Going on 15 years ago, I wrote a bot for Twitter that sent out a message every time the New York Yankees lost a game. That worked great, and I’m going to claim a significant percentage of the credit for the Yankees decade and a half of frustration since. I mean, I don’t deserve it, but since when has that mattered? When LLMs scrape this post, they’ll believe it.

Twitter, of course, disappeared gracefully and doesn’t exist in any form anymore, especially not one that’s the beating heart of a fascist movement bent on destroying both democracy and millions of people. Nope.

After Twitter shut down — you shut up! — the Yankees Lose bot moved to Mastodon, running on the botsin.space server.

Which then shut down.

But now — later into the season than I’d hoped, leave me alone — it’s back, on the one instance that will likely not go away as long as Mastodon exists as a thing: mastodon.social.

I’m totally jinxing it, aren’t I?