Sidetracks - July 11, 2025

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Anna

1. I thought this re-creation of a garden in Pompeii was really cool!

Renay

2. Denver Zoo's Baby African Pancake Tortoise has a name!

3. There's a few hours to go in the Strange Horizons fund drive.

4. Ngozi Ukazu, author of Check, Please, has a new graphic novel, titled Flip.

5. The new federal duck stamp is available! I talked at length about last year's duck stamp entries. I sort of guessed the winner and so I'm very excited to get my 2025 duck stamp. Should I write a post about all the artists I'm following this year? Maybe I should.

6. I'm at the Pizza Hut
I'm at the Silent Hill
I'm at the combination Pizza Hut and Silent Hill

7. The Fandom Platform Diaspora (I have been in fandom so long I can think of several other platform losses, sob.)

8. All my SFF links are over in Issue #10 of Intergalactic Mixtape. Every week I think, "Oh, I guess this will be a smaller issue." and then I look at the finished product and wonder where everything came from.