oreouk

Theo is growing rapidly. He'll be one year old by the end of October, and it hardly seems possible.

He's a cheeky little monkey, outgoing and very confident.

He's totally adorable when he sees me. Gives a big smile and crawls, very fast, over to see me. Grabs hold of my legs, pulls himself to standing, and asks to be picked up. (Not verbally, but it's a very expectant face)

Which I love doing - he's very cuddly.

But, he's also getting heavy. Very heavy...

And my back is suffering.

I've got to learn to resist that happy face, and play with him on the floor. And read books to him on the floor as well. I think that lifting him onto my knee when I'm reading to him is actually the biggest source of the back pain, as I have to lean forward to do it.

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Ok, we are doing this thing in a slightly different way. Because kickstarter has limitations on how they fundraise, we are doing this thru GoFundMe. HOWEVER, much like a kickstarter, there will be tiers for donations to the convention that get you different things. Badge level, Supporting Membership level, and Glad to help level. Come see!
https://gofund.me/70d28e045

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We are looking for an experienced Con Suite person. It is the one part that neither of us have ever worked on.

Email me at ericcoleman at gmail

history_monk

"Brit card" will likely cost you your seat

Dear Mr Zeichner,

A compulsory ID card, digital or otherwise, is a catastrophically bad idea for Labour. The British public have accepted such ID systems in time of war, but the illegal immigration and working problems are not a crisis on that scale, no matter how much the right-wing press tries to make it seem so.

By over-reacting in this way, Labour are handing the entire civil liberties agenda to the Tories and Reform (Reform? Civil liberties? What have we come to?). They are not really in favour of civil liberties, but they have a better idea of what the public will put up with than Labour is displaying.

In Cambridge, the Tories and Reform have no real hope of unseating you, but the Liberal Democrats and the Greens do, especially if they were to form an electoral pact against you. As a strongly Remain former Labour MP, finding another seat would be challenging, at best.

I urge you to oppose any form of compulsory ID in all ways possible. It makes Labour look even more authoritarian than the Tories and Reform.

I would also suggest that Labour needs to be far more sceptical about policy suggestions from the Tony Blair Institute. It isn't 1997 any more. but the TBI doesn't seem to have noticed and carries on campaigning for things Blair was unable to push through, because they were bad ideas for both New Labour and the United Kingdom.

Yours, sincerely,

John Dallman

Current Mood: angry
Current Location: Mum's flat
Current Music: Radio 3

history_monk

Tomorrow, the UK government will announce plants for mandatory digital ID. This is an act of the most profound stupidity on their part, making it trivial for the Conservatives and Reform (Even Reform!) to outflank Labour on civil liberties. It won't work, it will be hacked and abused, and people without a smartphone will be even more marginalised.

Please sign this petition against it, contact your MP, and resist in all practical ways.

Parliamentary petition here has over a million signatures, Let's try for ten million.

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Location: Mum's flat
Current Music: Radio 3

watervole

The Morris Federation have been producing a series of short videos for many of their members. The aim is to get as many shares as possible, in order to boost the number of people reached.

So, here's the short video for Southern Star Longsword. We're a small, friendly team, who welcome men, women and children. We meet in Corfe Mullen on Monday evening. We're especially keen to recruit new musicians at present.

We perform English longsword dances (no connection to Scottish sword dancing), and write many of our own dances. Our latest dance - sadly, no decent video as yet - is danced to 'The Wellerman'.

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Lynn Barker & DC Fontana, Tera Mitchell, Critical Mass, Don Neill, Emory Churness, Marc S. Glasser, Linda Short, Pat Sheller, W. Randy Hoffman & Kira Heston, Dr. Jane Robinson, Karen Wilson, David Kushner, PDX Broadsides, Dr Stephen M Baird, Harmony Heifers

Available on iTunes, Google Play and most other places you can get podcasts. We can be heard Wednesday at 6am and 9pm Central on scifi.radio.

filkcast.blogspot.com

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Posted by John Kovalic

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SUPPORT INSANE CHARITY BIKE RIDE 2025! There’s Still time! DO IT FOR THE DUCK!

This or any DORK TOWER strip is now available as a signed, high-quality print, from just $25! CLICK HERE to find out more!

HEY! Want to help keep DORK TOWER going? Then consider joining the DORK TOWER Patreon and ENLIST IN THE ARMY OF DORKNESS TODAY! (We have COOKIES!) (And SWAG!) (And GRATITUDE!)

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Marc Ortlieb, Lawrence Dean, Blind Lemming Chiffon, Apryl Knight, Marc Gunn, Leslie Fish, Johnathan Eberhard, Gray Rinehart, Cheshire Moon, Clearly Guilty, Renee Alper, Uffington Horse, Bryan Baker, Tom Smith

Available on iTunes, Google Play and most other places you can get podcasts. We can be heard Wednesday at 6am and 9pm Central on scifi.radio.

filkcast.blogspot.com

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Happening deep in the wilds of Iowa, a Filk Relaxacon.
FilkConbobulated, June 26-28 at the Holiday Inn & Suites Des Moines-Northwest.
We will have badge and hotel information as quickly as we can ... in the next week or two. There will also be a website coming for those of you who don't do Facebook.

The Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4059101374339105

The Event
https://www.facebook.com/events/810327968012949

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FilkConbobulated! June 26-28 Des Moines IA

FilkConbobulated! June 26-28 Des Moines IA

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Mandatory Digital ID

Southern Star are recruiting!

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