Reposted by Max LeonardPeter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I am honestly humbled when I watch races like this, to see the kind of grit on display where these athletes seem destroyed and then keep going and get back in the mix. Most of us are so easily broken. 2341
Reposted by Max LeonardDanny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I don't follow Formula One, but good on them for using subtitles for the hard of hearing…  501913303
Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This is terrifying but also rather wonderful - “a paper that ate three cold hands and got more honest each time” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comAI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargonExperts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating headaches for monitoring and oversight 020
Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I held out a long time, but goodbye red, pre-Brexit passport 😭 240
Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026To my surprise and satisfaction, in middle age I have become the kind of guy who buys two of the same garment at a time, in different colours. 130
Reposted by Max LeonardJimmy Two Hands (summerjimbo era) @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I know exactly why, poindexter. It’s because it looks cool as fuck 13498201832
Reposted by Max LeonardJonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Full marks for the typo. Chef’s kiss for the reply. 81614304
Reposted by Max LeonardNed Boulting @nedboulting.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Never. Never. Never buy books from Amazon. I mean, try not to buy anything from there, but never ever books. They are destroyers of the thing I hold dearest. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comAmazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AIAn investigation by 404 Media found that Amazon bought a shipment of rare books so it could scan and destroy them to train AI. 1519272
Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 25/07/2026This is central Paris. It’s an authorised bathing place. You can’t even swim in the sea much of the time near London. Fuck the water companies and the governments that let that happen. 150
Reposted by Max LeonardChristian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This is a great selection of Frank Hurley's photographs from the Endurance expedition: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...theguardian.com‘He’d lie down in front of the moving ship’: a fresh look at Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expeditionShipwrecks, ice football and igloos for dogs … the digitisation of Frank Hurley’s photographs shows the heroic trek more clearly – and unlocks some remarkable new details 075
Reposted by Max LeonardPaul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026think what you will of the Amaury family, but the NYT's entirely negative portrait of their alleged greed & lucrative ownership of the Tour de France misses a crucial part of their business model while the Tour is the only cycling race around that generates 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...nytimes.comIs the Amaury Family, Owners of the Tour de France, Hurting Cycling?The Amaurys of Paris own the race, but won’t share any of the $170 million in media revenue. Sponsors and riders say their resistance is dooming the sport. 27437
Reposted by Max Leonardmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday. 115111522404
Reposted by Max LeonardDexerto @dexerto.bsky.social · 10/07/2026A Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic” 2595058609
Reposted by Max LeonardAsh @ashtomouth.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Do you think if they let Pogi win Roubaix he will retire sooner and we can have nice things again? 😂 011
Reposted by Max LeonardPascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys share.google/nw0ojKKXnID1...share.googleSwitzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought 6336591165
Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Mexico City is at 2,200m. Good for hour records, not so much for running around… 070
Reposted by Max LeonardPaul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Tenth anniversary of Cameron announcing his resignation - possibly the worst UK PM - Johnson for all his venality and Truss for ideological idiocy don’t come close to the long term damage that resulted from Cameron’s Brexit referendum gamble for party management reasons. Truly terrible judgement… 1931662
Reposted by Max LeonardJohn Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026From the archive, 7 years ago. “Woke up, watched Grandstand. Wrote ‘Candle in the Wind’. Went to London, bought Rolls-Royce. Ringo Starr came for dinner.” #Top10 Diary Entries www.independent.co.uk/voices/top-1...independent.co.ukTop 10 diary entriesA collection of the finest journal-ism 1156
Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Always find it bananas that I can be doing this and 50km away it’s 29C and people are swimming in the Med. 🍌🍌🍌 150
Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Just beat a whole lot of French people at pétanque 💅🏼 260
Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Packing for a weekend of mountaineering training. Sunny weather forecast in the Lakes, so it’s a question of can I find clothing combos that won’t cause temporary blindness from the clashing colours. 010
Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 17/05/202670km to lunch with a change of clothes and a bottle on an unexpectedly nice day 👌🏼 070
Reposted by Max LeonardNew Scientist @newscientist.com · 14/05/2026Seismic surveys and sediment cores suggest that dozens of deep pockmarks on the sea floor were created when Arctic methane stores were disrupted by climate change after the last glacial maximum – and scientists warn it could happen againnewscientist.comMelting of Greenland ice sheet could release methane 'fire ice'Seismic surveys and sediment cores suggest that dozens of deep pockmarks on the sea floor were created when Arctic methane stores were disrupted by climate change after the last glacial maximum – and scientists warn it could happen again 091
Reposted by Max LeonardHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/05/2026This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf... 7054521637
Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 11/04/2026First French WT stage race winner since Christophe Moreau in 2007 ⚡️ 030
Reposted by Max LeonardMichael Hutchinson @doctorhutch.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The potential to solve the 'Pogacar problem', but only at the cost of a potentially even bigger problem. 1202
Reposted by Max LeonardHouse of Reggae @houseofreggae.bsky.social · 04/04/20263/12 With judicious use of echo, reverb and a high pass filter, the wildest dubs in 1975 were created at King Tubby's. This one dismantles Cornell Campbell's Natty Dread In A Greenwich Town into a dub masterpiece... youtu.be/4PTRkKdtYho?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky #dub 1242
Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 04/04/2026In other news have started stamping my books with date finished. Should I also stamp with date acquired, or date started? Or both? 120
Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Discovery of the day: the hyrax. A rodent-like African mammal that is actually most closely related to elephants and manatees. 052