Leon Black

@drleonblack.bsky.social

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Professor of Infrastructure Materials at the University of Leeds. Posting about materials, resilience, circular economy, green stuff, and whatever else I stumble on that I find interesting. No DMs, unless they're size 12 cherry reds.

Dog looking at a computer screen. "What a lovely day on the inter-"
Bowls of sev (chickpea noodles)
Gag about billionaires losing their money but being able to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and earn it all again.
Chris Mason: Starmer ally
A box of 24 mini Dickmanns (chocolate covered marshmallows).
Before and after pictures of people and various addictive substances; coke, booze, speed, and a chippy tea. The first three are ravaged. The latter just smiles.
Ronaldo looking upset
Page from Smash Hits with the lyrics to the mostly instrumental track, Voodoo Ray, but A Guy Called Gerald.
Food delivery robot on which someone has written "Humanity not robots" on its lid
Ray Reardon
Dolly
Food delivery robot with "humanity not robots" scrawled on the lid.
The costs for Prince George will include the VAT added by the government to private school fees.
weird nerds defending Elon Musk from valid criticism meme
Michael Portillo wearing a fetching mint green jacket with deep red trousers, brown shoes and a white shirt.
Gismo, oir short-haired collie, just out of the water, staring at the camera with his tongue lolling.
The Queen is Dead album cover, showing only the title , with the picture of Alain Delon removed
A question time audience comprised of 26 Nigel Farages
John Rentoul's tweet: "Is Tonty Blair behind this"
Wes Sweeting and Peter Mandelson
Gismo, a short-haired collie, just having climbed out of a lake, panting.
Sticker on a toilet hand drier "graphic designers against fascism"
Del Boy and Rodney stood in front of their yellow van. Caption reads; this time in 60 days we'll be living in a socialist utopia, Rodney.
Post (account redacted) I'm not ignorant of how fptp works Labour triggered this by-election unnecessarily and for petty internal factional reasons. Maybe they should step aside Also: I consider a reform win better than a Labour win.
The first Unite the Kingdom event staged by Yaxley-Lennon last September drew at least 100,000 to London. While many of those attending saw it as an opportunity to peacefully express their interpretation of British identity, there were a series of clashes with the police and anti-Muslim hate speech incidents.
Chris Mason gets a stiffy as the Reform gains come in, while Laura Kuenssberg tries to remain passive.
Keir Starmer's pledges
It's a no-brainer that a massive piece of Beatles memorabilia like that should be saved, yet they were going to sell it for scrap. "You would think that they would have learned after that whole own goal with the Cavern and Ringo's house in Madryn Street, which they were going to demolish until a campaign was launched to save it."
Question asks you to draw a small clock showing 10 minutes past 11. Someone has drawn a digital clock showing 11:10
Morgan "Galaxy Brain" McSweeney
A grim week for Starmer – but things could be about to get worse By Chris Mason Political editor
Can I pick it periodic table with colour coding to show if an element is safe to lick or not.
Couple caught in the Coldplay kisscam debacle. In the left hand picture, a man holds woman in his arms. Both are smiling. In the right hand picture, she turns and hides her face. He has dropped his arms from around her waist.
Floorplate in the subway near Soth Kensington tube station, reads "Wilke's metallic flooring co".
Was: from £41.65pp Now: from £49pp
Kiss me again, rekiss me and kiss me Slip your frigid hands beneath my shirt This useless old fucker with his twinkling cunt Doesn’t care if he gets hurt Green Eyes by Nick Cave
Bad Bunny in his dad's grey suit
I'm gonna steal your meme, but before I do, I'm gonna hit the like button. I got manners and shit.
Bar chart showing support for intervention in Iran by political affiliation. Reform voters are clear outliers in terms of support for direct military action.
Men wearing SS uniforms at a 1940s celebration in Sheringham, Norfolk
After Trump's 'no Churchill' jibe can the special relationship recover? By Chris Mason Political editor Trump is seen on the left, wearing a red tie and his usual pin featuring the American flag. Starmer is on the right, wearing his customary black-rimmed glasses.
Headline: Battered and isolated, Hezbollah drags Lebanon into another war
This new cycle of violence was all too predictable. For months, Israeli officials had signalled an escalation of their campaign against Hezbollah. Despite a ceasefire that ended a devastating 13-month war in 2024, Israel had continued with its bombing of Lebanon almost every day, saying the group was trying to rebuild its capabilities. Hezbollah, however, had remained quiet, aware that any move would inevitably be met with a powerful retaliation.
The Style Council
Tough choices meme Waste time on the Allister Heath Headline Generator Revise and resubmit overdue manuscript
Allister Heath We must resist the totalitarian nightmare of Nigel Farage's wrinkled scrotum before we lose everything Mock, fake headline
Kruger said Reform UK had a “pronatalist ambition” and would seek policies to encourage people to have more children, including exploring changes to the tax system to make payments based on households rather than individuals.
I’m not interested in your love life, or anything about your personal life – that is your business. But I am interested in the framework in which you make your decisions, and I’d like the framework to be more pro-social. If you want – most people do want – to settle down with one person to have children, we should make that easier.
Post from Jessica Elgot.
Meta secures a patent for an AI that can keep a user's account running after their death by posting, messaging, and video calling using the user's past behaviour.
Lib Dem election flyer with a bar chart showing Labour and Lib Dems on 14 apiece and all other parties on zero. Text says elections won in Moortown ward over the past 30 years.
Headline from the Telegraph Matt Ridley CO2 is simply not a danger to human health, and it’s actively good for crops
Nadhim Zahawi and Nigel Farage shaking hands. Both are about the same height.
Jidge from My Cousin Vinnie saying "did you just say I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated"
"World's worst man has just made a great point" meme
The Hit Factory volume 2: The Best of Stock, Aitken & Waterman.
The sexual predator known to everyone, yet named by no one, Jimmy Savile
Harry Enfield as Angry Frank pointing his finger at Paul Whitehouse
Rochdale 2 Southend 1