I just want to leave this image here as an archive to a tweet that was deleted once it was pointed out that those are in fact, nuns.
@selzero
Is a Twitter blue-check mark a badge for anything?
@adavid it means "I'm in the market for a bridge"

@selzero @adavid

Hopefully not a bridge to fedi.

@iju @selzero @adavid no, "I have a bridge to sell you" is American slang for being gullible, in part thanks to this person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker
George C. Parker - Wikipedia

@A_denie @iju @selzero @adavid ty. TIL. What a wonderful tidbit of history.
@iju @selzero @adavid A bridge under which to be a troll.
@adavid

Utter dickhead / drongo usually.

@selzero
@adavid @selzero Itโ€™s a pretty reliable sign that you can safely ignore what this idiot has to say, and that the world would be a lot safer if everybody else did the same.

@adavid

"willing to give Elon money", so somewhere between ignorant and malignant

@selzero

@selzero and they clearly look like nuns, also you can clearly see Catholic priests in the background. Like there is no doubt they aren't nuns, that's literally their uniform
@selzero
One can find humour even in the darkest times. And our Darren provides more than his fair share of laughs.
@selzero sadly, nuns are not a common sight these days & when you do see them, few are wearing full habits.
@Jay @selzero
They try not to make a habit out of wearing them. ๐Ÿ˜‰
@Jay @selzero my aunt is in an order that still wears the full floor length habit, belt, and scapular, so thatโ€™s what Iโ€™m used to. These newfangled knee length habits still look odd to me ๐Ÿ˜Š But I fail to understand how you would look at that photo and not think nun.
@steggy @selzero I donโ€™t think many people have ever seen a nun. They are not common, even in Catholic schools, in the U.S. anymore. Also, people associate women wearing veils with Islam or perhaps Hinduism rather than Christianity. Iโ€™ve even met Christians who donโ€™t know the Christian church has a long history of veiling & women religious. Itโ€™s a fascinating gap in knowledge (& opportunity) to me.
@Jay @selzero Iโ€™m not sure Iโ€™d use the word โ€œsadly.โ€ Maybe not even โ€œhappily.โ€ Itโ€™s something of an emotionally-neutral fact.

@su_liam @selzero I donโ€™t find it emotionally neutral. I find it sad. Thatโ€™s why I used the word sadly.

I would love to see more nuns among us. They have historically had an important role in Christian life both spiritually & socially. They also represented an opportunity for women to live independently but in a community engaged in good works for others/society that is no longer seen as an viable option among younger generations of women or older generations who would welcome it. The loss of all that saddens me, & I suspect is not good for the world.

@selzero Sometimes I wonder if Grimes is being performatively ignorant for the attention. He is a pure grifter, after all. But as you say it was deleted so it seems to have been a genuine mistake that even a small child would be embarrassed about.
@Nickiquote I think there is a chance he is some kind of low quality real life troll playing a character.
@selzero it's funny, but it does point to the simple truth, that a lot of anger comes from ignorance, and thus misunderstanding.

@selzero
One would think #racists would be a LITTLE more circumspect before accusing a major news outlet of "racism".

They live in a world where they see "The #Woke Agenda" being imposed upon them everywhere. ("The woman in the foreground looks Middle Eastern, ergo, she must BE Middle Eastern.")

The (obvious) question of WHY would the BBC show footage of Muslim women in a story about the Pope?" never even enters their mind. They are just SO threatened by #Wokeism that they see it everywhere.

@selzero Good old Crafty, the gift that keeps on giving.
@selzero I never thought one person's stupidity could physically hurt another. I'm changing my mind.
@selzero How does that man remember what in order to breath in and out ?
@selzero Obviously they are nuns, doesn't he watch movies???
@tymwol @selzero The Omen? The Blues Brothers? Sheeeeit.
@selzero I don't know who Darren Grimes is, but I know he's an idiot

@selzero is Grimes some sort of comedian?

I don't keep up with modern stuff...

@selzero We were defeated by the dumbest people last November.
@selzero who is this Darren guy?
@meercat0 a wank stain on the pants of humanity

@selzero

I think there are very few subject-matter experts on social media.

But I know there are many millions of people who think they are subject-matter experts but are just uneducated shills. And I block/mute those people when I encounter them. On some days, blocking/muting those people would be a full time job.

@selzero
In a world filled with the under-educated, stand out. Be a Darren Grimes.
@selzero He is in the Habit of being wrong. If you point this out to him, I'm sure he'll Wimple out of it.

@selzero I attended Catholic schools for twelve years. About half our teachers were nuns, wearing a variety of habits--from the older nuns wearing full-length dresses, to younger nuns in below-knee-length dresses, to the nuns at my high school who mostly wore black suits with white blouses. All wore veils.

So when I began to notice more Muslim women wearing hijab it barely registered with me. But I do know the difference if I bother to look.

@selzero
Oooh...he's one of those 'Brexit' morons. Ah. Well that explains pretty much everything.
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@clintruin @selzero Darren Grimes was the 'Brexit Millennial', so hardly surprising he's a fucking idiot.
@Lazarou @selzero
I just learned about him after a cursory search. Clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
@selzero ๐Ÿ˜‚ ...reactionary reflexive moron...we all know bbc supports tyranny so keep calm ight
@selzero As everyone knows, only Muslim women wear headcoverings. Certainly not Hutterites, Orthodox Christians,(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_covering_for_Christian_women; some of the pictures look like hijabs), Yoruba (gele), Jews (tichel & snood, among others), Hindus and Sikhs (ghoonghat), Maltese (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C4%A7onnella), Scottish (snood), Ukrainians (ochipok), Spainards (mantilla), Surinamese (angisa), many African and African diaspora cultures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_tie), Koreans (sseugaechima) and Chinese (mili veil).
Head covering for Christian women - Wikipedia

@selzero let me guess, he is a maga

@selzero @bobcromwell nope, those are Muslim women who are playing for their demon-god to take the Pope to hell.

"Never smarten up a chump." -- WC Fields