Jürgen Hubert

https://thefolklore.cafe/@juergen_hubert

Translates German folk tales. Tries to learn #Italian .

#ttrpg #pnpde #dnd #folklore

Pronouns: He/Him
German folk tale translations: https://sunkencastles.com/
Location: [#Oldenburg](https://thefolklore.cafe/tags/Oldenburg ) (Oldb.), Germany
#Bookwyrm profile: https://bookrastinating.com/user/juergen_hubert

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2024-10-24 12:42:05

Speaking as a physicist with a PhD:
We #STEM folks should really stop assuming that some amazing piece of tech we might invent will somehow magically solve our world's problems. Solving the world's problems will ALWAYS require social change, and if we don't understand society, we will fail.
So respect the Liberal Arts, damnit!

2024-09-11 11:10:20

I am curious how many people know 10 finger typing - and in what age categories.
I suspect that it is more common in my generation (I was born in 1975) than either those before me or after me. Older people didn't usually have desktop computers in their formative years, while many younger people seem to focus on typing on screens instead - where they manage speeds that I will never match.

2024-09-03 05:11:38

Since November is always one of my busiest months at work, I was unlikely to participate in #NaNoWriMo anyway.
But this decreased my motivation even further.
#amwriting
https://www.404media.co/nanowrimo-ai-policy-classist-ableist/

2024-09-02 22:00:15

For a great feast experience, have a mage do the catering!
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #magic
https://www.patreon.com/posts/in-emperors-89749245
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2024-09-02 21:00:47

On the last day of his life, Doctor Faust hosted a huge feast.
Unfortunately for him, the Devil crashed the party.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #magic
https://www.patreon.com/posts/warlock-supreme-47115927
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2024-09-02 20:01:00

Saints have a long history of being a downer at pagan parties.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #saint
https://www.patreon.com/posts/saints-and-holy-35840297
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2024-09-02 19:00:55

“You have helped in the hunting,
Now you must help in the feasting!”
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #WildHunt
https://www.patreon.com/posts/wild-huntsman-44329081
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2024-09-02 18:00:49

The Night Folk of the European Alps host some rather peculiar feasts.
#MythologyMonday #Austria #folktale #folklore #cow
https://www.patreon.com/posts/infernal-36053596
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2024-09-02 17:01:01

As as caterer for feasts, the Devil leaves much to be desired.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #Devil https://www.patreon.com/posts/with-cherries-on-68911941
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2024-09-02 16:00:31

An inn in Flensburg once hosted a feast for the dead.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #Flensburg #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://www.patreon.com/posts/abodes-of-ghosts-43497027
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2024-09-02 12:58:10

For those who don't follow news from #Germany , yesterday there were state elections in #Thuringia and #Saxony - and in Thuringia the fascist #AfD won a plurality of the votes, while in Saxony they are only slightly behind the Christian Conservatives.
Due to the German election system, this doesn't mean they will automatically form the government - but it will be very difficult to form a government without them in Thuringia.
These results are devastating for all patriotic Germans, but it is not clear what we are supposed to do now to fight the fascists. I will continue to speak out against them - but it is clear that a significant portion of the German population _want_ fascists to return to power.
#fascism #Nazis
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-thuringia-and-saxony-elections-propel-far-right-afd/a-70106147

2024-09-02 07:39:30

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This is a popular theme in German folklore, it turns out!

2024-08-31 11:10:44

Bei den ganzen Diskussionen über #Migration wird immer wieder ignoriert, daß wahnsinnig viele Migranten schlecht bezahlte, prekäre Jobs machen, die die meisten Deutschen nicht machen können oder machen wollen.
Wie zum Beispiel universitäre Forschung. Die meisten Unis könnten doch ihre naturwissenschaftlichen und ingenieurswissenschaftlichen Fakultäten dicht machen, wenn sie keine ausländischen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter mehr hätten! Und die Arbeitsbedingungen da sind so mies, daß sich das immer weniger Deutsche antun wollen.
Aber vielleicht will ja die #AfD die ganzen Unis schließen. Würde mich nicht wundern...

2024-08-31 10:58:38

In the very best "dragon-slaying" folk tale I have come across, a farmer tricks a lake-dwelling dragon to eat a dead calf stuffed with quicklime.
Once the dragon at the calf and drank some water, the results were... nasty.
#folklore #ttrpg #dnd

2024-08-31 09:28:19

Regarding #Brazil banning #X :
After the disaster of the Weimar Republic, the Federal Republic of #Germany came up with the concept of the "Wehrhafte Demokratie" - a "democracy that can defend itself". Fundamental to this concept is that people, groups, and organizations who want to overthrow the basic democratic order should _not_ get a "level playing field".
So while I can understand people worried about any kind of #censorship , I think by this standard this action is justifiable. Brazil went through an attempted coup, and X - and Elon #Musk - were instrumental in aiding the coupists.
And by now Elon Musk has established a clear pattern of "wanting to overthrow the democratic order" - _any_ democratic order. Thus, it is valid if Brazil wants to restrict his speech.
I see this as part of the "Paradox of Tolerance" - tolerating the intolerant will result in less tolerance. And tolerance, like freedom of speech, are social contracts. If you break the social contract - as Elon Musk has - then there should be consequences.

