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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 11h

Whenever you feel like you’re not properly connected to the world and humankind, remember there are people who stand in a crowd for minutes at a pedestrian crossing without anyone pressing the button

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fake it til you make it, fake it when you make it, fake your own death, fake out St Peter, fake the afterlife

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The Dispatch @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Join founding editor Kate Knowles as she sits down with @lukekennard.bsky.social to unpack the madness, heart, and romance behind one of 2026's most talked-about books.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You know people often assume we neuroscientists are very intelligent just because we study the brain but you can study the brain and be stupid!

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You Don’t Sound Like You’re From There: An Anthology of Poems by Writers Who Moved House

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s very grounding to go to the gym where I have to *tell* people how important I am

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve recently noticed that wall clocks are getting less accurate. Can’t trust ‘em! They might have just lost ten minutes overnight!

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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Literature Live — next episode of my monthly radio books programme is Monday 12 October 2026, 8:00–9:00pm. My guests this month are @lukekennard.bsky.social and @judecook.bsky.social — readings and chat with the emphasis on writers reading from their fiction. @resonancefm.bsky.social — don’t miss!

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Anteroom (formerly The Winged Moon) @anteroompoetry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The wonderful @mwoodrowwriter.bsky.social wrote an insightful review of Holly Pester's collection, Cafes, published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social, and you can read it now over on our #Substack: thewingedmoon.substack.com/p/made-of-pu... #PoetryCommunity #PoetryReview

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‘Made of Public’ Cafes by Holly Pester

reviewed by Milly Woodrow

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Belting “There’s a Babadook” to the tune of ‘There’s a Place For Us’ and my sons could not be less amused

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I always break vitamin c and zinc tablets in half so as to only have a sensible 500x the recommended daily allowance

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wow. Sounds like we should just shut down these companies and stop using it?

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New Slow Horses is great. Absolute return to form after a slightly pallid previous season. The reviews are nonsense.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No, wait I’ve change my mind, Undo, don’t report the phishing scam they probably had a really bad start in life

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Another long-read article about how we’re oblivious sleepwalkers who should be prepared for war and a draft which also admits that the real threat is the cutting of underseas cables and cyberattacks apple.news/AP2amuwnmTnu...

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War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready? — BBC News

The military and government say the risk of conflict is growing, but we may not be mentally ready for it

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Is it that they love having a bet?

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Absolutely appalling stuff. This country is being ripped apart by a management class that has no clue why the schemes and wheezes don't work any more.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Reports of some teenagers intimidating and assaulting kids on their way home from school has really brought out my shadow self.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“mandatory lentils” would fit better to Eleanor Rigby

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Why has my hedge died? Nobody else’s hedge has died! It was visibly dying before the drought. Do hedges have a maximum lifespan, like us? Have I been nursing a 100 year old hedge in its dotage?

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Would really like to go ahead with the Anthropic lawsuit but the form is giving me a headache and I’m not sure it’s worth the paltry share of the three grand it’ll end up being. Should probably crack on on principle.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Disgustingly, stupefyingly humid again. I’m so glad I didn’t immediately throw away all my fans like I was going to.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In TK Maxx workshopping potential school bag responses with my eldest

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 02/09/2026

2014: Harmful air pollution above legal limits. 2024: Harmful air pollution driven down to legal limits. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“September is a terrifyingly expensive month.” - T S Eliot if he’d had school age kids

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

- Why are you getting sent so many books? - So I can write something nice about them if I like them. It’s called a blurb. - Like on the walls at Five Guys? - Yes, like on the walls at Five Guys.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I did once say yes to reviewing applications for a Harvard humanities residency, but it took me half a day to fill in the 8BEN form because American tax law is terrifying and then they would only pay by cheque and my bank charged so much for the conversion I ended up getting paid minus eight quid

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One of my fondest childhood memories was not knowing the name of any CEO of any company.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

a "liminal space" is any place where there's no one there and the carpet looks kind of weird

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Automatic hand driers think I’m a vampire

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sometimes I feel like they make up new oxbridge colleges using a random word generator

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

🎵“Make healthy choices” to tune of We Are the Champions

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Tomatoes look great when they’re growing but when they fall from the plant and squash a little, it’s like, who threw all this Italian food everywhere?

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Spiders always be like “I’ll build a web on the clothesline! It’s perfect!”

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s because of the male loneliness epidemic - we’re so sad we’re *studying*

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Guys, I just found out colanders can also be used for straining the water pasta, broccoli, potatoes and other boiled foods!

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Personally I think we should always be warning each other not to look at the sun every day not just on eclipse day

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So I can only look at the lightning if I have a colander on my head got it

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Watching a movie on terrestrial TV last night and it struck me that not one single product / business is using AI to generate its ads. I imagine they’ve *tried* but got told by focus groups that it was horrible and would damage their brand. Coca Cola and clueless city cafes the exception.

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Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Galia Admoni and @lukekennard.bsky.social in conversation tonight to celebrate Galia’s spectacular new book.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Bring more evils Lord bring more evils on they who create flatpack furniture that requires a *drill* to assemble

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 31/07/2026

Was awesome to join Bloomberg to talk about the lie of AI - everyone's buying into the mag7 believing CapEx is going towards diverse AI demand, when all it's really doing is supporting the circular cloud revenues of two unprofitable, unsustainable AI labs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcZ...

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Zitron: "Everyone Has Been Sold a Lie" on AI

YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I don’t know, I think it’s probably just as well we get used to the rich having their own water supply

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Just ran out of my recreational antihistamines

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 30/07/2026

Black Bag by Luke Kennard (@lukekennard.bsky.social) is a firework of a novel: an investigation into the crisis of masculinity and an off-kilter love story that is blazingly funny and profoundly humane. Find out more about this Booker Prize 2026-longlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The thing I want to achieve most in my life is to one day find someone’s lost cat or dog from a poster.

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