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The Cave of Trophonius

@oracle.posters.rip
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Can you handle knowledge of your fate? Will you even remember? Will you be driven mad? All appeals to remove labels will be honored (more quickly and easily if you ask nicely), however we are unable to control or change your fate. (Obviously satire)

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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 22/07/2026
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
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 12/07/2026
It's actually a limit on the size (in bytes) of the json structure defining your labels iirc. I'm at (or was at, idk if the limit has been raised) the cap, but mostly because I have Brazilian translations for all of the labels which ~doubles the sizes of those json structure.
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 15/06/2026
She had one once and appealed to have it removed
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 16/05/2026
🎲
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 15/05/2026
Alternatively, the anime Fullmetal Alchemist?
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 15/05/2026
Have you seen The Fly (1986)?
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 15/05/2026
You liked the post to have it auto-removed about a week ago
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 13/05/2026
Visions of things that have yet to be are often unclear
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 13/05/2026
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 13/05/2026
Unsolicited (and for what it's worth, did not involve AI on either the creating or assigning end, 100% human authored and assigned by random probability)🙂
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 24/04/2026
Yeah if you hit this post it'll auto-remove your label. Otherwise I can do it manually but it might be a bit before I get to it.
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 03/04/2026
Mostly I just thought it would be funny one day, but also once I started building it I was heavily inspired by Machine of Death. The whole book is also freely available as a pdf. bsky.app/profile/orac...
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 17/03/2026
There is a priority system (roughly the user with the most posts since monitoring started who doesn't have a label gets the next label), but unless site growth slows significantly the process will never catch up as new users are created faster than I can label them with current api constraints.
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 17/03/2026
5.5M 😭 3.6M labels applied though.
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 28/02/2026
That one is for the tarot card. Perhaps courage and action will be your undoing 🤔
en.wikipedia.org
Strength (tarot card) - Wikipedia
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 12/02/2026
en.wikipedia.org
London Beer Flood - Wikipedia
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 09/02/2026
bsky.app/profile/orac...
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 06/02/2026
The real answer is that I wanted to add the ability to add weights to fates in order to make a couple of them really rare, but when testing it was easier to make one much more common to verify it was working and then it seemed funny for a looney-tunes death to be really common so I left it lol
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 06/02/2026
bsky.app/profile/orac...
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 21/01/2026
There's a good way to do it (periodically pull details about likes on the specific post), and a very stupid way to do it (scrape the firehose for likes on the post) and I did it the very stupid way. So you may not actually want to follow my example lol.
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 10/10/2025
youtu.be
Dr. Evil — sharks with laser beams attached to their heads — HD
YouTube video by Josh Brown
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 10/10/2025
My dad introduced me to it when I was in high school in the early 2000s 🙂 The first game has some tricky bits but is very doable. The second one has some kinda unfair puzzles. Never really made it to the 3rd one. You can play lots of the old infocom games for free online too!
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 09/10/2025
That one isn't greek history it's gaming history 🙂
zork.fandom.com
Grue
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.Zork I The Grue is a sinister, lurking presence in the dark places of the earth with insatiable appetite. Its favorite diet ranges from adventur...
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 04/10/2025
A fake disease I made up as a play on Havana Syndrome. But it can also be whatever you want, up to and including "boca deez nuts"
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 03/10/2025
Oh you already did lol 👍
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 03/10/2025
It's not a list it's a label, but regardless you can just go to this post and hit like (remove it after if you like) and it'll be removed automatically
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 02/10/2025
It's a reference to an apocryphal story (one of several actually) about how Sophocles died. The story goes that he tried to recite a very long line from his play Antigone without pausing to take a breath, and suffocated.
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 01/10/2025
bsky.app/profile/orac...
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 26/09/2025
Yeah, but I'm really close to the max size of the label payload so I might not do it even if it's good 😭
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 25/09/2025
To be fair it's possible they had it removed or that it's a broken one. I fixed PC_LOAD_LETTER this morning but haven't fixed the accounts it was already applied to, and Crushed (485lb Umbrella) is still broken.
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 23/09/2025
bsky.app/profile/orac...
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 22/09/2025
No particular reason, it was just a really good pose for what I was looking for 🙂
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 14/09/2025
PC_LOAD_LETTER seems to have the same behavior as Crushed (485lb umbrella), so there must be something wrong causing both of those entries to fail to display.
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 14/09/2025
Huh, that's interesting. Yours doesn't show for me either. I wonder if there's a bug somewhere 🤔
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 06/09/2025
Not _every_ account, only ~3.3M. Still have over 5M in the list and there are probably more accounts that have never posted. I'll get there eventually though I'm sure.
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 05/09/2025
It was the newish one with Daniel Radcliffe
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 01/09/2025
🫡🦆 I'd still be careful of Gerald just in case 😅
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 24/08/2025
That you will one day lose a rap battle so viciously that you die. I think Drake almost died that way recently.
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 24/08/2025
That he didn't do it on purpose
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 21/08/2025
Can you pause for a moment and consider why I would put effort into performing a manual action for someone who is being an asshole when I already provide a 100% automated way for said asshole to fulfill their request themselves?
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 19/08/2025
Me
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 17/08/2025
There's an upper limit on how fast bsky will ingest applied labels, so I write one every couple of seconds. I _attempt_ to distribute them roughly in order by posting volume and activity, but that process is very far from perfect.
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 17/08/2025
Sadly thanks to the translations the blob of labels is already just shy of the max allowed size so I can't really add any new ones 🙁
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 11/08/2025
Real btw (this page doesn't actually say toilet but he's listed on the wiki page of people who died on the toilet) Obviously also happened a few times in more historical times too, but toilet assassinations aren't gone yet.
en.wikipedia.org
Ioan Petru Culianu - Wikipedia
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 26/07/2025
Huh... That's fascinating. I see it on the backend but I also can't see it on an account that sees other labels just fine. I'll look into it and report it as a bug if I can't figure it out.
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 25/07/2025
Are you subscribed to the labeler? If so I dunno, sometimes the label system is a little weird.
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 25/07/2025
_Everyone_ gets a label (that can be removed if they wish) eventually. It's not triggered by subscribing (I can't even see who is subscribed, which is kinda dumb) or following.
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 25/07/2025
youtu.be
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 22/07/2025
Is it on a different account? I don't currently have any labels assigned to this account at all, and the entire moderation history is empty.
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The Cave of Trophonius @oracle.posters.rip · 19/07/2025
- nope - nope - it gets removed more or less instantly if you simply click the button on the post set up specifically for people to be able to remove their labels without going through the very annoying appeal process - yes, unless you mean relabeling people who have opted out in which case no
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