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Erik Kennedy

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Poet behind beloved classics like 'Sick Power Trip' (2025) and 'Another Beautiful Day Indoors' (2022), @thwupbooks.bsky.social. Leading voice of millennial vegan socialist cat-fancying indie pop kids. 📍 Ōtautahi Christchurch http://www.erikkennedy.com

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · Jun 20

Not long now, and this big-budget trailer is proof of that.

'Sick Power Trip' hits shelves on 10 July.

teherengawakapress.co.nz/sick-power-t...

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 23h

Got big early 2000s nostalgia when I happened upon this random battered-to-shit CD on the pavement tonight.

This is how our cities used to look!

A badly damaged bright orange CD picked up from the pavement by a walker and held up for a picture. In 2025.

The album is 'Lagered! 4: A Rumble Through the Crates', some electronic music sampler from New Zealand in 1999.

https://www.discogs.com/release/12103-Sample-Gee-Lagered-4-A-Rumble-Through-The-Crates?srsltid=AfmBOop3lS3U1DzE36Kh4KVQKxS-IFBm5FcC1XqrQftreOb2dYpgGP_4

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity is the only way

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 1d

Tr(i)ump(h) of the Will, etc.

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Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Harry Ricketts reviews It's What He Would've Wanted by Nick Ascroft, with some wonderful readings from the book.

www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Book review: It's What He Would've Wanted by Nick Ascroft

Harry Ricketts reviews It's What He Would've Wanted by Nick Ascroft, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 1d

Just another source of competition, gatekeeping, and resentment.

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 1d

Poetry in Performance / Take 3 / Thursday 16 Oct with Anna Jackson, Juanita Hepi, and Erik Kennedy + open mic - brought to you by the Canterbury Poets’ Collective.
Tickets (incl zoom option) $10 at the door or at events.humanitix.com/copy-of-23-o...

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 1d

That's just sick.

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 1d

The list of books from this era that will be considered classics in 100 years would probably horrify you.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Kate Devlin 🎃👻🍂 @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 1d

My 15yo child, unexpectedly: “Yeah, I have at least 3 LinkedIn accounts. All fake. I use them to check on my teachers’ qualifications. I keep getting job offers because I ticked something that said I used to work in middle management for Asda.”

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 1d

Okay, but you shouldn't get a basic income because you're an artist, you should get a basic income because you're a person.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5d

Ireland has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income program that will support up to 2,200 artists.

A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.

Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 1d

In shock news…

There’s a whole historiography on this happening to male white-collar clerical workers in the late 19th century. They saw it happen to themselves in real time. It turned many of them into ferocious reactionaries.

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 2d

"an occupation’s general prestige and perceived potency (but not its moral standing) declines when it becomes increasingly stereotyped as female" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Cultural Devaluation of Feminized Work: The Evolution of U.S. Occupational Prestige and Gender Typing in Linguistic Representations, 1900 to 2019 - Wenhao Jiang, 2025

Previous research on occupational devaluation typically evaluates the potential wage declines associated with a significant inflow of women into an occupation; ...

journals.sagepub.com

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 2d

Oh, great. Brilliant thing to be in the news for. 🫠

Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 2d

New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets #Climate

New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets

Farmers praised the move, but scientists and opposition parties criticised it as ‘weak’ and ‘unambitious’

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry this just did me in.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like I misunderstood what they meant by back on track

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Jana H-S (they/she) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 2d

if you need me I'll be teaching chatgpt to drown

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James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 2d

An excellent article from Marc Daalder, if you want all the shifty details.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/f...

Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack

Comment: The Government's methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus.

newsroom.co.nz

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 2d

Jesus.

Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 2d

Also—surprise, surprise—a climate change denier.

www.desmog.com/2025/09/22/m...

Meta Put a Climate Change Denier in Charge of Fighting AI Bias

Right-wing influencer Robby Starbuck has a new job advising on political bias in Meta’s AI tools. His record on climate is concerning, say advocates.

www.desmog.com

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 2d

I self-describe as a 'rocker' (because I use a rocking motion rather than a straight up-and-down chopping motion when I use my kitchen knife).

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 5d

Shout out to LK's various translators including George Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet, and John Batki

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 8d

On rare occasion there’s an accurate headline about rapid climate warming
and it’s always jarring as hell
and a reminder how much we’re being lied to on a daily basis.

Headline reading “Atlantic current at risk of collapse - plunging U.K. into never ending winter”

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 9d

Especially if it's the colour of Tewkesbury mustard.

Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 9d

I have one rule in life: if I see a little 1970s British sports car, I take a picture of it.

Picture of a brownish orange 1973 Morris Roadster, a sports car about as big as an ottoman.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 10d

Briefly imagining Auden as an Estuary English speaker saying something like /ˈwɪnʔɚ/.

Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 10d

Finally, some clarity.