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Think what you will about the Gaza genocide, but the perverse glee people are taking in the police brutalizing students with tear gas and rubber bullets is disturbing and monstrous.

When it was January 6th, the police use of force against "innocent protestors" exercising their Constitutional rights was a draconian overreach, but now that it's college students, it's, "Hell, yeah! That's how you do it!"

The double standard is AMAZING.

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I always enjoy your incredibly based takes on the Till scandal. In a sea of "Till is an evil rapist" and "Till has never done anything wrong in his life ever," your takes of "Till may be a twat with zero common sense but that doesn't make him a rapist" is a breath of fresh air.

Thank you. You are one of the very few.

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The funniest thing was that Sabaton’s and Joakim Brodén’s nominations were both revoked by MeralAwards.org, because of their involvement with a motorcycle club with strong ties to the Kremlin, in occupied Crimea in 2015 🫢

I'm a bit murky on the details there. If they just played a paying gig without knowing or caring about the details of who was writing the check, I don't think the revocation was fair. Most people don't know or care about what their boss does when they're not sending out the paychecks.

If they are affiliated with some Kremlin-sponsored biker gang, that's a different kettle of fish.

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First, Sabaton fans tried to get Till and Rammstein booted off the Metal Awards ballot because "Till was accused of being a rapist", and now, Slipknot fans are whining at Slipknot for "hiring known abusers" because Till will be appearing at Knotfest Iowa.

-No evidence whatsoever was found to support any of the "accusations" against Till, even after investigators begged and offered protection for anyone who wanted to come forward.

-Young me would be disappointed to learn that metal fans are such whiny, spiteful hupocritical assholes.

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God, I miss the days when I thought we lived in some reasonably agreed-upon Reality Land.

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So Till is going to appear at Knotfest Iowa this year. Good for him. Get that money and high-profile exposure.

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The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

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This whole time, I thought Minni Landers was a Chihuahua, but TIL, she's a Prague ratter. And here I thought Paul was making it up.

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“Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it’s mine.”

— Tove Jansson

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Reblogging for the armor. And because it was nice to see Elrond be a badass.

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~incoherent gobbling noises~

Schneider’s DW Collector’s Series „Jazz“ Kit

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Found on a Schneider FB page/

His arms!

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Tony Khan out here looking like he slept in a public restroom.

No one is taking this seriously. You're not remaking the NWO. Stop making a fool of yourself.

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To all the people saying that Rammstein look old now:

You can go ahead and turn in your time cards if you want. I'mma stay here and ride these old men until the wheels fall off.

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Die Roggenmuhme

The Rye Aunt

The Rye Aunt is a female cereal demon and children's fright of German folk tales, who lives in grain fields.

The Rye Aunt wanders up and down in the fields, feeds on the grain and tears out the immature ears. If she is angry with the farmer, she punishes him by drying out his fields. In general, however, the appearance of the Rye Aunt in the fields is a sign of a good harvest. During the harvest, she flees into the last truss. The Rye Aunt receives a share of the harvest, which is either left behind or thrown into the field. This custom is to propitiate the Rye Aunt and bring about a fertile next year.

The Rye Aunt is generally thought to live underground, in the empire of the roots or in a cave.

The Rye Aunt punishes lazy maids, who have not spun off their spinning rocks in the Boxing Week. The breath of the Rye Aunt brings illness and death.

Appearance

The Rye Aunt is often described as completely black or snow-white, and of superhuman size. Her arms are long or made of iron. Her fingers are fiery or iron. It is also said that the Rye Aunt has claws on her hands, which may also be made of iron.

The Rye Aunt has unusually large breasts that are so long that she can fold them over her shoulders. She also has more than two breasts. These can be black, iron, wooden or silver. They are pointed and hard, have glowing iron tips or are fiery. The breasts are filled with tar, poisonous milk or blood.

The Rye Aunt is described as an old womanwith a wrinkled face featuring stinging awns, a crooked nose, and wears glasses. She is sometimes even described as headless or said to have an iron heart.

In addition, she can change her shape, for example into a turtle, a snake, a frog, a wolf, a black cat, a horned animal or a dog with a blanket.

The Rye aunt is often dressed in black, but has also been seen dressed entirely in gray. Her clothes are ragged. Sometimes the Rye Aunt also wears a red skirt, or she wears a red dress and a red cap. Sometimes, she wears blue coat and wide flowing skirts. Often the Rye Aunt wears a white headscarf like a reaper. Sometimes she walks on crutches.

The Rye Aunt is associated with several weather phenomena. When the wind blows through the cornfield, people say that the Rye Aunt moves over the grain. She is also traveling with the whirlwind.

The Rye Aunt appears in particular at midday between 12:00 and 13:00. If she encounters someone in the fields at midday, she kills them or frightens them, casting spells. If she finds women who have recently given birth in bed between 12:00 and 13:00 and between 18:00 and 20:00, she does the field work for them. If she does not find women in childbed at the specified time, a misfortune will happen to the mother and the child.

The Rye Aunt is often seen as a child scare. Her activities as a child-scaring figure are extremely varied.

In their tale no. 90 The Rye Aunt, the Brothers Grimm tell that the Rye Aunt swaps human children with changelings, but brings back the right child if the changeling is not suckled. Elsewhere it is said that she steals illegitimate children at midnight.

The Rye Aunt lies in wait in the field for all those children who want to pick cornflowers in order to scare and punish them. She also lures children into the field by waving her arms. She abducts children by putting them in her big bag or basket, of by taking the children under her wide flowing skirts to bring them to the empire of the roots. She may also pull children to her with an iron fireplace poker and has them guarded by a toad. She leads children astray in the field and lets them starve to death, or she comes with her flock of elves and lays the children on cushions of flowers, whereupon they fall asleep and never wake up again. The Rye Aunt appears as a witch when she casts spells or the Evil Eye on children, She may also appear as a nightmare when she sends evil spirits to disobedient children at night.

Children often have to suck on the breasts of the Rye Aunt. Sometimes, disobedient children get the big breasts beaten around their ears. The Rye Aunt is said to, hug children so tight that they are pressed against her breasts die as a result from suffocation or getting crushed in her embrace. The Rye Aunt also crouches in wolf form, hiding in the grain, and is accompanied by small dogs that lure children into her iron embrace. She is also regarded as the mother of the rye wolves, who eat the children.

The Rye Aunt chases children on horseback or runs as fast as a horse herself. In the latter case, she chases children to death in races. She can also fly and takes children to the sea to drown them there. If she accosts children, they must die.

The Rye Aunt demands that children eat a slice of bread spread with tar. If they do not comply, she cuts off their heads. She also smears children with tar from a bottle or covers their eyes with tar. She also scratches out children's eyes or blows out their eyesight. The Rye Aunt strangles children, twists their necks or cuts off their heads, and also cuts off their necks, noses, ears, or fingers. She also beheads children with a sickle, a knife or a saw. She cuts off the children's legs with a scythe. The Rye Aunt also tears off children's legs.

The Rye Aunt binds children into a bundle with a thread or ties the children to a thread and then beats them up. She pinches children with iron pincers or uses a pinch. She stabs children with pikes, of which she has three, one by the head and one in each hand. The Rye Aunt also stabs children with stalks or drives nails into their heels.

In her hand, the rye maid carries a rod or whip, which is to be regarded as a lightning rod. She also has a sceptre or an iron scourge, which she uses to beat children. She puts children in a nail barrel and rolls them around in it or drags them into a cave and crushes them there with a giant meat grinder. Otherwise, she also crushes children in an iron butter churn.

The Rye Aunt also bites and eats children. To get hold of children, she sets out traps. She slaughters and eats the children or kills and roasts them using her burning breasts and fingers. The Rye Aunt also throws children into a cauldron of hot water or sucks their blood.

All these stories were told children to deter them from wandering through the fields, which posed several dangers, including getting lost and freezing to death at night, encounters with dangerous animals, suffering injuries from farm equipment used on the fields, or merely the destruction of crops and yield loss by walking over the fields.

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I have listened to "Fade to Black" thousands of times since I was 13(many, many, many moons ago), but this morning, it caught me right beneath the ribs, and I cried like a 2-year-old.

Thanks, Metallica. I needed that.