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.

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

who has opinions on graffiti/poster markers, please share them with me. especially opinions on super wide ones.

posted at 9:58PM on March 17, 2025

This is going to ruin the tour. A headline and text detail Senator Chuck Schumer's decision to postpone a book tour due to backlash for voting with Republicans, inciting protests and calls for his resignation from Democratic activists.

posted at 10:36AM on March 17, 2025

thought the kid was having some kind of breathing episode in the other room, but it turns out he was just laughing at a book. my brain is cooked.

posted at 9:18PM on March 16, 2025

Right now it feels impossible to get anything done, but we all have to. So I wrote about how I'm trying to break my doom spiral by doing one thing: dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 6:56PM on March 16, 2025

It was 75 degrees on Friday and now it's snowing

posted at 9:21AM on March 16, 2025

You can buy a blind box of my childhood. A box displays a "Mini Brands Retro" collection with miniature branded items, featuring "5 Surprise Minis Inside!" and showcasing things like a film canister and a floppy disk.

posted at 12:51PM on March 15, 2025

The rats are in the mail. www.npr.org/2025/03/1... A news article headline states that the USPS head has agreed to allow DOGE to find efficiencies with restrictions on employee data access.

posted at 10:36AM on March 15, 2025

BuT wHaT IF tHeY SHut doWN thE GOveRNmenT?? Motherfucker he did this AFTER your cowardly vote. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/1... A headline reports that Trump has ordered the reduction of seven agencies, including the parent organization of Voice of America, with a focus on entities related to labor mediation and homelessness prevention.

posted at 6:39AM on March 15, 2025

Ran into a celeb while out trying to walk off my rage. Northwestern, pay your foodservice workers. Selfie with Scabby the ray

posted at 5:32PM on March 14, 2025

so let's say that by some miracle, Schumer doesn't have the votes and this thing fails. He's now 100% put the heat on Dems for a government shutdown, where yesterday it would have fallen on Republicans.

posted at 12:42PM on March 14, 2025

It's extraordinarily nice outside so I'd appreciate if you gave me a reason to walk to the post office shop.dansinker.com

posted at 11:20AM on March 14, 2025

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