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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 · 19m

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 · 23m

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.

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1h

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

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 8h

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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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 6h

oooh how exciting! thank you

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 8h

thank
you!!

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 8h

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.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 23h

sign hanging on wall
'INDECENT SEXUAL FANTASIES CONFESSION GROUP'

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 23h

bangers and great hats

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 23h

lil shaggy inkcap

a shaggy ink cap mushroom, emerging from the grass

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 1d

Hedgehog, c. 1650 (Rijksmuseum)

I love its expression.

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

I just don’t know which of these i’m meant to use? do i just wee near the doors?

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 1d

Just some arses. Enjoy.

Hand carved #lettering on stone. Arse. Welsh slate.

Hand carved #lettering on stone. Arse. Italian marble.

Hand carved #lettering on stone. Arse. Hopton Wood limestone.

Hand carved #lettering on stone. Arse. Aurisina limestone.

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2d

YOU ARE ENTIRELY CORRECT

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2d

You simply cannot imagine how joyous I am about this

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2d

NO BUT NOW IT SHALL HAVE CONTEXT!

TEE HEE HEE

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2d

lion tamer outfit
not meant for little beasts
i really hope it fits me
the tamer was a feast!

lion tamer outfit
i like it cos it glitters
the tamer was delicious
right down to the gizzards

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely thrilled to find myself on the shortlist of @renardpress.com’s Interwoven Poetry competition.

Really looking forward to getting the anthology and reading the other poems on the list - please do support their crowdfunder if you can!

renardpress.com/interwoven-a...

Interwoven Anthology – Poetry Competition – Renard Press

Interwoven: Poetry Celebrating Connectedness Following the success of the New Beginnings project in 2021, the Spectrum project in 2022, the Kinship project in 2023 and Building Bridges in 2024, the In...

renardpress.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 3d

* if you are a millennial who likes nick clegg i sincerely don’t want to know.

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 3d

I really hope that Nick Clegg understand why all millennials loathe him.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 4d

I am so delighted to know you on here, you are so kind and fascinating, and your brain makes great shapes. I hope softness and rest and whatever you need make their way to you abundantly.

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 4d

LOVE a crunchie, a supreme experience - I've never made honeycomb, but I might try soon, it seems like the time of year for it.

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 4d

O no I had forgotten I had chocolate chips

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