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Bo Brinkman

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he/him. Irvine, CA. Progressive. Software engineer. Formerly ACM Committee on Professional Ethics. Alphabet Workers Union. Former CS prof, Miami University.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8h
I would also urge people to lean into a culture of rebellious care right now. Our empathy and our refusal to abandon each other are at the heart of what they seek to destroy, and these things fuel all meaningful opposition—as MK and I discussed in our book, Let This Radicalize You.
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 9h
Friendly reminder: Have some self respect, dont-buy-secret-lair.wtf this morning. #MagicTheGathering
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Don’t. Buy. Secret Lair.
An independent protest site against Magic: The Gathering’s Secret Lair drops.
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 13h
Your regular reminder that in 2023 I was asked on Women’s Hour to be interviewed by Emma Barnett about Alice’s inquest. I said no, because Emma is GC, but I’d go on with someone else. They didn’t engage with me after that. The BBC is biased. It’s anti-trans and anti-anyone who supports trans people.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11/10/2026
Talarico, Klobuchar, and Becerra, will win their elections. But not in the same way that Mamdani won his. It's not the same excitement and invigorated base. It's not hope and joy and unity. It's "Which level of hell do you want to sink to today? Somewhere in the middle? Or all the way down?🤡"
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11/10/2026
Becerra will be governor of California. Becerra never misses an opportunity to undermine Black civil rights leaders. This includes fighting to hide the records of rapist cops and murderous cops. Seriously. No I'm not joking. I wish I was. Dems aren't excited to vote *for* him, vs against Trump.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11/10/2026
Klobuchar will win governor of Minnesota. Klobuchar is the reason that Derek Chauvin could act with impunity for decades, terrorizing Black residents of Minnesota. Black voters and white allies in Minnesota aren't excited to vote *for* Klobuchar, as much as against Trump's agenda. Red undertow.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11/10/2026
Ossoff will win like Mamdani won. There's real excitement there. That one is real. Angie Nixon is building real excitement too, if she can win. She needs to put out more of her own content in short form videos on social media. She is not going to get a fair shake from the press.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11/10/2026
Charlie Cook is right. It's a red undertow. Very few of the Dem candidates are very popular in their own rights, and the ones that are, tend to be way left of the Dem party main platform. Again, Black voters are *the base* of the Dem party. And many Dems that will win, pushed anti-Black policies.🤷🏿‍♂️
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 10/10/2026
Californians take note! Vote yes on the Billionaire Tax (Prop 40), and no on 41 & 42
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 11/10/2026
Oh, wait, maybe that's Kung-fu...
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 11/10/2026
Isn't the traditional method to sleep on his doorstep until he says yes?
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 10/10/2026
Okay, I REALLY like cEDH. Three people working together on a math problem to try to stop the 4th from winning? So. Good. #SCGLA #Magicthegathering
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
sincerity is important here - when I see Gavin Newsom talk about how much Republicans suck, I don't think he actually believes it, I think he's playing a game will Ossoff do everything that needs to be done to impose consequences on these people? I don't know but I do believe he hates them
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Expertise is still a thing.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
People getting mad about this probably don’t remember AEDPA, the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, which passed the senate by 91-8, and the House 293-133, and was signed into law by Bill Clinton.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Read the whole thread.
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
it's crazy that alienating a lot of otherwise activated voters and supporters through caving on basic humans rights issues (like trans rights) has led to such a predicament.
we're looking for the guy who did this i think you should leave hot dog guy
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 09/10/2026
Ahhhh!!!! I'm busy playing Magic! Oh no!
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 09/10/2026
Fam. I punted so hard. Biggest punt in years. Still having a great time. #SCGLA #MagicTheGathering
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 09/10/2026
Daily #SCGLA #MagicTheGathering affirmation: Even the lowly goldfish wins the sealed deck lottery sometimes.
