Joel Morris
@gralefrit.bsky.social
Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
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Joel Morris
@gralefrit.bsky.social
· Dec 12
If you want to get info, buy books, courses etc, it’s all on my website…
www.gralefrit.co.uk
Substack: for writing, Comfort Blanket and exclusive bonus subscriber podcasts.
joelmorris.substack.com
And the Broken Veil channel is where to get (and support) the weird stuff.
patreon.com/BrokenVeil
www.gralefrit.co.uk
Substack: for writing, Comfort Blanket and exclusive bonus subscriber podcasts.
joelmorris.substack.com
And the Broken Veil channel is where to get (and support) the weird stuff.
patreon.com/BrokenVeil
Re: that last repost, there’s a pretty clear and positive trans-coded character in West Side Story as well.
We’ve just re-invented not understanding this stuff because some arseholes reckoned it might be handy for whatever mad plan they had to rinse us for rage cash.
We’ve just re-invented not understanding this stuff because some arseholes reckoned it might be handy for whatever mad plan they had to rinse us for rage cash.
February 14, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Re: that last repost, there’s a pretty clear and positive trans-coded character in West Side Story as well.
We’ve just re-invented not understanding this stuff because some arseholes reckoned it might be handy for whatever mad plan they had to rinse us for rage cash.
We’ve just re-invented not understanding this stuff because some arseholes reckoned it might be handy for whatever mad plan they had to rinse us for rage cash.
Reposted by Joel Morris
This is why it's so bizarre when people are like "How am I supposed to explain all this trans stuff to my children" because Enid fuckin' Blyton managed to do it in one page in NINETEEN FORTY TWO.
Get a grip, for gods sake.
Get a grip, for gods sake.
February 14, 2026 at 12:23 PM
This is why it's so bizarre when people are like "How am I supposed to explain all this trans stuff to my children" because Enid fuckin' Blyton managed to do it in one page in NINETEEN FORTY TWO.
Get a grip, for gods sake.
Get a grip, for gods sake.
This works absolutely fine.
February 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
This works absolutely fine.
Reposted by Joel Morris
Husband is watching Future Shock: The Story of 2000AD and oh dear me this clip has not aged well. The last line. #NeilGaiman
February 14, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Husband is watching Future Shock: The Story of 2000AD and oh dear me this clip has not aged well. The last line. #NeilGaiman
Feeling stinky with a heavy cold and have taken myself to bed where I have chosen of my own free will to watch back to back Sapphire and Steel, then a double bill of Smile 2 and Event Horizon and now I feel weird and evil. Maybe I was just matching the media to the headspace.
February 13, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Feeling stinky with a heavy cold and have taken myself to bed where I have chosen of my own free will to watch back to back Sapphire and Steel, then a double bill of Smile 2 and Event Horizon and now I feel weird and evil. Maybe I was just matching the media to the headspace.
If a Shudder subscription proves anything it’s that all good well written psychological horror movies have a 50% audience approval rating, presumably thanks to the number of horrible people who sign up to a horror streaming service merely to watch women’s heads be cut off.
February 13, 2026 at 5:53 PM
If a Shudder subscription proves anything it’s that all good well written psychological horror movies have a 50% audience approval rating, presumably thanks to the number of horrible people who sign up to a horror streaming service merely to watch women’s heads be cut off.
Watching Sapphire and Steel on YouTube (cos the DVD is downstairs and I’m not feeling well today). The ads are scaring the shit out of me.
February 13, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Watching Sapphire and Steel on YouTube (cos the DVD is downstairs and I’m not feeling well today). The ads are scaring the shit out of me.
Reposted by Joel Morris
RHLSTP Book Club with Jay Foreman of the Map Men talking about This Way Up! shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo...
Can't recommend this book enough, informative and entertaining uk.bookshop.org/p/books/this...
Can't recommend this book enough, informative and entertaining uk.bookshop.org/p/books/this...
RHLSTP Book Club 169 - Jay Foreman | RHLSTP with Richard Herring
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
shows.acast.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:04 AM
RHLSTP Book Club with Jay Foreman of the Map Men talking about This Way Up! shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo...
Can't recommend this book enough, informative and entertaining uk.bookshop.org/p/books/this...
Can't recommend this book enough, informative and entertaining uk.bookshop.org/p/books/this...
Tried using a (very good) AI filter on audio to clean some unwanted background noise. Like all things in tech, it works wonderfully for one specific thing: a solo voice, talking clearly. Business stuff. Ted talk.
As soon as anyone does cross-talk, or laughs, the algorithm can’t manage it.
As soon as anyone does cross-talk, or laughs, the algorithm can’t manage it.
February 13, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Tried using a (very good) AI filter on audio to clean some unwanted background noise. Like all things in tech, it works wonderfully for one specific thing: a solo voice, talking clearly. Business stuff. Ted talk.
As soon as anyone does cross-talk, or laughs, the algorithm can’t manage it.
As soon as anyone does cross-talk, or laughs, the algorithm can’t manage it.
I very rarely remember my dreams, but I had one recently where I was stamping again and again on the Commander In Chief and he was making this lovely smooshy mess, like the cling film parcel of mashed banana and jam that Andy De La Tour hits with a cricket bat in The Young Ones. It was so pleasing.
February 13, 2026 at 8:20 AM
I very rarely remember my dreams, but I had one recently where I was stamping again and again on the Commander In Chief and he was making this lovely smooshy mess, like the cling film parcel of mashed banana and jam that Andy De La Tour hits with a cricket bat in The Young Ones. It was so pleasing.
Guys! Guys! Netflix is stopping their app working on the PS3 on March 26th (and the iPlayer menu on this platform is an absolute dog’s breakfast) a timely warning if, like me, you’ve decided to try and watch some telly on a bit of kit that you bought in 2007.
February 13, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Guys! Guys! Netflix is stopping their app working on the PS3 on March 26th (and the iPlayer menu on this platform is an absolute dog’s breakfast) a timely warning if, like me, you’ve decided to try and watch some telly on a bit of kit that you bought in 2007.
That this fits the metre and line length of Pulp’s Common People seems perfect.
We might be going to the Sound of Music, we got our anoraks at British Home Stores.
February 12, 2026 at 10:46 PM
That this fits the metre and line length of Pulp’s Common People seems perfect.
It would be great if the robots and cyborgs in films were more like my printer.
Arnie stands up in the alleyway, out of the smoke, but takes six goes to do it, with a swirl of deafening servos then spits out an error report and turns himself off.
Arnie stands up in the alleyway, out of the smoke, but takes six goes to do it, with a swirl of deafening servos then spits out an error report and turns himself off.
February 12, 2026 at 10:11 AM
It would be great if the robots and cyborgs in films were more like my printer.
Arnie stands up in the alleyway, out of the smoke, but takes six goes to do it, with a swirl of deafening servos then spits out an error report and turns himself off.
Arnie stands up in the alleyway, out of the smoke, but takes six goes to do it, with a swirl of deafening servos then spits out an error report and turns himself off.
Delighted Taylor Swift has used the Whitgift Centre as a video location. If she wants to use other places that I used to be duty manager in a shop, I know how to turn off the alarms at Broadgate, and where the goods in bay is at Fenchurch Street, provided she’s planning on filming in the late 90s.
February 12, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Delighted Taylor Swift has used the Whitgift Centre as a video location. If she wants to use other places that I used to be duty manager in a shop, I know how to turn off the alarms at Broadgate, and where the goods in bay is at Fenchurch Street, provided she’s planning on filming in the late 90s.
Enjoying a scoot through my recent-ish copy of Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable to see what’s been added since I was a kid. Terminator is in. Daleks and Silurians are the Who monsters. But the only video game reference is Space Invaders. No Mario, no Tetris, no Grand Theft Auto…
February 12, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Enjoying a scoot through my recent-ish copy of Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable to see what’s been added since I was a kid. Terminator is in. Daleks and Silurians are the Who monsters. But the only video game reference is Space Invaders. No Mario, no Tetris, no Grand Theft Auto…
Watching the Winter Olympics and remembering something Ahir Shah told me once. Posh people do dangerous sports, like skiing, because if they break a leg and have to spend weeks in bed off work, they don’t stop earning.
Think it might be as good a class test as what you call your settee.
Think it might be as good a class test as what you call your settee.
February 12, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Watching the Winter Olympics and remembering something Ahir Shah told me once. Posh people do dangerous sports, like skiing, because if they break a leg and have to spend weeks in bed off work, they don’t stop earning.
Think it might be as good a class test as what you call your settee.
Think it might be as good a class test as what you call your settee.
Is the “which famous person went to your school” thing just a data grab? Do people have this as their secret password?
“Erm… Barry Scott. The Bang the Dirt Is Gone guy.”
“Thanks. That seems fine. And the first and fifth character of the name of your first pet.”
“Erm… Barry Scott. The Bang the Dirt Is Gone guy.”
“Thanks. That seems fine. And the first and fifth character of the name of your first pet.”
February 12, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Is the “which famous person went to your school” thing just a data grab? Do people have this as their secret password?
“Erm… Barry Scott. The Bang the Dirt Is Gone guy.”
“Thanks. That seems fine. And the first and fifth character of the name of your first pet.”
“Erm… Barry Scott. The Bang the Dirt Is Gone guy.”
“Thanks. That seems fine. And the first and fifth character of the name of your first pet.”
This is wonderful.
Thinking it wouldn’t be necessary if artists could still profit commercially from the success of our work.
But multi billion dollar corporations decided they’d like it all for free, thanks, to offer to the public for almost nothing.
Irish taxpayers will now subsidise that.
Thinking it wouldn’t be necessary if artists could still profit commercially from the success of our work.
But multi billion dollar corporations decided they’d like it all for free, thanks, to offer to the public for almost nothing.
Irish taxpayers will now subsidise that.
February 12, 2026 at 6:30 AM
This is wonderful.
Thinking it wouldn’t be necessary if artists could still profit commercially from the success of our work.
But multi billion dollar corporations decided they’d like it all for free, thanks, to offer to the public for almost nothing.
Irish taxpayers will now subsidise that.
Thinking it wouldn’t be necessary if artists could still profit commercially from the success of our work.
But multi billion dollar corporations decided they’d like it all for free, thanks, to offer to the public for almost nothing.
Irish taxpayers will now subsidise that.
RIP Bud Cort.
a couple sits on a beach at sunset
ALT: a couple sits on a beach at sunset
media.tenor.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:50 PM
RIP Bud Cort.
If you’re worried that AI seems to be as intelligent and emotionally authentic as you are, maybe that says less about AI than it does about you.
February 11, 2026 at 3:32 PM
If you’re worried that AI seems to be as intelligent and emotionally authentic as you are, maybe that says less about AI than it does about you.
What does the person in the mirror want? Why do they copy me? If I smash the mirror, have I committed murder?
Researchers working with the A.I. system Claude have come to understand that the model’s selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kEX1vV
February 11, 2026 at 9:21 AM
What does the person in the mirror want? Why do they copy me? If I smash the mirror, have I committed murder?
I did a double bill of Jurassic Park XIV and Irish Traitors and I now want Jeff Goldblum to explain chaos theory using Paudie.
February 11, 2026 at 8:32 AM
I did a double bill of Jurassic Park XIV and Irish Traitors and I now want Jeff Goldblum to explain chaos theory using Paudie.
Oh. Here’s me and Tom Neenan talking about how brilliant Jurassic Park is.
Listen to Jurassic Park - with Tom Neenan from Comfort Blanket wherever you get your podcasts! pod.link/1614879928/e...
Listen to Jurassic Park - with Tom Neenan from Comfort Blanket wherever you get your podcasts! pod.link/1614879928/e...
February 11, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Oh. Here’s me and Tom Neenan talking about how brilliant Jurassic Park is.
Listen to Jurassic Park - with Tom Neenan from Comfort Blanket wherever you get your podcasts! pod.link/1614879928/e...
Listen to Jurassic Park - with Tom Neenan from Comfort Blanket wherever you get your podcasts! pod.link/1614879928/e...
I have discovered that I am unable to see anything wrong with any Jurassic Park film. Got round to watching one of the recent ones - a movie that by general consensus is one of the worst films of the century - and thought it was great dumb B-movie fun.
Nice to find your blind spots.
Nice to find your blind spots.
February 11, 2026 at 7:19 AM
I have discovered that I am unable to see anything wrong with any Jurassic Park film. Got round to watching one of the recent ones - a movie that by general consensus is one of the worst films of the century - and thought it was great dumb B-movie fun.
Nice to find your blind spots.
Nice to find your blind spots.
Imagine if Donald Trump got to be President in real life.
February 10, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Imagine if Donald Trump got to be President in real life.