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Was also available for the Amiga 500.

Though I had a copy that worked on the Amiga 1200.

04.03.2026 11:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How I arrived on Bluesky!

04.03.2026 00:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Salamanders technically do not have Chaplains.
They have something, else instead.

03.03.2026 19:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well except for that time they had an Inquisitor named Sherlock Obiwan Clouseau.

03.03.2026 19:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The UK isn't allowing him to use Diego Garcia airbase to fly sorties against Iran.

03.03.2026 18:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

🧵 1/4

02.03.2026 15:43 — 👍 2817    🔁 2368    💬 90    📌 458

Well the US/Isreali war with Iran has driven up oil prices, which would probably help Russia pay for its war on Ukraine.

02.03.2026 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Weirdly though "Purity Seals" have been appearing on soldiers in the Ukraine/Russia war for the last couple of years.

02.03.2026 12:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You don't often see left-handed bowmen, yet your Tomb Kings seem to have quite a few.

02.03.2026 12:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I thought Russia didn't aim at "civilian targets", yet here it shows them doing exactly that in a Terror Raid to punish Europe for having the temerity to oppose them.

Just like the Terror Raids they launch at Ukraine.

02.03.2026 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hitting a misbehaving device to get it to work is called Percussive Maintenance.

I've never heard of it being used against a government before.
Defenestration, yes, Percussive Maintenance, no.

01.03.2026 18:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There's more than a few things in 40K that seem to have started with Winston Churchill.

They are mainly Imperium Tanks though.
(He was responsible for commissioning the Mark I Landship/Tank for WWI.)

01.03.2026 15:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Kind of seems like the 40K equivalent of the Borg or Cybermen, only the Ancestor Core is trying to make them less machine like and more like the flesh and blood Kin.

01.03.2026 13:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can I just say...

The Type A plug on that toaster is heretical!
Everyone knows that the standard plug in the Imperium is the Omnissiah beloved Type G plug.

28.02.2026 22:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'll doubt they'll ask for their Peace Prize back.

28.02.2026 22:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tarocchi was one name they went by.
And some decks had more than the current 78 cards.

28.02.2026 00:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I keep thinking of one question whenever they mention this Poseidon "Torpedo" (it's actually a Drone).

Why didn't they call it Kraken instead?
That way they could always be threatening to release it!😉

27.02.2026 19:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Plus we used to be big enemies during the Victorian era, if not before.
There was the Crimean war of 1853-56.

27.02.2026 19:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And a military threat from a weapon which they apparently can't deploy until at least 2027.

27.02.2026 19:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well there is another problem, which your blog highlights.

The examples from GW are not numbered correctly.
For instance, the Arks of Omen second card represents the Minor Arcana King from the Discordia/Sword suit.

It's as if the people at GW can't agree on what a basic set should look like.

27.02.2026 13:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
King of suit Discordia of the Emperor's Tarot of Warhammer 40,000.
Image taken from the second 40K Arks of Omen video.

King of suit Discordia of the Emperor's Tarot of Warhammer 40,000. Image taken from the second 40K Arks of Omen video.

It also allows any BL/GW writer using them to make them what they want to be as a plot device.

Also, Displate is not the only source for their artwork.
There are 20 Arks of Omens videos each on a card or its reversed version.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSzo...
#Tarot
#EmperorsTarot
#Warhammer40K

27.02.2026 12:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's because there's no definitive set of Emperor's Tarot.

Each set is supposed to be unique to the user, which is why an Inquisitor's set can have Daemons in it, yet sets belonging to others probably won't.

Plus each artisan makes them bespoke to them and their region of the Imperium.

27.02.2026 12:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@manmademoon.bsky.social I think the full truth is more interesting than this at first seems.
What do you think?

26.02.2026 22:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think you mean 'Mecha with a sword'.

26.02.2026 21:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can I just ask, will it have shuttles named Caledfwlch, Caliburn, Caladbolg, Escalibor and Mirandoise?

(They're all alternate names for the sword Excalibur.)

26.02.2026 19:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Warhammer space marines Defenders of Kharkiv Charity Raffle — Raising Funds for UNICEF Ukraine with This is the third Warhammer 40K army I’ve painted and raffled to raise money for children affected by the war in Ukraine. Each one has been a labour of lo…

Hello all, long time no speak 🙂

A local lad (from Leeds, Norf) is running a charity raffle for a Space Marine army they've painted.

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26.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 23    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0

This sounds like the old UK definition of Barratry.

Abusive litigation tactics; filing false claims, deliberately misleading the court, or acting without a proper legal basis.

A barrister’s duty to the court and the administration of justice takes precedence over their duty to the client.

26.02.2026 12:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You basically have two choices.
Sub-assemblies, you assemble the model only partway leaving it in two or more parts you can easily paint and then fully assemble it.

Recess Primer, you assemble and primer the recesses and hidden bits with black paint on Primer, then spray primer.
It creates shadows.

24.02.2026 23:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But if it had survived 38,000 years into the future, as unlikely as that is, the F-word would be a High Gothic word, not a Low Gothic word, let alone a local dialect word.

24.02.2026 21:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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23.02.2026 14:51 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0