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.

All these motherfuckers know is provocation and escalation.

posted at 1:48PM on October 4, 2025

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago's Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 5:31PM on October 3, 2025

Just sitting around practicing my grocery store sign lettering. A large handwritten sign reading ANTI FASCIST is displayed on a cluttered table surrounded by art supplies and orange wavy lines framing the words.

posted at 2:54PM on October 1, 2025

Man all these shooters have just disappeared huh.

posted at 9:05PM on September 30, 2025

Definitely a choice to demonstrate how much of a weird loser you are in front of the entire upper ranks of the military.

posted at 9:05AM on September 30, 2025

Every day I am like well THIS is the craziest thing to have happened so far. And then the next day happens.

posted at 8:58AM on September 30, 2025

ICE has been sweeping through Chicago for weeks now, yet coverage of it is still really hard to find. I wanted to compile both my go-to places that I turn to, as well as offer some ideas to news orgs on how to cover the onslaught better: dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 3:47PM on September 26, 2025

The story of my life right now is, "Oh we love this and in this environment right now we can't touch it." Literally. Every. Thing.

posted at 12:36PM on September 26, 2025

Did people regularly write on bullet casings before Luigi or is that just a new fresh hell for us?

posted at 11:53AM on September 24, 2025

Local TV station megaconglomerates don't need to exist. Their entire income stream is 30 second ad slots for used car dealers and injury attorneys and local politicians. The only thing they make is a dying news product that hasn't changed its format in decades. Break em all up.

posted at 1:41PM on September 23, 2025

I think I was in high school the last time there was a lot of hype around the rapture, and it is just as funny now as it was then. Have fun flying to heaven folks. We'll be fine.

posted at 6:41PM on September 22, 2025

Sometimes I send myself texts in the night. "If you need me I'll be disassociating inside Richard Scarry's Busytown."

posted at 9:00AM on September 22, 2025

Chicago forever.

posted at 10:31PM on September 19, 2025

I have no tolerance or time for masked pieces of shit whose entire mandate is to snatch people standing outside Home Depot in hopes of getting a few bucks for a day's work.

posted at 2:52PM on September 18, 2025

I wrote this essay right after inauguration day and it's even more true today. dansinker.com/posts/202... We have to become the media that has collapsed. Pick up the pieces and build anew. Build robust. Build independent.&10;&10;Of course none of this is easy. These are not easy times. But it's necessary to make it through them. And while it may not be easy, it won't be lonely, because there are a lot of us out here looking to build anew. We'll do it, and we'll do it together.

posted at 9:12PM on September 17, 2025

Turns out the fuck-your-feelings crowd has A LOT of feelings.

posted at 7:57PM on September 17, 2025

Gifting your child a high-powered rifle is *also* an ideology. We just refuse to speak of it as such.

posted at 8:20PM on September 16, 2025

Everything is completely nuts right now, so I thought I'd take a minute to celebrate a few good things I've been enjoying lately. dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 2:43PM on September 15, 2025

Got cornered by a Screen Time Parent today and lord, I could not give less of a shit.

posted at 3:48PM on September 14, 2025

100,000 racists marching on London is not how I wanted to start the weekend.

posted at 9:22AM on September 13, 2025

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