u/JayGatsby52

https://events.orlandojobs.com

If you need transportation, please message me! I’ll get as many people there as possible… I’m not a sponsor or participant in this event. I am, however, someone with three layoffs in the last three years under his belt. I just found a great job after this last four dreadful months spent unemployed - so I want to help others find work!!

Orange County voters will decide between County Clerk of Courts Tiffany Moore Russell and businessman Chris Messina in a November runoff for Orange County mayor, after no candidate won a majority to replace term-limited Mayor Jerry Demings.

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2026/08/19/orange-county-mayoral-race-headed-to-november-runoff-moore-russell-messina-advance/

From: https://www.reddit.com/r/orlando/s/72q5maZOjP

I’m a huge fan of Mike Shinoda (wrote a history curriculum lesson using “Kenji” about the United States’ internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII), and also loved the Reanimation and Collision Course albums.

Anyone want to hit a (freezing cold!) showing of this limited-release movie?

I’m sharing my likely date and location to go.

Take a trip down memory lane with me…

https://music.apple.com/us/album/rolling-in-the-deep-live/449087648?i=449087660

I’m sure they’ll be outfitted with all sorts of “telemetry” sensors.

“One of Orlando's biggest resorts just landed a record-setting price tag. Ryman Hospitality Properties announced on August 10, 2026 that it has agreed to buy the Grande Lakes Orlando Resort for $1.38 billion from a joint venture led by Trinity Investments, a deal billed as the largest non-gaming resort transaction ever recorded in the United States. The 409-acre property packs in 1,592 guest rooms across two hotels, the 1,010-room JW Marriott and the 582-room Ritz-Carlton, along with about 320,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting space.

Guests will still recognize the place. Marriott International is set to keep operating both hotels under the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton names, and the resort's 18-hole Greg Norman-designed championship golf course, 40,000-square-foot spa, water park and 14 dining venues remain part of the package. The sellers poured roughly $150 million into renovations in recent years. Ryman expects the sale to close in the third quarter of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions.”

From All Things Florida, facebook.

drive safe, terrible traffic. censored bc i think medics were working on someone on the sidewalk

edit: yes, it is a truck

Stay hydrated! Don’t want to get heat stroke.

Remind your kids who may be walking to school or the bus stop - their backpacks and uniforms can compound the effects of heat.

Just scrolling marketplace and found this gem.

Hi, all. I asked my friendly neighborhood Spider-Man to use their skills in scraping/scripting/compiling to help assemble a narrative of the whole Halaina situation. Everything here is publicly posted, and I am absolutely not claiming any of it is true. This is merely a summary of what others have said. I have no ability to say whether these statements/events are true or untrue. These are merely what’s been said publicly, and are just allegations until proof is rendered.
A note on terminology: I use Halaina for the older identity, Samantha/Sammi for the later public identity, and The Unhinged Baker for the creator persona she launched in 2026. The available material strongly connects those identities, but the most serious accusations below remain allegations unless supported by an independent record. I am deliberately not turning Reddit conclusions into facts.
Halaina → Samantha → SammiCakes → The Unhinged Baker
A reconstructed public-life timeline
1. The pre-bakery story: Halaina Smith/Walsh
The current research community identifies the woman now publicly known as Samantha Sloane-Keegan or Sammi as formerly Halaina Smith/Walsh, and her husband Cormac “Mac” Keegan as formerly Colm Walsh. That identity connection isn’t coming from only one Reddit commenter; the current archive ties together older names, documents and the later Samantha Keegan identity, while an adoption/surrogacy watchdog was already writing specifically about Samantha and Cormac Keegan in 2017.
https://lynnebanks.blogspot.com/2017/03/investigative-reports-in-florida.html?m=1
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScammiCakesNCookiesFL/comments/1v5rudv/adoptionscamsunethical\_practices/
That matters enormously. It means the current controversy did not create the Samantha/Keegan surrogacy story retroactively. A completely separate person was publishing about a Samantha and Cormac Keegan connected to Florida investigative records nine years before r/ScammiCakesNCookiesFL existed.
The older blog says investigative reports existed involving the Keegans and describes law-enforcement interest in disputes involving adoption and surrogacy. The writer was an adoption activist rather than a neutral news organization, so her conclusions should be distinguished from the existence of the records she says she obtained.
https://lynnebanks.blogspot.com/2017/03/investigative-reports-in-florida.html?m=1
2. Older adoption and child-parentage allegations
The most serious part of the older story concerns the family’s oldest daughter.
The allegation now circulating is that Halaina and Colm became involved with the child’s biological mother under circumstances that eventually resulted in Halaina becoming the child’s legal mother. Current Reddit posts characterize what happened in much stronger terms, including “kidnapping.”
I would not use that word as an established fact. We would need the underlying adoption, custody and criminal records before doing that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScammiCakesNCookiesFL/comments/1v5rudv/adoptionscamsunethical\_practices/
What is particularly interesting in light of The Unhinged Baker is that this accusation has now reached Sammi directly.
In an August 2026 Unhinged Baker discussion, she explicitly complained that people were alleging she “kidnapped my now 16 year old.” In other words, Sammi herself acknowledges that this specific old controversy concerns the teenager currently in her family. She denies the allegation, of course, but her response inadvertently helps connect the contemporary family to the older dispute being discussed by critics.
https://www.facebook.com/61585575674709/posts/were-just-stacking-evidence-of-harassment-over-here-do-these-idiots-not-know-i-h/122137321767185855/
That’s an important distinction:
The Unhinged Baker page does not corroborate the kidnapping allegation. It does corroborate that the old allegation concerns the same woman and the same now-teenage child.
3. The alleged death-and-reinvention period
The current archives also allege that Halaina at one point represented herself and her daughter as dead, apparently through a supposed automobile accident, before the family later appeared under different names.
That claim presently rests largely on archived social-media material being circulated in Villains’ Parking and Reddit. I have not independently authenticated a death certificate search, police incident report or original Facebook account sufficiently to call the fake-death story proven.
What makes it relevant to the larger timeline is the apparent transition:
Halaina Smith/Walsh + Colm Walsh → Samantha/Cormac Keegan.
The identity change alone proves nothing nefarious. People legally change names. But because a Samantha and Cormac Keegan subsequently appear in the same specialized world of adoption/surrogacy disputes associated with the older identities, it becomes difficult to treat the two narratives as unrelated coincidences.
https://lynnebanks.blogspot.com/2017/03/investigative-reports-in-florida.html?m=1
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScammiCakesNCookiesFL/
And importantly, Sammi’s current rebuttals tend to characterize this information as old or irrelevant, rather than producing a straightforward explanation for why two apparently different identities lead into the same family and surrogacy history. Reddit users are currently documenting precisely that response.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScammiCakesNCookiesFL/comments/1vfdgww/halaina\_is\_continuing\_to\_deflect\_posting\_some/
4. Circa 2015–2017: the surrogacy story
This is the part that @itsstorytimetho has dramatically revived.
A man now posting under that TikTok account says he was an intended parent trying to have a child through surrogacy roughly a decade ago. Current researchers identify him as apparently the same intended parent involved in the older Samantha/Halaina case.
TikTok itself blocks my crawler, so I cannot independently ingest every installment directly. But his account exists at the URL being circulated, and contemporary Reddit threads began discussing it before the story blew up. The first thread describes him as allegedly being the man connected to the old police report and says the relevant events occurred around 2015–2016.
https://www.tiktok.com/@itsstorytimetho
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScammiCakesNCookiesFL/comments/1v7n7x3/one\_of\_scammihalainas\_victims\_is\_coming\_forward/
His long story apparently lays groundwork for many installments before introducing Halaina. A contemporary Reddit post written while he was releasing the series says that Part 10 had just begun entering the Halaina portion. That is useful because it proves the series wasn’t created after Reddit summarized everything; people were following it as it unfolded.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScammiCakesNCookiesFL/comments/1v87cxq/scammi\_is\_gonna\_go\_postal/
The allegations include a young woman, reportedly 19, becoming involved as a surrogate; highly unconventional insemination arrangements; representations about medical expertise; disputes about whose biological child resulted; and eventual involvement of DNA testing and law enforcement.
Those individual dramatic details still need the underlying reports before being stated as established facts.
But here is the huge corroborating piece:
There really was already an online paper trail in 2017 describing Samantha Keegan in an unusual surrogacy investigation.
That drastically increases the evidentiary value of the current man’s account. He isn’t describing a scandal that first appeared on Reddit in July 2026. The basic dispute existed publicly almost a decade earlier.
https://lynnebanks.blogspot.com/2017/03/investigative-reports-in-florida.html?m=1
5. The pregnancy-photo issue exists before SammiCakes
One recurring allegation deserves special attention because of what happens later.
The older adoption/surrogacy material accused Samantha of presenting herself as pregnant under circumstances critics said were fabricated, including manipulating pregnancy imagery.
The 2026 Villains’ Parking archive says that on January 15 a police report was circulated in which Samantha allegedly acknowledged faking a pregnancy and Photoshopping her head onto another pregnant woman’s body. The archive even links to the original Facebook discussion where that record was examined.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScammiCakesNCookiesFL/comments/1uq0rph/a\_full\_scammisammi\_timeline\_with\_links\_to\_all\_og/
The police document itself is what I would ultimately want before elevating this to “confirmed.”
But this becomes extraordinarily relevant in 2026 because The Unhinged Baker is simultaneously becoming a pregnancy-centered lifestyle page.
That produces one of the biggest discrepancies in the entire saga.
6. Around 2020–2021: Samantha becomes “SammiCakes”
Under Samantha Sloane-Keegan, she develops the Central Florida bakery SammiCakes & Cookies.
The business was real in the ordinary sense: there were customers, products, Disney-area deliveries and a public reputation. This wasn’t just an imaginary storefront created to collect payments.
Sammi’s public origin story presented her as someone with Disney food-and-beverage experience who pivoted into baking after the pandemic disrupted her employment.
The company became heavily embedded in the Disney-vacation ecosystem: resort delivery boxes, cakes, breakfast products and vacation treats.
This helps explain why the later controversy spread through Disney Facebook groups first. Her customer acquisition model depended heavily on those communities.
7. 2025: Disney trouble becomes public
The Villains’ Parking chronology begins its modern SammiCakes story on July 8, 2025, when a post documented what the group says was a Walt Disney World trespass.
The allegation is that she was taking significant quantities of club-level food/drink products and that Disney eventually trespassed her. Disney has not publicly confirmed the incident in anything I found, so the careful formulation remains “reportedly trespassed from Walt Disney World.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScammiCakesNCookiesFL/comments/1uq0rph/a\_full\_scammisammi\_timeline\_with\_links\_to\_all\_og/
That becomes relevant later because her business remained deeply dependent on Disney resort deliveries.
8. Fall 2025: hospitalization, assault claims and delayed bakery orders
By October 2025, critics were documenting another recurring pattern:
personal crisis → public fundraising/support requests → business delays → continued acceptance of new orders.
The Villains archive dates these major episodes:
October 25: hospitalization following an alleged assault, with requests for gifts/donations/meal support.
October 27: complaints that existing orders remained unfulfilled while new orders were still being accepted.
October 28: controversy surrounding a Birthday Cake Fund.
October 28: a Meal Train connected to the alleged assault.
Source for all:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScammiCakesNCookiesFL/comments/1uq0rph/a\_full\_scammisammi\_timeline\_with\_links\_to\_all\_og/
I found no reliable evidence establishing that the reported assault itself was fabricated. That’s an allegation critics later make, not something the available evidence lets me state as fact.
9. November 2025: charity claims become a major issue
The next cluster concerns birthday cakes and SNAP recipients.
Sammi promoted programs under which money could be contributed so cakes could allegedly be provided to families who otherwise couldn’t afford them. Critics began asking how contributions were accounted for, who received cakes and whether all of the money resulted in the promised charitable goods.
The Villains archive places major Birthday Cake Fund/SNAP disputes in October and November 2025.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScammiCakesNCookiesFL/comments/1uq0rph/a\_full\_scammisammi\_timeline\_with\_links\_to\_all\_og/
The issue is still alive today. Abby Blabby has recently been examining whether money promoted for charitable purposes was actually donated as represented, and her Facebook posts explicitly connect the current controversy to Samantha Sloane-Keegan and the older Halaina story.
https://www.facebook.com/AbbyBlabby1/posts/is-she-even-donating-the-funds-a-couple-days-ago-i-posted-about-a-woman-who-has-/122309662874022210/
