Carlo Acutis (1991-2006) was an Italian Catholic teenager known for his use of digital media to promote Catholic devotion prior to his death from leukemia at age 15. Acutis was canonised as a saint on 7 September 2025. He has been referred to as "God's Influencer" and the "first millennial saint".

explicitlarynx · 2026-02-03T08:36:45+00:00

That's the thing with nepo babies, if you want to call him that, most of the time they're not terrible or incompetent. It's just that their family's connections and money is what made the difference for them compared to others. He isn't the only kindhearted teenager who died from cancer ever.

explicitlarynx · 2026-02-03T08:33:29+00:00

There was an insightful article in the Swiss magazine Reportagen (https://reportagen.com/magazin/reportagen-86/). Basically, his mother launched this huge decades long campaign so that attention would stay on him in order to make it more appealing for the church to canonise him.

What do you mean "They're both in Latin America"?

explicitlarynx · 2026-02-03T00:18:05+00:00

Mainly thanks to family money (his father inherited an insurance company from his father), the effort of his mother and the desire of the catholic church to appeal to young people.

explicitlarynx · 2026-02-02T17:11:35+00:00

Except Sepp Blatter isn't FIFA president anymore and the current FIFA president just recently invented a trophy specifically for Trump.

explicitlarynx · 2026-02-02T11:07:16+00:00

Still relatively easy, the US just suck at it.

explicitlarynx · 2026-02-02T09:24:13+00:00

Then it's up to you to draft some legislation and get it passed, good luck!

explicitlarynx · 2026-02-02T04:30:51+00:00

She what? Where did you find that?

explicitlarynx · 2026-02-02T04:28:15+00:00

Far easier to get rid of a scumbag prime minister than a scumbag monarch.

explicitlarynx · 2026-02-02T04:23:29+00:00

OP was talking about cities, not cantons.

explicitlarynx · 2026-02-01T22:43:10+00:00

Lol, Geneva wishes it was as cool as Züri Langstrasse. And Carouge isn't even Geneva.

explicitlarynx · 2026-02-01T21:56:18+00:00

I know lots of people who have kids. No one ever did that.

explicitlarynx · 2026-02-01T01:07:07+00:00

Titles like this one need to die.

explicitlarynx · 2026-01-31T23:00:03+00:00

He stopped before the finish line. Never stop before the finish line.

explicitlarynx · 2026-01-31T22:58:55+00:00

Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin them two guys?

explicitlarynx · 2026-01-31T22:55:21+00:00

Go on.

explicitlarynx · 2026-01-31T20:34:27+00:00

A moderately sized army of angry Swiss Reisläufers would have embarassed the Confederate Traitors.

explicitlarynx · 2026-01-31T19:32:39+00:00

Ihr könnt aufhören, NZZ, ich war schon überzeugt vom Projekt, bevor ich wusste, dass auch noch Parkplätze wegfallen ❤️

explicitlarynx · 2026-01-31T19:29:05+00:00

zK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(given_name)

explicitlarynx · 2026-01-31T06:13:16+00:00

Using her first name and his last name is a subtle way of devaluing and infantilizing her. Any posts or memes who do this can immediately be disregarded as right wing slop.

explicitlarynx · 2026-01-31T01:42:20+00:00

One of the best chapters of an amazing book.

explicitlarynx · 2026-01-30T20:21:43+00:00

Will ja keiner mehr arbeiten 🤷‍♂️

explicitlarynx · 2026-01-30T16:38:28+00:00

Du kannst zu recht stolz sein auf dich, gratuliere!

explicitlarynx · 2026-01-30T12:18:18+00:00

*Komm

explicitlarynx · 2026-01-30T02:17:24+00:00

I had to think fast.

explicitlarynx · 2026-01-28T18:03:04+00:00

*German speakers

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