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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What does it signify when a statue of a horse has three legs in the air?

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So many things to enjoy here in so few words.

An old news report which reads: FIVE £1 NOTES BLOWN INTO SEA.
During the gale at Llandudno on Tuesday a woman opened her purse at the corner of a street and six £1 notes were blown out.. One was recovered by a boy, but the others were carried eastwards into the sea, followed a few minutes later by an umbrella.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Since it's Bandcamp Frideg, here's some music to do the washing-up to. grampianhorn.bandcamp.com/album/time-a...

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Time and Tune, by Grampian Horn

17 track album

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When something made us all laugh that much, we wanted it to exist as soon as possible.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@gralefrit.bsky.social @jasonhazeley.bsky.social and rob h (who's not on here, I don't think) were pitching stuff for Viz at the time and this was just an idea we had for a fake ad. All 3 of us pitched ideas in for the mag cover and I went off to make it / realise the ad the next day.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Now seems as good a time as any to post the plasticine Frank Muir that I built for the ‘Amateur Frank Muir Modeller’ Viz ad back in 2006.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don’t think I’ve ever had a passport where my photo doesn’t look like I’ve been up all night eating flour straight from the bag.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This clip is a few of my favourite thing.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Start off with the ones not smothered in chocolate. It just confuses the issue.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think my head is trying to stop me thinking they taste like these because they look a bit similar, but the flavour is very much something else long forgotten.

A picture of those 1970s sweets with pictures of fruit through them like seaside rock.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've tried to describe the flavour profile of Balla Bites before and the nearest I got was 'unidentified 1970s sweet'. This unholy combination is easier: I'm going with 'mouthful of schoolmate's pick and mix while their back's turned'.

Haribo Balla Bites in chocolate. Bizarre.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This pic of Jools Holland and Robbie Coltrane from Jools’ FB feed this morning reminds me of that Brooke Bond ‘The Unexplained’ tea card with the mysterious hands.

Jools Holland and a sunglasses wearing Robbie Coltrane against an angled red brick wall.

Sunglasses wearing Neville d’Cruz and a black haired man against an angled red brick wall. Neville has a pair of seemingly disembodied child’s hands gripping his waist from behind.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It came with a white outer plastic housing so it wouldn’t muck up the slot loaders, like the reverse of one of those jukebox spindle things you used to get with record players.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

1988. Maxi 3” CDs never really took off, did they?

Pet Shop Boys - One More Chance Maxi Cd 3”

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Isn’t this the kind of guitar you see in Denmark Street shop windows for over £10k?

An original 1960s Fender Jaguar in a hard case that sold for a song on Flog It.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just watched an original 1960s Fender Jaguar get sold on Flog It for just over £1,000. That’s still about a tenth of what it’s actually worth, isn’t it? Someone bagged a bargain.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

@badmachinery.com - As an addendum to this ballache, I've just rolled back to InDesign version 21.4.1 which opens the most recent .indd files fine, is faster, doesn't keep crashing and has been force fed less AI 'functionality'. Win x 4!

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Is QuarkXPress still going? That would be a turnaround after they dropped the ball so badly in the early 2000s...

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I recognise the software less each time they update. I'd love to know which users are actively asking for more AI features...

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I might give it a go, although I'm loathed to go through the whole book and convert everything back to .idml files first so I can open the newer versions in the older software. Groog. I wish they'd had all the AI nonsense as an optional plugin that you could opt out of.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If it wasn't approaching deadline week, I'd do the same, but I'm knee deep in this at the moment.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Like the new office intern with their chair leg wrapped round the photocopier cable.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

InDesign's new AI assistant, sitting silently in the background, waiting for me to ask it to 'create a box of placeholder text wrapped around a photorealistic picture of a peppermill' or something, while InDesign crashes after a simple find and replace query. As if it's not in any way responsible.

An Adobe InDesign error report box. Again.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Films made with these perv glasses are like a video game where you play the worst person in the world. A first-person shitter.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Continuing on the Popeye tip, I was delighted to rediscover in an old scrapbook that I'd kept these stickers from the early 1990s, handed out by our (then) local pizza takeaway, 'Popeye Pizza' off Mare Street, Hackney. I don't believe they were affiliated with Kings Features Syndicate.

A sticker for Popeye Pizza. Popeye is driving in his trademark red 5-door Austin Metro. His pipe is emerging from the back side of his cheek and his legs are protruding from the bottom of the car's clearly fucked chassis. The text across the top reads: "POPEYE PIZZA". A circle reads "In this AREA We are best". The slogan at the bottom says" "Hey if you want very testy & Delicious PIZZA. CALL US"

A Popeye Pizza sticker. Another crudely drawn Popeye, this time in a more traditional boat, but a boat that appears to be carelessly emitting a cloud of raw effluent, which a fish is jumping out of the way to avoid. The pugnacious mariner's clay pipe still appears to be stuck in the back of one of his cheeks since it's nowhere near his mouth. The slogan reads: "Sailor-Man PROMISSING You that PIZZA Will Reach You Very Soon." another one reads: "when you CALL US".

Another Popeye Pizza sticker. This time Popeye is riding a delivery moped with the slogan "DELIVERY MAN" carefully sidestepping any possible "SAILOR MAN" legal confusion. The slogan reads, semi-apologetically: "We are New But What A Taste"

A final Popeye Pizza sticker with Popeye in a more easily traced, 'Trad. Popeye' pose with can of spinach in one hand and the other arm ending in a clenched fist. The ad claims: "I will Get MORE PIZZA ENERGY ENERGY ENERGY"

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I was looking forward to this screening anyway, but now I'm really looking forward to it.

An email from the Prince Charles Cinema, which reads: "Hello people!
We wanted to let you know this Friday's Popeye screening will show from a very rarely screened 35mm print, which happens to feature Norwegian subtitles. We hope you'll stay with us. However, we understand the subtitles may put some people off, so if you would prefer a refund or credit note, please reply to this email and we'll be happy to arrange one. If you're happy to attend, no action is needed. Many thanks! Prince Charles Cinema."

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I like the seeing things bit of running, too. Take a travelcard and you don't have to do a loop. Run to a pub. Undo all the good work...

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Looking forward to the extra time concert.

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Imagine if Saka ended up getting the golden boot

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Yeah, gothic architects. Those stone flourishes and iron curlicues are all pretty and that, but you didn't cast a thought at the time to the poor layout monkeys of the future having to draw masks round the sodding things.

Applying a vector mask to Elizabeth Tower/Big Ben in Photoshop. Yawn.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

♫ 'Icumen in, icumen in, icumen, sumer is icumen in' ♪

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Nice to see Harry Kane taking time after this morning's win to advertise Baum electric guitars on my FB feed.

An advert for Baum guitars featuring someone holding a guitar andpulling the same facial expression/looking pretty darn similar to Harry Kane celebrating his goal against Mexico in the post below it.

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Candidate @candidatemusic.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

AHOY-HOY! We are playing TWO LIVE SHOWS at the Harrison, Kings Cross, London on 22nd/23rd July Come along! Wednesday: wegottickets.com/f/20550/ Thursday: wegottickets.com/f/20552/