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
Alison Wilder@waldoj amazing idea! I will perpetually enjoy this, thank you!
@alisynthesis I always get a kick out of these lists, and sometime in the past few days, on some social network (I can’t find it now, I regret), I saw a reference to somebody setting up a bot for rejected plates in another state. After that percolated for a bit, I figured I’d replicate the idea in my state!
@waldoj I was thinking about this a couple of years ago when I was coming up with a personalized license plate. I figured there must be some doozies.
@alisynthesis Here's the other one I saw reference to! It doesn't seem to be active anymore, but I always like to provide credit to others for their ideas. :) https://botsin.space/@ca_dmv_bot
ca-dmv-bot (@[email protected])
3.49K Posts, 1 Following, 3.29K Followers · Real personalized license plate applications that the California DMV received from 2015-2017. Posts hourly. Not the CA DMV. (14.07% complete)
ca-dmv-bot (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Customer: I CALL MY 2 KIDS MONKEYS DMV: MONKEYS CAN BE SLANG FOR 2 THINGS. 1-RACIAL SLUR AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS. 2- SLANG FOR VAGINA Verdict: DENIED