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.
Happy May Day, from the city that brought it to you. 
posted at 9:40AM on May 1, 2025
Memory is a real son of a bitch. I thought I remembered the last painful years of Punk Planet vividly. Looking across the wreckage of Year 12, our next-to-last year, it turns out I didn't. Read "Things Fall Apart: Punk Planet, Year 12" dansinker.com/posts/202...
posted at 2:46PM on April 30, 2025
Yesterday was like 40 degrees colder than today
posted at 5:55PM on April 28, 2025
To mark Independent Bookstore Day today, I wrote about the bookshop that changed my life and why indies are more important than ever. dansinker.com/posts/202...
posted at 7:14AM on April 26, 2025
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. 
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. 
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...
posted at 10:25AM on April 22, 2025
End stage capitalism, but make it food.
posted at 12:11PM on April 19, 2025
Lolllllllllllllllllll
posted at 9:10PM on April 18, 2025
Lol, we were like "Oh shit, that. What can we get at Walgreens?"
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.
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