Watchers in the Dark The Watchers in the Dark are a strange species of humanoid creatures of small stature native to the lost world of Caliban who inhabit The Rock, the mobile fortress-monastery of the Dark Angels Space M...

They're already there: warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Watcher...

Releasing the minions into the 40k verse and watching them be paralysed by choice.

Can I ask how much it cost?

If you’re interested in issues of code, copyright, open source software and LLMs, the situation with the chardet Python library raises all kinds of interesting and difficult questions.

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It is good to see our former colonies returning to mainstream British discourse

Doctor who claimed Covid jab probably caused royal cancers standing for Reform Last year, at the Reform annual conference, Professor Angus Dalgleish was cited as saying it was "highly likely" that the Covid vaccines had been "a significant factor in the cancer of members of the ...

Another conspiracy theorist loon standing for Reform. It's rapidly turning into the political equivalent of the Flat Earth Society.

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Sanskrit Exuberant Compound OTD

दशरथसुतनिशितशरनिकरनिपातनिहतरजनीचरबलबहुलरुधिरसिक्तमूलम्

daśarathasutaniśitaśaranikaranipātanihatarajanīcarabalabahularudhirasiktamūlam

(He:With:)Ten:Chariots-son-sharp-arrow-heap-falling-killed-night:rover-army-abundant-blood-moistened-root-NOM:N:SG

What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)

Hard agree with rimidar on this. In fact, nothing has discredited wistful conservativism more to me than seeing people start to do it about times I lived through. Yeah the n64 was pretty dope when I was 10 years old, I guess; don't really think that should drive our immigration policy tho you loser.

There was literally a pangolin that flew combat sorties with the CIA in a dirty war in Laos that then died after drinking too much gin, so there’s at least one pangolin whose record is morally ambiguous

In Tbilisi some years back: “Christ! You guys are like tuberculosis. You’re everywhere and the pills stopped working” and I took it as a compliment and drank their beer

the fact that he’s using it for propaganda makes me regret ever painting this

Recreate your own Artemis splashdown with three Tunnocks teacakes and a Nespresso pod

(For a grant proposal to NIHR): 'It is not clear that one could do a PhD based on a study of this size' (PhD successfully viva'd last month)

It’s not box wine, it’s cardboardeaux.

Holding out for a manateestasy, I want a sea cow noble hero

The people (all genders) Yearn for Warhammer 40k fanfic

Oh shit, gotta repost.

Technical Specialist - AI / Computer Science Job Opening: Technical Specialist - AI / Computer Science at ARIA in London.

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Every so often a quoted post comes along that makes me realize how hard it is to truly understand what’s going on in other people‘s heads🥲

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Tweet: The whole internet loves Milkshake Duck, a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the duck is racist

Gerry Adams: This house is like Santa's Grotto. Takes half an hour 2 switch off fairy lights and assorted Yule illuminations. Feel like a grinch now. Account called EddieIzzard's Beret: Surely you know someone who can fit a timer.

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Tweet from Sean Leahy @thepunningman "The bond's Name. James Name" Pleased to... what? "Bond Name's the james" Are you alright? "Bames Nond's having a strong, call a Bondulance"

This one still fuckin kills me

It's this little gem and it's not up for debate

In space no one can hear you Teams.

I used AI. It worked. I hated it. I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer.

This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level.

taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

Although they may not have studied the NHS, I would suggest this applies here as well

D’ough L’oaf is that rarest of gifts: a board game that makes me laugh, and not because it includes any actual jokes. Designed by Bart de Jong, it opens with perhaps the most relatable conceit ever …

L'oaf by @bartgamedesign.bsky.social contains perhaps the most relatable board game setting of all: putting in minimum effort at a minimum wage job. The result is surprising, a mind game and commentary and lovely plaything all at the same time. My review: spacebiff.com/2026/03/18/l...

I would like to personally award Afroman the Bluesky Medal of Valor for Exemplary Service in Bringing Back Shame