Dan Sinker/notes

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.

A real murder fog going on outside rn

posted at 8:30AM on December 15, 2024

Well shit, Insomnia Club is called to order.

posted at 4:37AM on December 15, 2024

Got to hang out with trays and trays of Cooper Black tonight, at the Starshaped Press open house.

posted at 9:53PM on December 14, 2024

It's been a minute, but it's never too late for another meeting of Insomnia Club. Welcome, I'm not glad you're here.

posted at 3:40AM on December 14, 2024

Watching Peter Theil's sputtering condemnation or reading the new United Healthcare CEO's op-ed, it's ASTOUNDING to me that even they are starting with "look, we know the system is bad and needs fixing." This feels like a real, actual shift of the overton window on this. It took an assassination.

posted at 4:19PM on December 13, 2024

Now that Facebook, Amazon, OpenAI, and others have donated a million each to the Trump inauguration committee, let's remember that the _last_ Trump inauguration was a essentially a criminal enterprise with something like 10 different corruption investigations.

posted at 3:08PM on December 13, 2024

I'm in a hotel that costs many hundreds of dollars a night and this is the shower head placement.

posted at 10:57AM on December 12, 2024

Wheels down LA.

posted at 11:38AM on December 11, 2024

It took a murder to get this discussion on Good Morning America

posted at 2:48PM on December 10, 2024

Hey on January 5, I'll be giving a quick talk at the first 20x2 of the new year with an absolute murderer's row of Chicago talent. Come join us, 7pm at the Gman, tickets are ON SALE NOW. 20x2.org/chicago/

posted at 1:20PM on December 10, 2024

Here's the kind of just workaday bullshit of our health system. I'm choosing a new plan from the exchange. The exchange says our medical group in the plan. BCBS says our medical group in the plan. Our medical group does not list this plan anywhere. Do I roll the dice?

posted at 9:35AM on December 10, 2024

Definitely think that there's nothing more indicitive of the desperation of right now than throwing all your hopes behind a CEO killer.

posted at 5:50PM on December 9, 2024

who fucking snitched???

posted at 11:01AM on December 9, 2024

Kick Bezos in the Balls hoodies, Biscuit Ts, TRYING stickers, Punk Planet throwbacks and lots more. I outlined everything I've got on offer this holiday season here: dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 8:19AM on December 9, 2024

Right now you're probably looking for gifts for others (and maybe yourself), so I thought I'd pull together a list of all the things that I've got for sale through my site, my pods, or elsewhere. Read "Merchandise Keeps Us in Line" at my site: dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 9:39PM on December 8, 2024

Welcome back to Insomnia Club, I'm not glad you're here.

posted at 3:24AM on December 8, 2024

Surprise Friday night merch drop at my little webstore: Throwback Ts! A couple designs from other lifetimes. Punk Planet! Quaxelrod! $25! shop.dansinker.com photos of two T-shirts, one Punk Planet and one featuring the majestic duck Quaxelrod

posted at 8:00PM on December 6, 2024

The outpouring of anger at the health insurance industry is the least surprising thing ever. Every single person has a story—has trauma—from this insane system we live under.

posted at 4:07PM on December 6, 2024

what a fucking wild moment in time to be begrudgingly filling out the ACA exchange application

posted at 8:30AM on December 6, 2024

The NYPD's budget is $5.4 billion and they can't find a guy on a bike.

posted at 8:28PM on December 5, 2024

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