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Erik Kennedy
@erikkennedy.com
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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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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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munross.bsky.social
killing people is increasingly profitable
data from @sipri.org
www.sipri.org/media/press-...
SIPRI Top 100 arms producers see combined revenues surge as states rush to modernize and expand arsenals
(Stockholm, 1 December 2025) Revenues from sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest arms-producing companies rose by 5.9 per cent in 2024, reaching a record $679 billion, according to ne...
www.sipri.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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aaronburch.bsky.social
"Close reading grounds and extends an argument, reasoning from what we all know to be the case to what the close reader claims is the case. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙖, I would say."
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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lukemcgee.bsky.social
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
Gonna start an Insta called “The White Mannequins of Africa”
A goofy looking white guy mannequin
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
erikkennedy.com
We have about eleven and a half hours to stop this somehow.
November 30, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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toddatticus.bsky.social
Enjoyed revealing a little about how the cover for @erikkennedy.com’s Sick Power Trip came together for the @christchurchlib.bsky.social blog. Erik’s collection was one of my highlights from @thwupbooks.bsky.social this year.
christchurchlib.bsky.social Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @christchurchlib.bsky.social · 3d
Kia ora! I've unleashed my fave NZ book covers of 2025. My top pick is Sick Power Trip by @erikkennedy.com
Published by @thwupbooks.bsky.social
Designed by @toddatticus.bsky.social
Todd talks about the making of the cover: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/b... ^DR
#booksky #pukapuka
Various versions of Sick Power Trip
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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apollospas.bsky.social
The jane lynch i am going to create meme and she is going to create a jihad that is so butlerian
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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rachaelking70.bsky.social
I’m just finishing off the third in the Violet and the Velvets series and it has inadvertently become an anti-AI manifesto that I hope will sow some seeds of distrust in children who are future adults (and encourage them to call shit out).
November 30, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
How it started / How it’s going
The WHITE HOUSE 45 47 K PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL CENSORSHIP The White House January 20, 2025 The WHITE HOUSE Offender Hall of Shame A record of the media's false and misleading stories flagged by The White House. Scroll for the Truth. The Washington Post EXPOSED OCBS NEWS EXPOSED EXPOSED i msnbc
November 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
erikkennedy.com
This is very reasonable.
happytoast.co.uk HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 1d
More of this please
Bong Joon Ho's statement on ai in the creative industry needing to be destroted
November 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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robedwards1.bsky.social
Haunting new study reveals why hundreds of dolphins were found dead in Amazon lake

focusingonwildlife.com/news/hauntin...
Haunting new study reveals why hundreds of dolphins were found dead in Amazon lake | Focusing on Wildlife
Scientists have finally discovered why hundreds of dolphins mysteriously washed up dead on the shores of an Amazon lake.
focusingonwildlife.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Yeah, I’m sure going on a massive drug bender is all quite thrilling, but you know what is also exciting? Going on an estuary walk and finding the sunken mud-caked exoskeleton of an old boat.
I think I found this old boat, sunken into the tidal mud on the Teign estuary, in April 2022. On the way, my friend Nathan and I had misjudged the tide, and had to scramble over a barbed wire fence to avoid drowning then almost ended up in a sewage works on the edge of Newton Abbott by mistake. Eventually we reached Teignmouth, where I procure a surprisingly reasonably price original pressing of 'The Five Day Week Straw People' by The Five Day Week Straw People (1968) from the Sound Preservation Society Record Shop, possibly because its sleeve had been chewed by a mouse. If you look hard enough into the distance you might just be able to make out Jack's Patch garden centre in Bishopsteignton, where, when in a pinch, I have occasionally purchased compost, although not any plants, as it's never been the right time, and their prices aren't exactly competitive.
October 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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buzzandhum.bsky.social
By the way: 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", the film, is on YouTube.

You should watch it. In memory of Tom Stoppard.
November 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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imogenreid.bsky.social
Line Drawing/Grid, Layered Print on Hahnemühle Textured Paper
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
erikkennedy.com
I had missed this write-up about the insanity of Neom.

'The pace of expected deliveries was extraordinary. The senior construction manager said that for 12 modules to be built by 2030, a 40ft container would need to arrive "every eight seconds", 24 hours a day.' Lol.

ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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espiers.bsky.social
Hegseth is a war criminal and I think it doesn’t get the attention it deserves because he’s also stupid and it’s hard to reconcile the gravity of his crimes with his clownish persona www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
erikkennedy.com
www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/reading-l...
25 authors from 2025 give us their favs
25 authors who published books this year give us their best recommendations from books published this century....
www.ketebooks.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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christchurchlib.bsky.social
Kia ora! I've unleashed my fave NZ book covers of 2025. My top pick is Sick Power Trip by @erikkennedy.com
Published by @thwupbooks.bsky.social
Designed by @toddatticus.bsky.social
Todd talks about the making of the cover: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/b... ^DR
#booksky #pukapuka
Various versions of Sick Power Trip
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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jdeheij.bsky.social
Wait, what? So does that mean weekend trips per train to Christchurch? 😱😍

#dunediniswinning🙌

www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...
'Huge win': Passenger train to link Dunedin and Christchurch
Dunedin's decades-long wait for passenger rail to return is almost over with a new service set to link with city with Christchurch and Invercargill...
www.odt.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
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
erikkennedy.com
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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sweetmammalian.bsky.social
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
erikkennedy.com
What can you even say?
wsj.com The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 5d
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