Marie Gardiner

Either, both

I've just sneezed 10 times, call an old priest and a young priest.

You guys have to try this it's very fun.

I say: explain the state of the world to me like I'm 5 Response: hey little kiddo! You know when mama and dada don't like each other very much and fight with knives? That's just like it! Tell me if you want to hear this in other styles too.

💀 hahahahaha

A fake ai prompt where i have written draw a capybara having a relaxing bath and am waiting on a human pretending to be an ai to respond

The response to the prompt, a basic drawing (from a human) of a capybara in water with a little heart above him

Oh my god

Lmao

youraislopbores.me

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Why are you writing this into my timeline personally

That was the joke, yeah.

write an album about her

If it helps at all, we've (north of England) had a typical start to March in that it was all SPRING IS HERE and then this morning it snowed, so March remains the greatest liar and betrayer of any month.

Hahaha can't disagree in some ways yet Pussy Palace remains a banger

urgh too late in the week to argue with stupid - goodbye.

oop, 'labour intensive service industries' is it? So you actually mean healthcare, construction, hospitality etc and in a sense you're right, but right in the sense that pretty much all workers are exploited rather than honing in on a very specific group of people AND I WONDER WHY THAT IS

New Data: AI Is Almost Green Compared To Netflix, Zoom, YouTube Everyone is worried about AI’s growing impact on the environment. OK, but watching Netflix for an hour creates 500 times more CO₂ than sending 2 text prompts to ChatGPT.

Even the sources that try to skew data to fit that comparison (like below) end up veering into nonsense. How can you compare energy use of one hour of streaming to 'a few questions' to an LLM. We're not bolting an hour of streaming into every net search for starters
www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...

The researchers were clear that adoption of AI and the accelerated server technologies that power it has been the primary force causing electricity demand from data centers to skyrocket after remaining stagnant for over a decade. Between 2024 and 2028, the share of US electricity going to data centers may triple, from its current 4.4% to 12%.

I hate this comparison, it's apples and oranges.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Stobs Camp with barrack huts during the First World war

The last remaining barrack hut on a hillside near Hawick Scotland

Andrew Jepson from Archaeology Scotland explaing the layout of the camp

A german memorial to fallen prisoners at the Stobs Camp cemetery

Reminded recently of a filming trip to Stobs Camp in the Scottish Borders. Andrew Jepson from Archaeology Scotland was our guide. Stobs has a history as both a military training camp, and prisoner of war camp. Film Link - www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Hv...

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Great, I'm going to have to work 'lanyard class' into my writing now aren't I.

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.