Again, “questions about accounting” is supportable. “She stole the donations” requires evidence I don’t currently have.
10. Late 2025: stolen-photo and fake-account allegations
Villains’ Parking began comparing SammiCakes advertising photographs with photographs published elsewhere by other bakers. The timeline marks November 28, 2025 as a major stolen-photography post and identifies subsequent examples.
The same community also alleges that Sammi operated sockpuppet accounts inside criticism groups, including an account called MagentaFish8973.
Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScammiCakesNCookiesFL/comments/1uq0rph/a\_full\_scammisammi\_timeline\_with\_links\_to\_all\_og/
I would separate those two things evidentially:
Photo-source comparisons can often be independently demonstrated. Sockpuppet ownership requires account-level evidence.
11. December 2025: another pregnancy and miscarriage narrative
On December 16–17, 2025, Sammi publicly announced a pregnancy. By Christmas, the public narrative involved a miscarriage.
Critics reconstructed the timing and argued that various pieces did not fit together. The Villains timeline specifically links to a December 27 pregnancy/miscarriage chronology.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScammiCakesNCookiesFL/comments/1uq0rph/a\_full\_scammisammi\_timeline\_with\_links\_to\_all\_og/
Standing alone, internet users questioning someone’s miscarriage would not be particularly persuasive.
It becomes much more significant because the archival community shortly afterward produces what it says is an older police record documenting a previous admitted fabricated pregnancy/photo.
That’s the first major example of the timeline becoming self-reinforcing rather than merely “people don’t believe her.”
12. January 1, 2026: The Unhinged Baker is born
On January 1, the Villains archive records Sammi announcing The Unhinged Bakery/Baker concept.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScammiCakesNCookiesFL/comments/1uq0rph/a\_full\_scammisammi\_timeline\_with\_links\_to\_all\_og/
But we can now independently see Sammi discussing the concept herself.
On the SammiCakes page she wrote that followers thought “The Unhinged Baker” idea was a joke, while explaining that it was apparently becoming an actual project.
https://www.facebook.com/SammiCakesNCookies/photos/okay-so-you-guys-thought-the-unhinged-baker-idea-was-hilarious-and-i-was-joking-/1208630174288355/
Soon afterward she was actively sending SammiCakes followers to the new page for recipes and behind-the-scenes content.
https://www.facebook.com/SammiCakesNCookies/posts/im-sharing-recipes-on-the-unhinged-baker-pagecome-join-me-in-some-behind-the-sce/1395421868942517/
And the Unhinged Baker page presently identifies itself plainly:
“I’m Sam, owner of SammiCakes.”
So there is zero ambiguity about whether these are separate creators. They are explicitly the same person/brand ecosystem.
https://www.facebook.com/p/The-Unhinged-Baker-61585575674709/
13. January 2026: engaged to…her existing husband?
Another wonderfully confusing chapter begins January 1.
The Villains archive says Sammi announced that she and Mac were engaged, even though critics say Samantha and Cormac Keegan had never actually divorced.
She subsequently went wedding-dress shopping and later posted that she was finished with Mac, followed by further reconciliation-type material.
Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScammiCakesNCookiesFL/comments/1uq0rph/a\_full\_scammisammi\_timeline\_with\_links\_to\_all\_og/
The current Unhinged Baker page creates an interesting continuity point here: Mac is very clearly still part of the household and current story.
He appears routinely in her current content, including family and hospital posts.
https://www.facebook.com/61585575674709/videos/another-rainy-hospital-daymy-mood-matches-the-weatheri-brought-starbucks-to-the-/1929119801120921/
https://www.facebook.com/61585575674709/posts/for-the-karens-on-here-freaking-out-about-macs-bare-feet-we-did-ask-for-socks-th/122132349027185855/
So whatever those “breakup,” “engagement” and wedding-story arcs represented, the couple’s present public identity is again plainly familial.
14. January 15–17: the historical story detonates
The Villains timeline says January 15 is when a police report surfaced allegedly containing the pregnancy-photo admission.
January 16: old identity information surfaces.
January 16: discussion surfaces of Sammi allegedly saying she paid a surrogate $15,000 to carry Mac’s child.
January 17: another pregnancy allegation enters the archive.
Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScammiCakesNCookiesFL/comments/1uq0rph/a\_full\_scammisammi\_timeline\_with\_links\_to\_all\_og/
This is effectively the moment the story changes genres.
Before this, the scandal is:
controversial Disney baker, late orders, questionable product images, donations, drama.
After this, it becomes:
Wait. Is this the same person who appears in bizarre adoption and surrogacy material from a decade ago?
15. February 2026: Disney changes the delivery environment
In February, Disney changes or clarifies policies affecting cottage-food deliveries into resort areas.
Sammi publicly responds and critics begin watching whether resort deliveries continue through alternative delivery mechanisms.
By August 2026, The Unhinged Baker is openly advertising that SammiCakes still delivers to “all hotels & resorts in the central Florida tourism district.”
https://www.facebook.com/61585575674709/posts/coming-to-orlando-still-looking-for-an-august-delivery-spotwe-deliver-to-all-hot/122137980243185855/
That doesn’t itself establish a Disney-policy violation. It does show that the Disney/tourism-delivery business remains active despite the earlier controversy.

I’ve heard of food deserts. And I don’t want to assume the answer, so I thought I’d ask here. Genuinely curious.

Any reason it smells like loud? I mean, I can’t see the purple haze, but I’ve passed it four times in approximately the last hour and I think I’ll likely fail my upcoming drug screen.

What convention or tour group are they hosting today?

Anyone have a connection? So I can… avoid it. Yeah.