Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷

YouTube video by Dr. Ludwig Die Gedanken sind frei [German folk song][+English translation]

We've got a famous folk song here in Germany, called 'Die Gedanken Sind Frei' - 'Thoughts are free'.

Just a little slice of German culture.

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Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.

Things are about to get really, really, really bad.

We used to have this kind of messaging in Germany.

Then the cities were flattened, and they put brass plaques outside the house of those 'disappeared'.

(ht Jeremy on Facebook)

Patton. Monty. Yeah, Rommel. MacArthur.

Most of them.

Many differences between Stuttgart and Frankfurt, but the single-minded bloody determination that people have to claim ubahn seats is a big one.

Reminds me of Melbourne, or London. I think I'll be at home.

Everything old is new again.

I'm going to save you a lot of time. If an online piece has a headline posed as a question, you can be damn sure the answer can be found in the very last paragraph. Scroll to the end.

In a weird spot. Old enough to occasionally shake my head and raise concerns about the impact of sexually provocative media, then immediately have to clarify it's not because I agree with weirdo terminally-online zoomer prude culture.

There has never, ever been an easier choice. Pass me the glitter.

I never thought I'd get sucked in by a turn-based game about grief, mimes and gigantic swords.

HA.

I live.

New job. Silly overwrought French video games. Life.

But I do miss the chatter.

I honestly feel that with this season, specifically, you could lose any Star Wars and it would be a very, very good political thriller.

WITH A FOLDING CHAIR.

It's form that they pick the name of a previous Pope.

Which means Adrian is on the table.

C'mon, let's have a Celestine, an Innocent or an Urban. I've love a Callixtus.

Give it a chance. Leagues beyond BSG.

Have you watched it?

German intelligence suspends AfD 'extremist' label amid appeal Germany's domestic intelligence service will temporarily suspend its classification of the far-right AfD party as a "right-wing extremist" group pending a legal appeal, a court said on Thursday.

Absolute cowardice. www.thelocal.de/20250508/ger...

All that matters, then, is that technically I didn't spoil anything.

Have you watched up to the Ghorman episodes?

Well, did you watch 'Rebels'?

How can a made-up Space Switzerland anthem make me tear up?

RIGHT?!

HOW THE HELL IS THIS _STAR WARS_?

The Ghorman Massacre might be the most intense episode of TV I've ever watched.

When Facebook comment sections describe the new German chancellor, Merz, as a radical leftist.

Currently playing: Expedition 33.