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Keith Sands

@keithsands.bsky.social
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Cambridge-based, work in ELT publishing / ed tech for a university press. Semi-competent rock climber. Half Man Half Biscuit & Cardiacs enjoyer. Occasional writing and translation.

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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They corrected it to LBR NSF in a later edition. I'm not sure that's helpful though.
Cover of Queneau's Exercises in Style where the line drawn figures spell out LBR NSF
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Chorlton and the Wheelies, aged about 5, with flu
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Remembering an ex-colleague who referred darkly to "decisions made higher up the archy" and another who complained that an author they worked with had got "a beef in his bonnet"
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well we've found something we agree on. Your last sentence. Toodle-pip.
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sure yeah, the old ones are the best. Just out of curiosity - why are you anonymous online?
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Clinical interest possibly. Try to be better.
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh hang on, you think YOU are doing 'satire'?
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No, I don't think you made it up. Why are you talking about satire? Bit of a tangent.
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Your best shot at Andy Burnham is that he briefly hesitated about a silly question about the price of milk, 11 years ago, before giving the correct price of milk? That's your point?
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
According to your weird AI cartoon he said "it's about 40p". Correctly.
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What point are you even making with this hideous AI slop? ONS RPI data has the average pint of milk at 43p in September 2015, so... he was correct? www.ons.gov.uk/economy/infl...
ons.gov.uk
RPI :Ave price - Milk: Pasteurised, per pint - Office for National Statistics
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you turn the bass down after "thinking you were the new Nick Drake" at 2.12, you can actually hear 'Ben' break out into a sweat.
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ah, 1992. Midnight showing of Eraserhead. 2am chips in pitta from Gardies, to recover.
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Enough varieties of ham to stock a whole chain of delicatessens
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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
Did you know you can break a swan's wing with your arm?
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
He's 'shed' lots of Irish acts from the tour, see, and - hello? Is this on
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In many cases they didn't even read it
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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 · 14/09/2026
This 'famous sign' (according to Wikipedia) has been known intermittently to elicit a Sensible Chuckle.
Signpost which kind of reads HAM SANDWICH
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
An experienced outdoor instructor died falling off Cneifon Arete in 2022.
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Two bands that sounded a bit like two different ends of the Cardiacs sound. In a good way
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And Spratleys were fantastic.
Spratleys on stageJo Spratley
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anyway, incredible drummer Bob Leith looked like he was having the best evening of his life
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Panixphere: 3 ex-Cardiacs. Very tight, very Cardiacs. Their amps go up to... 27?
Panixphere on stage
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Discovering more of the Cardiacs/Tim Smith extended universe this evening
The Garage.
Spratleys
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Creme Brulee in poptastic 70s lettering
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Everyone talks about Jimmy's frisbee up the pylon, but this is one of the deep cuts. Nightmare fuel
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It seemed to me, after reading this, that the Dover action more than crosses the threshold for political uniforms. It is very broad, ruling out loopholes like minor variation, or not having insignia, or no formal group membership. englishlawguide.co.uk/policital-un...
englishlawguide.co.uk
Policital Uniforms
Unlike many public order offences, liability does not depend on disorder or violence occurring. The offence is complete once a uniform is worn in the requisite context. The focus lies on the signifying function of clothing rather than its intrinsic characteristics.
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It really is. You'd hope that at least there will be arrests in the following days.
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I absolutely think their organisers have read up on the precise law, and they are consciously testing it. englishlawguide.co.uk/policital-un...
englishlawguide.co.uk
Policital Uniforms
Unlike many public order offences, liability does not depend on disorder or violence occurring. The offence is complete once a uniform is worn in the requisite context. The focus lies on the signifying function of clothing rather than its intrinsic characteristics.
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
They do not need to belong to a specific organisation, if the uniforms indicate group identity.
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yes they are. The precedents established there is no need for insignia or completely identical dress. 300 guys all in black balaclavas marching together chanting political slogans absolutely crosses the threshold of the Act. englishlawguide.co.uk/policital-un...
englishlawguide.co.uk
Policital Uniforms
Unlike many public order offences, liability does not depend on disorder or violence occurring. The offence is complete once a uniform is worn in the requisite context. The focus lies on the signifying function of clothing rather than its intrinsic characteristics.
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Looks like the kind of political uniforms outlawed under the Public Order Act 1936. They don't have to have insignia. englishlawguide.co.uk/policital-un...
englishlawguide.co.uk
Policital Uniforms
Unlike many public order offences, liability does not depend on disorder or violence occurring. The offence is complete once a uniform is worn in the requisite context. The focus lies on the signifying function of clothing rather than its intrinsic characteristics.
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Probably the guy out of the Sunshine Band.
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Or fencing some paint.
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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
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Funny how even the 'Head of Policy' role involves humiliating yourself and wheedling shady money out of shady people like all the other jobs in Reform
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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'm getting stuck into a listen now. It's a very good list. (If you want to tidy up, may I suggest replacing Totally Wired with 'Renfields Afoot' by HMHB.
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
One track per artist, unless it's the Fall, seemingly
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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 · 02/09/2026
Didn't think they had the Raspberry Pi in Homer's time. Or even pi. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch...
en.wikipedia.org
Scratch (programming language) - Wikipedia
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Another Green World - 2004 Remaster
Brian Eno · Another Green World (2004 Remaster) · Song · 1975
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Sudd
Adwaith · Bato Mato · Song · 2022
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Eden On The Air
Cardiacs · Sing To God · Song · 1995
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Ugain I Un
Datblygu · Pyst · Song · 2004
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