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Social media is a busted flush Random musings: callumbellwriter.substack.com Book(s): www.panswed.co.uk

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Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk · 13/07/2026
One of the most exciting infrastructure projects in Britain right now. If we could build tunnels like the Norwegians we could build new motorways and railways so cheaply that they could be self-funding. The biggest prize is Manchester to Sheffield. www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...
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Explosives could deliver northern boom via cheaper Pennines tunnel
Start-up says Scandinavian tunnelling methods could cut the cost of a proposed dual carriageway connecting Sheffield and Manchester by as much as 90 per cent
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
On my way, Clacton.
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
In the 18 years that I've been visiting #Montpellier in France (regularly - I first was there in 1989) there has been no end of construction. I'm always blown away by the creative architecture. It makes the city a visual treat.
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
With apologies to Tom Jones and Deniece Williams
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I mentioned Samm Hemshaw in 'Collective'. This is a wonderful tune. If you're having a shit time, it's for you. #uplift www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfgL...
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Samm Henshaw - Doubt (Official Video) ft. Wretch 32
YouTube video by SammHenshawVEVO
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Panswed Books @panswed.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Nice to see our volumes 'Dolphinism' & 'Collective', as well as a gorgeous @peakrillpress.bsky.social publication in the @sitegallery.bsky.social shop today. ☺️
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
From 'A Man for All Seasons' by Robert Bolt: MORE: I trust I make myself obscure? NORFOLK: Perfectly. MORE: That's good. Obscurity's what I have need of now Which doubles as a parable for true creatives in the digital neo-liberal capitalist age. #creativity #digital
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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
In the UK in 2025, 41 indie bookshops shut up shop for good. But in Sheffield, indie bookshops are thriving. Literary types are increasingly convinced there's something starting to bubble in the city. Now, a new independent book festival hopes to capitalise on the buzz. ✍️@hollywilliams.bsky.social
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Is Sheffield becoming a more literary city?
'Yes, it's great here and yes it's hard at times'
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
If any of you people have read anything I've written, pull up a chair for an hour in 1972. This Al Green concert explains it better. youtu.be/43v2QAJ8Eio?...
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/03/2026
This part is sharp and important: bureaucracy inherently requires discretion but can't acknowledge that because it derives its legitimacy from being objective Meaning it has an unresolvable tension at its core
Organisations that run on formal procedure need someone inside the process to interpret rules, notice exceptions, recognise when the categories no longer fit the case. If the organisation concedes that its outcomes depend on the discretion of the people executing it, then the procedure is not a procedure but a suggestion, and the authority the organisation derives from appearing rule-governed collapses. So the judgment has to happen, and it has to look like something else. It has to look like following the procedure rather than interpreting it.

I’ve come to think of this as the “bureaucratic double bind” – the organisation cannot function without the judgment, and it cannot acknowledge the judgment without undermining itself and being seen as “political”. One solution to this problem is to replace the judgment with a number. In his 1995 book Trust in Numbers, the historian of science Theodore Porter argued that organisations adopt quantitative rules not because numbers are more accurate but because they are more defensible. Judgment is politically vulnerable. Rules are not. The procedure exists to make discretion disappear, or seem to. The system’s actual flexibility lives entirely in this unacknowledged interpretive work, which means it can be removed by anyone who mistakes it for inefficiency.
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Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk · 23/03/2026
Yet Another Dozen -- yet more people in London and Oxford thinking and talking about how to return Britain to prosperity is the last thing we need. tomforth.co.uk/yetanotherdo...
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2030 Prosperity.
Yet another dozen people in London thinking about how to return Britain to prosperity is the last thing we need.
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 18/03/2026
“We are constructing more than any previous generation in history, only to discover that the line between our relentless urge to build and its total futility becomes ever finer.”
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Stop Building Now! | Reinier de Graaf
Housing shortages have been identified in practically every country of the world. But how real are they?
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Panswed Books @panswed.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Last of the promo postings today (on the various platforms). This one is to let you know that our books are available in #Sheffield at the Site Gallery on Brown Street and at All Good Stuff on Arundel Street. You can of couse also order copies in our webshop: panswed.co.uk/books/.
Daffodils in a vase and two books - 'Dolphinism' and 'Collective' both by Callum Bell - on wooden table.
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It's not very often that there's a story about #Sheffield on the pages of @reuters.com www.reuters.com/sports/socce...
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Sheffield FC's new owners banking on club's history to build better future
The world's oldest football club Sheffield FC opened a new chapter in their 168‑year story on Monday, unveiling a refreshed ownership structure rooted not in grand promises but in a desire to preserve...
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I probably need to blog more
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Panswed Books @panswed.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Dolphinism is published and is worthy of your curiosity. panswed.co.uk/2026/02/06/d... #booksky #blacksky #writing #books 📚 #sheffield #indiepublisher
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Where are all my #Sheffield #Meta refugees at? I need some people to follow please. Musos, DJs, venues, promoters especially welcome - oh and also #book people - writers readers and such. I need my fave venues to be here: Hagglers Corner, Yellow Arch, Sidney & Matilda etc...
