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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2h

Not yet - we launch on Thursday evening - they'll start being posted out from Friday.

Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 3h

I reckon this is bang-on... still one of my favourite bits though for the sheer drama.

The far west stretch - around Zennor / Pendeen has got to run a close second though?

Short bits of that felt more like mountaineering scrambles last time we did it.

South West Coast Path @southwestcoastpath.bsky.social · 6h

❓What’s the toughest stretch of the South West Coast Path❓

The answer often given is Hartland Quay to Bude — 15.2 wild miles of high cliffs, relentless climbs and jaw-dropping views. You’ll ascend the Matterhorn before reaching Bude! ⛰️

➡️ southwestcoastpath.org.uk/walksdb/145

📷 Steph Bloor

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 1d

Yes - it really gets under the skin of the place and it's people in a way that very few writers achieve.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 1d

I read it earlier in the year and been raving about it to anyone who'll listen - it's a wonderful book - so rich and layered... I've also got a reading list a mile long after reading it.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 1d

Thanks - I know it was somewhere around there but couldn't place it - it's a great cover photo!

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 1d

Bit late to the party here, I know...

I've loved @gogo-penguin.bsky.social's Fallowfield Loops since first hearing it over the summer, and I've been playing it loads, but have only just got to listen to the whole album today, and it's excellent.

youtu.be/uFA2n9TWovQ?...

Cover of GoGo Penguin's Necessary Fictions Album showing a modernist concrete tower block.

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Dartmoor Collective @dartmoorcollective.org · 1d

In case you missed it over the weekend, we were thrilled to have Kirsteen McNish's introduction of Flow featured by @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social.

There's still some free tickets available for the launch on Thursday evening if you'd like to come along, and pre-orders are now live on our website.

Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 3d

Kirsteen McNish introduces 'Flow' — a zine made in collaboration with @dartmoorcollective.org, contemplating the movement and flux which has taken place on the moor over hundreds of thousands of years www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/flow...

Image: Jaiyana Chelikha

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 1d

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 2d

A complete inability to learn from the mistakes of the past seems to be a recurring theme across, well, pretty much everything currently... but I have a faint hope that people are starting to wake up regarding the magic beans, albeit probably too late...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dartmoor Collective @dartmoorcollective.org · 3d

A huge thank you to the wonderful team at @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social for featuring this lovely piece from Kirsteen McNish on our new Flow zine.

Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 3d

Kirsteen McNish introduces 'Flow' — a zine made in collaboration with @dartmoorcollective.org, contemplating the movement and flux which has taken place on the moor over hundreds of thousands of years www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/flow...

Image: Jaiyana Chelikha

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 3d

Will do. Thanks

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 3d

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?

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