Clare Qualmann
@cqualmann.bsky.social
Artist, walker, lecturer, library-lover, urban forager, drawing every day. Co-editor Lines of Desire at Living Maps, co-founder walking artists network
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Pavement parking ban for Birmingham to end 'completely out of control' danger in huge change:
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
January 10, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Pavement parking ban for Birmingham to end 'completely out of control' danger in huge change:
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
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I have walked to work for 2.5 years, a little under a mile each way: it has changed my life
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-r...
www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-r...
50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.
www.fastcompany.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:27 PM
I have walked to work for 2.5 years, a little under a mile each way: it has changed my life
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Just heard an AI ethicist talk about how important it is that we say ‘MEN are using Grok to undress images of babies, children and women’ not ‘Grok is….’. Grok isn’t responsible for the action, the men enabling & using it for this repulsive purpose are. Small but important bit of linguistic accuracy
January 7, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Just heard an AI ethicist talk about how important it is that we say ‘MEN are using Grok to undress images of babies, children and women’ not ‘Grok is….’. Grok isn’t responsible for the action, the men enabling & using it for this repulsive purpose are. Small but important bit of linguistic accuracy
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A year late to the party, just as enthusiastic! I just bought the ebook version, which was on sale on the Routledge site (because I don’t have access to a library where I am.) i’m excited to read 🤸🏻♀️🤸🏻♀️🤸🏻♀️
January 6, 2026 at 12:01 PM
A year late to the party, just as enthusiastic! I just bought the ebook version, which was on sale on the Routledge site (because I don’t have access to a library where I am.) i’m excited to read 🤸🏻♀️🤸🏻♀️🤸🏻♀️
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Free on our open library. All the works we undertook in an attempt to find somewhere to build the new visitor facilities at Stonehenge.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Free on our open library. All the works we undertook in an attempt to find somewhere to build the new visitor facilities at Stonehenge.
wessexarchaeologylibrary.org/plugins/book...
wessexarchaeologylibrary.org/plugins/book...
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I wrote about some very strong feelings I have about the royal family.
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
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I love Prince Harry
possibly my most controversial opinion that I am very sure of and which I think could not publish like this in the UK press (plus, under the line: a great documentary, podcast and parrot news)
open.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:12 AM
I wrote about some very strong feelings I have about the royal family.
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
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Counterpoints Arts has been selected by The Observer as the beneficiary of their Christmas Appeal 2025.
A new article by Philippe Sands on how migrants enrich our cultural life, and why this work matters.
🔗 observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
#ObserverAppeal #CounterpointsArts
A new article by Philippe Sands on how migrants enrich our cultural life, and why this work matters.
🔗 observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
#ObserverAppeal #CounterpointsArts
Christmas appeal: Migrants enrich our culture from the fo...
The Observer’s Christmas appeal is raising money for Counterpoints Arts. The writer and lawyer explains why its support of creative work by and about migrants resonates with him
observer.co.uk
January 4, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Counterpoints Arts has been selected by The Observer as the beneficiary of their Christmas Appeal 2025.
A new article by Philippe Sands on how migrants enrich our cultural life, and why this work matters.
🔗 observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
#ObserverAppeal #CounterpointsArts
A new article by Philippe Sands on how migrants enrich our cultural life, and why this work matters.
🔗 observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
#ObserverAppeal #CounterpointsArts
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166 browser tabs and a few windows now closed! It's getting easier to find things and my dock is less cluttered. The open tabs require me to do more work, but I'm going to read things properly before closing them. Please join me in #TabClosed2026!
#NYE2026
#NYE2026
Friends, I have now closed 100 browser tabs, from across multiple windows. I did the thing the open tab required, or downloaded/filed it, or decided I didn't need it. #TabClosed2026 is going well! Now to start a fourth thread. You're welcome to make your own!
Well, 71 browser tabs closed so far in #TabClosed2026! And I've chosen a new wallpaper, from the Giancarlo Menotti opera A Bride From Pluto. So, on to my third thread of closed tabs. Trying to stay ruthless.
