Conrad Bower
@conradbower.com
Writer who loves music, mountains, and motorcycles. He's also fond of many things that don't start with M.
www.conradbower.com
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Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines - Conrad Bower
Embark on a wild grassroots political thriller ride from 19th century Bolton to Manchester in 2050, with author Conrad Bower’s debut fiction collection.
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“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass
What happens when ordinary people make a stand against the entrenched inequities of the powers that be?
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#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance
What happens when ordinary people make a stand against the entrenched inequities of the powers that be?
conradbower.com/echoes-of-re...
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance
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Are you looking for a creative challenge as 2025 draws to a end?
If so, enter the Europeana Creative Climate Action Award! ✍️
Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of #climateaction imagery. Top entries will win prizes and be published in an online exhibition bit.ly/488sVeq
If so, enter the Europeana Creative Climate Action Award! ✍️
Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of #climateaction imagery. Top entries will win prizes and be published in an online exhibition bit.ly/488sVeq
Europeana Creative Climate Action Award - Enter our creative writing competition before 11 January 2026
Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of climate action imagery. Prizes and publication for the winners!
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December 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Are you looking for a creative challenge as 2025 draws to a end?
If so, enter the Europeana Creative Climate Action Award! ✍️
Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of #climateaction imagery. Top entries will win prizes and be published in an online exhibition bit.ly/488sVeq
If so, enter the Europeana Creative Climate Action Award! ✍️
Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of #climateaction imagery. Top entries will win prizes and be published in an online exhibition bit.ly/488sVeq
The perfect gift for those who believe freedom of speech is a cornerstone of democracy, and not just an optional extra.
#booksky #resistance #protest #writingcommunity
#booksky #resistance #protest #writingcommunity
Ordinary people. Extraordinary courage. Stories of struggle, solidarity, and survival
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The perfect gift for those who believe freedom of speech is a cornerstone of democracy, and not just an optional extra.
#booksky #resistance #protest #writingcommunity
#booksky #resistance #protest #writingcommunity
The beauty, utility and health giving boons of our countryside should not be the preserve of the privileged few. It is OUR LAND. We have a natural right to roam over it, which needs to be backed by legislation.
#righttoroam
#righttoroam
The Enclosure Acts took away centuries of shared access to land, putting fences between people and nature. Securing the Right to Roam is about reclaiming the freedom to explore, enjoy, and reconnect with our countryside once again.
Why do you support a Right to Roam?
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Why do you support a Right to Roam?
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December 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The beauty, utility and health giving boons of our countryside should not be the preserve of the privileged few. It is OUR LAND. We have a natural right to roam over it, which needs to be backed by legislation.
#righttoroam
#righttoroam
Protest is people power, but the power of the people to protest is being proscribed.
#resistance #protest #palestineaction
#resistance #protest #palestineaction
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Protest is people power, but the power of the people to protest is being proscribed.
#resistance #protest #palestineaction
#resistance #protest #palestineaction
There are 2 HisFic stories in my collection
One tells the gripping tale of the Winter Hill Trespass of 1896. The other recounts suffragette Edith Rigby's incendiary direct action, aimed at King George V.
The collection covers the past, present & future of #protest
⏳📚 #resistance #liberty
One tells the gripping tale of the Winter Hill Trespass of 1896. The other recounts suffragette Edith Rigby's incendiary direct action, aimed at King George V.
The collection covers the past, present & future of #protest
⏳📚 #resistance #liberty
Ordinary people. Extraordinary courage. Stories of struggle, solidarity, and survival
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
November 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
There are 2 HisFic stories in my collection
One tells the gripping tale of the Winter Hill Trespass of 1896. The other recounts suffragette Edith Rigby's incendiary direct action, aimed at King George V.
The collection covers the past, present & future of #protest
⏳📚 #resistance #liberty
One tells the gripping tale of the Winter Hill Trespass of 1896. The other recounts suffragette Edith Rigby's incendiary direct action, aimed at King George V.
The collection covers the past, present & future of #protest
⏳📚 #resistance #liberty
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December 31, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Welcome to the Historical Fiction feed! ⏳📚💙
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Meta makes more money spreading lies than it does spreading truth.
Unless it is regulated, it will continue to spread lies and topple our already unstable democracies.
#democracy #freepress
pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
Unless it is regulated, it will continue to spread lies and topple our already unstable democracies.
#democracy #freepress
pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising
Meta likely made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Meta makes more money spreading lies than it does spreading truth.
Unless it is regulated, it will continue to spread lies and topple our already unstable democracies.
#democracy #freepress
pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
Unless it is regulated, it will continue to spread lies and topple our already unstable democracies.
#democracy #freepress
pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
Protest is people power, but the power of the people to protest is being proscribed.
#resistance #protest
#resistance #protest
95 ARRESTS
Police arrested 90 sign-holders at the Peace Garden today. 5 arrests were made at an autonomous action in Hastings.
45 people held the same signs in Derry and Belfast, without arrest.
Join us on any of three days of action this coming week: www.wedonotcomply.org
Police arrested 90 sign-holders at the Peace Garden today. 5 arrests were made at an autonomous action in Hastings.
45 people held the same signs in Derry and Belfast, without arrest.
Join us on any of three days of action this coming week: www.wedonotcomply.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Protest is people power, but the power of the people to protest is being proscribed.
#resistance #protest
#resistance #protest
Now, this is a UK #budget I would support.
@kirithentwistle.bsky.social, any chance of you whispering some of these policies into Rachel Reeves's ear?
#economics
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
@kirithentwistle.bsky.social, any chance of you whispering some of these policies into Rachel Reeves's ear?
#economics
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 4: Renationalisation
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long.
I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and elsewh...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Now, this is a UK #budget I would support.
@kirithentwistle.bsky.social, any chance of you whispering some of these policies into Rachel Reeves's ear?
#economics
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
@kirithentwistle.bsky.social, any chance of you whispering some of these policies into Rachel Reeves's ear?
#economics
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
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I know that we don't know the true nature of reality, we are those Socrates' drunk children in the fog or cave, and we can't understand one another, but now i will say something solid af.
Subvertising is one of the most underrated resistance strategies and this guy is a genius.
Subvertising is one of the most underrated resistance strategies and this guy is a genius.
New poster I designed for a Brandalism campaign in support of MakeAmazonPay.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I know that we don't know the true nature of reality, we are those Socrates' drunk children in the fog or cave, and we can't understand one another, but now i will say something solid af.
Subvertising is one of the most underrated resistance strategies and this guy is a genius.
Subvertising is one of the most underrated resistance strategies and this guy is a genius.
Reposted by Conrad Bower
Reposted by Conrad Bower
I’m reposting this again because I’m so chuffed to get such an amazing review 😊
On the blog today is my book review of A Week in the Life of Amelia Nash by #author @sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social
This book is so worthy of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#booksky 💙📚
This book is so worthy of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#booksky 💙📚
A Week in the Life of Amelia Nash by Sarah Healey - #bookreview
Left on the Shelf Book Blog Book Reviews Book Information Recommendations Writing Reading Books for Children Books for Adults Books for Teens Fiction
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November 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I’m reposting this again because I’m so chuffed to get such an amazing review 😊
Ordinary people. Extraordinary courage. Stories of struggle, solidarity, and survival
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
November 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Ordinary people. Extraordinary courage. Stories of struggle, solidarity, and survival
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
Smacks of IBM supplying punch card technology to the Nazis to assist their 'Final Solution'.
This is just a starting solution for #Trump and #Google, but it worries me where they will go from here.
Don't be evil, Google - Do the right thing!
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
This is just a starting solution for #Trump and #Google, but it worries me where they will go from here.
Don't be evil, Google - Do the right thing!
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Smacks of IBM supplying punch card technology to the Nazis to assist their 'Final Solution'.
This is just a starting solution for #Trump and #Google, but it worries me where they will go from here.
Don't be evil, Google - Do the right thing!
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
This is just a starting solution for #Trump and #Google, but it worries me where they will go from here.
Don't be evil, Google - Do the right thing!
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Who can we really afford — the rich or everyone else? youtu.be/SzTi95kUBKo?...
Who can we really afford — the rich or everyone else?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I wish Robert Reich was president of the USA.
Big Tech is plotting a $100M lobbying and campaign spending blitz to block AI regulation at the state and federal level.
We must stop this takeover before it's too late.
We must stop this takeover before it's too late.
November 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I wish Robert Reich was president of the USA.
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The Laffer Curve isn't funny, unless you are a neoliberal billionaire, then its fucking hilarious.
#economics
#economics
Laffer's curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality youtu.be/lrO9VpQCXZU?...
Laffer's curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The Laffer Curve isn't funny, unless you are a neoliberal billionaire, then its fucking hilarious.
#economics
#economics
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My book The Fall Between has been updated! A #transgender #romance
I got some early feedback that it needed a stronger editor. So I hired a professional editor and cover designer.
It‘s free on KU and I’d appreciate any and all reviews!
a.co/d/4aadexB
#booksky #booktok #lgbtq #writingcommunity
I got some early feedback that it needed a stronger editor. So I hired a professional editor and cover designer.
