Notices by Dan Sinker (dansinker@omfg.town)

Quietly judging people who refer to it as X.

Maybe not so quietly.

doesn’t get much better than this 1997 guide to customizing your myspace profile. https://www.lissaexplains.com/myspace/

This Airheads in my kid’s Lunchable just got a gig as a NYT columnist.

Taylor’s analysis of how the right has built such a powerful, well-funded, multifaceted media ecosystem and how replicating that on the left is structurally impossible (or close to it) is very good. https://www.usermag.co/p/why-democrats-wont-build-their-own

Hey dudes, get that vasectomy.

Grieve.
Build.
Fight.

TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND SUBSCRIPTIONS CANCELLED HOLY SHIT. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168416/washington-post-bezos-endorsement-president-cancellations-resignations

@powersoffour they should have made it a fundraiser so they could have started by saying TIME TO MAKE SOME CRAAYYYYZZEEE MONEY

Tim Walz bringing “jackwad” back is the thing to boost tbh.

Dear editors getting their op-eds banned. Just do this.

This might actually be the worst form on the internet. No basic data verification. Name, email and phone can be garbage. Address can be anything. No lockout after submit. It’s just… trash? I know this should not be surprising but also it’s sort of surprising. https://petition.theamericapac.org/

39 minutes of Trump awkwardly swaying to the world’s saddest songs is the funniest thing to happen to his campaign since Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

One of the long shadows of the pandemic is that nobody is given the space to grieve about anything ever.

Asked the kid what his highlights from school were today and after kickball at lunch and gym he said "and we had a lockdown drill today, which is the best drill because you get to hide in the corner in the dark with your friends" and I'd like out of this collective nightmare please.

Rebel Spirit is an Editor's Choice on Apple Podcasts this week. Hugely gratify to have so much work recognized like this.

Subscribe and get caught up! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rebel-spirit/id1752673109

Rebel Spirit, the podcast I've been working on with Akilah Hughes for the last YEAR, is out today! It's the story of Akilah's attempt to change her high school's racist mascot and all the people we meet and history we learn along the way. It's the best reporting project I've ever done and I am so excited that you can finally start this journey TODAY.

Out on all podcast platforms, here's a Spotify link. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2EUTtUFZKe3rJEjFvseVOZ?si=e8JmDYHXRbqKUYuQSBzD4Q

For the last year I've been working with Akilah Hughes to make Rebel Spirit, a podcast about her quest to change her high school mascot from the Rebels, named after the confederacy, to the Biscuits, a part of Southern heritage that everyone can get behind. It's been an infuriating, hilarious, and extraordinary journey and one I'm so excited to finally let you into.

Read "Rebel Rebel" on my site: https://dansinker.com/posts/2024-06-19-rebelsprit/

@waldoj @brianboyer Waldo, you don't want to know the answer to whether CMSes have improved

It was a lot of fun to get to ask Jonathan Coulton to write a song for a chapter of Question Mark, Ohio and even more fun when he said yes. https://bookmansmusic.com/about

@will @benbrown @mathowie Oh hello, is this the meeting?