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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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...
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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…
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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.
Something about winter woods always conjures up @conniewillisdotnet.bsky.social Doomsday book, especially the green of holly in amongst the bare trees.
December 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Something about winter woods always conjures up @conniewillisdotnet.bsky.social Doomsday book, especially the green of holly in amongst the bare trees.
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Someone asked me once what white people could do right now to help.
I said make a group of white folks that have the sole purpose of clearing every Black, Brown and Native mutual aid effort they see.
Never heard from them again.
I said make a group of white folks that have the sole purpose of clearing every Black, Brown and Native mutual aid effort they see.
Never heard from them again.
December 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Someone asked me once what white people could do right now to help.
I said make a group of white folks that have the sole purpose of clearing every Black, Brown and Native mutual aid effort they see.
Never heard from them again.
I said make a group of white folks that have the sole purpose of clearing every Black, Brown and Native mutual aid effort they see.
Never heard from them again.
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I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
January 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
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I’ve just discovered #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, where people share the funny/awkward/downright strange sleeping situations they find themselves in while visiting family. While I’m comfortably in my own home this year, when I visit my parents in their teeny retirement cottage, my bed looks like this 🤣
December 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I’ve just discovered #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, where people share the funny/awkward/downright strange sleeping situations they find themselves in while visiting family. While I’m comfortably in my own home this year, when I visit my parents in their teeny retirement cottage, my bed looks like this 🤣
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Heartwarming news that is actually dystopian
Exhibit #2000
Exhibit #2000
December 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Heartwarming news that is actually dystopian
Exhibit #2000
Exhibit #2000
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So excited to be able to join in for the first time since discovering #DuvetKnowitsChristmas as I’m in my spare/junk room with 4 cats as my mum is in my bedroom. @rhodri.biz
December 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
So excited to be able to join in for the first time since discovering #DuvetKnowitsChristmas as I’m in my spare/junk room with 4 cats as my mum is in my bedroom. @rhodri.biz
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Twas the night before Christmas, and throughout the land
The sleeping arrangements were carefully planned
Down in the kitchen, a picturesque scene
A mattress, a pillow, a washing machine
The sleeping arrangements were carefully planned
Down in the kitchen, a picturesque scene
A mattress, a pillow, a washing machine
December 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Twas the night before Christmas, and throughout the land
The sleeping arrangements were carefully planned
Down in the kitchen, a picturesque scene
A mattress, a pillow, a washing machine
The sleeping arrangements were carefully planned
Down in the kitchen, a picturesque scene
A mattress, a pillow, a washing machine
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One of the best things about Christmas is the tradition of people posting their awkward yet loving sleeping arrangements at their family gatherings. So heartwarming how people make room and make do. So do follow #DuvetKnowItsChristmas and enjoy, and maybe bung a few quid to charity as well. ❤️
Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
One of the best things about Christmas is the tradition of people posting their awkward yet loving sleeping arrangements at their family gatherings. So heartwarming how people make room and make do. So do follow #DuvetKnowItsChristmas and enjoy, and maybe bung a few quid to charity as well. ❤️
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Brother and sister in law have invited both families and thus I have been relegated to this classic #DuvetKnowItsChristmas arrangement in their downstairs office/music practise room. Had to lobby to get a lamp 😂
December 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Brother and sister in law have invited both families and thus I have been relegated to this classic #DuvetKnowItsChristmas arrangement in their downstairs office/music practise room. Had to lobby to get a lamp 😂
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So, is this the place? #duvetknowitschristmas
December 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
So, is this the place? #duvetknowitschristmas
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December 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM