Reposted by Adam BellThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 23h"I've declared myself a traitor by mistake!" 113230
Reposted by Adam BellTom Haddon @tomh-analyst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yes, quite. @adambell.bsky.social 1131
Reposted by Adam BellRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵 41658249
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Am quoted in the Telegraph today as the US Government does its best to distance itself from the President's statements on a diesel export ban. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...telegraph.co.uk 211
Reposted by Adam Bellstockfttp.bsky.social @stockfttp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026UK Gov 👍 £90M for heat networks Some pricey "£5.5 million to upgrade the systems serving 1,143 residents" London Strategic Heat Main project (£41M) for ~1M ppl via the Thames 👍 Although while 🏗️ heat will be supplied by electric barges carrying heated water up the Thames !tp-heatnetworks.org 312
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The BBC trying to apply balance to reporting of people doing crimes is obviously insane. What's next, the BBC reporting on domestic violence and including the perspective of someone who beats their wife? 1172
Reposted by Adam BellTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed. 281173380
Reposted by Adam BellMartin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 20/09/2026Obviously going to regret this when Claude starts a nuclear war on Monday.martinrobbins.substack.comThe AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring NowElites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems. 85418
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Controlling inflation with cheap money and price controls is very much a vibe. 2191
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026AI is superb at rapid generation of complex mathematical models, making it dead handy in quant spaces like energy modelling. The role of the human becomes machine QA, but that is much more productive than writing in a spreadsheet yourself, and also requires more expertise. 171
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Too many BlueSkyers have not been Extremely Online since the 2000s, and it shows. These people have been doing this nonsense for decades. 110
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I am going to risk being a Bluesky Main Character here by saying I have some sympathy with the Piddington traitors: I also would not want 1,200 bored young men to materialise in my town. But the solution is simple. Let them work! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukPiddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plansPiddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby. 220
Reposted by Adam BellTaffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This is exactly it I don't want to live forever but I would *love* to know what happens. 5364
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Amazing and depressing in equal measure. Two centuries of a world in which one power enforced freedom of navigation dissolving before our eyes. I really don't think people want to see what a world without global trade would look like. 24514
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This is absolutely brutal and highlights why the PM has already trailed an effort to lower bills for the worst off by £200. You will note that this is less than the half the projected increase. I can't see this holding. 3176
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It is amazing quite how many words of varied size and form one can spend on a definition while still being so imprecise as to be meaningless. Do read the whole thread. 180
Reposted by Adam BellJack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 14/09/2026Picked up a copy of "Hyperpolitics" on a whim after seeing it promoted all over the place and I can only conclude that Verso have an amazing marketing department because there's not much substance here and the evidence base is weak. 1821243
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Are you interested in flexibility in the electricity market? Well, lucky you, because I've written a post all about and why we need a Target Operating Model for it. unbalancingmechanism.substack.com/p/flex-off?r...unbalancingmechanism.substack.comFlex OffA reply to Maria Zaffar 041
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The Telegraph believes not just in the death of the author, but stamping on his corpse. 010
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026You know, I was worried that these chaps were going to be strategic and only deploy their scaredy cat masked up lads in protests relevant to their objective. But no, as soon as their leader gets his fee-fees hurt they decide to target the newspaper most likely to take their side. 291
Reposted by Adam BellAdam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I am much more sanguine about AI risk, because I suspect that in a world where someone tells an AI to end humanity someone else will tell their AI to do the opposite, and then we just gum up data centres with fighting electric demons for a few months before we accept the internet is over. 361
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Am totally fascinated by the AI people who are happy to roll the dice on ending the human race just to ensure that it's their electric toy that gets to murder us all first. 2153
Reposted by Adam BellJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Having reported on the climate crisis for 20 years I am here to inform you that warnings we've unleashed something with a >10% of destroying humanity will have less of an impact than you'd expect. 1019255
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Spoken like a man who can't get past Godrick in Elden Ring. 130
Reposted by Adam BellGeorge E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s 232746736
Reposted by Adam BellPaul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026What a ridiculous question. Once again the BBC drives a nail into it's own coffin. 1761811394
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I would urge people to read all the words around quotes as well as the quotes themselves if they want to understand the position of people like Wittgenstein. The entirety of the Philosophical Investigations is an analysis of language from multiple perspectives that reveals that language is social. 150
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Clearly future climate protests will be able to rely on the defence of, "We all just happened to rock up on this street at the same time, carrying our walking around placards." 070
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Just Arrest the Fash. We do the same for left wing protesters, so I can't see why we wouldn't here. 2226
Reposted by Adam BellJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026So much of Reform is driven by the moneyed, old establishment elite who want to take back power from the proles who dared to rise above their station post-war. 1318842
Reposted by Adam BellTom Haddon @tomh-analyst.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I'm a house owner, I couldn't care less if the value of my house declined, but I know there is an entire generation, probably two now, who have little to no reason to harbour ambition because everything is out of reach (house, family, basically any life event). Unleashing them is more important. 1141
Reposted by Adam BellAkshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026What is that sound? It's the noise that of a million "what about" brains exploding. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 925693
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Chaminda is correct, even in the energy sphere. There is no-one going, "What if Net Zero, but MARKETS?!?" 6547
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The key post in a great thread. I have been reading slightly too much 19th century history about scientific rarionalism, and I increasingly wonder whether you can hold this position and have a society that centres reason. 110
Reposted by Adam BellDesigning Better Artefacts @pmholling.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The final part in a well written series that explains the ‘design intent’ in the different parts of the electricity market. The unintended consequences of those dispirit choices interacting and maybe where we should look to fix things. 021
Reposted by Adam BellLightbucket @lightbucket.bsky.social · 26/08/20261/2 A four-part series of posts about Britain's electricity market, by @adambell.bsky.social: Part 1: A Buzzing in the Wires unbalancingmechanism.substack.com/p/a-buzzing-... Part 2: A Rattling Between The Pylons unbalancingmechanism.substack.com/p/a-rattling...unbalancingmechanism.substack.comA Buzzing in the WiresSomething is badly wrong in the electricity market 121
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026IS THE ELECTRICITY MARKET BROKEN? Yes, yes it is. The final part in my series on the wholesale electricity market finds that it structurally misallocates weather risk to consumers who really can't do much about the wind and sun. unbalancingmechanism.substack.com/p/a-howling-...unbalancingmechanism.substack.comA Howling in the ExchangeThe final part of our series on the wholesale market looks at how risk in the system has been radically reallocated without anyone really meaning to do it. 1122
Reposted by Adam Bell👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 25/08/2026everybody is (rightfully) remembering her incredible charity work, the 300 million books and counting for kids, the moderna vaccine, all of it she also wrote 'I Will Always Love You' and 'Jolene' on the same dang day. absolutely peerless 101744290
Reposted by Adam BellStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My column this week is the product of my frustration at a series of myths that I think have grown up at Westminster that provide comfort to the various parties (not all of which I had space to grumble about) to avoid confronting the real choices we actually have:ft.comAusterity denial and the mystery of Britain’s shrunken stateThere is a ready supply of explanations on offer at Westminster 2016838
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is really very good, and demonstrates that the hard Right are inevitably terrible philosophers. It is perfectly possible to demonstrate the need for a welfare state from a purely Nietzschean viewpoint. /1 2404
Reposted by Adam BellTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I do think there is no greater evidence you've cooked your brain than deciding there is a conspiracy to make people say UK instead of Britain. Try explaining this to one (1) person who isn't on Twitter and watch them back away slowly. 4443959
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026In Newcastle, an AI is rumoured to have deleted itself after being asked to interpret, "Eeee hinney, me face is propa clarty like." 071
Reposted by Adam BellJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Its just all so deeply stupid and sad. Watching the worlds most powerful nation commit the most stupid form of hari kari in real time 1011321
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Uncomfortably, Mr Tice is correct here. Achieving Net Zero, even a planetary Net Zero, will not stop heat waves. CO2 has a half-life of 30-50 years and we would experience elevated temperatures for half a century at least after achieving it. /1 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comReform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwavesBacklash from nurses, medical experts and green campaigners in response to deputy leader dismissing efforts to reach net zero 462
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This is really good. I wonder whether PIP claimants who vote for Reform will convince themselves that it'll be other leas deserving people from whom benefits will be removed. 353
Reposted by Adam Bell👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The Arday affair is disastrous and only made worse by how clearly avoidable it was. An absolute and total failure of any sort of ethical behaviour at every stage of the proceedings, entirely based around massaging the egos of senior figures at the university. 8713128
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026My solar panels had a much better view of the eclipse than I did. 2405
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Typical French, demanding that we blow up the Moon rather than be subject to momentary darkness. 000
Reposted by Adam BellSir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I don't think there should be a defibrilator on Snowdon. And that's a hill I'm prepared to die on 693338694
