the pentecost as portrayed in the black hours, a flemish manuscript probably from bruges in which the pages were dyed black prior to illumination, it makes heavy use of blue, gold, and green
thinking about the black hours
these people just receive ideas, misunderstand them, then use those misunderstandings to excuse their amorality. some might call it stupid.
Without you
Cherry blossoms are just
Cherry blossoms
--Kobayashi Issa
We wanted to understand what nuclear dust is. So we talked to three unemployed Joe Rogan listeners at a Wendy's in Toms River.
The Teletubby Sun Is All Grown Up! And It Thirsts For Blood
Really, why shouldn’t we appropriate this as an icon?
Forgive me my piety. I keep thinking of the IDF soldier sledgehammering Christ as exemplary of the inverting, nonviolent, and salvific power of the cross. Every blow only reifies and reinforces Christ and him crucified.
The pope should just stick to sports
hey this is a great post, underappreciated
Yes. I think the ultimate purpose of naming saints, when we get it right, is not “this person met criteria and is in the special place,” but this person is, to put it stupidly, an object lesson from God. Anything more than that is a misguided institutional legitimation mechanism.
also, universalism is true. "por que no los dos," as we say.
let's trust basic sanity here and admit canonization are fallible and not scrupulously contort ourselves to say otherwise
Get Rekt
finally: a pope who loves suet
You’re right! I should have clarified I meant the boys. A good friend of mine is a Dominican sister of peace an she would have been quick to offer a correction like yours.
Did you bring enough consciousness for the rest of the class?
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
I think there's a strain of Catholic converts who are attracted to Catholicism because its formalized theology and milllenia of writings lend itself well to Debate Culture but then they eventually find out the Church is not actually interested in debating them
Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com #ArtificialIntelligence systems increasingly shape and permeate our mentality and social environments. Like every great historical transformation, this too calls not only for technical competence, but also for a humanistic formation capable of making visible the logic behind economics, embedded biases and forms of power that shape our perception of reality. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 91K Views
Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons! Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 209K Views
Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 696K Views
Pope Leo on AI:
“Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses.”
This short thread is worth reading:
Looks like the was on it this morning before I posted
so-called "artificial intelligence" is actually made by trapping thetans and forcing them to answer queries and because thetans are the souls of dead aliens this violates the biblical command against necromancy
how do you get this good at comms? I can’t talk anywhere and not sound like a buffoon.
When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
pope tweets good
All North American Dominicans (religious order, not mi 🇩🇴 hermanos) outside the southern province give the order a bad name.
one hopeful note I strike now and again is that conditions are right for a return to humanism (if only we can get these “neoromantics” to stfu.)
Sean Hannity leaves the Catholic Church to worship Donald Trump
All these right wingers who converted to Catholicism in adulthood were just shopping around for an ideology that justified their pre-existing instincts and prejudices. If you convince them that Catholicism means peace and charity they'll just drop it and keep shopping.
