Slack TV

Scheduled bots that post content into Slack channels. One app, multiple personas — each channel gets its own bot identity and posting schedule.

Structure

Each notifier (slack tv channel) lives in its own subdirectory.

A notifier directory contains a notifier.py (what to post and how the bot appears), an icon.png (bot avatar), and any supplementary files.

Setup

See SETUP.md for Slack app creation, GitHub secrets, and how to add new channels.

Slack TV Channel Directory

• waste-land/ - The Waste Land, One Line Per Hour — Eliot's poem is 434 lines. At one line per hour, it takes ~18 days to complete, then loops. The line-per-hour pace is critical: each line sits alone in the channel long enough to be read as a standalone fragment, which is how the poem actually works — collage, juxtaposition, voices interrupting each other. The footnotes post as threaded replies.
• paradise-lost/ - Paradise Lost, Two Lines Per Hour — Paradise Lost, Book I through Book XII, one line every 30 minutes (:15 and :45).
• dactylic-odyssey/ - The Odyssey in Dactylic Drip — Post 5 lines of the Fagles (or Lattimore, or Fitzgerald) translation every 4 hours. The Odyssey is ~12,110 lines. At 30 lines/day, the full poem takes ~403 days — just over a year. A 5-line chunk is roughly one complete Homeric image or action beat. The year-long duration mirrors the scale of the journey itself. When it finishes, start the Iliad.