What makes the idea that the world’s problems could be solved by the creation of an artificial superintelligence such obvious BS is that we’ve already had the tech to solve the world’s problems for a long time but it’s been gatekept by capitalists just as any ostensible salvation by way of AI would.

The Catholic Right Grieves a Statue of a Colonizer and Surrenders Christ the King open.substack.com/pub/mikefoxc...

Be careful to take care of your lungs and brain if you’re staying for the fireworks. bsky.app/profile/rach...

Meanwhile: while everyone is staring at the schism carnival, Leo has also just quietly made significant reforms to the Vatican financial system: cruxnow.com/vatican/2026...

I think he’s baiting them to admit it’s code for other stuff “oh, you guys like the Latin Mass? that’s what this is about? Latin? nothing else? no weird creepo vibes? no stochastic terrorism? just Latin, the language, completely on its own? sure, go ahead!”

there is! the fringe sect YOU want is the Synodal Way, mostly centered in Germany and Austria. they’ve gotten slapped on the wrist for performing same sex marriage ceremonies, they support women’s ordination and are pushing aggressive reforms in how sex abuse cases are handled. they’re great

SLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN, MOTHERFUCKERS

SOME MIGHT SAY

i’m so sorry but as a jew i fear this is the catholic version of the classic @averyedison.com post

important reminder that of course banning normies from going to Mass at your church means no more normie cash and checks coming your way when the offertory basket gets passed around we will find out fast how many of these chapels are self-sustaining with just the diehards

OH MY GOD GUYS okay so priests who want back in have to find a bishop willing to vouch for them, swear fealty to Vatican II and then HAND-WRITE THE POPE AN APOLOGY LETTER (I gues so he knows they didn’t use AI? 😂) and are on probation for 1-3 years this is ten times spicier than I even thought

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

Peter Thiel, Palantir, and enriched uranium. Cool. Cool. 1/

Listen. I spent more than a decade as a theatrical technician, rigging stages, hanging lights, flying scenery, etc. The number of times I have dropped anything on a stage with performers on it is zero. The number of times I’ve dropped something that might’ve killed someone is zero. This is major.

do opus dei and jd vance next apnews.com/article/vati...

Whew, yeah, there is a lot of not-in-anger-but-in-sorrow verbiage, clear ramps for lay faithful who want to leave SSPX and come back into the fold, and I know it’s a kinder, gentler Inquisition now, but under that is a definite vibe of “In the olden days, this is where we’d burn you at the stake.”

Holy crap, il Papa is DONE.

Okay, I have referenced this a few times in replies, but: some people are confused about why the SSPX would play this game of chicken and expect the Pope would blink. It's not JUST the precedent from the last time! It's also the entire recent history of the Catholic Church in China.

100% this!

It really feels like the mainstream media is so used to covering for Nazis this is just pure reflex

Colleen Dolan.

No more His Holiness Nice Pope indeed. Benedict and Francis tried the carrot. Leo is bringing the Chicago baseball bat of loving fraternal correction to the problem now.

Ha. And while I was explaining the other recent precedents the SSPX was relying on, the Vatican and the DDF laid out the exact conditions members of the SSPX must follow to return to full communion: www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...

Also, omg this is incredible, the official news agency of the Vatican is talking shit about Lefebvre www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...

here's a pic of the Iowa State Fair from a few years ago that I found online and am posting randomly for no real reason

The radical right won't stop at one minority group. History is clear, the machine of state will expand the circle of who is hated and targeted for elimination.

Say so, every now and then.

Remembering the 1st Minnesota today. ✊

he didn’t limit it to the bishops, either everyone in the sect is excommunicated, and anything they officiated, including weddings, is invalidated

People : oh wow they ordained those illegal bishops i wonder what the pope might d- Pope : EXCOMMUNICATE DAY WOO People : u didnt let me fin- Pope : I DIDNT STUTTER JIMMY

A Nation of Immigrants vs. A Nation of Ignorance . Cartoon by Pat Bagley

This organization does terrific investigative journalism. They report that after Trump cut the SNAP food assistance program, over 700,000 children no longer receive any food assistance. It’s sad and cruel.

I know, right?

The Brazilian government sent humanitarian aid to Venezuela after the strong earthquake that struck the country. In addition to assisting in the search for victims, the Brazilian Navy set up a field hospital to treat the affected population. Where are the americans? Trump gots the oil and ??

Hungry children are more succeptible to indoctrination because their critical thinking skills are hindered. It's brainwashing.

In an unprecedented act of dissent, active-duty USAF Major Jason Watson was arrested on the Capitol steps after calling for the impeachment & removal of Donald Trump. Risking his career to uphold his constitutional oath, his arrest marks a historic moment. ✊🏻✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽

Couldn't have said it better myself.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

trans rights are human rights and anyone who tells you otherwise is a stone cold bigot fuck SCOTUS and kavanaugh specifically

Gotta say, “The seamless garment of Christ, which Pope Leo XIV had urged in a heartfelt letter on June 29 "not to tear apart," has now, in the Vatican's view, been torn,” goes pretty hard. www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

*pounds table* SCHISM! SCHISM! SCHISM!

Le patriarcat, c'est comme le capitalisme, ça mute et ça s'adapte à tout 🤡 🤬 😡 www.forbes.com/sites/michel...

“Blessed are the PR consultants who do not overuse the word “iconic”, for they deserve portrayal in stylised religious pictures, wearing gold-leaf halos.” 😏

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

Asteroid Threat xkcd.com/3265/

PRUDENCE II (1997) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 12” x 13” Another take on what the ancient Greeks called "the Queen of the Virtues." The one most essential to our collective future, yet the one least evident in human affairs. 1/2

Not now four black eggs surfacing from the dark heart of the ocean

Do whatever steps you want if You have cleared them with the pontiff Everybody say his own Kyrie, eleison Doin' the Vatican Rag