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A guy in the jury of the German version of American Idol recently compared the COVID lockdown to concentration camps, so the producers were like "Nope", blurred him out, replaced everything he said with speech bubbles, beeped out his name everytime it was mentioned and even replaced the performance of a contestant who sang one of his songs with a generic jingle.

When the contestant was singing his song, they also showed this:

Contestant Christian chose a song by the judge we removed from the show due to his unspeakable remarks. That’s why we also won’t play this judge’s music.

I know here on tumblr.org many of you are not that into the sportsball, but I know you love righteous drama and pettiness, and oof, do we have some for you over in football land.

So Hungary, as you may've heard, has put out some anti-LGBT legislation that would ban the depiction or promotion of homosexuality to people under 18. It's not quite law yet but it's just got to get through their president Viktor Orban who is, unfortunately, a shit.

Meanwhile, football, no the other kind of football- the one with the round ball, is currently having a big European tournament. Euro 2020. Yeah, they didn't rename it. Doesn't matter. Germany were due to play Hungary last night in Munich and they asked the governing body of the tournament for permission to light up the stadium in a rainbow. Like this:

But they said no. Specifically, they said no while dressed in a rainbow pfp and claiming that the rainbow isn't a political symbol:

And Germany, bless them, looked at that and said, ooh bitch it's on now.

Munich city hall got out the banners

Here are the fans going to the match

The German captain Manuel Neuer in his rainbow armband (which UEFA had previously made noises about disciplining him for, because they're bastards all around)

A brief selection of the many stadiums across Germany that lit up in solidarity

And last but not least this absolute madlad who ran onto the pitch during Hungary's anthem

Viktor Orban stayed at home and sulked, and Hungary got knocked out of the tournament.

something about rain in Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium you say?

A flooded street in Verviers, Belgium (photo: Belga)

Residents of Valkenburg, Netherlands, assessing the damage done to their houses (photo: Marcel van den Bergh)

A battered ship at the Maas river in Luik, Belgium (photo: AFP)

An army vehicle removes debris in Aachen, (North Rhine-Westphalia) Germany (photo: DPA)

Damage in Schuld, (Rhineland-Pfalz) Germany, where the Ahr river flooded (photo: EPA)

A woman swims through a flooded street in Luik, Belgium, where the Maas river flooded (photo: Reuters)

Two men in Bad Neuenahr, (Rhineland-Pfalz) Germany, attempt to rescue what they can (photo: AFP)

The running water stacked cars on a roundabout in Verviers, Belgium (photo: AFP)

An auto mechanic in Mechelen, Netherlands, watching the water run into his garage (photo: Marcel van den Bergh)

couple of lil eurovision memes for ur viewing pleasure

me and the squad on our way to make bad desicions

Me, after reading a self-help book

Me, after a minor inconvenience 

Good night dearest sun | loaks.photography

Location: Kronberg, Germany

Taunus, Germany by Patrick Mueller

Germany just outlawed intersex genital mutilation throughout the country! 

The law explicitly prohibits intersex surgery that is for cosmetic reasons, although it still does allow some types of intersex surgery at birth that are deemed medically necessary. It’s defintely not a perfect law yet and there’s still work to go, but this is an AMAZING win and I’m so inspired by the intersex groups in Germany who have been working tirelessly to get this law passed. 

https://oiieurope.org/a-good-first-step-germany-adopts-law-banning-igm/ 

blowing snow

Bavaria / Germany

by Denny Bitte

“Morning stroll“ by | Nikolaus Brinkmann

Cologne Cathedral, Germany by sycochik

Bode Museum, Berlin (by Dani Sorokin)

A nice chicken I encountered in the margins of a Haggadah, the 'Ashkenazi Haggadah,’ with commentaries attributed to Eleazar Ben Judah of Worms, c. 1430.

The British Library

PLEASE, I’M LIVING FOR THIS 😂

The 0 point squad

Germany’s Jendrik, Ukraine’s Go_A and Norway’s TIX dancing to Hard Rock Hallelujah is everything I need in my life

"The Ghoul of IC 2118" Is the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day of today, October 29, 2020

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