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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you've seen it?

Still from 'Wings of Desire'. Bruno Ganz (as recording angel) comforts man in street dying after a motorcycle accent, sitting behind him and cradling his head. The man's inner monologue relates memories from his life (including 'The morning light'). A younger man approaches along a bridge.

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Shed Éireann, is this something

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Discovering more of the Cardiacs/Tim Smith extended universe this evening

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Faith, family and flag, these three: but the greatest of these is money"

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ah, sorry. The 'Faculty of Divinity'

Terry Jones as 'The Bishop', looking well dodge, smoking a fag surrounded by clerical minders

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Not sure Cambridge University Theology department are sending their best

Shady-looking man, James Orr, in private club saying 'totally legit'

James Orr, saying "so I wouldn't breathe a word of this to anybody" with an anxious look on his face as if he's just suggested something illegal, even though it is all, as he has recently clarified, totally legit

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If only there a were a more concise way to express "70,000 pints worth of Guinness" as a volume

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I remember this coming on after Grange Hill some time in the early 80s and completely traumatising me

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Watched the brilliant Mark Jenkin film 'Rose of Nevada' on the BFI player yesterday. A shot with a child drawing a boat made me wonder if it was a nod to Alfred Wallis (relevant to the film's theme of Cornish seafaring decline more widely) - and today I find out Jenkin is his descendant.

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Fun by-election fact. The SDP's Roy Jenkins stood against the SDP's Roy Jenkins in 1982.

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Interesting eclipse effect!

$Sunlight during partial eclipse on a white concrete wall, having refracted through a tree and a window, making blurry overlapping crescents$

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"Last of the Mohicans is an elegaic book, mainly about hair"

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Share a book you'd love to see adapred into a movie. (I think either Mark Jenkin or Daniel Kokotajlo could do a good job of this).

Climbers by M John Harrison. First edition cover with an illustration of a pair of EBs (1980s climbing boots)

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Your optimism strikes me like junk mail addressed to the dead"

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Well that was weirdly familiar

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Andy Burnham arriving at Westminster

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Cyfrwy Arete, Cadair Idris last bank holiday weekend.

Steep mountain ridge silhouette, with wispy cloud, from a distance

Rocky pinnacles leading up into cloud, sling belay in foreground

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

SUCH A HATEFUL WASTE OF TIME. Honestly, we need a national hobby service so that people can find nice things to do in their spare time like watering plants or being nice to donkeys rather than inventing stupid things to be cross about.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The legal situation for trans people is now deeply incoherent and means that it is untenable for them to be able live their lives with dignity. This is completely out of line with the values of equality that a Labour government is meant to champion. [4/5]

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Remarkable medieval panel in the Courtauld Gallery depicting the bathing of the infant Van Morrison

Medieval painting of various figures, infant Christ looks like balding middle aged man

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"The Table" approaches, rumbling ominously. A fierce row immediately breaks out as to whether All Options are On It, or whether we need to Just Get Round It

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The only good thing about local election coverage today is the surreal imagery that passes through your brain when you read a phrase like "Tories lose control of Hampshire".

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Continental Breakfast at Tiffany's and Travelodge Du Lac

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Cardiacs - Stoneage Dinosaurs Half Man Half Biscuit - National Shite Day The Kinks - Days The Slits - Ping Pong Affair Sandy Denny - Who Knows Where the Time Goes Nick Drake - Cello Song PJ Harvey - Rid of Me Datblygu - Y Teimlad Van Morrison - Madame George The Fall - Wings

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Sudden urge to watch the new film of M John Harrison's 'Climbers', directed by Daniel Kokotajlo or Mark Jenkin, but unfortunately it doesn't exist.

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This is so similar to my own thoughts about Prynne. I was briefly a baffled graduate student of his. Baffled as well mostly by his poetry, but oddly compelled to return to it from time to time, scratching a surface, making tiny inroads here and there. 1/2

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

More to the point Krapp's Last Tape with Harold Pinter as Krapp is on the BBC iplayer, so everyone should go and watch it and marvel.

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A third-hand story, but apropos of the anniversary. An EFL author I once worked with had a friend who studied in Paris in the mid-80s. A huge admirer of Beckett, he plucked up the courage to go to Beckett's apartment - the address was quite well-known - and ring the bell. 1/2

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Just working on my article "The decline in nominative determinism in world-class sprinting: from Usain Bolt to Gout Gout"

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Greatest ever pub sign, 10/10 (St David's, Pembrokeshire)

The Farmers Arms. Sheep with scythe, like some ovine angel of death

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The so-called 'Tufted Puffin'. Clearly just a seagull in a shoddy, home-made puffin disguise.

A Tufted Puffin, looking like a gull in a black turtleneck and big beaky mask

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I see Nick Timothy has been imposing himself again.

Nick Timothy and Candice-Marie entertain a fellow camper with some ENGLISH folk music.

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Cardiacs, Albert Hall, Manchester. Incredible.

Cardiacs on stage from the side, audience, figures on gallery silhouetted against ornate chapel windows

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Surely that is the young Mark E Smith, pondering lyrics for his notebook ("the junior clergy demand more cash / we spit in their plate and wait for the ice to melt")

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Finally, the sequel that De Sica's 'Bicycle Thieves' deserves

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Terry "Carry On" Scott, David "Sunday Sport" Sullivan, Grant "Multiple Aliases" Shapps

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The Winter Olympics needs some kind of snowball fight event as well

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

If there's doubles luge in the Winter games, there should be a piggyback race in the Summer games

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