Alex Ball
@alexanderball.bsky.social
Sometime cyclist, frequent runner, always dad, health nerd, beer drinker, music fan. Nottingham.
Actual chat about what's in the budget in the pub klaxon.
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Actual chat about what's in the budget in the pub klaxon.
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Well this is exciting
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Well this is exciting
Hang on, William is planning to serve as king with Levy as his consort? Astonishing if true. #OxfordComma
Over a pint in the pub, the Prince of Wales frankly discussed the stresses of royal life, his wife Kate’s illness and his plans for kingship with Eugene Levy, the star of Schitt’s Creek
Prince William: ‘I don’t want to make the same mistakes as my parents’
Over a pint in the pub, the Prince of Wales frankly discussed the stresses of royal life, his wife Kate’s illness and his plans for kingship with Eugene Levy, the star of Schitt’s Creek
www.thetimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Hang on, William is planning to serve as king with Levy as his consort? Astonishing if true. #OxfordComma
There's been a guy I keep bumping into at various child related events over the last six months. On "Hiya, how are you" / "see you later mate" terms. No idea of his name or where I know him from. Saw him again today and finally placed him. Feel like a weight has lifted from my shoulders.
September 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
There's been a guy I keep bumping into at various child related events over the last six months. On "Hiya, how are you" / "see you later mate" terms. No idea of his name or where I know him from. Saw him again today and finally placed him. Feel like a weight has lifted from my shoulders.
Just realised I'm going to have to have opinions on ID cards aren't I. Ffs.
September 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Just realised I'm going to have to have opinions on ID cards aren't I. Ffs.
Published today in @financialtimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Published today in @financialtimes.com
Reposted by Alex Ball
⚽We're encouraging football fans to take advantage of free NHS blood pressure checks for over 40s in local pharmacies, as the 2024/25 season nears its climax.
Mansfield Town manager, Nigel Clough showed his support for the campaign.
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notts.icb.nhs.uk/2025/04/15/f...
Mansfield Town manager, Nigel Clough showed his support for the campaign.
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notts.icb.nhs.uk/2025/04/15/f...
Football fans urged to get life-saving blood pressure checks as season reaches finale - NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB
Football fans urged to get life-saving, free blood pressure checks at their local pharmacies, as the 2024/25 season nears its climax.
notts.icb.nhs.uk
May 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
⚽We're encouraging football fans to take advantage of free NHS blood pressure checks for over 40s in local pharmacies, as the 2024/25 season nears its climax.
Mansfield Town manager, Nigel Clough showed his support for the campaign.
👇
notts.icb.nhs.uk/2025/04/15/f...
Mansfield Town manager, Nigel Clough showed his support for the campaign.
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notts.icb.nhs.uk/2025/04/15/f...
Garden is alive with birds.
March 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Garden is alive with birds.
So much this
We need to stop lumping together technologies, none of which are actually intelligent, under the name "AI". Machine Learning can be useful when properly trained. GANs and LLMs are just bullshit-creating plagiarism machines.
March 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
So much this
Voicemail Message Leavers! Once again! The important thing is your phone number. Just the phone number. Not how you've got round to calling me, not what you did before calling me, not what you might do next. Not how your dog is doing or what your lunch might be. Just the number. Twice. Slowly. Ta!
February 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Voicemail Message Leavers! Once again! The important thing is your phone number. Just the phone number. Not how you've got round to calling me, not what you did before calling me, not what you might do next. Not how your dog is doing or what your lunch might be. Just the number. Twice. Slowly. Ta!
My running career has peaked.
January 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
My running career has peaked.
RIP. One of my favourite and most formative novelists.
BBC News - 'Masterful' novelist David Lodge dies aged 89
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - 'Masterful' novelist David Lodge dies aged 89
www.bbc.com/news/article...
David Lodge: Author of Nice Work and Small World dies aged 89
Lodge was twice nominated for the Booker Prize in the 1980s for comic novels Small World and Nice Work.
www.bbc.com
January 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
RIP. One of my favourite and most formative novelists.
BBC News - 'Masterful' novelist David Lodge dies aged 89
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - 'Masterful' novelist David Lodge dies aged 89
www.bbc.com/news/article...
An extraordinary novel to finish the year with. Brilliant, evocative, so telling about Brexit and what our society was and has become.
December 29, 2024 at 11:35 PM
An extraordinary novel to finish the year with. Brilliant, evocative, so telling about Brexit and what our society was and has become.
Last of the Christmas beers...
December 27, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Last of the Christmas beers...
This is superb and crystallises what I've been trying to form into words for months so well. A must read.
I wrote about how much, how fiercely and why, I hate A.I.
On eternal cons, a dying earth and talking dogs.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/
On eternal cons, a dying earth and talking dogs.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/
The Gist: AI, a talking dog for the 21st Century.
Séamus O'Reilly on the year's biggest con, AI. This is a Christmas Cracker Gist.
www.thegist.ie
December 27, 2024 at 5:05 PM
This is superb and crystallises what I've been trying to form into words for months so well. A must read.
Christmas only officially starts when the festive tea towel comes out...
December 24, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Christmas only officially starts when the festive tea towel comes out...
My annual Christmas Eve cold has arrived two days early which is, if nothing else, efficient.
December 22, 2024 at 10:00 PM
My annual Christmas Eve cold has arrived two days early which is, if nothing else, efficient.
Hit my 2024 running goal today. The horizontal hail only slightly dampened my elation!
December 22, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Hit my 2024 running goal today. The horizontal hail only slightly dampened my elation!
This year's running - not finished yet!
December 15, 2024 at 9:13 AM
This year's running - not finished yet!
Can the Christmas life admin please stop.
December 5, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Can the Christmas life admin please stop.