Dan Sinker/now

I always have a lot going on, here's what I'm doing now:

I'm producing the podcast Rebel Spirit, with Akilah Hughes …

and hosting and producing the weekly podcast Says Who

while helping run the Civic Media Fellowships at USC …

and shipping the patches and stickers I made for you …

and also making stickers for the Says Who Sticker Club

and wow that is a lot.

My most recent blog posts

Do One Thing

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.

Posted on Mar 16, 2025

Leading and Following: Punk Planet, Year 10

Everything is so shitty right now. Let's talk about the unexpected connection between Punk Planet and the Gilmore Girls.

Posted on Feb 28, 2025

What Felt Impossible Became Possible

I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails.

Posted on Feb 23, 2025

My most recent notes

I write a lot of notes in shortform social apps like Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky. I also capture them on this site, so the platforms don't control my stuff. Here are a few. You can always look at my notes page for more.

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

Read more notes at Mastodon or Bluesky, or check out my notes page.

Updated March 26, 2025. This page is inspired by @nownownow.