@cassana @quixoticgeek @afewbugs that's delightful! I hope you're having fun with it.

Although it only works in British accents, it does work in *all* of them.

"Ahm bluddy loo rawlled, eh?" (Cumbria)

"Ye buzz seat!" (West Midlands)

"We'll gan get bridged" (Geordie)

"He is such a bookcase!" (RP)

@quixoticgeek @cassana @afewbugs or mix and match!

"You're totally tabled, you utter biro!"

@pvonhellermannn @markhburton @junesim63 I'd cosign that.

My local party collapsed a few years ago. Membership has shot up and a core group age looking at relaunching. If I could persuade them to have a presence here, that would be awesome. If I had the energy I'd set it up myself.

@danirabbit I'm flexitarian for primarily environmental reasons.

I have been known to order a veggie all day breakfast plus black pudding. I really love black pudding, it's full of haem iron, and it's essentially a waste product.

I refuse to feel guilty for the meat, plastic and super-processed food that comes in my weekly shop. It's through a food waste scheme that is also incredibly helpful for our household spoons and money budgets. This week included several pounds of bacon ends near their use-by date. Some has been slow cooked, some has been diced and frozen, the fatty bits were rendered and used to make potato wedges. All of it would have been binned if not shared through the scheme.

@afewbugs @ghouston @ShaulaEvans they really are amazing little things!

Ants farm them on some of my fruit bushes, so at the right time of year I get to see babies, adults, and winged adults up close. It's fascinating to watch how the ants care for their herd.

@afewbugs @ShaulaEvans that's a fun one.

Most aphids are unusual in reproducing by both parthenogenesis leading to live births *and* sexual reproduction with egg-laying. Eggs is how they typically overwinter. So clearly these giant willow aphids are especially unusual!

@ShaulaEvans woodlice/pillbugs are crustaceans.

They are more closely related to lobsters than anything else you might find in the garden. This is where they get their segmented exoskeleton and 14 legs.

@rbairwell @afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech none of the above.

I would be utterly unsurprised if the same poor design was used multiple times.

@NatalyaD @suearcher @afewbugs @kitten_tech there's a ramp, what more do you want‽

@afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech that sounds like the shiny PFI hospital in my home town. Tony Blair was *so proud* of the whole thing.

But they gave the atrium a glass roof three stories high. This did not impress the receptionists expected to work there when they were sweating so much they struggled to hold onto the phones. Neither were they at all happy with the absolute cacophony every time it rained, meaning they were shouting sensitive information to patients to be heard.

The rest of the building was similarly unsuitable. The doors were only just wide enough to get a hospital bed through. Porters had to work out complicated ways of opening the door, holding it with one foot, squeezing the bed through, and then going after it. They could have had extra space for wide, swinging doors, but they wasted so much on the damned atrium!

@hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis this encapsulates what I consider the defining feature of us xennials.

It's not as simple as technology - I spent large amounts of my single digit childhood on a 48k Spectrum, while many of my peers barely touched a computer until late teens.

It's more about us living on the edge of a cliff. We are the tipping point between GenX who could reliably do the career-house-kids-stability thing, and Millennials who had that future ripped from them. Whether any individual of us managed to cling onto the cliff is largely due to chance.