John is not assigning blame, Alison is someone, and Liz is bludgeoning.

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Content warnings this episode: Sexual assault (Neil Gaiman allegations, at 39:28 to 42:02).

• Letters of comment

• Niall Harrison

• Andy on Mastodon

• Alan Fleming

• Chris Garcia

• June Young (email, 9 September)

• Martin Freeman circa 2001

• Tero on Mastodon

• Hugo finalists: Raj on Mastodon

• Ali Baker Brooks, Angela Rosin, Catherine Pickersgill, Curt Phillips, Damien Warman, Dave Coxon, España Sheriff, Farah Mendlesohn, Fiona Moore, Fran Dowd, Gav Reads, Iain Clark, Jonathan Baddeley, Julie Faith McMurray, Karen Schaffer, Leigh Edmonds, Lilian Edwards, Malcolm Hutchison, Mike Scott, Neil Ottenstein, Phil Dyson, Roseanna Pendlebury, Trish

• File 770

• Seattle 2025

• Seattle is having a Poetry Hugo

• Good guests

• John: Alien: Romulus

• Cover art: “We got a lot of letters” by Alison Scott

• Alt text: A famous photograph of Margaret Hamilton standing beside printed outputs of the code that took the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon, overlaid with the words “Octothorpe 119” and “Our Listeners Write In”.