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Daniel Victor

@bydanielvictor.bsky.social
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NYT editor/reporter for breaking news. NYC via London via Hong Kong. I hear this place is supposed to be fun?

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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I think we have to accept that "gaslight" is one of those words that was used incorrectly so much it now just means a different thing. Joins an esteemed club headlined by literally, begs the question, could care less and aggravate
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
For NYT Vows: When the Eagles won their first Super Bowl in 2018, he tweeted the famous WW2 kissing photo as a joke. She didn’t follow or know him, but suggested they should recreate it at the parade. They kissed within a minute of meeting, and got married just after Philly's second Super Bowl win
nytimes.com
Philadelphia Eagles Fans Kissed, Got to Know Each Other, Married
Shamus Clancy and Ashley Suder were strangers when they met at a Super Bowl championship parade to recreate a famous photo. They were brought together by a viral tweet and a bold suggestion.
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Note to every hotel in the world: Please have a full-length mirror. Everyone wants a full-length mirror and they're not that expensive or anything
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Season 2 review: Needed more Ricken
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
One of my bigger pet peeves is when people say "Fall down seven times, stand up eight." You can't!! Look: Fall 1, Stand 1 Fall 2, Stand 2 Fall 3, Stand 3 ... Fall 7, Stand 7 Now what? You're already standing, you can't stand again. It's nonsense.
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Speaking only for myself, my disappearance from Twitter — a place I once loved and owe most of my career to — came because both posting and consuming started to feel deeply poisonous, with little of the upside that used to exist. It's gotten so much worse, but I still don't miss 2022 Twitter
niemanlab.org
If you ask New York Times reporters to spend less time on Twitter, will they? (Spoiler: yes)
An analysis of more than 185,000 tweets by New York Times staffers showed they got less opinionated — and less frequent overall — when a management memo asked the newsroom to scale back the takes.
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
There is a generation of children growing up to believe the Eagles just go to the Super Bowl all the time
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Now I'll never find out about the glitch in Super Mario 3
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Just got this. Bye!
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The second season of Squid Game is like if you took everything that worked about the first season and made it 40% worse
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Looks like it was deleted, what was it? (Also hi!)
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I don't want the game to end with a defensive replacement CF getting mowed down! If Rick Vaughn wanted Parkman, we should too
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Unpopular opinion I will stand behind with no shame: The golden at-bat is a tremendous idea
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Hi Hugo, I'm sorry, I cannot write another article to help Bristol City. Best,
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Right, and I find having no choice but to directly confront my shame is the only way out of my shame spiral
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Note: This absolutely does not apply to PR pitches, please do not circle back
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I think we should normalize nagging. If I owe you a response, it’s probably because I forgot about it and it’s not gonna happen. I always appreciate reminders! It’s nothing personal. I don't want to fail you, and your nudge makes it more likely you get what you need. Everyone wins.
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I stubbornly believe he is drawing dead but it certainly is something to point to beyond the growth angle, I guess?
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I guess the reverse of that suggests another use case I'd be comfortable with: If I'm at the bottom/middle of an alliance and would be stealthily OK with the people most at risk in my alliance going home
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Also, hello to everyone who found me on a list of NYT journalists. I'll mostly be using this account for throwaway nonsense. Sorry!
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Am I missing something? I would trust your take, @stephenfishbach.bsky.social
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I do wonder if there's some bias in how we think about it — we remember the splits that go wrong more than the votes that go smoothly — but players love to (over?)correct for things they see on recent seasons, and the high-profile examples of splits gone awry are stacking up.
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
To argue against myself, the act of being comfortable with a split is a signal of trust to your alliance, and evidence that you will do what you say you will even when risky. But woof, that's a lot of risk to stomach, and all the New Era twists have encouraged everyone to seek the safest move.
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
There are so few remaining situations where I'd be comfortable splitting. To even consider it I'd need an indisputably clear target — equally threatening to everyone — and rock-solid intel that they have a real idol. Ideally requiring two flippers for it to unravel instead of one. Hard to pull off!
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
On an even split, you don't have the hierarchy problem but you do have more people who can ruin everything with a single defection. You need iron trust in everyone, not just most of them.
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
If I were in a power alliance of four with a clear fifth, I don't want the fifth (or anyone I think might flip) to be on the strong side of a split. Which means players will start perceiving it as establishing a hierarchy, suddenly wary if they're told to be on the weak side of the split.
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I think future #Survivor players may almost entirely ditch vote-splits. In most situations I'd probably prefer a guess at who an idol *might* be played for, with some psychological engineering to tip the odds a bit, over the very high likelihood that a single person in my alliance could flip.
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Annual reminder: Despite everything you've ever heard, the tryptophan in turkey does not make you sleepy. There's more of it in other foods - you're just sleepy after Thanksgiving because you ate and drank a lot
nytimes.com
No, the Tryptophan in Turkey Won’t Make You Sleepy (Published 2015)
A common myth suggests that the tryptophan in turkey will make you drowsy, but that’s not why you might be ready for bed after Thanksgiving dinner.
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This skeet is gonna Go Viral
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
As a matter of Journalism Ethics I cannot take money from those who would seek to influence my coverage, but if I took money from anyone it'd be Stove Top
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Stuffing is an S-tier side and should be eaten throughout the year, not just at Thanksgiving. There's no reason it should be limited to a seasonal thing. Free the stuffing!!
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
(me when they're 2-31) It's fine, Kyle Lowry is coming back soon
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Feels like you can weed out the monsters who would do this by not going to a first-week showing of Wicked www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/m...
nytimes.com
‘Wicked’ Fans Singing in Movie Theaters Are Anything but Popular
Some fans who have attended early screenings of the film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical have treated it as a singalong. Not everyone is thrilled.
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Ooooh thank you sir
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I just created a Gmail filter to delete all emails from *@linkedin.com — thereby catching all future emails that I also did not sign up for — and I have no idea why I never thought of this before
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Right American Fiction was great, but a different thing than like Ace Ventura
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Sometimes I like asking people to name the last comedy they loved, and seeing the realization unfold that there basically haven't been *any* comedies since we were kids, just other genres that are maybe also funny. Just a handful of exceptions in the past two decades, and no really good ones!
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
If anyone has 'em already I would eternally appreciate lists on Fulham/Survivor/Philly sports (the only things X is still kinda good for)
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I'd prefer the 2008 era of boring "I'm doing laundry" lifecasting tweets over what we have now, an endless competition to frame widely held opinions in slightly more dramatic terms, combined with the 20,000th rip of a video from reddit captioned "who did this 😂"
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A thing I like here is that I'm not being force-fed viral slop from accounts I don't follow anymore, like X and Threads insist on doing in the main feeds. Turns out I really missed throwaway thoughts that aren't specifically engineered for 10k RTs
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Budweiser frogs were pretty good, imo
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Daniel Victor @bydanielvictor.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
For my return to social media, I would like to say that I really really dislike that AT&T commercial with the parents talking in bed. It just doesn't make any sense on any level, and its existence makes my life dramatically worse. Thank you.
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