It‘s free on KU and I’d appreciate any and all reviews!
a.co/d/4aadexB
#booksky #booktok #lgbtq #writingcommunity
The Fall Between: Transgender Coming-of-age romance (The Alex Series Book 3)
Amazon.com: The Fall Between: Transgender Coming-of-age romance (The Alex Series Book 3) eBook : Harper, A.C.: Kindle Store
a.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
My book The Fall Between has been updated! A #transgender #romance
I got some early feedback that it needed a stronger editor. So I hired a professional editor and cover designer.
It‘s free on KU and I’d appreciate any and all reviews!
a.co/d/4aadexB
#booksky #booktok #lgbtq #writingcommunity
I got some early feedback that it needed a stronger editor. So I hired a professional editor and cover designer.
It‘s free on KU and I’d appreciate any and all reviews!
a.co/d/4aadexB
#booksky #booktok #lgbtq #writingcommunity
Hey, all you beautiful #booksky people.
I'm after some feedback on this little promo vid ad, before I put some money behind it.
Any suggestions for improvements?
I'm having one final push at promoting this book, before I write my novel, which includes characters from this collection.
I'm after some feedback on this little promo vid ad, before I put some money behind it.
Any suggestions for improvements?
I'm having one final push at promoting this book, before I write my novel, which includes characters from this collection.
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Hey, all you beautiful #booksky people.
I'm after some feedback on this little promo vid ad, before I put some money behind it.
Any suggestions for improvements?
I'm having one final push at promoting this book, before I write my novel, which includes characters from this collection.
I'm after some feedback on this little promo vid ad, before I put some money behind it.
Any suggestions for improvements?
I'm having one final push at promoting this book, before I write my novel, which includes characters from this collection.
Man, motorcycle, and mountain. Magic!
Took a splendid tour round Sicily on a rented Honda CB500X. Rode up Mt Etna in dryish condtions, rode down it in torrential rain with the road like a river, with water upto the footpegs. The Honda took it all in its stride 1/
#Motorcycle #Sicily #nature #Honda
Took a splendid tour round Sicily on a rented Honda CB500X. Rode up Mt Etna in dryish condtions, rode down it in torrential rain with the road like a river, with water upto the footpegs. The Honda took it all in its stride 1/
#Motorcycle #Sicily #nature #Honda
November 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Man, motorcycle, and mountain. Magic!
Took a splendid tour round Sicily on a rented Honda CB500X. Rode up Mt Etna in dryish condtions, rode down it in torrential rain with the road like a river, with water upto the footpegs. The Honda took it all in its stride 1/
#Motorcycle #Sicily #nature #Honda
Took a splendid tour round Sicily on a rented Honda CB500X. Rode up Mt Etna in dryish condtions, rode down it in torrential rain with the road like a river, with water upto the footpegs. The Honda took it all in its stride 1/
#Motorcycle #Sicily #nature #Honda
Have a banging #BonfireNight everyone
If you'd like some relevant reading for this revolutionary night, check this out:
#booksky #resistance #writingcommunity
If you'd like some relevant reading for this revolutionary night, check this out:
#booksky #resistance #writingcommunity
Take a wild grassroots political thriller ride from Bolton in 1896 to Manchester in 2050
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass
8 rebels dare 2 demand justice from power
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
#booksky #resistance #writingcommunity
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass
8 rebels dare 2 demand justice from power
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
#booksky #resistance #writingcommunity
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Have a banging #BonfireNight everyone
If you'd like some relevant reading for this revolutionary night, check this out:
#booksky #resistance #writingcommunity
If you'd like some relevant reading for this revolutionary night, check this out:
#booksky #resistance #writingcommunity
Take a wild grassroots political thriller ride from Bolton in 1896 to Manchester in 2050
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass
8 rebels dare 2 demand justice from power
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
#booksky #resistance #writingcommunity
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass
8 rebels dare 2 demand justice from power
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
#booksky #resistance #writingcommunity
November 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Take a wild grassroots political thriller ride from Bolton in 1896 to Manchester in 2050
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass
8 rebels dare 2 demand justice from power
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
#booksky #resistance #writingcommunity
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass
8 rebels dare 2 demand justice from power
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
#booksky #resistance #writingcommunity
Reposted by Conrad Bower
Thank you to everyone who’s supported us.
And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:
And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Thank you to everyone who’s supported us.
And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:
And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:
Reposted by Conrad Bower
I want to build bridges, not walls! 🤝
#photography #fineart #art #industrialarchiteture #photographer #artist #Krakow #BildingBridgesNOWall #bnwphotography
#photography #fineart #art #industrialarchiteture #photographer #artist #Krakow #BildingBridgesNOWall #bnwphotography
October 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I want to build bridges, not walls! 🤝
#photography #fineart #art #industrialarchiteture #photographer #artist #Krakow #BildingBridgesNOWall #bnwphotography
#photography #fineart #art #industrialarchiteture #photographer #artist #Krakow #BildingBridgesNOWall #bnwphotography