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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2h

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

Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2h

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 · 3h

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 · 7h

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 · 12h

Happy birthday!

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 12h

BRB, just taking some photos of the fog.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 13h

It feels even more like the 2001 telecoms crash.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 13h

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 · 15h

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 · 15h

... 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 · 15h

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 · 15h

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 · 15h

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 · 1d

'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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

Our MP - he was useless when they were in power and even more so now - you'd think with a majority of just 61 votes here he'd make a bit of an effort but he clearly can't be arsed.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

On my second listen now - this is such a beautiful record with a lovely, subtly stripped-back, lo-fi production feel which suits these songs just perfectly.

Josienne Clarke @josienneclarke.com · 5d

Preorder - Far From Nowhere - now #bandcampfriday
Available in various beautiful formats
• Milky clear heavyweight vinyl
• CD
• Cassette
• Digital

ffm.to/farfromnowhere
#beautiful #haunting #melancholia #newalbum #sigil #sadsongs

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Clare Rogers @clarerogersartist.bsky.social · 2d

Getting down to some drawing this afternoon.

Using ink pen to draw the trees on top of the monotypes I made a couple of weeks ago.

Inspired by a beautifully misty area in the trees near Burrator, Devon.

Nearly there, I think….

#Dartmoor

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

Love the beautiful cover photography from @alecbowmanclarke.com too.

CD insert photos - the first is a portrait of the artist, the second is the cover symbol carved on a tree, the third a close up of a bare winter branch, the fourth the cover symbol on the palm of a hand.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

Been looking forward to this... just arrived in post. Now playing and sounding fabulous.

Thank you @josienneclarke.com!

Cover of Josienne Clarke's new Far From Nowhere album. It has a gold geometric line symbol overlaying a black and white portrait of Josienne in a dark woodland.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

One of my happy places, that.

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Elisabeth Elektra @elisabethelektra.bsky.social · 5d

Since deleting Twitter I’ve noticed a big drop in my Bandcamp sales. If you’re a music fan, please repost this so people can find me here! I make weirdo alt pop, I hate nazis and love Etsy witches 🖤✨

elisabethelektra.bandcamp.com

Elisabeth Elektra

Euphoric Art-Pop from Glasgow, Scotland elisabethelektra.com ‘Mercurial’ LP out now: “Giddy electronic pop” ☆☆☆☆ MOJO “A haunting, odd gem” ☆☆☆☆ RECORD COLLECTOR "Stark, dramatic, crystalline" - ME...

elisabethelektra.bandcamp.com

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

Looks beautiful!

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