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.

While the Washington Post continues its decline let's remember that just earlier this year some clown in management set a goal of getting 200 million readers, an impossible number that will never happen. Ms. Watford, who joined The Post in May, also laid out big-picture goals for the company. Among them: reach 200 million paying users, which the slide deck described as a “Big Hairy Audacious Goal,” or “B.H.A.G.”&10;&10;The slide deck compares the 200 million target with efforts to land a man on the moon — and it is an ambitious goal: The Post currently has fewer than three million digital subscribers; The Times, an industry leader, has roughly 11 million total subscribers.

posted at 9:14AM on July 17, 2025

Went to sell my dad's stamp collection today and the store was full chaos mode and the guy had a waxed mustache and gave me $25 and said "these are fun but worthless" and the whole thing was so perfect, an A+ end. A cluttered office space filled with stacks of books, boxes, files, and potted plants.

posted at 7:18PM on July 16, 2025

There might not be a more vividly nostalgic smell than Coppertone sunscreen.

posted at 11:10AM on July 13, 2025

Everything is a lot. Here are three places I'm escaping to, if only for a brief moment on the internet. dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 3:47PM on July 11, 2025

there was a point not that long ago where "people sitting in their cars yelling about shit" was not a normal content type and honestly I think we should go back to that

posted at 10:33AM on July 11, 2025

Sometimes I am sad and sometimes I am numb but mostly I am very, very angry.

posted at 9:36PM on July 8, 2025

Guess all these dumbasses are lucky they didn't make an X-Men movie this year

posted at 9:14PM on July 8, 2025

It would be nice if yet another mass death from a climate event lead to anyone doing anything about our increasingly fucked chances but

posted at 6:45PM on July 5, 2025

If you don't feel like celebrating America's birthday, you can always celebrate my kid's instead. Ten today!

posted at 8:27AM on July 4, 2025

Honestly hard to deal with being conquered by people this stupid.

posted at 2:46PM on July 3, 2025

It's been a hard month. I wrote about death, grief, and Magic: The Gathering. dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 12:11PM on July 3, 2025

Since I went to the dentist one (1) week ago, I've had a crown fall out and another one crack. My lesson learned is never go to the dentist.

posted at 8:12AM on July 2, 2025

Elderly dog ripped a dew claw this evening and our whole house looks like the elevator scene in The Shining.

posted at 7:58PM on July 1, 2025

More than tax cuts or whatever the fuck else, the biggest boost to American small business would be single payer healthcare.

posted at 5:07PM on June 30, 2025

Watching both sides of the aisle race to condemn a guy who basically campaigned on "everything is too expensive and maybe it shouldn't be" is extraordinarily informative.

posted at 10:25AM on June 30, 2025

I'm so tired of this country.

posted at 10:28AM on June 27, 2025

My flawless shit run in June continues with a crown falling out.

posted at 9:18PM on June 26, 2025

All I ask is a modest amount of incredulity from reporters. Riders paid a flat fee of $4.20, Mr. Musk said on X, an apparent reference to “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” one of his favorite books. In the book, 42 is the ambiguous answer a supercomputer provides when asked to explain the meaning of life and the universe. The number 420 is also sometimes used as code for marijuana use.

posted at 8:43AM on June 26, 2025

Really don't recommend speedrunning clearing out your parent's house.

posted at 10:08PM on June 25, 2025

Who could have possibly predicted this entirely-unsurprising outcome? Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says
Classified findings indicate that the attack sealed off the entrances to two facilities but did not collapse their underground buildings.

posted at 2:54PM on June 24, 2025

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