Adam Bell
@adambell.bsky.social
"Former energy czar" - the Guardian. "Energy big brain" - Politico.
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Pervert glasses + AR tech + LLMs that will nudify on request seems a pretty bad, and likely, scenario TBH
Stop. The. Pervert glasses.
We all know this is the next iteration.
We all know this is the next iteration.
January 6, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Pervert glasses + AR tech + LLMs that will nudify on request seems a pretty bad, and likely, scenario TBH
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I know that bluesky will be reflexively anti-AI on this one, but think of the number of times you've been playing a game you paid full price for and thought, "I wish someone could have my fun for me so I could get back to work"
Sony has patented an AI gaming ghost that will play PlayStation games for you when you get stuck www.eurogamer.net/sony-has-pat...
January 6, 2026 at 1:50 PM
I know that bluesky will be reflexively anti-AI on this one, but think of the number of times you've been playing a game you paid full price for and thought, "I wish someone could have my fun for me so I could get back to work"
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"It is entirely possible that the US has not thought this far ahead, but if it has, it may regard this as a price worth paying for demonstrating that it demands the exclusive right to control resources in its near abroad.”
I agree and have some additional thoughts:
I agree and have some additional thoughts:
NEW POST: The US will be unable to avoid occupying Venezuela if it is to achieve its stated objectives.
unbalancingmechanism.substack.com/p/its-not-ab...
unbalancingmechanism.substack.com/p/its-not-ab...
It's not about the oil even if it is about the oil
The USA will be unable to avoid occupying Venezuela if it is to achieve its stated objectives
unbalancingmechanism.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:17 AM
"It is entirely possible that the US has not thought this far ahead, but if it has, it may regard this as a price worth paying for demonstrating that it demands the exclusive right to control resources in its near abroad.”
I agree and have some additional thoughts:
I agree and have some additional thoughts:
NEW POST: The US will be unable to avoid occupying Venezuela if it is to achieve its stated objectives.
unbalancingmechanism.substack.com/p/its-not-ab...
unbalancingmechanism.substack.com/p/its-not-ab...
It's not about the oil even if it is about the oil
The USA will be unable to avoid occupying Venezuela if it is to achieve its stated objectives
unbalancingmechanism.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:39 AM
NEW POST: The US will be unable to avoid occupying Venezuela if it is to achieve its stated objectives.
unbalancingmechanism.substack.com/p/its-not-ab...
unbalancingmechanism.substack.com/p/its-not-ab...
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My policy ideas so far
An index of my post from 2023, 2024 and 2025
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January 6, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Are you a civil servant in search of new policy ideas? Here are 116 ideas for you. Sign up to a free sub and I will give you a complementary upgrade so that you can read them all. timleunig.substack.com/p/my-policy-...
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January 6, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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Amazing wrongness here.
1. If you're arresting 00s of peaceful pro-Gazan protestors, you don't believe in free speech.
2. Even if you do believe in it, it doesn't extend to child porn.
3. You can't debate with fascists.
4. You can put a counter-narrative (if you have one) onto civilized platforms.
1. If you're arresting 00s of peaceful pro-Gazan protestors, you don't believe in free speech.
2. Even if you do believe in it, it doesn't extend to child porn.
3. You can't debate with fascists.
4. You can put a counter-narrative (if you have one) onto civilized platforms.
Cabinet Office Minister Baroness Anderson tells the Lords the Government will keep on using X.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
January 5, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Amazing wrongness here.
1. If you're arresting 00s of peaceful pro-Gazan protestors, you don't believe in free speech.
2. Even if you do believe in it, it doesn't extend to child porn.
3. You can't debate with fascists.
4. You can put a counter-narrative (if you have one) onto civilized platforms.
1. If you're arresting 00s of peaceful pro-Gazan protestors, you don't believe in free speech.
2. Even if you do believe in it, it doesn't extend to child porn.
3. You can't debate with fascists.
4. You can put a counter-narrative (if you have one) onto civilized platforms.
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Not even the prompts. If you are a Twitter user in the UK and Twitter sticks a Grok CSAM image in your feed for WHATEVER reason, well congrats your device just downloaded child porn. And you are legally responsible for that.
