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Luke Kennard

@lukekennard.bsky.social

Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham.

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The MET have released extreme indignity warnings for the midlands after Luke’s hat blew away

04.08.2025 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

RB is one of my very favourite 21st century British novelists and this is a beautiful take on the memoir I’ve been losing myself in this morning:

02.08.2025 09:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚

01.08.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can apply the β€œaeroplane oxygen mask” principle to everything: make your own lunch before your kids’; get yourself much better trainers than them, etc

01.08.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh is this his one where every song starts with the letter i

01.08.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Your honour, I refer you to the case of Stop Hitting Vs Yourself

31.07.2025 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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With the intent to ANNOY?!

31.07.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I think if the official position is that AI is fine we should also let athletes use performance enhancing drugs whenever they want and we should be able to get antibiotics from a vending machine for Β£1. Also maybe some kind of electronic sandwich.

31.07.2025 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s *MY* new Apple Store. I’m just off to tell my boss to stick his job.

30.07.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not sure if this is the right place to break this news, but according to an email I just got, the new Apple Store is *mine*

30.07.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

πŸ—³οΈ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

23.07.2025 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4070    πŸ” 1628    πŸ’¬ 267    πŸ“Œ 778

Commodore C16, so effectively YES

22.07.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Short answer 1990, Nathan’s house. Oh Nintendo, the very thought that I wouldn’t remember.

22.07.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the only consumer survey I’ve ever enjoyed

22.07.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

I miss when it was just Tony Soprano’s son who had one and it caught on fire because he parked it on leaves.

20.07.2025 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t think I’ll ever stop being enraged by how mainstream a status symbol sports utility vehicles have become. Literally every other car you see / struggle to get past on our uniformly narrow roads.

20.07.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s like thinking you can make your own car out of wax. Just don’t do it. Support your local cafe.

19.07.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Biggest false economy is thinking you can make your own cooked breakfast. You spend about fifty quid, carry all the stuff back from the shop and then you have to cook eleven things at once which is *horrible* and then you have to wash up every utensil you own.

19.07.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 135    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1

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18.07.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In a way it was the first podcast

18.07.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My parents subscribed to an Abridged Classics magazine that came with two cassettes on the front, so sometimes when I was off sick I’d listen to a *heavily* abridged audiobook of Sons and Lovers

18.07.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oh ok, Marge, I’ll do that. And then I will *hug* a *snake*! Yes, I will hug and kiss some poisonous snakes!

18.07.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My friend was complaining about the grass being too scratchy and prickly for his feet and I was like, Dude you need to go on the internet and get over-invested in a pointless argument

18.07.2025 09:19 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And Jesus said How likely would you be to recommend the kingdom of heaven to others where 5 is extremely likely and 1 is not likely at all

18.07.2025 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

How much more incompetence can I ascribe to the humidity

18.07.2025 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, we did, but some of us didn’t listen

17.07.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I have to get a root canal ☹️ In the 90s we simply didn’t know the risks of eating half a pound of Kola Kubes and Sherbet Lemons a day.

17.07.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s ok, we’ll practice queueing. I’ll get you a big weird snub-nosed pencil.

17.07.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He says β€œCool.”

17.07.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just texting my 13 year old

17.07.2025 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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