simple script fish homestuck update checker for mastodong. You have to login seperately prior to this working.

markov.fish

#!/usr/bin/fish

# requires toot, a trained model.json, and generator
# (found @ github.com/oct2pus/jadebot/markov/generator)
while true 
	toot post (./generator)
	sleep 3600
end 

upd8.fish

#!/usr/bin/fish

set parturl (curl -s https://upd8.ninja/latestupd8.json | jq -r ".parturl")

echo $parturl > ./latest.txt

while true
    set parturl (curl -s https://upd8.ninja/latestupd8.json | jq -r ".parturl")
    if  test ! -z $parturl
        and [ (echo $parturl) != (cat latest.txt) ]
        
        set title (curl -s https://upd8.ninja/latestupd8.json | jq -r ".title")
        set pages (curl -s https://upd8.ninja/latestupd8.json | jq -r ".pages")
        printf "New #homestuck update!\nTitle: %s\nPages: %s\nLink: https://homestuck2.com/%s" $title $pages $parturl | toot post
        echo $parturl > ./latest.txt
    end
    sleep 10
end

toot is only available as of buster. you can install it from pip3 with pip3 install toot, and then modify your $PATH environmental variable to include .local/bin which is where toot is downloaded to. (in ~/.config/config.fish add set -x PATH ~/.config/bin $PATH), should work if you set it in bash prior tho.

this code is dedicated to the public domain.

updated to check for a nil value in $parturl

updated for homestuck...2!!

added a markov script to run simultaneously.

requires generator and a trained model.