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Octothorpe 138: A Tedious Number of Questions About What It’s Like to Run a Games Shop

A famous photograph of Margaret Hamilton standing beside printed outputs of the code that took the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon, overlaid with the words “Octothorpe 138” and “Whizz-Fizz Agenda Time!”.
Art by Alison Scott

John chaired, Alison is off on holiday, and Liz has the agenda.

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Octothorpe 137: My Brain Automatically Goes to Sandwiches

An image of the well-known fantasy hero Ahmon Kwasson, holding his trusty croissant-shaped sword and his trusty croissant-adorned shield, with his trusty croissant-coloured hair, which obscures the words “Octothorpe 137”. At the bottom is text: “Ahmon’s Quest: Your perfect cosy breakfast listen”.
Art by Alison Scott

John is well-read, Alison played a game, and Liz needs an Allen key.

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Octothorpe 136: When Do You Not Want to Talk About Games?

Liz, depicted as the Incredible Hulk, comes across a table on which lie many items of food (sketched in black and white) including John (a sausage roll) and Alison (an almond croissant), rendered in colour. The words “Octothorpe 136” appear at the top and “You won't like Liz when she's hangry” appear at the bottom.
Art by Alison Scott.

John is ambivalent, Alison is against, and Liz is hangry.

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Octothorpe 135: Very Slightly Soggier

A blueprint of an almond croissant with “Octothorpe 135” written at the top and “almond croissant engineering” at the bottom.
Art by Alison Scott.

Alison describes her perfect almond croissant.

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Octothorpe 134: In the Framework of Linear Time

A photograph of a yellow square on a mantlepiece. On the yellow square is black text and a red shape with yellow text. The text reads “Corflu 42. 2025 FAAn Awards. Best Immutable Object: Octothorpe”. Text overlaid on the photograph reads ‘Octothorpe 134. “Don’t believe everything you read on ChatGPT.”’
Art by Alison Scott.

John has shortlisted, Alison has worked in large organisations, and Liz has done a spot-the-difference.

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Octothorpe 133: I Understand That Alison Has Never Been Pope

John, Alison and Liz are sat behind a table at Reconnect doing a live podcast. The words “Octothorpe 133” appear at the bottom.
Photograph by Andrew Hogg

John, Alison, and Liz are live from the Belfast Eastercon!

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Octothorpe 132: Almost Everything Is Not Mac

A black background. Text in purple reads “*Octothorpe* 132” while text MADE OF FIRE says “Scorching hot takes on the Hugo finalists”.
Art by Alison Scott.

John, Alison and Liz discuss this year’s Hugo Awards finalists.

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131: We’re Performance Before We’re Interest

A birthday cake with six layers, from purple to a dark orange, and then a red 5 and five red candles on top, with fireworks overhead. The words “Octothorpe 131” are at the top.
Art by Alison Scott.

John is moderating, Alison is auctioning, and Liz is lecturing.

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Octothorpe 130: I Am Scalison Ott

The words “Octothorpe 130: Handwriting Analysis Special” appear three times in the three hosts’ handwriting.
Art by the Octothorpe hosts.

John is working, Alison is plugging and Liz is ghosting.

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Octothorpe 129: Deep in Annex A

Words read “Octothorpe 129: Can you pin Thailand on the map?” above a black-and-white world map. The backs of John, Alison and Liz’s heads are shown. John is thinking “Yup!”, Liz is thinking “100%”, and Alison is holding Thailand and thinking “???”.
Art by Alison Scott

John thought of something, Alison is educational, and Liz reads contracts.