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.

If the 5 million number is accurate that means one in every 70 people in this country was on the streets today.

posted at 9:50PM on June 14, 2025

Picked a hell of a week for my mom to die.

posted at 8:29PM on June 12, 2025

I'm very checked out this week because of reasons, but I love Los Angeles so much for all the reasons that these fuckers hate it and I thought I'd share this bit of writing I did about LA during the fires: dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 9:28PM on June 10, 2025

Deploying ICE, the Border Patrol, the LAPD, the LA County Sheriffs, and now the National Guard and maybe the Marines over a small protest at a Home Depot is not the show of force they think it is.

posted at 7:57AM on June 8, 2025

Not gonna brag or anything but I just beat a nine year old at Magic: The Gathering.

posted at 4:57PM on June 7, 2025

Chicago remains undefeated. A display case contains Italian beef croissants, other pastries, and a decorated cake.

posted at 11:37AM on June 7, 2025

Lol I have a really high heat tolerance and just now almost murdered myself on Buldak 2x spicy ramen.

posted at 2:31PM on June 1, 2025

I miss when "creator" didn't just mean "someone who does direct-address video"

posted at 9:17AM on June 1, 2025

JUST HAD A BOBA THAT WAS SO SWEET I FEEL LIKE ELON MUSK AT A PRESS CONFERENCE

posted at 1:37PM on May 31, 2025

For more than a year, I've been writing essays about Punk Planet, the miracle of a magazine I worked on for 13 years. All that time I've been dreading writing this ending, because the reality is this: Sometimes things end and you never get over it. dansinker.com/posts/202... the cover of Punk Planet 80

posted at 5:01PM on May 30, 2025

honestly my day was pretty shitty until Elon got hit in the face

posted at 3:03PM on May 30, 2025

New favorite football crest just dropped. A seagull perched on a soccer ball is depicted on the Scarborough Athletic FC logo with the motto "No Battle, No Victory."

posted at 8:06AM on May 30, 2025

The Times finally reporting what we all could see: Musk was absolutely tripping balls the entire time he destroyed the government. Very polite of them to wait to drop this until he'd left the position. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/3... Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.

posted at 7:01AM on May 30, 2025

Why in the fuck would I want to do that? An invitation to chat with an AI named Sloppy Mustard Man, a person covered in mustard and sitting in a messy kitchen, surrounded by containers and food.

posted at 8:27AM on May 29, 2025

Meanwhile, MySpaceTom is having the time of his life at a rave in Vegas. A DJ wearing a jersey with "Illenium" and the number 3 is performing on stage amidst a crowd with beams of light and smoke in the background. Overlayed text says "Guess who pushed the smoke and confetti buttons?"

posted at 9:24PM on May 28, 2025

rolling into hour 15 of this work day

posted at 10:46PM on May 27, 2025

Promotion and relegation makes sports so much more interesting. Real stakes and so many stories.

posted at 11:38AM on May 24, 2025

TIL THE END

posted at 11:08AM on May 24, 2025

Me at 9:30: I'm super tired and I'm going to just go to bed, hahahah, fuck yeah!! Me at 3:30: Well this fucking sucks, what the fuck.

posted at 3:28AM on May 24, 2025

maybe every news org that quick produced a hot take on the Sun-Times AI reading list debacle should have fast-tracked a summer reading list of their own.

posted at 2:38PM on May 22, 2025

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