Listen "54: Embrace the Sweat"
Episode Synopsis
John is dancing, Alison is listening, and Liz is Batman.
Please email your letters of comment to [email protected] and tag @OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media.
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)
Please email your letters of comment to [email protected] and tag @OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media.
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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