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Marie Gardiner
@mariegardiner.bsky.social
Human geography/history PhD student researching working class identity.

Also writer, photographer, author, documentary producer (Lonely Tower Film & Media) based in NE England.

MDANT 🏅.

https://linktr.ee/mariegardiner
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I needed a new pinned post! I'm a PhD student researching Sunderland's working class identity (human geography/history). And away from that I'm a writer (history, film, place, culture etc), photographer (documentary & landscape) and documentary producer.

#Photography #History #Academia
Misty church, from just before Christmas.

#ThePhotoHour #Photography
January 6, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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peek = 🫣

peak = 🗻

pique = 👀
January 5, 2026 at 8:35 PM
'When's bins'
"STOP MURDERING ME"
January 5, 2026 at 8:48 PM
🤨
January 5, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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One from just before Christmas, in the mist - my favourite weather to photograph in I think.

#ThePhotoHour #Photography
January 5, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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Here's Whitby pier from last week - was freezing cold and the pier was getting hammered by waves so they had the wooden part closed off. Got this through the railings.

#ThePhotoHour #Photography
January 5, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Here's Whitby pier from last week - was freezing cold and the pier was getting hammered by waves so they had the wooden part closed off. Got this through the railings.

#ThePhotoHour #Photography
January 5, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Our government really is a complete bag of shite.
Starmer has said that what has been allowed to happen at X is "outrageous" and that those responsible should face the "full force of the law," calling their tactics "pathetic" no wait sorry, I got confused, that was him describing Just Stop Oil protesters who put some cornflour on Stonehenge.
Ofcom, which enforces the UK's Online Safety Act, says it is aware of "serious concerns" about Grok undressing people including children on X

“We have made urgent contact with X and xAI to understand what steps they have taken to comply with their legal duties to protect users in the UK," it says
January 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
This, but also though I do think a fair few Online Men are just kinda creepy and actually don't know they are. They are probably a different (but tangential) sort of creepy in real life because they've just never learned how to properly socialise with women and just do a non-ironic variation of:
January 5, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Winter inflicting, eh.
January 5, 2026 at 1:45 PM
One from just before Christmas, in the mist - my favourite weather to photograph in I think.

#ThePhotoHour #Photography
January 5, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Posting some zines today if you would like to hop on the ruiny-goodness bandwagon.
Would you mind if I gave my zines a little push again? Hopefully the first batch(es) have reached owners now. Maybe a good Christmas gift for someone who likes photography 👀.

Here are four pics of the same house taken over several years. #Zine #Photography

www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
January 5, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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It's quite incredible how this poor and inaccurate tool has been prioritised and integrated *so* effectively that I regularly have people tell me something they've 'looked up' and I have to say 'you're not just reading the AI overview are you' and they are.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice
Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation finds
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Oh my god, make it stop.
January 4, 2026 at 5:09 PM
It's quite incredible how this poor and inaccurate tool has been prioritised and integrated *so* effectively that I regularly have people tell me something they've 'looked up' and I have to say 'you're not just reading the AI overview are you' and they are.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice
Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation finds
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
Intertapes — Main
Obscure tape finds and their stories
intertapes.net
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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FIFA hurriedly cobbling together a Best Kidnapping Prize.
January 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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Start 2026 off with a frivolous purchase of my zine, if not for photographic delight (which you'd surely find...) then to stop the box of zines cluttering up our office.
Would you mind if I gave my zines a little push again? Hopefully the first batch(es) have reached owners now. Maybe a good Christmas gift for someone who likes photography 👀.

Here are four pics of the same house taken over several years. #Zine #Photography

www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
January 1, 2026 at 1:40 PM
FIFA hurriedly cobbling together a Best Kidnapping Prize.
January 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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Fairy lights should be mandatory over the whole of winter. Not Christmas stuff, just twinkly warm white lights to get us through until March.
January 2, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Look I know we all hate scolds but c'mon what are some of you still doing on Twitter, man. Just enabling the absolute worst people in society to do and amplify horrendous things for the sake of, what? Sport bants? To promote your stuff?

Is it worth it?
This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!
January 2, 2026 at 12:47 PM
After getting the house reset our 'time to be good after 2 weeks of excess' has turned into a chippy tea and a glass of wine.

Aware my oversize jumper makes my hand look doll sized.

Cheers and happy January 2nd I guess 🥂
January 2, 2026 at 5:34 PM
De-Christmassing is a pain in the arse isn't it.
January 2, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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Hey I don't think you should use a website that generates CSAM on demand
January 2, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Look I know we all hate scolds but c'mon what are some of you still doing on Twitter, man. Just enabling the absolute worst people in society to do and amplify horrendous things for the sake of, what? Sport bants? To promote your stuff?

Is it worth it?
This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!
January 2, 2026 at 12:47 PM