Social media bot that randomly posts 23,463 personalized license plate applications the California DMV received from 2015-2016.
Watch it live on the following platforms:
- Twitter: @ca_dmv_bot
- Mastodon: @ca_dmv_bot@botsin.space
- Tumblr: @ca-dmv-bot
The data ca-dmv-bot uses is sourced from @veltman/ca-license-plates, which states;
- 23,463 personalized license plate applications that the California DMV received from 2015 through 2016
- These aren't all applications reviewed by the DMV during that timeframe; only applications that were flagged for additional review by the Review Committee
- Compiled from 458 Excel workbooks that the DMV prepared for a public records request
- Uses Discord to manually approve plates (to ensure no obscene content gets posted, such as slurs)
- Uses GraphicsMagick (fork of ImageMagick) to generate images
- Does not include review reason codes for brevity purposes
- Made on a slow weekend; only ephemeral logging exists and there is little-to-no error checking
- Noah Veltman (@veltman) - Compiling the data that ca-dmv-bot uses
- Dylan (@brickdylanfake) - Creating a custom font for the bot to use as well as making the profile picture and banner
- kay (@zyrnwtf), gary (@bararectangle), jerd (@jerdftw), neb (@briwaffles), zetex (@zetexkindasucks) - Moderation
ca-dmv-bot is licensed under the MIT license. A copy of it has been included with ca-dmv.
ca-dmv-bot uses the Cascadia Code font, a project licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL).