John and Alison are watching cutting-edge TV, and Liz is hungry.

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Content warnings this episode: genocide (chapter 2); war and defence contracting (chapter 4)

• Letters of comment

• Farah Mendlesohn asks “but what did you think of DisCon III?”

• UK House of Commons motion

• Octothorpe was almost nominated for the Hugo Awards

• Octothorpe was the last fancast to be eliminated from the ballot!

• Helsinki’s explanation of how this works

• It always has delights on it and this year is no exception

• Best Series: Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London

• 2022 open for your suggestions now. Get those fanzines and fan writers and fan artists and fancasts that you think are absolutely great on there!

• Shaun Duke points out that Raytheon was one of the contractors that was employed in launching the James Webb Space Telescope

• File 770 reports that Winnipeg are pivoting to a 2023 NASFiC

• File 770

• Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

• Brice de Nice

• John can walk 804.672 kilometres

• Alison: The Expanse (Amazon Prime)

• OK she is a bit behind but it is a 2022 Plan

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Coco (Disney+)

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