John is in the hallways, Alison is at an auction, and Liz is in the archives.

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• Thanks to Teddy Harvia for this week’s artwork!
• Letters of comment
  • Farah Mendlesohn (Facebook)
  • Kate Macdonald (email)
  • Louise Hughes (Bluesky)
  • Intergalactic Mixtape
  • We also heard from DC, Ivan Sinha, Jonathan Baddeley, Scott Edelman
• Worldcon 2026: LAcon V
  • Tammy Coxen has thoughts on the low attendance
• Worldcon 2027: Montréal, Canada
  • They have a new child policy, updated from the previous child policy
• Tyneside Games Expo
• Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel on Kickstarter
• Archive of Our Own (AO3) has gone down for 2–4 weeks
• Swim headphone corner
  • Shokz Swim Pro
  • Carbon Copy Cloner
• Picks
  • John: Hokum
    • Terror on Tyne
  • Alison: Tabletop Rescue on eBay Live
  • Liz: Cupertino
• Credits
  • Cover art: “Wingnut Logic in Orbit” by Teddy Harvia
    • Alt text: An orange-and-red space station with blue and yellow windows floating above a planet with green terrain and a blue atmosphere. Various wingnuts sit, walk, and stand on the space station in various orientations. The words “Octothorpe 172” appear at the top and the words “Wingnut Logic in Orbit” down the right-hand side. The artist’s signature is at the bottom-right.
  • Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)