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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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Rimshot.
January 11, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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January 10, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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Etc.
Skinner 'Am I out of touch?' meme. —Am I out of touch? —No, it's Orwell who is wrong.
January 10, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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Is there even a term for this sort of accidental optical illusion (if that's what it is)?

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
'Is it a bald elderly man with a big bushy beard and a wine-addled stare? Or a friendly young woman with flowing locks and a crown of braids?' 'The study of an old man was painted on a reused sheet of paper, and when turned over, the silhouette of a woman’s head appears through the model’s beard.'
January 10, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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Etc.
Oh my God, he admit it!
January 5, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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'The Bird of Hope', by Venezuelan poet Luis Enrique Belmonte (b. 1971).

www.typomag.com/issue18/
THE BIRD OF HOPE They marked the door with knife stabs, belched out our names, spit on the mailboxes, threw sulfur in the garden. But we, we wove the blankets. We were singing at a whisper, in the dark. Pale, bathed in dust, we kept scraping the floor. Inside there was a bird that shivered injured, blind, soaked. https://www.typomag.com/issue18/belmonte.html
January 4, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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This person is a genuine psycho.
Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando Follow Trump should really kick this pig and give Maduro’s wife to one of his generals as a concubine 9:53 AM · Jan 4, 2026 · 5,501 Views https://x.com/i/status/2007555959040946184
January 3, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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Looking around and seeing this shit . . .
Nazi soldier knitting a scarf with a skull on it, from the 'That Mitchell and Webb Look' 'are we the baddies' sketch.
January 3, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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This is a strong take-home contender from DPAG . . .
Michael Zavros flower arrangement in the form of, I don't know, a brontosaurus, I think.
January 3, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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I always forget that I have a New Year's Eve poem.
How a Year Ends A year is a road that ends at the sea in an afterthought of a town, just a few weatherbeaten houses, some indifferent trees, a small picnic area, and a one-eyed cat wandering around proprietorially. You drove here because it is here. The sky is orange and purple, like a burning vineyard. And you put your foot down and plunge off the road. You drive through the spinifex, down the shifting dune slope, across the tide line, and into the surf, gunning it into the waves. The footwell fills up, the seawater pours in, the engine is flooding, the cabin is all foam and confusion, you’re losing consciousness, you’re losing consciousness, and you wake up parked at the kerb where you started last year, soaking wet. * * * From 'Sick Power Trip', Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2025.
December 31, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Ornery theatre impresario.
Donald Trump wearing a black overcoat and a burgundy scarf. https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/donald-trump-winter-look-meme-1522084
December 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Bill Watterson does *what* now?
What’s the title or IP that you have yet to land but want? Calvin and Hobbes. I’ve been chasing that for years and years, and I just have gotten nowhere with [creator] Bill Watterson. I began writing letters to him over 20 years ago. He lives in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and I was actually contemplating just going out there and just staying at a local Best Western and seeing if he ever shows up at the [local] bookstore. All he does is these wood carvings for poetry readings, and every now and then he goes to the bookstore and does signings. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/roy-lee-interview-weapons-minecraft-calvin-and-hobbes-1236451619/
December 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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I mean, look at the posters, lol. Two solid minutes of effort needed to draw and plant those.
Rudimentary anti-government signs.
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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It's that time again. I've made my eighth annual mixtape of Christmas music consisting entirely of treasures dug up from @archive.org.

It's 'A Very Erik Kennedy Christmas, 2025'.

www.erikkennedy.com/averyerikken...
Black-and-white picture of a middle-aged Swedish man wearing a pretty poor-looking Father Christmas beard (just cut-up sheets of cotton wool) and a floppy, red, pointy hat. He looks jolly enough, though, and he is gazing into the camera. Julbildssidan, 24 December 1954. Posted by the Örebro Läns Museum. https://archive.org/details/arkivkopia.se-digmus-olm-OLM-2013-1-723
December 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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'Dead Internet Theory': a new poem of mine up at 'Turbine | Kapohau'.

The internet is dead, long live the internet.

turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
ERIK KENNEDY Dead Internet Theory I had a dream that I outlived the internet. I came across its wreckage on a stony plain. I could read a few words on it: recipe, neuron, expertise, South China Sea, zero. But mostly it was as broken as the landscape, a close-up shot of a damaged tooth. Why did they build the internet on such hostile ground? In the dream I knew why, the reasoning was obvious— in remoteness there was safety, girded by a black climate and unspeakable animals— but that is not what I remembered when I woke up. When I woke up, I was convinced that it had once been at the centre of things, held in the people’s bosom like an eighteenth-century pub or an ornate fountain, and terrible, repressed events had driven the people away from it. But dreams can lie, as anyone who has had a dream about someone loving them knows.
December 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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ℂ𝔸ℂ𝕋𝕌𝕊𝔼𝕊.
Macro of cactus. Macro of cactus. Macro of cactus. Macro of cactus.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Annoying, because it has some gorgeous, and very human, past usages.
When Adam Delved and Eve Span William Morris, 1834–96, Illuminator Edward Burne-Jones, Illustrator 1892 20.7 x 15 cm. A Dream of John Ball Beckwith, Victorian Bibliomania catalogue no. 34 Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts, Boston Public Library Two of William Morris's political stories from the 1880 comprise this text. A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson both originally appeared in the periodical of the Socialist League, The Commonweal, when Morris was the editor. https://victorianweb.org/art/design/morris/4.html
December 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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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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Alan Johnson in 'Peep Show' saying, 'What? Fuck you.'
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Cometh the hour, cometh the man.
Salmon P. Chase Chief Justice of the United States from 1864 to 1873
November 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Don't forget this . . .
A folly.journal Instagram post quoting Kirsha Kaechele saying, 'Being privileged is wonderful. I love it.'
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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It's like the old @pantspants.bsky.social drawing . . .
Pen drawing of a person being propelled upwards and away from a toilet at terrifying speed by what I am forced to describe as a jet of cack. mr. joshua @pants the only thing stopping you from beginning a drawing practice is fear. fear that you'll discover the artist within 2:59 AM · May 14, 2017 https://x.com/pants/status/863408371424047104
October 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Remember when they made everyone named Philip write a book called 'The Men Who Ruled India'?
Two books: Philip Woodruff's 'The Guardians: The Men Who Ruled India' and Philip Mason's 'The Men Who Ruled India'.
October 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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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
October 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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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.
October 6, 2025 at 4:53 AM