Jürgen Hubert
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Jürgen Hubert
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One thing that baffles me about #Germany is how it manages to be so outward looking and so insular at the same time.
One thing that baffles me about #Germany is how it manages to be so outward looking and so insular at the same time.
Do not invite the dead for dinner unless you really, really mean it.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Guests_from_the_Gallows
Germany Forces Lexus to Remotely Kill Car Heating in Dead of Winter
https://www.gadgetreview.com/germany-forces-lexus-to-remotely-kill-car-heating-in-dead-of-winter
The Köpenick district of Berlin received its name thanks to a talking crayfish.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #crayfish
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Name_of_K%C3%B6penick_and_the_Large_Crayfish_of_Stralow
Vivaldi
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More and more people are seeking alternatives to Big Tech, given their role in the current state of the world.
Many are finding us at @Vivaldi a viable option and I welcome you to try us out. If you already have, please share with your friends. They will, hopefully, join us and thank you.
You can read more about us below. We are also the only Web browser with its own Mastodon server, meaning we support the Fediverse.
#Vivaldi #Browser #Norway #Iceland #Denmark #Sweden #Finland #France #Germany #UK #EU #Europa #Greenland #Fediverse #Mastodon #Politics
If you play cards in church during mass, the Devil might fetch you right then and there and drag you to Hell!
I am not sure if the same applies to playing on your smart phone, but personally I would not risk it.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #Devil
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Devil_Fetches_Card_Players
More and more people are seeking alternatives to Big Tech, given their role in the current state of the world.
Many are finding us at @Vivaldi a viable option and I welcome you to try us out. If you already have, please share with your friends. They will, hopefully, join us and thank you.
You can read more about us below. We are also the only Web browser with its own Mastodon server, meaning we support the Fediverse.
#Vivaldi #Browser #Norway #Iceland #Denmark #Sweden #Finland #France #Germany #UK #EU #Europa #Greenland #Fediverse #Mastodon #Politics
This is real: 7 hours ago, Trump shared a fake image of himself talking to world leaders in front of a map of a new USA stretching from Greenland through Canada to Venezuela.
(Likely created with a photo editing tool)
Thanks for making me aware @thierry_van_kerm.
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Meanwhile
MARKETS
‘This is sell America’ — U.S. dollar, Treasury prices tumble and gold spikes as globe flees U.S. assets
Kick their asses
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/sell-america-trade-dollar-treasury-gold-us-trump-greenland.html
#greenland #canada #europe #eu #japan #china #denmark #france #germany #uk
With the right magical primer, it is possible to summon the Devil from the bowels of the Earth.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #Devil
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Devil_in_the_Shaft
Germany's local governments face financial collapse. Many cities and municipalities in Germany are near bankruptcy, and no longer know how they're supposed to fulfill their responsibilities. They are blaming the federal government.
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-local-governments-face-financial-collapse/a-75425178
Heaps of money appearing on the road is a perfectly normal phenomenon - in German folklore, at least.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #dog
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Treasure-Guarding_Dog
Ghosts are well-placed to answer difficult theological questions.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Best_Religion
Pumphut is the working class trickster-mage we deserve!
#Germany #folktale #folklore #magic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwM0wZ28I_w
Aral Balkan
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@fkamiah17 @aral I don't know if other countries have it as well, but in Germany, on German Christmas markets, a particularly popular alcoholic beverage besides mulled vine is called Lumumba.
It's cocoa with a bit of rum, and optionally cream.
Germany is famous for its Christmas markets, e.g. Nuremberg. We call them "Christkindlesmarkt". So up until my early twenties, I drank Lumumba every year.
I didn't know anything about politics or colonialism back then, and Lumumba didn't mean anything to me. One year, someone drunkenly explained why the cocoa with rum is called Lumumba. The drink is "a brown one with a shot". And he said there was some Black politician in Africa who was assassinated.
Us being stupid and in our early twenties, everyone just giggled and said, "ohh, that's dark humor."
Fast forward a few years and I don't drink any alcohol anymore. And I get upset over that "insensitivity". Most Germans don't even know, and even if they did, they'd just find it funny. And the name Lumumba is still used at German Christmas markets for cocoa with rum. To Germany, colonialism is a joke.