One way the conference organizers strove to make everyone comfortable was to establish gender-neutral washrooms. The hotel actually accomplished this by covering over the urinals and allowing everyone the privacy of a toilet stall; whether cis or trans; male, female, or nonbinary in gender.
Skepticon 8 extended its accommodations to people with hearing loss disabilities by providing an on-stage sign language interpreter, and captioning on the fly.
Tables were set up in the corridor surrounding the workshop rooms, and various organizations and vendors were there. One of the more unusual sights was the Satanic Temple: I don't believe in devils any more than I believe in gods, but the Temple could best be thought of as a parody religion that "poisons the well" by waging "religious freedom" challenges against Christian-nationalist lawmakers on their own terms.
There was a Pinto in the parking lot...a 1975 Runabout, to be exact. No one would tell me who drove it, though.
Oh...and there was a dinosaur loose in the hall. A picture is worth a thousand words.
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