Automated for the people

[dolorosa_12]

Today's sunshine_challenge prompt is 'blue,' and I am going to use this prompt as an excuse to talk about some of my favourite accounts over on the blue hellsite, Twitter. I can only take Twitter in small doses, but one of the bright spots over there is the proliferation of bot accounts. By this I do not mean 'vectors of political disinformation,' but rather Twitter accounts focused on one specific thing (photos of animals, poetry quotations, etc), automated and tweeting out batches of content at specific intervals. My favourites of these include:

BirdPerHour: bird photos, every hour
sapphobot: quotes from fragments of Sappho's poetry
boschbot: fragments of images from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights painting
bitsofjupiter and bitsofsaturn: fragments of photos of these two planets
midsomerplots: a hilarious Midsomer Murders plot generator
BestiaryBot: mashups taken from medieval bestiaries
arnarleir: a Skaldic poetry bot

Do any of you have comparable Twitter accounts that you enjoy?

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In other, non-Sunshine Challenge news, goodbyebird has set up a comm on Dreamwidth for The Old Guard. It's the_old_guard — go over and join/subscribe if you're interested!

I have just spent the past half-hour writing an absolute wall of text at morbane in relation to Galax Arena — it's as if writing fic for that fandom after so long unlocked the torrent of feelings I have about that book, and specifically those two characters. It's nice to return to fandoms-of-the-heart, that's for sure.

I hope all of you have lovely weekends!

Comments

[bloodydemonic]

I rather think I need to go and follow both the bosch and bestiary accounts - thank you for the recommendation!

[dolorosa_12]

You're very welcome! The bestiary bot is made by a friend of mine from university — she made the skaldic poetry bot as well.

[bloodydemonic]

And from the bosch one, I found a Van Gogh bot account which makes me ridiculously happy. I've also followed the medieval death one a few other people have mentioned!