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
· Nov 9
Hello new followers!
If you want to know anything, it’s all on my website…
www.gralefrit.co.uk
I’m doing lots of stuff on Substack, including podcasts and writing and that.
joelmorris.substack.com
Also: Be Funny Or Die, How Comedy Works and Why It Matters… from all the usual book places.
If you want to know anything, it’s all on my website…
www.gralefrit.co.uk
I’m doing lots of stuff on Substack, including podcasts and writing and that.
joelmorris.substack.com
Also: Be Funny Or Die, How Comedy Works and Why It Matters… from all the usual book places.
AI is a science fair project built by tech nerds to see if it works, not a serious monetisable business plan
If a potato battery clock or a bicarb volcano promised to allow capitalists to fire all their staff somehow, we’d all be talking about that now.
If a potato battery clock or a bicarb volcano promised to allow capitalists to fire all their staff somehow, we’d all be talking about that now.
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
AI is a science fair project built by tech nerds to see if it works, not a serious monetisable business plan
If a potato battery clock or a bicarb volcano promised to allow capitalists to fire all their staff somehow, we’d all be talking about that now.
If a potato battery clock or a bicarb volcano promised to allow capitalists to fire all their staff somehow, we’d all be talking about that now.
I know there’s a lot going on, but I’m spending today adjusting to the fact that Tyrannosaurs had lips. Hold my calls.
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I know there’s a lot going on, but I’m spending today adjusting to the fact that Tyrannosaurs had lips. Hold my calls.
Thought: Banning VPNs will have a knock-on for British creativity, since Surfshark et al seem to be the main advertising sponsor of lots of YouTubers. That’s YouTube where creatives are meant to go now the tech disruptors everyone loves have dismantled our public media infrastructure.
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Thought: Banning VPNs will have a knock-on for British creativity, since Surfshark et al seem to be the main advertising sponsor of lots of YouTubers. That’s YouTube where creatives are meant to go now the tech disruptors everyone loves have dismantled our public media infrastructure.
Things being blatant doesn’t stop reality bending around them any more, but it’s worth noticing where all this stuff creeps in from, and it’s never organic.
👉Bottom line: partisan sources + lobbying conflicts + a choreographed leak = a weaponised attack on public-service journalism. Read both parts: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
• bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p... 12/12
• bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p... 12/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Things being blatant doesn’t stop reality bending around them any more, but it’s worth noticing where all this stuff creeps in from, and it’s never organic.
The Broken Veil II soundtrack we’ve been being put together for the last couple of months is mainly vintage synths battling against grinding Black Angel’s Death Song viola noises, so I’m excited that Charli XCX agrees that’s the haunted house sound of the year.
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The Broken Veil II soundtrack we’ve been being put together for the last couple of months is mainly vintage synths battling against grinding Black Angel’s Death Song viola noises, so I’m excited that Charli XCX agrees that’s the haunted house sound of the year.
Every time it was “magic hour” in Del Toro’s Frankenstein, a scene played under honeyed light, it took me out of the film, and ruined any emotional connection, cos I thought it was some far-right meme, and that’s another thing AI has spoiled by pillaging culture without meaning.
November 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Every time it was “magic hour” in Del Toro’s Frankenstein, a scene played under honeyed light, it took me out of the film, and ruined any emotional connection, cos I thought it was some far-right meme, and that’s another thing AI has spoiled by pillaging culture without meaning.
Remember when the Vatican went in to bat hard for David Crosby’s baked-as-all-hell “If I Could Only Remember My Name” LP? Assuming this list is mainly Cheech and Chong movies and Head by the Monkees. Turns out that “I like the Pope” T shirt was pretty well informed.
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Remember when the Vatican went in to bat hard for David Crosby’s baked-as-all-hell “If I Could Only Remember My Name” LP? Assuming this list is mainly Cheech and Chong movies and Head by the Monkees. Turns out that “I like the Pope” T shirt was pretty well informed.
Reposted by Joel Morris
What a surprise-after posting yesterday that there was very little about Prescott or Hanover Communications online, @bylinetimes.bsky.social have been doing some digging and guess what? The so called independent advisor to the BBC is anything but…
🔴 The Pro-Trump Bias of the ‘Neutral’ Sources in the Leaked BBC ‘Prescott Dossier’
Byline Times’ analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan, Trump-aligned organisations.
@nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...
Byline Times’ analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan, Trump-aligned organisations.
@nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...
The Pro-Trump Bias of the 'Neutral' Sources in the Leaked BBC 'Prescott Dossier'
Byline Times’ analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan right-wing, Trump-aligned organisations
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
What a surprise-after posting yesterday that there was very little about Prescott or Hanover Communications online, @bylinetimes.bsky.social have been doing some digging and guess what? The so called independent advisor to the BBC is anything but…
Prediction. The BBC will agree to pay Trump off, and the timeline will be the exact moment some development money is due for a project I’m pitching. The money will be spent on that instead. And all will be well. As it ever was. Amen.
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Prediction. The BBC will agree to pay Trump off, and the timeline will be the exact moment some development money is due for a project I’m pitching. The money will be spent on that instead. And all will be well. As it ever was. Amen.
Reposted by Joel Morris
I like the Carry On films but the lore is too confusing, impossible for modern audiences to accept these people could play a major part in the French Revolution AND lose their bras on camping holidays
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I like the Carry On films but the lore is too confusing, impossible for modern audiences to accept these people could play a major part in the French Revolution AND lose their bras on camping holidays
Desaturated flashback.
“Now listen very carefully 007. In event of you being blown up, just click the biro here, and here… Your constituent parts will reassemble and you will be picked up by the invisible car…”
“Now listen very carefully 007. In event of you being blown up, just click the biro here, and here… Your constituent parts will reassemble and you will be picked up by the invisible car…”
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Desaturated flashback.
“Now listen very carefully 007. In event of you being blown up, just click the biro here, and here… Your constituent parts will reassemble and you will be picked up by the invisible car…”
“Now listen very carefully 007. In event of you being blown up, just click the biro here, and here… Your constituent parts will reassemble and you will be picked up by the invisible car…”
Hear me out: Bonds Assemble. Like The Five Doctors. With lookalikes for the dead ones.
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Hear me out: Bonds Assemble. Like The Five Doctors. With lookalikes for the dead ones.
Reposted by Joel Morris
News Chronicle, December 1936. Those were the days...
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
News Chronicle, December 1936. Those were the days...
Solution: don’t give Bond an arc.
But have an ark instead.
Then you’re making Moonraker.
Problem solved.
But have an ark instead.
Then you’re making Moonraker.
Problem solved.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Solution: don’t give Bond an arc.
But have an ark instead.
Then you’re making Moonraker.
Problem solved.
But have an ark instead.
Then you’re making Moonraker.
Problem solved.
Reposted by Joel Morris
Moonraker is the best Bond and the moment this country realises that is the moment we can move on from Suez.
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Moonraker is the best Bond and the moment this country realises that is the moment we can move on from Suez.
“It’s impossible to reboot Bond” says production team who decided Bond first got his licence to kill in the 21st Century, as Daniel Craig, then got incredibly old within two films and was being put out to pasture, but also had Sean Connery’s 1960s car.
It’s Bond. Just do whatever the fuck you like.
It’s Bond. Just do whatever the fuck you like.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
“It’s impossible to reboot Bond” says production team who decided Bond first got his licence to kill in the 21st Century, as Daniel Craig, then got incredibly old within two films and was being put out to pasture, but also had Sean Connery’s 1960s car.
It’s Bond. Just do whatever the fuck you like.
It’s Bond. Just do whatever the fuck you like.
Oh dear. There are some amazing and fresh views about the licence fee and people who defend it out there, ready to blow the back off your head and rewire your entire core, aren’t there?
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Oh dear. There are some amazing and fresh views about the licence fee and people who defend it out there, ready to blow the back off your head and rewire your entire core, aren’t there?
Can’t help but feel “Donald Trump threatens to sue the BBC for $1bn” is the point the BBC should stop being balanced in its reporting.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Can’t help but feel “Donald Trump threatens to sue the BBC for $1bn” is the point the BBC should stop being balanced in its reporting.
Ah. A postcard from the magazine Logic Problems has arrived.
There is only Denis, Miss Parrott and me. We all get along very well. Miss Tomb is away, has been since January. I've been planting cabbages this past week.
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Ah. A postcard from the magazine Logic Problems has arrived.
The worst thing about flags and poppies being stolen as performative tokens by cunts, is the implication that the members of my own family who fought and died over the last century or so were corned-beef nostalgists who mainly climbed into Lancasters and foxholes to stick it to the libs.
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The worst thing about flags and poppies being stolen as performative tokens by cunts, is the implication that the members of my own family who fought and died over the last century or so were corned-beef nostalgists who mainly climbed into Lancasters and foxholes to stick it to the libs.
Reposted by Joel Morris
I’m sorry, but There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day is a modern invention pushed by card companies. I only observe A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day on the 14th.
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I’m sorry, but There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day is a modern invention pushed by card companies. I only observe A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day on the 14th.
Wait til the international right wing power leveraging clique finds out about the Dad’s Army “Don’t tell him your name, Pike” misquotation on the wall of the BBC. Heads will roll.
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Wait til the international right wing power leveraging clique finds out about the Dad’s Army “Don’t tell him your name, Pike” misquotation on the wall of the BBC. Heads will roll.
Can’t believe Disney have pulled all their money out of Tim Davie.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Can’t believe Disney have pulled all their money out of Tim Davie.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
Reposted by Joel Morris
Whatever the challenges facing the BBC, it remains one of the largest UK commissioners of scripted content
As we head into charter renewal, under a new Director General, it’s vital that scripted remains a priority for the corporation and that the BBC’s role as a PSB is protected
As we head into charter renewal, under a new Director General, it’s vital that scripted remains a priority for the corporation and that the BBC’s role as a PSB is protected
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Whatever the challenges facing the BBC, it remains one of the largest UK commissioners of scripted content
As we head into charter renewal, under a new Director General, it’s vital that scripted remains a priority for the corporation and that the BBC’s role as a PSB is protected
As we head into charter renewal, under a new Director General, it’s vital that scripted remains a priority for the corporation and that the BBC’s role as a PSB is protected
The BBC, both as a radio broadcaster, and a TV broadcaster, didn’t start out doing news at all. News is the upstart department. Its job is to act as a national fireplace. And that’s properly vital now, more than ever.
I reckon a shared national popular culture is just as important (if not more important) than a fact based, impartial news service for liberal democracy to work.
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The BBC, both as a radio broadcaster, and a TV broadcaster, didn’t start out doing news at all. News is the upstart department. Its job is to act as a national fireplace. And that’s properly vital now, more than ever.