Idea: a button/'app'/shortcut on a phone you can press when pointing your phone camera at something (camera not actually necessary you'll see why), and the thing tells you what the first 'place' in front of you likely is, based on the direction you're facing and your location.

The 'it's a shortcut' version is just something that replicates opening a map app and selecting a space ~5m in front of you (hence direction relevance), and returning the first location result of that selection, but in calls rather than macro-UI prompts.

Camera interaction would be for the advanced implementation where it not only does the above, but separately tries to determine the location based on the picture, and/or corroborates this response with the response of the map-based result to try and produce a more accurate answer.

An overall focus on the idea is never to throw back a lat/long.

This thought brought to you by wishing I could just check a map like a video game.

"Aww paunch! Light-Tech Security!"
"Hellote."
"No probalo."
"Dump tell no mandy, it's just a land mower turned bankways!"
"Prude me in, Couch Z. I'm Reggie Toupée."
"Good efening, Bontilda. Fourty-twone will be on your lest." (And pretty much anything Senor Cardgage says.)
"Needless to say, I was perplexed, and intriguéd." (pronounced 'intregwayed'.)
"Todaybor day is Labor day!"

And so many more. I intended to make this a post I'd extend as time went on....

But now we're out of time.

I don’t know about y’all, but going from the extreme highs of @nomnomnami‘s moxdonald’s AU (one of the coolest uses of social media I’ve ever witnessed) to the sudden death of cohost…

It’s been a real week, hasn’t it? 😭

I honestly am not entirely certain what I’ll do next. I mean… I spent the last two months in hibernation after (time for a little brutal honesty) being forcibly cut off from a portion of my family after starting HRT. It…was extremely rough, as I’m sure many of you can imagine. But lately, I’ve been lurking a lot again and Nami’s posts were just starting to get me back into the idea of posting this last week and…. sigh

This is where I’ve always gone when things got rough to remind myself I’m not alone, ya know? Just my little reminder that there are a fair few of us. That we’re all dealing with shit but that we’re thriving too!

I am going to miss it immensely…

But thanks for being here folks, truly, I enjoyed it!! Hopefully I find y’all in the various places you land. In the mean time, best of luck and best of wishes. I’m rooting for you 🥰