John is an internet historian, Alison is an investigative journalist, and Liz is a time-traveller.

Please email your letters of comment to octothorpecast@gmail.com and use #OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media.

• Letters of comment:
  • Steven Cain writes “TwillTone sounds like a record label”.
  • Karen Schaffer
    • DaVICI made Karen’s Russian puzzle
    • Alison’s puzzles on Jigsaw Planet
  • Claire Brialey
    • We didn’t mention this in the podcast, but she writes “I’m not sure that I’m strong enough for the crossover podcast ‘Alison and Lilian shout at movies’, though,” which is a shame given that the Alison/Lilian project now has Christina editing and appears to be A REAL PODCAST.
• Futuricon and Octocon happened!
  • Alison presented a talk at Futuricon on her GUFF trip with mmhmm (which John recommended to her, and which requires macOS Catalina or later)
• Alison is going to/has been to Zoomtopia
• Eastercon will happen!
  • Online-only memberships are £50, £30 for concessions.
• FIYAH are running a convention.
• Finland (The Åland Islands) is bidding for the ’25 Eurocon.
• You can now join Punctuation.
• Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license.