Grant Heinrich
@ldnflds.bsky.social
High culture, low humour. Search and discovery at the Australian National Film and Sound Archive NFSA. Rails guy. Ex media, music, @bbc_news_labs. He/him. @ldnflds everywhere.
Who doesn't love a good data-driven drive by?
Ok - so I'm going to do a real context+write up but for now, here's what some of these things look like.
To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.
To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.
August 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Who doesn't love a good data-driven drive by?
How do we keep Andrew Sullivan off Bluesky?
I've loaded up neo4j with a pretty big amount of the follow graph. Anybody got a query they want me to run?
June 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
How do we keep Andrew Sullivan off Bluesky?
Apropos of nothing, OBVIOUSLY www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY9f...
Hiatus - Third
YouTube video by djhiatus
www.youtube.com
June 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Apropos of nothing, OBVIOUSLY www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY9f...
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Craig Brown’s Ma’am Darling is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read and such and innovative way of writing a biography. 99 vignettes, all gold, dissecting our cultural relationship with the monarchy and getting right under the skin of the subject. A wonderful snapshot of c20th oddness…
June 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Celebrating the life of Edmund White by remembering the time I was picked up by a sailor who saw me reading States of Gay Desire at a bus stop
June 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Celebrating the life of Edmund White by remembering the time I was picked up by a sailor who saw me reading States of Gay Desire at a bus stop
Dave is great (as is the Guardian). Work with him!
🚨 Audience job alert 🚨
Guardian Australia is hiring an assistant audience editor!! Love audience development? Come and play with SEO, newsletters, editorial data, social and more at the 4th most read news website in Australia. Come help me with audience strategy! workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/725/
Guardian Australia is hiring an assistant audience editor!! Love audience development? Come and play with SEO, newsletters, editorial data, social and more at the 4th most read news website in Australia. Come help me with audience strategy! workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/725/
The Guardian :: Assistant editor, audience
workforus.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Dave is great (as is the Guardian). Work with him!
"Democratise creativity for thee, but not for me"
April 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"Democratise creativity for thee, but not for me"
Related: BOY I cannot wait for the Australian election to be over so public servants can have opinions again
April 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Related: BOY I cannot wait for the Australian election to be over so public servants can have opinions again
Heading out to request French citizenship
April 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Heading out to request French citizenship
Thinking about writing "foreign_key" on one hand and "primary_key" on the other so I can be trusted to do basic database work
April 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Thinking about writing "foreign_key" on one hand and "primary_key" on the other so I can be trusted to do basic database work
Congratulations to Dymocks Chatswood, who have placed the romance section opposite the business section, creating the most succinct explanation of capitalism to date
April 19, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Congratulations to Dymocks Chatswood, who have placed the romance section opposite the business section, creating the most succinct explanation of capitalism to date
It’s possible to hate the entire idea of totes and still yearn for this
March 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It’s possible to hate the entire idea of totes and still yearn for this
Such great energy live. A lovely guy as well as I understand
Worst news all year
Rest in peace Roy Ayers, very likely the last person who will be described as an influential vibraphonist
March 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Such great energy live. A lovely guy as well as I understand
Worst news all year
Rest in peace Roy Ayers, very likely the last person who will be described as an influential vibraphonist
March 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Worst news all year
Feedly, your AI summaries often claim the opposite of what the article says
March 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Feedly, your AI summaries often claim the opposite of what the article says
It is nice (by which I mean catastrophic) to see the stock market react to US events in a way that reflects reality for everyone rather than increased opportunity for the wealthy.
March 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
It is nice (by which I mean catastrophic) to see the stock market react to US events in a way that reflects reality for everyone rather than increased opportunity for the wealthy.
What will save us is that menswear guy is now on Bluesky
american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
March 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
What will save us is that menswear guy is now on Bluesky
Support trans people. Particularly if, like me, in the 90s you told anyone who would listen that the internet would be a powerful force for good.
February 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Support trans people. Particularly if, like me, in the 90s you told anyone who would listen that the internet would be a powerful force for good.
The humans may be in chaos, but I will be watching something awesome on the feed
www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...
www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...
Apple’s new sci-fi series “Murderbot” to make global debut May 16, 2025
Today, Apple TV+ unveiled a first look at “Murderbot,” created by Chris and Paul Weitz and starring Alexander Skarsgård
www.apple.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The humans may be in chaos, but I will be watching something awesome on the feed
www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...
www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...
That’s 70m hours if everyone had as much fun as I did
Pacific Drive has sold over 1 million copies, biggest update yet coming soon says developer Ironwood Studios
➡️ www.gematsu.com/2025/02/paci...
➡️ www.gematsu.com/2025/02/paci...
February 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
That’s 70m hours if everyone had as much fun as I did
Reading Lachlan bio The Successor at the same time as Wolff’s The Fall is like …
This extraordinary piece ends with a plaintive question about whether anyone wants to hear a rich heir from a powerful family complain about his father. For the avoidance of doubt, yes. Yes I do.
Growing Up Murdoch
James Murdoch on mind games, sibling rivalry, and the war for the family media empire
www.theatlantic.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Reading Lachlan bio The Successor at the same time as Wolff’s The Fall is like …
No LinkedIn, I have not. Because I’m not a prick
February 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
No LinkedIn, I have not. Because I’m not a prick
Absolutely LIVING for Azealia versus Rowling
February 7, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Absolutely LIVING for Azealia versus Rowling
"Pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit" is genius level
More of this, please.
Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight.
"I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess."
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
"I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess."
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
February 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
"Pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit" is genius level
This is as much a complaint about the environment of journalism as much as the writing of any individual journalist. Character Limit is a deeply researched, often funny, fantastic takedown of Musk - buy that instead of an NYT sub.
A core fault of journalism is it assumes the audiences already knows the basics, and so pointing out a list of irregularities will let an audience extrapolate the full extent of a problem.
And if only that were true, the NYT's Musk piece would be absolutely awesome reporting.
And if only that were true, the NYT's Musk piece would be absolutely awesome reporting.
February 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This is as much a complaint about the environment of journalism as much as the writing of any individual journalist. Character Limit is a deeply researched, often funny, fantastic takedown of Musk - buy that instead of an NYT sub.