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Dad. Husband. Writer. Kentuckian. Cavs & Cats. Buy “Morphenomenal: How the Power Rangers Conquered the World” on Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/p/books/morphenomenal-how-the-power-rangers-took-over-the-world-joshua-moore/21684652), B&N or Amazon!

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Joshua Moore @joshuamoore.com · May 20

"Morphenomenal" is a narrative history of the Power Rangers franchise. I loved writing it and think you'll love reading it if you're into PR or pop-culture history. Available now!

Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/morp...
B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/morphenome...
Amzn: www.amazon.com/Morphenomena...

Morphenomenal: How the Power Rangers Conquered the World

Morphenomenal: How the Power Rangers Conquered the World [Moore, Joshua] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Morphenomenal: How the Power Rangers Conquered the World

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Stefan Fatsis @stefanfatsis.bsky.social · 6h

Happy pub day to me!

Also pictured, bottom to top: Webster's Third (1961); battered Webster's New World (1974; my first dictionary); Webster's Collegiate, Fifth Edition (inscribed by my immigrant father in 1949)

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 6h

If you view peaceful protest as a direct preclude to the appropriately cinematic revolution that you've imagined, you might be disappointed! But as a manner of strengthening the symbol of community, something that's necessary if you desire any sort of positive future, it's more than useful.

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Joshua Moore @joshuamoore.com · 6h

A Kentucky writing icon and one of the best teachers a person who could ever have. RIP, Gurney.

Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 6h

‘Kind and generous,’ Gurney Norman, Kentucky writer and teacher, dies at 88.

He was Kentucky poet laureate and received many honors including an honorary degree from Berea College and an affiliation with Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters.

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'Kind and generous,' Gurney Norman, Kentucky writer and teacher, dies at 88 • Kentucky Lantern

Beloved Kentucky writer Gurney Norman, whose fiction chronicled life in Appalachia and the 1960s counterculture, died Oct. 12. He was 88.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 7h

The court has to do the right thing once every three months to keep up appearances

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion judgment for calling Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 8h

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Daniel Ford @writersbone.com · 8h

New episode!

Mary Roach returns to the show and chats with me about her latest book Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy.

Listen: www.writersbone.com/podcastsarch...

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 17h

LOVE this but coming up with MMPR-era monster names is so hard because they range from genuinely good puns (Centiback, Artisimole) to lazy first draft names (Brick Bully, Silver Horns)

But my gut instinct tells me.... Dollface

Jim Bevan @jimbevan85.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant idea. What name would you have given this monster?

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 1d

Power Rangers never used the Kakuranger yokai Konaki-jiji, but they could have made a Halloween episode in season 3 where this monster turns all the Rangers but Rocky into dolls and he has to overcome his fear of creepy dolls to save them, and it would be called "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"

Konakijiji a sort of baby doll yokai from episode 10 of Kakuranger

Konakijiji a sort of baby doll yokai from episode 10 of Kakuranger, in his cute baby form

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

I really need y'all to learn how to make people emotionally irrelevant to your lives

aaronstampler99.bsky.social @aaronstampler99.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not sure you can be trusted to run a program where any success you may have would bring joy to Clay Travis.

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Joshua Moore @joshuamoore.com · 1d

This!!!!! It’s so easy to just not think about Clay Travis and the like.

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 1d

The best Godzilla podcast talking about the best Showa era Godzilla movie! Very exciting!

Glitterjaw @glitterjaw.bsky.social · 1d

Don't let the smog monster melt you into bones! @avartwork.bsky.social joins SKREEONK for Godzilla vs. Hedorah, which tackled the existential threat of pollution as one of the weirdest and most gruesome Godzilla films 💀

Find the pod: glitterjaw.com/skreeonk

Cover art by: @hamishsteele.bsky.social

SKREEONK!
Godzilla vs. Hedorah

Artwork by Hamish Seele of Hedorah's angry eyes as smog looming over a newsprint colored 70s horror manga rendition of the characters from Godzilla vs Hedorah among tons of pollution and facing melted skeletons with flying Godzilla in the background

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Joshua Moore @joshuamoore.com · 1d

THE WAY WE ALL BECAME THE BRADY BUNCH by Kimberly Potts is also part of the same coupon deal. It was a huge influence on the direction MORPHENOMENAL took. If you like old sitcoms, check it out! Great book.

Joshua Moore @joshuamoore.com · 1d

My book MORPHENOMENAL: HOW THE POWER RANGERS CONQUERED THE WORLD is down to its lowest price ever (with 30% coupon) on Amazon. Not sure if the coupon is available to all, but I think so?

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Morphenomenal: How the Power Rangers Conquered the World

Morphenomenal: How the Power Rangers Conquered the World [Moore, Joshua] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Morphenomenal: How the Power Rangers Conquered the World

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Doug Fink ✌🏻 @ickybooley.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t write or edit our newsletters, so I get to read ‘em for the first time with all of you, and this one hit me in a very specific way.

I needed this reminder. To be reminded of the work we did, why we did it, and how proud I felt. It’s a healing reminder. Thank you, @awkwardcomma.bsky.social.

Glitterjaw @glitterjaw.bsky.social · 8d

This month on our newsletter and monthly round-up, we spotlight Glitterjaw’s response to the erasure and censorship of queer voices in media.

Check out everything happening across our podcasts!
www.glitterjaw.com/news/sept-2025

A Glimmer Into Glitterjaw: Turning Audio Into Action Part II — Glitterjaw

A spotlight on Glitterjaw’s response to erasure and censorship of queer voices in media. Plus, our monthly podcast roundup!

www.glitterjaw.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Joshua Moore @joshuamoore.com · 2d

Use alt text, yo

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Georgie Rhino ™ @musclechubrhino.bsky.social · 2d

I overheard someone at the record store refer to the new Jared Leto movie as TRONarrhea™ today. 11/10

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 2d

Another thing GenAI can't replicate is receiving a piece of commissioned art and knowing that another person you've connected with devoted so much of their own time and passion into creating art just for YOU. You'd have to be a deeply lonely self-loathing person to not see any value in that.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 2d

To this day no one has been able to convince me that the phrase ANTIFA wasn’t coined by a right wing think tank to make liberal activists sound like a terror group and that liberals walked right into the trap and gave the right the villains it needed for their narrative.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 2d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Joshua Moore @joshuamoore.com · 2d

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Joshua Moore @joshuamoore.com · 2d

Not personally familiar with her but I can ask him.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 2d

EXACTLY. $1B for a movie that is by many accounts almost unwatchable. And teens have ALWAYS loved horror. Why is horror doing so well right now? Because it's the one genre that hasn't left teens and 20 somethings behind.

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Joshua Moore @joshuamoore.com · 3d

"Using words that sound nice together, that make a simple sentence slightly more complicated, is not what makes writing good."

SAY IT LOUDER. YES!!!

(Related: Almost any person who's ever written professionally would benefit from having spent any amount of time working for a print newspaper.)

Defector @defector.com · 3d

Kelsey McKinney on Taylor Swift: defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

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Joshua Moore @joshuamoore.com · 3d

Post-original Tron is something I've just never had any interest in messing with. Jared Leto definitely wasn't gonna get me in a seat lol

Joshua Moore @joshuamoore.com · 3d

It was one of the most successful toylines the year it released. Imagine this is overstock that flowed in once the hype died down around time of release. Little kids have short memories.