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)