So, heads down, actually. 🤷

Heads up: I'm shorter than you're probably envisioning.

Also the mall in London is the first place I ever had New York Fries.

Ah, the one that stole all my sales when I worked at David's Bridal (Canadian brides would cross the border for a fun girls day and then take the style number back to the London store because they didn't want to pay duty or deal with the exchange rate)

I feel like someone's RCIA missed some really fundamental ideas about how the RCC operates.

It's an EXTREMELY fake London.

The sunrises are nice, though!

My teeny tiny Episcopal Church niche is, apparently, "OH, *YOU'RE* BECK!"

I'm like a cryptid.

Like, lay aside the inherent selfishness at the core of the argument, you DO benefit when other people's kids are raised and educated well. We live in a society. You are not and will never be fully self sufficient. Especially if you have enough wealth to own a SECOND house.

"What benefit do I get if I don't have a kid in the school district?"
An adequately staffed hospital when you get drunk and do dumb shit.
Restaurant employees who can count back change.
Roads/other infrastructure that is beyond the need of locals but draws funds that otherwise WOULD go to schools.

Made the mistake of reading the comments on a local community page regarding a proposed school millage that would only impact business and non-primary-residence properties. People really do view the communities they summer in as playgrounds, and not as real communities that need to function.

Many Popes Have Been Entangled in Politics. Here Are 5 of Them.

exhausted historian of christianity screaming into the void, once again: christianity has never been apolitical. to wit: jesus was executed by the roman state.

Love him just saying that morality and public policy matters are separate matters in his mind.

Broke: Trump is a bad Christian

Woke: Trump isn't a Christian at all

Bespoke: Trump cannot conceive of anything greater than himself and therefore cannot be a spiritual man in any way.

A Narcissist's Prayer That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did You deserved it.

Evergreen

NBC cancelling Kings.

Unlike Resurrectiongate, Ordo Amorisgate had real geopolitical consequences. Never forget.

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

You all are talking about “the Pope is weak on crime” and I feel like the real gem is “should get his act together as Pope.”

> the emperor is at war with the pope

what century is it

A picture of a giant spectral raccoon covers a sunset sky over river and canyon. Two smaller raccoons raise their hands in praise to him and the words “YOU GET BETTER WORLD DOESNT” are over the image

You’re right!

I feel like Christian Bluesky was made for this moment. We have been training for this.

The Pope is WEAK on crime is so gd funny; I am HOWLING

a kitchen with a checkered floor and a white refrigerator with the words oh yeah !!! written on it . ALT: a kitchen with a checkered floor and a white refrigerator with the words oh yeah !!! written on it .

Everyone whose special interest is French ecclesiastical history today

the people yearn for the 1400’s

A+

whatever Pentagon trad Catholic smugly brought up Avignon should keep in mind that the perception everywhere outside France that the French crown had the Pope under their thumb WAS ACTUALLY NOT POPULAR OR RECEIVED WELL at all??????? people don't like that, it turns out!!

"sorry I can't come to your once-in-250-years party. I'll be busy doing something it would actually make much more logical sense to do four days later. I bumped it up on purpose so I could throw it in your face. eat shit forever, amen"

there is no hater on earth like a hater from Chicago

seems p. clear that Pierre called his boss the minute he got out of that Pentagon meeting and Leo DID NOT TAKE IT WELL because he - the only Pope in history who has ever been to a Fourth of July barbecue!!! - declined a direct invite from the White House to be a VIP guest at the America250 shindig

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant