Notices by Dan Sinker (dansinker@omfg.town)

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: https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-03-16-one-thing/

Think we’ve forgotten about the time that Elon was booed so badly by fans of Dave Chapelle (of all people) that he locked himself in his office and Twitter employees considered calling the cops to do a wellness check.

What I’m saying is we can go harder.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/08/elon-musk-almost-needed-sfpd-wellness-check-after-breakdown-getting-booed-at-dave-chappelle-show/

Happy Economic Blackout to all who celebrate (you should celebrate)

This is the doge rat looking at your tax returns right now. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/doge-elon-musk-ron-unz-holocaust-substack-post-sailer-vdare-trump

Well, my fascism coal mine canary just died.

ProPublica has launched a handy tracker to keep tabs on who’s who among Musk’s little fash goons https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/

Everything has gone to shit, but at least we have Insomnia Club. Welcome.

What if you’re always angry but can’t turn into the Hulk, what then.

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: https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-1-write-it-down/

you can still write the long-ass thing here if you want, just please for the love of god put it somewhere afterwards so that it's actually findable again.

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!

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

It’s been a few days and I’m not happy to be back, but welcome to Insomnia Club.

Apple’s Tim Cook might be the smartest of all of the tech oligarchs because he was there but didn’t sit in the lineup and so he’s absent from all the photographs while still just as shitty as the rest.

@evan yes there are lots, that's just the few that came off the dome

I just keep writing pithy little posts and deleting them and then writing new little jokes and deleting them and then just staring into the middle distance for a while and then trying again

As a parent of a Gen Z kid, I can tell you that their whole entire lives they’ve seen the government put them last. Guns, covid, student loans, cost-of-living, it’s always their gen that has gotten fucked.

This TikTok ban vividly reinforces what they already know.

The best time to start building a little spot for yourself on the internet independent of platforms was yesterday. The second best time is right fucking now.

@quinn I wear a Garmin and it is shit for accurate sleep tracking

@amanda @quinn no this doesn't sound right