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Callum May

@callummay.co.uk
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News person. The usual stuff.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 2h
Your local friendly newsdesk person writes: whatever is happening at King's Cross is a false alarm, fret not.
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 8h
It’s a bit clammy
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's crisis comms and then there's crisis comms. Fair play to the City admin for just posting through it I suppose.
19:07 BST

Manchester City

Manchester City have just posted on X.

"Vote for your September Goal of the Month".
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 29/09/2026
A smaller scale Beveridge report: a Beveridgino
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Mr Belding RIP www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
latimes.com
Dennis Haskins, known for playing beloved Principal Belding on 'Saved by the Bell,' dies at 75
Dennis Haskins, known for playing the earnest and beloved Principal Richard Belding on 'Saved by the Bell,' has died. He was 75.
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Everyone bemoaning AI and the decline of journalism etc: it’s probably just a cock-up.
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 27/09/2026
End of the cricket season sadness.
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 24/09/2026
This picture briefly made me think Kim Jong Un was doing a spot of cricket scoring.
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Rodya @rodyarr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this has been my favourite for about fifteen years en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...
en.wikipedia.org
International Grooving & Grinding Association - Wikipedia
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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Have they met the Association for Dressings and Sauces? dressings-sauces.org
dressings-sauces.org
The Association for Dressings & Sauces - Recipes with salad dressings and sauces
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Discovery of my new favourite name for a trade body today: the British Leafy Salads Association
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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is it just going to plough through the buffers?
Email from trainline entitled your train will no longer stop at London Victoria.
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 22/09/2026
ROYAL FACTS: the venue that Prince William visited in west London today used to be the swimming pool where this was filmed. youtu.be/ob1rYlCpOnM?...
youtu.be
The Day Today - Pool Supervisor
YouTube video by Apsi Witana
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 22/09/2026
FFS Wordle 1,921 X/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Whooooo remembers @horse_ebooks
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 21/09/2026
I like the Strong Songs podcast and the one about September by Earth Wind and Fire is especially cool. strongsongspodcast.com/blogs/episod...
strongsongspodcast.com
S03E21 - "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire
Ba de ya! Say that you remember! Ba de ya! Dancing in September! Ba de  yah! Musical analysiiiis! It's finally time for Strong Songs to take on one of the strongest bands of all, the great Earth, Wind...
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 21/09/2026
The reputation of the aviation industry in general has worsened since mobile phone cameras allowed journalists to film surreptitious voxpops in terminal buildings. (If you'd gone into departures with a big TV camera back in the day you'd have been given your jotters sharpish)
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 21/09/2026
Sounds inside-baseball but it’s how the President gets on TV most of the time.
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 19/09/2026
Hurzeler sneaking a “stay humble” into his post match interview is very very funny #bhafc
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 19/09/2026
First ever county cricket chairperson on #strictly
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SickosFC @sickosfc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Seagulls parents are proud today. Dad is impressed but he’s trying to hide it by crossing his arms.
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 19/09/2026
“Welcome to Gillingham, the birthplace of TV’s Fraggle Rock. No muppets on show in this team. It finished 3-0 against Bristol Rovers”. #finalscore
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Mike Batt @mikebatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A little conversation I had on Twitter 🙂
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 18/09/2026
Stephanie Cole was *forty nine* when she first starred as a care home resident in “Waiting for God”
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 16/09/2026
The most egregious televised mismatch involving Fleetwood since the 1989 Brit Awards
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Manchester United have not surrendered a two goal lead and lost at home since James Callaghan was prime minister #bhafc
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Also we are covering the doings of Piddington Parish Council in Oxfordshire this morning and I can't stop thinking about
The POddington Peas
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 16/09/2026
News shorthand I've never understood -- calling a pop star at second reference "The [name of their most famous hit] singer" So this morning: 'The Shape Of You singer said he was “appalled by the conflict between Israel and Palestine”'
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 15/09/2026
Push alert for a story that happened on Sunday, is it
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 14/09/2026
Next two podcasts sorted: the one about the Hitler diaries hoax and the one about the Richard Gere false rumour. Yeah, that one.
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 14/09/2026
“In less than a decade, we have moved from having a person with a flag determine from some distance whether a player has strayed offside and so gained an advantage, to a multi-million-pound process that requires … five match officials and at least four staff from two tech companies.”
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 13/09/2026
If this was my team that had been affected I’d be ready to buy a Spider-Man suit and clamber onto the roof of the FA. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
bbc.co.uk
Referees body admits error of judgement over Erling Haaland derby winner
The Premier League refereeing body Pro Ref admits an error of judgement in awarding Erling Haaland's winner in the Manchester derby.
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 13/09/2026
SHIT DID YOU SEE THAT #bhafc
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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This bit in the Guardian piece about BBC charter renewal today is pretty eye-catching
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Pakistan in full “they couldn’t could they?” territory here
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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Everyone has a story of where they were on 9/11, but one thing unites them all. They are not that interesting.
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 10/09/2026
My 9/11 take is that I don’t appreciate the George W Bush “A second X has hit the Y” meme, it feels like the wrong thing to satirise.
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 10/09/2026
Restricting access to Dixoooooooons
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
LinkedIn is actually the coolest social media platform, because there’s no other place where you’ll see the most talented musician you knew as a teenager blossom into a perfectly adequate middle manager at a marketing firm that’s really excited about the possibilities of AI
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 09/09/2026
This is probably the Pakistan U19 side who are currently playing down the road at Arundel Castle. www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...
portsmouth.co.uk
Protestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotel
Misinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 08/09/2026
My clearest memory of the tributes in Green Park four years ago. What she would have wanted. Possibly.
Queen Elizabeth in a West Ham hat and shirt
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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ringo Starr. On Blue Peter. Talking about steel furniture he had designed. Then giving the puppy Shep a fuss. This is just bloody lovely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g38M...
youtube.com
1971: RINGO STARR unveils his STEEL FURNITURE | Blue Peter | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 04/09/2026
Since this was recorded Deejay Sven has been working for hours on end with the elderly archivist in the gramophone library #totp
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 04/09/2026
I’m sorry, “Angel by Ralph Fridge”? #totp
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 04/09/2026
MC Neat and DJ Hopkirk (Deceased) here. #totp
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Call me a cynic, but I think the people behind Precious's Eurosong may have heard one or two Britney singles. #totp
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 04/09/2026
There can’t have been many 4:3 editions of #totp after 2000.
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 04/09/2026
What happens on Thursdays
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 03/09/2026
Is there a linguistic reason why we talk about “an El Niño” or “this El Niño”, when it already contains a definite article, sorry this is in my brain so had to be in yours
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