Pi Pie Sword: +1 against muffins

Hello! I go by either Marijke or Marco. Nice to meet you!

[darkcomedies]

evoking bertholt brecht’s “the way people cast a play!” quote as a spell against prescriptive, stereotypical, fatalistic typecasting

[darkcomedies]

idk what to tell you except go look at the fishwives

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Schism? Schism today?

[langernameohnebedeutung]

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[turuin]

Wow, I didn't have "catholic schism" on my 2026 bingo card

[mygogglesdosomething]

Schism today

[epersonae]

Actually, let me add some context

There are several groups of traditionalist Catholics that have been pissed since something called Vatican 2, which updated a bunch of practices and official positions, and one group of those is called The Society of Saint Pius X. Their leader was excommunicated in 1988 for making bishops (?) without permission.

Those bishops are now hella old, so they decided to make some more, and the pope said that was automatic excommunication. (excommunication matters both as a matter of theology (sacraments performed aren't valid) and economics (the church stops giving them money, can take back property, etc))

Pope said don't, and they did, and now: schism?????

Apparently they claim not to be sedevacantists ("pope's not valid"), but idek what else you would call this.

Article from the Vatican press office (calling them Lefebvrians is apparently itself a diss, as that is the name of the founder and emphasizes the cult of personality aspect)

Excellent bluesky thread liveblogging the consecration (must be logged in, I think? Screenshots are highlights)

Tl;dr, from the replies to that thread

[dykerory]

once again i have to say that the letter from the vatican makes it very clear that this is a christian hate group. they explicitly reject vatican 2, a series of doctrines meant to update the church's relationship with its body and the rest of the world. When the letter says that SSSX is disagreeing with the church's "understanding of and relationship to judaism", they mean that SSSX believes the antisemitic myth that jews killed jesus and ought to be held responsible for it.

in my opinion, the catholic church does not get credit for this change in policy, as it was only made in 1962 after literal CENTURIES of jewish persecution and oppression. However this is not a "root for the underdog" situation- the schismers are an extremist conservatives and should be called as such.

[melyzard]

They also believe that women belong pregnant in the home, and wearing trousers is "an assault upon woman's womanhood and so they represent a deep-lying revolt against the order willed by God." Also, they practice Holocaust denial, funding far right extremist political groups, and many higher order members have been taken to court for sexual abuse against multiple women and children. So yeah. Not the scrappy underdogs stickin' it to the boring old pope, as I've seen some people here trying to pass them off.

They want to Make Catholicism Great Again.

[morsking]

your favorite manga no one's heard of would be adapted into an anime under socialism.

[pipiezexal]

July 4th is coming up, so you know what that means: getting yourself down to the fair in town while mom does justified arson and murder

[queer-as-city-folk]

Happy Pride everyone, today is the tenth anniversary of the nationwide right to gay Marriage in the United States and the 22nd anniversary of nationwide legalization of Gay Sex. In 2 days is the 56th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.

[queer-as-city-folk]

We have won nothing without fighting and we have everything to lose, there is no gay liberation without trans liberation, none of us are free till all of us are free, we have won so much and come so far but the road ahead is still long, we must continue to fight for both our liberation and the liberation of all people

[queer-as-city-folk]

The gay liberation movement is young, everything we have fought for and won happened over the course of less than a human lifetime, and there are forces at play that wish to claw back at these hard fought for rights, we must be prepared to defend what we have fought for and we must continue to fight for improvement

[queer-as-city-folk]

We have to celebrate how far things have come, because we never would have made it this far without joy and hope, and while we can and must fight, we also must remain hopeful

[queer-as-city-folk]

This year is:

11 years since nationwide gay marriage in the US

23 years since sodomy was legalized

57 years since Stonewall

[pipiezexal]

When the first chapter of deltarune came out (the demo?), I played it. I have not touched it since, and I'm gonna go in blind. I've been avoiding spoilers for a while, everybody wish me luck.

[pipiezexal]

i forgot how ominous the intro was. who is this narrator

[pipiezexal]

god i hope susie eats chalk for power

[pipiezexal]

susie going "nah" to the call to heroism is taking me out. i'd like a raincheck on saving the world

[pipiezexal]

this kid is not very good at anything but he is in my heart

[pipiezexal]

When the first chapter of deltarune came out (the demo?), I played it. I have not touched it since, and I'm gonna go in blind. I've been avoiding spoilers for a while, everybody wish me luck.

[pipiezexal]

i forgot how ominous the intro was. who is this narrator

[pipiezexal]

god i hope susie eats chalk for power

[pipiezexal]

susie going "nah" to the call to heroism is taking me out. i'd like a raincheck on saving the world

[pipiezexal]

When the first chapter of deltarune came out (the demo?), I played it. I have not touched it since, and I'm gonna go in blind. I've been avoiding spoilers for a while, everybody wish me luck.

[pipiezexal]

i forgot how ominous the intro was. who is this narrator

[pipiezexal]

god i hope susie eats chalk for power

[pipiezexal]

When the first chapter of deltarune came out (the demo?), I played it. I have not touched it since, and I'm gonna go in blind. I've been avoiding spoilers for a while, everybody wish me luck.

[pipiezexal]

i forgot how ominous the intro was. who is this narrator

[pipiezexal]

When the first chapter of deltarune came out (the demo?), I played it. I have not touched it since, and I'm gonna go in blind. I've been avoiding spoilers for a while, everybody wish me luck.

[dragon-hoard]

if you are going to need some kind of sedative for 4th of july fireworks for your pets NOW IS THE TIME TO SCHEDULE THOSE APPOINTMENTS TO ASK FOR THEM

NOT WHEN ITS 2 DAYS AWAY

[alex51324]

I feel like to really get this circulating as it should, we need it superimposed over the picture of the turkey going in the fridge. (I can't do it I'm on my phone.)

[grungusdollar]

ask and ye shall receive

wishing all anxious dogs a very merry trazodone!

[pipiezexal]

no one wants to hear me talk about this but i do actually think the ways in which straight romance authors have latched onto omegaverse is extremely misogynistic

[pipiezexal]

i know i know i know what utdr stands for but in my heart i always read it as until dawrn

[pipiezexal]

this is of course the cousin of pmmm, pokemon mystery mystery mdungeon

[pipiezexal]

i know i know i know what utdr stands for but in my heart i always read it as until dawrn

[pipiezexal]

i've said it before and i'll say it again. media that guilts the observer for consuming it underestimates my willingness to leave a situatio

[insomniac-arrest]

man, it's so cool when female characters over-indulge and self-destruct and hurt themselves and others on purpose and have no way out but make it worse anyway and bite and scratch and betray everything they stand for for nothing and have no one to blame but themselves.

[omercifulheaves]

*reads somewhere that John Brown and his cohorts would butcher slave owners and associates with "broadswords."* *me: thinks this is referring to some of the more serious cavalry sabers in the 19th century which were called "broadswords."* No it turns out the crazy motherfucker was literally running around during Bleeding Kansas hacking dudes to death with an actual Conan The Barbarian-ass broadsword.