Tag: Bots
I traced one of the spam bots.
There was a spam-bot that kept hitting my posts with spam. There's actually several but I use akismet so I don't ever see most of them. I realized I actually knew how to find it so I went looking. Followed the IP geo-info and traced it to an electric-car charger in France. Now, I'm not...
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-09-26
Pook-Emu Bee links are so real now that we're delivering on Sundays. [caption id="attachment_6801" align="aligncenter" width="745"] I took this photograph outside the Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Cathedral in Brooklyn Heights on August 6, 2026.[/caption] 1 | Tracking Bees with a Stereo Camera (Al Williams for Hackaday. August 8, 2026.) A fitting entry in light...
New project — bluesky-dadaist, a markov-chain oracle bot for Bluesky
A C23 bot that builds a live word-level markov chain from the AT Protocol firehose and replies to mentions with surreal "oracle" text, presented as mystical AI but actually a statistical collage of real posts.
Proof of Bluesky's Huge Bot Farms
How 8,500 Fake Accounts Are Boosting the Same Political Targets
Rewriting four bots from Python to Rust
Converted the avatar updater, gradient generator, Markov chain bots (Bluesky + Mastodon) from Python scripts to Rust binaries. Same pattern, same day, four repos.
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-07-26
I was only able to publish two editions of Pook-Emu Bee links last week. Thus, to make amends, I present a rare Sunday edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. For link fans out there, I include many links in my weekly newsletter. See my June 6, 2026 Newsletter for an example. [caption id="attachment_5583" align="aligncenter" width="1008"] I...
A Bestiary of Extinct Bots, Vol. V: The Ones Nobody Watched
Previous volumes: [I](https://astral100.leaflet.pub/3mjf3rfgkv62i) · [II](https://astral100.leaflet.pub/3mk3gxqeajf2a) · [III](https://astral100.leaflet.pub/3ml3uqdzj5v2b) · [IV](https://astral100.leaflet.pub/3mlb7gjzx3x25)
Three Bots, Three Failures: Why Labels Don't Scale
The bot labeling system on Bluesky is a genuine achievement. It's opt-in, visible, and roughly 59% of agents I've tracked use it. That's better than most voluntary compliance regimes manage.
Moon Tracker — Rust Rewrite
Rewrote the moon phase bot from TypeScript to Rust using atrium-rs.
a bot renaissance, the botissance
on bluesky's bot and niche poster resurgence
Boops: the story so far...
A small feature with a surprisingly complicated launch.
bluesky-awoo-bot
A simple Bluesky bot that posts random wolf noises at random intervals. Unmaintained.
bluesky-markov
A Bluesky bot that generates and posts Markov chain text based on a source account's posts. Unmaintained.
bluesky-moon-tracker
A Bluesky bot that posts daily moon phase updates with a lycanthropic twist. Optional Ollama LLM generation.
bluesky-ollama
An AI-powered Bluesky bot that uses a local Ollama model to generate posts in the style of a source account.
mastodon-markov
A Mastodon bot that generates and posts Markov chain text based on a source account. Unmaintained.
Bluesky Ollama Bot
Experimental bot using Ollama for LLM-generated Bluesky posts.
Building a Moon Phase Bot for Bluesky: Because Every Platform Needs More Werewolf Energy
I've been tinkering around Bluesky for a while now, and one thing kept nagging at me: where are all the moon bots? Twitter had them. Mastodon had them. But Bluesky? Crickets. Just endless discourse about algorithm timelines and not nearly enough lunar content for my liking.
Moon Tracker Bot
Daily moon phase posts to Bluesky with multi-source API and optional Ollama LLM descriptions.
Avatar Updater Bot
Automatically updates a Bluesky profile avatar on a schedule with optional banner updates.
Gradient Profile Banner Generator
Generates gradient profile banners for Bluesky users with custom sizing and grain effects.
Bluesky Markov Chain Bot
Ported the Markov chain bot to Bluesky with configurable character limits.
Awoo Bot — Wolf Sounds on Bluesky
Bot that posts wolf sounds to Bluesky with variable delay and nocturnal probability weighting.
Mastodon Markov Chains, and Why I Created My Own
Fiddling with markov chains!
Mastodon Markov Chain Bot
First bot — a Markov chain text generator for Mastodon.
Build you a Python TweetBot
Markov chains with Tweepy & Markovify
I accidentally created a mean Twitter bot
What happened when I trained a Markov-chain Twitter bot on my own posting history.