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 🙄
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 🙄
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.
September 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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.
"A refreshing thirst quencher that packs a punch."
*The journalist was shackled in the town's stocks for clichéd writing and peppered liberally with rotten plums and squishy tomatoes.*
*The journalist was shackled in the town's stocks for clichéd writing and peppered liberally with rotten plums and squishy tomatoes.*
Bold, tart and fizzy, this mix of blanco tequila, lime juice and carbonated mineral water, is a refreshing thirst quencher that packs a punch. Use the amounts here as a guide, and pour to suit your taste buds.
Ranch Water Recipe
Bold, tart and fizzy, this mix of blanco tequila, lime juice and carbonated mineral water, is a refreshing thirst quencher that packs a punch Use the amounts here as a guide, and pour to suit your taste buds To take the edge off, add a little sweetener like simple syrup, or a touch of orange-flavored liqueur, such as Grand Marnier or Cointreau
nyti.ms
August 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"A refreshing thirst quencher that packs a punch."
*The journalist was shackled in the town's stocks for clichéd writing and peppered liberally with rotten plums and squishy tomatoes.*
*The journalist was shackled in the town's stocks for clichéd writing and peppered liberally with rotten plums and squishy tomatoes.*
"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...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/esc...
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...
www.mcsweeneys.net
August 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"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...
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.
It's an eight-hour recording of me snoring, sleep-talking and getting up at 3am for a wee.
August 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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.
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.
August 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Oh good. I've finally reached the 'accidentally signed up for the Hare Krishna spiritual movement' part of my recovery.
Reposted by Daniel Fahey
Call me old-fashioned but music criticism should be funnier and more entertaining.
August 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Call me old-fashioned but music criticism should be funnier and more entertaining.
Writing. How the fuck do I do it again?
August 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Writing. How the fuck do I do it again?
"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.
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.
July 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
www.thebraintumourcharity.org
July 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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!
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 ❤️
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 ❤️
Hold Back The River
Hold Back The River Links. Available on all popular platforms.
li.sten.to
July 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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 ❤️
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 ❤️
Reposted by Daniel Fahey
Went to a Vietnamese restaurant and mispronounced phở so badly the waiter tried to give me the heimlich maneuver
December 11, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Went to a Vietnamese restaurant and mispronounced phở so badly the waiter tried to give me the heimlich maneuver
the high priestess speaks…
Things that have annoyed me this week
1) The constant seasonal deliberation about Die Hard - nobody cares
2) TikTok’s of coffee being poured ontop of hard chocolate - stop it
3) Middle lane drivers who then block you in and stay hovering on your back door - cunts
1) The constant seasonal deliberation about Die Hard - nobody cares
2) TikTok’s of coffee being poured ontop of hard chocolate - stop it
3) Middle lane drivers who then block you in and stay hovering on your back door - cunts
December 11, 2024 at 9:29 PM
the high priestess speaks…
Fuck. Forgot to take my mood stabilisers (quality street) today.
December 11, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Fuck. Forgot to take my mood stabilisers (quality street) today.
Christ. Reading The Standard website these days is like spinning through Piccadilly Circus on a runaway Wurlitzer.
#SaveRegencyCaff.
£170k feels decent as well.
#SaveRegencyCaff.
£170k feels decent as well.
RIGHT: who's in for a crowdfund??
If anything bad happens to the Regency... I mean, bollox to the ravens and the Tower, this is SERIOUS
www.standard.co.uk/going-out/re...
If anything bad happens to the Regency... I mean, bollox to the ravens and the Tower, this is SERIOUS
www.standard.co.uk/going-out/re...
London's famous Regency Cafe is up for sale for £170,000
The British-Italian cafe is one of London’s most-loved restaurants
www.standard.co.uk
December 11, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Christ. Reading The Standard website these days is like spinning through Piccadilly Circus on a runaway Wurlitzer.
#SaveRegencyCaff.
£170k feels decent as well.
#SaveRegencyCaff.
£170k feels decent as well.
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.
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.
Says the CEO of HarperCollins on AI:
"One idea is a “talking book,” where a book sits atop a large language model, allowing readers to converse with an AI facsimile of its author."
Please, just make it stop, somebody.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
"One idea is a “talking book,” where a book sits atop a large language model, allowing readers to converse with an AI facsimile of its author."
