Kevin Ball

'Premise': a basis For reasoning; add an 's' To mean a building #haiku #cloud #azure #aws #grammar #pedantry

@joynessthebrave @MelissaMoore77 The Smiths Tomas Dolby The Enid Steve Hackett Genesis Loudon Wainwright III Polica Thea Gilmore Nerina Pallot Marina and the Diamonds

@MelissaMoore77 PAUL SIMON (last week… still reeling) Noah Gunderson Jon Foreman Caroline Polachek The Jonas Brothers The 1975 Bebo Norman Chris Thile Matt Kearney LANA DEL REY (last year, also still reeling)

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live: New Kids On The Block Garth Brooks George Strait Smashing Pumpkins Amy Winehouse The War On Drugs Noah Gundersen The National Natalie Bergman Kacey Musgraves

How do you mess up the UI for a SCREW?!? I bet the graphics person decided to move the icons/arrow from below the screw to above it “for better visual balance” while giving no thought about how a screw works.

Tonight…

@zbnet Thank you! I'll look her up....

I'm looking for women who have been victims of coercive control (in last 10 years). I'd need interview but you can be anon if you wish. Pls DM me in confidence if you can help or might know someone willing to speak. PlsRT #journorequest

@thecapitalistw Any decent podcast recommendations? I'm a big fan of Radical (Amol Rajan) and The Foreign Affairs Interview (Dan Kurtz-Phelan) - I learn a huge amount from both

@ColinHull3 @aigkenham So you don’t believe 2 Tim 3:16 then?

@aigkenham Inspired but not historically infallible or a science text book.

The Bible is God’s Word.

@b_regehr @Thomashornall Yeah, the French invented them - they're called guillemets

@Thomashornall The French do as well. Different countries even have different alphabets! Aren’t languages cool?

Norwegians rarely use “quote marks” for direct speech but instead these odd arrows: «This is a Norwegian quote» What’s all that about??

@thecapitalistw I thought I was in my last job as well; and then my company decided to outsource me - now I've TUPE-transferred to an Indian software company ☹️

@ColinHull3 @sola_chad Is the person of Jesus figurative writing as well? Or David? Or Abraham?

@sola_chad No it is figurative writing.

Do you believe that God literally created Adam from the dust of the ground?

@jbbricker 'After the Ordeal' should have been called 'Sour from the Lemons, Honey from the Hive' - and then it would have been perfect 😉

@zbnet If it weren't for 'After The Ordeal,' I'd be inclined to agree. Genesis has many albums that are nearly perfect, the run from Foxtrot thru ATOTT certainly.

'Duke' And I'll throw in what may be an unpopular opinion: it is the only perfect Genesis album.

@henrimurison @manairport @TPExpressTrains This is why I stopped using TPE and went back to the car ☹️

On my way back across #Pennines from a day in #Manchester on a three carriage train with no working #WIFI; the hourly direct train @manairport to Yorks & NE full & standing @TPExpressTrains was this not supposed to be a six car - and if so, where is other half of this train?

@faerymere @ThePhotoHour The lamb lies down… on the boardwalk 🙂

Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday. Yesterday, the neighbours came to visit with their pet lamb… pic by Nathan. #Faeryland #Grasmere #LakeDistrict @ThePhotoHour

