Dan Sinker/notes

Most of the time my thoughts aren't long enough for a blog post. My shortform notes get posted on Mastodon and Bluesky, and also wind up here.

It's endlessly funny to me that the *one* guy these folks have is Kid Rock. That's it. That's the whole bench.

posted at 2:03PM on February 9, 2026

Gonna have a lot more to say about the incredible work of this crew of whistle goblins in a post tomorrow, but for me, personally, I just printed my 10,000th whistle.

posted at 7:24PM on February 7, 2026

The whistle goblins shipped 100,000 whistles in the first four days of February. And today? The fifth day? 37,000 more. This is perhaps the most inspiring act of collective action I've ever been lucky enough to be a part of. Help by buying filament: linktr.ee/WhistleWi...

posted at 6:20PM on February 5, 2026

Just a reminder that Border Patrol was created in 1924 when the Klan was at the height of its political influence.

posted at 11:58AM on January 24, 2026

300 whistles heading for suburban Minneapolis in the morning.

posted at 9:49PM on January 23, 2026

remote school today because of the cold and every "can you hear me" literally triggers PTSD from the year of zoom school

posted at 9:58AM on January 23, 2026

Absolutely fucking not. A thermometer reading -10

posted at 8:08AM on January 23, 2026

Just interviewed for a documentary about the Promise Ring, so I am going to go crumble into dust now.

posted at 3:33PM on January 22, 2026

Everyone's just trying to live their lives the best they can. And these motherfuckers are just wilding out, marauding, terrorizing for no fucking reason beyond "they can." This helps nobody. This benefits zero people. This is dropping entire communities into a nightmare for sport.

posted at 9:06PM on January 21, 2026

800 whistles packed up and shipping to six different towns, coast to coast. Six bundles of whistles packed with notes that say "blow hard, be safe"

posted at 11:07AM on January 20, 2026

Got to go in the backroom of the post office to drop eight tubs of zines, so today was a good day.

posted at 9:52AM on January 20, 2026

Spent basically the entire weekend signing, numbering and packing a remarkable number of zines. Ended up with EIGHT mail tubs full. Kinda blown away and definitely very tired. Stacks of zines are arranged on a table with a red surface.

posted at 3:42PM on January 18, 2026

A Saturday morning spent printing whistles and signing/numbering zines is a pretty good Saturday morning. A 3D printer sits on a table with stacks of zines titled "They Can't Take Us All" next to it.

posted at 8:01AM on January 17, 2026

Good mail day. Several copies of a book titled Dispatches from 2025 by Dan Sinker are packed inside a cardboard box.

posted at 4:58PM on January 16, 2026

I live in Chicago and it's January and yet every time it snows I am like HOW DARE YOU

posted at 8:07AM on January 16, 2026

Coming soon. A box contains multiple olive green knit hats with an orange patch labeled TRYING.

posted at 6:13PM on January 15, 2026

Inflation hits my grocery store's party sub biz.

posted at 12:48PM on January 13, 2026

this is so cool: a "radio score card" for listeners to keep track of the nominations at the 1928 republican national convention.

posted at 2:17PM on January 11, 2026

Me every time the moon is full. a cartoon from 1928 depicting a detective standing next to a telescope saying 'take a look at the moon folks and get the thrill of yer life'

posted at 10:30AM on January 9, 2026

Anyone who was out in Chicago during the two months of occupation knows full well that it could have gone this way for any of us. Still could. And we'll still go out.

posted at 10:22PM on January 7, 2026

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