Please, just make it stop, somebody.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray on Hot Print Book Sales and the Use of AI
Deluxe editions of popular titles are driving sales of print books this holiday season, HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray said at a media conference this week. The company is also looking at various AI-d...
www.publishersweekly.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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.
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.
Reposted by Daniel Fahey
imagining an editor at a music publication being like "if the uhc shooter could get his manifesto down to 262 words, you can shorten your EOY album blurb to 250"
December 10, 2024 at 9:39 PM
imagining an editor at a music publication being like "if the uhc shooter could get his manifesto down to 262 words, you can shorten your EOY album blurb to 250"
I’m watching linear tv and I think it’s time to kill off comedian-led travel show.
You don’t get the laughs nor the insight. Surely there’s a more interesting format? Or maybe we can send them to more interesting places? Send Dapper Laughs to Guayana or something…
You don’t get the laughs nor the insight. Surely there’s a more interesting format? Or maybe we can send them to more interesting places? Send Dapper Laughs to Guayana or something…
December 10, 2024 at 9:24 PM
I’m watching linear tv and I think it’s time to kill off comedian-led travel show.
You don’t get the laughs nor the insight. Surely there’s a more interesting format? Or maybe we can send them to more interesting places? Send Dapper Laughs to Guayana or something…
You don’t get the laughs nor the insight. Surely there’s a more interesting format? Or maybe we can send them to more interesting places? Send Dapper Laughs to Guayana or something…
I mean, this is also true of journalism, publishing, music and just about every industry vampiric gazillionaires are getting their glazed teeth in to.
From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe is ruthless. He's ambitious. He's also making mistakes, according to our columnist. His record in football is proving... mediocre. nyti.ms/3ZsErMs
December 10, 2024 at 6:56 PM
I mean, this is also true of journalism, publishing, music and just about every industry vampiric gazillionaires are getting their glazed teeth in to.
Just writing a manifesto to carry around with me so people assume I have intentions.
December 10, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Just writing a manifesto to carry around with me so people assume I have intentions.
A stunning stat that. Like a punch to the windpipe.
December 9, 2024 at 10:53 PM
A stunning stat that. Like a punch to the windpipe.
[deletes goodreads account]
[deletes twitter account]
[deletes whatsapp]
[leaves one star review of joe rogan podcast]
[burns ‘fuck corporate America’ tattoo off face]
[buys a whopper from burger king on uber eats, tips handsomely]
[deletes twitter account]
[deletes whatsapp]
[leaves one star review of joe rogan podcast]
[burns ‘fuck corporate America’ tattoo off face]
[buys a whopper from burger king on uber eats, tips handsomely]
December 9, 2024 at 10:06 PM
[deletes goodreads account]
[deletes twitter account]
[deletes whatsapp]
[leaves one star review of joe rogan podcast]
[burns ‘fuck corporate America’ tattoo off face]
[buys a whopper from burger king on uber eats, tips handsomely]
[deletes twitter account]
[deletes whatsapp]
[leaves one star review of joe rogan podcast]
[burns ‘fuck corporate America’ tattoo off face]
[buys a whopper from burger king on uber eats, tips handsomely]
Reposted by Daniel Fahey
A reminder to please pay your freelancers before popping off for the holidays otherwise Santa won’t visit you and you will be doomed to live in a forever-winter with no Christmas and Mr Tumnus will be turned to stone.
December 9, 2024 at 10:27 AM
A reminder to please pay your freelancers before popping off for the holidays otherwise Santa won’t visit you and you will be doomed to live in a forever-winter with no Christmas and Mr Tumnus will be turned to stone.
Like me searching for my toddler during a game of hide and seek
This Fox segment on the search for the shooter is incredible. Look at how the NYPD searches Central Park lol
December 8, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Like me searching for my toddler during a game of hide and seek
You will not see a cooler fucking cover
'Gary Gwadera, aka drummer Piotr Gwadera’s Far, far in Chicago. Footberk Suite stems from similarities he noticed in Chicago footwork and oberek – a centuries old traditional Polish folk dance'
Gary Gwadera - Far, far in Chicago. Footberk Suite - The Best Cassettes of 2024
https://buff.ly/4glcKMh
Gary Gwadera - Far, far in Chicago. Footberk Suite - The Best Cassettes of 2024
https://buff.ly/4glcKMh
December 8, 2024 at 3:17 PM
You will not see a cooler fucking cover