alex
@alexmoreland.co.uk
sometimes writing about television but more often not. previously nationalworld, radio times, yahoo, metro, flickering myth, digital spy, etc.
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of interest: found, in my photos on my laptop, a pic from the hotel notepad on which I started work on "no children." I mention in the "This Year" book that this began on a boarding pass envelope. once I landed and got into my room I did this. "Derrida" I think refers to thoughts about erasure etc
January 26, 2026 at 7:23 PM
of interest: found, in my photos on my laptop, a pic from the hotel notepad on which I started work on "no children." I mention in the "This Year" book that this began on a boarding pass envelope. once I landed and got into my room I did this. "Derrida" I think refers to thoughts about erasure etc
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I was very pleased to contribute to @strangehorizons.bsky.social's wrap-up of 2025.
Favourites included Ali Smith, Torrey Peters, and Thomas Ha.
You can read more over here:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Favourites included Ali Smith, Torrey Peters, and Thomas Ha.
You can read more over here:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
2025 In Review: Part Three
The third part of our reviewers' picks of 2025.
strangehorizons.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:44 PM
I was very pleased to contribute to @strangehorizons.bsky.social's wrap-up of 2025.
Favourites included Ali Smith, Torrey Peters, and Thomas Ha.
You can read more over here:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Favourites included Ali Smith, Torrey Peters, and Thomas Ha.
You can read more over here:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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My poem 'The Commuter' has just been published in BRAWL!
I'm very proud of this poem. It's about the dystopian future we seem to be careening towards in the US.
You can read it over here:
www.brawllit.com/2025/william...
I'm very proud of this poem. It's about the dystopian future we seem to be careening towards in the US.
You can read it over here:
www.brawllit.com/2025/william...
William Shaw — BRAWL
www.brawllit.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:13 PM
My poem 'The Commuter' has just been published in BRAWL!
I'm very proud of this poem. It's about the dystopian future we seem to be careening towards in the US.
You can read it over here:
www.brawllit.com/2025/william...
I'm very proud of this poem. It's about the dystopian future we seem to be careening towards in the US.
You can read it over here:
www.brawllit.com/2025/william...
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The Lowdown is the best damn show not enough people are watching. I can exclusively report that FX has ordered a second season of the delightful Ethan Hawke comic mystery series: www.whatsalanwatching.com/the-lowdown-...
The Lowdown, the best show you're not watching, is coming back for Season Two
FX has officially renewed the Ethan Hawke-led comic mystery series
www.whatsalanwatching.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:32 PM
The Lowdown is the best damn show not enough people are watching. I can exclusively report that FX has ordered a second season of the delightful Ethan Hawke comic mystery series: www.whatsalanwatching.com/the-lowdown-...
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TV that will bum you the hell out as its characters make awful choices and succumb ever more fully to the financial and social forces that make them worse people? yes, please! the fourth season of INDUSTRY: I adore it.
www.vulture.com/article/indu...
www.vulture.com/article/indu...
January 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM
TV that will bum you the hell out as its characters make awful choices and succumb ever more fully to the financial and social forces that make them worse people? yes, please! the fourth season of INDUSTRY: I adore it.
www.vulture.com/article/indu...
www.vulture.com/article/indu...
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happy(?) new year everyone, for my first piece of 2026 I wrote about Grok's *still*-ongoing CSAM blitz and the troubling, embarrassing silence of lawmakers in the U.S. and U.K. who've spent the past year censoring the internet for the sake of "child safety" yet are saying and doing nothing about X:
Something Abominable Is Happening on Elon Musk’s X. Everyone in Congress Should Be Ashamed.
An app the U.S. and U.K. governments use has devolved into a source of A.I. porn. Lawmakers are keeping dangerously mum.
slate.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:28 PM
happy(?) new year everyone, for my first piece of 2026 I wrote about Grok's *still*-ongoing CSAM blitz and the troubling, embarrassing silence of lawmakers in the U.S. and U.K. who've spent the past year censoring the internet for the sake of "child safety" yet are saying and doing nothing about X:
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Writing this I had to look through Grok's mentions. Earlier I counted around 8 requests PER MINUTE featuring "bikini" and "her". Thousands of women and girls stripped each day. I found users stripping dozens of women per hour, from female celebrities to gym selfies.
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
MPs urge boycott of Elon Musk’s X over Grok AI’s undressing
The call to end use of X for official government communication follows posts of digitally undressed women and children that may have broken UK law
www.thetimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Writing this I had to look through Grok's mentions. Earlier I counted around 8 requests PER MINUTE featuring "bikini" and "her". Thousands of women and girls stripped each day. I found users stripping dozens of women per hour, from female celebrities to gym selfies.
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
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I'm so proud of this story, and it was a privilege to publish with The Pink Hydra.
In July, I published @williamshaw.bsky.social's quirky short story “The Universe’s Best Erotic Writing, Volume 1: A Book Review by Ian Harrison,” for The Pink Hydra's minizine.
All proceeds still go towards next year's funding: ko-fi.com/s/79b355801a
All proceeds still go towards next year's funding: ko-fi.com/s/79b355801a
Something Old, Something New - Issue 1.1, July 2025 - The Pink Hydra's Ko-fi Shop
Cover art: “Danaë” by Gustav Klimt
Poetry: “My Naughty Book” by D. H. Lawrence
Reviewed: “Fly By Night” by Dani Finn & “Flesh and Bone” by Arden Pow...
ko-fi.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I'm so proud of this story, and it was a privilege to publish with The Pink Hydra.
