@davidrgrigg.bsky.social
I’m a retired software developer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. I worked in the field of interactive multimedia for over two decades, and have also worked in public relations and as a journalist and sub-editor.
Two Chairs Talking: Episode 10. Misfortunes, Mayhem and Bloody Murders. Image is in monochrome, of a number of human skulls arranged against a leafy background.
The latest episode of my podcast "Two Chairs Talking" is now out.
twochairs.website/2025-10-22-2...
If you don't have time to listen, there's a transcript here:
twochairs.website/podcast/fanz...
💙📚 #booksky #books #crime #history
Two Chairs Talking: Episode 9. Children of the Future age. Image is of a group of children with Asian features wearing space helmets against a background of a futuristic city.
The latest episode of Two Chairs Talking is now out. We discuss the film Children of Men and Ghost Cities by Siang Lu.
twochairs.website/2025-09-29-2...
Transcript is here if you don't have time to listen:
twochairs.website/podcast/fanz...
#booksky #books #films #movies 📚💙
Two Chairs Talking Episode 7, The Clock Has Stopped in the Dark. Image is of a mess of clockwork over a blurry landscape.
The latest episode of our podcast "Two Chairs Talking" is now out. We discuss SHROUD by Adrian Tchaikovsky and the film DARK CITY.
Podcast Episode here:
twochairs.website/2025-07-28-2...
Transcript here: twochairs.website/podcast/fanz...
#books #booksky 💙📚
They might be giants.
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Two Chairs Talking, Episode 6: Exhausting the Realm of the Possible. Image is a stylised image of a mix of Big Brother and Ethan Hunt with fighter jets in the background.
The latest episode of our podcast "Two Chairs Talking" is now out. Perry and I discuss the latest Mission Impossible movies and the novel Julia by Sandra Newman.
twochairs.website/2025-06-26-2...
Transcript is available here:
twochairs.website/podcast/fanz...
#books #films #booksky 💙📚
Through the Biblioscope Issue 80: Choosing the Wrong Path. The image shows the covers of three books: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, Karla's Choice by Nick Harkaway, and The Last Song of Penelope by Claire North.
The latest issue of my book and movie review newsletter is now out. I review Careless People, Karla's Choice and The Last Song of Penelope, and have quite a bit to say about the film Parasite.
#booksky #books #films 💙📚
biblioscope.org/issues_71_to...
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This is like the folk tale of The Fisherman and His Wife, isn’t it? Granted a series of wishes by a magical fish, the wife is eventually made Pope. But like Trump, she always wants more…
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Two Chairs Talking: Season 2 Episode 4, The Eye of the Storm. Image is a NASA photo of a hurricane as taken from the International Space Station.
The latest episode of our podcast Two Chairs Talking is now out! Perry and I discuss the novellas Typhoon by Joseph Conrad and The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler, as well as the film Birdman directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
twochairs.website/2025-04-29-2...
💙📚 #booksky #books #movies
Sydney folk! Interested in hearing about 1800s Australian crime, and how Mary Fortun wrote 500 police procedurals about it--the longest early crime serial known. Even though her son was a crim. Includes Ned Kelly and a Sydney safecracking, for which 2 men hanged
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Sydney folk! Interested in hearing about the seamy side of 1800s Oz true crime, and how a woman wrote police procedurals about it? Even when her son turned into a career criminal! Includes Ned Kelly links and a notorious Sydney safecracking, for which two men hanged
gleebooks.com.au/event/lucy-s...
Two Chairs Talking, Season 2 Episode 3 Don’t Ever Leave. Image is of a young woman in a hoodie with her hands together as if in prayer. Behind her is a forest.
The latest issue of our podcast is now out! Perry and I discuss the film (and novel) Never Let Me Go, and the novel This Kingdom of Dust, in considerable depth.
#books #booksky 💙📚
twochairs.website/2025-03-24-2...
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Two Chairs Talking: Season 2 Episode 2: The Vision Spendid. Image is of a glowing sun or org inside a rectangular frame against a black background.
The latest episode of our review podcast is now out! We talk about the best TV and movies we saw during 2024 (and the books they were based on). 💙📚
twochairs.website/2025-02-25-2...
Through the Biblioscope Issue 78: Rook Takes Queen. Image shows the covers of three books: Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson, Intermezzo by Sally Rooneyn and Shards of Earth by Adrian Tschaikovsky
The latest issue of my review newsletter is now out! biblioscope.org/issues_71_to...
#books #booksky 💙📚
I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath.
I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.
I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
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This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.
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First long and good review: residentjudge.com/2025/02/12/o...
14.02.2025 05:31 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#LibreOffice 24.8 Calc Guide print edition is now available on Lulu (dot) com. Free PDF, as always, can be downloaded from the LibreOffice website.
www.lulu.com/shop/libreof...
True.
06.02.2025 00:16 — 👍 37 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0I’ve been known to raid the sports, kitchen or barbecue sections for a suitable tool to do similar. I don’t put them back but leave them on the shelf with inaccessible items for the next height-challenged person to use.
06.02.2025 01:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dear Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Europe:
100 percent tariffs on Tesla.
28.01.2025 10:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Sell your Tesla. ❌
Sell your Cybertruck. ❌
Get off Twitter. ❌
Don’t sign up for Starlink. ❌
Bankrupt him. It will take while but it’s possible. ✊🏻
#resist
Since it’s the easiest thing in the world to spoof a “from” email address, the advice to check the sender email address is pathetic nonsense.
27.01.2025 06:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Courage begets courage.
22.01.2025 21:33 — 👍 31175 🔁 3695 💬 404 📌 134🚨 🚨 🚨 HOMEWORK 🚨 🚨 🚨
The email address for federal workers to inform on their colleagues is DEIAtruth@opm.gov.
Would be a real shame if folks flooded that inbox, rendering it useless.
Book cover: CHUCK WENDIG'S WANDERERS. Features eerie sunset sky and a bent, rusted watertower and some shambling hobbity-lookin dude wandering down field path. It says NATIONAL BESTSELLER, which is nice, and includes a nice quote from the Toronto Star which compares it to Stephen King, Emily St John Mandel, and Justin Cronin's books.
I do not know why my novel WANDERERS is a mere buck-ninety-nine at your favorite electric bookmonger site of choice, but it is, so if you want, y'know, creepy sleepwalking disease peri-apocalyptic sci-fi horror with a hefty dash of EAT SHIT A.I., then hey, it's 800 pages for 199 pennies.
18.01.2025 21:09 — 👍 1866 🔁 254 💬 170 📌 68
He wants so desperately to be profound, but instead this stuff comes across as super weird and uncomfortable.
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