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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 34m

Good shout - I think they are on his radar anyway as school mentioned it. I've dropped you a separate message re uni contacts - hope that's OK?

Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 3h

Good shout - have passed that on. Thanks!

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 3h

They only do short 2 or 3 day placements which are conditional on doing an online course first - he's considering doing this additionally anyway but it's closed for 2025 and he needs a full week this term.

Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 4h

Need a favour, Devon pals.

Our son is studying A levels in Maths, Physics and Chemistry and is looking for a local science, research or engineering related work experience placement for a week at the end of this term.

Any suggestions of organisations or companies he can approach most welcome.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 17h

Treated myself to this little gizmo to replace several other boxes - it's a headphone amp / multi fx unit / amp modeller with NAM/ looper / tuner / stereo audio interface / drum machine... with Bluetooth streaming.

Very impressed so far... really fun and useful - for £40 it's quite astonishing.

Domicile Pocket Master guitar fx pedal seat to Pick Bass preset.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 23h

James Blake's version of Limit To Your Love just came up on shuffle, quite loud.

I may need to get the builders in to rectify the structural damage caused by the sub bass.

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Dartmoor Collective @dartmoorcollective.org · 1d

Just a week until the launch of our beautiful Flow zine...

An eclectic range of strikingly original work from across our diverse community of Dartmoor artists, printmakers and photographers accompanied by the words of Kirsteen McNish.

We're very proud of it.

dartmoorcollective.org/product/flow...

A black and white image by Iain Murray of a still, dark pool in a high Dartmoor river - a bank of gravel is highlighted by the weak sun. The landscape beyond is hazy in mist. Some words by Kirsteen McNish appear on the page to the left of the image:

Daylight, a Skylark spirals
its song from gorse to cloud
- a tiny vortex rising like smoke
At night, under a full moon,
the wind sears into skin,
illuminating the flux
Swallowed, swaled,
a cacophony shaken
from an ancient dream

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 1d

Office 97 I think - it was the same version which had a fight simulator in Excel (just typing that is bizarre).

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 1d

Oh my. Thats brightened my day somewhat. Top work.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 1d

I highly recommend you click the link, even if you have no current need of @morgyface.bsky.social's undoubted woodworking skills.

Morgyface @morgyface.bsky.social · 1d

I’m in the process of changing direction in my woodworking stuff and I’ve done a daft web page thing: byfen.co.uk

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

From this morning's dog walk. A dreich Autumn morning on Water Hill - a thick fog just starting to ease off the moor as we made our way back to the van.

The main B3412 trans-Dartmoor road winding up the hill to the east, early fog lifting. Sheep grazing on the rust coloured moor either side.

A solitary tree enveloped in thick fog amidst a sea of tussocky, damp, rust-coloured winter moor grass

Lookup up the hill at the foot of a "gert" - a gully cut by tin-miners chasing the lode into the hillside. It's overgrown, damp and shadowy in the fog.

Looking over a thick stand of dead, rust-coloured bracken towards a ridge, faintly illuminated through the mist.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

Happy birthday!

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

BRB, just taking some photos of the fog.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

This is worth a read... a report from the tail-end of the telecoms crash reflecting on how it happened and bemoaning the refusal to learn from the past and shady business practices that led to it.

www.princeton.edu/~starr/artic...

The Great Telecom Implosion

www.princeton.edu

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

There were relatively few deemed "too big to fail" last time. I suspect given the degree to which tech is now embedded at a nation state level, the story might be different this time.
There are parallels between what is happening now with companies like Nvidia and the likes of Nortel/Cisco in 2000.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

It feels even more like the 2001 telecoms crash.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

It's about making money for *some* people.

The whole thing is so economically ignorant - creative industries contribute MASSIVELY to the UK economy. It's one of the few things we're actually really good at.
If they had an ounce of basic knowledge they'd be celebrating it, but they're bloody idiots.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

I know I'm probably preaching to the choir here but God, I'm cross - these people are so dense they bend gravity, and the idea that anyone should take their ideas seriously just beggars belief.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

... and the idea that people doing creative degrees only end up doing jobs in the arts is, of course, complete nonsense.

I'm an English / History grad - now run a tech company, and some of the best people I've worked with in my 30 year career in the industry have come from an arts background.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

It makes me so bloody angry that these people have such a narrow, joyless and closed view of Britain and its potential.

In economic terms, the creative industries already account for about £124bn a year or almost 6% of GVA - it's growing and is a massive part of our soft power internationally.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

If she seriously wants to look at the degrees causing the most negative economic impact to the country over the last 2 or 3 decades I'd suggest that Oxbridge PPE would be a very good place to start...

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

I know I shouldn't be surprised by such utter garbage from her, but yet another classic case of Tories knowing the cost of everything but the value of absolutely nothing.

I thought this nonsense idea that degrees serve only as a narrow funnel into specific careers had died years ago. Clearly not.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as
English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 3d

'Working instinctively, the duo eschewed guitars altogether on All Systems Are Lying, creating a record that bounces between paranoid synth-rock (‘Gimme A Reason’), glittering disco (‘Run Free’) and the noodling techno-funk of the title track.'

The Strange World Of… #Soulwax

buff.ly/5vhBjAE

Soulwax - All Systems Are Lying album cover. A human hand with a butterfly perched on top of it.

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 3d

Edgar Allan Poe died on this day in 1849.

Doom.
Plague.
Despair.
Madness.
Creeping existential horror.

He would have loved 2025.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 3d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Humiliation upon humiliation for the Melster in front of half-full Tory crowd | John Crace

At conference where the stench of decay is overpowering, the shadow chancellor’s speech was an act of desperation

www.theguardian.com

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