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Pete Bog

@fullgroanman.bsky.social

900 followers 640 following 3.7K posts

Certified master bogsman. All videos of me lurking, capering, or otherwise cavorting outside the bog are Ai-generated and not to be trusted. He/him/it.

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Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · Apr 1

The best festival I ever went to? Clundergoomph 2009 in Lost Cabin, WY. I saw Beach Deer, Bear House, Bear Beach, Deerbear, Housebeach Deer, deers., BearbearBEAR, House the House, A Deer & A Bear, Beach Vs. Bear, reedeer, HOVSE, BdEeAeCrH, bchbrhs, and MGMT

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 4h

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

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Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 15m

Well well well, would you just look at that.

BlueSky account named Sturm Liouville with a bio reading "Hydrogen hooligan. Applied thermodynamics and maths.
I use computers to simulate things
#NAFO, true centrist, team WAFFLES"
Outlined in red is the indicator that this account is followed by BlueSky CEO Jay.

Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 29m

Awwww was somebody all tuckered out from all the genocide? Is sniping children from a rooftop insufficient cardio? Does blocking aid trucks fail to build up those crucial calf muscles?

Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 36m

I got my flu and COVID shots a few weeks ago at the same time. The soreness was rough, but they didn't make me feel bad, and now I have plenty of time for my favorite autumn activity (challenging day care workers to cough into my open mouth)

Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 1h

SHOCKED. SHOCKED am I, to discover that the Youth Club for Racists has been circulating texts of an unsavory nature!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 2h

The reminds me: new merch in my store!

A white t-shirt that says "FREEDOM" in plain black text. An unfortunate manufacturing error has resulted in a spray of red ink across the front. These shirts will be priced at a significant discount due to this mistake. Our screw-up is your gain!

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 5h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 5h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

More of this, please.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 4h

The "Is this a pigeon?" meme but the dude is labeled as Katharine Dee, the butterfly is labeled as a transphobic Nazi sympathizer cokehead socialite, and of course Katharine is asking "Is this a leftist?"

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Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 4h

If you can't tell that the vicious starfucker hosebags from Red Scare are not leftists within two seconds of encountering their bullshit, journalism is not for you.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 4h

A wojack of a slobbering, catatonic man with a power strip for a brain, but it's plugged into itself.

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OrbGazer @orbgazer.bsky.social · 4h

bookmark this: When the bubble bursts you can absolutely guarantee that the tech industry will ask for -and get- a broadly bipartisan colossal bailout

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2d

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps

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Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 20h

I knew cops were stupid, I just didn't know they were mandated to be stupid. abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks...

Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops

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Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 20h

*record scratch, freeze frame* Yep, that's me. I'll bet you're wondering how I got myself into this situation.

svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 1d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 20h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN8T...

Ibeyi - Deathless feat. Kamasi Washington (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Ibeyi

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 1d

Please make sure you have a working carbon monoxide detector with fresh batteries in your home or else you could find yourself posting takes like this in public, where people can see them.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 1d

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

Barack Obama had this and used it to defund ACORN

To pass your agenda a Dem will need 60 votes in the Senate & a majority in the house. In every battleground state voters need to show up to give a Dem President the power to deliver without negotiating. If we fail to do that, we cant complain when what's delivered is watered down

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Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Day. Fuck Columbus. Resistance is never futile.

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 1d

In honor of Columbus Day, I will be “exploring” the homes of local landlords and “discovering” their copper pipes

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Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 1d

Jen really puts the Cont in The Contrarian

Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, looks like now is the time for everyone to reveal that they Have Always Been Against This.

Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 1d

Unconditional support for the Israeli government is counterproductive for both countries. If Trump can get tough, why not Congress and every potus? The Israel right-or-wrong position AIPAC, right-wing Christians, and some US Jews have held is no longer unassailable. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

What now for Israel and Gaza?

No one will be the same.

open.substack.com

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Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 1d

Tron: Ares flopped because Jared Leto didn't morb all over anyone.