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.

sign of the times that I just had to reup an order for TRYING patches. shop.dansinker.com/products/... a pile of patches, orange with black type that reads 'trying'

posted at 11:11AM on February 3, 2025

Come on, please. A headline that reads "Newly detected near-Earth asteroid has astronomers full attention"

posted at 2:40PM on February 2, 2025

The Arsenal with a good reminder that sometimes you can face the bully and punch them in the fucking dick.

posted at 12:22PM on February 2, 2025

I wrote about how, at a moment where so much insane shit is happening and so many people are trying to deny it, writing it down is a radical act: dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 9:59AM on February 1, 2025

everything seems real cool rn

posted at 9:58PM on January 31, 2025

Just to really ensure today is as awful as possible we're watching Attack of the Clones.

posted at 7:41PM on January 31, 2025

Seems like someone is fucking around with governmental DNS records. What could possibly go wrong. screenshot of census.gov returning a 508 error screenshot of faa.gov with a 'this site can't be reached' error

posted at 5:12PM on January 31, 2025

The fun thing is I'm completely ignoring that I lost half my income two weeks ago. This should work out well.

posted at 7:47PM on January 30, 2025

I am begging you: if you are writing a thread of more than a couple posts, get a blog. I don't mean this in a mean way. I mean: allow this thought to continue to exist, outside of this platform, in an actually coherent, readable format that sticks around for longer than 20 minutes. You deserve it!

posted at 6:43PM on January 30, 2025

actually channeled all this anxeity usefully today.

posted at 3:16PM on January 30, 2025

Stephen Miller absolutely would start crying if you pulled a halfway decent headfake on him.

posted at 8:30PM on January 29, 2025

So basically a weird creep is signing a never-ending pile of decrees drafted by other weird creeps which will be implemented and enforced by yet more weird creeps.

posted at 6:16PM on January 29, 2025

My notebook just full of shit like this now.

posted at 4:07PM on January 29, 2025

Seeing Chicago stand up against ICE this week reminded me of why I love this city so much, and gave me a focal point for a reflection on the 50th issue of Punk Planet, which was dedicated to the city. Read it: dansinker.com/posts/202... text that reads In Chicago, you do your work in an honest fashion. You don't fuck people over. You treat people with the respect and the honestly you would want them to treat you with. In Chicago, you do your work because it's the work that defines you. If you can go home knowing that you made an honest wage, you can go home proud.

posted at 3:14PM on January 29, 2025

If it wasn't so goddamn tragic, Robert F Kennedy being considered to run anything with "health" in its title would be absolutely hilarious. The man like an overcooked extra from the Walking Dead.

posted at 11:30AM on January 29, 2025

Woke up with a start, had a completely formed opener for this thing I need to write and scrawled it in my journal in the dark in the most unintelligible handwriting that has ever come from my hand. Anyway, welcome to Insomnia Club.

posted at 5:09AM on January 29, 2025

I've been writing more lately and you should sign up to get it in your inbox. No charge, no upsell, just good times. And not on fucking Substack. dansinker.com/follow/

posted at 9:41PM on January 28, 2025

I didn't believe this was a real headline because it's just too perfect, but it really is. 🤞🤞🤞✈️🤞🤞🤞 www.cnbc.com/2025/01/2...

posted at 8:06PM on January 28, 2025

this motherfucker has been president for barely more than a week

posted at 6:10PM on January 28, 2025

Bookship, the anti-amazon that gives $$ to local bookstores with every sale, now has ebooks. That's a big deal: bookshop.org/info/eboo...

posted at 10:34AM on January 28, 2025

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