Brian Fenton
@fentie.bsky.social
Developer. Games, beer, food, dad, etc... Standard nerd. He/him. BLM, trans rights are human rights I'm also @brianfenton@phpc.social
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Now's as good of a time as any to reiterate that I have never seen anyone in a mainstream newspaper or magazine write about how Mamdani, El Sayed and Hamawy are representing positive masculinity.
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · last wk.Don't get me wrong, I lift every morning. But being a man is not really about how you show up in the gym. It's how you show up for your family. It's about how you show up for your community.
@ass.golf just letting you know about a typo questionablecontent.net/view.php?com... In the lower right it says "stable gun" instead of staple gun. thanks for all the comics
Comic #5888 - Anh Doesn't Get It
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Top Golf implies the existence of Bottom Golf and Switch Golf, send skeet
OK so just so we're clear, any time someone in an 80s cartoon says something like "I'll show them/I'll prove I'm ready", they are absolutely not ready and are about to learn that through a series of dangerous mistakes. Glad we got that cleared up
OH: When you type in "dirty produce book" I only expect to find one result!
Twin Cities! This lovebug is behaving exactly the way my dearly missed cat Gabe did in the shelter, where his shelter name was Loudmouth, and he was one of the finest cats I've ever known! Somebody go adopt this chatty gentleman in Gabe's honor.
Stacey Burns@wentrogue.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’m sorry to report that Screaming Man has not yet found his home. He’s SO friendly. Maybe if they gave him another name?!? www.shelterluv.com/matchme/adop...
Legal defense fund for the Minnesota 15. Please share and support them! We keep us safe 💙🤍🩵
Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers
On the morning of June 16th 2026 fifteen anti-ICE organizers were indicted on federal conspiracy charges in Minnesota, 12 of whom were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities. This fundrai...
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It's unusual for me to do this, but I know the job market is hard for a lot of people right now. An org I'm affiliated with is hiring a (fully remote) senior CloudOps engineer (AWS). Feel free to ask me questions about it, I'll help if I can job-boards.greenhouse.io/flickr/jobs/...
Senior Cloud Ops Engineer, Flickr
Remote/WFH
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Funny how even with the awful state of the economy and everything else, spammers still thing what I really want is to exit my timeshare
"Respectfully, the confidence of engineers is why we have QA as a discipline"
@brynstar7.xyz my first thought seeing that snake sculpture was "I should send this to her, she'd like it", then I saw you were the one that put it there 😆
When a therapist tells you "find something to look forward to!" I don't think "possible reduction in suffering D.17" is what they had in mind
Every year in the U.S., workers lose more money to wage theft than is lost to all forms of property crime (robberies, burglaries, larceny and motor vehicle theft) combined
Wage Theft - National Institute for Workers' Rights
Employers Stealing Workers’ Wages Minimum wage and overtime laws are the two of the most important legal protections workers have at both the state and federal levels. But these laws […]
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Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press)@frederickmelo.bsky.social · 3mo agoA former Grand Avenue valet company told workers they paid $14 per hour, in keeping with the St. Paul minimum wage, and then paid $12. After months of investigation, St. Paul is ordering Class A Valet to pay out $10,000+ in backpay and another $10,000+ in damages. www.twincities.com/2026/05/22/s...
CW: Pet death Just had my 1:1 with my boss interrupted by the totally normal and not awful task of signing for our dead cat's remains
There are literally patch notes in the Sims saying things like "made the Murphy bed less deadly"
I don't understand people sometimes. He posted this less than 30 minutes ago and he's already got dozens of replies basically saying "you're wrong for wanting that" or "you're driving wrong". It must be kinda awful being a big account on here
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 4mo agoWatching a video about a new electric car and when it got to the part where the car's range was less than 300 miles, I clicked away. I want my next car to be electric if possible, and also I want it have 400 miles of range or better. They're up to 600 miles* in China! Let's have that!
I'm going to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism
Jerad Walker@jeradwalker.bsky.social · 5mo agoAt Kennedy Space Center astronauts have to take elevators to the top of launch pad towers in order to enter their space capsules before lift off. This is the elevator panel at Pad 39A.
Yelling "Exception!!" like Phoenix Wright while debugging my code...
a man in a suit and tie is standing at a podium
Alt: Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright standing at a podium in a blue suit and red tie. He points his finger at the opposing side and loudly yells "Objection!"
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Still hard to believe that I was well into my 40s before I learned about peeling ginger with a spoon