Keith Sands
@keithsands.bsky.social
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.
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Casa del Frutetto (House of the Orchard), Pompeii
October 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Casa del Frutetto (House of the Orchard), Pompeii
Cafe Nero, Stansted Airport, where celebrity autobiographies go to shed their dust jackets and die
October 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Cafe Nero, Stansted Airport, where celebrity autobiographies go to shed their dust jackets and die
I ring up Dial-a-Poster
I ring up Dial-a-Poster
I ring up Dial-a-Poster
And say "that's not where I would put Llanberis"
(But overall, it's a lovely bit of work).
I ring up Dial-a-Poster
I ring up Dial-a-Poster
And say "that's not where I would put Llanberis"
(But overall, it's a lovely bit of work).
Edward Phillips posters have produced 'Mileage Chart' - a map taking in over 200 UK and Irish locations mentioned in #HMHB songs, including a key to which album each appear on. Methodical. www.edwardphilips.co.uk/vintage-rail...
October 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I ring up Dial-a-Poster
I ring up Dial-a-Poster
I ring up Dial-a-Poster
And say "that's not where I would put Llanberis"
(But overall, it's a lovely bit of work).
I ring up Dial-a-Poster
I ring up Dial-a-Poster
And say "that's not where I would put Llanberis"
(But overall, it's a lovely bit of work).
Proustian rush as the Ronseal Tile Red Garage Floor paint I am using on a workshop floor recalls the Oxblood Doc Martens I coveted in the summer of 1989
October 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Proustian rush as the Ronseal Tile Red Garage Floor paint I am using on a workshop floor recalls the Oxblood Doc Martens I coveted in the summer of 1989
"Ringing the doorbell would kill the burglary sector" is the easy response, but also he's just plain wrong: plenty of companies develop and train specialised LLMs/ SLMs quite legally, asking permission. Some do really useful things, in medicine and tech, with human monitoring of the output... 1/2
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"Ringing the doorbell would kill the burglary sector" is the easy response, but also he's just plain wrong: plenty of companies develop and train specialised LLMs/ SLMs quite legally, asking permission. Some do really useful things, in medicine and tech, with human monitoring of the output... 1/2
Pity the poor tabloid hack who's just been ordered to dredge for vaguely "woke" statements from the new Archbishop of Canterbury to go under the inevitable "Sarah Doolally" headline
October 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Pity the poor tabloid hack who's just been ordered to dredge for vaguely "woke" statements from the new Archbishop of Canterbury to go under the inevitable "Sarah Doolally" headline
I'd heard of this, but never seen it till now. The greatest, weirdest bit of guerilla TV ever broadcast, when Sergei Kuryokhin got an hour-long slot on Soviet national TV to expound his theory that Lenin was a mushroom (1991) youtu.be/ExXDxpBFFR0?...
Sergey Kuryokhin: Lenin was a mushroom / C.Курехин: Ленин был грибом, part 2
YouTube video by xox
youtu.be
September 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I'd heard of this, but never seen it till now. The greatest, weirdest bit of guerilla TV ever broadcast, when Sergei Kuryokhin got an hour-long slot on Soviet national TV to expound his theory that Lenin was a mushroom (1991) youtu.be/ExXDxpBFFR0?...
Praising Russia for never having "waged war... on air travellers" is a fantastic illustration that these people live entirely in their own culture-war irreality pod. All is metaphor - consequences, morality, actual missiles fired at passenger planes, and lives lost, simply do not exist.
September 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Praising Russia for never having "waged war... on air travellers" is a fantastic illustration that these people live entirely in their own culture-war irreality pod. All is metaphor - consequences, morality, actual missiles fired at passenger planes, and lives lost, simply do not exist.
Reposted by Keith Sands
Look what we have here then.
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Look what we have here then.
"And inside these big sheds are twenty-foot-high chickens, because of all the chemicals you've put in them, and these chickens are scared! They don't know why they're so big"
September 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
"And inside these big sheds are twenty-foot-high chickens, because of all the chemicals you've put in them, and these chickens are scared! They don't know why they're so big"
I came to Cardiacs too late, alas, but listening to the 'posthumous' album, out today and it's a marvel. (It's not quite 'Sing to God', because that's probably the best album ever made).
