Joel Morris

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11 Mar

For info, books, courses etc: all on my website… www.gralefrit.co.uk Substack: for writing, Comfort Blanket and exclusive podcasts. joelmorris.substack.com And the Broken Veil channel is where to get (and support) the weird stuff. patreon.com/BrokenVeil Be Funny Or Die: e-book amzn.eu/d/076TLtCh

@bigpaulwales.bsky.social

Love this. One of her best loved and most enduring short stories is The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. A place name which is just Salem, O. (Oregon), backwards.

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot@leguinbot.bsky.social

“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?

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Julia Raeside

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Daniel Sloss just posted a new statement.

juliaraeside.substack.comBREAKING: Daniel Sloss is furiousThe comedian who didn’t even make the r4pe joke has issued another statement.

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Sadly, having reached the final act of his life, Chekov has gone off, as we suspected he would inevitably do when he first appeared.

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The Onion

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This App Turns Your Photos into Music If You Want to Do That For Some Reason

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Coming this Halloween. Patreon.com/brokenveil

Coming this Halloween. Patreon.com/brokenveil

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HappyToast

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“I can’t see a makers mark, shall we have a look inside?”

Why is Bluesky pleasant to be on? Might be because people here still like linear television and communal viewing / listening. “Is everyone watching… XXXX?” “Just seen blah blah, catch it on the iPlayer” and so on. I think that’s actively important. We abandon that habit at our peril.

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social

Don’t think anyone’s made quite enough fuss that they had the Holy Grail on Antiques Roadshow last week.

It's in the DNA of the technology. We're not meant to watch or listen on our own.

When some tech arsehole starts bleating about bespoke AI generated personal content, this is why they are worth ignoring. It’s not what culture and art is for. We are meant to gather and share fixed experiences, with our varied reactions providing the personalisation.

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social

Don’t think anyone’s made quite enough fuss that they had the Holy Grail on Antiques Roadshow last week.

I understand it’s a bit of a running joke. But it’s definitely the place I feel communal culture still exists and is defended.

Marconi worried that wireless communication would never catch on because messages could be intercepted and weren’t private. His assistant suggested that this could be, counterintuitively, the selling point. A single broadcast would draw people together to enjoy it communally.

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Don’t think anyone’s made quite enough fuss that they had the Holy Grail on Antiques Roadshow last week.

@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Suspect if any campaign for the defence of linear and public service broadcasting (against digital on demand) as a social necessity finally happens, it would probably start here.

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Hellish

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Today @gralefrit.bsky.social picks the 5 tracks he’ll meet in Hell! We talked about Joel’s folk horror podcast Broken Veil; hippies; harmony; being proud and embarrassed at the same time; and how everything started going wrong for the arts when everything became free. Listen podfollow.com/hellish

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Adam Schwarz

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

@weirdinthewade.bsky.social

This week someone brought in the cursed summoning whistle from Jonathan Miller’s Oh Whistle And I’ll Come To You. This has been an incredible run for the series being brought powerful Fortean artefacts. Expecting the VHS from Ringu next week, and the Hexham Heads.

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Don’t think anyone’s made quite enough fuss that they had the Holy Grail on Antiques Roadshow last week.

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Nat Doig

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Olie Campbell, and Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social of Broken Veil Podcast! You can listen wherever you get podcasts from 6am Monday 26th October or here on the BBC at the same time: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... 2/2

bbc.co.ukBBC Sounds - Weird in the Wade, Halloween Special: Sounds that Scare UsNat and special guests explore the sounds which frighten Weird in the Wade’s listeners

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot

@leguinbot.bsky.social

Ged stood still a while, like one who has received great news, and must enlarge his spirit to receive it.

theguardian.comJohn Healey pledges to use budget to harness power of AI to bolster Britain’s securityChancellor says government to commit hundreds of millions to develop ‘distinctively British’ approach to AI

Of course the colonial plunder of resources belonging to other people without paying is “distinctly British”.

Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com

Asking for a few friends: does a 'distinctly British' approach to AI include paying for the use of our work? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Nick Harkaway

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Asking for a few friends: does a 'distinctly British' approach to AI include paying for the use of our work? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

joelmorris.substack.comBring Something Back...70 years after The Quatermass Experiment, our culture is still infected with its spores.

Twenty years since the death of Nigel Kneale, apparently. Here’s something I wrote about the enduring legacy of one of my all time heroes, shortly after seeing his lost masterpiece restaged. joelmorris.substack.com/p/bring-some...

Also: basic relationship goals here. Nigel Kneale and Judith Kerr up the shops.

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Jay Foreman

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Shouldn’t it be called war of tug?

I’m convinced that AI is a bubble. But I’m also convinced that a shitload of comparatively recently adopted tech that we think of as normal is also a bubble. None of it has been costed as a business, just as speculative investment. Stuff we think we rely on. I’m not sure it’s all going to last.

Like we don’t go to the moon any more. The straight line of tech progress feels like it’s about to glitch and nosedive.

AI is just the biggest one because it’s not clear we want it. Social media could go. The smart phone. Same day delivery. Anything.

If we stopped having streamed audio, or TV, or app controlled taxis… Would that be awful? Not an Amish thing; more of a Concorde thing. Something disruptive from the “future” that becomes something of the past when it can’t actually make money (except through promise it’ll work one day.)

Coming soon…

Don’t think anyone’s made quite enough fuss that they had the Holy Grail on Antiques Roadshow last week.

bbc.co.ukAntiques Roadshow - Series 49: 8. Valentines Mansion and Gardens 2The roadshow returns to Valentines Mansion in east London, where finds include rare French buttons, a futuristic coffee set, wrestling memorabilia and props from Indiana Jones.

It’s a lovely segment. The last one on the show. A propmaker brings the stuff he made for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with his late wife. It’s rather glorious. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Fiona Bruce: “Well, as I always say, we are merely moving through history. This IS history. See you next time. B’bye.” *melts*

Kristin Hersh at the Lexington. An act of magic.

I discovered Kristin Hersh and the Throwing Muses when they supported REM in 89. I went to the merch stand after their set and swapped my REM shirt for a Muses one.

I’ve done similar things loads over the years. You can pick up new loyalties, thanks to the recommendation of another band you trust. It’s like the headline act is an older sibling. “You might like this.” So I always try and catch the support. Sometimes - like in 89 - they change your life.

Kristin Hersh at the Lexington. An act of magic.

There wasn’t a support act last night. We ended up aftewards talking about how I always try and see the support act, cos they might be your next favourite band. As you get older you might prefer an extra hour in the warm pub or at home but when else are you going to see your next favourite band?

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New from Broken Veil. Coming this Halloween. Patreon.com/brokenveil

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New from Broken Veil. Coming this Halloween. Patreon.com/brokenveil

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And yes this is a shitty 10 minute Photoshop and that is the righteous way to get these ideas out of your head.

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Julia Raeside

@jnraeside.bsky.social

Comedy’s ’good guys’ are a big topic of discussion this week.

Broken Veil channel Halloween story afoot.

patreon.com/BrokenVeil

What if I stockpile food but it’s mainly Milky Bars? Is that all right?