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Iain Ball

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The Jase @thejase.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dummy Run is being shown on the big screen in Chester along with Donnie Darko on Oct 30th & 31st! www.storyhouse.com/whats-on/don... @marcrileydj.bsky.social @jahwobble.bsky.social @stephenhanley6.bsky.social
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Donnie Darko | Storyhouse
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the cult sci-fi horror classic this Halloween. Troubled teenager Donnie Darko befriends Frank, a mysterious figure in a six-foot bunny costume who begins to manipulat...
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Navier-Stokes maths problem upset shows we're now at the 'Deep Thought' stage of AI, as foreseen by Douglas Adams. Cracking complicated maths problems (answer: 42) pisses off the professionals while also leaving us all not really understanding what it means. mathandai.org
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a low key tragedy. A broad consensus torched by a handful of ideologues and opportunists who do not even understand what net zero target is and why it was adopted. The reality is temperatures will continue to spiral until we reach net zero or civilisation collapses, whichever comes first.
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fab 🙂
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
❤️
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hey Andy, hope all goes well
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The Jase @thejase.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What happens when Nigel Farage swears on a Bible is hardly surprising.
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The Jase @thejase.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Happy 45th Anniversary to An American Werewolf in London! youtu.be/_YlZB1aToM0
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They Always Say You Turn Into Your Parents
YouTube video by Jason Read - Guitar Lessons
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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/2026
29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Wait till they find out that minute steaks are a conspiracy to stop us enjoying thick well-done sirloins
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Boss: “Feeling better, Iain?” Me: “Still a bit rough but much better, thanks” Boss starts whistling Renault ad theme tune
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
True story. Somehow got away with it by buying ice creams for everyone in the office
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 03/08/2026
🧵Right-leaning newspapers are trying to blame Europe's raging wildfires on everything EXCEPT fossil fuels 1. The Wall Street Journal Frontpage story: "Greece fights wildfires as Europe crisis spreads" WSJ editorial: "How green policies fuel fires in Europe"
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Not me!
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Gift article from the FT: "Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite" Large language models elevate expert consensus and moderate views, in sharp contrast to social platforms giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
😆
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS ANTIMATTER
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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Absolutely!🍻
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It’s been an amazing reversal so you’d hope they’d notice. But, yeah, given the record, also not optimistic!
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It used to be ‘you break it, you own it’. Now it’s just ‘move fast, breaks things’ and walk away. Trump thinks he can just declare mission accomplished whenever he feels like
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The facts suggest two interpretive frameworks for Iran: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the U.S. Join my live conversation with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social, 12:00pm ET, snyder.substack.com
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 24/01/2026
Snowstorm #Goals from the @squirrel_boxes instagram 🥰😴 #sqrlpix
squirrel asleep in a little wooden house
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 21/01/2026
Trump: "I haven't been able to find any windfarms in China." Reality: China has far more windfarms than any other country on Earth
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The Jase @thejase.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I see Tommy Robinson has been bravely out on the streets of war torn London putting the Christ back in Christmas. For all the little kiddies too afraid to go, here's a proper patriotic nativity.
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Link?
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I've signed. Have you? Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 26/11/2025
Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times *EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025* Receipts in thread.
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
That’s from Robert Harris’ “The Ghost”?
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Would you include the US department of energy’s climate assessment in the same category? www.energy.gov/articles/dep...
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Department of Energy Issues Report Evaluating Impact of Greenhouse Gasses on U.S. Climate, Invites Public Comment
The U.S. Department of Energy today released a new report evaluating existing peer-reviewed literature and government data on climate impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and providing a critical asses...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Is a ‘melt-up’ like a crashendo?
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Dammit. Farewell Bob.
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a man with long blonde hair and a beard is holding a fishing rod
ALT: a man with long blonde hair and a beard is holding a fishing rod
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 05/09/2025
Let's just say that calling North Sea gas "four times cleaner" than LNG imports is roughly equivalent to trying to persuade yourself, while dieting, that a slice of cake served with half-fat cream is twice as healthy as a slice with full-fat topping. It. Makes. No. Sense.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This is a fight for life’: climate expert @doctorvive.bsky.social on #tippingpoints, doomerism and using wealth as a shield Interview by Jonathan Watts #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Is this out of a GK Chesterton novel?
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"The Holocaust has filled us all with a high sense of guilt, and so it should because we were complicit. But it also teaches us the lesson that we mustn't be complicit now when we see crimes being committed.” Helena Kennedy KC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza.
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Well done lad!
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is utterly mad.
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
What’s the title?
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer - Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
What happens when you lock up peaceful protesters and throw away the key? Escalation. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘A new phase’: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest
Tougher laws said to be inspiring clandestine attacks on the ‘property and machinery’ of the fossil fuel economy
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Iain Ball @iainb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We see something like this happening in the context of climate denial. Increasingly extreme wildfires are blamed on arsonists and poor forest management rather than the actual cause. I’ve wondered if the ever-increasing gap between narrative and reality finally collapses but maybe it never does
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I spoke to Chris York about how disordered discourse has captured institutional power in the US and is destroying democracy youtu.be/aOi-Po5NO8k?...
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How to fight back against Trump and Musk’s lies
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent
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