2024-08-26 23:00:43

It doesn't always have to be a _black_ dog haunting the countryside. Try a yellow dog for a change!
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #dog https://www.patreon.com/posts/stray-dogs-33668107
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2024-08-26 21:00:23

A mysterious dog with a club hanging around its neck roams the towns of the Ruhr river valley.
It's best to leave it well enough alone.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #dog
https://www.patreon.com/posts/stray-dogs-33668107
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2024-08-26 20:00:46

A color-changing poodle can be seen at the road from Waldwimmersbach to Dilsberg.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #dog
https://www.patreon.com/posts/stray-dogs-33668107
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2024-08-26 19:00:23

Against evil poodles, seek sanctuary in prayer.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #dog
https://www.patreon.com/posts/evil-poodles-33667637
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2024-08-26 18:00:04

For blaspheming against the sacraments with his dog, the mind of a noble in Breinermoor was reduced to that of a dog. And even after death, he haunts the region in canine shape.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #dog
https://www.patreon.com/posts/evil-poodles-33667637
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2024-08-26 17:20:53

A cunning disguise as a poodle might not the best idea when confronting an armed man.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #dog
https://www.patreon.com/posts/evil-poodles-33667637
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2024-08-26 16:00:52

Near Höslingen, a strange black poodle leads travelers astray at night.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #dog
https://www.patreon.com/posts/evil-poodles-33667637
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2024-08-12 22:00:08

If you don't have all the equipment you need for a game, you have to improvise.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #bowling #ghost #ghoststory
https://www.patreon.com/posts/all-nine-bowling-43530102
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2024-08-12 21:00:06

There is a right and a wrong place to play games.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #Devil
https://www.patreon.com/posts/devil-punishes-39505609
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2024-08-12 20:00:07

Even spirits like to play games.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #bowling
https://www.patreon.com/posts/all-nine-bowling-43530102
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2024-08-12 19:00:08

Once, a cobbler had to win against the Devil in three challenges in order to keep his soul.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #Devil
https://www.patreon.com/posts/devil-grants-61241872
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2024-08-12 18:00:10

In order to keep his soul, a smith needed to find a task so difficult that even the Devil would be unable to accomplish it.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #Devil
https://www.patreon.com/posts/smiths-and-devil-73807737
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2024-08-12 17:00:14

Once, the Devil challenged a charcoal burner to a slapping contest.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/something-this-76986912
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2024-08-12 16:00:03

Yes, girls _could_ joust!
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #Lübeck
https://www.patreon.com/posts/tales-of-lubeck-27462626
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2024-08-08 00:52:31

Elon Musk is not a big fan of Consequence Culture.
https://slate.com/business/2024/08/elon-musk-sues-advertisers-ads-funding-sales-x-twitter.html

2024-08-05 22:00:04

Courting two sisters at the same time is unwise.
Especially if they are also both witches...
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #witch #witchcraft
https://www.patreon.com/posts/witches-in-air-29005162
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2024-08-05 21:00:07

Once, three mysterious sisters appeared in the hamlet of Seebach each evening - only to vanish into the direction of a nearby lake a few hours later.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/nixies-strange-38442006
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2024-08-05 20:00:06

Two sisters promised to each other that if one of them died, she would give the other the skinny on the afterlife.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghosts-of-53102794
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2024-08-05 19:00:05

Two old sisters lived in abject poverty.
And when one of them died, things wend even further downhill.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://www.patreon.com/posts/searching-ghosts-41303631
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2024-08-05 18:00:04

Seven sisters - and their out-of-wedlock children were brutally murdered by the fathers of their lovers, while their lovers had to watch.
Their angry ghosts still haunt the mountain range in Bavaria where they lived.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghost-stories-25895373
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2024-08-05 17:00:19

The two wives of the Count of Gleichen loved each other as if they were sisters.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #Egypt #LoveStory #bigamy
https://www.patreon.com/posts/blatant-bigamy-81254000
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2024-08-05 16:00:22

Three sisters lie imprisoned beneath the Castle Hill at Wolfratshausen because one of them cheated the other two out of their inheritance.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/three-maidens-2-26016856
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2024-07-05 07:00:08

Doctor Faust was the most infamous warlock of German folklore.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #magic @npub1jne…4kn4 @npub13ss…cjth
https://www.patreon.com/posts/warlock-supreme-47115927
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2024-06-28 17:00:59

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Was there also large-scale flooding, like we had over Christmas in Oldenburg?

2024-06-12 10:16:02

Okay, this bit of news about #RPGNet is rather concerning.
#ttrpg
https://www.tumblr.com/esperderek/753021968694034432/just-left-rpgnet-that-venerable-old-tabletop-rpg