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Since everyone’s talking about Metropolis now it’s 2026 (and Lang’s version is vague on the setting, it’s only really the Moroder cut which places it in that setting), probably should point you to some idiot wanging on about the film again…
Building and rebuilding Metropolis - The Spoilist
Metropolis began production in 1925. We look back at a century of changing reception, edits and reassembly.
www.thespoilist.com
January 1, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Since everyone’s talking about Metropolis now it’s 2026 (and Lang’s version is vague on the setting, it’s only really the Moroder cut which places it in that setting), probably should point you to some idiot wanging on about the film again…
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and Tinny Tim, whose sound quality was NOT high
December 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
and Tinny Tim, whose sound quality was NOT high
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Merry Christmas. My Patrons got you something. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/twat-bl...
Twat Blast 5: Fish Fingers and Custard
The Patreon is still lower than it should be to post this, but it's Christmas and I ain't no Grinch. Still, if you enjoy what we do here at Eruditorum Press, please consider backing us on Patreon. Ind...
www.eruditorumpress.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Merry Christmas. My Patrons got you something. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/twat-bl...
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Tooth Tutors. Tooth. Tutors.
December 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Tooth Tutors. Tooth. Tutors.
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Sherlock Holmes - The Blue Carbuncle (23rd December 1968). Watson and Holmes examine a battered old hat to see what clues about the character of its owner can be deduced from it.
December 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Sherlock Holmes - The Blue Carbuncle (23rd December 1968). Watson and Holmes examine a battered old hat to see what clues about the character of its owner can be deduced from it.
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Two days to get caught up on GIVE ME AWAY Season 3 before we drop the 2-part finale (wherein the insane reveals will flow like wine) on you this coming Thursday!
December 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Two days to get caught up on GIVE ME AWAY Season 3 before we drop the 2-part finale (wherein the insane reveals will flow like wine) on you this coming Thursday!
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anyway, if you liked any of this dumb shit, you can sign up at patreon.com/stefanmohamed - though it's not really like any of the above stuff in the thread anymore, so if anything this has all been quite misleading, and a bad sales pitch
Stefan Mohamed | Patreon
writing things
patreon.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
anyway, if you liked any of this dumb shit, you can sign up at patreon.com/stefanmohamed - though it's not really like any of the above stuff in the thread anymore, so if anything this has all been quite misleading, and a bad sales pitch
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The essay itself is here, if you want to read it. (And if you consider it award worthy, I'd be extremely honoured):
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Neither Girls Nor Friends: the Artificial Woman in American Science Fiction
How might we conceptualise an AI girlfriend who is neither girl, nor friend, but comrade?
strangehorizons.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
The essay itself is here, if you want to read it. (And if you consider it award worthy, I'd be extremely honoured):
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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The Death of Bunny Munro explores trauma in a way no other show does. With incredible lead performances from Matt Smith and child actor Rafael Mathé. Our review www.thecustardtv.com/the-death-of...
The Death of Bunny Munro explores trauma in a way no other show has. - The Custard TV
Throughout our lives, we all make mistakes. Sometimes they’re tiny little things that niggle at us for as long as we remain conscious, preying on our insecurities and anxieties. Other times, we don’t ...
www.thecustardtv.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The Death of Bunny Munro explores trauma in a way no other show does. With incredible lead performances from Matt Smith and child actor Rafael Mathé. Our review www.thecustardtv.com/the-death-of...
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Sea Devil Chappell Roan be like C-O-D-T-O-G-O
December 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Sea Devil Chappell Roan be like C-O-D-T-O-G-O
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My life and career serve to define the precise limits of financial success you can find with the improbable racket “your favorite critic’s favorite critic.”
Alas, that number is too low for War Between the Land and Sea reviews not to be Patreon exclusive.
Alas, that number is too low for War Between the Land and Sea reviews not to be Patreon exclusive.
Get more from Elizabeth Sandifer and Penn on Patreon
Criticism, Comics, and Things That Don't Start with C
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December 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
My life and career serve to define the precise limits of financial success you can find with the improbable racket “your favorite critic’s favorite critic.”
Alas, that number is too low for War Between the Land and Sea reviews not to be Patreon exclusive.
Alas, that number is too low for War Between the Land and Sea reviews not to be Patreon exclusive.
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Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
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My review of Like Shards of Rainbow Frolicking in the Air by L. Timmel Duchamp is now live at Strange Horizons!
I liked this collection a lot: amusing and strange meditations on gender and utopia.
Check it out over here:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
I liked this collection a lot: amusing and strange meditations on gender and utopia.
Check it out over here:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Like Shards of Rainbow Frolicking in the Air by L. Timmel Duchamp
Like Shards of Rainbow Frolicking in the Air presents a welcome pick-me-up in a reactionary wasteland.
strangehorizons.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
My review of Like Shards of Rainbow Frolicking in the Air by L. Timmel Duchamp is now live at Strange Horizons!
I liked this collection a lot: amusing and strange meditations on gender and utopia.
Check it out over here:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
I liked this collection a lot: amusing and strange meditations on gender and utopia.
Check it out over here:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’