Erik Kennedy

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...

Another declined exploration of the real

I wish I could write something this funny.

307,991 eligible voters not enrolled as of Friday. Almost half (43%) are 18-24. The least enrolled age group; now even more so than 2023. This govt KNEW this would happen—and did it anyway, with no mitigation plan. Such disdain for democracy, and for young people. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/election-...

I accidentally drop a priceless Eisenhower Globe on another Eisenhower Globe, shattering both. I stomp my foot in rage and clumsily crush a third Eisenhower Globe

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for data centre www.theguardian.com/environment/...

From the late ‘60s, a souvenir model of the Post Office Tower (as was). Per the blurb on the back: “The Tower itself is 619ft high including the 40ft steel lattice mast. The aerials and associated radio equipment will eventually provide for as many as 100,000 simultaneous telephone conversations.”

"The absolute Poet Laureate of Hornby" - now that's a nom de poet! Dynamite by Megan Clayton was launched on National Poetry Day, with speeches & poems by top local poets including @erikkennedy.com my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/t... #pukapuka ^DR

It's absolutely impossible to express how much this means and how unbelievable it seems.

Lol, what the hell is *this*?

There is well known Russian term for this - vranyo. Vranyo describes a form of shared and performative lying in which both parties know the other is lying but they both play along is if it’s true. See also kompromat.

It's hard to fathom where these cuts can even come from. Archives NZ has already cut services that would normally be considered essential. When I tell Australians in the sector over here that in 2024 Archives NZ wound up its digitisation unit and digitisation-on-demand service, they're gobsmacked

"In 2014, 13% of the population of this Belgian city described themselves as flexitarian. This year, 83% did. Here is how everyone was convinced to eat their greens – and love them." www.theguardian.com/food/2026/oc...

I am sure that the investigation, led by her wedding guests, will be thorough.

The death of history's most successful publisher: Google has a scorching case of "main character syndrome." bsky.app/profile/did:...

🐵 Brehm's Life of animals: Volume 1, Mammalia Chicago: Marquis, 1895. [Source]

Shout out to Samuel Parnell who was such a shit-hot carpenter he could refuse to work more than 8 hours a day and his employers had to agree to it but instead of just taking the win he worked to get the 8 hour day for OTHER WORKERS. my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/labour-day/

I already miss the era of gloriously sticky menus, coated with years of grease and who knows what else, and a menu behind the counter with pixelated photos, overexposed plates, low-quality clipart, and typos galore. Read more at: lataco.com/ai-restauran... ✒️: Marina Watanabe

“You’ll hear very little about the violence committed by French police against the protesters and you’ll hear almost nothing about the violence of austerity.” @graceblakeley.substack.com on France’s protests, cost-of-living crisis and the questions the media aren’t asking. zeteo.uk/p/class-war-...

King Death calling two of his victims to Judgement in St Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen, on the memorial to Patrick Scougal, c1690. Scougal was the last-but-one Church of Scotland Bishop of Aberdeen before the episcopacy was abolished, a notorious anti-Catholic and witch-hunter. 1/3 #MemorialsMonday

🧜‍♀️ Curious creatures in zoology;. London: John C. Nimmo, 1890.. [Source]

Let's see what the Chronicle, once considered essential reading for academics, is up to these days. Oh. Oh no. www.chronicle.com/article/who-...

Seenglass 147: applied by them to the satisfaction of

Will no one put a stop to his crimes?

The memory is real but you are missing

Surely that poor dead horse should be spared the flogging by now… A small number of errors in a database in years that are not included in the calculation of Australia’s temperature trend means, frankly, bugger all. (Other than to remind me why The Australian can’t be taken seriously any more.)

Quite pleased with this shot from last night’s TISM show.

I am terribly sad to hear the great Douglas Dunn has died. I turn to a treasured copy of Terry Street, inscribed by both the author and its previous owner Derek Mahon!

It's petty, unconstructive and vengeful, but we should still spend a lot of time rubbing this in the faces of everyone who said this is hysteria, as a little treat for ourselves

"The recommendations are asking the university to review several ... socio-cultural degrees, including those studying African, African American, Jewish, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Women’s studies."

Pleased to see this is going really well for them.

"Godspeed, ends your reply. God slow, they write back, if there is a god, it is slow. I reply this is a good line of poetry, joke that I would like to steal it. I am welcome to steal it, they reply..." a knockout today from @sophieklahr.bsky.social www.havehashad.com/hadposts/on-...

The kind of error I see in my nightmares.

'Four-Footed Americans and Their Kin' is a great book title.

"Bird populations fall to lowest level on record. Nearly half of species are in decline, with farmland birds and seabirds the worst hit, conservation bodies say..." Terrifying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Gonna tell my kids this was the Bayeux Tapestry.

From @ladyhorrors.bsky.social: 'Six political candidates answered convoluted, multi-pronged questions and fluffy queries in front of a community that is frustrated, and sick of being under-estimated and under-funded in Ōtautahi on Monday.' www.thebigidea.co.nz/stories/a-bi...

Despite being unrecognised officially, Moriori descendants are pushing on with their own language week celebrations for the second year in a row.

I make fat stacks

Detailed study of the dissemination of the spinach decimal point error, which was repeated thousands of times, convincing millions that spinach was a great source of iron compared to other veggies, all faked but caused by citing citations of citations without checking.

This is a really interesting collection of reactions

The radical democratization of advanced weapons technology and the breakdown of norms against large states invading small states means the international system will structurally incentivize every mid-sized state leader to asymptotically approach the habits and mannerisms of Abd al-Malik al-Houthi