It took someone mentioning how delightfully weird @emf has become for me to see it.

If you took the giant potato home you were gifted a real potato. The fictional village of Bodgeham-on-Wye had a mass campaign to find their cryptid. Someone DJ'd using a pig.

My people. #emfcamp

@emf Back when we decided our small camping trip would actually be a cool hacker festival, I could never have predicted that my favourite thing in 2024 would be a secret escape room in a shipping container about the murder of Microsoft Clippy.

I could not be happier with this result. I can't wait to see what happens next. #emfcamp

@jonty @emf How did I miss the clippy themed escape room!? This was made for me! Oh well I’m sure something just as weird will appear in 2026.
@jonty Thanks for sharing your camping trip with us 🎪🏕️⛺️

@jonty @emf

Hacker art, innit.

(if I was bored and wanted to write a thesis about something, then that would be it. However, no.)

@jonty @emf It's achieved a critical mass of weirdness and meta. People go away planning to add to the next pile of weird.

And it's accessible enough that our newbies dove straight in to it. @phyushin is setting up a phone system in @leigh_hackspace partially because @CatRyan wants her own chattering racooons.

@jonty @emf we’ve made it, Bodgehams *wipes away a single tear*

@jonty @emf
Do you have any info on the Bodgeham Badger, Jonty?

And, did you know you were wanted by @GCHQNET ?

@pa3weg @emf @GCHQNET That's Jonty Waring, I'm Jonty Wareing. It's clearly a different Jonty.

@jonty @pa3weg @emf Intelligence received from field agents indicates that the target Jonty owns a rat. Do you own a rat?

(I have no idea who sent these replies to us, but this fax conversation was a personal highlight of EMF this year, I’ll dig out the rest)

@GCHQNET @jonty @emf

Wellll, same!

To the point where I kept them just like you clearly did 😄

@pa3weg @jonty @emf Apparently our originals are still only on the Windows Server 2003 box, and that’s apparently still in a car somewhere. I’ll send them to you when I get them :)

@GCHQNET @jonty @pa3weg @emf

I can confirm that this was nothing to do with Rat Facts or the RSPCR (the royal society for the protection of canabaslistic rats)

@John @GCHQNET @jonty @emf
Your sign was surprisingly close to the sighting of the Jonty though....

I am suspicious now