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ByMatthewPorter

@bymatthewporter.com
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Writer. Destroyer of keyboards. Coffee enthusiast. Movie obsessive (movie and theater reviews on YouTube). New book: ephemeralindustries.com/pub_001/ IMMP podcast: www.IMMProject.com Blog and newsletter: www.ByMatthewPorter.com

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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 11h
Sometimes we disagree about whether my friends are actually human beings who should be allowed to live and participate in society. Some differences in ideology cannot be cured by a friendly lunch. And sometimes attempting that path lends legitimacy to evil.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 03/10/2026
Back home from Chicago just in time to spend a day at the Colorado Gold Writers Conference. Good to be with my people. Lots of good sessions on craft, but I’m attending more business and marketing today as that’s where my head is right now. #CoGo
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
AHHH, BLUESKY! DON'T YOU DARE BE SOUR! CLAP FOR YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS! AND FEEL THE POWER!!! #Booksky It's BUY A BOOK FRIDAY, yes it is! The rules are simple, you see a book by myself or one Bluesky's talented artists, YOU BUY THAT BOOK! Help support us and enrich yourself! 🧵 BELOW, LET'S GO!!!
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 02/10/2026
Good morning from the vicinity of the giant corn cobs.
A photo of the Marina City buildings, near the river in Chicago. With their tall cylindrical shapes and their curved inset windows, they really do look like corn cobs. A view up the river from the bridge on State Street in Chicago. It is morning, and the river is flanked by tall buildings.
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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 02/10/2026
happy october
mulder saying “do you think i’m spooky”
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 01/10/2026
If you see this post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.
Two faces of the same character. On the left: a white man looks into the camera. On the right: the same man, with the fangs and crazy glowing eyes of a vampire. Who is he? He’s Nick Knight, cop/vampire hero of the Canadian TV series FOREVER KNIGHT.
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Margaret Mizushima @margmizu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I love a book discount! So happy to see DYING CRY on sale this week! #reading #K9 #mystery @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social @akalit.bsky.social
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 29/09/2026
1. Waterbender 2. Earthbender 3. Firebender 4. Airbender
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 29/09/2026
The embarrassing speed with which Apple and Google folded on the map renaming nonsense has him thinking he’s the King of Language.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 29/09/2026
Apparently my child’s future is firmly within the Scandinavian Noir subgenre.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 29/09/2026
“I made fresh coffee.”
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 29/09/2026
Re-upping this question as the Ephemeral Industries store prepares to launch: Do you buy #ebooks? Do you buy ebooks directly from publishers? If so, what formats do you prefer? EPUB? PDF? Something else? Multiple choices/formats? #books #reading
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 29/09/2026
What happens in the rest of the movie? Don’t care. Getting Dorothy Malone as the bookshop girl to say “You begin to interest me” is our protagonist’s greatest possible triumph. Also, he’s a fool to suggest she take off the glasses. But I guess that’s a matter of taste.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 26/09/2026
I remember a piece in the old Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society proposing a real-time solitaire game. Traveling to a planet eight days away? See if there's anything to do aboard ship. Otherwise, check back in eight days when you make orbit.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 26/09/2026
#PennedPossibilities 1138: Tell us about a time your MC forged their own path? In my Mod Murder novel*, my MC uses a tiny inheritance to open a jazz club. It doesn't go all that smoothly, what with the murder and all. *Still looking for a home!
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cathode ray tubetop @nightelectricity.com · 07/03/2025
new saddest six word story just dropped
Facebook marketplace listing for "Full Podcasting set up (Hardly used)
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 24/09/2026
Generative AI has “democratized art” in the same way that anti-vax dipsticks have “democratized science.”
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 24/09/2026
Mountain Time is the Generation X of time zones.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 24/09/2026
You can imagine my shock as I learn that a power hungry opportunist who has no honor might have acted in a way that was power-seeking, opportunistic, and dishonorable.
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ways to help authors you love: - Review their books. - Share their posts. - Tell people about their books. - Learn the true name of the universe and manipulate it to make their book a bestseller. - Get your library to order in their books. - Ask local events to book them for appearances.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 17/09/2026
I’ve said this before, but - it’s like every absolute batshit idea from the Wild Card Line on the Art Bell radio show from the ‘90s is now actually god damn government policy.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I can't argue with this. "Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die." —François Truffaut
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 17/09/2026
Question for #readers who buy #books directly from publishers: What #ebook formats do you expect or prefer? EPub? PDF? Something else? A choice? And no, we won’t be using any proprietary DRM-laden nastiness.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 15/09/2026
B&N’s acquisition of Denver’s Tattered Cover has been uneven, but over all it’s gone better than I feared it might.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 15/09/2026
So in other words there were no actual reporters present.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 15/09/2026
My state has used safe, secure mail-only voting for years. Nevertheless, I’ve enjoyed a ritual of walking to the nearest county services center to put my ballot in the drop box. This year it will be more than a pleasant ritual. And I’ll be doing it at least a week early.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 14/09/2026
Our only hope is for you to convince us to pay you to slow down with all that dangerous comedy. You could call it “Delaytreon.”