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
New substack post by yours truly. It's about Afro-diasporic #music and that. Maybe some of the muso folk I follow might enjoy it... callumbellwriter.substack.com/p/synesthesi...
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Synesthesia of the worst kind
Aural and collective Afro-diasporic rituals vs. digital and materialist media.
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Exciting 👇 My latest book. #booksky #writing
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Simply loving the way these two posts randomly came together on my @bsky.app @wearedelasoul.com #daisyage
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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I gave you money. You provided goods and/or services. Our relationship is over. I will not be reviewing your product. Unsubscribe.
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Earlier today I saw this arresting piece by Swiss artist Zimoun at the #MuséeDesArts in #Nantes which led to thoughts about the individual versus the collective. Afterwards, I read that this is what the artist had in mind. museedartsdenantes.nantesmetropole.fr/expositions/...
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Added to their sticker collection @thenighttrain.co.uk
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Christmas day in a groovy "vinyl cafe" in Nantes, France.
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Discomfort is the current achilles heel of the current economic paradigm. But at some point it will incorporate that too. #aphorisms
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A little side project. Thanks to @allgoodstuff.bsky.social for lovely artsy notebook. I've been spending my days filling it with words
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
#micronovel Boom! Splat! War that kills hundreds of millions. Survivor1: "We must never, ever let something this terrible and stupid ever happen again" Survivor2: "Yes. But sadly, people from the future aren't here to learn the lesson" The end.
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Skylab Radio @skylabradio.com · 23/10/2025
#TheLaunchpad - chillout music flying under the radar. Come fly with us TONIGHT at 10pm UK/IRL for chilled bliss from self-releasing artists/producers & small labels. Listen on your DAB Digital Radio, “Alexa, play Skylab Radio”, Nation Player & skylabradio.com 🎧🧡
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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 20/10/2025
real nice decentralized network you’ve got there, be a real shame if capitalism happened to it
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
All that we are come from what we have thought #aphorisms That's not one of mine, rather it's from The Dhammapada. Similar notions are found in existentialism and the concept of karma in Vedic/Vedantic texts
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Artistic and cultural valuables should be kept out of sight when neo-liberal #capitalism is in the room. #Aphorism
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
If one shuts out the external, random and chaotic world, the vacuum may offer others the opportunity to impose the world that they wish you to inhabit #aphorisms #digital
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Oh and that was an #aphorism of course!
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Understanding the collective is a step towards really understanding why 'love your enemy' is a profound and radical idea.
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Real #books drop no cookies. #aphorisms
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I'm far too busy with earning a living at present, and sadly have little time to write anything of length. So, for the next few months I'm going to try my hand at short #aphorisms. I'm hoping this will be fun. x
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
@thenighttrain.co.uk - Vigo, Gallica, Spain
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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications Whole Earth Catalog was an American counterculture magazine & product catalog by Stewart Brand published between 1968 and 1972. Its focus was on self-sufficiency, ecology, alternative education, “DIY” wholeearth.info
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · 31/07/2025
“Any teacher who can be replaced by a machine should be.” - Arthur C. Clarke @profstevefuller.bsky.social's update (below) with a similar sentiment, "You don't want to have a bionic textbook whose content is reducible to their PowerPoints."
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JT @shiftydisco.bsky.social · 14/06/2013
@HelpSheffield any chance of a RT? Cheers Come and drink booze and gives us a wave. #sheffield #broomhill t.co/PmjgX9Ix6b
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Join Sheaf Poetry Festival and Poets Yield Power for a #poetry social in #Sheffield next Thursday (3 July) at The Wig and Pen / The Beaten Track, 44-46 Campo Lane, S1 2EG, from 6.30pm - all welcome, informal, free, and no need to book. There'll be a bookstall, too.
Yellow and green text on a purple background: A Poetry Social, Thursday 3 July, 6.30pm, The Wig and Pen / The Beaten Track, 44-46 Campo Lane, Sheffield S1 2EG
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I used to call it social media. It's so much more like 'marketing media' lately 😬
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Old/obscure Sunday night movies are fast becoming my new jam. Tonight's choice was 'He Died With A Felafel In His Hand' (2001, dir: Robert Lowenstein). A very wonderful flick, a bit like the bastard lovechild of 'Naked Lunch', 'Withnail & I' and 'Trainspotting' www.imdb.com/title/tt0172... #films
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He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001) ⭐ 7.0 | Comedy, Romance
1h 47m | Not Rated
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I don't think anyone cares, but just for the record... yesterday, I completed the transcription of my new book 'Dolphinism' to the computer. Months of laborious editing now await 😔 #writing
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I cannot believe I've made it to this point in my life without having watched #OnTheWaterfront with Marlon #Brando. Corrected that error tonight. A marvellous #film. I especially liked when Eva Marie Saint's character (Evie) says the following. #FilmNoir #Collective
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CeeBs @callumbellwriter.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Off down to Mandala Café on Chesterfield Road later to give a talk about the collective unconscious... and music... and neo liberal capitalism... and the digital paradigm (á la my book 'Collective'). It's free, so join me from 7pm if you're kicking about in #Sheffield later. #SheffEvents #120325
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