Notices by Dan Sinker (dansinker@omfg.town)

To mark Independent Bookstore Day today, I wrote about the bookshop that changed my life and why indies are more important than ever. https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-04-26-indie-books/

Clone Wars getting real real over here.

Everything is terrible but here is one thing that isn't: the Rebel Spirit podcast, a labor of incredible love from Akilah Hughes and me about trying to make real change in the face of history, is up for a Webby and I NEED your vote. ENDS TODAY. PLEASE VOTE.

https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/limited-series-specials/diversity-equity-inclusion-belonging

It’s OK I’m sure we didn’t need coffee, bananas, literally all electronics, or the rule of law anyway.

Just, take apart something you don't want because putting it back together is a lot harder.

See also: everything DOGE is doing to the government.

If you’ve never taken apart a piece of electronics before, it’s worth doing for a lot of reasons but today it’s a good lesson in how every single piece inside it, and there are a lot, was manufactured separately, often by an entirely separate company in a different country, down to the screws.

I’m not going to read your “how to defeat fascism” post if it’s on Substack, a platform that actively supports fascists.

Wisconsin fought and clawed to get out from under the thumb of the Kochs and Uihleins who had bought and paid for gerrymandered Republican dominance for years. And then another rich motherfucker showed up and the whole state said not today.

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