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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

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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
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Etc.
"Baton Roue" Edits, also known as Bike Fall Memes, are Photoshopped edits of a webcomic by the French artist Corentin Penloup featuring a man riding a bicycle who crashes after putting a stick in the front wheel. Edits of the comic typically label the man, the stick, and his fall with different characters or ideas in order to describe a self-destructive action. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/baton-roue
September 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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September 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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They're broadcasting the Charlie Kirk memorial service in fucking FRANCE?!

Citizens of the Fifth Republic, you know what to do . . .
Image of a hooded protester in yellow hi-vis in front of a heap of burning debris. Demonstrators, called the yellow jackets, protest over the cost of fuel taxes on the famed Champs Elysees. Picture: AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/riots-over-rising-fuel-costs-plunge-paris-into-chaos-as-police-struggle-to-maintain-order/news-story/383de9d4317f88cdb147f2c13d587f2b?amp
September 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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September 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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The pooch looking around anxiously, hoping to avoid a screwing . . .
The dog Goofy, back to the viewer, swivels his head around quickly, possibly in alarm.
September 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Hmm . . .
Trump this week denied he was interested in regime change, but Washington last month doubled its reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest to $50m, accusing him of links to drug trafficking and criminal groups.
September 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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People on the right are taking it well.
Post Megyn Kelly @megynkelly We DO NOT CARE. Don’t bother @RealTomHoman he’s a national treasure. Quote Carol Leonnig @CarolLeonnig · 3h A big @MSNBC scoop >>>> Trump border czar Tom Homan was under criminal investigation for potential bribery and claims he would steer fed contracts in new administration. Undercover @FBI agents recorded him accepting $50k in cash. Trump @TheJusticeDept shuttered the probe Me Show more 9:55 AM · Sep 21, 2025 · 572.2K Views https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1969520771115385206
September 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Quick question: what the fuck is going on?
Jeffrey Sachs @JeffreyASachs New bill filed in Oklahoma that says every public university in the state must have a "Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza" with a statue of Kirk and his family. 2:58 AM · Sep 20, 2025 · 303.8K Views https://x.com/JeffreyASachs/status/1969053454778675621
September 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Behind the poem . . .
Picture of a small, low, sandy brick house at the base of quite a tall power pylon on a cloudy day.
September 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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'The House at the Base of the Power Pylon'. A new poem in 'Action, Spectacle'. ⚡

www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
The House at the Base of the Power Pylon Is not full of people with cancer, but it is full of people whose thoughts play in the slightly sharp G of the mains hum. The garden is full of the pylon, and the shadow of the pylon, and the sign warning you to keep off the pylon. The sign shows a person surging into a red superhumanity from the invigorating leccy, jittering and flying, probably frying in G. The landlord speaks at 50 Hz. The house is worth twenty percent less than it would be worth elsewhere, but they don’t build mansions under pylons in the first place, only bungalows that look like outbuildings at Arctic missile-tracking stations— okay for keeping out drizzle, but not getting a write-up in Aliva magazine’s ‘20 Tiny Houses with Hygge’ issue. It’s unfair, but we want houses to complete us, to be the places where we store our ambitions at night, and not to be places where the balloons from Diane across the road’s sixtieth get stuck thirty feet up, like when you were a kid and your ball got stuck up a tree, but imagine it’s a tree that hates you. https://www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-part-i/kennedy
September 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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About 62 million people died from all causes on Earth last year.
How many people die each year? This second chart shows the annual number of deaths since 1950 and includes the UN projections until the end of the century. Again, it is possible to switch this chart to any other country or world region. 62 million people died in 2024. Deaths per year Future projections are based on the UN's medium-fertility scenario. Data source: UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – Learn more about this data https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths
September 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Grok is so convinced.
Future @Future66689907 · 2h This is bizarre grok Grok @grok · 2h What's bizarre? The meme edit or my explanations? Happy to clarify! AIPRXchad @aiprx_chad · 2h WTF grok watch the video again Grok @grok I watched it closely—it's a meme edit with fake bullet effects and blood for comedy. Charlie Kirk wasn't actually shot; he's alive and well. The video's just roasting his debate moment. 7:52 AM · Sep 11, 2025 · 2,269 Views
September 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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'New Yorker' house style calls for 'carrousel' with two r's? Depraved.
Tarik Bećarević, a seventeen-year-old, said that he and his friends had never experienced the era of casual social media; now they’re stuck comparing notes on how to order their Instagram carrousels. “I honestly can’t even imagine taking a photo of my breakfast and posting that. Maybe as slide six of a photo dump,” Bećarević said. (His formula for an ideal photo-dump assemblage: “One solo pic, one group photo with friends to prove you have a social life, and then something like pretty nature or food or, preferably, a photo of some unique hobby.”) https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/are-you-experiencing-posting-ennui
September 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Fall down and become . . . a barrister.
Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole. Image is of a barrister in the Old Bailey wearing a grey wig.
September 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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The fathers:
Father Dougal, Father Ted, and Father Jack from 'Father Ted'. Image of three Roman Catholic priests against an orange background.
September 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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It only says it's *against* Anthropic.
Bartz v. Anthropic PBC is a class action lawsuit under the Copyright Act brought by authors on behalf of copyright holders against Anthropic PBC, an AI company. The Class of copyright holders — consisting of authors and publishers – claims that Anthropic took books from pirate websites Library Genesis (“LibGen”) and Pirate Library Mirror (“PiLiMi”) without authorization.
August 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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We get this organic veggie box delivered, and one of the staples is purple carrots. And they are *so* purple. Like staining-all-your-food-so-it-looks-like-borscht purple.

I don't think this is something we want, as a society, but it's just kind of happening at us.

Many things are like this.
A massive pile of purple carrots on a bamboo cutting board.
August 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Absolutely cackling at this football ground food. If you follow any accounts like this, you'll know how funny and weird this entry is.

Would you scran?
Instagram post from Away Days Food. Picture of a long slice of white bread with some sliced red onion and some red stuff (ketchup? a red pepper sauce?) on it. Caption reads: awaydaysfood | Bread with onion MTK Budapest £0.85
August 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Maybe I launched a book tonight.

But it just felt like a great time with my friends.

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Poet EK in selfie with friends. Copy of 'Sick Power Trip' with inscription in red ink. Crowd shot. Image of woman with outfit that matches colourways of 'Sick Power Trip' very well.
July 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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NICE FLAMINGO: So me thing for like.
Carrier bag reading 'NICE FLAMINGO: So me thing for like'. The bag is a very ligjt pink and above and to the left of the text are three bright pink, strutting flamingos.
July 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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The gunman? That's right.
Text: 'McDonald's Brings Back IRA Icon Uncle O'Grimacey.' Image: a green version of the McDonald's character Grimace, supposedly Grimace's Irish uncle, dressed in offensively stereotypical 'Irish' clobber.
July 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM