Luke Kennard

PIXIE by Jill Dawson BLACK BAG by Luke Kennard

New books from Jill Dawson and @lukekennard.bsky.social

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On the school run one of my youngest’s friends was explaining to me how she got the scratch on her hand, and I sympathised, and she said, ‘Ah, it’s okay, all things happen.’

I *finally* got round to filling in the Anthropic lawsuit thing last night

No, it’s fine, I guess I’m in the tier of 10,000 writers just below. You’re right, I should contact them.

I’m celebrated for my blank pages! Celebrated!

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

Furiously contacting my agent And why wasn’t *I* invited to contribute to this?!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Right! And how linked it is in the UK to their general denigration of the arts because ideally there must not *be* any alternative to their authority. (I’m halfway through BL and it is brilliant and galvanising).

They just assume we’re on board with that apparently!

The never try to level with you; they never say, “Hey, look, I understand that you’re human and you probably think ‘rights’ are a good thing, but let me explain why human rights are actually BAD”

Something weird about the rhetoric of the militaristic centre-right commentariat is that it’s not really rhetoric - they never seem to be actually trying to convince us of anything…

Wotcha, nations, it’s me: kingy. Y’know there’s an old misattributed proverb, “May you live in interesting times”…

Someone called Jimmy Swaggart is delivering a pretty bad sermon to a full-stadium congregation in Pittsburgh on August 24th, 1986.

Me and my sisters used to religiously watch every British sitcom from the late 80s through the 90s, but it turns out there are several I never even heard of.

Man On A Ledge is literally about a man on a ledge, huh

If I spend less than 5 seconds on each one that’s still going to take me to 6am.

I’ve been put up in a nice hotel after a reading and the TV has over 4,000 channels. Overwhelmed. Just having a quick browse through is taking *hours*

🐦 86 days to go, Luke! Freedom is waiting for you! It’s a shame you lost your job but let’s make a list of other things you can do on your release!

Keep track of YOUR prison sentence with the MyBird bird!

Now that you can download your ticket to your phone, it’s not just catching the train, it’s catching YOUR train if your battery runs out we will literally prosecute you

Coming up we have Crepe Chaser and Gruyère Taxidermy

And that was Vertigo Startup with their new single, ‘Gristle Nightie’. You’re listening to Luke Kennard’s Death Metal Jamboree with me, Luke Kennard

As ever, Thomas Bewick was ahead of us all on this one:

Ohhhhh!

THAT is what it feels like writing poetry

[Man will require restraining.]

Using a tiny stick to write “CLEAN ME” on the finger-tip of a man who just wrote “CLEAN ME” on a dirty car.

Can all companies please just never email any of us about anything ever again

The place where you are right now is WAITING for you, LUKE!