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Brandon Hardin

@hardin.bsky.social

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Terminally online journalist (sorry). Formerly BuzzFeed News, Facebook, Check My Ads, other places. @hardin on Twitter, Threads. Delight in the life that comes unbidden. (He/They)

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · Apr 30

concluded a cover letter with this today

Text that reads "Hire me and you’ll have the chance to do what BuzzFeed News, Facebook, and Bloomberg News have all done before you: Lay me off."

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 11h

Beautiful

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 11h

this headline would be fine without that last s

Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 11h

"Firm views"

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 11h

🚨MOSQUITO CREATION MYTH🚨

Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 11h

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Once the earth shook and a giant mosquito came from the river. It was mischievous to the people, flying near,

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is mosquito and pronounced dawsah

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 18h

It was great working with Zeteo’s editors and rigorous fact-checker.

And I’m most grateful they let me say this in the last graf, something I’ve been try to get at with these ICE flights for awhile.

The disparity between the luxurious aircraft and its shackled, vilified passengers must have been quite a sight, but they are not unrelated. Corrupt officials transferring state funds to personal accounts, governments with empty treasuries and desperate citizens, luxury highrises, the criminalization of the unhoused and undocumented, billions spent on political campaign pageantry, aiding genocide from a faraway ballroom and calling it "charity," tax breaks for flying masked agents and nameless prisoners under cover of darkness - all are the spoils of oligarchy.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 13h

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 19h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 14h

UNA-living. you know, doing your best at the university of north alabama

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 14h

Hahhaha

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 14h

you're pretty up to date on music but you know his kid is a musician, yes?

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 15h

thought "unaliving yourself" was bad but just came across "sewerslide" and that is so much worse. we really need to teach zoomers cockney rhyming slang.

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

*everyone runs screaming as I open my candy shop* What's wrong! I thought everyone wanted dubia chocolate!!

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

Satisfying to use and works well and, importantly, my wife doesn’t hate how it looks.

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 1d

my friend from the midwest visited nyc and committed Bagel Crime

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

god damn I forgot what a banger this is from @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPF...

The Rubberbandits - Horse Outside

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

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The Rubberbandits - Horse Outside

YouTube video by RTÉ - IRELAND’S NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

thinking about the german dude who is the world's best ball-groper en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achim_L...

Text from Wikipedia that reads: In addition to precision instruments, Leistner uses his hands to feel for irregularities in the roundness of the sphere.[1] The research team has called his extraordinary sense of touch "atomic feeling".[4] As a result the sphere is the roundest man-made object ever. If it were scaled to the size of the Earth, it would have a high point of only 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) above "sea level".[Note 1]

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

This smaller one is where coffee that’s being used sits so I’m not always opening and closing the STRATEGIC BEAN RESERVE

A smaller copper-colored airtight cylinder, held in a hand in a kitchen

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

I was worried going into it but they really nailed it

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

The price is up yeah but that’s the price for three fucking pounds of coffee if you’re getting the Columbia Supremo, which is pretty good. Pictured: how I keep that fresh.

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

I once made my roommate irate by informing him that orange-as-the-name-of-the-fruit existed before orange as the name of the color.

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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ⓘ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱. @badtakeenjoyer.bsky.social · 1d

The Elden Ring shitter

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

nothing exciting, just like having a variety of tools around to do things as they pop up!

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

In “well that’s nice” updates, bought some FUN PLIERS this week.

Four pairs of pliers, one long and skinny, one that’s kind of bulbous on the end, one that’s a needle nose with a pistol grip, and one that’s like a crescent wrench with soft rubber jaws. All of the handle grips are red.

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