Found an old clock and opened it up. The battery, which had expired in 2004, leaked its cocktail of chemicals onto the metal backplate to spectacular effect.

Have been reading Evelyn Waugh's "Vile Bodies". Got half way through and given up. Quite the dullest thing I've read in a long time.

Speke Hall Liverpool

Actually, 100% of my behaviour is primate behaviour.
https://bigthink.com/the-well/primate-behavior/

@JoyfullyDazed If only ...

£90m was an awful lot to put a roof on #Wimbledon Centre Court. But the club felt it was a small price to pay to put an end to Cliff Richard's singing when rain stopped play.

An apology isn't really an apology if it contains the word "if".
When they can genuinely repeat it while changing "if" to "that", then that is an apology.

#Physics Yet another misleading science media report, well debunked in this assessment.
News Flash: Has a New Axial Higgs Boson (Possibly Dark Matter) Been Discovered? https://t.co/rscFHTKSt7 via @MattStrassler

@Rickbflony Well, busy trying to save democracy in the UK right now. Not sure how that will go but I fear for USA it's already over.

@Red_68 I'd not thought of it in terms of grimness, but you're quite right. It's a lot of work just to add another source of depressing stuff.

OK, Peaky Blinders, I give up. I've tried on several occasions over the years to get into it but it's just too slow and laboured. Sorry.

@mcfate Cute!
And, Carménère is a great variety!

View from the UK

Many thanks for all your helpful responses to this. I'll experiment with the filters as suggested.

Is there any way to filter out music video clips from the stream? CS is rapidly becoming not much more than a text-based MTV.

@Gilles I do most of my Kindle reading outside in the sunshine. Tablets etc just don't work for that, which is why I switched.

@EmilySuess Good point. I should chill out more.

You see a lot of this here.