December 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
166 browser tabs and a few windows now closed! It's getting easier to find things and my dock is less cluttered. The open tabs require me to do more work, but I'm going to read things properly before closing them. Please join me in #TabClosed2026!
#NYE2026
#NYE2026
Beautiful moonrise over the Regent's canal tonight. January's super moon is looking 💫
January 1, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Beautiful moonrise over the Regent's canal tonight. January's super moon is looking 💫
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A long poem
An invisible line
A 270-mile walk
“The idea was to walk the line from Peacehaven to the Humber. I had devised the notion that the physical act of walking would help me to locate what was lost”.
New year offer: £3 off Nancy Gaffield's 'Meridian'
ngmeridian.wordpress.com
An invisible line
A 270-mile walk
“The idea was to walk the line from Peacehaven to the Humber. I had devised the notion that the physical act of walking would help me to locate what was lost”.
New year offer: £3 off Nancy Gaffield's 'Meridian'
ngmeridian.wordpress.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:11 AM
A long poem
An invisible line
A 270-mile walk
“The idea was to walk the line from Peacehaven to the Humber. I had devised the notion that the physical act of walking would help me to locate what was lost”.
New year offer: £3 off Nancy Gaffield's 'Meridian'
ngmeridian.wordpress.com
An invisible line
A 270-mile walk
“The idea was to walk the line from Peacehaven to the Humber. I had devised the notion that the physical act of walking would help me to locate what was lost”.
New year offer: £3 off Nancy Gaffield's 'Meridian'
ngmeridian.wordpress.com
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Similarly, I want nature docs that consist of someone knowledgeable ambling round a patch of landscape, periodically saying 'Ooh, look at this'.
What I want is a TV documentary channel entirely devoted to documentaries with no quick-cut montages of everything about to happen, which don't give a fuck about keeping my attention, presented by extremely knowledgeable people in a terrible mood who have no interest in trying to make me like them.
January 1, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Similarly, I want nature docs that consist of someone knowledgeable ambling round a patch of landscape, periodically saying 'Ooh, look at this'.
In the words of the drawing I made in 2008 (part of a series that put together texts from pizza flyers and religious leaflets) It is time to rewrite our destiny...
January 1, 2026 at 11:35 AM
In the words of the drawing I made in 2008 (part of a series that put together texts from pizza flyers and religious leaflets) It is time to rewrite our destiny...
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An old drawing from my studio, part of a 2008 series that combined texts from pizza flyers with religious leaflets. The message holds though! #ItIsTimeToRewriteOurDestiny
January 1, 2026 at 12:45 AM
An old drawing from my studio, part of a 2008 series that combined texts from pizza flyers with religious leaflets. The message holds though! #ItIsTimeToRewriteOurDestiny
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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www.spiegel.de/panorama/jah...
„In Bielefeld kamen zwei 18-Jährige bei Unfällen mit selbst gebauter Pyrotechnik ums Leben. In Berlin gab es Hunderte Festnahmen. In Leipzig wurde die Polizei mit Flaschen und Knallern beworfen. Das war die Silvesternacht.“
Es wird immer so weitergehen.
„In Bielefeld kamen zwei 18-Jährige bei Unfällen mit selbst gebauter Pyrotechnik ums Leben. In Berlin gab es Hunderte Festnahmen. In Leipzig wurde die Polizei mit Flaschen und Knallern beworfen. Das war die Silvesternacht.“
Es wird immer so weitergehen.
Jahreswechsel in Deutschland: Zwei Tote in Bielefeld, 400 Festnahmen in Berlin
In Bielefeld kamen zwei 18-Jährige bei Unfällen mit selbst gebauter Pyrotechnik ums Leben. In Berlin gab es Hunderte Festnahmen. In Leipzig wurde die Polizei mit Flaschen und Knallern beworfen. Das wa...
www.spiegel.de
January 1, 2026 at 8:17 AM
www.spiegel.de/panorama/jah...
