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Dan Moren

@dmoren.com

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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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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 14h

I'm so sorry, Amy. My condolences. 💜

Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 19h

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

Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 19h

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 · 19h

I liked this book quite a bit!

JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 2d

Does it mean fewer jobs or jobs that transition elsewhere?

Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 2d

Maybe we ought to have FEWER FUCKING CARS THEN.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

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 · 2d

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

Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 3d

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 · 3d

This Red Sox fan thanks you for your service. 👊

Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 5d

Far preferable.

Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 7d

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 · 8d

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

Erika Ensign @hollygodarkly.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 8d

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 · 8d

N…nerd?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d

Presented without comment.

Sam Stein
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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 · 8d

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 · 8d

Hegseth out here unleashing the "war criminal ethos"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

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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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 8d

It's just a well known fact that you can't do soldiering with a beard. Impossible!

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 9d

Only cowards cover their faces while doing this dirty work. If you’re hiding your identity it’s because some part of you knows what you’re doing is wrong.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 9d

8-year old Dasha Ramirez was playing with her brother at Millennium Park when Border Patrol took them. They’re now awaiting deportation to Guatemala. “We never imagined our Sunday would end this way, mother Noemi Chavez said. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 9d

Good news, everybody gets a lump of coal in their stockings this year.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 12d

Come watch me play D&D for a good cause!

Relay @relay.fm · 12d

It's time for D&D&Donations!

Join Erika Ensign, Annette Wierstra, Dan Moren, Aleen Simms, and your DM, Mikah Sargent, and impact the game with your donations to St. Jude: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HI2h...

Relay for St. Jude D&D&Donations 2025

Join us as four players take on the role of LEVEL 20 D&D characters in an epic adventure to save the world. YOUR donations will impact the game! Featuring Erika Ensign, Annette Wierstra, Dan Moren, Aleen Simms, and your DM, Mikah Sargent. Donate: https://tilt.fyi/01iHwRVME8

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Mikah Sargent @mikahsargent.com · 12d

Just a few short hours away!

https:://mikah.co/fun

A dice tray with dice, a box with the text “the deck of many things” and a card on display within the box titled “eclipse”, and a few cards with arcane symbols are arranged on a desk.

A pixel-style graphic with the following text: D&D&Donations Charity Livestream to Benefit St. Jude. Friday, September 26 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. Eastern. youtube.com/@relaypodcasts. Pixel sprites of the players and their names — Erika Ensign, Annette Wierstra, Dan Moren, Aleen Simms, and Mikah Sargent — are arranged in pixelated tokens the foreground.

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