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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 · 19m

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

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 2h

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

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 10h

my friend from the midwest visited nyc and committed Bagel Crime

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

"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 · 11h

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

The Rubberbandits - Horse Outside

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

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 11h

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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 · 11h

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 · 11h

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 · 11h

I was worried going into it but they really nailed it

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 14h

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ⓘ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱. @badtakeenjoyer.bsky.social · 12h

The Elden Ring shitter

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 13h

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

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 13h

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.

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 13h

good luck!!

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

didn't realize we were living through the early days of twitter again when people messed up DMs, except now it's the president. in hindsight, i should have suspected.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

it's ok, adams forgets, too

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 1d

The Virgin SpongeBob

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna get stuck with the burbclaves and not even get cool suction cup motorcycles to go with it.

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

big whiff here, one of the best things you can do in Red Dead Redemption II is whomp on Klansmen.

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

MachineGames...now is your time...

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 1d

The tank's role is to draw aggro

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 1d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

it's always macedonia

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

forgot my phone number mid-call and reverted to one i had 20 years ago. doin great!