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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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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1h

ahhh so cute!

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1h

Post you from a different era

2007 Alice, in a newspaper dress

me from 2006, dressed in a newspaper dress i made myself

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1h

correct!

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2h

both are tip top tbqh

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2h

We seem to have lost the understanding that you study things because you want to know more about them, not because you want them to give you a job.

'Transferable skills' are so-called precisely because they are not career specific, my god.

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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 1d

God love Kew, this is incredible

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 2h

John Bevis, 'Cloud Study'; Dymo tape edition, 1981.
“There is always a danger that the use of any system of names based on types shall lead to the neglect of everything not typical.”—Arthur W. Clayden, Cloud Studies, 1905.

Two white cardboard boxes on a wooden background, with a rolled black Dymo tape label and white text.

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 18h

absolutely horrifying but my evidence bears it out

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 18h

this is such a relief, mine is thin but fulsome so it’s ideal if we get caught in an oil spill

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 18h

AN ENORMOUS HAYSTACKED HOMUNCULUS OF REVOLUTION

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 18h

HAH!!!

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 18h

HOW COULD I

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 18h

CAN WE? And can we send him into politics and he can sort the country out and every time he meets an opposing political he simply absorbs their hair and it makes him stronger?

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 19h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Government budget uncertainty hits.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 19h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 19h

An extremely satisfying afternoon using a wire brush to get moss and general grime off the outdoor steps. Hugely alarmed by the amount of hair the moss was holding. Sometimes I fear the whole world is kept together by a fine layer of human hair.

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

oh my goodness thank you so much for all of this!! so helpful!!!

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 2d

I do not smoke and badly want a cigarette.

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

but afterwards you have a thing you can hold in your hands and then eat, and that is the work that keeps the horrors at bay.

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

15lbs of apples! We’re doing Christmas spiced crab apple jelly, and apple and rosemary jelly, and stewing as many as we can, and making apple-scrap vinegar and YES I DO HAVE A PROBLEM.

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

Mystery solved! It’s a slime mould, and the common name is DOG SICK FUNGUS

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2d

good morning! I need some help identifying something I saw in the field. Maybe it is a fungus that grows around grass? Maybe it is something completely different? Any hints please let me know.

A white and semi solid grainy mass, which seems to be clinging to or growing up grass

A second picture of the mass from slightly further away

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2d

oooh how exciting! thank you

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2d

thank
you!!

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2d

good morning! I need some help identifying something I saw in the field. Maybe it is a fungus that grows around grass? Maybe it is something completely different? Any hints please let me know.

A white and semi solid grainy mass, which seems to be clinging to or growing up grass

A second picture of the mass from slightly further away

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a good point. I can't afford £100 for a covid booster. I could and would cheerfully pay £15 for one as I do flu. I also don't understand why so many aren't eligible for an NHS booster this year considering it didn't miraculously stop being covid over the summer

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 2d

This makes me want to break things. If it's such a no-big (it actually is a big that fucking disabled me), and you're equating it to flu (again, not remotely like), then why aren't the prices comparable?

(They should be free but given that's not going to happen, well)

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 2d

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

sign hanging on wall
'INDECENT SEXUAL FANTASIES CONFESSION GROUP'