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Erik Kennedy
@erikkennedy.com
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
Pinned
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.
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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you're going to prison // there's a prison hospital
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
What can you even say?
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
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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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.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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“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
'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
It's not your fault. None of this is your fault.
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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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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is it good when your product becomes hip slang for “bullshit”
September 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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"Our mission is Candace Owens"
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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"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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I've recently read a few poems by Elinor Wylie, and I like how many of them end with the speaker burrowed underground.
Elinor Wylie, making "muddy roads of all your hands"

for #smallpoemsunday!
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
'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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stayman apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1910
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
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
Big 'history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes' energy.
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
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM