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.

Someone's gonna make him his own little participant trophy peace award.

posted at 7:48AM on October 10, 2025

I just really fucking love Chicago.

posted at 9:52PM on October 9, 2025

New weekend project just dropped. A box containing several orange whistles with cords next to a printed sheet of information on how to use them to warn about ICE

posted at 5:20PM on October 8, 2025

I wrote a little more about the book I'm writing, I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS!—yes, it's written with the caps—and how the lessons of history can teach us about today. And why that's a threat to, well, those masked bastards. dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 3:40PM on October 8, 2025

Tonight of all nights I'm going to re-up my benediction for Chicago. We are everything. dansinker.com/posts/202... No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago. We rose from the ashes. We never quit.&10;&10;We are the lake in the morning, the sun rising over the water, its reflection drawing a line straight to our shores.&10;&10;We are the Haymarket Martyrs, the Pullman strikers, always demanding better than what we've got.&10;&10;We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright.&10;&10;We are the 90s Bulls, making the impossible possible.&10;&10;We are the dipped Italian Beef. Messy, sure, but incredible.&10;&10;We are the humidity in the summer, the frostbitten cheeks in the winter.&10;&10;We are smoke-kissed rib tips.&10;&10;We are elotes on the street. We are pierogis in a pot.&10;&10;We are Curtis singing Hush now child.

posted at 9:50PM on October 5, 2025

Chicago is two and a half million people. Expand out to the larger metro area and you're talking about 10 million people. I like our odds.

posted at 4:15PM on October 4, 2025

All these motherfuckers know is provocation and escalation.

posted at 1:48PM on October 4, 2025

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago's Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 5:31PM on October 3, 2025

Just sitting around practicing my grocery store sign lettering. A large handwritten sign reading ANTI FASCIST is displayed on a cluttered table surrounded by art supplies and orange wavy lines framing the words.

posted at 2:54PM on October 1, 2025

Man all these shooters have just disappeared huh.

posted at 9:05PM on September 30, 2025

Definitely a choice to demonstrate how much of a weird loser you are in front of the entire upper ranks of the military.

posted at 9:05AM on September 30, 2025

Every day I am like well THIS is the craziest thing to have happened so far. And then the next day happens.

posted at 8:58AM on September 30, 2025

ICE has been sweeping through Chicago for weeks now, yet coverage of it is still really hard to find. I wanted to compile both my go-to places that I turn to, as well as offer some ideas to news orgs on how to cover the onslaught better: dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 3:47PM on September 26, 2025

The story of my life right now is, "Oh we love this and in this environment right now we can't touch it." Literally. Every. Thing.

posted at 12:36PM on September 26, 2025

Did people regularly write on bullet casings before Luigi or is that just a new fresh hell for us?

posted at 11:53AM on September 24, 2025

Local TV station megaconglomerates don't need to exist. Their entire income stream is 30 second ad slots for used car dealers and injury attorneys and local politicians. The only thing they make is a dying news product that hasn't changed its format in decades. Break em all up.

posted at 1:41PM on September 23, 2025

I think I was in high school the last time there was a lot of hype around the rapture, and it is just as funny now as it was then. Have fun flying to heaven folks. We'll be fine.

posted at 6:41PM on September 22, 2025

Sometimes I send myself texts in the night. "If you need me I'll be disassociating inside Richard Scarry's Busytown."

posted at 9:00AM on September 22, 2025

Chicago forever.

posted at 10:31PM on September 19, 2025

I have no tolerance or time for masked pieces of shit whose entire mandate is to snatch people standing outside Home Depot in hopes of getting a few bucks for a day's work.

posted at 2:52PM on September 18, 2025

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