Theo Kuechel
@theokl.bsky.social
Digital Culture, Visual Culture, Music, Art, Comix, Edtech, Education, Digital and Visual Literacies, Travel. All aspects of Design including the built environment. In addition Birding, Leeds United, plus regular interesting pictures and other media.
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Once it was books, now its laptops & mobile phones.
Everything changed while at the same time nothing changed.
Everything changed while at the same time nothing changed.
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Once it was books, now its laptops & mobile phones.
Everything changed while at the same time nothing changed.
Everything changed while at the same time nothing changed.
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Last month, @theguardian.com framed this historical event project the same way; minimizing the years of archival work, the interviews etc it took to be able to do this.
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Last month, @theguardian.com framed this historical event project the same way; minimizing the years of archival work, the interviews etc it took to be able to do this.
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
In November, the light in the Algarve is remarkably different to Yorkshire, even on a bright day. #Light #Photography #Portugal #SantaLuzia
November 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
In November, the light in the Algarve is remarkably different to Yorkshire, even on a bright day. #Light #Photography #Portugal #SantaLuzia
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Annoyed by a journalist claiming "Art history A-level is extinct in Scotland & Wales & nearly extinct in England" because the number of schools offering A-level art has fallen. It's SQA Higher Art & Design that's taught in Scotland though. 5,800+ students took the subject in 2025.
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Annoyed by a journalist claiming "Art history A-level is extinct in Scotland & Wales & nearly extinct in England" because the number of schools offering A-level art has fallen. It's SQA Higher Art & Design that's taught in Scotland though. 5,800+ students took the subject in 2025.
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“Also for legal reasons, we’re not able to tell you what that line is.”
From a media law perspective: BS.
There is no "legal" reason for not publishing that line.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
From a media law perspective: BS.
There is no "legal" reason for not publishing that line.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“Also for legal reasons, we’re not able to tell you what that line is.”
From a media law perspective: BS.
There is no "legal" reason for not publishing that line.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
From a media law perspective: BS.
There is no "legal" reason for not publishing that line.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
The truth is not 'defamatory' it speaks for itself, “the most openly corrupt president in American history”.
Are you really suggesting our public broadcaster, that we all pay for, kowtow to this deluded imbecile? Or any of us?
Are you really suggesting our public broadcaster, that we all pay for, kowtow to this deluded imbecile? Or any of us?
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The truth is not 'defamatory' it speaks for itself, “the most openly corrupt president in American history”.
Are you really suggesting our public broadcaster, that we all pay for, kowtow to this deluded imbecile? Or any of us?
Are you really suggesting our public broadcaster, that we all pay for, kowtow to this deluded imbecile? Or any of us?
That went well......
November 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
That went well......
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You’ve seen the signs: ‘Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted’. They lie. In the UK ‘trespass’ is a civil offence, not a criminal one. You cannot face prosecution simply for being on someone’s land, off a designated Right of Way, open access land, or land where bylaws permit access, without permission.
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
You’ve seen the signs: ‘Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted’. They lie. In the UK ‘trespass’ is a civil offence, not a criminal one. You cannot face prosecution simply for being on someone’s land, off a designated Right of Way, open access land, or land where bylaws permit access, without permission.
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All that’s now left is to avoid all the fucking podcast episodes and news shows analysis of ‘what the budget means for you’.
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
All that’s now left is to avoid all the fucking podcast episodes and news shows analysis of ‘what the budget means for you’.
Spare us, Dear Lord....
All that’s now left is to avoid all the fucking podcast episodes and news shows analysis of ‘what the budget means for you’.
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Spare us, Dear Lord....
Reeves's Motability plan; a dog whistling piece of virtue signalling. Mercs, Audis, BMWs have a higher resale value, better engineering, reliability & safety features. If I was to become disabled, I would be highly pissed off to downgrade to one of these death traps as Rachel goes the final mile?
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Reeves's Motability plan; a dog whistling piece of virtue signalling. Mercs, Audis, BMWs have a higher resale value, better engineering, reliability & safety features. If I was to become disabled, I would be highly pissed off to downgrade to one of these death traps as Rachel goes the final mile?
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Oroborbus
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Oroborbus
Much better than using AI though.....
An ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, London, Wellcome Library, MS.626, f. 228r
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Much better than using AI though.....
This x 100 - Google is now practically next to useless. #DigitalLiteracy
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This x 100 - Google is now practically next to useless. #DigitalLiteracy
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This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
This should be noted in any future discussions about the #BBC, and, shared as widely as possibly in any case.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This should be noted in any future discussions about the #BBC, and, shared as widely as possibly in any case.
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🌍 42.5m refugees
Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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![Dear [my MP’s name],
As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.
That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest.
I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights.
Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming.
A manufactured crisis
As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million.
The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bru4h6s37w4hfmwhetu7veye/bafkreidmewc5timbx7nh57qyq7lm7gmhvclzidmloqhwgckpnegnddoicq@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I'm sure Starmer and Mahmood are proud of themselves this morning. The adulation they craved,
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I'm sure Starmer and Mahmood are proud of themselves this morning. The adulation they craved,
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Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Shabana Mahmood and the Politics of Extortion
Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket and it is not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
A selection of 60's & 70's tunes presented in a quiz. "How many of these do you recognise?" #EasyListening #Culture #Music
Cassette: Reader's Digest "Easy-Listening Hits of the 60s & 70s" Demonstration Cassette : Reader's Digest : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
SEEKING SOUND FILMSTRIPS FOR PRESERVATION. Sound filmstrip was a 35mm film-based still image educational media format used in schools and industry. I am the...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A selection of 60's & 70's tunes presented in a quiz. "How many of these do you recognise?" #EasyListening #Culture #Music
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This is the politics of blackmail. The alternative is not a Reform government. The alternative is maintaining our international commitments to being a compassionate nation
November 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This is the politics of blackmail. The alternative is not a Reform government. The alternative is maintaining our international commitments to being a compassionate nation
Now here's an idea. If the BBC does cough up 🤮, every single UK licence payer refuse to renew their TV licence. They are not behoven to the orange sociopath.
Trump says he will likely sue the BBC for up to $5 billion over edited speech reut.rs/442rY4Y
Trump says he will likely sue the BBC for up to $5 billion over edited speech
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would likely sue the BBC next week for as much as $5 billion after the British broadcaster admitted it wrongly edited a video of a speech he gave but insisted there was no legal basis for his claim.
reut.rs
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Now here's an idea. If the BBC does cough up 🤮, every single UK licence payer refuse to renew their TV licence. They are not behoven to the orange sociopath.
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Labour are now the "darker forces" Mahmood is scaremongering about. Depriving people who have fled unimaginable horror the ability to rebuild their lives in safety and security, which this does, is sickening. Labour is sickening.
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Labour are now the "darker forces" Mahmood is scaremongering about. Depriving people who have fled unimaginable horror the ability to rebuild their lives in safety and security, which this does, is sickening. Labour is sickening.
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...