Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 10hIf you visit Fulda in Germany, don't skip the Michaelskirche next to the Dom. It's far, far older than the baroque cathedral and was built to serve as the cemetery chapel for the monks of the monastery in the 9th century. The church is supposedly modeled on the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. 0162
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 11hDown a short flight of stairs in Fulda's baroque cathedral lies the tomb of Bonifatius, the apostle to the Germans. Over three decades he helped strengthen Christianity across what is today Germany, before being killed sometime around 754 by pagan Frisians near Dokkum in the modern Netherlands. 191
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Allow me to propose an idea. Stuchbery’s Law: The culture-war grifter must become ever more transgressive and absurd to remain an outlaw. But every escalation makes them less bankable, less influential and more marginal. Hate will eat itself. 1184
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Bring back tombstones with bloody great skulls, I say. (Jakobuskirche, Groß-Auheim, Hesse 🇩🇪) 0150
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026For a truly striking mediaeval tower, you can't miss the Adolfsturm in Friedberg (Hesse), Germany. Built around 1347, and 58m tall, it was the most visible reminder that Burg Friedberg was *the* local power in the Wetterau region. It also held a dungeon beneath for prisoners. 1171
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Do I call the International Criminal Court? 3180
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Yesterday I found a conjunction of laneways in the German town of Friedberg called 'Five-Finger Square'. I'm aware there's another in Frankfurt. Extremely fantasy-author adjacent. Hell, it's giving Pratchett. 3191
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If you're wondering just how ridiculously fragmented the Holy Roman Empire could be, I walked across a former independent principality today. It was 300 metres wide. That was the longer axis. 1182
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 12/09/2026My favourite local Renaissance oddball comes from the village that I live in. Johannes de Ingadine was the priest of Steinheim, but before that, he was an in-demand astrologer and dabbler in the occult, writing some classic texts on palmreading and phrenology. 0161
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I've said it before and I'll say it again: It's not so much some coked up thug live streaming from your doorstep, whether it be Tommy, Tate or Tommo. It's the legions of utterly cooked followers, with a deeply troubling parasocial relationship, that are the real threat. 3424
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I've never been interested in claiming any of the credit for exposing Tommy Robinson's grifting years ago. What does bother me is wondering how much hurt & suffering could have been avoided if people had taken what was obvious then seriously, rather than waiting until the damage was done. 1390
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's been almost a decade since I started writing about Far Right extremists and the social media grift economy - and it's so, so much worse now. www.independent.co.uk/voices/tommy...independent.co.ukOpinion: A spike in far right radicalisation should terrify us – here's how to stop it in its tracksThe distraction of a chaotic and disruptive Brexit is a genuine risk to our ability to fight this brand of extremism 12910
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 01/09/2026No shit? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukGermany says Russia behind Leipzig airport drone attackA drone carrying an explosive device was discovered at the airport close to Ukrainian cargo planes on 4 August. 1134
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Alexander Graham Bell may have perfected the telephone, but Phillip Reis invented it. Here's his birthplace in Gelnhausen, Hesse. He may have also developed the roller skate we we know it. Fascinating bloke! 1243
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It's been great to get back into exploration mode, and hopefully I'll be back to telling stories again soon. 1270
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026If you visit the Marienkirche in Gelnhausen in Hessen, don't leave until you've opened the door to the right of the altar and entered the sacristy, where two little known treasures are stored - two 15th century tapestries... (1/4) 1255
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Der Löwe in Gelnhausen, Hessen, is one of Germany’s oldest surviving inns. It was once the base of the real-life Dr Johannes Faust, who performed supposed magical feats there, until occult scholar & churchman Johannes Trithemius heard and alerted Faust’s creditors. Faust fled to the next town. 1325
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Tucked across a suburban street outside the walls of Gelnhausen in Hessen, is the Godobertuskapelle, a chapel which existed before Frederick Barbarossa turned up and made the city an imperial seat. That is to say, it's heading towards a millennia in age. These days, you can get married there. 190
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Vale Tim Curry. He finally escaped to the one place not corrupted by capitalism. 1231
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Gelnhausen, in Hessen, where I've been lurking lately, was the birthplace of Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen. His response to the personal traumas of the Thirty Years' War was to write one of the most imaginative German novels ever written: The Adventurous Simplicissimus. 2183
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Real estate hot tip, if you’re in the market in the Holy Roman Empire, circa 1200–1803. This is the narrowest point of the Via Regia and Hohe Straße - important roads connecting Frankfurt to Leipzig, and among medieval Germany’s most important trade routes. You can find it in Gelnhausen, Hessen. 1242
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The 'Hexenturm' in Gelnhausen, Hessen, held around forty local men and women accused of witchcraft from 1584 to 1633. Of particular note is Elizabeth Strupp, executed in 1599. Her insistence on only naming those already executed broke the chain of accusations, ending the first panic. 3309
