Bots to Love
A collection of whimsical artistic and literary bots
Created by
@samplereality.bsky.social
@thisemailfindsyou.bsky.social
Corpus: Google Books, not GenAI. Two posts daily. Created and maintained by @waldo.net. Source code: https://github.com/waldoj/finds-you
@whitmanfml.bsky.social
Procedural mashups of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass with #FML posts (a spoken word poetry bot by @samplereality.bsky.social)
@skeetsofgrass.bsky.social
The 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, in order, little by little, over and over.
@hwaet.info
Translations of the first word of Beowulf. Created by @jesse.lansner.com. See more at https://hwaet.info.
@pomological.xor.blue
i'm a bot tweeting random images from the pomological watercolor collection in the usda's national agricultural library. unofficial. built by @xor.blue
@biodiversitypix.bsky.social
The Biodiversity Heritage Library contains thousands of historical illustrations of flora and fauna. This unaffiliated bot shares random images from the collection.
@weirdpoems.bsky.social
This bot remixes famous modernist poems with weird words. Current repertoire includes "This is Just to Say" and "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams and "In the Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound. Created by @samplereality.bsky.social.
@weirdsatellite.bsky.social
Weird Spy Satellite Imagery. A speculative surveillance bot by @samplereality.bsky.social
@clipart.bsky.social
In 1994 I bought a Corel Gallery CD-ROM with 10,000 clipart images. Thirty years later those images haunt this ghost story bot. Posts autodelete. Credits: clipart from Corel; conversion, curation, code, and alt text by @samplereality.bsky.social
@findmobydick.bsky.social
It is not down in any map; true places never are. A companion bot to @mobydickatsea.bsky.social, both bots coded and maintained by @samplereality.bsky.social.
@mobydickatsea.bsky.social
Random lines from Moby Dick. Bot conceived, coded, and curated by @samplereality.bsky.social. Follow the companion bot @findmobydick.bsky.social for sources.
@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
@samplereality.bsky.social
Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies at Davidson College. Maker of @mobydickatsea.bsky.social and @clipart.bsky.social. Teaches, researches, and practices computational creativity. Other things I've made: https://samplereality.itch.io