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.

It's genuinely insane to me how much MORE relevant Rebel Spirit has become since Season One ended. You a story about the repercussions of erasing history and about what it takes to try and get people to face the truth about the past? And also Gritty? We've got you: rebelspiritpodcast.com

posted at 7:45PM on March 27, 2025

Disappearing people on the flimsiest of legal arguments for exercising protected speech is 100% going to lead down a very dark path that many of us stand on.

posted at 2:09PM on March 27, 2025

Took a break from the hellscape to hang out with the Thorne Room Miniatures A detailed miniature diorama showcases a 1940s-style living room with elegant furnishings and decor, framed in a wooden box.

posted at 2:48PM on March 26, 2025

“We are currently clean on OPSEC” Garfield covered in lasagna cheese

posted at 8:17AM on March 26, 2025

Publishing screenshots of the entire groupchat all the way to including the entire chat membership list is the journalistic equivalent of "Fuck me? Fuck YOU."

posted at 8:03AM on March 26, 2025

“We are currently clean on OPSEC” is definitely the LOL line in the published groupchat.

posted at 7:53AM on March 26, 2025

The funniest thing about all this to me is I've WRITTEN for the Atlantic and nobody looped the EIC into our chats, inadvertently or otherwise.

posted at 6:11PM on March 25, 2025

The thing about groupchats, even on Signal, is they are only as secure as your weakest link member.

posted at 10:52AM on March 25, 2025

Oh no, I'm watching the first ten minutes of Up.

posted at 7:58PM on March 22, 2025

My day job is to help run a search for a fellowship program that has always brought in some of the most amazing, creative, and righteous people I have ever known. And this year the search is being completely overrun with near-identical madlib answers generated with ChatGPT. It's so disheartening.

posted at 6:21PM on March 22, 2025

Me telling myself that next week will be calmer than this week and believing it is my own personal Lucy-with-the-football.

posted at 12:45PM on March 21, 2025

Ok The Residence is very good.

posted at 10:40PM on March 20, 2025

Giancarlo Esposito is the fucking best.

posted at 9:59PM on March 20, 2025

There's snow on the ground. Are we not demoralized enough???

posted at 7:40AM on March 20, 2025

Full on Dear Leader shit right here. Asked about the anecdote, Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, did not directly address it but said that the president “is a virtuoso and his musical choices represent a brilliant palette of vibrant colors when others often paint in pale pastels.” Mr. Cheung said that, given Mr. Trump’s roles as president and Kennedy Center chair, “there is nobody more uniquely qualified to bring this country, and its rich history of the arts, back to prominence.”

posted at 8:18PM on March 19, 2025

Noted radical left stronghold of Buffalo Grove Illinois. patch.com/illinois/... text that reads New Tesla Dealership Vandalized, Buffalo Grove Woman Charged: Police The 26-year-old resident was charged with a felony following the incident last Friday at the new Dundee Road business.

posted at 3:59PM on March 19, 2025

I get that Says Who may not be for everyone, but do yourself a favor and listen today, as we LOSE OUR MINDS discussing the actual real-but-fictional couple that influences Chuck Schumer's legislative decisions. ~30 min is where we start. sayswhopodcast.com/episodes/...

posted at 12:40PM on March 19, 2025

The narrative of DOGE's break-in (literally) at the US Institute of Peace is fucking gnarly as hell. www.washingtonpost.com/national-... On Monday, at approximately 2:30 p.m.” four members of Inter-Con’s local office “came onto the property and attempted to use their key cards to open the doors. Ken Jackson was sitting in a government Lincoln Navigator on 23rd Street.” The security guards “walked around, trying different badge readers” on different doors. Eventually, one “who had retained a manual key to the building” used it to open a side doorO’Brien said he activated “lockdown procedure” preventing the opening of any doors. As the security contractors approached the door, “members of DOGE were running up to enter the building. When they were unsuccessful, they went back to their cars.” It was all, he said, on USIP security cameras.

posted at 6:25AM on March 19, 2025

it is impossible to remember that it has not even been two months.

posted at 10:57AM on March 18, 2025

I am a dude with a big beard and so OF COURSE I have multiple drawers filled with cables and yet somehow can't find a single cable that I actually need.

posted at 9:58AM on March 18, 2025

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