Len Bogan
@lenbogan.bsky.social
Burnt-out engineer. Occasional Tom Bombadil impersonator. Folk horror and mythology enthusiast. Writer slowly being convinced he's maybe not awful. He/him.
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I've been saying for months that I am a single-issue voter, and that issue is retribution. I don't want to hear the word "bipartisan" from any 2028 candidate. I want to hear their plans for deporting Elon Musk, holding everyone in this administration accountable, and dismantling the Supreme Court.
May 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I've been saying for months that I am a single-issue voter, and that issue is retribution. I don't want to hear the word "bipartisan" from any 2028 candidate. I want to hear their plans for deporting Elon Musk, holding everyone in this administration accountable, and dismantling the Supreme Court.
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
![You’ve got super fans pausing and zooming in on individuals frames of your documentary. One allegedly shows one of the Duffers with a ChatGPT tab open on their computer. In your presence, what did they use ChatGPT for?
I mean, are we even sure they had ChatGPT open?
I’m personally not, but the internet seems sure.
Well, there’s a lot of chatter where [social media users] are like, “We don’t really know, but we’re assuming.” But to me it’s like, doesn’t everybody have it open, to just do quick research?
I do.
How can you possibly write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT, I don’t even understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7t2urmt3i33jl6tjgiolio6g/bafkreidw2tmcr2ayq74oqmjm5pn2tdox6hlxnpqevhuqqj6oa7nsslx3oi@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
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A world of spiteful children in positions of power should long ago ceased to be shocking. We should no longer be the toys they get to smash their oversize dumper trucks into. We must poison their sandpits. Lace their building blocks with psychoactive substances.
January 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
A world of spiteful children in positions of power should long ago ceased to be shocking. We should no longer be the toys they get to smash their oversize dumper trucks into. We must poison their sandpits. Lace their building blocks with psychoactive substances.
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Prison for all ICE scumbags. Misogynist, racist, fascist losers who’ve been told they’re above the law. They all need to be thrown in a fucking dungeon for life.
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Prison for all ICE scumbags. Misogynist, racist, fascist losers who’ve been told they’re above the law. They all need to be thrown in a fucking dungeon for life.
Coworker: "Scott Adams died. No doubt he'll be praised as a real American patriot by the current administration."
Me: "Nonsense. He didn't die a martyr, and dead men toe no lines. He's not useful anymore, he'll be forgotten."
Me: "Nonsense. He didn't die a martyr, and dead men toe no lines. He's not useful anymore, he'll be forgotten."
January 13, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Coworker: "Scott Adams died. No doubt he'll be praised as a real American patriot by the current administration."
Me: "Nonsense. He didn't die a martyr, and dead men toe no lines. He's not useful anymore, he'll be forgotten."
Me: "Nonsense. He didn't die a martyr, and dead men toe no lines. He's not useful anymore, he'll be forgotten."
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The animating principle of representational democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of deranged rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.
The problem is that the child porn website is owned by the richest man in the world, who no one wants to pick a fight with, and even less so now that he's aligned with the president of the U.S., himself a maniacal sex criminal. Nothing gets fixed without breaking the political power of big money
I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.
January 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM
The animating principle of representational democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of deranged rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.
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A few months ago, ICE hired me
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
A few months ago, ICE hired me
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
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Saw the Libby AI statement (spoiler alert: it sucks) and so I'm back on my Incandescent With Rage Over AI Wagon (I've never been off it) and I just want to point out--what I thought--were some glaringly obvious things for these companies making these BS statements over their AI use. (1/9)
January 13, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Saw the Libby AI statement (spoiler alert: it sucks) and so I'm back on my Incandescent With Rage Over AI Wagon (I've never been off it) and I just want to point out--what I thought--were some glaringly obvious things for these companies making these BS statements over their AI use. (1/9)
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Goodnight from The Six Miles of Honey pub, where the Plough Witches have begged so much beer that not all of them can remember where they live. Goodnight from Geraldine Garwood, still arguing with her dead sister about the correct recipe for Grim’s Paw cake. Goodnight from Hookland.
January 12, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Goodnight from The Six Miles of Honey pub, where the Plough Witches have begged so much beer that not all of them can remember where they live. Goodnight from Geraldine Garwood, still arguing with her dead sister about the correct recipe for Grim’s Paw cake. Goodnight from Hookland.
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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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You are spreading enemy propaganda when you say this.
You are saying exactly the lie the fascist Trump regime wants you to believe and say.
You are saying exactly the lie the fascist Trump regime wants you to believe and say.
When you say that “most Americans support the murder of Renee Good (or most other awful MAGA actions,” you are doing Trump’s propaganda work for him.
Polling makes it very clear that most Americans do NOT support this shit.
Polling makes it very clear that most Americans do NOT support this shit.
January 13, 2026 at 1:21 AM
You are spreading enemy propaganda when you say this.
You are saying exactly the lie the fascist Trump regime wants you to believe and say.
You are saying exactly the lie the fascist Trump regime wants you to believe and say.
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New: Sen. Elizabeth Warren lays out vision for a 'big tent,' telling Democrats not to cater to wealthy donors
In an unusual move, she calls out figures in the party she considers part of the problem — including the DSCC, Kyrsten Sinema and Reid Hoffman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
In an unusual move, she calls out figures in the party she considers part of the problem — including the DSCC, Kyrsten Sinema and Reid Hoffman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren lays out vision for a 'big tent,' telling Democrats not to cater to wealthy donors
The former presidential candidate called out a "tepid, nibble-around-the-edges approach" to economic policy and criticized specific figures in the party by name as part of the problem.
www.nbcnews.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:36 PM
New: Sen. Elizabeth Warren lays out vision for a 'big tent,' telling Democrats not to cater to wealthy donors
In an unusual move, she calls out figures in the party she considers part of the problem — including the DSCC, Kyrsten Sinema and Reid Hoffman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
In an unusual move, she calls out figures in the party she considers part of the problem — including the DSCC, Kyrsten Sinema and Reid Hoffman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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This is so gross. It used to be that you could become a famous author by just writing good books. Now you have to start with a massive social media following.
You could just say this is a more honest way of saying what other rejection letters obfuscate around. But it’s indicative of a lie that the publishing industry has become faithful to, which is the lie that an author having 100,000+ Instagram followers automatically makes their book a better book.
I can’t stop thinking about a rejection letter a friend had from a publisher for his manuscript which said, “I think I’d have really liked this, if you were more famous.”
An actual person, who is paid to read books, said that.
An actual person, who is paid to read books, said that.
January 12, 2026 at 5:47 PM
This is so gross. It used to be that you could become a famous author by just writing good books. Now you have to start with a massive social media following.
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 27698:
Don't be afraid to make yourself vulnerable in your writing. Being vulnerable means being fully present: otherwise your writing will come over as distant; superior; insincere.
Don't be afraid to make yourself vulnerable in your writing. Being vulnerable means being fully present: otherwise your writing will come over as distant; superior; insincere.
January 12, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 27698:
Don't be afraid to make yourself vulnerable in your writing. Being vulnerable means being fully present: otherwise your writing will come over as distant; superior; insincere.
Don't be afraid to make yourself vulnerable in your writing. Being vulnerable means being fully present: otherwise your writing will come over as distant; superior; insincere.
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Goodnight from the barn dance at High Barley, where rendition of the traditional song Rundle’s Skeleton has stirred the village spirits. Goodnight from Laura Lessing, tired of arguing with her husband that it’s much too cold for a baby’s tide baptism tomorrow. Goodnight from Hookland.
January 10, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Goodnight from the barn dance at High Barley, where rendition of the traditional song Rundle’s Skeleton has stirred the village spirits. Goodnight from Laura Lessing, tired of arguing with her husband that it’s much too cold for a baby’s tide baptism tomorrow. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Know your rights
January 10, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Know your rights
Villager is a favorite book of mine. It has gentle magic in the ways it tugs the imagination and emotions and uses those soft pulls to tremendous effect. It's an inspiration in my own literary flailings. Anyone would do themselves - and Tom - a favor in picking up a copy. It deserves to be read.
THREAD. How A Publisher Almost Killed The Book I Waited My Whole Life To Write.
My novel Villager came out in 2022. It was published by Unbound, who had little marketing/sales power. But I was excited & proud, since I worked so f-ing hard on it.
Here's an extract: www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
My novel Villager came out in 2022. It was published by Unbound, who had little marketing/sales power. But I was excited & proud, since I worked so f-ing hard on it.
Here's an extract: www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
January 6, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Villager is a favorite book of mine. It has gentle magic in the ways it tugs the imagination and emotions and uses those soft pulls to tremendous effect. It's an inspiration in my own literary flailings. Anyone would do themselves - and Tom - a favor in picking up a copy. It deserves to be read.
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The lesson of January 6th is that it does absolutely no good to prosecute the the violent foot soldiers if you're not going to prosecute the leaders and hold them accountable for their sedition under the full force of the law.
January 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
The lesson of January 6th is that it does absolutely no good to prosecute the the violent foot soldiers if you're not going to prosecute the leaders and hold them accountable for their sedition under the full force of the law.
Got my bicycle from storage. Checked tires, greased the chain, tensioned shifter cables. Hopped on to test it.
Neglected the brakes.
Dislocated shoulder, road rash along one forearm, dislocated thumb, and contusion from the handlebars slamming into my stomach.
Neglected the brakes.
Dislocated shoulder, road rash along one forearm, dislocated thumb, and contusion from the handlebars slamming into my stomach.
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
😅
😅
January 6, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Got my bicycle from storage. Checked tires, greased the chain, tensioned shifter cables. Hopped on to test it.
Neglected the brakes.
Dislocated shoulder, road rash along one forearm, dislocated thumb, and contusion from the handlebars slamming into my stomach.
Neglected the brakes.
Dislocated shoulder, road rash along one forearm, dislocated thumb, and contusion from the handlebars slamming into my stomach.
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"As an anarcho-communist-accelerationist-antifascist-nihilist-transplant-gentrifier-crisis actor living in a rent-controlled penthouse bodega paid for by some combination of my mommy and George Soros, that’s exactly why I wanted Zohran to win." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...
I Am a Disappointed Zohran Mamdani Voter Who Was Told New York Would Descend into Chaos
Well, they say you should never trust a politician, and it seems I’ve been duped. As an avid reader of the New York Post, the New York Post’s X fee...
www.mcsweeneys.net
January 6, 2026 at 2:20 AM
"As an anarcho-communist-accelerationist-antifascist-nihilist-transplant-gentrifier-crisis actor living in a rent-controlled penthouse bodega paid for by some combination of my mommy and George Soros, that’s exactly why I wanted Zohran to win." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...
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"The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of God or of the truth... Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."
And finished! Vivid, absorbing, exceptional.
And finished! Vivid, absorbing, exceptional.
December 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of God or of the truth... Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."
And finished! Vivid, absorbing, exceptional.
And finished! Vivid, absorbing, exceptional.
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New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
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“I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.”
-Keith Richards #BOTD
Richards relaxes in his home library
-Keith Richards #BOTD
Richards relaxes in his home library
December 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.”
-Keith Richards #BOTD
Richards relaxes in his home library
-Keith Richards #BOTD
Richards relaxes in his home library