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Matt Morhockey-Morbooks
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Aficionado of niche sports. Inveterate bookworm. Big fan of fermented things. Bearded scientific sort.
Ruled Britannia-if Shakespeare was a reluctant subversive.

In the Presence of Mine Enemies-surviving against a system determined to eradicate you.

The Man with the Iron Heart-what happened if Heydrich lived.
You see? I do exist.

Even if I haven't tried to sell you books lately.

They're there. They make excellent Chanukah or Christmas presents. Really!
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Reviews are great! Also, tell everyone you know about books you have enjoyed. People are more likely to buy a book vouched for by someone they know, so tell your friends and family and social media followers!
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"

Reviews.

Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)

Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
December 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Would people stop saying “cut down trees to make paper/TP/paper towels? Those paper products are made from leftover bits from other tree based products, like 2x4s, plywood sheets…
December 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Foggy Morning at Ellwood Beach #1

#photography #beach #leica #blackandwhite
December 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Don't think I posted this one last week. S660 in front of a big ol' spicy hill.
December 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Icedickles we have seen on high!
December 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Late to the game today, but it's still #FlannelForearmFriday.
December 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Did I mention growling Christmas Tree
December 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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flying into burbank is lax evasion
i try to stay out of jazz clubs but now i'm being accused of sax evasion
December 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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January 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I've conjured up the beach ball of doom. Not the wristwatch of doom, just the beach ball so far.

I think this is just going to run to its little processor's contentedness.

If scientific progress goes boink, I'll just start over after I get up.
December 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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I'm reminded of this sage of a bygone age.
May 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Feeling this for me and mine today.
There's nothing wrong with you.
There's something wrong with the world.
Keep being weird.
Keep howling against the storm.
Keep writing erotic stories about moon ghosts.
Keep being a spark in the darkness, and hope for a better tomorrow.
December 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Every time I see the notation "free acid" or "free base", I descend into a fit of childish giggles.
December 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I don't know why, for the last several days, my brain keeps popping back to the Northwick Park trial.

Maybe it's just because for years my brain knew the TGN1412 part of it, but kept thinking Bletchley Park instead.

Trying to write the hard drive correctly, I guess.
December 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I've tried semi-colons and it just doesn't flow the same way.

Parentheticals come close, but visually, too stop-start.

Clankers be damned—they're mine.
My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
December 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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My "Catsden Flag" sticker has officially sold out.

I'm kinda surprised! When I first started selling my stickers, it was the least popular one. Now I can't keep it in stock!

I guess I'll have to order more. (FYI they're produced by @printinkling.bsky.social.)
December 12, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Much better.
December 12, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Panda Express implies the existence of Panda Local and Panda Late Night trains
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Trans-porting. Then trans-warp drive.

It was logical that trans-ing the warp conduits would be next.

After all, saves having to install trans-warp drives on every ship. Think of it as a form of mass transit.
So you're telling me that Star Trek was trans-ing the WARP CONDUITS as early as the 1990's??
December 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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So peaceful.
'Winter Walk - Regent's Park' by Rebecca Denton
rebeccadenton.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Paging San Luis Obispo. Paging SLO.
it's always amazing to me how people whose entire way of life and economic well-being depends on the university in their town are also, somehow, incredibly mad that they have to share that town with that university's students
tbh the entire dynamic of criticizing university housing is one of the most stupid and shortsighted elements of nimbyism writ large. universities are major economic engines! they’re also part of the broader left-wing project for other reasons, like “create social mobility” and “promote education”
December 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Oh hell yeah! The Bookin' Bookmobile!

Much like the bootleggers, make sure your suspension is up to the task and your engine more than meets the eye.
Choose kindness.
Choose love.
Choose books, both fun & powerful.
Choose a vehicle capable of outrunning the law, and fill it with banned books and friends who excel at a certain kind of mischief.
December 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Read on.

This is the kind of thing the internet is good for.
Psssssssh. Nikon. I ever tell you my theory about how the big four Japanese camera makers map directly onto the Big Four Japanese motorcycle companies?
December 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
They also make for good percussive maintenance implements.

Trade paperbacks for a little more snap and extended contact.

Hardcovers for higher mass transfer rates and extended use profiles.

Paperbacks for loft and bang for the buck.
December 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM