Joel Morris
Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
- OUT NOW. A new Be Funny Or Die podcast, talking about the 1984 Zucker Abrahams Zucker follow up to Airplane!, 'Top Secret', and how story and jokes need to be in perfect harmony for a spoof to really work... Available exclusively to paid subscribers... open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...
- Fucking hell. I know nobody’s in greasy overalls for you to fetishise, Labour, but this is still an industry full of working people on marginal incomes that you are voluntarily destroying, you dumb tech-fetishising goons. You just sold us for corporate strip-mining. Up the workers.
- ICYMI: An amendment backed by creatives that would ensure AI models obey copyright law has been defeated in parliament as the contentious Data Bill proceeds towards its final stages 👇 #BookSky
- Turn it off. Shut it down. And if you can choose not to use it, just don’t use it. It’s a nineteenth century industrial grift with ordinary working people as the fuel it’s grinding through. Arsehole Intelligence. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- This is great news. Hurrah!
- I have some exciting news This is New Modern I hope you’ll join me x @newmodernbooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Joel MorrisThanks to everyone who's listening and telling friends about Broken Veil. We've had a boost from the Uncanny massive, thanks to the kind words of @dannyrobins.bsky.social... And it's put us back at Number One in our own chart, and in the Top 20 overall. Keep spreading the word! pod.link/1745494718
- Coming tomorrow for paid subscribers… a new Comfort Blanket. Comedy legend @gmcgiv.bsky.social, climbs off the ferris wheel to talk about the bittersweet Viennese comforts of Carol Reed’s masterpiece ‘The Third Man’. “Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax…” joelmorris.substack.com
- “British people have a deep respect for the Sir Winston Churchill they know so well from all them films about him, and the world war he won, also in all them films.”
- Reposted by Joel MorrisNew hires notoriously cause more work than they save until they’re up to speed, because you can’t trust them to do the job right. AI is the eternal new hire.
- Reposted by Joel MorrisLovely testimonial from Uncanny’s @dannyrobins.bsky.social about our #BrokenVeil podcast! If you’ve not heard it yet, dive in… On all usual platforms, and now YouTube… pod.link/1745494718 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
