Marie Gardiner

Ah, a nice little guilt tax to boot

😱 how much!?

'Grief is a boulder It doesn't get less heavy Your arms get stronger'

Found a less image heavy version of it so deleted and reposting.

#Haiku #Poem #Poetry #Grief

A Common Lizard sunning itself by a greenhouse window.

Gordon, my greenhouse lizard, has made it through another winter.

In my maudlin feels today (even though that was written a few years ago when I was clearly also in my maudlin feels).

'Grief is a boulder It doesn't get less heavy Your arms get stronger'

Found a less image heavy version of it so deleted and reposting.

#Haiku #Poem #Poetry #Grief

jfc

From years of being online I've discovered the two wolves of World Book Day are the parents who forget and send their kid to school in something hastily cobbled together from items lying around the house, or the parents who plan months in advance and make the costume their entire personality.

a concrete artwork that is designed to be interacted with and climbed on - surrounded by water and a sign that says 'Danger deep water'. There's a lot of weed and rubbish in the water

the underside of the concrete structure, with a path going through the water underneath it

inside the concrete structure which is all blocky edges and light and shadow. There's a fairly discrete penis drawn on the right hand side...

the outside (far side) of the Pavilion showing all it's angular shapes and a bit of the housing estate behind it

I was talking about the Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee last week - I didn't know it was meant to be one of two, which was interesting to find out. Designed by Victor Pasmore and opened in 1969. In 2011 it got a grade II listing from English Heritage.

#Photography #Brutalism #Concrete #Architecture

Love these

What a place.

I went through a period of time where I pretty much only did black and white but then a publisher suggested I do more colour so I forced myself into it and now it's mostly what I shoot for. I am a sucker for a dramatic b&w shot every now and again though.

To be honest I feel like too much photography when it comes to brutalist architecture leans into a heavy b&w look (and I'm guilty of this too) and I wish we saw more in full colour, which is often a bit more celebratory too rather than gritty, which is a nice change

a concrete artwork that is designed to be interacted with and climbed on - surrounded by water and a sign that says 'Danger deep water'. There's a lot of weed and rubbish in the water

the underside of the concrete structure, with a path going through the water underneath it

inside the concrete structure which is all blocky edges and light and shadow. There's a fairly discrete penis drawn on the right hand side...

the outside (far side) of the Pavilion showing all it's angular shapes and a bit of the housing estate behind it

I was talking about the Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee last week - I didn't know it was meant to be one of two, which was interesting to find out. Designed by Victor Pasmore and opened in 1969. In 2011 it got a grade II listing from English Heritage.

#Photography #Brutalism #Concrete #Architecture

I don't know why some people equate being an adult with sucking all joy out of your life.

Fuck 'em. Do what makes you happy.

A photograph of a cheese vending machine in the village of Wigoltingen, in the canton of Thurgau.

This morning’s commute.
A fondue vending machine in the village of Wigoltingen, Thurgau.

Northumbria University staff announce 10 more days of strikes in pensions row UCU members at Northumbria University have confirmed that they will take another 10 days of strike action, as a dispute over an alleged 'pension grab' continues

PLEASE SHARE! @ucu.org.uk As it says @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social are always happy to talk - our door is open to management @northumbriauni.bsky.social . But members will never, ever accept pay and pension injustice! www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Really we deserve a holiday after our holidays. There should be a long segue back to work and then a shorter segue out of it to another holiday.

four tyres hanging on chains from a wooden frame. Behind is a coach/bus depot with trees behind that.

a blue and cream ice cream van labelled Coxons, with small wooden huts behind that are advertising various boat trips.

a back street on a sunny day. To the left are closed garages, to the right is the side of a house with a couple of windows, in shade. In the background, in sun, is a bright orange tall brick building with a smaller white pub in front of it

mostly scrubby grass and bushes, but in the background are powerlines and the top of a single story shed or building. To the right of that you can just make out a small red and white boat, which is very out of place in the setting.

My head is absolutely battered, the more I read, the less I know. Here are some photographs.

#Photography #ThePhotoHour

a signal monument with text in the middle (unreadable mostly from this distance). Most of the rest of the image is sand with dunes to each side, and the sky which is very blue with some white clouds. The sea can be seen in a thin strip behind the monument

mont saint michel in its entirety, with some marshy land in front, and the causeway to it visible. The sky is blue with white clouds

a leafy street in southern france. Direction signs are to the left and a hotel sign to the right. The buildings are all beige and quite grand

a fountain shooting upward in the middle of a pond (with some weed and scum floating on it). Buildings are seen dotted around the sites and back. It's a very sunny day

[Screams in Miss Universe] FRANCE

#photography

Another dead beast hanging mid air while geralt the witcher looks on

I blocked him a bit ago, he's either trolling or very stupid but either way I'd rather not come across him again

Yeah this is what he does, zero substance to his arguments, just makes up scenarios and argues against those

Long overdue!

You got me, I can't believe you discovered my secret plan to elect Nigel Farage and turn him into a social housing afficionado. Just incredible stuff, I hope you have your PI license or your skills are wasted here on Bluesky.

That must be it 😂

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You're just saying daft things, confidently.