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.
Yesterday I wrote about getting off Threads and how we all need to define the lines we won't cross now that every tech exec has bent the knee to Trump. dansinker.com/posts/202...
posted at 6:36PM on January 8, 2025
Checking into the doctor and the person running the desk walked to the back and said, loudly, "I can't do this anymore." Same same.
posted at 2:23PM on January 8, 2025
Feels great to see hell unfold in California and know that exactly the wrong people for the job will be taking power in 12 days.
posted at 12:04PM on January 8, 2025
Lightly banging the gavel and whispering that Insomnia Club is called to order. Very much not glad to be here or to see you, but welcome.
posted at 3:34AM on January 8, 2025
Hope the LA Times is being sure to print the fire's point of view too.
posted at 10:45PM on January 7, 2025
Who's building a Stories-like product on AT proto or the Fediverse?
posted at 9:39PM on January 7, 2025
LA folks and friends, I hope that you are safe.
posted at 9:14PM on January 7, 2025
After Mark Zuckerberg's announcement that he was folding to Donald Trump and the far right, I can't stick around on Threads. Leaving Twitter was hard, but this is easy. Read "Pulling the Threads" on my site: dansinker.com/posts/202...
posted at 8:18PM on January 7, 2025
so like Trump 100% wants Greenland because the mercator map projection makes it look enormous right?
posted at 11:27AM on January 7, 2025
Missed the news yesterday that Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White has joined the Meta board of directors. www.npr.org/2025/01/0...
posted at 11:12AM on January 7, 2025
Made it a week into the new year before calling to order the first meeting of Insomnia Club for 2025.
posted at 3:57AM on January 7, 2025
Four years later the only person at the top to have seen any real repercussions from the entire 2020 election denial movement is Rudy, which is simultaneously an outrage, hilarious, and sad. Like they all met up and said he was gonna be the fall guy while he's still waiting for the calvery to come.
posted at 9:24AM on January 6, 2025
This week I watched two separate Netflix shows of entirely different genres both with completely shoehorned-in references to Britta Filters and I hate the world we live in.
posted at 11:33PM on January 4, 2025
TOMORROW, JAN 5! Come see me, Mikki Kendall, Peter Sagal, and 17 others of Chicago's best speaking for two minutes each at 20x2. 7pm, Gman, $20, will be wild. 20x2.org/chicago/
posted at 10:57AM on January 4, 2025
Training their bots for the dunks
posted at 10:15AM on January 3, 2025
The first small step in making a better internet for each other is starting to establish a presence there that isn't owned by a platform. Separate your self from Meta and Twitter and Substack and own your presence. Is it as easy? No, but it's worth it.
posted at 8:44AM on January 3, 2025
If anyone is looking for a lightweight journaling framework for the new year, a couple years ago I wrote how I approach it. I'm now entering my fifth unbroken year of daily use. dansinker.com/posts/ref...
posted at 9:50PM on January 1, 2025
Waking up to carnage: an American story.
posted at 7:17AM on January 1, 2025
Here we go.
posted at 12:03AM on January 1, 2025
listening to the kids banter the living hell out of each other while they play FIFA is perhaps the best way to ring out the year
posted at 7:01PM on December 31, 2024