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Daniel Fahey

@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 πŸ™„

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Hoovering up a huge slug of chisel.

23.09.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Having 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€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah 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.

03.09.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 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.*

31.08.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Escape Room Challenge: Your European Airbnb Welcome to this tiny fifth-floor Airbnb, your home for the next four days in a major European city. Can you escape without incurring additional fee...

"You have activated the smoke alarm. You will be charged a €1,000 fee, receive a one-star rating, and all of the American-hating neighbors are calling Interpol."

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/esc...

31.08.2025 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

29.08.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Call me old-fashioned but music criticism should be funnier and more entertaining.

25.08.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

Unfortunately, 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€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I 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€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Writing. How the fuck do I do it again?

19.08.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"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.

23.07.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The following year, he β€œtalked out” 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.

09.07.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Chope’s 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€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

For 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€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Urgent: The Rare Cancers Bill is at risk and we need your help! The Rare Cancers Bill is at risk of falling - we are urging supporters to get in touch with their MP to ensure it progresses.

Can 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!

09.07.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hold Back The River Hold Back The River Links. Available on all popular platforms.

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 ❀️

04.07.2025 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Occupy Movement, Brexit and the rise of Reform were all alarm bells of the public being concerned. Unless there’s significant change next time, I’d expect bigger, more aggressive signs of unhappiness.

11.12.2024 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Went to a Vietnamese restaurant and mispronounced phở so badly the waiter tried to give me the heimlich maneuver

11.12.2024 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1033    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 3

Never worn OR!!! Forever warm?

11.12.2024 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the high priestess speaks…

11.12.2024 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rectify and blame someone else…

11.12.2024 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck. Forgot to take my mood stabilisers (quality street) today.

11.12.2024 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Christ. Reading The Standard website these days is like spinning through Piccadilly Circus on a runaway Wurlitzer.

#SaveRegencyCaff.

Β£170k feels decent as well.

11.12.2024 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I reckon he used AI to get this idea because it’s dog shit.

If I want to conversation with an author I’ll go to a talk or contact them via social media.

If the author is dead, I’ll use necromancy to summon their spirit as an apparition so I can point out a typo. Or whatever.

11.12.2024 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Keep up the excellent work.

11.12.2024 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll have him try and swim home from the Chagos Islands

11.12.2024 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m going to create a new one. Just working out the details.

11.12.2024 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚

11.12.2024 07:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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