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Wandering around the campus of Offenbach's design school yesterday, I found the Isenburger Schloss. The palace of the Counts of Isenburg was donated in 1787 to a messianic Jewish cult, led by Jacob Frank & daughter, Eva. The stories the locals told about what they thought was going on inside... 090
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Scratching an old itch: I'm taking commissions again - a piece or two a month on history, travel and culture, with a soupçon of social commentary. Bylines: @theguardian.com / @the-independent.com / @bylinetimes.bsky.social / @huffpost.com among others. Editors: My inbox is open. Reposts welcome. 0104
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Germany's oldest precisely-dated document, a receipt for unknown goods issued on what we'd recognise as April 5th, 130 CE. It was found in 1997, during excavations of a Roman vicus in Hanau, east of Frankfurt. Germany teaches you to hold on to every scrap of paper, but this is next level. 2215
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Well played, Eintracht Frankfurt. The 'bembel' design of a traditional apfelwein jug has made its way onto the club's 26-27 trikot. 619513
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I used to be in a position where the only way I could support myself was to have an opinion and write about it. There were very lean times. Holes in my shoes times. Would rather have gone without a roof over my head than to punch down like this. 2557
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Because they've got a fucking disability, Kathleen. 9717
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Man, remember when I had to leave a school when I wrote that bullying is bad? What a world. 0182
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Excuse me? Andrew Tate arrested on charges of creating and possessing what, now? 4342
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Anyone who claims that Germans are homogenous - try moving from Stuttgart to Hanau. The cognitive dissonance, the abrupt 180 in attitudes is enough to give you whiplash... ...and Swabians/Badeners and Hessians _border_ one another. 4262
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Having recently moved to Hanau, my tolerance for online mouthbreathers and foreign botnets posting race hate is at an all time low. 1181
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Australian media, you want to know what kind of man Tommy Robinson is, you come to me. I will clear my schedule for you. 3333
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 13/07/2026OMG, IT'S HAPPENING PEOPLE! gamerant.com/new-assassin...gamerant.comNew Official Assassin's Creed Hexe Teaser ReleasedEagle-eyed Assassin's Creed fans spot a teaser for the upcoming release of Hexe in Black Flag Resynced. 001
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 26/06/2026On a comment thread about the European heatwave. Spare from from these smooth-brained yappers. 5320
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 24/06/2026No stranger to death threats, I pay them as much attention as spam, but it's telling that every time Tommy Robinson gets on a podcast, I get a surge - even if not mentioned. Binning Karl Stefanovic is the right choice. Appalling judgement, and no idea stochastic violence his platforming generates. 2354
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Today I learned that 33 human skulls, dating to around 9,000 years ago, were discovered in two red-ochre "nests" in the Ofnet Caves near Nördlingen, Germany. Archaeologists still debate whether they represent the aftermath of violence, or an elaborate funerary ritual. 0142
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Like clockwork. Dealer must have called. 5438
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Well, it's been nice, folks. futurism.com/robots-and-m...futurism.comAutonomous Ukrainian Drone Secretly Slaughtered Russian Soldiers, Insider SaysA senior Ukranian drone producer claims that the first fully-autonomous drone kill happened two years ago on the Ukranian frontlines. 0101
Reposted by Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/06/2026Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments. Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs 11790661630
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 11/06/2026RIP to Joost Ritman who, after making a fortune selling cutlery to airlines, amassed perhaps the world's finest collection of occult and hermetic texts - the Ritman Library, now known as the Embassy of the Free Mind. www.embassyofthefreemind.com 1143
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Strikes me that if Tommy Robinson is flying to Russia, knowing his proclivities, the amount of kompromat they must be getting each time is staggering. They can give him any order they want. 4519
Reposted by Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force. 19543351515
Reposted by Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Keir Starmer's spokesman tells me there has been "no change" to the Government's policy on using X, despite Elon Musk helping to incite the hateful scenes we saw in Belfast last night. Also no new plans to take action against X for its role in the violence 2201792579
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 10/06/2026One thing that stops me from deleting my Twitter account is the fact that it's all written down. A seemingly 'normal' world. The growing clamour. The window shifting. The ground moving beneath our feet. The hum of hate increasing. I'm nobody special - but I saw it, I recorded it. It's something. 3232
Reposted by Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough. 10556061589
Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I always have to laugh at those who call Robinson, et al 'controlled opposition', or somehow part of the shadowy state's nefarious plans to keep us all divided. You really think they've got them under control? They're quite literally agent provocateurs of opposing states. 1145
Reposted by Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️The i Paper @theipaper.com · 10/06/2026Opinion | Mainstream and decent voices have become mute in this battle of ideas 🖊️ By Ian Dunt Read more: trib.al/NjSD80w 12611