1: Joy Con

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