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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 · 1h

Hey Josh, you got anything I can ~sit on~? Oh. Yeah that big goofy red chair. That’s fine, yeah.

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 2h

(sexily) here's the mail it never fails

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 12h

I suspect part No. I.732, a TUBO TEFLON 4x6 90mm, failed. I'll find out tomorrow!

a schematic of the interior of an espresso machine. there are a lot of tiny numbers and a lot of part names in spanish and english.

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Marguerite/Peg Turley @margueriteturl2.bsky.social · 15h

I love these tiny chalcid wasps! They’re so cute and shiny! #insects

Tiny bright green wasp on the underneath of a branch with leaves

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 18h

something just made a loud POP in my espresso machine and now it's not building steam pressure. that's bad.

now i get to use the tools i just bought and work on a thing. that's good!

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 18h

just tried to see if you could start a thread with no responses possible, have that stick through the rest of your posts to it, and then open the last one up to replies but alas, no. it's set at the first post level and you can't change it.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

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Christian Finnegan @christianfinnegan.bsky.social · 1d

Hey check it out, Spin Magazine interviewed me about my newsletter!

www.spin.com/2025/10/chri...

Christian Finnegan Is on a Mission to Introduce New Music to Old(er) People

“There's really only two things you can count on in this world: songs and dogs. Those are the two things that never will let you down.” This is the centr

www.spin.com

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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JosephScrimshaw @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social · 1d

I keep mispronouncing livestream as livescream and at some point I’m just going to embrace it. 2 hours of bellowing, like and subscribe, hit the notification bell

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

We really hit on something with the 12 year old theory of governance because that’s really the entire political project. It’s being 12 years old and not even normal 12 year olds but real pieces of shit 12 year olds

Texas GOP candidate
Shelley Luther complains that students can't make fun of transgender children
By Jay Root, Staff Writer
Updated Feb 9, 2022 6:02 a.m.

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

Already familiar! (because they covered one of her tracks) www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRjG...

Cheekface – Lauren (Rosie Tucker cover)

YouTube video by Cheekface

www.youtube.com

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

Wow she had a FOLDER and a PRINTOUT

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

The Senator who enabled the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh is selling snake oil again. #MEPoltiics

Will some Democrats be stupid enough to buy?

Robert Costa screenshot from X:

"Robert Costa @costareports
Senator Collins says at the Capitol tonight that she’s circulating a bipartisan plan that will commit to moving to address health-care subsidies once the government is reopened… she showed reporters a folder that had a printout of what she said could be a way out of shutdown"

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

you don't even have to worry about engines or throttle. it's at least 50% easier than landing a normal plane.

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Rachel Cholst @rachelcholst.bsky.social · 1d

In this moment of trans repression, I am extremely grateful to @NoDepression.bsky.social for welcoming me to ask a hard question: is the music community prepared to let trans voices be silenced?

QUEER COUNTRY: Will You Let Queer Country Be Outlawed?

“Outlaw country” often evokes a certain rough-and-tumble (cis white) dude — The kind of person who doesn’t take any shit and isn’t interested in conforming to Music Row’s ideals of what it means to “b...

nodepression.org

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Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 2d

when I text her half an hour later that it's on the family plex server

Edward Leighton, "The King and the Beggar-Maid", 1898

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

The six words every dad wants to hear from their 4-year-old: “can we listen to death machine?” (By @ajjtheband.bsky.social)

You bet your ass we can, kid