Local second hand place is selling this coffee table that's a giant cassette tape. If I came into money I wouldn't say anything but there would be signs.
Marie Gardiner
@mariegardiner.bsky.social
PhD student researching working class identity, 'deindustrialisation,' & deficit narratives. Also: writer, photographer, docu producer (@lonelytower.bsky.social), general annoyance. 📍NE England |🤸♀️ she/her | MDANT 🏅| 🔗https://linktr.ee/mariegardiner
This book is a delightful collection of photos that I've had the pleasure of owning for a while. I realise my endorsement is not worth a great deal, but I recommend getting a copy so you can enjoy Marie's work too.
Marie Gardiner@mariegardiner.bsky.social · 2d agoHi, hi. It's been a while and I still have some left so do you mind if I promote my Changing Landscapes zine? 40 pages dedicated to ruined structures (and vehicles!) in the North Pennines. £10 including P&P - UK only. Info & buy: www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr... #Photography #Zine
Hi, hi. It's been a while and I still have some left so do you mind if I promote my Changing Landscapes zine? 40 pages dedicated to ruined structures (and vehicles!) in the North Pennines. £10 including P&P - UK only. Info & buy: www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr... #Photography #Zine
If AI disappeared tomorrow, the biggest change in my life would be a handful of friends would turn in slow circles staring into the abyss, softly muttering to themselves.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 19h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
My new book, An Injury to All, traces the history of The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Thanks very much to @demleftscotland.bsky.social for publicising An Injury to All as it goes out for pre-order. Full details below🔽 www.democratic-left.scot/post/an-inju...
An injury to all - New book on the 'unmaking of the working class'
Ewan Gibbs, the Glasgow-based historian who is author of Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland will be known to many Democratic Left Scotland members. Ewan’s ...
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Just needed to drop in to tell you I heard a woman pronounce sci-fi as sky-fi.
It's chucking it down! For the first time in probably months. The grass and plants need it so badly everything is yellow/brown. Unfortunately today is also the first day in a while that I need to actually leave the house to do something 😂 but can't complain. A novelty to take a waterproof mind.
My favourites are the enormous, imposing old farmhouses. www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr... #Photography
FEELS RELEVANT TODAY I DON'T KNOW WHY.
Marie Gardiner@mariegardiner.bsky.social · 3w agoSeeing all the Sam Neill tributes today makes me think some people need to stop saying trite nonsense like don't speak ill of the dead and reframe that to, don't give anyone reason to speak ill of you when you die. That's a much more valuable lesson for the living I think.
Every single person in this (AI made) graphic is white.
Richard Murphy@richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 2d agoI did an infographic on Marx recently. This seems like the appropriate follow-up. In one way or another, I used AI in creating this post. I also used a word processor, my brain, thinking time, coffee, discussion, and about 50 years of reading.
New journal article on working-class women telling stories of economic and social change. Gillian Murray, Janet Greenlees and I recorded interviews with women in deindustrialising Lanarkshire who had diverging narratives of survival 'getting by' and social mobility - 'getting on'.
Getting by or getting on: gender, intergenerational earning and caring in deindustrialising localities in Lanarkshire, Scotland
Reader environment loaded
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Hi, hi. It's been a while and I still have some left so do you mind if I promote my Changing Landscapes zine? 40 pages dedicated to ruined structures (and vehicles!) in the North Pennines. £10 including P&P - UK only. Info & buy: www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr... #Photography #Zine
I'm quite ready for the slew of cynically penned 'I'm too cool for everything, my personality is wine' articles to cede to some written by people capable of fun. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The hill I will die on: Games are the opposite of fun, and I’d ban them for anyone over 12 | Emily Watkins
Get your balls, pucks, Scrabble boards and packs of cards away from me – all I want is space to be together, ideally with a coffee or a glass of wine, says writer Emily Watkins
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I appreciate everyone has precious little spare cash at the moment. If, however, you did feel you could part with a few pounds, then it would mean a lot to me if you donated to this. I'm raising money for Lewy Body Dementia, which is responsible for my family being in the worst time of our lives.
Marie's fundraiser for The Lewy Body Society
Help Marie Gardiner raise money to support The Lewy Body Society
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No, no you don't understand, I'm just saying it's okay when *other people* die. You know, lesser people, The Undeserving.
British people love to look at any catastrophe and say "well it didn't impact me directly so any measures to mitigate it must have been unnecessary" just because they couldn't get their treats for a little bit.
Actual expert vs journalists with opinions.
Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
Some people fully believe that them being healthy is entirely dependent on their sensible little choices & lives & not also a giant roulette wheel that can land on your number any time. And trust me, i would know. Though when I *was* healthy I still didn't feel that ill/old people were expendable!
Ohhhh my god have yous seen this?
WICKER Trailer (2026) Olivia Colman
YouTube video by ONE Media Coverage
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You can't argue schools should have stayed open because literature now is talking about the damage of that, when you'll never know the outcomes of opening them. Other than more deaths & long term illness. *Is* that a price worth paying? Are we really back to who we're willing to sacrifice?
The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 5d ago“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.
A lot of these seem to get 1 or even 0 stars for simply being anchovies.
‘Intense, salty, foul’: the best (and worst) supermarket anchovies, tasted and rated
We put 10 tinned and jarred varieties to the test to see which anchovies are the best catch for your cash
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