Hoovering up a huge slug of chisel.
23.09.2025 15:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@danielfahey.bsky.social
Journalist and editor (https://danielfahey.contently.com). Commission: Lonely Planet. Write: Positive News, The Independent, Nat Geo, The Telegraph, Time Out, and more. Finalist: The Times AA Gill Awards. Currently undergoing cancer treatment π
Hoovering up a huge slug of chisel.
23.09.2025 15:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Having signed back into Bluesky aftering being offline for many months, it's difficult to comphrend the illusionary version of the world represented by the internet. Most people outside are nice and friendly and cracking on.
04.09.2025 15:06 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ah man, that's great! Both the move and the music writing. Send me some links please.
Yeah, pain in the arse. Can't get insurance to go abroad and can't work. Still napping each afternoon. A long road to full recovery.
Hey man. Not bad, thanks. Chemo-radio is finished. Just had my latest three-month scan and everything is looking good. Still can't travel or work. Still without part of my skull. They're looking at the end of the year to have that put in and then three months in bed afterward... how are you?
03.09.2025 17:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"A refreshing thirst quencher that packs a punch."
*The journalist was shackled in the town's stocks for clichΓ©d writing and peppered liberally with rotten plums and squishy tomatoes.*
"You have activated the smoke alarm. You will be charged a β¬1,000 fee, receive a one-star rating, and all of the American-hating neighbors are calling Interpol."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/esc...
NEW PODCAST IDEA: The Rest is... Rest. 
It's an eight-hour recording of me snoring, sleep-talking and getting up at 3am for a wee.
Oh good. I've finally reached the 'accidentally signed up for the Hare Krishna spiritual movement' part of my recovery.
26.08.2025 18:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Call me old-fashioned but music criticism should be funnier and more entertaining.
25.08.2025 14:54 β π 60 π 4 π¬ 8 π 1Unfortunately, that's just one in a long, exhaustive list of brain blocks. Other favourites include 'cold kitchen cupboard' (fridge) and 'peg banger' (hammer). Long, slow tarmaced route back...
19.08.2025 16:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I may be some time. I queued up in a coffee shop the other day to ask for a straw. The only words that my brain proffered when I reached the till were "sucking tube".
19.08.2025 16:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Writing. How the fuck do I do it again?
19.08.2025 16:36 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"Just how mummy used to make it."
Inexcusable description. Should've been deleted in the edit. Writer put on the 'DO NOT HIRE' list.
It's a sad echo of a boy's fondness for their homelife before they were sent to boarding school at six. Mummy wouldn't have made it. Cook or Nanny would have. Gross.
The following year, he βtalked outβ a bill intended to stop the eviction of tenants who complained about their housing. 
In 2011, he tried to block a debate on the Hillsborough disaster.
You get the idea.
Chopeβs specialty is blocking bills. In 2013, he delayed a bill to posthumously pardon the Second World War code breaker Alan Turing.
09.07.2025 20:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0For more info, it's Christchurch MP Christopher Chope, a man best known as the sole objector to the up-skirting bill, who is trying to scupper this one too.
09.07.2025 20:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Can you help? 
MPs vote on the Rare Cancers Bill this Friday. 
However, a last-minute amendment may scupper it.
The bill aims to improve research into rare cancers and develop new treatments for them.
Please email your MP and ask them to vote for it! Link below.
If not, please Like or RT!
Just back to share this. 
My pal's choir has released a cover of 'Hold Back the River' by #jamesbaymusic (li.sten.to/slymiholdbac...). 
Proceeds go to @braintumourrsch.bsky.social !!
Listen and DONATE. Link: www.justgiving.com/page/singlik...
BIG LOVE β€οΈ
The Occupy Movement, Brexit and the rise of Reform were all alarm bells of the public being concerned. Unless thereβs significant change next time, Iβd expect bigger, more aggressive signs of unhappiness.
11.12.2024 21:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Went to a Vietnamese restaurant and mispronounced phα» so badly the waiter tried to give me the heimlich maneuver
11.12.2024 16:41 β π 1033 π 75 π¬ 31 π 3Never worn OR!!! Forever warm?
11.12.2024 21:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0the high priestess speaksβ¦
11.12.2024 21:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Rectify and blame someone elseβ¦
11.12.2024 21:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Fuck. Forgot to take my mood stabilisers (quality street) today.
11.12.2024 20:22 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Christ. Reading The Standard website these days is like spinning through Piccadilly Circus on a runaway Wurlitzer.
#SaveRegencyCaff.
Β£170k feels decent as well.
I reckon he used AI to get this idea because itβs dog shit.
If I want to conversation with an author Iβll go to a talk or contact them via social media.
If the author is dead, Iβll use necromancy to summon their spirit as an apparition so I can point out a typo. Or whatever.
Keep up the excellent work.
11.12.2024 12:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβll have him try and swim home from the Chagos Islands
11.12.2024 09:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβm going to create a new one. Just working out the details.
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