On my way, Clacton.

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.

With apologies to Tom Jones and Deniece Williams

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...

Nice to see our volumes 'Dolphinism' & 'Collective', as well as a gorgeous @peakrillpress.bsky.social publication in the @sitegallery.bsky.social shop today. ☺️

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

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

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?...

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

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...

“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.”

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/.

It's not very often that there's a story about #Sheffield on the pages of @reuters.com www.reuters.com/sports/socce...

I probably need to blog more

Dolphinism is published and is worthy of your curiosity. panswed.co.uk/2026/02/06/d... #booksky #blacksky #writing #books 📚 #sheffield #indiepublisher

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...

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...

Exciting 👇 My latest book. #booksky #writing

Simply loving the way these two posts randomly came together on my @bsky.app @wearedelasoul.com #daisyage

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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/...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Added to their sticker collection @thenighttrain.co.uk

Christmas day in a groovy "vinyl cafe" in Nantes, France.

Discomfort is the current achilles heel of the current economic paradigm. But at some point it will incorporate that too. #aphorisms

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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#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.

#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 🎧🧡

real nice decentralized network you’ve got there, be a real shame if capitalism happened to it

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

Artistic and cultural valuables should be kept out of sight when neo-liberal #capitalism is in the room. #Aphorism

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

Oh and that was an #aphorism of course!

Understanding the collective is a step towards really understanding why 'love your enemy' is a profound and radical idea.

Real #books drop no cookies. #aphorisms

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

@thenighttrain.co.uk - Vigo, Gallica, Spain

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

“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."

@HelpSheffield any chance of a RT? Cheers Come and drink booze and gives us a wave. #sheffield #broomhill http://t.co/PmjgX9Ix6b

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.

I used to call it social media. It's so much more like 'marketing media' lately 😬

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

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

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

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

New post about late night music at the end of parties (and of course, the collective unconscious). Includes free DJ mix! 😅 open.substack.com/pub/callumbe...