Daniel Nye Griffiths
@d-nye-griffiths.bsky.social
Technology, media, communications. Ex-journalist. Opinions are mine and not representative of my employer. He/him.
Well, that's my evening, then.
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Well, that's my evening, then.
Apart from the strangeness of the language - "non-biological people" sounds like a woke term for AIs in Black Mirror - this makes clear that Baroness Falkner came into her job at the EHRC believing that the net amount of human rights in the UK was too high, and that her job was to lower that amount.
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Apart from the strangeness of the language - "non-biological people" sounds like a woke term for AIs in Black Mirror - this makes clear that Baroness Falkner came into her job at the EHRC believing that the net amount of human rights in the UK was too high, and that her job was to lower that amount.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Repeatedly asking the supermarket staff for a 'chocolate battle pass' and feigning misunderstanding when they ask if I mean 'advent calendar'
December 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Repeatedly asking the supermarket staff for a 'chocolate battle pass' and feigning misunderstanding when they ask if I mean 'advent calendar'
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As we celebrate Cyber Monday today, please save a thought for everyone responsible for bringing it to us.
December 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
As we celebrate Cyber Monday today, please save a thought for everyone responsible for bringing it to us.
But surely that would make the criminal disqualifyingly easy to identify?
December 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
But surely that would make the criminal disqualifyingly easy to identify?
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"A late contender for the best single issue of 2026."
Bam Smack Pow on their books of the week, specifically The Power Fantasy #13.
Bam Smack Pow on their books of the week, specifically The Power Fantasy #13.
Ultimates, The Power Fantasy, Spider-Man, and the best comic books of the past week
Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man, Image Comics’ The Power Fantasy, DC Comics’ Nightwing, and the other must-read new comic books from last week.
bamsmackpow.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"A late contender for the best single issue of 2026."
Bam Smack Pow on their books of the week, specifically The Power Fantasy #13.
Bam Smack Pow on their books of the week, specifically The Power Fantasy #13.
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Hi GameDevs please share to help your friends get hired. We are opening more roles: www.absurdventures.com/careers
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Hi GameDevs please share to help your friends get hired. We are opening more roles: www.absurdventures.com/careers
I mean I am taking from this that Toronto will play a vital part in this series.
"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
November 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I mean I am taking from this that Toronto will play a vital part in this series.
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Weird the way the entire world went mad and only the creator of the IT Crowd was unaffected.
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Weird the way the entire world went mad and only the creator of the IT Crowd was unaffected.
This pigeon is either extremely chill or does not have any legs.
November 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
This pigeon is either extremely chill or does not have any legs.
@davidmbarnett.bsky.social rightly looks askance at the use of "bravely" to describe people living with/fighting cancer, but this is, undeniably, brave writing. All best wishes to him, and huge credit to the NHS.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
‘He suggested we go to a quiet room to talk. I knew that was not good news’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
@davidmbarnett.bsky.social rightly looks askance at the use of "bravely" to describe people living with/fighting cancer, but this is, undeniably, brave writing. All best wishes to him, and huge credit to the NHS.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Quick and very unscientific straw poll - does anyone have the Observer as a regular part of their media mix, currently? Has the change of ownership made you more or less likely to seek it out? Are you getting links to it from your peers?
November 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Quick and very unscientific straw poll - does anyone have the Observer as a regular part of their media mix, currently? Has the change of ownership made you more or less likely to seek it out? Are you getting links to it from your peers?
All the nicest people do good work together.
I wrote this! I do hope you Fallen Londoners enjoy it.
Looking upon one's likeness is always a little uncanny. But there is some awful radiance to those eyes. As if some creature had taken your shape upon the canvas.
The Exceptional Story in Fallen London for December is Father's Oils, by @rossignol.bsky.social.
The Exceptional Story in Fallen London for December is Father's Oils, by @rossignol.bsky.social.
November 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
All the nicest people do good work together.
Genuine public service!
If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Genuine public service!
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Now I heard there was a tiny box
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Now I heard there was a tiny box
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
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😈 Maleficent, the evil queen, had her goblins searching for Sleeping Beauty for 16 years.
🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!
🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will
🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!
🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
😈 Maleficent, the evil queen, had her goblins searching for Sleeping Beauty for 16 years.
🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!
🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will
🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!
🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will
Did anyone have the wherewithal to ask "so what are we doing here?"
“Do you think the BBC is institutionally biased?” Michael Prescott, author of the Telegraph dossier: “I don’t”
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Did anyone have the wherewithal to ask "so what are we doing here?"
To be clear, I buy multiple portable devices in a year because I am an absolute weirdo. I am not trying to shore up consumer confidence.
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
To be clear, I buy multiple portable devices in a year because I am an absolute weirdo. I am not trying to shore up consumer confidence.
It's objectively strange that Chrono Trigger is the name of a JRPG series about time travellers dealing with a crisis, and Time Crisis a series of light gun games.
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It's objectively strange that Chrono Trigger is the name of a JRPG series about time travellers dealing with a crisis, and Time Crisis a series of light gun games.
The vast majority of Americans are apparently in Martha's Vineyard, finding themselves unable to order a pierogi.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The vast majority of Americans are apparently in Martha's Vineyard, finding themselves unable to order a pierogi.
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seven fundamentals of a great story by @antonyjohnston.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
seven fundamentals of a great story by @antonyjohnston.bsky.social
Slipped the snare of capital for long enough to get in a bus, and on my way to #adventurexpo.
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Slipped the snare of capital for long enough to get in a bus, and on my way to #adventurexpo.
Ambivalently telling Netflix that I liked "A Merry Little Ex-Mas" so it recommends more Christmas movies, but I cannot bring myself to give it a double thumbs up, because without integrity I am nothing.
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Ambivalently telling Netflix that I liked "A Merry Little Ex-Mas" so it recommends more Christmas movies, but I cannot bring myself to give it a double thumbs up, because without integrity I am nothing.