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The Case for Popular Ratificationfile770.com By Kevin Standlee: Popular Ratification is the name of a proposal that would change the way that amendments to the WSFS Constitution are ratified, opening up the process so that all WSFS members (a…
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BayCon to Host Westercons 77 and 78www.westercon.org BayCon will host both Westercon 77 (2025) and 78 (2026), after the members of Westercon 76 in Utah voted to award the right to host Westercon 78 to a bid from BayCon’s parent non-profit organ…
Westercon 76 Business Meeting Video Onlinewww.westercon.org Video of the 2024 Westercon Business Meeting held at Westercon 76 in Salt Lake City is now available. The Westercon 76 Business Meeting received the results of Westercon 78 (2026) Site Selection, r…
RLMS: Not a Locomotiveyoutu.be Some things that look like a locomotive aren't really locomotives, at least in a technical sense. In this episode, we'll look at a specialized piece of maintenance of way equipment that, for railroad labor union reasons, is not officially a locomotive, even though it looks and acts like one.
BayCon Files Bid to Host Westercon 78www.westercon.org The parent non-profit organization of BayCon, The Society for the Promotion of Speculative Fiction, has filed a bid with Westercon 76 Utah to host the 2026 West Coast Science Fantasy Conference (We…
Westercon 76 Utah Publishes Progress Report 2www.westercon.org Westercon 76, July 4-7, 2024 at the Doubletree Hotel Salt Lake City Airport, has published Progress Report 2. PR 2 recaps recent changes and updates, including revisions to the convention’s G…
Mother-of-four who won The Great West Run suffers transphobic abusewww.independent.co.uk Anna Harrold has hit back at online trolls who called her ‘disgusting’ and a ‘disgrace’ after she won the women’s half marathon at the Great West Run in Exeter
Wizard’s Tower Signs Helen L Bradywizardstowerpress.com Cheryl Morgan, publisher of Wizard’s Tower Press, has acquired World English ebook and paperback rights to three novels in the Rag and Boyd series from Helen L Brady. The Rag and Boyd books feature…
Worldcon Heritage Organization Succeeds in Buying First Hugo at Auctionfile770.com Ackerman’s Hugo Close-up of plaque The first Hugo Award ever presented, given to Forrest J Ackerman by Isaac Asimov at the 1953 Worldcon, was acquired by Worldcon Heritage Organization w…
RLMS: Turning A Trainyoutu.be Trains are big, heavy, and run on rails. You can't just turn them around the way you can an automobile. So how do you get a train to point the direction you want it to go?
Do You Want To Own the First Hugo Award Ever Given?file770.com Ackerman and Asimov as first ever Hugo Award is presented in 1953. On June 7 the Hugo Award given to Forrest J Ackerman by Isaac Asimov at the 1953 Worldcon will be up for auction – the first ever …
The voters didn’t back us because we still let trans people use the toilet of their choosing, insist angry Toriesnewsthump.com The Conservative party is laying the blame for their disastrous local elections result squarely at the feet of those preventing them from demonising further minority groups.
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RLMS: WhyTrainsyoutu.be What makes trains such a good form of transportation? We'll look at how low rolling resistance, including low-friction wheel bearings, make trains incredibly...
Issue #60www.salonfutura.net This is the April 2024 issue of Salon Futura. Here are the contents.
Westercon 76 Utah Opens Hotel Reservationswww.westercon.org Westercon 76 announced on their hotel/venue web page on April 27, 2024 that reservations are now open at their hotel, the DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton Salt Lake City International Airport. Hotel room…
Implicit Feudalism: Why Online Communities Still Haven’t Caught Up with My Mother’s Garden Club | Media Economies Design Lab | University of Colorado Boulderwww.colorado.edu
Anti-Trans Missouri A.G. Can Now Access Trans People’s Medical Recordsnewrepublic.com A judge ordered Planned Parenthood to hand records of transgender care over to Andrew Bailey.
Welcome to Boy.netwizardstowerpress.com ISBNs Paperback: 978-1-913892-72-2 Hardcover: 978-1-913892-73-9 EPUB: 978-1-913892-70-8 MOBI: 978-1-913892-71-5