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Dr Malice

@atarbuck.bsky.social
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Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️‍🌈 she/they. Crepuscular/ Chaucerian/ enamoured of rot.

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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 1h
F1072 Two children of different sex, not related, have such close resemblance that even parents cannot tell them apart.
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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 9h
meet me at the
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 8h
Furious to have once again missed out on my chance to win Fat Bear Week. Ugh. Going to have to eat so much more raw salmon to win next year.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 10h
Just saw an advert that went 'DO YOU SPEND TOO MUCH TIME ON YOUR PHONE? JOIN THE ARMY!' and I just strongly feel that there are other options for a screen-time reduction which don't involve killing people, or being killed.
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W.G Maythorn @earlofforthenby.bsky.social · 15h
I only wrote this for the jam. Give yourself over to temptation. Angst, #dubcon and a some sexy food stuff in the final part of Chapter Eighteen. forthenby.com/2026/09/30/2...
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In which there is an excess of sweetness
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DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Described by the director of applied science at Microsoft, another defendant in the case, as the 'largest theft of labor in human history.'” OpenAI’s co-founder and president: “Ah nice.”
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This notion of bigoted beliefs being a protected characteristic like gender or race is just absolutely barmy. Those of us who’ve experienced genuine discrimination for who we are know there’s no comparison, and the political and legal collusion on this stuff is disastrous.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you do a bad AI poster I just! won’t! attend! your! event!
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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're back, with some *good news*! Scottish arts charity Outer Spaces is partnering with our publisher Radge Media CIC to continue our two decades of independent cultural journalism – more details at the link... www.theskinny.co.uk/music/news/t...
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The Skinny is back!
Scottish arts charity Outer Spaces is partnering with our publisher Radge Media CIC to continue our two decades of independent cultural journalism.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That dry-cough feeling of wasted time.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today I say goodbye to the 35 year old dishwasher which has been in my flat since 1991, and I feel similarly.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A staple of my dad's roster of quick child-meals, for days my Mum was out. (He is the keener cook now, but it took him a while).
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No matter how early I wake up (today, naturally, at 7am), getting out of bed remains the terrible frontier.
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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
if we die, we die
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The music I am listening too has a subtle and occasional shaker noise in the percussion and EVERY TIME I assume it is a fucking mouse and/or death watch beetle.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good morning to you all, the men below my window are shouting jovial 'good morning's' to each other, as if I am in the opening act of a musical.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reminder you’ve until Tuesday (Michaelmas) to pick brambles before the devil pisses all over them.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The lane outside Grandma's had a stream running down the middle of it and plenty of mud. They held hands and slithered along together. Illustration by children's author Shirley Hughes, born in West Kirby.
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 27/09/2026
[1963] Snow – Hypnotic British Transport Film showing the efforts of railway workmen to keep trains running in hazardous snowy conditions.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nothing eldritch in *our* allotment. Nope. No sir.
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Agata Masłowska @agatamaslowska.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Loved being part of this beautiful evening. Check out Roshni’s and Clementine’s wonderful collections
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m playing ‘anti ADHD opinion column by wildly unqualified hack’ bingo at this point.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dog disgracing himself over a forbidden applecore.
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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My recommendation is that you should bring a full english to a job interview
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Alex Sauerbrunn @birdsbyalex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A Burrowing Owl looking particularly borby. #Borbs #BirdOfTheDay #birds #owl #nature #wildlife #photography
A small brown owl with yellow eyes standing on one leg facing the camera. Photographed in Huntington Beach, California.
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Alys Wilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Friday night Regency nonsense!
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dreamed last night that I met AI Jesus at a fairground - I managed to make him malfunction by telling him I was a pagan and that he ‘wasn’t compatible with polytheism’.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Increasingly concerned that the current Pope will have to combat AI Jesus.
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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The secrecy of a confession is morally absolute
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An angel in repose (and doesn’t he know it)
my black cocker spaniel lying on the sofa with his head resting on a pillow, looking soulfully at me
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Working to modernise the primordial pouch for the 21st century.
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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I love this! Not sure how it would survive a storm, but it's a kind of visual poetry
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I desperately want one to serve bonbons out of, scuttling around at parties.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For various reasons partially related to ADHD, I now won’t have a plus one for my 20 year school reunion. Am half tempted to ditch the whole affair, but also morbidly curious.
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Tor Books @torbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lick the sword. You know you want to.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My excellent sweater from the RNLI is here, and its so comfortable, and I look incredibly cute in it, my favourite casual outfit category is 'oversized jumper and leggings like its the 80s', you also should get one, they are unisex and true to size: shop.rnli.org/products/rnl...
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RNLI In All Weathers Unisex Sweatshirt, Blue
Shop the RNLI 'In All Weathers' sweatshirt. Relaxed-fit, 100% cotton with bouclé lettering and Port/Starboard cuffs. Sizes S–3XL. Buy now.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can anyone explain to me in fairly simple words whether or not wine that has 'vinegared' is the same as vinegar? We have some home-made 2014 elderflower wine that has turned to vinegar, but is it the food-safe kind of vinegar, or will the ph be too low? The internet is useless here.
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
assembling a horse, in eight easy steps via @havehashad.com
How to Glue a Horse
Benjamin Niespodziany

