@FroggyMakes @CuTEL

Hello! (Co founder of the RSPCR (rat facts) here) Glad to hear you enjoyed our service,

I'm still collecting stories from people about rat facts so if you have anything of note I'd love to hear it!

@John - oh amazing! I used to keep rats so they're very dear to my heart so rat facts was so cool.

I used this exact phone the day after to call for a rat fact:
_[dial tone]_
RSPCR: "Hello rat facts"
Me: "Hello, I would like a rat fact please."
RSPCR: "Certainly. When you see rats gathered around musician ensure you pay them or they will steal your children."
Me: "That is a very helpful fact, thank you for that."
RSPCR: "Not a problem, have a nice day."
_[extremely satisfying clunk hangup]_

@jonty @FroggyMakes
Yes it was a copper phone and line "bought" from cutel, in our village

https://chaos.social/@John/112576920346617718

we had great fun pretending to be a call centre!

269 calls and 142 minutes of total call duration!

@John @FroggyMakes Extremely regretting not calling Rat Facts

@jonty @John We've got cat, bat and rat facts. EMF2026 is just going to be a series of ad-hoc call centres keeping everyone informed on animal trivia.

Dibs on mole facts. Moles are weird.

@FroggyMakes @jonty

Hi is this Vole Facts?

@FroggyMakes @jonty @John dibs on tru'fax.

Now I just need to figure out fax machines.

@pieceofthepie @FroggyMakes @jonty @John
Nobody’s done hat facts yet…? Or perhaps even bureaucrat and aristocrat facts…

What about facts about faxes?! People could send a fax with a fact to fax facts!!!

@herdingdata @pieceofthepie@social.n8e.dev @FroggyMakes @jonty @John I for one would love to fax fax facts facts.

@herdingdata @pieceofthepie @FroggyMakes @jonty @John @Floppy @pikesley we need to nab Hat Facts for Hat Village in 2026!

@wamonite @pikesley Hat Fact #1: Richard Feynman theorised that there is only one hat, but it moves backwards and forwards through time.

@Floppy @wamonite

ALT

@jon @FroggyMakes @jonty @John this idea is not 10 minutes old and I am already chatting with @blue about implementation details. I feel like we need to make this happen 😃

@John @FroggyMakes @jonty might have to branch out into Tardigrade Facts next time. Perhaps a combined call centre with one of those big “calls waiting” type displays would be in order.

@John @FroggyMakes Operated by the technovoles themselves. They just reply with annoyed squeaks (at 140bpm)