Dan Sinker/notes

Most of the time my thoughts aren't long enough for a blog post. My shortform notes get posted on Mastodon and Bluesky, and also wind up here.

Did people regularly write on bullet casings before Luigi or is that just a new fresh hell for us?

posted at 11:53AM on September 24, 2025

Local TV station megaconglomerates don’t need to exist. Their entire income stream is 30 second ad slots for used car dealers and injury attorneys and local politicians. The only thing they make is a dying news product that hasn’t changed its format in decades. Break em all up.

posted at 1:41PM on September 23, 2025

I think I was in high school the last time there was a lot of hype around the rapture, and it is just as funny now as it was then. Have fun flying to heaven folks. We’ll be fine.

posted at 6:41PM on September 22, 2025

Sometimes I send myself texts in the night.

 "If you need me I'll be disassociating inside Richard Scarry's Busytown."

posted at 9:00AM on September 22, 2025

Chicago forever.

posted at 10:31PM on September 19, 2025

I have no tolerance or time for masked pieces of shit whose entire mandate is to snatch people standing outside Home Depot in hopes of getting a few bucks for a day’s work.

posted at 2:52PM on September 18, 2025

I wrote this essay right after inauguration day and it's even more true today. dansinker.com/posts/202... We have to become the media that has collapsed. Pick up the pieces and build anew. Build robust. Build independent.&10;&10;Of course none of this is easy. These are not easy times. But it's necessary to make it through them. And while it may not be easy, it won't be lonely, because there are a lot of us out here looking to build anew. We'll do it, and we'll do it together.

posted at 9:12PM on September 17, 2025

Turns out the fuck-your-feelings crowd has A LOT of feelings.

posted at 7:57PM on September 17, 2025

Gifting your child a high-powered rifle is *also* an ideology. We just refuse to speak of it as such.

posted at 8:20PM on September 16, 2025

Everything is completely nuts right now, so I thought I'd take a minute to celebrate a few good things I've been enjoying lately. dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 2:43PM on September 15, 2025

Got cornered by a Screen Time Parent today and lord, I could not give less of a shit.

posted at 3:48PM on September 14, 2025

100,000 racists marching on London is not how I wanted to start the weekend.

posted at 9:22AM on September 13, 2025

I think we've reached our takes fill. Log off. Let's enjoy Friday away from our hell rectangles.

posted at 4:42PM on September 12, 2025

probably not a really bad and terrifying thing that each shooter leaves little haha memes and phrases for the next one to build on and top

posted at 11:18AM on September 12, 2025

when it turns out the guy doesn't fit their easy narrative I'm sure they'll de-escalate

posted at 8:49AM on September 12, 2025

Always wild to do something like go to your kid's curriculum night and have another parent be like "I've been reading your stuff for 30 years"

posted at 6:59PM on September 11, 2025

Weird day to get good news.

posted at 11:36AM on September 11, 2025

This ad I just got for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra looks like they're hyping a golden age supervillain team up

posted at 12:55PM on September 8, 2025

We couldn't possibly be in a worse information environment for what's happening. Which is probably, in part, why it's happening.

posted at 10:22PM on September 6, 2025

Can not undersell how stunningly beautiful the weather in Chicago is today. All the fascists can eat shit.

posted at 3:08PM on September 6, 2025

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