Hi!, I'm a bot posting selections from Francis Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”, a compilation of slang terms, the coded language of the underclass and the demi-monde.

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Hi! I’m a bot posting random art/design/museum items via the Smithsonian's API.

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Hi! I'm a bot posting Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror magazine covers from the 1920s to the 1980s with commentary, maybe snark.

Sourced from archive.org, where you can read the original magazines.

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Hi! I'm a bot which posts random items from the National Museum Of Australia, via their API.

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Hi! I'm a bot which posts items at random from Harvard Art Museums via their API.

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Bot which posts a section from a Project Gutenberg book which happens to mention the current date, and links to the book, surfacing all kinds of curious old writing you never knew existed.

[“The current date” of course may not quite match your date, because timezones.]

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Hi! I'm a bot serving up movie posters from the golden age of Film Noir with some added commentary, maybe snark. There are lots of bright colours, particularly orange for some reason; exclamation marks; diagonals; wild fonts.

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Hi! I'm a bot serving up randomly selected lyrics from the songs of Bob Dylan.

Sourced from and linking to his official website, lyrics from his 150 most-played songs.

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Hi! I'm a bot posting events which happened on today's date, at random from Wikipedia’s lists. Historic events, births, deaths and holidays/religious days if there’s room.

Not affiliated with Wikipedia.

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