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M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com · 1h

Hey #WritingCommunity encourage your readers to shop at their local bookshops.

Prioritize your 'where to find my books' links to ones like Bookshop.org or other such distributors who contribute to rather than steal from communities.

#ShopLocalReadGlobal

Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 1h

Returns from a chain bookshop have reduced our sales to a minus figure in the most important sales month of the year.

Please support independent bookshops this Christmas.

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Not a Pipe Publishing Ink-Corporated LLC @notapipe.bsky.social · 53m

Joe has been cursed. He must meet with Yahweh once a week for coffee, and God is a crotchety old deity with a pantheon of family problems.
“Funny, knowing and sarcastic." -Writer's Digest
Get your copy of @benjamingorman.bsky.social’s THE SUM OF OUR GODS here: bit.ly/SumGods

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philiplabes.bsky.social @philiplabes.bsky.social · 12h

my song that was censored on TikTok

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Desertphile @desertphile.bsky.social · 15h

This is awesome.

youtu.be/iSfC_N8XOTE?...

Pam Bondi Hearing Cold Open - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Benjamin Gorman @benjamingorman.bsky.social · 7h

Putting up flyers for the #NoTyrants event in #Barcelona at Plaça de Sant Jaume at 12 noon on the 18th, and for the #Halloween #Costume #Party
and #book #signing of YOU PEOPLE ARE MONSTERS on the 31st at Come In English Bookshop at 18:30.

@demsabroad.bsky.social

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Benjamin Gorman @benjamingorman.bsky.social · 8h

The Trump regime is an evil, fascist enterprise.

Its supporters are hateful, cowardly, or deceived, but are all responsible.

And I will speak out against it every day until they lose power or come for me.

…because I’d rather die trying than live knowing I stayed silent.

bit.ly/FFwyV

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 16h

So here's how I see it.

Frederick Douglass said:

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ... The struggle may be a moral [and/or] physical ... but it must be a struggle.

Power concedes nothing without a demand.

It never has and it never will."

The meaning behind this is important.

Rough diagram of a curve with the area under it labeled U and a curve over it with the area under it labeled F. The line under both is labeled E.

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Not a Pipe Publishing Ink-Corporated LLC @notapipe.bsky.social · 14h

Our response to an author concerned about working with the publishers of the @antifalit.bsky.social Journal in the wake to Trump's declaration that Antifa is a terrorist organization:

www.notapipepublishing.com/blog/2025/10...

On Antifa as “Terrorist Organization” and the Consequences for an Anti-Fascist Press — Not a Pipe Publishing

I recently received a thoughtful, considered letter from an author who was concerned about working with Not a Pipe Publishing (and its forthcoming subsidiary, Writers’ T.S.U.N.A.M.I.) because Not a Pi...

www.notapipepublishing.com

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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 14h

I’m thrilled to announce - ahead of this week’s World Football Summit - that I am launching a business of sports tourism in Spain: Gata Sports Tours. This combines a few of my great loves: sports, España, travel, storytelling and helping people love España almost as much as I do. 1/

Poster and business launcher in an España jersey at a Real Madrid match

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 20h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Benjamin Gorman @benjamingorman.bsky.social · 15h

Some cool buildings in the Tibidabo neighborhood of Barcelona.

Benjamin Gorman @benjamingorman.bsky.social · 15h

We'll be with you in Barcelona!

Benjamin Gorman @benjamingorman.bsky.social · 15h

We'll be with you in Barcelona!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20h

This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

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Benjamin Gorman @benjamingorman.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump regime is an evil, fascist enterprise.

Its supporters are hateful, cowardly, or deceived, but are all responsible.

And I will speak out against it every day until they lose power or come for me.

…because I’d rather die trying than live knowing I stayed silent.

bit.ly/FFwyV

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Rebecca Wells Phillips, Author @gaphill1842.bsky.social · 1d

Check out @benjamingorman.bsky.social’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of C.J. Hosak's THE SLAYER'S MAGIC and THE TRAVELER'S MAGIC!
www.teachergorman.com/blog/2025/9/...
@writerstsunami.bsky.social

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Not a Pipe Publishing Ink-Corporated LLC @notapipe.bsky.social · 1d

To an author concerned about working with the publishers of the @antifalit.bsky.social Journal in the wake to Trump's declaration that Antifa is a terrorist org.:

"On Antifa as 'Terrorist Organization' and the Consequences for an Anti-Fascist Press"

www.notapipepublishing.com/blog/2025/10...

On Antifa as “Terrorist Organization” and the Consequences for an Anti-Fascist Press — Not a Pipe Publishing

I recently received a thoughtful, considered letter from an author who was concerned about working with Not a Pipe Publishing (and its forthcoming subsidiary, Writers’ T.S.U.N.A.M.I.) because Not a Pi...

www.notapipepublishing.com

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Benjamin Gorman @benjamingorman.bsky.social · 2d

If you are in the United States, please read this bit of advice from author @mkmartinwriter.com:

Before the Rain
mkmartinwriter.medium.com/before-the-r...

Before the Rain

In the movie Spy Game starring the late great Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, and Catherine McCormack, Redford’s character, a grizzled…

mkmartinwriter.medium.com

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Benjamin Gorman @benjamingorman.bsky.social · 2d

Just saw that he did post that his plane took off. I need to see if I can make contact with him when he arrives. If he's in Barcelona, we might have a lot in common!

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Not a Pipe Publishing Ink-Corporated LLC @notapipe.bsky.social · 2d

On this episode, @chrysgorman.bsky.social and @benjamingorman.bsky.social talk with @rj.rjhuneke.com, author of ANTS WAKING, about his efforts for the Autistic Self Advocacy Network ( @autisticadvocacy.org ) and Global Action for Trans Equality ( @gateorg.bsky.social )
bit.ly/WNWHome

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Benjamin Gorman @benjamingorman.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump regime is an evil, fascist enterprise.

Its supporters are hateful, cowardly, or deceived, but are all responsible.

And I will speak out against it every day until they lose power or come for me.

…because I’d rather die trying than live knowing I stayed silent.

bit.ly/FFwyV

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Post this everywhere‼️
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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