September 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I came to Cardiacs too late, alas, but listening to the 'posthumous' album, out today and it's a marvel. (It's not quite 'Sing to God', because that's probably the best album ever made).
Travelodge Du Lac
Slightly diminish a book:
The Brass Notebook
The Brass Notebook
Slightly diminish a book:
Finnegans Nap
Finnegans Nap
September 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Travelodge Du Lac
Continental Breakfast at Tiffany's
Slightly diminish a book:
The Brass Notebook
The Brass Notebook
Slightly diminish a book:
Finnegans Nap
Finnegans Nap
September 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Continental Breakfast at Tiffany's
If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.
September 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.
Top work here from the trillion dollar brain.
September 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Top work here from the trillion dollar brain.
Authors of this 1974 pamphlet have no time whatsoever for any of your unempirical, new age, hippy bullshit
August 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Authors of this 1974 pamphlet have no time whatsoever for any of your unempirical, new age, hippy bullshit
The 'Nine Maidens' standing stones, of which eleven are still present.
Diminutive enough perhaps to have inspired that scene in 'This Is Spinal Tap'.
Diminutive enough perhaps to have inspired that scene in 'This Is Spinal Tap'.
August 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The 'Nine Maidens' standing stones, of which eleven are still present.
Diminutive enough perhaps to have inspired that scene in 'This Is Spinal Tap'.
Diminutive enough perhaps to have inspired that scene in 'This Is Spinal Tap'.
Mounts View Cottages, Madron.
August 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Mounts View Cottages, Madron.
Black Slab, Bosigran, Cornwall. A Colin Kirkus route. Easy but spectacular.
August 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Black Slab, Bosigran, Cornwall. A Colin Kirkus route. Easy but spectacular.
Reposted by Keith Sands
All together now: "But I can put a tennis racket up against my face/And pretend that I am Kendo Nagasaki"
Jasmine Paolini performs unexpected HMHB tribute at the US Open.
Jasmine Paolini performs unexpected HMHB tribute at the US Open.
August 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
All together now: "But I can put a tennis racket up against my face/And pretend that I am Kendo Nagasaki"
Jasmine Paolini performs unexpected HMHB tribute at the US Open.
Jasmine Paolini performs unexpected HMHB tribute at the US Open.
Last 5 gigs:
Josienne Clarke (doing Sandy Denny)
Adwaith
Half Man Half Biscuit (Bethesda)
Oyafestival Oslo 2024 (PJ Harvey, Pulp, etc)
Half Man Half Biscuit (Coventry)
... should go to more gigs, really
Josienne Clarke (doing Sandy Denny)
Adwaith
Half Man Half Biscuit (Bethesda)
Oyafestival Oslo 2024 (PJ Harvey, Pulp, etc)
Half Man Half Biscuit (Coventry)
... should go to more gigs, really
Introduce yourself with the last 5 gigs you went to:
Baba Yaga Hut's anniversary party featuring Part Chimp, Sly and the Family Drone and Haress etc
Sparks
These New Puritans
Dame Area
Ezra Furman
Baba Yaga Hut's anniversary party featuring Part Chimp, Sly and the Family Drone and Haress etc
Sparks
These New Puritans
Dame Area
Ezra Furman
Introduce yourself with the last 5 gigs you went to:
Fontaines DC
Bodega
Tim Minchin
Martial Arts
Desperate Journalist
Fontaines DC
Bodega
Tim Minchin
Martial Arts
Desperate Journalist
August 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Last 5 gigs:
Josienne Clarke (doing Sandy Denny)
Adwaith
Half Man Half Biscuit (Bethesda)
Oyafestival Oslo 2024 (PJ Harvey, Pulp, etc)
Half Man Half Biscuit (Coventry)
... should go to more gigs, really
Josienne Clarke (doing Sandy Denny)
Adwaith
Half Man Half Biscuit (Bethesda)
Oyafestival Oslo 2024 (PJ Harvey, Pulp, etc)
Half Man Half Biscuit (Coventry)
... should go to more gigs, really
Little Fashy Crowds
August 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Little Fashy Crowds