Adam Ball
@adamball.net
Harrogate, Irish, road bikes, payments.
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There aren't many days when you can kayak off Start Point, renowned for one of Britain's most dangerous tidal races. But yesterday the stars aligned, so I bunked off work. Delighted to see Rupert Kirkwood (the Lone Kayaker) out there. He took this picture of me +1. Before you ask: yes, it's real. 🧵
October 6, 2026 at 5:50 AM
There aren't many days when you can kayak off Start Point, renowned for one of Britain's most dangerous tidal races. But yesterday the stars aligned, so I bunked off work. Delighted to see Rupert Kirkwood (the Lone Kayaker) out there. He took this picture of me +1. Before you ask: yes, it's real. 🧵
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To Here Knows When - Great Irish Albums Revisited. EP61 Against Nature by The Fatima Mansions. Aindrías Ó Grúama “Grimmo” + Nick Allum, the guitarist + drummer of Cathal Coughlan's Fatima Mansions, join me for a deep dive into Against Nature, the band’s debut album: www.paulmcdermott.ie/episode-61
September 7, 2026 at 6:07 PM
To Here Knows When - Great Irish Albums Revisited. EP61 Against Nature by The Fatima Mansions. Aindrías Ó Grúama “Grimmo” + Nick Allum, the guitarist + drummer of Cathal Coughlan's Fatima Mansions, join me for a deep dive into Against Nature, the band’s debut album: www.paulmcdermott.ie/episode-61
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A lot of people have a lot of views on the new moving picture The Odyssey, but my main takeaway is that I would happily watch an entire movie of Robert Pattinson desperately naming weapons from behind a column.
August 7, 2026 at 8:10 AM
A lot of people have a lot of views on the new moving picture The Odyssey, but my main takeaway is that I would happily watch an entire movie of Robert Pattinson desperately naming weapons from behind a column.
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Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.
June 23, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.
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It's 40 years since The Queen Is Dead so @thequietus.com have reshared my article on it.
In it, I consider why The Smiths were so vital, unload memories of being a teenage Smiths obsessive, and argue TQID only has 7 good songs out of 10 and I prefer Meat Is Murder...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
In it, I consider why The Smiths were so vital, unload memories of being a teenage Smiths obsessive, and argue TQID only has 7 good songs out of 10 and I prefer Meat Is Murder...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
I Know It's Overrated: The Queen Is Dead Turns 40 | The Quietus
Mega Smiths fan Simon Price revisits the trauma of having to get to grips with Morrissey's sense of humour.
thequietus.com
June 16, 2026 at 2:02 PM
It's 40 years since The Queen Is Dead so @thequietus.com have reshared my article on it.
In it, I consider why The Smiths were so vital, unload memories of being a teenage Smiths obsessive, and argue TQID only has 7 good songs out of 10 and I prefer Meat Is Murder...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
In it, I consider why The Smiths were so vital, unload memories of being a teenage Smiths obsessive, and argue TQID only has 7 good songs out of 10 and I prefer Meat Is Murder...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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Nation’s Stone Splitters Take The Day Off
May 26, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Nation’s Stone Splitters Take The Day Off
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You have to give it up for David Nobbs. This exchange between Reggie Perrin and Jimmy might be the most-relevant two minutes of television you could see in 2026 and it's nearly 50 years old.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ-9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ-9...
Jimmy's Secret Army
YouTube video by David Tingley
www.youtube.com
May 14, 2026 at 12:46 PM
You have to give it up for David Nobbs. This exchange between Reggie Perrin and Jimmy might be the most-relevant two minutes of television you could see in 2026 and it's nearly 50 years old.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ-9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ-9...
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In celebration of the ROGUE TROOPER PREMIER being announced at the magnificent ANNECY INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL & MARKET this June, (that was a mouthful,) clamp your sensors on these POSTERS from Paolo Rivera and Chris Weston respectively-
April 28, 2026 at 3:20 PM
In celebration of the ROGUE TROOPER PREMIER being announced at the magnificent ANNECY INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL & MARKET this June, (that was a mouthful,) clamp your sensors on these POSTERS from Paolo Rivera and Chris Weston respectively-
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I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
April 18, 2026 at 3:52 AM
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
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Trump orders “bigger tits for the Statue of Liberty,” which the New York Times reports as a bold, if legally questionable, patriotic makeover for America 250.
March 31, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Trump orders “bigger tits for the Statue of Liberty,” which the New York Times reports as a bold, if legally questionable, patriotic makeover for America 250.
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wow -- Micheál Martin makes a case to Trump's face in favor of immigration
March 17, 2026 at 4:28 PM
wow -- Micheál Martin makes a case to Trump's face in favor of immigration
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The White House. A murder of bros.
March 8, 2026 at 1:58 PM
The White House. A murder of bros.
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I've just bought a new spray-on keyboard in a can!
It's qwerty.
It's qwerty.
February 24, 2026 at 10:06 PM
I've just bought a new spray-on keyboard in a can!
It's qwerty.
It's qwerty.
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subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz353bs
February 22, 2026 at 9:28 PM
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz353bs
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Henry Moore on His Bicycle
1962
📷Irving Penn
1962
📷Irving Penn
February 4, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Henry Moore on His Bicycle
1962
📷Irving Penn
1962
📷Irving Penn
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Board of Peace - Season 1
January 24, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Board of Peace - Season 1
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Just completed final watch through of the finished ROGUE TROOPER film…
25 years of pestering @2000ad.bsky.social to let me give it a shot, 3 years of production to make the thing & now… it’s DONE!
Can’t wait for you to see it.
So, so proud of our team.
We’ve made something a bit special.
❤️
25 years of pestering @2000ad.bsky.social to let me give it a shot, 3 years of production to make the thing & now… it’s DONE!
Can’t wait for you to see it.
So, so proud of our team.
We’ve made something a bit special.
❤️
December 20, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Just completed final watch through of the finished ROGUE TROOPER film…
25 years of pestering @2000ad.bsky.social to let me give it a shot, 3 years of production to make the thing & now… it’s DONE!
Can’t wait for you to see it.
So, so proud of our team.
We’ve made something a bit special.
❤️
25 years of pestering @2000ad.bsky.social to let me give it a shot, 3 years of production to make the thing & now… it’s DONE!
Can’t wait for you to see it.
So, so proud of our team.
We’ve made something a bit special.
❤️
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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...🚪
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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/
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![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]
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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.
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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