As someone who has had cause to report on goings on within the European Union... Crikey!
If you're in your fifties, you grew up in the eighties. Hardly Jim Crow.
One of the reasons I'm leaving. I used to have an audience, even if it was a bit fractious. Now it's just porn spam and bots.
Trying to get up to date with Minecraft so I can keep up with girlfriend who is a bit of a pro and... I'm not good. Absolute ass. Keep getting destroyed my first night, even with a chest full of goodies to start.
ALT: a minecraft character is laying on the ground next to a cross
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Clarification: Accessible popular history book. There are loads of academic texts about the Bauernkrieg.
Did you know it's possible to cringe and retch simultaneously? It's like a sprinkler going off. What the actual fuck?
I'm kinda sad that there's no really good English book on the German Peasant's War. It's a story that deserves to be more widely known. I'd have a go at writing it, but time is money.
Today I learned of one of Stuttgart's unsung heroines, the bathhouse attendant Magdalena Scherer. When the peasants laid siege to the city in 1525, she urged them on from the battlements, bringing her friends to encourage them. ...but that's not all. (1/3)
Next year is the 500th anniversary of the German Peasant:s War. Living where it occurred, and learning more about it every year, you are not ready for what happens when the shit hits the fan and bands of angry people march on power.