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.

Just got feedback on something and the big takeaway was "Maybe cut half of the curse words." My brand remains strong.

posted at 12:51PM on April 25, 2025

Between Minecraft and Sinners can anyone remember this many people talking enthusiastically about the experience of seeing movies in movie theaters in the last 5 years? I can not. Like I said: I think movies are back.

posted at 12:30PM on April 25, 2025

Wow, I didn't know that the Getty got the Raymond Pettibon archive this year. I want to dig through that so bad!! www.getty.edu/news/gett...

posted at 9:36PM on April 24, 2025

So Musk decimated staffing across the government, effectively shuttered multiple agencies, and ended most foreign aid, education, and science funding, while only trimming around $150B out of the budget??? Sounds like government was actually REMARKABLY efficient before he came along.

posted at 4:14PM on April 24, 2025

Kickstarter acknowledges that folks building things are royally fucked right now. Since then, early beta testers have helped us shape and improve it in all the right ways, including adding a new Tariff Manager to help creators adapt to changing tariff and regulatory costs—without compromising reward delivery.

posted at 12:59PM on April 24, 2025

We gotta bring back calling that guy a couchfucker

posted at 9:48PM on April 22, 2025

these fucks have no idea what they're doing one day to the next. a headline that says Trump Says He Has No Intention of Firing Fed Chief Powell

posted at 4:35PM on April 22, 2025

"Tesla said Tuesday that its profits fell 71 percent in the first three months of the year" Is that a lot?

posted at 4:27PM on April 22, 2025

Blinks in Rebel Spirit www.nytimes.com/2025/04/2... Trump Joins a Bitter Fight on Long Island Over a School Mascot. New York’s education leaders moved to ban Native American-inspired mascots in 2022, drawing a lawsuit from the Massapequa school district. Now, the president has weighed in.

posted at 10:25AM on April 22, 2025

End stage capitalism, but make it food. A package of Jack Link's Doritos Spicy Sweet Chili flavored meat sticks is on display.

posted at 12:11PM on April 19, 2025

Lolllllllllllllllllll A headline reports that Trump officials attribute a confrontation with Harvard to an unauthorized mistake by the administration's antisemitism task force.

posted at 9:10PM on April 18, 2025

Lol, we were like "Oh shit, that. What can we get at Walgreens?" Are Easter Baskets Getting Out of Hand?&10;&10;Social media is awash in images of lavish baskets overflowing with expensive gifts. Some parents are giving their children bikes. Others are pushing back.

posted at 7:53PM on April 18, 2025

There's just a couple hours left to vote for the Webbys. Please take 30 seconds and vote Rebel Spirit. vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVot...

posted at 11:20PM on April 17, 2025

Clone Wars getting real real over here. A television displays the text "The challenge of hope is to overcome corruption" in a room with some framed items and decorative lights.

posted at 8:10PM on April 17, 2025

from a pitch today: I like digging up bodies, especially when those bodies are old racists.

posted at 5:58PM on April 17, 2025

Sat down tonight, left my phone in the charger, and read an actual paper magazine cover to cover. A+, highly recommended activity.

posted at 9:38PM on April 16, 2025

I'm sorry they threw a what-themed wedding??? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/1... Amazon was the center of their life. They met at a conference for Amazon sellers in 2016 and had their first kiss at another Amazon conference two years later. They moved in together and grew their business, Treasures Gifted. When they married in 2022, they threw an Amazon-themed wedding, with guests assigned Amazon product numbers instead of table numbers.

posted at 12:15PM on April 16, 2025

being a parent of a nine-year-old means a lot of other parents ask you if your kid has read Harry Potter yet and so you get very used to the awkward silence that follows you saying "no because they were written by an anti-trans bigot, and besides there are a lot better books out there."

posted at 8:05AM on April 16, 2025

The nine-year-old has become obsessed with America's Funniest Home Videos which (1) still exists, (2) is now mostly people's doorbell cam footage, and (3) illustrates how we got into this mess more vividly than any NYT profile has managed.

posted at 8:12PM on April 15, 2025

wishing the last dude left at the IRS good luck in detangling my tax thicket.

posted at 5:44PM on April 14, 2025

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