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Brandon Hacha
@brandonhacha.bsky.social
(HACK-uh)

Posts are my thoughts, which means at least half of them are about The Boss.

Ph.D. Candidate at UW-Madison studying topological photonics

I’m essentially a physicist with the fun and charisma of a chemist. And an ego obviously of a physicist.
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein seemed to have dinner together at Eva and Glenn Durbin’s place in Palm Beach, Florida… IN 2017
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Oh I’m getting ads from The Atlantic featuring Lee Cronin now
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
For future reference:
October 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Is Facebook going to suggest I friend *everyone* I drop from my fantasy team?
October 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
September 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I’m absolutely enthralled by this picture on the Improvised Firearm Wikipedia page. It’s the work of Ґенадій Ржевіч, who says “I shot zip gun”
September 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This has to be cultural appropriation
September 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It’s always the ones with paid twitter accounts too
August 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“Republican leaders agreed to work with Senator Tammy Baldwin (D–WI) to refashion her failed amendment to restore funding for most of those grants”

Everybody else who doesn’t get to have the absolute best Senator in Congress:
July 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I think doing chemistry in space is good and by far not the worst thing that a space company could invest money into doing
July 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
My beer just started going off about how much it hates wokeness
July 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The best thing about living in Madison is that when I see an elderly man wearing a red shirt with “Trump” on it, it ends up being some anti-Trump Facebook-style joke

(It was the red style of this)
July 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hinge is so disappointing because I have to assume this isn’t about vibronic coupling or IR spectroscopy
June 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New Boston area update just dropped
June 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
June 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Dane County Regional Airport has a big ol’ restored spotlight before security and it’s very cool to see a giant fresnel lens up close.
June 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Just look at the replies! The distinction is central to the whole MAGA belief!!
April 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Alright Canadians, if you’re going to do the “these Americans are so clueless” routine then I at least expect you to know how federalism works here.

Plus the arguments are:
“the U.S. is targeting students and illegally withholding funding”
vs
“this school was funded by a (now-dead) bad guy”
April 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The timeline is discussing libgen
March 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
March 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I’m kidding, I still did.
March 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
“Democrats announce all funds will go to installing disaster-proven Otto Pilot modules in cockpits”
February 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I’ll add to this, since he seems to be reading my posts

If you saw these tweets from anybody else, you would immediately think they view scientists (and Bluesky users?) with contempt. The replies are filled with blue check accounts criticizing science and scientists. You are the company you keep
February 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Like, c’mon dude. Is this what living in a liberal bubble actually means? This is a culture war and so many of these people want to see you on the street begging for charity.
February 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
She tweeted this and a federal judge just agreed that even if that OMB memo is rescinded, that there’s enough of an argument to continue with a restraining order against the *policy* too
January 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM