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.
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...
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
As a parent of a Gen Z kid, I can tell you that their whole entire lives they've seen the government put them last. Guns, covid, student loans, cost-of-living, it's always their gen that has gotten fucked. This TikTok ban vividly reinforces what they already know.
posted at 2:00PM on January 19, 2025
Finally took care of the real enemy, Marvel Snap.
posted at 1:38PM on January 19, 2025
The best time to start building a little spot for yourself on the internet independent of platforms was yesterday. The second best time is right fucking now.
posted at 7:08AM on January 19, 2025