Officials in US health agencies fear ‘people will get sick’ as programmes are slashed and scientists are fired under the constant surveillance of DOGE
Zoom meetings are avoided out of fear they are being secretly recorded. Conversations about budgets and policies are held in soundproof offices, as if they were matters of national security. Many employees carry small notebooks with them, jotting down notes instead of logging them on a computer. The desks of several sacked colleagues are empty — save for the few who have left family photos and possessions behind in case a judge rules they can return.
“There is a constant sense that we’re being watched and monitored,” the source said. “DOGE leadership are located several floors above but they have this omnipotent presence … We’re counted when we swipe our badges into the building.”
I didn’t know the Skaven recognize Nurgle.
honorary pestilens
(still salty that 40k doesn’t have skaven)
The upside of the 40k setting is that there’s an indefinite number of as-yet-undiscovered or un-re-discovered worlds, or strata of worlds, populated by any number or type of humans, abhumans, or nonhumans, so any time someone does an RP in-universe there’s absolutely no friction in acting like 40k does, in fact, have them.