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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 🏅.


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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 26d
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
an old stone bridge with three arches, over a river. In the background are mountains with low rain/mist covering most of them. The last of the light can be seen peeping above them in the middle. Those with a keen eye will see three tiny figures in the far distance. a view from Mostar's bridge of a very turquoise river, in which a small red speedboat is doing a little spin, leaving a white trail in the water. The town can be seen to the right on the bank, with a mosque in the near-background, and mountains in the far background a sea inlet in a sort of zigzag shape, with cliffs punctuating each part of that shape. On the nearest cliff, to the left, a man and woman are looking away from us out to the water. a small white chapel with a red-orange tile roof is to the left, sitting on very green lush grass. The sky is purple-black with storm clouds and you can see the storm breaking in a lightning flash in the background over mountains
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My name is Liam, I'm 26 years old, from California, and I've been taking photos for over 6 years. Here's my photography:
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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I can't post it but The Man's best mate sent me a photo of him at a match to see if I could remove some guy behind them who had his tongue out. So I replaced every other person in the crowd with his face instead and every time I see it in the chat it cracks me up.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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So great to see @profdanhicks.bsky.social at the People's Bookshop in Durham where he was chatting about his book Every Monument Will Fall. Looking forward to reading it!
A room of people in a book shop Dan hicks talking to a room of people in a bookshop
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Will try not to be too annoying with this but repetition is the thing that gets your work out there, so just to WANG ON AGAIN, my Changing Landscapes zines are for sale via my website for £10 including postage (UK only).

#ThePhotoHour #zine #Photography

www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
an amphibious car/boat with a green underbelly, sitting in long grass in the middle of the countryside in warm sunny weather a large chimney on a hill in nice weather with moorland all around and blue skies a chimney in the distance, with yellow scrubby grass in most of the picture, with a strip of water to the middle-left. The sky is very blue with white wispy clouds The same amphibious car/boat with a green underbelly now sitting in lots of snow
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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What fresh hell is this.
A burger from the McDonald's menu called 'pineapple mcspicy' which describes the abomination of having a pineapple ring in a chicken burger
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
mariegardiner.bsky.social
Will try not to be too annoying with this but repetition is the thing that gets your work out there, so just to WANG ON AGAIN, my Changing Landscapes zines are for sale via my website for £10 including postage (UK only).

#ThePhotoHour #zine #Photography

www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
an amphibious car/boat with a green underbelly, sitting in long grass in the middle of the countryside in warm sunny weather a large chimney on a hill in nice weather with moorland all around and blue skies a chimney in the distance, with yellow scrubby grass in most of the picture, with a strip of water to the middle-left. The sky is very blue with white wispy clouds The same amphibious car/boat with a green underbelly now sitting in lots of snow
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Nice news (for once)

'Barn owl numbers 'booming' thanks to volunteers'

bbc.com/news/articles/c0mxwke7wr7o
Barn owl numbers 'booming' in west Cheshire thanks to volunteers
A 30-year conservation project has led to a "dramatic increase" in barn owl breeding pair numbers.
bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
mariegardiner.bsky.social
Authors, did you know you can ask your publisher if they have any spare books (not just yours) and if so to donate them to your local library (or reading room etc)? Did this a year or so ago when a community library was short on local history books and they sent a box full, so it's worth trying.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Steady now 😐
Oscar from duolingo says 'make my kingdom explode'
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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This is a really useful labeller to help spot follow farmers, bots, dodgy accounts etc. And maybe even to rein in your own posting if it's excessive (it will label you!)

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November 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Stills from past filming expeditions to the Western Front of the Great War. Now a quiet place for reflection. #remembrance
November 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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One of my supervisors recommended this book and it looks great. My research will cover deindustrialisation and ruination. Can't wait to get stuck into it.

#geography #history
A book with a ruined factory on it and the title Industrial Ruination, Community, and Place by Alice Mah
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Purple.
Some giant purple nutcrackers with a sign in front saying flocked pink nutcracker £24.99
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Think I've decided that the catharsis of writing about being chronically ill will outweigh my obsessive desire for privacy 😑
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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I'd argue they are. Only we have different ideas of what 'life-changing' means in this context.
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Some recent photos. 📷

1. Nuremberg.
A billboard advertising a film about the Nuremberg trials on the end of a row of terraced houses with a Victorian school, tower blocks, and very blue sky behind.
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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The second print run of Changing Landscapes is with me, so it's back for sale via my website at £10 including P&P (UK only I'm afraid). Good for gifts for Christmas, dare I suggest. As always, appreciate how much you've got behind this project.

#Photography

www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
Changing Landscapes Zine
Changing Landscapes – Ruins of the North Pennines is my second zine, following on from Transporter. For those who don’t know, a zine is a mini magazine, usually focused on one subject, and it…
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November 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Gone but not forgotten... 'Once described as the beating heart of Teesside' - Cold Steel #Redcar #Teesside
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Roy's Motel & Cafe
Amboy, California

The desert holds the sun like a final breath.
Light spills across the gravel, soft as memory.
Evening arrives without a sound, offering serenity.
Let the colors settle inside you, then rest.

#photograph #Amboy #California #Route66
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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If you're still on Twitter/X, come on man. Gtfo it. You're just validating government/significant account decisions to stay there.
rossignol.bsky.social Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 4d
This should be sobering reading for the government departments, Labour MPs, and UK voters who are still on that platform. If it was owned by any faction other than US tech it would surely be banned.
news.sky.com Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d
X effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
mariegardiner.bsky.social
The second print run of Changing Landscapes is with me, so it's back for sale via my website at £10 including P&P (UK only I'm afraid). Good for gifts for Christmas, dare I suggest. As always, appreciate how much you've got behind this project.

#Photography

www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
Changing Landscapes Zine
Changing Landscapes – Ruins of the North Pennines is my second zine, following on from Transporter. For those who don’t know, a zine is a mini magazine, usually focused on one subject, and it…
www.mariegardiner.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.”
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Dedicated to rainy days.
#Greatshowdowns
November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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SANDWICH GUY NOT GUILTY LET'S GOOOOOOO
jamieson.bsky.social Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 4d
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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My zines have arrived 😀 they'll be back on sale tomorrow at some point priced £10 inc postage (UK only I'm afraid). Will update you when they're live.
mariegardiner.bsky.social Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 6d
My Changing Landscapes zines (second print run) should be with me this week, so here's a nice early autumn ruin to celebrate.

#ThePhotoHour #NorthPennines #Landscape
a ruined house largely intact is standing on scrubby grass on a slight incline, with a reservoir below it, and low hills in the background. The sky is blue with wispy white clouds
November 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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On a train in the UK for the first time in yonks. Would do this more often if it wasn't so bloody expensive and unreliable 🙃
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM