2026-08-20 12:35 UTC
The first part of the problem is watching the data feeds and detecting the lag time between when people experienced icy conditions and when their report made it online.
There's a fair number of reports which are posted hours after the fact.
So to get a better feel of the real world tempo of sightings the bot only posts reports that are very recent.
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@nullagent@partyon.xyz 2026-08-20 12:39
Filtering the super recent postings for city gives me a solid feed of the local sightings. These are basically the sorts of reports the bot keeps an eye out for. It drafts a post, makes sure it hasn't posted about this report before and toots away! @seaice@partyon.xyz