Solstice Solday 2024

A bit cloudy at Newgrange yesterday morning.

• Joss Naylor, legendary fell-runner, died this year
• Drummin, our local raised bog, got the kids feet wet, so they sang
•  Skepchick gives side-eye to a study on black plastic kitchen utensils
• Months after an earthquake in DC, the cathedral is still shedding lumps
• In a mighty speech Edward Henry KC sums up the case for the Sub Post Masters.
• Free buses in Tallinn - nett good
• Antarcticshipwreck

I think this might be the last Sunday miscellany. They are often top heavy with YT videos, whc indicates how much time I fritter away as a hapless tool of The Algorithm. A few weeks ago, in the middle of a 3 day power outage, we went into the local library to check the interwebs. I there(fore) saw what the YT experience is without an AdBlocker: blimey, it's difficult enough confronting my own ear-wax; I do not need someone else's in my face, like. On Friday last, YT caught up with me and presented a binary choice a) watch our Ads b) embrace YT Premium at €14/mo. But there is a third option: cold turkey with books. I don't mind paying for stuff and I certainly think creators should get money for their work if it is any good. But the YT Algorithm is designed to deliver the same old same old; whereas I want something, anything, different. I dunno about your echo-chamber, I feel utterly unfulfilled by mine.