John has a pin, Alison has a lot of pins, and Liz has opinions.

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Letters of comment

Kevin MacLeod also does excellent graph paper

Easter without Eastercon

“A Toast for Alison Scott” (the Facebook group)

The card for the Concentric 2020 committee

John Robertson did The Dark Room for 48 hours

His website

His Twitch channel

Alison’s Zoom party was a great success

Bid session

ConFusion 2021 won the bid for that year

Phil Dyson is head of a 2022 bid which will launch at Novacon

Drawn to the Flame did a live podcast which John listened to

Hugo Awards

2020 Finalists

Fanzines:

The Book Smugglers

Galactic Journey

Journey Planet (John edited Journey Planet #45, on The Matrix)

nerds of a feather, flock together

Quick Sip Reviews

The Rec Center

1945 Retro-Hugo Finalists

Staying sane in the apocalypse

Virtual exercise

Team Body Project

Dancing Stage Fusion

Ring Fit Adventure

Beat Saber

PlayStation VR

Oculus Quest

Board games

Tabletop Simulator

Arkham Horror: The Card Game

Buy online

Play on Tabletop Simulator

Marvel Champions: The Card Game

Buy online

Play on Tabletop Simulator

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

John grumbles, Alison parties, and Liz can’t stay awake.

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The BSFA have a Discord server

First Thursday London pub meetings (“the Tun”)

CoNZealand announces they’re going online

Alison is still running for GUFF

Concentric 2020 is hosting a virtual Eastercon bid session on Easter Sunday

WiFi SciFi

Panel 1: Fear, Hope and Speculative Fiction

Panel 2: The Plague-Writer’s Tale

Zoom has had some problems with respect to privacy concerns:

Every Zoom Security and Privacy Flaw So Far, and What You Can Do to Protect Yourself

The Washington Post was able to view private, archived Zoom videos

Bruce Schneier goes in-depth on Zoom’s relationship with marketing

Zoom’s response to the technical issues that have been highlighted

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

John is bad at Twitter, Alison discovers jigsaw puzzles, and Liz exercises.

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Eastercon

Concentric 2020 cancelled

This episode was recorded on Sunday 22 March, before gatherings of more than two people were banned in the UK

Convoy (the cancelled Liverpool Eastercon)

Contemplation (the last-minute Chester Eastercon)

Fan funds

The funds are:

The Transatlantic Fan Fund (TAFF)

The Down Under Fan Fund (DUFF)

The Going Under/Up-and-Over Fan Fund (GUFF)

A primer: “TAFF in Thirteen Paragraphs” by Teresa and Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Michael Lowrey is cancelling his TAFF trip

Alison is running for GUFF

CoNZealand is the 2020 Worldcon in New Zealand

Online fandom

Concellation 2020

Journeyfolk of Fandom

Staying sane in the apocalypse

The Metropolitan Opera and Royal Opera House are offering free streams

Games:

Joy Con drift

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo Switch)

Polyhedral Park Planner (tabletop)

Free print-and-play games on PNPArcade (tabletop)

One Shot Safety Net on GoFundMe (tabletop)

Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4)

The Last of Us (PS4)

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture (PS4/PC)

Books:

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

The Labyrinth Index by Charlie Stross

The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies are the first and second instalments

Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchison

Bare-Faced Messiah by Russell Miller

Toilets:

How to use bidet sprayers