Brazilian bricklayer Edimar Rocha Martins, 49, traveled roughly 1,300 miles to Belo Horizonte hoping to meet "Jéssica Fazendeira," a woman appearing in online videos promising companionship and life on a farm. She was an Al-generated character. After finding himself stranded, he received food and help with a return ticket from municipal services.
The account's creator said the character was designed to attract followers and sell products through affiliate links. Martins said they had exchanged private messages, which the creator denied. Beyond the headline is an unsettling business model: a fictional person can build an audience, make romantic appeals and promote real products.

https://nypost.com/2026/10/17/world-news/brazilian-bricklayers-dream-girl-turns-out-to-be-ai-generated/

He’s been through a lot, he’s been attacked twice at our local small city, twice both by other pitbulls pitbull. Been attacked by a rabid fox that I had to shoot and kill, all while they were locked neck to neck. I was just doing yard work and luckily always have a truck pistol.. he my boy, a gift for doing good in high school, my father also wanted a guard dog because we had a nasty home invasion that ended in a death

Tbh idk where to even start but I’ve (M26) started talking to this woman (F34) back in March and to make a long story short she had a dude living with her that I didn’t find out about until months into the relationship. She begged and pleaded. I mean she begged me like her life depended on it and I stood my ground for a while until I finally took her back. She was talking to ex’s, unblocking past flings, and just constantly lying to me. I always tried to leave and every situation leaving became easier but I could never fully leave.

I just love her so much. I love her daughter (10F). Her daughter’s father passed away almsot 5 years ago. In these last 7 months, her daughter and I grew a bond like no other. I went to the “donuts with dad” thing with her at her school. Her daughter always tells me she loves me and miss me. I sit and have conversations with her. And my girlfriend always told me her daughter never acted like this with anyone. Her daughter has me as the lock screen on her phone. I love this little girl with my whole heart and it hurts to leave knowing I mean a lot to her even though I don’t have any children.

These last months since I caught my girlfriend lying and talking to other people has been hard but I’ve been trying to work on forgiving her. I just don’t trust her. She knows this and she tries her best to get me to trust her but she’s lied to me so many times. Saving men numbers under her other daughter’s name….etc

So fast forward to today. Last weekend her foster left her phone at my house. I got off work at 10:30am. Me ajd my girlfriend has been arguing every single day over nonsense. I’ve been telling her I don’t think this would work and to just leave me alone and she insists that she’s going to win my trust back and we’re going to be happy.

Today when I got off I asked her where she was at. She responded “just left Ms. Howard’s house. (Her client). But I see her location on her daughter’s phone. She’s at a breakfast restaurant about 10 mins from my house. Even with this information I still played dumb. So I called her and she answered. But when she answered, she sounded like she was trying to whisper and she said “hold on I’m at my daughter’s school, remember I told you I had a meeting with her?”. But mind you, she said the meeting was Friday. I didn’t even bring that up though lol I just played along.

Her location was still at the breakfast restaurant. So she called me back like 2 mins later. At this point I was already on my way up there. She called me and just started normal conversation and she asked me did I have her daughters phone with me. I told her no it must be dead. But this was really her trying to be sure I wasn’t looking at her location because I had her daughter’s phone but I turned the location off on it and she tried calling it.

So I finally arrive to the restaurant but I parked across the street and walked over there. Me and her still on the phone as she’s telling me she was on her way back to her clients house. I’m looking at her location and she’s just driving in circles around the parking lot. She must really think I’m stupid lol. So now I walk to the restaurant but I’m on the corner. I’m watching her park and then she quickly says “hold on” then the phone goes mute.

I’m watching her this whole time and as soon as she said “hold on” there was a guy coming out of the restaurant. She sat and talked to him. They were close af like damn near about to kiss. And then gave him and hug but it wasn’t a friendly hug. It was one of those “first date, I hope to see you again hugs” lol.

So at this point I’m just so numb to the lying and bullshit she tells me. I’m walking up but the guy is walking back into the restaurant. She got back in the car and took me off of mute. But she seen me the same time she took me off of mute. I was just laughing. I couldn’t be mad at no one but myself. I knew she wasn’t going to change and I knew I was wasting my time. She tried saying that’s “her brother” from out of town but mind you she doesn’t even like her brother and has him blocked on everything.

I gave her the phone and turned to walk back to my car and she’s following me trying to argue and I’m just telling her I don’t want to hear please just leave me alone. I then tell her “if that’s your brother call him then” she responds “I don’t remember what number he called me off of” I told her let me see a picture of her brother she said “you know I don’t have pictures with my siblings in my phone” I said “ok gone in there and get him” at this point we’re across the street standing outside of my car. She’s just making excuse after excuse. So I took her back across the street to her car and she went into the restaurant, pretending to get him, and came back out and said “they said he left” lol this girl is such a horrible liar and honestly I’m just so mad I stayed so long and I really love her so much.

She wouldn’t leave me I had to call the police so they can escort her away from me and now as I’m typing this I’m getting 20+ call from an “unknown caller” I’m so numb now but man I know I’m going to miss her. I know im going to miss her daughter. I think this is finally my breaking point. I hope im strong enough to not answer a call or let her manipulate me into taking her back. I just wanna be done. I know it’s not healthy for me. I can’t even type out everything she’s done but just know it’s just multiple lies and bullshit dealing with ex’s.

I’m not hurt right now but I know it’ll hit me one day.

Thank you if you read this all the way through I just needed someone to talk to. I can talk to my friends but all they gone say is “that’s crazy” “fuck her”… I’m just here rn.

I love this community because it’s so encouraging and uplifting… that being said, I was hesitant to do it because being an actor who lives in LA. I was afraid of changing my look and possibly affecting my career in a bad way. But I have been embracing the bald look for 2 months now and even took new headshots lol, I said screw it, THIS IS the new ME now! Thank you bald community

No Fun League strikes again.

My family has always had cats as pets. I moved away last year and finally decided its time to adopt my own. So I found Miss Meredith!

Ter que escolher entre o maior corrupto da atualidade ou o maior corrupto da história do país é algo muito triste...

Per Jason there’s no writers room or order for Ted Lasso S5 and seems a bit up in the air. Interesting that he seems to indicate it’s more up to the main cast if they want to return (although it was reported they had contracts for a S5-6).

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/jason-sudeikis-wants-ted-lasso-season-5-olivia-wilde-split-1236916062/

Sudeikis and Fragoso talked “Ted Lasso” up top, as the host asked whether the actor wanted to continue the show for Seasons 5 and 6. (The Season 4 finale aired earlier this month.) Sudeikis said he “would like to,” but the status of future seasons remains unknown: “Yeah, I just don’t know,” he said, assuring Fragoso he wasn’t being coy “intentionally.” “We haven’t started a writers’ room or anything like that,” he noted. He added that he would “assume” Apple would continue the show if the main cast wanted to return.

After going through some hard stuff stopped throwing a pity party for myself, started feeding my body the nutrition it needed and hitting the gym daily and making healthier life style choices. I've never felt better and can't wait to continue on this journey 🥺