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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.

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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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It didn’t even take 6 hours.
USCIS @USCIS X.com Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols. The protections and safety of our homeland and of the American people remains our singular focus and mission. 10:04 PM • 11/26/25 • 2.1K Views
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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I have a new poem up at 'Anthropocene'. =)

@anthro-poetry.bsky.social

www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/the-dis...
Erik Kennedy The Distant Sounds of the Paintball War They’re firing as if the whole world is made of ammunition or at least Ferrymead is Their arguments sound like a shaken box of punctuation marks A synaesthete might describe the gunshots as carnation pink I intellectualise violence because I know I benefit from it The confused team is being taught difficult lessons by the angry team They crawl over and under obstacles like map lines I take my anti-anxiety meds to feel a little more anti-anxious I see a suited figure fall before I can hear the cry I’m hit
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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hoovybaby.bsky.social
you're going to prison // there's a prison hospital
Bolsonaro looking upset Bolsonaro smiling and giving a thumbs up
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Issue Twelve is here! Launching tonight at Bedlam & Squalor, and available online all shiny and new right now at www.sweetmammalian.com/issues/issue-twelve ✨
Issue Twelve — Sweet Mammalian
www.sweetmammalian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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What can you even say?
wsj.com The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d
Exclusive: Republicans plan to challenge vehicle-safety mandates, such as automatic emergency braking and alarms that remind drivers a child is in the back seat.
Senate Committee to Challenge Auto-Safety Mandates That Hurt ‘Affordability’
Republicans are questioning the value of some features, such as automatic braking and rear-seat reminders.
on.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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salome apples, painted by royal charles steadman, 1927
salome apples, painted by royal charles steadman, 1927
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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3/3 St Catherine holds a sword and a broken wheel on the Battle Hall Retable, made for Dartford Priory c1410 and now in Leeds Castle, Kent. Her legend was probably conflated with other early virgin martyrs, but she was one of the fourteen medieval Holy Helpers invoked against diseases.
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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mmcarthur.bsky.social
Leonora Carrington :
Cat Tapestry, c.1950s

Wool

Museo Nacional de Arte INBA
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Was there any coverage of the recent record warmth in both the Arctic and Antarctic? Multiple global datasets now confirm these records, and I think it's really quite striking.

Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.
A line graph shows the time series of Arctic mean surface temperature anomalies for each October from 1850 through 2025. There is a long-term increasing trend and large year-to-year variability. The mean surface temperature anomaly in October 2025 was 3.78°C for this region. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1910-2000 climate baseline. All data is from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 on this graphic. A line graph shows the time series of Antarctic mean surface temperature anomalies for each October from 1850 through 2025. There is a long-term increasing trend and large year-to-year variability. The mean surface temperature anomaly in October 2025 was 1.43°C for this region. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1910-2000 climate baseline. All data is from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 on this graphic.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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overlandjournal.bsky.social
“That old one — the working class as one dumb mass — is nothing but another bourgeois cliché. We are not simpletons, we’re just exploited.”

From a polemic by Sergio Chesán on literature and class, translated for us by Roy Duffield.
Literature, no place for the poor - Overland literary journal
That old one — the working class as one dumb mass — is nothing but another bourgeois cliché. We are not simpletons, we’re just exploited.
overland.org.au
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
erikkennedy.com
'The changes are now out for consultation, which remains open until 20 February [at which point virtually all the submissions will be ignored].'

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
No more regional councils - major shake-up of local government announced
The government says it is not a power grab, but about "making local government fit for purpose".
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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It's not your fault. None of this is your fault.
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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kirstyjohnston.bsky.social
Fossil fuel companies were given confidential drafts of legislation during their (successful) two-year campaign to weaken oil and gas regulation and overturn the offshore exploration ban - new reporting from me via the OIA

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
How the oil and gas industry helped rewrite New Zealand’s drilling rules
A paper trail shows just how far ministers went to accommodate the oil and gas industry's wishlist.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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comraderobot.bsky.social
is it good when your product becomes hip slang for “bullshit”
September 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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dimlan.bsky.social
"Our mission is Candace Owens"
WWII French underground fighters
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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firestorm.coop
"How can possession of literature incriminate anyone, let alone someone who isn’t even accused of anything but being present when someone else allegedly fired a gun?"
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.
theintercept.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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sarahbc.bsky.social
I've recently read a few poems by Elinor Wylie, and I like how many of them end with the speaker burrowed underground.
sarahbc.bsky.social Sarah Burke Cahalan @sarahbc.bsky.social · 3d
Elinor Wylie, making "muddy roads of all your hands"

for #smallpoemsunday!
ESCAPE When foxes eat the last gold grape, And the last white antelope is killed, I shall stop fighting and escape Into a little house I'll build. But first I'll shrink to fairy size, With a whisper no one understands, Making blind moons of all your eyes, And muddy roads of all your hands. And you may grope for me in vain In hollows under the mangrove root, Or where, in apple-scented rain, The silver waspnests hang like fruit.
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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tomewing.bsky.social
Handshake meme - "Me doing a CAPTCHA" and "THE THIRD POLICEMAN by Flann O'Brien" uniting over "Is the guy riding the bicycle part of the bicycle?"
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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'About 90% of all supplies for the Pokrovsk frontline are now delivered by UGVs [unmanned ground vehicles].'

Crazy.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
How robots are a lifeline to troops on Ukraine's eastern front
Land drones are increasingly the only means of transporting supplies to the embattled city of Pokrovsk.
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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pomological.xor.blue
stayman apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1910
stayman apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1910
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
erikkennedy.com
This just isn't working at all.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30’s watered-down agreements will do little for an ecosystem at tipping point
Delegates made minimal headway on timetable for replacing oil and gas or on firm commitments to reducing carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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hownottodraw.bsky.social
oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
a screenshot of the Australian version of Taste Christmas, a recipe magazine, showing a recipe for a gingerbread house made of something known as "crack", which I think is some kind of mixture of chocolate and salty ingredients like crackers or pretzels. so they've called it "festive crack house"
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Was about to explain to my wife “Joyce Carol Oates, yes the novelist, humiliated Elon Musk, yes the richest man in the world, so now he has adjusted Grok, that’s his AI chatbot, so that it claims he is the best piss-drinker in the world,” but thought better of it. She’s had a long day.
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
erikkennedy.com
Big 'history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes' energy.
thestudyofwar.bsky.social Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 6d
NEW: Russia may be planning to forcibly relocate Ukrainians to Siberia as part of a scheme to stimulate the economic growth of underdeveloped Russian regions. 🧵(1/7)

Read more: isw.pub/OccupationUp...

Other Key Takeaways ⬇️
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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the only good thing about genAI is that it got me to really love seeing bad art, because I know a person put in time and effort, made themselves vulnerable by showing it to others, and is trying to improve. I value that more than anything now
Cartoon meme of Sonic the Hedgehog (from Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series, Jan 1994) lying down and looking smugly at the camera with a speech bubble that reads: “I want bad art made slowly by real people AND I'M NOT KIDDING”
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM