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Author, podcaster, inexplicably a two-time Jeopardy! champion. I have the death sentence in 12 systems. He/him. https://dmoren.com

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · Apr 28

Today's my 45th birthday, and I'm staving off feeling ancient by sharing a recent once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: next Wednesday, May 7, I'll be a contestant on Jeopardy! I still kind of can't believe it. 😱 Check www.jeopardy.com/watch for your local listing. @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social

Dan standing behind a Jeopardy! contestant podium.

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 8h

Check out Dan Moren's ALL SOULS LOST if you can't get enough noir (especially with a dash of the supernatural). www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

All Souls Lost ebook by Dan Moren - Rakuten Kobo

Read "All Souls Lost" by Dan Moren available from Rakuten Kobo. Say hello to Mike Lucifer, Spiritual Consultant. He’s back in town to take care of business. Unfortunately, when busines...

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 16h

Now in a situation where I get regular PR emails from Stephen Miller’s wife and I’m not happy about whatever has led me to this point.

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 1d

It’s Norway or the highway.

Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Just wanted to say that I will also declare Norway as my enemy if I don’t win the Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow.

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 1d

Duh DUH DUH....DUH DUH....

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 1d

Are there problems with the Catholic church? Sure are. But as far as this philosophy goes, the pope's got the goods.

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 2d

I'm so sorry, Amy. My condolences. 💜

Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 2d

Oops, all orange. My review of the iPhone 17 Pro:

Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 2d

iPhone 17 Pro review: Orange you glad you’ve gone Pro?

My iPhone is orange. I mean, really orange. Not "brown but if you hold it in a certain light, it kind of looks orange if...

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 2d

I liked this book quite a bit!

JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 7d

For a limited time only, @jeremyteg.bsky.social's THE HAND OF THE SUN KING is on sale for 99 cents wherever you buy ebooks! awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 4d

Does it mean fewer jobs or jobs that transition elsewhere?

Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 4d

Maybe we ought to have FEWER FUCKING CARS THEN.

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 4d

There's a lot more going on in that cooking show than I thought.

Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 5d

Sorry I couldn’t make it tonight. I took a picture yesterday in solidarity. (And didn’t deface any of your books, temped as I was to sign one.)

Dan posing next to a sign for Auston’s author event.

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 5d

This Red Sox fan thanks you for your service. 👊

Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 7d

Far preferable.

Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 7d

It’s a goddamn crime that Mark Wahlberg has gotten to play both Parker and Spenser in recent years. We can’t find literally anyone else?

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 7d

There's nothing surprising about Apple removing ICEBlock from the App Store. Much as we might want companies to take moral stands, they're simply not designed to—that's the system we've built for ourselves. sixcolors.com/post/2025/10...

Apple’s ICEblock capitulation is business as usual

So, I guess I’m going to need to keep writing this piece. Say what you will about Apple’s decision this week to remove from the App Store the ICEBlock app that provided a way for people…

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 8d

My kid actually helps invent the stories which is why they largely feature characters called Peter the Frog and Peter the Duck.

Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 8d

dads having to desperately scramble to make up bedtime stories out of whatever material they have available in their heads is a beautiful tradition and also why it took me until I was in middle school to figure out that Wilt Chamberlain was a real person and not a character my dad made up

performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 8d

the bedtime thing rips my heart in half. i would not have a fraction of the creativity i possess without my dad not only reading us books but literally making up stories on the spot every night. cannot express how lucky i was and how sad i am for children being raised by chatbots

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 8d

visionOS Diary: Work it

It's been a busy few weeks around here, what with Apple's latest platform updates and new iPhones, but I finally have time to catch my...

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 8d

Oh yeah, this is Pop Culture Jeopardy, I believe!

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 9d

Yes, backpack shopping filter, there ARE only two genders.

Checkbox filter labeled Gender Preference with two options: Unisex (20 results), Not Applicable (1 result)

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 10d

I’m in this! Brand new campaign starting now. Get in on the ground floor.

Erika Ensign @hollygodarkly.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10d

I'm starting a new, longish #dnd campaign tonight! Come watch us be nonsensical while starting Dragon Heist! Live NOW! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL3mH52fmk4

Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 10d

N…nerd?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10d

Presented without comment.

Sam Stein
@samstein
Trump telling the generals now that there "are two N words" and that "you can't use either of them"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 10d

Hegseth out here unleashing the "war criminal ethos"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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