John is communicating, Alison\u2019s head is spinning, and Liz is a programme operator.\nPlease email your letters of comment to octothorpecast@gmail.com and use #OctothorpeCast or tag @OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media.\nLetters of comment\nClaire Brialey\nChris Garcia\nMark Plummer\n\nConfusion 2021\nFan Fund Auction (7pm-9pm Sunday)\nThere will be some cool things like unique dice and one of Esther\u2019s shawls, and there is probably just time to donate something if you would like to (get in touch with Alison).\nOne of the items will be \u201cMake the Octothorpe cast say whatever you want as long as it\u2019s under a minute long (we get a veto on grounds of taste, offensiveness and legality)\u201d \u2013 thanks to Crazy Dave for the idea!\n\nOctothorpe Live! (10am on Monday)\nWe will read your minute-long thing LIVE AT EASTERCON.\n\nVolunteering\nAlison and John are volunteering on newsletter. Watch out for the newsletter (Happy Daze) being published daily and distributed around the con and on the smeeds.\nLiz is on programme ops.\n\nProgramme items\nBeer/cider\nBaking\nThe Dark Room\nAlison is on panels about bad technology where she\u2019s going to tell you that the solution is to stop buying non-Apple products; and on pandemic pastimes\nJohn on panels about games and Star Wars, and moderating a panel about AI\n\nLiz is in the bar\nAlex Storer is providing \u201cdesign and music\u201d for Confusion\u2019s Gather.town environment\n\nEastercon 2022\nPhil Dyson will be telling all at Confusion\n\nEastercon 2023\nThere have been some whispers since we recorded but we don\u2019t know anything\n\nEastercon 2024\nJohn is heading up their communications\n\nFirst Thursday Facebook group\nAlison went to Gillian\u2019s Passover Seder\nThe seven words you can\u2019t say on television (of which I bleeped five and hope we don\u2019t get arrested)\nMusic credits\nOur theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license