Waldo JaquithI made a new Mastodon bot! It uses three years of applications for custom license plates in Virginia that were rejected for being inappropriate (courtesy of a FOIA request by Virginia Public Media), and generates images of those plates. It posts twice daily. Some are funny, some are gross, some are weird little puzzles, and the number "69" shows up a lot. https://botsin.space/@rejectedplates/112151431401925961
As always, I'm grateful to @muffinista for providing a Mastodon instance dedicated to bots (https://botsin.space/), where I house my growing collection of goofy little fediverse bots.
Credit where credit is due: the idea for this bot came from @ca_dmv_bot, which does the same thing for California, but with the fun twist that California provides both the applicant's explanation and the reason the DMV rejected it. That bot isn't active on Mastodon anymore, but you can find it on other networks, including Bluesky. https://github.com/rjindael/ca-dmv-bot#readme
