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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
'You'll be visited by three spirits.'

The three spirits:
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Good morning, welcome to Monday etc etc. Once again just packing up some Changing Landscapes zines (thank you!) ready to post. You can get one here for £10 which includes postage (UK only, sadly).

#Photography #Zine #ThePhotoHour #Abandoned #Ruins

www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
New bio dropped.
November 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Looking at the north east in the English indices of deprivation stats and (like much of the post-industrial north) its neighbourhoods are largely deprived. Now look at what Durham County Council (where I live) are planning to do to save money. Taking a hatchet to already strained services 1/2
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This is what's in it...
November 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
But an LLM can't reliably fact check, and you said you fact checked it... both can't be true. I find it wild that people will use an admittedly flaky and unreliable system to do 'research' or to 'fact check' and say it's a great tool.

(source for graphic: www.seroundtable.com/ai-search-en...)
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Musk's entire reason for being, his purpose, his life force... rests on marking his own homework on a universal scale.
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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...
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Thinking about Iceland today.

Þingvellir / Thingvellir 2022

#Photography #ThePhotoHour
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Poem 4

#poetry #poem
November 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The pull of The Pennine Tower is timeless.

#Photography #Forton #ThePhotohour #Brutalism #Concrete
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I have three A3 (signed) posters left of The Pennine Tower (Forton/Lancaster Services). They're £35 including UK p&p. Please drop me an email at marie@mariegardiner.co.uk if you'd like one and I'll send you a payment link.

#Forton #Photography #ThePhotoHour #Concrete #Brutal
November 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Poem 3

#poetry #poem
November 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Please enjoy 20 seconds of piglets going nuts running around their fed up mam.
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Poem 2
November 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Quelle surprise.
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
In an attempt to kick-start my creativity, this is day 1 of me picking a random handful of magnetic words from a bag and making a poem of them.

This one feels like it's about the state of the world and politics!

Here are the words I picked out, and the poem.

#poetry #poem
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We have the same vibe.
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Asked Alexa if it would stop raining 😐
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I seem to have lost (among so much else) the desire or ability to write things down in any meaningful way. So here's a poem from the archive (2023).

#Poem #Poetry
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Context for not extremely online people
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
For maximum alpha, complete with fighting for princesses
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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!
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM