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Daniel Lavery
Personal blog · thechatner.comwritingculture
Daniel Lavery writes The Chatner, a personal blog at thechatner.com about writing and culture. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Daniel Lavery's newsletter, which one commenter calls wonderful. The comment also points to two of its posts and an archived earlier piece from The Toast.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A newsletter about rejiggered classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.
What Hacker News says?
It's a wonderful newsletter. Perhaps you'll enjoy: * https://www.thechatner.com/p/please-accept-my-application-to... * https://www.thechatner.com/p/gene-kelly-is-getting-his-balle... And from Danny's previous work at the Toast under a different name: https://web.archive.org/web/20230127124414/https://the-toast...
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on “The Bronze Age has never looked stronger”Submitted The Bronze Age has never looked stronger as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Press Conference About What Happened to This Morning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slight Counterfactuals: Dick Whittington Has Children as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Deflect Compliments as a story · 1 points
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