Daveon

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• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  Well quite, I have been to both professionally, but I think things have generally improved now. I'm thinking more of the reaction of 20somethings in my family and their experience of other fan run events in fields they are more...
• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  And that sort of thing is why I love them, but I do have to say, that the reality of the 2020s is that sort of thing just doesn't happen like it used to. I remember bumping into a slightly...
• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  Or Japan? Anyhoo, I wasn't using 'well run' like that but more in the meta sense of working as a convention without seeming, well, not to be indelicate, a bit cheap feeling and a bit crap? I've encouraged friends and...
• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  Like with all things Worldcon related I think the flow of events was slightly more complex that this - as others have said, the original team bidding knew what they were getting into but then having won the started working...
• Commented on That sinking feeling
  I remain somewhat hopeful, not least of which pretty much all my current pension savings are tied up in the UK. However, to respond to the idea that 'food will be fine because it's not changing', that's dangerously missing the...
• Commented on The unspeakable truth
  One of the things that's really shocked me about this is the number of people who are immigrants or the children of immigrants who've been complaining vocally on my Facebook wall about immigration... I suppose I had a rosy view...
• Commented on The unspeakable truth
  To be brutally honest, and I really am not a fan of the US system (and with the broad caveat that the provisions in the ACA on pre-existing conditions aren't removed - or live in a state like WA that...
• Commented on The unspeakable truth
  I have the accident of birth privilege of a father born in Limerick and I now have the copy of his Birth Certificate that can be sent off and not the highly fragile 1925 original. Moving to any other country...
• Commented on The unspeakable truth
  I've got nothing. I always assumed that I'd move back to the UK one of these days, but as I watch this stuff unfurl I don't recognize the country I grew up in or the values I was brought up...