Michel Lind
@michel-slm.name
#Meta production engineer working on #Linux userspace, longtime #Fedora contributor, #Debian maintainer
#Midwest #USA transplant, lay monastic, mostly harmless
avatar: bespectacled man wearing a CentOS T-shirt
background: Fedora 39 GNOME night wallpaper
#Midwest #USA transplant, lay monastic, mostly harmless
avatar: bespectacled man wearing a CentOS T-shirt
background: Fedora 39 GNOME night wallpaper
Reposted by Michel Lind
Athens outlasts Sparta. The Romans conquer the various barbarians. The Vikings get cooked into good Europeans. Napoleon loses. The South loses. The Germans and Japanese lose.
Every single one of these vaunted warriors lose to nerds who like to build stuff and who care about details
Every single one of these vaunted warriors lose to nerds who like to build stuff and who care about details
December 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Athens outlasts Sparta. The Romans conquer the various barbarians. The Vikings get cooked into good Europeans. Napoleon loses. The South loses. The Germans and Japanese lose.
Every single one of these vaunted warriors lose to nerds who like to build stuff and who care about details
Every single one of these vaunted warriors lose to nerds who like to build stuff and who care about details
Reposted by Michel Lind
Cutting off her wedding ring is an especially telling detail.
It's such a weird thing to do that there is no purpose to that except to be doing gratuitous Nazi-emulating cruelty.
It's such a weird thing to do that there is no purpose to that except to be doing gratuitous Nazi-emulating cruelty.
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Cutting off her wedding ring is an especially telling detail.
It's such a weird thing to do that there is no purpose to that except to be doing gratuitous Nazi-emulating cruelty.
It's such a weird thing to do that there is no purpose to that except to be doing gratuitous Nazi-emulating cruelty.
Also our gunmakers are arming all the "terrorists" because we can't impose meaningful gun control. If there's a war on guns we are world enemy number one
December 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Also our gunmakers are arming all the "terrorists" because we can't impose meaningful gun control. If there's a war on guns we are world enemy number one
Reposted by Michel Lind
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.