Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 19m180,000 giant tortoises find small team of researchers visiting the Seychelles. 180
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 50malt text: A copy of Rishi Dastidar’s collection ‘Cherry Blossom at Night’ sitting in a bowl of apples 010
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 52mOne million thank yous to @betarish.bsky.social for giving out prizes so delicious that you read them in one gulp! 230
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2hI keenly anticipate his first collection! (But kind of seriously - because I do not think poetry is an inherently left-wing form, and I would be quite genuinely fascinated by a poet who took seriously those concerns within their work, like a contemp Yeats) 000
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2hI genuinely cannot think of any working at a decent level who explicitly align themselves with Conservative / generally right wing values. 060
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2hHeard someone describe a recent poetry event as ‘too left’. I ask - who are the (living) ‘poets of the right’? 370
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 6hWish book marketers focused less on tropes and more on metaphysics. 080
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 19hA good way to regain composure after a nasty knock: do a good, fun poetry reading with people whose work you adore. 070
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I remember Kate telling me that she always did this! TOO MUCH! 210
Reposted by Dr Malice~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026That he could outrun Hugh Grant? That he'd do surprisingly well in prison? That he considers the Browns to be English? 3489
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Loss is so vast and complex because people are so vast and complex, and that is somehow enormously comforting. 0120
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I keep thinking today about how people are like vast nets - their networked knowledge, their cultural references, their experiences, so dense and extraordinary it would take each of us our own lifetime to understand their lifetime, and how lovely that is. 2161
Reposted by Dr MaliceEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I’ll be listing a collection of necklaces in my Etsy shop this Thurs eve (9 UK time) I’ll be making using these Victorian & Edwardian silver stamp holders,lockets, charms, converted brooches (THE OWL) & a tiny 18th C whistle.To enquire/reserve a piece click 💬 on my page: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv... 110015
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Instead of arriving at this talk with a copy my own book, I have arrived with a copy of THE ORC WHO CLAIMED ME. 170
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Me, sitting on sensitive information until it becomes appropriate: 030
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Excited to return to Edinburgh to check on my - I kid you not - little spider colony. 090
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026 The hood protects the driver from screaming and, in the case of taking a wrong turn, a sharp nip 130
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026correct!!! almost as if page/stage distinctions miss entirely the position of the life as the work 110
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026one might argue that all of life and all of art, is a performance. 120
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Eamonn I must learn I must; I had 17 lessons years ago and made comedically little progress 010
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026By tonight, I’ll have spent 10 hours on trains since Friday 320
Reposted by Dr MaliceGfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Just saw a discourse and thought, "not today. I am too pretty and talented for that." 2256
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Looking forward to hurtling toward my gaudy parrot era. 060
Reposted by Dr MaliceLyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We're so close to selling out for this event which is super exciting!! Really looking forward to Wednesday evening for some ghost stories, hunting and hauntings - I've now heard about the ghosts residing in Blackwell's and they are delightfully creeeepyy! 👻👀 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/haunted-an... 042
Reposted by Dr MaliceAlyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Flowers as a means of catching light. 3233
Reposted by Dr MaliceIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The UK Arts & Ents industry contributes over £10bn to the UK economy a year & one of these days our politicians might even realise that instead writing it off as icky girlie flouncing bc you can't do a photoshoot in a hard hat & hi-vis gilet at the national theatre without looking like a tit 1125694
Reposted by Dr MaliceIsabellettriste @minxmarple.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just remember, they can submit your stuff even if you are dead. Do not put your stuff in repositories until you can’t possibly avoid it. The institution will not love you. 161
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Whenever anyone tells me they are ‘en route’, I have to try to stop myself saying ‘or do you mean… en croute?’ No! they never mean that! It’s a terrible joke but I love it. 3190
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I actually really enjoy both of your jokes, but I am a realllllly low bar. 000
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Its what we have long fought for as a nation. Apparently the favourite breakfast of William Wallace. 020