Dan Sinker/now

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

I'm 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 plotting some new things …

which I hope to tell you about soon.

My most recent blog posts

Gathering Grief

A meditation on death, grief, and the card game Magic: The Gathering.

Posted on Jul 3, 2025

Things End: Punk Planet, Year 13

For more than a year, I've been writing essays about Punk Planet, the influential, incredible, miracle of a magazine I worked on for 13 years. For more than a year I've been dreading writing this ending, because the reality is this: Sometimes things end and you never, totally get over it.

Posted on May 30, 2025

The Who Cares Era

We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks.

Posted on May 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.

It would be nice if yet another mass death from a climate event lead to anyone doing anything about our increasingly fucked chances but

posted at 6:45PM on July 5, 2025

If you don't feel like celebrating America's birthday, you can always celebrate my kid's instead. Ten today!

posted at 8:27AM on July 4, 2025

Honestly hard to deal with being conquered by people this stupid.

posted at 2:46PM on July 3, 2025

It's been a hard month. I wrote about death, grief, and Magic: The Gathering. dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 12:11PM on July 3, 2025

Since I went to the dentist one (1) week ago, I've had a crown fall out and another one crack. My lesson learned is never go to the dentist.

posted at 8:12AM on July 2, 2025

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

Updated July 7, 2025. This page is inspired by @nownownow.