John is at his usual podcasting setup, Alison is in a cauldron, and Liz is on Plague Island.

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Content warnings this episode: death (chapter 3) and COVID-19 discussion (chapter 4).

• Coded messages appeared in This Here… #45

• Ali Baker

• Alison appeared on episode 3 of Ali’s podcast

• American Vandal

• Recipe for fifteens

• Recipe for bar cookies

• John’s TAFF trip report, Best. Trip. Ever.

• DisCon III have released a new COVID-19 policy

• Vaccination required (no exemptions)

• Vaccination required (medical/child exemptions mean you can test instead)

• Dave Hicks will be in charge of this

• No vaccination policy (!)

• There was widespread criticism of the early-June plans

• File 770 linked to CONvergence’s Twitter thread outlining a COVID case in a convention attendee

• First

• By which we mean, we haven’t found any reports thereof

• Caroline Mullan is the chair

• Aloy and unrealistic depictions of beauty

• Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 4.0 license.