„In Bielefeld kamen zwei 18-Jährige bei Unfällen mit selbst gebauter Pyrotechnik ums Leben. In Berlin gab es Hunderte Festnahmen. In Leipzig wurde die Polizei mit Flaschen und Knallern beworfen. Das war die Silvesternacht.“
Es wird immer so weitergehen.
„In Bielefeld kamen zwei 18-Jährige bei Unfällen mit selbst gebauter Pyrotechnik ums Leben. In Berlin gab es Hunderte Festnahmen. In Leipzig wurde die Polizei mit Flaschen und Knallern beworfen. Das war die Silvesternacht.“
Es wird immer so weitergehen.
An old drawing from my studio, part of a 2008 series that combined texts from pizza flyers with religious leaflets. The message holds though! #ItIsTimeToRewriteOurDestiny
January 1, 2026 at 12:45 AM
An old drawing from my studio, part of a 2008 series that combined texts from pizza flyers with religious leaflets. The message holds though! #ItIsTimeToRewriteOurDestiny
Time for my annual #MendingSpree ! Instead of buying stuff in the post holiday sales, why not spend some time repairing things you already own? I got the sewing machine out and started with this beloved dressing gown today. #MakeDoAndMend #repair
December 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Time for my annual #MendingSpree ! Instead of buying stuff in the post holiday sales, why not spend some time repairing things you already own? I got the sewing machine out and started with this beloved dressing gown today. #MakeDoAndMend #repair
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One person died at Eisbachwelle in over 50 years and the city removed the wave. ~5000 people have been killed by cars in Munich since the discovery of Eisbachwelle and yet…
Munich’s surfers foiled again as authorities remove access to famous river wave
The city has removed a beam that local surfers placed over Christmas to recreate the Eisbach wave after it vanished in October
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
One person died at Eisbachwelle in over 50 years and the city removed the wave. ~5000 people have been killed by cars in Munich since the discovery of Eisbachwelle and yet…
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Jingle bells, AI smells.
That is all.
That is all.
December 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Jingle bells, AI smells.
That is all.
That is all.
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Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, First Staged in 1922
Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, First Staged in 1922
We credit the Bauhaus school, founded by German architect Walter Gropius in 1919, for the aesthetic principles that have guided so much modern design and architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries.
www.openculture.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, First Staged in 1922
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You know, millions of us once dreamed of being famous authors, and millions of us are not, including BIPOC & LGBTQ folks.
It's true that there's plenty of discrimination in publishing. It's also true that sometimes, one's craft, talent, and luck don't get you the desired outcome. *That's life.*
It's true that there's plenty of discrimination in publishing. It's also true that sometimes, one's craft, talent, and luck don't get you the desired outcome. *That's life.*
This shit is made up, actually
December 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
You know, millions of us once dreamed of being famous authors, and millions of us are not, including BIPOC & LGBTQ folks.
It's true that there's plenty of discrimination in publishing. It's also true that sometimes, one's craft, talent, and luck don't get you the desired outcome. *That's life.*
It's true that there's plenty of discrimination in publishing. It's also true that sometimes, one's craft, talent, and luck don't get you the desired outcome. *That's life.*
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Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
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Low on words today, but high on hope: anything really helps these six families & a camp of fifteen more survive. It's still survival: of unceased fire, blockade, famine, displacement, health emergencies, deadly winter weather.
We don't forget them. chuffed.org/project/hope...
We don't forget them. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Low on words today, but high on hope: anything really helps these six families & a camp of fifteen more survive. It's still survival: of unceased fire, blockade, famine, displacement, health emergencies, deadly winter weather.
We don't forget them. chuffed.org/project/hope...
We don't forget them. chuffed.org/project/hope...
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I always find these memorials at Postman’s Park unbearably moving. They make my eyes water every time. It’s a lovely idea, to commemorate ordinary people who do extraordinary things.
December 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I always find these memorials at Postman’s Park unbearably moving. They make my eyes water every time. It’s a lovely idea, to commemorate ordinary people who do extraordinary things.