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   powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 08:01:25 JST powersoffour

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   • Charlie Stross
   • David Lynch
   • Aethylred
   • Philippa Cowderoy

   @flippac @aethylred @kemayo @cstross They rarely use the full name, but it *is* "Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka" ... https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Ghazghkull_Mag_Uruk_Thraka

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     Philippa Cowderoy (flippac@mendeddrum.org)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 08:01:27 JST Philippa Cowderoy

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     • Aethylred

     @aethylred @kemayo @cstross Not the royal family?

     Thatcher got to be an ork

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     Aethylred (aethylred@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 08:01:28 JST Aethylred

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     @kemayo @wordshaper @cstross enough about Margret Thatcher

     (yes the Emperor _is_ an allegory for Tory prime ministers)

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     David Lynch (kemayo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 08:01:29 JST David Lynch

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     • Dan Sugalski

     @wordshaper @cstross “the corpse to whom we sacrifice a thousand people every day *does* provide a useful governmental service in return!”

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     Dan Sugalski (wordshaper@weatherishappening.network)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 08:01:30 JST Dan Sugalski

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     • Charlie Stross

     @cstross When I was a young man I thought Warhammer 40K was a cynical, satirical, dystopian view of the future seen through a UK lens. Now that I'm older I know that Warhammer 40K is an overly optimistic, rose-tinted utopian view of the future when seen through a UK lens.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 08:01:31 JST Charlie Stross

     #WordWeavers 21st Feb: Is your setting a stratified society or something experimental?

     It doesn't get much more stratified than the UK in a nightmarish alt-2015 where the Tory party has been taken over by an Elder God out of Lovecraft!

     Although the PM's weekly meetings with the Queen have become slightly fraught of late—it's no longer clear who reports to who!

     (Fade to strident ullulations of BREXIT MEANS BREXIT! STRONG AND STABLE! ALL GLORY TO THE BLACK PHARAOH! IÄ! IÄ! ...)