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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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
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Just finishing up the last of the Christmas BLIRER with some piccalilli.
January 3, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Just finishing up the last of the Christmas BLIRER with some piccalilli.
This is like in a game where you go up close to a wall and see that what looks like a poster with some clues is just the “environmental texture” of a poster.
The simulation is cracking.
The simulation is cracking.
Found this laminated and zip-tied to a railway bridge today. Thought "oh, that's interesting!"
Went over for a closer look, and it's fucking AI slop. The bigger words are words, the rest are nonsense.
Why?! What is this for?! What did the people who made it think they were *DOING*??
Went over for a closer look, and it's fucking AI slop. The bigger words are words, the rest are nonsense.
Why?! What is this for?! What did the people who made it think they were *DOING*??
January 3, 2026 at 9:03 PM
This is like in a game where you go up close to a wall and see that what looks like a poster with some clues is just the “environmental texture” of a poster.
The simulation is cracking.
The simulation is cracking.
Cynical thought… Do all Presidents get told they can do stuff like this whenever they like. And it’ll happen, hush-hush, while they front it out for the cameras, furrowed brow, civilised.
But this one wants to do it out loud, whooping and firing his pistols into the ceiling. So we notice more.
But this one wants to do it out loud, whooping and firing his pistols into the ceiling. So we notice more.
January 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Cynical thought… Do all Presidents get told they can do stuff like this whenever they like. And it’ll happen, hush-hush, while they front it out for the cameras, furrowed brow, civilised.
But this one wants to do it out loud, whooping and firing his pistols into the ceiling. So we notice more.
But this one wants to do it out loud, whooping and firing his pistols into the ceiling. So we notice more.
Look, it makes strategic sense; if Venezuela has huge reserves of teenage Latin American beauty pageant contestants, then access needs to be secured to that supply, if necessary using military force.
January 3, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Look, it makes strategic sense; if Venezuela has huge reserves of teenage Latin American beauty pageant contestants, then access needs to be secured to that supply, if necessary using military force.
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Julia - our 3-time guest - has written a fantastic novel. Go and read it. Now please.
I’ve had the most amazing debut publication year. Now working on book two but please add #DontMakeMeLaugh to your TBR pile if you’re interested in the many trials/investigations of comedians guaranteed to be in the news a lot again this year. #MeToo #BookSky Out now in paperback.
January 2, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Julia - our 3-time guest - has written a fantastic novel. Go and read it. Now please.
Wonderful. This is one of the best comics panels ever drawn. It - and the pages around it - rewired my brain and changed the way I talked about and understood art and storytelling. If there is any book I would recommend unreservedly to creative people, it’s Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics.
January 2, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Wonderful. This is one of the best comics panels ever drawn. It - and the pages around it - rewired my brain and changed the way I talked about and understood art and storytelling. If there is any book I would recommend unreservedly to creative people, it’s Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics.
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I can confirm this amazing ghost story also works magnificently well on 2nd January as you walk precariously and alone on a slightly treacherous frosted layer of snow.
Beautifully built and with a chill that stays.
Beautifully built and with a chill that stays.
Christmas Eve. The perfect time for ghost stories…
TOND
A one-off story from the Broken Veil channel.
Patreon.com/brokenveil
(or wherever you get your podcasts.)
TOND
A one-off story from the Broken Veil channel.
Patreon.com/brokenveil
(or wherever you get your podcasts.)
January 2, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I can confirm this amazing ghost story also works magnificently well on 2nd January as you walk precariously and alone on a slightly treacherous frosted layer of snow.
Beautifully built and with a chill that stays.
Beautifully built and with a chill that stays.
(Parkin reads inscription on flute)
QUIS EST ISTE… QUI VENIT… Who is it who is coming —
(Turns over flute. Sees more writing)
PER VIAM AMBULANS Down the… street —
(And more writing…)
CRURA FLEXA, PEDES ERUDITI Bandy legs… educated feet…
EST AVUS!
(A look of horror)
It’s Grandad!
QUIS EST ISTE… QUI VENIT… Who is it who is coming —
(Turns over flute. Sees more writing)
PER VIAM AMBULANS Down the… street —
(And more writing…)
CRURA FLEXA, PEDES ERUDITI Bandy legs… educated feet…
EST AVUS!
(A look of horror)
It’s Grandad!
January 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
(Parkin reads inscription on flute)
QUIS EST ISTE… QUI VENIT… Who is it who is coming —
(Turns over flute. Sees more writing)
PER VIAM AMBULANS Down the… street —
(And more writing…)
CRURA FLEXA, PEDES ERUDITI Bandy legs… educated feet…
EST AVUS!
(A look of horror)
It’s Grandad!
QUIS EST ISTE… QUI VENIT… Who is it who is coming —
(Turns over flute. Sees more writing)
PER VIAM AMBULANS Down the… street —
(And more writing…)
CRURA FLEXA, PEDES ERUDITI Bandy legs… educated feet…
EST AVUS!
(A look of horror)
It’s Grandad!
Within ten minutes of posting this joke here, Facebook tried to sell me some ahem “nostalgic German memorabilia”. Fucksake, guys. Even I’m more complicated than that.
Remember how Tony Blair announced minimum wage legislation in the letters column of Wehrmacht Collectibles Digest, and published the full text of his Education Education Education speech, before party conference, in Top Heavy Amateurs.
January 2, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Within ten minutes of posting this joke here, Facebook tried to sell me some ahem “nostalgic German memorabilia”. Fucksake, guys. Even I’m more complicated than that.
I thought the Titanic Sinks Tonight series was horrifyingly effective. Turning statistics into stories very well indeed. A hard watch, more root human empathy than sentimentality.
But at the end there was a disclaimer that some shots had been created with “responsible” AI. I wonder what / how?
But at the end there was a disclaimer that some shots had been created with “responsible” AI. I wonder what / how?
January 2, 2026 at 3:37 PM
I thought the Titanic Sinks Tonight series was horrifyingly effective. Turning statistics into stories very well indeed. A hard watch, more root human empathy than sentimentality.
But at the end there was a disclaimer that some shots had been created with “responsible” AI. I wonder what / how?
But at the end there was a disclaimer that some shots had been created with “responsible” AI. I wonder what / how?
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Every year chocolates get smaller and more expensive. Extrapolating backwards, in 1906 a Creme Egg would have been the size of Rochester Cathedral and they would have paid you 12 guineas to eat it.
January 2, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Every year chocolates get smaller and more expensive. Extrapolating backwards, in 1906 a Creme Egg would have been the size of Rochester Cathedral and they would have paid you 12 guineas to eat it.
People say it’s odd that governments still use Twitter/X to communicate, but it’s only like how the John Major government announced its ongoing Maastricht negotiations through the readers’ erotic stories pages in Men Only magazine.
January 2, 2026 at 2:44 PM
People say it’s odd that governments still use Twitter/X to communicate, but it’s only like how the John Major government announced its ongoing Maastricht negotiations through the readers’ erotic stories pages in Men Only magazine.
Thinking LLMs will lead to superintelligence is like thinking you can ace a course by copying someone else’s homework.
You can’t become cleverer by stealing other people’s work without really looking at it any more than you can get fit by making someone else do loads of push ups.
You can’t become cleverer by stealing other people’s work without really looking at it any more than you can get fit by making someone else do loads of push ups.
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
January 2, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Thinking LLMs will lead to superintelligence is like thinking you can ace a course by copying someone else’s homework.
You can’t become cleverer by stealing other people’s work without really looking at it any more than you can get fit by making someone else do loads of push ups.
You can’t become cleverer by stealing other people’s work without really looking at it any more than you can get fit by making someone else do loads of push ups.
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January 2, 2026 at 1:34 PM
It’s weird that the far right could get completely unsuitable people elected by generating hysteria around an imaginary elite child trafficking ring, but a real one (involving that same guy) or a billionaire who’s running an AI child porn generating site is probably not worth making a fuss about.
January 2, 2026 at 1:25 PM
It’s weird that the far right could get completely unsuitable people elected by generating hysteria around an imaginary elite child trafficking ring, but a real one (involving that same guy) or a billionaire who’s running an AI child porn generating site is probably not worth making a fuss about.
Candidate are playing the Green Note in London in a couple of weeks, doing some old and new songs. Come along!
www.greennote.co.uk/production/c...
www.greennote.co.uk/production/c...
January 2, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Candidate are playing the Green Note in London in a couple of weeks, doing some old and new songs. Come along!
www.greennote.co.uk/production/c...
www.greennote.co.uk/production/c...
January 2, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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“A suffer-no-fools attitude that owns the stage, a formidable gag rate and a precision with language that conjures up the perfect images” - Chortle
Come and see a work-in-progress show in 2026.
Tickets:
linktr.ee/littlemaddle...
Come and see a work-in-progress show in 2026.
Tickets:
linktr.ee/littlemaddle...
January 2, 2026 at 11:28 AM
“A suffer-no-fools attitude that owns the stage, a formidable gag rate and a precision with language that conjures up the perfect images” - Chortle
Come and see a work-in-progress show in 2026.
Tickets:
linktr.ee/littlemaddle...
Come and see a work-in-progress show in 2026.
Tickets:
linktr.ee/littlemaddle...
Lovely piece on the hatefulness of all this. Worth it for many little highlights, but I enjoyed the riff on a calculator that aggressively suggests sums you might want to do today.
In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I.
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future
Seamus O'Reilly warns of AI maximum bubbledrive this year.
www.thegist.ie
January 2, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Lovely piece on the hatefulness of all this. Worth it for many little highlights, but I enjoyed the riff on a calculator that aggressively suggests sums you might want to do today.
Think about this a lot.
Editing takes time. Costs money. Most podcasts don’t earn any money. So most podcasts don’t edit. And so leaving all the irrelevant stuff in has been normalised in a way it never has been on radio, which is funded and for that money expects concision in return.
Editing takes time. Costs money. Most podcasts don’t earn any money. So most podcasts don’t edit. And so leaving all the irrelevant stuff in has been normalised in a way it never has been on radio, which is funded and for that money expects concision in return.
So much truth. And controversial view: for me one of the key differences between radio programmes and podcasts is that radio programmes rarely make me shout GET THE FUCK ON WITH IT I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU SAID EARLIER IN THE PUB I WASN’T THERE
podcasts
January 2, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Think about this a lot.
Editing takes time. Costs money. Most podcasts don’t earn any money. So most podcasts don’t edit. And so leaving all the irrelevant stuff in has been normalised in a way it never has been on radio, which is funded and for that money expects concision in return.
Editing takes time. Costs money. Most podcasts don’t earn any money. So most podcasts don’t edit. And so leaving all the irrelevant stuff in has been normalised in a way it never has been on radio, which is funded and for that money expects concision in return.
The Traitors twist this year is that the “Secret Traitor” is just one of Claudia Winkleman’s identities, of which she is unaware, but whom she addresses as a separate person, like Tyler Durden in Fight Club.
January 1, 2026 at 11:53 PM
The Traitors twist this year is that the “Secret Traitor” is just one of Claudia Winkleman’s identities, of which she is unaware, but whom she addresses as a separate person, like Tyler Durden in Fight Club.
Love that one of the new intake of Traitors isn’t telling the others what they do for a living to allay suspicion.
Even more amazing that their day job, according to the Aston graphic, is “murderer”.
Even more amazing that their day job, according to the Aston graphic, is “murderer”.
January 1, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Love that one of the new intake of Traitors isn’t telling the others what they do for a living to allay suspicion.
Even more amazing that their day job, according to the Aston graphic, is “murderer”.
Even more amazing that their day job, according to the Aston graphic, is “murderer”.
Reheating leftovers while dutifully having a sherry because it’s there.
Year hasn’t started yet, clearly. Give me a minute.
Year hasn’t started yet, clearly. Give me a minute.
January 1, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Reheating leftovers while dutifully having a sherry because it’s there.
Year hasn’t started yet, clearly. Give me a minute.
Year hasn’t started yet, clearly. Give me a minute.
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Predictions for 2026:
1. Socks are gonna get asymmetrical
2. A galactic homunculus will consume the sun and
3. The triumphant return of the ski-jacket
1. Socks are gonna get asymmetrical
2. A galactic homunculus will consume the sun and
3. The triumphant return of the ski-jacket
January 1, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Predictions for 2026:
1. Socks are gonna get asymmetrical
2. A galactic homunculus will consume the sun and
3. The triumphant return of the ski-jacket
1. Socks are gonna get asymmetrical
2. A galactic homunculus will consume the sun and
3. The triumphant return of the ski-jacket