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.

I wrote a little bit about the 400th episode of Says Who podcast, a show that was supposed to last 8 episodes, and the power of making things with your friends. dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 3:43PM on October 16, 2025

A problem with researching stuff from 100 years ago is that I get very easily distracted by all the ads in newspapers. a vintage newspaper ad for Stillman's 'Muncie's Original Underselling Store'

posted at 11:17AM on October 15, 2025

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today's youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

posted at 12:39PM on October 12, 2025

Full ICE whistle assembly line over here. Assembling ICE whistle packs on a red table

posted at 7:12PM on October 11, 2025

RIP Tony Fitzpatrick. Taught me so much about what it means to love a place so much that you become one with it. A truly singular Chicago artist. A vibrant collage by Tony Fitzpatrick features a peregrine falcon with architectural elements and bold text related to Chicago.

posted at 4:05PM on October 11, 2025

Saturday morning craft project A red table is covered with numerous printed zines, in Spanish , about using whistles to warn about ICE and a pair of scissors

posted at 11:24AM on October 11, 2025

I am never ever going to forgive a single one of these motherfuckers.

posted at 8:59PM on October 10, 2025

Someone's gonna make him his own little participant trophy peace award.

posted at 7:48AM on October 10, 2025

I just really fucking love Chicago.

posted at 9:52PM on October 9, 2025

New weekend project just dropped. A box containing several orange whistles with cords next to a printed sheet of information on how to use them to warn about ICE

posted at 5:20PM on October 8, 2025

I wrote a little more about the book I'm writing, I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS!—yes, it's written with the caps—and how the lessons of history can teach us about today. And why that's a threat to, well, those masked bastards. dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 3:40PM on October 8, 2025

Tonight of all nights I'm going to re-up my benediction for Chicago. We are everything. dansinker.com/posts/202... No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago. We rose from the ashes. We never quit.&10;&10;We are the lake in the morning, the sun rising over the water, its reflection drawing a line straight to our shores.&10;&10;We are the Haymarket Martyrs, the Pullman strikers, always demanding better than what we've got.&10;&10;We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright.&10;&10;We are the 90s Bulls, making the impossible possible.&10;&10;We are the dipped Italian Beef. Messy, sure, but incredible.&10;&10;We are the humidity in the summer, the frostbitten cheeks in the winter.&10;&10;We are smoke-kissed rib tips.&10;&10;We are elotes on the street. We are pierogis in a pot.&10;&10;We are Curtis singing Hush now child.

posted at 9:50PM on October 5, 2025

Chicago is two and a half million people. Expand out to the larger metro area and you're talking about 10 million people. I like our odds.

posted at 4:15PM on October 4, 2025

All these motherfuckers know is provocation and escalation.

posted at 1:48PM on October 4, 2025

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago's Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 5:31PM on October 3, 2025

Just sitting around practicing my grocery store sign lettering. A large handwritten sign reading ANTI FASCIST is displayed on a cluttered table surrounded by art supplies and orange wavy lines framing the words.

posted at 2:54PM on October 1, 2025

Man all these shooters have just disappeared huh.

posted at 9:05PM on September 30, 2025

Definitely a choice to demonstrate how much of a weird loser you are in front of the entire upper ranks of the military.

posted at 9:05AM on September 30, 2025

Every day I am like well THIS is the craziest thing to have happened so far. And then the next day happens.

posted at 8:58AM on September 30, 2025

ICE has been sweeping through Chicago for weeks now, yet coverage of it is still really hard to find. I wanted to compile both my go-to places that I turn to, as well as offer some ideas to news orgs on how to cover the onslaught better: dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 3:47PM on September 26, 2025

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