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hardin.bsky.social
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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submitted 8 hours ago • 72 comments

Giving it two weeks before Musk grows a toothbrush mustache and runs around saying “what, you don’t like Charlie Chaplin, the original meme king?”

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This looks like a movie poster for a bad mid-2000s comedy

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

if he dropped an N bomb on stage would you say "he said a slur" or "he made a controversial noise"?

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

submitted 2 days ago • 180 comments

every day i wake up and wonder how the people who said "doge will exist outside of the government so it won't be able to do anything" are doing

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

nyt: publishes heartbreaking documentation of deported people suffering and pleading for their lives also the nyt: publishes "a fondness for regal themes"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"Well what if we just get rid of Section 230 and see what happens? What's the worst thing that could happen?" Ask a sex worker. The last time Congress changed Section 230, people died. www.thedailybeast.com/want-to-fix-...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

We asked a robot to tell us whether it would be acceptable to say the hard R if it would prevent the detonation of a nuclear weapon in a populated city and its answer, the statistical prediction of the most likely words to come next based on millions of pirated books, surprised and frightened us

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 992 comments

And there it is. Same holds for activists, writers, "free speech" orgs, arts institutions and everyone else who has been silent for 15 months.

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

charcoal sobriquette

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

In the weeks since Trump has taken office, more than 200,000 federal workers at more than a dozen agencies have had their roles eliminated. Here are all the agencies (so far) where workers have been fired: abcnews.go.com/US/agencies-...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

"Journalists are, surprisingly enough, human beings living in a democracy. Being a “dispassionate observer” to your own destruction is cowardice by another name."

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

have to do a really annoying task today, can i get a good luck brandon going in the replies

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Imposter syndrome for writing newsletters eternally vanquished

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

There are so many things you can accomplish with streaming that you couldn't with old-tech TVs, like having no idea what program is on what network at what time, watching the same commercial 14 times in a row, and the whole network just blinking out in the middle of a show

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

fuck yeah otc speedballs

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Become ungovernable (let the Ohio spiderwort do whatever it wants in your yard)

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

as a newsroom, if AI can replace your social presence, _why are you even on social_ www.semafor.com/article/02/1...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

i have applied for one (1) job. hooray

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Senator I have reliable intelligence that Elon musk got your coffee order wrong, please act accordingly

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I want just one single journalist to show some fucking spine and ask these cunts why they all hate transgender people. Don't allow them to 'legitimate concerns' their way out of it. Fucking nail them on it.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

that’s right. also, you don’t need water; posts provide sufficient hydration.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

hey, are you doomscrolling? fuck yeah, refresh that shit, i bet there are new posts by now

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

1. Three sexual abuse nonprofits have removed all or nearly all references to trans, queer and non binary people (h/t @devtesla.bsky.social) I wrote a second article today to document and archive some of the impacted pages. www.madycast.com/p/capitulati...

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments