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Cake day: March 5th, 2026

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  • “The church” as in the Pope didn’t actively hunt witches. In fact most followers of any order were against it and often warned about it. Locals of whatever village or settlement didn’t care, though. They lived their own version of Christianity. I know people love to cite the “Summis desiderantes affectibus” as proof the church ordered witch hunts but that’s not what the document stated at all. It just acknowledged witch craft being a lived reality in parts of today’s Germany so to speak. However some Popes weren’t explicitly against it either. Not like it actually mattered anyway. People tend to believe whatever is useful at the moment and that doesn’t necessarily overlap with “the church”, the Pope or the bible.


















  • I like that German social media that was targeted at teenagers and young adults (ShülerVZ, StudiVZ, Spickmich, etc.) has been pretty much wiped off the internet when they went offline. It was replaced by Facebook which is pretty grim but at least my generation doesn’t have to live with the shit we wrote online ~20 years ago as angsty teens. Back then you didn’t have scrapers in the capacity we do today so very little from that era survived. And that’s for the best.