difference

difference is a Mastodon bot that generates false dichotomies. It finds some type of thing, compares two different images of that type of thing, and then makes up a binary that explains why they are different. The bot parodies the black-and-white way that society tends to put things into dichotomies; for example, the gender binary. The original inspiration for this bot was the following tweet:

I label increasingly nonsensical images with ‘UI’ and ‘UX’ and hope they get used in serious presentations pic.twitter.com/tDJgRp6CO5

— Sebastiaan de With (@sdw) March 15, 2016

It tweets a new binary every hour. It uses verbly to pick nouns, pictures, and antonyms; GraphicsMagick to create the output images; YAMLcpp to read a configuration file; and mastodonpp to send the status updates to Mastodon.

The canonical difference handle is @difference@beppo.online (previously @differencebot on Twitter).