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Poet behind beloved classics like 'Another Beautiful Day Indoors' (2022, @thwupbooks.bsky.social). New book in 2025. Leading voice of millennial vegan socialist cat-fancying indie pop kids. 📍 Ōtautahi Christchurch http://www.erikkennedy.com
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This'll cheer you up

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Hmm . . .

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

The decline of the British university system continues. Deep cuts to Cardiff's faculty while admin builds a new campus in .... Kazakhstan?!??

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Another example of "we don't even know what we don't know." Two newly recorded frog species in Australia are being pushed to higher elevations due to continental warming and drying. They are basically trapped in small high-elevation refuges as warming "moves" uphill. 🐸 🧪 🌏 phys.org/news/2025-02...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

on the bright side all of this bs is actually proof that art has political power lmao

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

And, what do you know, the real threat to academic freedom has been on the right all along. Stunning, surely nobody saw this coming because all of the right-wing groups worried about "cancel culture" are surely good faith, right?

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Doing what from the south of Italy?

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

there's only one cure for this shit and it isn't voting harder

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

Closing a library, even temporarily, is a terrible idea, if only because ratepayers love their library more than almost anything else (in Westland ours had over 90% approval ratings). www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...

submitted 23 hours ago • 10 comments

This story isn’t an easy read (I’d stay away if you have teens who drive) but I’m still proud of it. Thanks to Steve B at Reading Room for publishing it. newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/22/s...

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

This dude told me, and the world, he was an immigrant of color when I debated him on Piers Morgan. Lol.

submitted 22 hours ago • 14 comments

The very idea that there is a such a thing as a 'woke bank' is hilarious.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Unexpectedly touched to be in Trinity Oxford old library for an exhibition and able to step into the bay where I did so much work 30 yrs ago as a JRF—and to see the vol. of Andrewes I later ‘adopted’ for conservation sporting its bespoke book shoe!👍

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A 'darker ideology [was] inextricable from the movement: It was to "educate people in the knowledge of the laws of heredity, the importance of civic worth and racial value and by the study of eugenics to exchange racial deterioration for racial improvement".' www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

sometimes i look back over a really difficult time in my life when everyone was against me and realize i was just being an incredible asshole for an incredibly extended amount of time

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

We're currently advertising for our second UC Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence for 2025, co-funded by Creative NZ. 6 months, late July 25 - late Jan 26, $82Kpa pro-rated, a nice office up with me with some of the best views in the city. Happy to answer qs. jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It's looking a little folk horror outside my house tonight.🦇 #Shropshire

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

We had an absolutely massive turn-out for this last night - we even ran out of chairs! It's fantastic to see so many people embracing the kaupapa of masked events, hopefully this means we'll start seeing more of them... it's been a very long 2 years of not being able to access arts events safely 😣

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

*One* hot day near the end of summer, and I swear I saw more hand-holding, canoodling, and billing-and-cooing couples in public today than I have in ages. Love is back, baby!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

for an example of the kind of thing you may find, see below. note that your precise experience may vary

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

wait til they see my manuscript of poems about electric grids, sewage systems, public transit networks and other objects/sites of devotion

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment