The Cave of Trophonius

If you have been labeled and would like your label removed please like this post and it should be taken care of automatically (feel free to unlike it after)! If your label isn't removed within a few hours reply in this thread and I can take care of it manually 🙂

22 July

My Ozone instance got compromised and they dropped every table in the database that I had never bothered to backup, so GG I guess. Idk how long labels will stick around in their current state, but new ones won't get applied and I expect old ones will eventually go away. 🫡 it's been fun

6 May 2025

Hey @yardcrow.com guess who beat you on your quest to 1k lol

𓄿 The Yard Crow@yardcrow.com

Dear Diary, 811. Is that the whole sum and measure of a labeler. 1000 likes, it seemed so innocent a dream. So simple, and just a matter of days or weeks. I was a fool. A fool with a dream to good-naturedly label shitposters and fuckers. Is that so wrong? Col. Bufus Yard Crow Commander, OoC

8 Apr 2025

Having firehose stability issues again 😮‍💨

Finally took some time to do multiple things that had been waiting for _way_ too long. - I now have a post that you can like to be unlabeled automatically! Please don't test it for me if you don't want to lose your label 😅 - Labels are being applied again (slowly)!

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Unlike last time, I am applying labels based on how much posting activity I've recorded for each user (more posting = labeled sooner), so it should at least _feel_ like it's happening faster.

Not sure how sustained the trend will be, but for what it's worth new users are being discovered (maybe even new accounts are being created) faster than the rate limits will allow me to apply labels, so even though I'm labeling again the backlog is growing faster than I am working through it.

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Unlike last time, I am applying labels based on how much posting activity I've recorded for each user (more posting = labeled sooner), so it should at least _feel_ like it's happening faster.

Also shout out to the Weird Al movie which I watched while working on all of this lmao

I have a four-million deep queue of users to label, and at the current rate limits that could literally take years to get through. So don't expect to wake up tomorrow with a label if you don't have one yet!

16 Sept 2024

Brazilian users are in for a treat today! Thanks to @onlyifyousayes.bsky.social all fates have now been localized for Brazilian Portuguese 🪦 Usuários brasileiros estão em uma surpresa hoje! Graças a @onlyifyousayes.bsky.social todos os destinos agora foram localizados para o português brasileiro 🪦

The Cave of Trophonius@oracle.posters.rip

BTW this still stands, especially if anyone can do Portuguese 👀

3 Sept 2024

BTW this still stands, especially if anyone can do Portuguese 👀

The Cave of Trophonius@oracle.posters.rip

If anyone would like to help the oracle localize prophecies into other languages (particularly the other languages that have high platform usage like Japanese, Portuguese, Indonesian, etc) shoot me a DM

2 Sept 2024

I have to take a short break from handling new accounts. My system for tracking who has been labeled already hasn't scaled particularly well with the recent load, so I need to redesign it a bit. I'll get to it this week sometime 🙃

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15 Aug 2024

Now that labels have been caught up for a bit, I want to give a shout out to @ryannorth.ca, @davidmalki.com , and Matthew Bennardo (not on bsky I don't think) whose 2010 short story anthology was a big source of inspiration for this project ♥

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15 Aug 2024

Also available as a PDF if you want to check it out that way

5 Aug 2024

I don't want to jinx anything, but I _think_ the appview has caught up with all of the labels now!

29 July 2024

Made a few small changes this morning based on some suggestions from @wendysparrow.bsky.social - Several new labels have been added - Toilet (Dehydration) has been removed, people previously assigned this death have pulled new ones. - Some deaths have had descriptions added

29 July 2024

Once again please note that the bluesky appview is still playing catch-up with all of my labels, so it may take a while (~2 weeks, maybe?) for the new labels and the reassignments to show up. The added descriptions are already there.

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BunnyNabbit “Aon”

@bunnynabbit.com

14 July 2024

Replying to @bunnynabbit.com

Some extra data, a labeler leaderboard if you will. There are over 10 million labels applied on the network.

28 July 2024

Just a reminder that the bluesky appview is still catching up with all of the applied labels. My napkin math estimates ~2 weeks until that catch up is complete. If you're still waiting on a label (or a label removal) sit tight, it'll catch up Soon™️

13 July 2024

Fates have been prophecised for all ~1.5M users who have been active in the past month or so, but it may still take a while for all labels to be reflected in the frontend

13 July 2024

Fates have also been checked for spelling now. You'd think someone with visions of the future would also have visions of correct spelling, but you would be wrong.

12 July 2024

12 July 2024

I'd like to avoid machine translation as I have doubts about it accurately communicating the tone and humor.

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Bossett

@bossett.social

10 July 2024

Replying to @rem.bsjky.team

If I had the gift of prophecy I would end every sentence with ‘obviously satire’

5 July 2024

We set out to do the impossible: Create a labeler that automatically labeled and hid all political discourse. After weeks of development we were ready to turn it on. The result was much stranger than we intended.