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"Swinney said Burnham's stated desire to devolve further powers around the UK was something he welcomed."
A major failing of the Scottish Government has been its failure to devolve more powers to local authorities. There could have been massive reform of local taxation if Holyrood hadn't refused to devolve that power.
Hopefully there will be more subsidiarity arising from Burnham's devolution agenda and engagement with the Scottish Government.

Burnham tells Swinney independence is 'off limits' at Glasgow Commonwealth Games meeting
The heads of the UK, Scottish and Welsh governments came together ahead of the opening of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

The largest hospital group in New Jersey USA has implemented Ebola screening. When a patient has a history of travel in the past 21 days to the DCR, Uganda, or South Sudan, and has one or more of the following symptoms:
Bruising or bleeding, Diarrhea, Fever, Joint pain, Muscle pain, Rash, Severe headache, Vomiting, Weakness
an instant order to initiate extreme biohazard isolation will automatically be placed.

I hope Andy Burn 'em has some advisor who actually reads Environmental Research Letters. The review essay by Emily Grubert, summarizing a frustrating 25 years of research with no apparent effect on climate overheating, is blunt.
" For people and places that rely on fossil fuel production and face major transition challenges (Xenarios et al 2026), failing to be explicit about the degree to which transition must proceed, or the extent to which alternatives might actually be ava…

I had a weird dream where I was talking to someone at some kind of ceremony, I think a funeral, where I had timidly painted my face with clay as part of some ritual. This person was talking about how far society has come while our brains have not caught up.
Imagine if your ancient cave dwelling ancestors were dropped into this world of cars, office hours, budgets, climate change, and AI. They would be absolutely freaking out and struggling to understand things all the time... Just like you are now.
Society teaches us to suppress these emotions. You're supposed to be OK with giant metal boxes flying around you in rumbling stampedes, but you feel it in unexplained anxiety. You're supposed to just fit your life into tight little bounds that ignore weather and season, but you feel it in more unexplained anxiety and depression. We are all part of something so big and complicated we can't make sense of it, we cannot possibly comprehend it all, it is simply too much to fully grasp the implications of our individual actions within global capitalism. Should we be surprised by our urge to simply destroy it, by the anger and desire to simply "smash" something far more complex than can be met with simple violence?
Some part of my brain was trying to remind me to be compassionate to myself. Perhaps that reminder can be useful to you as well.

A look at neighborhood newsletters in NY and elsewhere, which tend to be solo operations with small-scale followings, but point to a desire for local media (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/your-friendly-neighbo…

Your Friendly Neighborhood Newsletter
Local newsletters from the “Boerum Bulletin” in Brooklyn to “The Eastside Rag” in L.A. are providing a sense of community that’s missing from our algorithmic feeds, writes Kyle Chayka.

Xreal launches $299 A01 Plus AR glasses, weighing just 62 grams and featuring 1080p micro OLED panels with a 120Hz refresh rate and a 50-degree field of view (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/963465/xreal-a01-plus-xbx-ar-glasses-hands-on…

Xreal’s new AR glasses are way cheaper and almost just right
The A01 Plus are flimsier and have fewer features than the 1S, but they might deliver exactly what you’re looking for.

I have the desire to potter about with plants and get my new raised fruit/veg bed sorted out but apart from the blistering temperatures I've picked up a completely flattening virus from a colleague so I don't have the energy. I keep falling asleep when I sit down. I've put some nasturtium seedlings into a planter, moved the radish planter to the veg area and helped move a couple of bits into our summer seating area and that's me done.

Sonnet 141 - CXLI
In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note;
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote.
Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted;
Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone,
Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited
To any sensual feast with thee alone:
But my five wits nor my five senses can
Dissuade one foo…