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Phil Gilbert /// Audiobook Narrator

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📖 Audiobook Narrator and Voice Actor 🏡 Maplewood, NJ, US 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Husband + Girl Dad 🌈 Ally 🌶️ aka P.G. Hammock 💳 APA, PANA http://voice.philgilbert.net/

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Phil Gilbert /// Audiobook Narrator @voiceofphilgilbert.bsky.social · Dec 8

Hi. I’m Phil. I narrate audiobooks and I’m here to meet and chat with authors, publishers, readers, and listeners.

My local bookstore is [Words] in Maplewood, NJ.

Looking forward to chatting with everyone.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12d

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Oct 1

Man is really on the good shit. He woke up and was like “these tunnels are unconstitutional under the 14th amendment because they’re black”

Dolan's Knicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · Oct 1

OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · Oct 1

Hey, do you have an e-reader? Are you looking for a way to show me how much you love me? I've got news for you!

The I HUNT KILLERS ebook is on sale this month! For a mere $1.99, you can delight to the horrors and the bloodshed from the comfort of your own screen!

Here's a link. More in next skeet!

I Hunt Killers

It was a beautiful day. It was a beautiful field. Except for the body. Jazz is a likable teenager. A charmer, some might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, a...

www.amazon.com

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T.L. Bodine @tlbodine.bsky.social · Sep 19

You know what time it is, guys? It's time for a palate cleanser by way of....my annual report and analysis of Spirit Halloween trends!

The entry to Spirit Halloween, with the theme of "scare park" subway!

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · Sep 18

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 18

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · Sep 13

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Sep 13

NCCU is an HBCU. (Disclosure: my alma mater.)

Intel ends relationship after U.S. takes stake in the company.

This is the point.

abovethelaw.com/2025/08/inte...

Intel Drops Funding HBCU Legal Pipeline - Above the Law

Surprise surprise.

abovethelaw.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Sep 9

I remember someone asking me this question seriously and being apparently genuinely surprised that as a touring science fiction author I did not have scads of willing potential sex partners at every tour stop gnawing at my hotel door to be let in. Their image of book tour life was... misinformed.

briantarbell.bsky.social @briantarbell.bsky.social · Sep 9

How do you handle all the groupies?

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Sep 10

Maybe infinite content was a bad idea.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · Sep 8

Wow!!! Major news!!! The judge in the Anthropic AI case is "concerned class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced 'down the throat of authors.'"

This is what myself and many other authors were saying about the settlement. 1/
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthr...

Anthropic Judge Rejects $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (1)

The federal judge overseeing Anthropic PBC’s proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement is concerned class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced “down the throat of authors...

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Phil Gilbert /// Audiobook Narrator @voiceofphilgilbert.bsky.social · Sep 9

If so, you probably need a scene where they are learning about the parts of the sword (prior to the innuendo bits).

Phil Gilbert /// Audiobook Narrator @voiceofphilgilbert.bsky.social · Sep 9

The blade? And the…lower-er blade?

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · Sep 8

So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 5

i am a bit surprised given *gestures around* that the epstein story is still being kept in the public consciousness despite the best efforts of some

well done tbh

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · Aug 29

AI art does not exist. It is an oxymoron.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · Aug 25

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”

"Okay I get that," Meg whispered back, "but I've been angry for over a decade straight and my arteries are basically solid carbon fiber at this point. Do I ever get a freakin' break?"

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · Aug 13

Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?

Faber paperback edition of Waiting for Godot with STAGE MANAGER'S COPY / NIGEL written on the cover in pencil

End of Act 1 of Waiting for Godot: beneath 'CURTAIN' someone has written the capitalised words, in pencil, 'INTERMISSION / DO LEAVES'

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 9

Physical books never stopped being in fashion, even with younger readers. I strongly suspect this is in no small part due to books being a common gift, and now Romantasy is getting buyers used to pretty editions with endpapers and sprayed edges.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Aug 8

Physical Media Is Cool Again. Streaming Services Have Themselves to Blame

Collectors new and old tell Rolling Stone there's nothing quite like the feel of holding your favorite art in your hands.

Physical Media Is Cool Again. Streaming Services Have Themselves to Blame

Collectors tell Rolling Stone an exhaustion with streamers is making owning physical media the next big thing — again.

rollingstone.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 7

always the shittiest people involved

Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 7

WNBA sex toy incidents linked to cryptocurrency group reut.rs/3USmbde

WNBA sex toy incidents linked to cryptocurrency group

A pair of reports published Thursday linked the recent rise of sex toys being thrown onto WNBA courts to a cryptocurrency group pushing a memecoin.

reut.rs

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Phil Gilbert /// Audiobook Narrator @voiceofphilgilbert.bsky.social · Aug 2

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · Aug 1

"the drainage grates are in the shapes of American flags"

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Chris Shehan_Comic Art @chrisshehanart.bsky.social · Aug 2

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”

Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

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Phil Gilbert /// Audiobook Narrator @voiceofphilgilbert.bsky.social · Jul 23

He wanted to be at the top of A1 every day and now he’s got it. Congratulations. Hope you’re enjoying yourself.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 21

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

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Phil Gilbert /// Audiobook Narrator @voiceofphilgilbert.bsky.social · Jul 19

Weird. And wholly unexpected.

Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · Jul 19

Striking. After Texas banned abortion, ER visits for early miscarriage rose 25% and blood transfusions surged 54%.

Doctors delayed care like D&Cs out of fear of prosecution. More women nearly bled to death. buff.ly/egXhmm7

#medsky #ObGynsky 🛟🧪

blood bag, ultrasound picture, chart up all in black and red tones.