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Marie Gardiner

@mariegardiner.bsky.social

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Writer, photographer, author, documentary producer (Lonely Tower Film & Media) based in NE England. Human geography/history PhD student researching working class identity. MDANT 🏅. https://linktr.ee/mariegardiner

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · Oct 23

My standard pinned post: I'm a writer of articles about film, history, culture, geography etc. I produce documentaries at Lonely Tower Film & Media and I've authored 3 history books. I'm also photographer, mostly of landscapes, industrial stuff, and urban scenes.

#Photography #History #Writing

a scene of Redcar with a building to the left and a wall to the bottom creating leading lines to a focal point where 2 children distantly play. In the background is the sea with wind turbines visible

A boat in a bay at Plockton, Scotland. The light is golden and shining on houses and trees in the mid-ground. The background shows a mountain range.

The old bridge at sligachan, Isle of Sky. It's a small stone humpbacked bridge over a river, with three arches. In the background the sun is setting and it's hazy with rain - the mountains are almost purple silhouettes. In the far distance 3 tiny hikers can be seen against the light.

Green wooden fisherman's huts are off to the mid-right. There's long dune grass in the bottom half of the image. The sky is a dirty blue and there's a powerline running along it, off to the left.

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 1h

Congratulations, that's amazing!

Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 7h

Insanity

Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 8h

The health service is so broken

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 21h

People mocked when I said I wasn't going to ID here 🙃

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 1d

Can't resist a neon light. Prague, 2024

#Photography #ThePhotoHour

an arch shop hatch selling fresh gelato, ringed in a pink neon light with many other pink themed lit advertisements around it. A person is standing mostly facing away from us, leaning into the hatch and talking to two people behind the counter

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, had to make the decision this week to save myself a bunch of extra time, stress, and energy but the cost of that was many hundreds of pounds. I hate all of this, I just want to get on, not spend all my time proving I'm ill 😑

Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 1d

100%. So sorry that you're experiencing this too, it's thoroughly exhausting and frankly, dehumanising.

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 1d

there are some very minor things that would make life just that tiny bit easier with being chronically ill, but require endless hoop-jumping, navigation, assessments etc, all of which actually just make you more ill. Like a choose your own suffering game but it's all of them, including financial.

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 1d

I keep joking* that our systems are set up so that you'll be at the edge of a cliff and be like, 'hey so if you just give me a little pull back I'll be fine' and the system responds with 'lol no sorry you have to fall off, but when you do we'll send a boat to come fish you out'

*it's not a joke

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 1d

Fella on our window.

A garden spider on a web. He has stripy legs

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 1d

Right! Love a good neon sign but only get my itch scratched in other countries lol

Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 1d

Can't resist a neon light. Prague, 2024

#Photography #ThePhotoHour

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 1d

If they were in the room I'd assume I'd accidentally turned up at a fancy dress party

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 1d

I'm twice their age 😶

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 1d

Are the young Tories in the room with us now

www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 2d

I've been so crazily busy that I totally forgot to mention that I have an article in the autumn edition of This England magazine in which I try to condense the complicated & weighty history of the Stockton & Darlington Railway into a four page article, whilst also plugging our documentary!

#History

the first 2 pages of the S&DR article with lots of text and pictures. I can't put the text into the alt as the image isn't meant to have you read the text it's just promo for the article!

the second 2 pages of the S&DR article with lots of text and pictures. I can't put the text into the alt as the image isn't meant to have you read the text it's just promo for the article!

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Allison 🧬⚾️ @petitephd.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, it’s one banana Michael, what could it cost?

A screen shot of a fake banana for sale from West Elm for $50.

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 1d

Probably round the front 😂

Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 1d

Hahaha fully unhinged

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Victoria Barlow @vickybarlow.bsky.social · 2d

My ex- neighbour had a sticker that said “Sadiq Khan is not my mayor “. And he was right because we lived in Kent.

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 1d

Christ on a cracker 😐 like a local Facebook page has escaped the screen.

Stone Cold 𓅃 @bisexualmorpheus.bsky.social · 2d

Yer da’s been decorating the zafira

POV: you are stuck in London traffic behind a 2008 Vauxhall minivan adorned with various right wing slogans including “RIP LONDON KHAN AND STARMER GAVE FCUKED YOU! HONK IF YOU HATE EM!” & “Starmer stop the boats”. The license place is “RIP BE” and there are pictures of a demonic looking Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan adorning the bumper and rear window. England and Union Jack flags fly from the rear windows

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 1d

This properly tickled me.

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of you commented on this picture when I posted it alongside some of my other black and white photographs, so I thought I'd post it on its own 😊

#Photography #BlackandWhite #ThePhotoHour

a matte, black and white photograph of tall, thin trees with bare trunks for most of the way up and then some evergreen foliage at the top. The day is misty and not much in the distance can be seen other than more silhouetted, mostly bare trunks

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 2d

Not commenting on the original post/poster/argument here, but what I will say about gut feelings is they generally come from years of experience of whatever the thing may be. My 'gut' is almost always right, even when I cant initially articulate why, because it isn't a random feeling.

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 2d

🥹 this is brilliant