A Halloween episode of the Taiiku Podcast for everyone! I haven’t written one of these for Taiiku in a while. My fledgling mango podcast is doing alright I guess, and I’m writing some introduction over there every two weeks, but this is a monthly podcast so I feel like it’s been forever. I also haven’t […]
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