Adam Ball
@adamball.net
Harrogate, Irish, road bikes, payments.
Reposted by Adam Ball
Reposted by Adam Ball
Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
Reposted by Adam Ball
Reposted by Adam Ball
Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/
Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software
FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of training AI software.
When …
waterfordwhispersnews.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/
Reposted by Adam Ball
![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
9
Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
10
woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreicahofq6s4xow7vowj7dx6odw6ejdwr4kwcmzta7qwi4hg2nvywji@jpeg)
Reposted by Adam Ball
Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.
October 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.
Reposted by Adam Ball
Once a footballer, always a footballer...
📸 Cor Vos
📸 Cor Vos
September 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Once a footballer, always a footballer...
📸 Cor Vos
📸 Cor Vos
Reposted by Adam Ball
The horrific reality of hedgehog farming
Malaysia's commodities ministry seeks tax exemption for palm oil raw materials reut.rs/45OVXNV
Malaysia's commodities ministry seeks tax exemption for palm oil raw materials
Malaysia's commodities ministry is seeking to exempt crude palm kernel oil and palm kernel olein oil from the country's sales and services tax (SST), it said on Tuesday.
reut.rs
August 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The horrific reality of hedgehog farming
Reposted by Adam Ball
Reposted by Adam Ball
Took lots of pics at yesterday's Festival Italia at Brands Hatch. Will do a series of threads featuring different marques this week, starting off with some of my favourite Alfa Romeos 🇮🇹 (THREAD 1 of 14)
August 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Took lots of pics at yesterday's Festival Italia at Brands Hatch. Will do a series of threads featuring different marques this week, starting off with some of my favourite Alfa Romeos 🇮🇹 (THREAD 1 of 14)
Reposted by Adam Ball
🚨UK Lawyers for Israel Ltd has tried to silence various voices supporting Palestine. Their charitable wing has made public statements rejecting international law.
Activist Em Hilton is on the Charity Commission offices to ask for an investigation.
youtu.be/Ui70R8PCkJ4
Activist Em Hilton is on the Charity Commission offices to ask for an investigation.
youtu.be/Ui70R8PCkJ4
UK Lawyers for Israel
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
youtu.be
July 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🚨UK Lawyers for Israel Ltd has tried to silence various voices supporting Palestine. Their charitable wing has made public statements rejecting international law.
Activist Em Hilton is on the Charity Commission offices to ask for an investigation.
youtu.be/Ui70R8PCkJ4
Activist Em Hilton is on the Charity Commission offices to ask for an investigation.
youtu.be/Ui70R8PCkJ4
Reposted by Adam Ball
Reposted by Adam Ball
A moment of honest-to-god genius from two years ago, which came to me with no identifying label as to the perpetrator. If you're out there, please identify yourself so I can a. give due credit and b. applaud you roundly for what was referred to back then as "The Final Boss of Dad Jokes"
June 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A moment of honest-to-god genius from two years ago, which came to me with no identifying label as to the perpetrator. If you're out there, please identify yourself so I can a. give due credit and b. applaud you roundly for what was referred to back then as "The Final Boss of Dad Jokes"
Reposted by Adam Ball
My latest, a deep dive into the Stewart report into HS2.
HS2 and the slow decay of Britain
“I have tried to ascertain where design decisions get made... I have struggled to get to a definite answer.”
open.substack.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
My latest, a deep dive into the Stewart report into HS2.
Reposted by Adam Ball
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
Reposted by Adam Ball
So what time is the Conclave Watchalong? Or do we have do “The Two Popes” first?
April 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
So what time is the Conclave Watchalong? Or do we have do “The Two Popes” first?
Reposted by Adam Ball
The reality is that by using AI businesses are all madly trying to create a potemkin village of authenticity with masses of AI copy *that definitionally isn't authentic*
April 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The reality is that by using AI businesses are all madly trying to create a potemkin village of authenticity with masses of AI copy *that definitionally isn't authentic*
Reposted by Adam Ball
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
Reposted by Adam Ball
Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow
April 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow
Reposted by Adam Ball
Pretty much sums it up
March 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Pretty much sums it up
This is very entertaining interview with the great Danny Kelly Editor of the NME when I was an avid reader in the 80s. The podcast series on great Irish albums is fantastic too.
A great day in Kilkenny w/ @dannykellywords.bsky.social drinking tea, talking about records, his time at NME + Q. A pure gentleman, Danny also talked about some of his fave Irish albums. A special episode of the podcast might even have been recorded! More news soon.
March 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This is very entertaining interview with the great Danny Kelly Editor of the NME when I was an avid reader in the 80s. The podcast series on great Irish albums is fantastic too.
Reposted by Adam Ball
Untitled, by Cy Twombly, 1990, 📸 by Dan Sheridan // @Inphosports
February 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Untitled, by Cy Twombly, 1990, 📸 by Dan Sheridan // @Inphosports
Reposted by Adam Ball
"There's definitely a benefit at bedtime in putting your phone in Airplane mode"
"What is it?"
"It's a setting on your phone that switches off WiFi and Bluetooth but that's not important right now"
"What is it?"
"It's a setting on your phone that switches off WiFi and Bluetooth but that's not important right now"
November 22, 2024 at 7:12 AM
"There's definitely a benefit at bedtime in putting your phone in Airplane mode"
"What is it?"
"It's a setting on your phone that switches off WiFi and Bluetooth but that's not important right now"
"What is it?"
"It's a setting on your phone that switches off WiFi and Bluetooth but that's not important right now"
Reposted by Adam Ball
For self styled masters of the universe, the tech bros really are incredibly craven
Exhibit #3624
Exhibit #3624
January 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
For self styled masters of the universe, the tech bros really are incredibly craven
Exhibit #3624
Exhibit #3624