Even if nobody wants to take action against Musk for building a CSAM generator, there are people using it who are based in the UK and those prompts are absolutely something that would get you on the sex offender's register. Absolutely no justification not to try to identify and prosecute users.
January 5, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Not even the prompts. If you are a Twitter user in the UK and Twitter sticks a Grok CSAM image in your feed for WHATEVER reason, well congrats your device just downloaded child porn. And you are legally responsible for that.
This is a barge transporting fuel breaking ice on the canal at Berkhamsted... in 2026. Hundreds of years of tradition.
January 5, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This is a barge transporting fuel breaking ice on the canal at Berkhamsted... in 2026. Hundreds of years of tradition.
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this thread has the most incredible levels of american bluesky I've ever seen. no need to have an opinion on any of it. just sit back and enjoy.
January 4, 2026 at 9:54 PM
this thread has the most incredible levels of american bluesky I've ever seen. no need to have an opinion on any of it. just sit back and enjoy.
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this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
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His chutzpah remains unbeaten
President Zelenskyy on Maduro:
What can I say here? If this can be done to dictators, like that, then the United States of America know what they should do next.
What can I say here? If this can be done to dictators, like that, then the United States of America know what they should do next.
January 3, 2026 at 6:44 PM
His chutzpah remains unbeaten
It will cost billions of dollars to overhaul PDVSA's creaking infrastructure in order to secure low quality crude that will be hard to sell. I am happy to predict now that any invasion will be a net cost to the US.
Trump on the US running Venezuela: It will not cost us anything because the money coming out of the ground is substantial. We’re going to take back the oil.
January 3, 2026 at 6:17 PM
It will cost billions of dollars to overhaul PDVSA's creaking infrastructure in order to secure low quality crude that will be hard to sell. I am happy to predict now that any invasion will be a net cost to the US.
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Wasn’t expecting this.
Then again, being a US poodle wouldn’t play well with French voters. Not even the fat right ones.
Then again, being a US poodle wouldn’t play well with French voters. Not even the fat right ones.
January 3, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Wasn’t expecting this.
Then again, being a US poodle wouldn’t play well with French voters. Not even the fat right ones.
Then again, being a US poodle wouldn’t play well with French voters. Not even the fat right ones.
Does... does he think war is like chess? Now that he's captured the king he's won?
Trump just announces the US will be running Venezuela now, until the can do a "safe, proper, and judicious" transfer of power. Announcing an occupation before you've occupied a country is a new one.
January 3, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Does... does he think war is like chess? Now that he's captured the king he's won?
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Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela.
Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe.
Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.
Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe.
Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.
January 3, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela.
Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe.
Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.
Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe.
Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.
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Nige I think Russia and China might think: what's ok for you is also ok for me
January 3, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Nige I think Russia and China might think: what's ok for you is also ok for me
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Well this was kinda inevitable. Allows Russia to play the hypocrisy card and makes western allies job very tricky
January 3, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Well this was kinda inevitable. Allows Russia to play the hypocrisy card and makes western allies job very tricky
This thread provides an actual theory of change for the Ovenden article thesis and is well worth your time.
I have a few thoughts on the Stakeholder State and the piece by Paul Ovenden.
I disagree with the extent of emphasis on stakeholders, but the more dismissive engagement on this app misses that a Strong Stakeholderism does exist, and has placed particular constraints on a govt that lacks direction 🧵
I disagree with the extent of emphasis on stakeholders, but the more dismissive engagement on this app misses that a Strong Stakeholderism does exist, and has placed particular constraints on a govt that lacks direction 🧵
The Blob, the Groups and now The Stakeholder state
Alaa Abd el-Fattah has shown supremacy of the Stakeholder State
www.thetimes.com/article/3720...
Alaa Abd el-Fattah has shown supremacy of the Stakeholder State
www.thetimes.com/article/3720...
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
This thread provides an actual theory of change for the Ovenden article thesis and is well worth your time.
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I have a few thoughts on the Stakeholder State and the piece by Paul Ovenden.
I disagree with the extent of emphasis on stakeholders, but the more dismissive engagement on this app misses that a Strong Stakeholderism does exist, and has placed particular constraints on a govt that lacks direction 🧵
I disagree with the extent of emphasis on stakeholders, but the more dismissive engagement on this app misses that a Strong Stakeholderism does exist, and has placed particular constraints on a govt that lacks direction 🧵
The Blob, the Groups and now The Stakeholder state
Alaa Abd el-Fattah has shown supremacy of the Stakeholder State
www.thetimes.com/article/3720...
Alaa Abd el-Fattah has shown supremacy of the Stakeholder State
www.thetimes.com/article/3720...
January 3, 2026 at 10:28 AM
I have a few thoughts on the Stakeholder State and the piece by Paul Ovenden.
I disagree with the extent of emphasis on stakeholders, but the more dismissive engagement on this app misses that a Strong Stakeholderism does exist, and has placed particular constraints on a govt that lacks direction 🧵
I disagree with the extent of emphasis on stakeholders, but the more dismissive engagement on this app misses that a Strong Stakeholderism does exist, and has placed particular constraints on a govt that lacks direction 🧵
So my wild speculation is that Maduro knows he can't survive an invasion, but also that the state infrastructure of criminals and thugs he's constructed will not tolerate the imposition of a leader who will try to throw them all in jail.
Sky News quotes sources within the Venezuelan opposition claiming that Maduro's capture was a "negotiated exit"
news.sky.com/story/venezu...
news.sky.com/story/venezu...
Venezuela latest: Venezuelan president Maduro captured after US strikes on country
Explosions have been heard in Venezuela's capital of Caracas. It comes after repeated threats of land operations by Donald Trump amid efforts to pressure President Nicolas Maduro to leave office. We'...
news.sky.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:16 AM
So my wild speculation is that Maduro knows he can't survive an invasion, but also that the state infrastructure of criminals and thugs he's constructed will not tolerate the imposition of a leader who will try to throw them all in jail.
My permanent internal quandary in this age of ages is around the trade off between, "It is better for society if power is distributed as widely as possible," versus, "To retain faith in democracy people need to believe their vote can actually change things."
My proposition is that the growth of the regulatory state / autonomous institutions / the interest complex / the ‘blob’ etc etc might be seen as an entirely logical and sensible response to concerns about the exercise of government without sufficient checks.
January 3, 2026 at 9:21 AM
My permanent internal quandary in this age of ages is around the trade off between, "It is better for society if power is distributed as widely as possible," versus, "To retain faith in democracy people need to believe their vote can actually change things."
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Looks like it’s time for my regular rant of “you had TWO YEARS when you KNEW you were going to be in govt, you spent a vast amount of political capital hiring a civil service chief of staff, you had ANYONE you wanted to help, why did you do absolutely ZERO prep for what government in 21c IS?!!??!”
January 2, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Looks like it’s time for my regular rant of “you had TWO YEARS when you KNEW you were going to be in govt, you spent a vast amount of political capital hiring a civil service chief of staff, you had ANYONE you wanted to help, why did you do absolutely ZERO prep for what government in 21c IS?!!??!”
This is such an important point. We are seeing the demise of the 1990s consensus on independent regulation in real time. You can only manage this through increased competition or through a much stronger role for Ministerial departments. In energy, we are currently doing the latter.
Also many areas where the 90s policy consensus was that (a) the issues were essentially technical and (b) policy stability and predictability would be good for investment/growth. So better to have decisions taken by independent technocrats. Eg competition policy, monetary policy, utility regulation.
January 2, 2026 at 2:04 PM
This is such an important point. We are seeing the demise of the 1990s consensus on independent regulation in real time. You can only manage this through increased competition or through a much stronger role for Ministerial departments. In energy, we are currently doing the latter.
This is absolutely correct. Flows of information to Ministers and the linear decisions they are presented with are totally unsuitable for running a country. Government is still structured as though every bit of information needs to be run upstairs by a post boy.
Essentially it's a failure to scale decision-making across the state due to extremely low organisational maturity. In the start-up world there's a well-documented phenomenon called 'Founder's Syndrome' which describes almost perfectly how No. 10 operates and predicts many of the consequences.
January 2, 2026 at 1:00 PM
This is absolutely correct. Flows of information to Ministers and the linear decisions they are presented with are totally unsuitable for running a country. Government is still structured as though every bit of information needs to be run upstairs by a post boy.