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.

Fuck Mitch McConnell. No credit for performative weak sauce bullshit.

posted at 9:06PM on January 24, 2025

That piece of shit is getting dragged of every strip club in DC tonight.

posted at 8:54PM on January 24, 2025

Ok so now that the week is over, I think it's safe to say this was a real all-timer of a shitshow.

posted at 6:30PM on January 24, 2025

It's been a few days and I'm not happy to be back, but welcome to Insomnia Club.

posted at 4:41AM on January 24, 2025

Last night I wrote about right now, the collapse of media, and the need for all of us to make things outside of the oligarchy, because we're all we have. dansinker.com/posts/202... the words 'Right now is not a good time for information. But information wants to get out. And it's on us to do it. We're all we have left.'

posted at 5:46PM on January 23, 2025

I wrote about Trump, the oligarchy, media, hiding German anti-fascist texts in seed packets, and how it's up to us now to get information out: dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 9:07PM on January 22, 2025

There's a very powerful idea in Annalee Newitz's time travel novel The Future of Another Timeline, where the time travelers gather to recite their memories from the times they experienced before the timelines changed. That feels like us now.

posted at 5:48PM on January 22, 2025

The thing that was so clear working on Rebel Spirit and is just on full display right now is that segregationists are everywhere, will push back against everything no matter how small, will deny reality that doesn't line up with their worldview, and will always be fighting to take their power back.

posted at 8:23AM on January 22, 2025

you know what's hard? concentrating.

posted at 3:35PM on January 21, 2025

No time for bullshit in my inbox today.

posted at 3:00PM on January 21, 2025

Apple's Tim Cook might be the smartest of all of the tech oligarchs because he was there but didn't sit in the lineup and so he's absent from all the photographs while still just as shitty as the rest.

posted at 10:12AM on January 21, 2025

Greetings from the thermometer on my back porch

posted at 8:26AM on January 21, 2025

I have had many friends work at the USDS—some are still there now—and every single one of them left good jobs in tech to work for the government because they believed that the government should really help people. That all got blown up tonight, but thank you for your service.

posted at 9:53PM on January 20, 2025

just this song on loop until it comes true: www.youtube.com/watch

posted at 9:46PM on January 20, 2025

anyway, so this all seems very bad

posted at 9:03PM on January 20, 2025

My St Pauli ANTIFASCIST hoodie is all I'll be wearing for the next while k thanks.

posted at 1:15PM on January 20, 2025

🖕

posted at 11:04AM on January 20, 2025

Not today satan.

posted at 9:51AM on January 20, 2025

All day instead of my brain being like "oh no Trump takes office tomorrow and things are going to be terrible," my brain has decided to make me have high anxiety every time the heat turns on, worrying that this one will be the one where it breaks and we'll be heatless in the polar vortex.

posted at 7:54PM on January 19, 2025

I just keep writing pithy little posts and deleting them and then writing new little jokes and deleting them and then just staring into the middle distance for a while and then trying again

posted at 4:07PM on January 19, 2025

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