Clare Qualmann

a composite image of walking art works in a grid format with a face behind cow parsly flowers, people standing in a line holding leaves, a person wearing headphones in a dark street with lights in the houses behind, a person in a green dress lying on rocks on a beach, a person climbing a staircase carrying a suitcase, two people standing by large boulders and a person jumping high into the air in woods with bare-branches trees behind

Great to see another WalkCreate article out: 'Cripping Desire Lines' discusses the impact of Covid-19 on disabled people’s experiences of walking in the UK. Our data comes from covid times, but with loads of ongoing, pressing relevance! and it's open access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

Absolute hell: Irishman with valid US work permit held by ICE since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for five months despite having no criminal record
Originally from Glenmore, Co Kilkenny, wife Tiffany Smyth is a US citizen
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

A gathering of people on the pavement by the A2 in New Cross Gate

A white bike in memorial to Irene Leardini. There are several bunches of flowers on the lappet above it, and several candles below it. To the right is a road with three lanes of traffic and no bus lane or space for cycling.

Very moving vigil for Irene Leardini by side of A2 in New Cross Gate tonight. She was cycling here two weeks ago. RIP.

Sad we are still gathering at the side of busy roads asking why nothing has been done to make them safe.

Thanks to all at @lewishamcyclists.bsky.social for organising the vigil.

east end jam

Me! eastendjam.wordpress.com plus: fallen fruit collective, Ceri Bucks 'invisible food', company drinks 'going picking', Jorge and Lucy Orta's 'hortirecycling', Agnes Varda's 'the gleaners and I' and then the food art research network for loads more links www.foodartresearch.network/about/

The Waterways Collective: Multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon Join us to explore multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon migration and ideas of interconnectedness

Tonight! 6pm UK time @livingmaps.bsky.social 'Mapping Fluid Worlds' seminar series continues with The Waterways Collective multi-disciplinary mapping of Atlantic Salmon migration, tickets here: tinyurl.com/yfh8a9ar 🐟🌊🗺️ #fish #ocean #mapping #water

The Waterways Collective: Multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon Join us to explore multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon migration and ideas of interconnectedness

Tonight! 6pm UK time @livingmaps.bsky.social 'Mapping Fluid Worlds' seminar series continues with The Waterways Collective multi-disciplinary mapping of Atlantic Salmon migration, tickets here: tinyurl.com/yfh8a9ar 🐟🌊🗺️ #fish #ocean #mapping #water

The Creatives Grant let's make art less middle class

£500 given out to a working class writer every month.

Details in link.

Please share :)

The neighbourhood what's app is going off tonight with LTN v anti LTN chat, plus a wholesome dose of random requests for hand me down football kit and thrush treatment thrown in 🧐😅🍿🏙️🚶‍♀️#hackney #ltn

Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...

Around 600 votes needed; gap closing fast.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

guests: Alisa Oleva, Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social Cathy Turner, Clare Qualmann @cqualmann.bsky.social, Dee Heddon @deeheddon.bsky.social Elspeth Penfold @threadandword.bsky.social Helen Stratford, Keira Chapman, Sarah Benjamins,Saffron Swansborough
Sonia Overall @soniaoverall.bsky.social

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.

He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.

(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

Photo of protest march and banner proclaiming 'Clay Cross UDC will not implement the act'.

My new post on Substack tells the story of Clay Cross council's famous 1972 rents rebellion against the Conservative Government's plans to raise council house rents: ‘Doing our job – and that’s to help the working class, the cream of the nation'
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/clay-cross...

You can donate to Omar’s family here: chuffed.org/project/1400...

More of London's roads will have safer speed limits because there's irrefutable evidence it save lives:

📉 25% fewer main road collisions
📉 34% fewer people killed or serious injured on local roads
📉75% fall in children killed on local roads

@itvnews.bsky.social

itv.com/news/london/...

A rare victory for artistic freedom and common sense. Proof that everything could be different.

Pavement parking ban for Birmingham to end 'completely out of control' danger in huge change:

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

I have walked to work for 2.5 years, a little under a mile each way: it has changed my life

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

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 🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️

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...

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)

I wrote about some very strong feelings I have about the royal family.

open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

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

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

Bar chart showing oil reserves by country with Venezuela top with 300 billion barrels, Saudi Arabia second with 267 and Canada third with 171.

Fyi…

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

A view of a canal with a pink sky reflected in it, buildings to either side and an almost full moon rising. Birds sit on the water, and people are walking on a towpath to the left.

Beautiful moonrise over the Regent's canal tonight. January's super moon is looking 💫

'Meridian' by Nancy Gaffield. Several copies of an aquamarine blue hardback arranged in a stack

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

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...

A pencil drawing of the text 'it is time to rewrite our destiny' in Gothic script

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

A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.