Most of the time my thoughts aren't long enough for a blog post. My shortform notes get posted on Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky, and also wind up here.
The claw marks on the side of Pep’s head are giving me life.
posted at 10:39AM on December 21, 2024
It’s time once again to call Insomnia Club to order.
posted at 4:25AM on December 21, 2024
Emmet Otter time
posted at 8:03PM on December 20, 2024
I think about the ending of Roger Ebert’s 2004 review of M Night Shyamalan’s The Village on a regular basis. It is a perfect piece of writing. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/t…
posted at 9:25AM on December 20, 2024
Just remembered how last year I was approached by a big fancy podcast company to pitch ideas and they rejected every one before being like “yeah no what we really want is a white guy to talk about tech”
posted at 8:29PM on December 19, 2024
The day after September 11th, we got a threatening voicemail at the Punk Planet office. It propelled us to try and make an issue that could capture the moment.
Read “Here Comes the Argument: Punk Planet, Year Eight” on my site: dansinker.com/posts/202…
posted at 6:33PM on December 19, 2024
Between the Amazon strikes, the CEO assassination, and Elon Musk robber-baroning his way to power, there’s some real late-1800s energy in the air right now.
posted at 4:37PM on December 19, 2024
fuck the oligarchy
posted at 6:32PM on December 18, 2024
Absolutely love that we have a ketamine-fueled shadow president with infinite money puppetmastering the government via tweet. Just love this for us.
posted at 4:17PM on December 18, 2024
Tonight's meeting of Insomnia Club is brought to you by my dog who demanded to go out at 3am for apparently secret reasons.
posted at 3:27AM on December 17, 2024
There have been TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY EIGHT school shootings THIS YEAR????
No one else in the world lives like this. We should not put up with living like this.
posted at 9:49PM on December 16, 2024
Sometimes I think about what it would be like to actually have time.
posted at 9:37PM on December 16, 2024
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posted at 6:10PM on December 16, 2024
On January 5, come join me and a bunch of incredible folks in the 20x2 speaker series. The theme is "Where To" and I'm going to be talking about the Klan, because I'm lots of fun. gmantavern.com/event/20x...
posted at 10:08AM on December 16, 2024
The—checks notes—Woody Guthrie Center is going the exact proper amount of hard.
posted at 8:31PM on December 15, 2024
the mystery drones are 2024's version of the 2016 clown sightings
posted at 7:19PM on December 15, 2024
This is the actual cover of the Melania Trump book??? They really spared no expense for this one huh
posted at 6:08PM on December 15, 2024
Honestly the humiliation of Manchester City is more than I could have dreamed.
posted at 12:42PM on December 15, 2024
Whatever new flavor of surveillance capitalism has websites emailing me when I've only visited them—not bought anything or even put something in a cart—is the absolute worst user-hostile dark pattern I've seen in a while.
posted at 10:34AM on December 15, 2024
A real murder fog going on outside rn
posted at 8:30AM on December 15, 2024
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