Octothorpe

54: Embrace the Sweat

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John is dancing, Alison is listening, and Liz is Batman.

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Content warnings this episode: COVID (chapter 1), war and human rights (chapter 2)

  • Letters of comment:
  • Chris Garcia
  • Everyone liked Sue’s art and everyone wants John to get better soon
  • Liz saw a cat
  • Jonny Baddeley is giving John his old Netrunner stuff
  • Jonny Baddeley has questions about discos in COVID times
  • Lori really liked Six Wakes and is going to try to convince her cohosts to add it to her schedule eventually
  • Chengdu 2022
    • Human rights
    • GoH Sergei Lukyanenko signed a letter on Ukraine
  • Netflix distance from Cixin Liu
  • Open letter to try and revoke the 2023 site selection
  • Liz’s links to different indices for measuring this
    • Democracy Index
  • Freedom in the World
  • Membership rates
    • Cheap and cheaper
  • But they are selling one without WSFS voting rights
  • To the WSFS constitution, Bat-Liz!
  • If you simply define a single programme item that the non-WSFS members can’t attend you don’t break the rules – win!
  • FAAn awards
    • The Incompleat Register has the results
  • Congratulations to the winners!
  • Thanks to the people who voted for us anyway even after we told you not to
  • Picks:
    • John bought a house
  • Alison is listening to My Real Children by Jo Walton (paperback, epub, Kindle, Audible)
  • Liz has read The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (hardback, paperback, epub, Kindle, audiobook)
  • Credits
    • Cover art: Alison Scott
  • Theme music: Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
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