Joel Morris
Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
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- Another remarkable piece of writing by the brilliant Andrew Hankinson. More wounded, stunted, stumpy men, shouting angrily at the North Eastern sky, to file alongside his unforgettable book-length study of Raoul Moat. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
- This is the only thing that can happen, once the fast growth and venture capital burns through. The promise, like all streaming, was “better than piracy” but nothing is better than piracy. Because piracy is free. But free goods and services are impossible. Wonder when that penny will drop.
- Move fast. Break things. Realise you’ve broken things. Try and make a loose pile out of the bits, that from a distance looks like the old things. Before the broken times. To please the gods. Much cargo. To bring good harvest. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
- Move fast. Break things. Realise you’ve broken things. Try and make a loose pile out of the bits, that from a distance looks like the old things. Before the broken times. To please the gods. Much cargo. To bring good harvest. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
- Fucksake. Government has stripped the Kidron amendment defending creators’ copyright out of the Data Bill using an arcane parliamentary instrument. Not going to say where I would like to insert an arcane parliamentary implement.
- Baroness Kidron, a filmmaker, being able to articulate this simple truth about the creative industries so plainly, makes me wish that Thangam Debonnaire (a cellist) hadn’t lost her seat (even to the Greens) and was somehow Culture Secretary right now.
- Thames Water thinking their most “valuable resource” is their management reminds me of the moment I explained to a visiting US writer that the BBC mainly makes a substance called “The BBC” in huge quantities, and that television programmes are just a surprisingly popular byproduct of that process.
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- This is ridiculously good. I hadn’t seen it before. It’s something we did for Framley (a new council building with a giant pencil sticking out of the top, for roughly the same reason) but this straight-bat Nationwide report about an upside-down library is really impressive. youtu.be/41i_CxDqoIA?...
- Sure, we can all compare ourselves to the greats, and yeah, it turns out Stevie Wonder made Songs In The Key Of Life when he was in his mid 20s, but had he beaten the chicken level on Parappa The Rapper?
- Wouldn’t it be amazing if humanity eventually won a Darwin Award?
