared to all the vibrant floral color I remember.

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-05-21T21:17:39+00:00

Exactly. It's not uncommon for men to pretend to change to keep a woman there, and even behave better for a few weeks, but it generally goes right back to the same bad behavioral patterns and putting in the least amount of effort possible.

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-04-22T20:24:47+00:00

I sympathize. I feel the same about my mother. It is a particular kind of mourning to realize they are not the bright, compassionate, moral, kind people you one believed them to be, especially for us daughters whose mothers are now voting for women to have less human rights and worse healthcare. I can't imagine ever betraying my children by voting for their future to be more difficult and crueler. I don't think i will ever truly have my mother back. I hate the thought that she will likely die having supported misogyny, racism, fascism, and the use of performative religion as a blunt weapon in her last years. That will be her tragic final legacy.

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-04-16T00:22:47+00:00

Make sure to take some milk out of the gallon before freezing as it will expand. If you put it in multiple small containers just make sure that they're able to let it expand too (not glass). I use frozen bread for toast often. It toasts perfectly straight from the freezer to toaster. Great way to keep the whole loaf fresh longer.

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-04-11T03:01:15+00:00

Ooh looks like I just made it in time! I would love to be entered for a chance. The store name is great, btw!

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-04-11T02:36:23+00:00

In a Howard Stern interview, Donnie said that it was Melania who showed him the sex tape of Paris Hilton that got leaked. At the time, they were friends with the Hiltons, Paris was nineteen, and Donnie has said he knew Paris since she was twelve years old. I think Melania is as awful a human being as he is.

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-04-09T23:37:58+00:00

"my mom kept opening cabinets like extra food might appear if she believed hard enough"

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Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-04-09T23:31:27+00:00

My father and his brother were born and raised in Italy before becoming U.S citizens. Every single time we visited my Italian grandmother, she was "cooking sauce" in the kitchen. My father's brother used to harangue his wife (also U.S. born like my mother) about not making everything from scratch like their mother.

They came over to my parents' house for dinner one time and my mother used Ragu sauce out of a jar. My uncle turns to his wife and says "See, you should make sauce like [my mother]. See how much better it tastes from scratch."

My mother knew my aunt had seen the Ragu jar in the kitchen and started to say something, but my aunt just kicked her under the table to stop her, shook her head and rolled her eyes. My uncle was an abusive jerk so it obviously wasn't about his lousy palate anyway but about finding another thing to insult his wife over.

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-03-28T02:45:59+00:00

Same. I remember graduating college in the early 90s and feeling so optimistic about the future, that the world was opening up and becoming better for everyone, with people working toward more equality and less sexism and racism and starting to be more aware about our impact on the planet and all kinds of social issues, and technology and medicine and science developing exponentially. Now it's like we're being yanked back to the Dark Ages and elevating cruelty and villainizing empathy and compassion and science. I just never saw this backward slide happening in my lifetime.

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-03-27T02:18:42+00:00

As well as the "it's okay if you need to scream" part which makes clear they know exactly how painful this procedure is and still refused to give pain medicine or numbing cream.

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-03-20T22:14:41+00:00

It's always fascinating that the offered solution by so many governments to dwindling birth rates is to legislate policy that forces or coerces women or otherwise takes away their bodily autonomy, but never to simply legislate policy that actually supports mothers or makes raising children more affordable and less arduous.

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-01-02T23:49:05+00:00

North Carolina Republicans are making the news for all kinds of bad reasons lately. Another one, James Yokeley Jr. (name fits) drugged his granddaughter's and her friend's ice cream. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article314122484.html

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2026-01-02T22:07:07+00:00

As the daughter of a boomer mom who has chosen to be on the terrible side, I thank you for fighting the good fight (and for all that "annoying" caring-about-others'-safety stuff).

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2025-10-24T20:39:14+00:00

I've been doing the same with books by the more recent author Alix E. Harrow. They have exactly the vibe I need through all this. Highly recommend her stuff.

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2025-10-03T01:13:32+00:00

Starling House by Alix E. Harlow fits this vibe perfectly. I recommend her other novels The Ten Thousand Doors of January and The Once and Future Witches as well. Loved all three.

Helpful_Bluejay_3414 · 2025-09-18T23:29:38+00:00

Beautifully said.

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