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 14/09/2026
#PennedPossibilities 1128 – Does your MC have a name that’s unique? A WIP has a main character named Ward. He's a lock picker and locksmith, so I'm having a bit of fun with that name.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 14/09/2026
#PennedPossibilities 1128 – Does your MC have a name that’s unique? MC in QUESTIONS FOR THE DEAD is named Rodak. Not necessarily a unique surname, but it is rare. It’s from a Polish/Czech/Slovak word meaning “fellow countryman.” And it’s a little clue about something revealed during the story.
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IMMP @immproject.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And on one of our first “We Kept Watching” episodes, they dug into the second season of Space 1999. For their sins. www.immproject.com/045
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WKW - SPACE: 1999, PROJECT U.F.O. and THE THIN MAN
On this We Kept Watching special, Ian and Matthew return to three series and dive into their later seasons and movies.
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IMMP @immproject.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
As we observe Space 1999 Breakaway Day, allow us to note that on an early episode of the IMMP podcast Matthew and Ian talked about this classic 1970s Gerry Anderson sci fi series. #breakawayday www.immproject.com/022
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SPACE: 1999
In Sylvia Anderson and Gerry Anderson’s SPACE: 1999 the moon starts as an outer space landfill, then becomes a rocket ship carrying humanity to rendezvous with danger, adventure and space hippies galo...
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 12/09/2026
Isn’t that a lovely sight. (And a big obstacle sitting in my front hallway, but that’s beside the point.) #books #writing
An open shipping box containing paperback copies of QUESTIONS FOR THE DEAD, a psychic mystery novel by Matthew Porter. The book’s cover shows a gray and black silhouette of the Denver skyline with the Rocky Mountains in the background.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 12/09/2026
I think David Corenswet also captures a good deal of that Clark Kent / Kal El dynamic. I liked the 2025 movie. But agreed, Christopher Reeve was the best.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 12/09/2026
Airport door not found.
Door at airport passenger pick-up area with large sign that reads “404”
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 12/09/2026
Yes indeed! An icon, frequently seen in IMMP podcast features. @immproject.bsky.social
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 11/09/2026
As a kid I was enthralled by him as Captain Nemo in the 1961 MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. Many years later I realized that this was the same actor gleefully chewing up scenery as Dreyfus in the Pink Panther movies.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 11/09/2026
I remember a Linux user group chat room suddenly filling with calls to slaughter anyone of the Muslim faith. It was appalling, it was frightening, and some of us recognized at the time how completely unhinged it was.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 11/09/2026
It’s a target-rich environment when it comes to grounds for impeachment, but an unambiguous offer to pay money for votes must be an easy one.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 09/09/2026
After the shameful Lake Ontario business, #Apple is going all-in on the concept of “folding.”
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 08/09/2026
Don’t know much about this but it sounds pretty weird. I’ll know more soon. #movie #DrafthouseDiary
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema lobby poster for THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT. Poster features a black and white image of a man in a space suit with a translucent bubble helmet, see in profile, wreathed in steam.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 06/09/2026
Enjoy! I love a long train journey. Be sure to wave as you pass through Colorado.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 06/09/2026
Quick, someone inform Trump that the name “America” comes from an Italian. He’ll spin himself blind trying to figure out how to rename everything.
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IMMP @immproject.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Big thanks to everyone who came to our Digimon panel this morning at #NDK. Great crowd, great discussion. Ian and Matthew certainly had fun — hope you did too! Look for the recording soon at IMMProject.com or your favorite podcast source. #nandesukan
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IMMP @immproject.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Let’s try this again with the hashtag spelled properly. #nandesukan
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IMMP @immproject.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you’re at Nan Desu Kan, Colorado’s premier #anime convention, come to our live IMMP podcast! 11 am, panel room 1. Ian and Matthew will be talking DIGIMON TAMERS! #nandedukan #NDK2026
Poster for Digimon Tamers. A group of kids, and their variety of digital monsters, ready for action in a cyber-grid landscape.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 04/09/2026
I’m over here just quietly working on my Arya Stark list.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 03/09/2026
Post your favorite 40k kill team, wrong (right?) answers only.
A picture of the Teletubbies.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 03/09/2026
I saw that movie at just the right age for it to be a gateway to becoming a theater kid.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 02/09/2026
What is causation, anyway? In some interpretations of physics, you may have won a Hugo because you’re about to buy a guitar.
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ByMatthewPorter @bymatthewporter.com · 02/09/2026
Every Quibi clip I’ve ever seen reads to me like the fake movie trailer at the beginning of THE HOLIDAY.
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