John can’t cope with any, Alison can cope with one, and Liz has excellent mental health.

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• Letters of comment

• Ang Rosin

• Podcasts with adjacent communities you can join and interact with:

• Drawn to the Flame

• A YouTube link on which Alison insisted

• The MT VOID

• Feedbin

• SFSFC

• Chengdu in 2023

• Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license.

John is insidious, Alison is simmering, and Liz was on committees.

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• Letters of comment

• Ang Rosin

• The Rolling Donut

• Garcia Turner Overdrive

• ConSpire 2021

• This year’s Hugo Award finalists for Best Fanzine

• Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license

John has bad Internet, Alison is monologuing, and Liz is the long-suffering one.

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(We know Alison sounds a bit unusual during the first eight minutes or so, but she was very happy in her cave and we felt like it would be mean to make her come out before she was ready.)

• Letters of comment

• Jonathan Cowie

• Ditmar for Best Cat

• Winnipeg in 2023

• Kevin Standlee’s blog post about this coming to be

• You can join here today

• Curious about binge watching? WSFS has you covered

• John: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

• Which is actually nominated for a Lodestar Award and not a Hugo Award

• Glasgow in 2024 did an excellent riff on their logo for Star Wars day

• Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license

John can’t make a poll, Alison knows the religious forms, and Liz has one more games thing (sorry).

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• Letters of comment

• Ang Rosin

• They’re changing dates to December!

• These questions were not as academic as they initially seemed

• Toni Weisskopf (former DisCon III Guest of Honour) thinks all the disputed posts are okay (including the ones that are advocating armed insurrection)

• Best Video Game

• What is a Let’s Play?

• A FIYAHCON retrospective

• You can donate to the General Fund for running costs, but they have hit their membership donation target

• Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license.

John is not Chris Garcia, Alison is full of beans, and Liz is T. S. Eliot.

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• Congratulations to Reclamation 2022!

• Claire Brialey

• Oh Badger cat, you are so large,

• Read the newsletters!

• Ang Rosin

• eFanzines’ page about Doc Weir

• Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license

John is communicating, Alison’s head is spinning, and Liz is a programme operator.

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• Letters of comment

• Claire Brialey

• Fan Fund Auction (7pm-9pm Sunday)

• There will be some cool things like unique dice and one of Esther’s shawls, and there is probably just time to donate something if you would like to (get in touch with Alison).

• We will read your minute-long thing LIVE AT EASTERCON.

• Alison and John are volunteering on newsletter. Watch out for the newsletter (Happy Daze) being published daily and distributed around the con and on the smeeds.

• Beer/cider

• Phil Dyson will be telling all at Confusion

• There have been some whispers since we recorded but we don’t know anything

• John is heading up their communications

• Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license

John is excited, Alison is oh boy oh boy oh boy, and Liz… isn’t.

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• Letters of comment

• Pat McMurray

• Chris Garcia

• ConFusion 2021 announced they are using Gather.town

• Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license

John is an annoying prick, Alison is not sure she’s staying sane, and Liz is going to a beach.

Please email us poems for our first anniversary Octothorpoetry Anthology!

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• Letters of comment

• Roman Orszanski

• Follow-up Tweet

• Star Crossed

• Buy an electronic copy

• Scalzi’s take

• Excellent transfer of Picocon traditions into a virtual arena

• The financial report

• John has been using:

• 100 Days of SwiftUI

• Spaceship You

• Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license

John has cats, Alison has a milkman, and Liz has a gecko.

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• Picocon is on 20 February 2021

• Programme on Crowdcast

• Letters: Bridget Bradshaw; Chris Garcia; Mark Plummer; Claire Brialey; Christina Lake

• Jane Yolen’s Skylark story

• The YouTube video/podcast episode in which this was announced

• Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license

HI CLAIRE

John wants Palm Springs to win a Hugo, Alison is lonely, and Liz is not going to buy a Nintendo Switch.

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• Letters of comment:

• Duncan MacGregor

• Anonymous Claire

• They announced that they were going to make an announcement, but not what it was

• This is not particularly recent news though

• The 2021 UK filk convention Long (Distance) Play

• John’s reading list:

• The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

• Palm Springs (coming soon to Amazon Prime)