1. First, open your package of Horse Parts from Glue Factory Unlimited™.
2. Next, using your Glue Factory Unlimited's Perfect Factory Glue™ and your provided ruler, begin to put together your horse. Follow steps A through G. We recommend you begin with the head instead of the tail.
3. Once your Horse is complete, please keep your Horse in a deep freezer or meat locker. Somewhere cold enough to die. Allow your Horse to die. Freeze to death. Turn to frost.
4. Take your Horse out of the freezer and into the heat. Warm your Horse. Return it to normal warmth.
5. Using your Glue Factory Unlimited's Perfect Factory Horse Tranquilizer Serum™ and your Glue Factory Unlimited's Perfect Factory Syringe™, inject directly into the neck of your Horse. Watch how wild your Horse leaps!
6. Let it begin its life this way. From pieces in a deep freezer to now. If you allow it, your Horse will see you as its God. It will do as it is told.
7. Name your Horse Joel or Skull or Tony or Tone but do not name your Horse Colt. Do not name it this name. Do not.
8. If your Horse refuses to leap or only merely crawls, we're sorry, we're so sorry. If your Horse does nothing at all, call us. Please. Give us a call. We're always awake.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My poor therapist, trying to drag the autonomous adult with desires and boundaries and decision making power out of the screaming wreck of a people pleasing late diagnosed ND person with acute anxiety.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cannot believe we had Prosecco Tuesday on Monday, which was yesterday, which means we are now slogging through Tuesday with no anticipated sweetener viz, provision of prosecco.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 22/09/2026
The moon is thin and poised like a curlew’s beak— all bone. Hanging over the ocean, the abbey. We watch the sea birds being swept by the wind and I try to tell you about all my life you’ve missed… —Roshni Gallagher, “The Whitby” #poem #poetry www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-whi...
The Whitby
Roshni Gallagher

The moon is thin and poised like a curlew’s beak—
all bone. Hanging over the ocean, the abbey.
We watch the sea birds being swept by the wind
and I try to tell you about all my life you’ve missed.
There are still so many sentences I can’t reach.

I know that out on the water, welcomed home,
is a replica of the ship they took my ancestors in—
to sugar plantations for former slave owners.
The Whitby, sailing from India to the Caribbean,
a stale silence blowing in off the water to greet her.

Coming back here is like mutely looking down
on my own odd body as it moves without me.
Nothing is familiar. This loved, blank cliff
is a memorial stone with the names bleached out.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The reporting on Millennials having 'failed to save and plan' is for their pensions will be brutal, despite us having lived through back to back 'unprecedented' periods of financial collapse and austerity I suspect they'll invite us all to jump of a cliff to save money.
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just sent this text to a friend, about a book I am reading: ‘Felt it was important you knew that the Orc has, above his massive dick, a secondary protrusion, the only purpose of which is to Vibrate for Her Pleasure.’ If this sounds like something you’re into, come along to the event!
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just overheard two women doing the ultimate friendship conversation: ‘I’ve got loads of antidepressants? Of course I can give you a sheet!’
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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today is damson chutney making day
A close-up shot of the surface of chutney on the boil. Predominantly red with halved damsons chopped onions& dried cranberries as the most visible ingredients.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In real terms, kids from households earning less than £30k used to get £50 a week to go to school aged 16 to 18!
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A morning in dialogue with the IT dept, who are fully committed to the goal of never actually fixing my work computer.
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
anyone know academic indexers interested in work coming up imminently (it’s a multi authored handbook style publication)? self promo welcome!
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