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 09/10/2026
Based on the crowd at the Cavetown concert I would say that "Liquid Death" brand caffeinated carbonated water beverage is the most popular beverage in queer LA.
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 08/10/2026
Find me at #SCGLA for a free button. dont-buy-secret-lair.wtf #MagicTheGathering
Satirical Magic the Gathering "God pack" card that says "don't buy secret lair" and to find me at SCG LA for a free button.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/10/2026
one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them
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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 06/10/2026
Black Lotus
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 06/10/2026
Are you the one that scratched the Muted Post Horn into the table at Mac & Joe's?
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 05/10/2026
Pass an...ethics reform package? What an asshole.
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 04/10/2026
Really grateful for Scryfall. If you can afford to you should set up recurring donations to them!
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Logan @ Scryfall.com @logan.scryfall.com · 04/10/2026
10 years of @scryfall.com 🎉
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GLITCH @glitchprod.com · 03/10/2026
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 03/10/2026
This is the lesson that the Biden admin failed to learn and that UK Labour is also flailing about horribly at:
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 03/10/2026
I'm on store.desertbus.org hitting the refresh button. Sorry DFTBA.
store.desertbus.org
Desert Bus For Hope
Started in 2007 by internet sketch comedy group LoadingReadyRun, Desert Bus for Hope combines video games and tedium to benefit charity. Desert Bus is the world's longest running internet-based fundra...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The climatologist 
told me 
the problem 
is we don’t see 
people far away 
as real people. 
The programmer 
told me 
the problem 
is we don’t see 
people online 
as real people. The ethicist 
told me 
the problem 
is we don’t see 
other people 
as real people.
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 02/10/2026
Now do Ring doorbells. Apparently I've become a boorish "now do" guy. Sorry.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is huge: a judge ruled a Flock search was 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' and unconstitutional. Says the search by a cop, who did it because a passing car had a plate from a different state, violated the driver's rights. Meaning, Flock should require a warrant www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 02/10/2026
Now do Monty Python and Labyrinth.
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 02/10/2026
I'm starting to think I didn't need to create dont-buy-secret-lair.wtf. :D #MagicTheGathering #SecretLair magic.wizards.com/en/news/anno...
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Chew ☁️噛む @chewchewer.com · 01/10/2026
Link in the reply!
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's a shame that left & non-regime journalists are still focusing on and replaying Schmit's self-own and failed gotcha moment over and over instead of Sen. Cory Booker's 12 min speech in full. What most journalists magnify reflects the algorithms that keep us in the same downward spiraling loop.
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'This hearing is a farce': Sen. Cory Booker goes off during Jack Smith Senate hearing
YouTube video by The Hill
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Purity test is shorthand for “you care about the people I have already decided are expendable.”
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
But let's not pretend he hasn't gone screeching in the other direction on trans rights. And since he has, why not take this time to push him back to where he was before the primary. But apparently we're not even allowed to talk about it. So irritating 
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
I'm just real tired of hearing people claim that my position on trans rights is a purity test. You wouldn't say that about race. So what the hell. I have never said that people should not vote for Talarico. Never not once. Get a grip.
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PREORDER CASCADE CASCADE ISSUE 2 NOW! @cascadecascade.com · 30/09/2026
CASCADE CASCADE ISSUE 2 IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW! - All 24 articles from ISSUE 2 on CASCADECASCADE.com - A physical exclusive article from @rhysticstudies.bsky.social - a fun bonus or two. :) - 8 1/2"x11" magazine with THICC paper - $19.99 Read more: www.cascadecascade.com/cascade-casc...
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 30/09/2026
Labyrinth Secret Lairs look dope. Too bad I dont-buy-secret-lair.wtf #SecretLair #MagicTheGathering
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Don’t. Buy. Secret Lair.
An independent protest site against Magic: The Gathering’s Secret Lair drops.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Bo Brinkman @bo-brinkman.com · 28/09/2026
And they just sent a reminder via notifications from the Companion app, which seems like a good thing.
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