Latest scam at my store this week: woman comes in to buy Apple gift cards - she wants several thousands dollars worth. As I am ringing up her first $500 card, I start asking questions like we are supposed to. Me: buying a lot of cards (she looked sooo nervous) - who are they for? Customer: A friend Me: a friend you know in real life or someone you met on the internet? C: a friend Me: just asking because a lot of people get scammed. Had a woman cuss me out because I wouldn’t sell her Cards to buy a puppy. Told her to go to a reputable breeder, meet them in person, get her dog. She came back months later to apologize because it was a scam and showed me pics of the dog she bought in person. You aren’t buying a puppy, are you? C: no, it’s a friend (while twisting her purse straps) Me: is your friend waiting outside? C: no. Me: just asking because I am concerned… just don’t want you to lose money. She is looking more nervous so, while slowly starting the next Transaction, keep sharing other scams. I also purposely tried to load the card for another $500, knowing our system would reject it because the limit is $750 a day. The transaction fails. I turn the screen toward her. Me: sorry, you can’t purchase the second card because our system won’t allow it. She asks me to repeat that and turns her purse towards me. Me: one time, I had a lady who seemed nervous who set her purse down and motioned me to come around the counter. She told me the Scammer was on the phone, making sure she did the transaction correctly. Woman turns more pale and mouths “HE IS ON THE PHONE” I walk around, set her purse down, pull her away, and she starts crying and spewing out the story! They told her her bank account was used for money laundering. She withdrew ALL OF HER MONEY from the account and was going to use it ALL to buy Apple gift cards. They also said her social security number was used and a MARSHALL would be delivering her a new card at her House tomorrow 🙃 I was LIVID! Walked to her purse, pulled out the phone, and said “hello? I have all TWELVE numbers you have been calling from (yes, she hung up multiple times and they kept calling back from other numbers) and she is on her way to the police station AND will be calling the FBI afterwards. If you EVER call her again, I will track you down and kill your dog after I beat you with a stick until you bleed out”. They hung up. And no, I wouldn’t kill a dog! We couldn’t refund $500 she had already put on the Apple Card but offered to help her contact our customer service and Apple to try to get it back. She had an Apple phone so also showed how to set up Apple Pay. She cried more, we talked more, I hugged her, told her how to handle in the future, she was going to call her daughter and let her know what happened. Asked for another hug and left. PLEASE talk to your family!! Tell them that despite the “sense of urgency” the scammer uses to make them “do things Right now”, nothing horrible is going to happen if they don’t do what they want in 12 hrs or even 24 hrs. Take the time to ask someone they trust if the “circumstance” is legit and get help before they lose all of their money!! I am so tired of seeing people lose all their money to these people!!

@JacobBielecki94 @Quillette Great article, thanks so much!

My new article for @Quillette is about how the 1980s officially began with Phil Collins’s legendary drum fill on “In the Air Tonight”. However, it’s also about how Collins’s popularity has endured across generations. quillette.com/2026/04/23/in-…

@ruby_dunn01 At Easter, rising happens on Sunday 🙂

My hot cross buns aren't rising and I don't know why 😭

@ColinHull3 @aigkenham So how do you explain Mark 7:10; 12:26; and John 5:46-47?

@zbnet @aigkenham That is correct and I do not believe in the Moses authorship of Exodus.

Is a day in Genesis “like a thousand years”? Yesterday I provided the first two parts of my answer to this objection, below are three more: 3. I notice those who ask this question or make this objection always seem to quote the first part of the verse and not the rest. After “with the Lord one day is as a thousand years,” the verse continues, “And a thousand years as one day.” Now this in essence cancels out the first section. The whole point is to God a day is like a thousand years, or a thousand years like a day. Again, it’s because God is outside of time. So to God, a day or a thousand years doesn’t make any difference in regard to time. Now humans are created in time, and we measure time by days and years. To humans, a thousand years is so much longer than one day. But that is not so for God. 4. Now let’s look at the context of 2 Peter 3. The passage leading up to verse 8 starting in verse 3 states, “Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires” (2 Peter 3:3). The passage is discussing the second coming of Christ, the last days, and the scoffers who scoff at Jesus coming again: “They will say, ‘Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation’” (2 Peter 3:4). So these scoffers are saying that things just go on and on, so Jesus is obviously not coming back. The passage is teaching us that for those scoffers who believe Jesus isn’t coming back again as things just seem to continue on and on, to God, a day is no different than a thousand years. So humans think it’s been a long time since Jesus said he was coming back again, but to God, it’s not a long time because he is not bound by time. 5. Then we are told why Jesus hasn’t come back yet. “The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). God will decide when he will return, but in the meantime, people need to hear the gospel as it’s not his will “that any should perish.” Tomorrow I’ll wrap up with three final reasons why this New Testament passage doesn’t mean the days in Genesis aren’t ordinary days.

@ColinHull3 @aigkenham Interesting: so you’re ascertaining that Moses (the author of Exodus 20) ISN’T quoting God’s speech?

@zbnet @aigkenham Part of the set of beliefs held by the authors. Both texts based on that belief.

@ColinHull3 @aigkenham Also, how do you understand Ex 20:9-11, where God contrasts our 7-day week with the creation week - as far as I can see, He uses the same words to describe both? How you you read that?

@aigkenham They are not historical days and it is not actual history. Light in the universe comes from star formation and so came after the first stars were formed. The Genesis days were a convenient way to set out the story of creation in a symbolic way.