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Daniel Fahey

@danielfahey.bsky.social
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Journalist and editor (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 🙄

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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Visited Kent's smallest church today. Originally built in the 13th-century, this Romney Marsh mirage was only accessible by boat in the winter up until the 1960s.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 27/02/2026
Condé Nast CEO says AI is a ‘death blow’ to Google search ft.trib.al/q5ye94v
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Condé Nast CEO says AI is a ‘death blow’ to Google search
Roger Lynch says publisher of Vogue and The New Yorker increased revenue last year with subscription growth
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I've found this wonderful bit about the impact of travel influencers from the early 1770s... "The best example of the failure of celebrities and royalty to help a resort is Hothampton (Bognor), where Sir Richard Hotham left famous people stay free publicity, but with little gain."
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Folks, it was a misleading shop name.
A shop in Canterbury called Crack
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
What exactly do I do with the energy of waiting for a brain operation for two years and then having it be cancelled three times in as many weeks? Like, is this some sort of God not letting me have it until I've learned some lesson? What does it all mean? What do I do with these EMOITIONS?
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I very slowly started to write again this week, whilst in isolation ahead of my brain surgery. It's been babysteps. Tiny typing. But I felt like my brain was slowly reemerging from its chemically enforced hibernation. I then went to bed to read and began a Cormac McCarthy novel.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
BBC Sport understands that US president Donald Trump is keen to buy Greenland before the January transfer window closes.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
you've already got the fifa peace prize, how many more peace prizes do you need?
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Barry White > Bari Weiss
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Personal News! My final brain operation is confirmed for January. This is the one. The big full stop. Recover, then i can return to the digital content goldmine. I just hope in nothing has really happened in the last two years to prevent me from again mining that untapped golden journalism ore.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Here's how I'm protecting my own writing from AI theft: writing realy fucking shit wih lots and loads of wrung words. oka?
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
[Updating the style guide]: Financial bubbles will now be referred to as 'pimples'. For example: The A.I. pimple.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I've been through all your 'gifts for men/dads' lists and they're all wrong. We don't want anything. We just want a little peace and quiet. Sell that.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Speeding along at chamomiles-an-hour.
Mug of chamomile tea.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
is this the billionaires all leaving?
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
"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.*
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
"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...
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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...
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Oh good. I've finally reached the 'accidentally signed up for the Hare Krishna spiritual movement' part of my recovery.
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Call me old-fashioned but music criticism should be funnier and more entertaining.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Writing. How the fuck do I do it again?
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"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.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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!
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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.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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 ❤️
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Hold Back The River
Hold Back The River Links. Available on all popular platforms.
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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 11/12/2024
Went to a Vietnamese restaurant and mispronounced phở so badly the waiter tried to give me the heimlich maneuver
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
the high priestess speaks…
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Fuck. Forgot to take my mood stabilisers (quality street) today.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Christ. Reading The Standard website these days is like spinning through Piccadilly Circus on a runaway Wurlitzer. #SaveRegencyCaff. £170k feels decent as well.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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.
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josh terry @joshterry.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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"
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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…
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I mean, this is also true of journalism, publishing, music and just about every industry vampiric gazillionaires are getting their glazed teeth in to.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Just writing a manifesto to carry around with me so people assume I have intentions.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A stunning stat that. Like a punch to the windpipe.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
[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]
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This feels like a really important arti—oh look a squirrel! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore | Siân Boyle
‘Brain rot’ is the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year – a fitting choice, given the startling impact the internet is having on our grey matter, says journalist Siân Boyle
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Like me searching for my toddler during a game of hide and seek
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
You will not see a cooler fucking cover
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 08/12/2024
NEW: Russian Foreign Ministry confirms that Assad has left Syria.
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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A day in the life of David Squires and the secrets of his ‘artistic process’
In an extract from his new book, our cartoonist reveals how a plunge pool and pickleball with Jake Humphrey fuel his fire
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
So these Elves on the Shelves things. What’s the motivation? What’s their story arc? We’re only a few days in and I think ours should be taken in for questioning. Why the loo roll around the tree? Why the sweet theft? I might have to mock-up ours crying in a police cell or something.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Anyone set up a Prince William’s Beard account on here yet?
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Stella Duffy @stellduffy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Merry existentialists.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. Simone de Beauvoir. Hell is other people. Jean Paul Sartre. There is a terrible emptiness in me, and indifference that hurts. Albert Camus. Christmas baubles with images of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Back before chemo gave me alcohol intolerance I used to have Bailey’s on Cheerios as an after-dinner treat. That’s something you can just…do.
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
NEED a unique gift this Christmas? Hire an independent writer like myself for cash. I write: - Abaravsive jokes to ruin family meals ☑️ - Mystery admirer letters to make your partner jealous ☑️ - Irritating WhatsApp conversation starter packs ☑️ - Xmas cards signed in blood ☑️ - All jobs considered
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
[Channel 5 pitch meeting, portable executive lounge, Hanger Lane Services] “Hear me out…” *takes long drawn-out hit on the Captain Tom bong* “The Cyder Truck. The Wurzels drive Daisy May Cooper to their favourite Somerset cider farms in a Cyber Truck.
The Wurzels Cyber truck Daisy May cooper
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James Brown @jamesjamesbrown.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Spent weds signing and posting the remaining 40 copies of Animal House I had. 9 orders came in since then so I’ve ordered another 50. If you’d like a signed & personally dedicated copy DM me or reply below. Will save at least 15 minutes dicking around last minute Christmas shopping at the garage.
Signed copy of Animal House book Piles of Animal House book paperbacks Smaller pile of Animal House paperback Colourful list of locations Animal House book has been sent to
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Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The billionaire might not be bad but one person amassing such wealth upends the entire capitalist system. It drives inequality, feeds undue influence, raises the price of land and housing, and ensures—through inheritance—that unfairness is baked into the next generation.
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