Reposted by dan sinkerDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 16hWhen you have no concept of how people engage with music 4926879753
Reposted by dan sinkerdan sinker @dansinker.com · 29/09/2026Rebel Spirit Season 2 is up for a Signal award in the "Activism, Public Service, & Social Impact" category and I would LOVE if you would vote for @akilahhughes.com and me! vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...vote.signalaward.comThe Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOUI just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too. 0269
dan sinker @dansinker.com · 29/09/2026Rebel Spirit Season 2 is up for a Signal award in the "Activism, Public Service, & Social Impact" category and I would LOVE if you would vote for @akilahhughes.com and me! vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...vote.signalaward.comThe Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOUI just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too. 0269
dan sinker @dansinker.com · 29/09/2026Congrats to @maureenjohnsonbooks.com on publication day for the Velvet Knife. YAY YOU! bookshop.org/a/25721/9780...bookshop.orgThe Velvet KnifeReturn to the world of Truly Devious as Stevie Bell and her friends travel to New York to solve a murder in the next standalone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.Stevie mi... 1676
Reposted by dan sinkerTexas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026We are publishing the name of the alleged shooter because we believe transparency in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s killing is of vital public interest as investigators, lawmakers and the public seek to understand what happened and how ICE operates more broadly in this state. Read more here:texastribune.orgICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identifiedThe federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte... 18981300
dan sinker @dansinker.com · 28/09/2026Masterful gambit with gas prices what they are. Perfect closing argument. 714823
dan sinker @dansinker.com · 27/09/2026Driving across Iowa and Nebraska this weekend. Did the same drive a month ago and gas is up at least $1 everywhere, and diesel more than that. Usually these are some of the cheapest gas states and they’re well over $4. 6492
dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/09/2026I think, as Tom points out, Twin Peaks: The Return being on the list just ends this argument full stop. 120
Reposted by dan sinkerOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Most riveting thing I've seen all week 382112683044
dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/09/2026the lack of British television jumped way way out at me. Ghosts too. 130
dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/09/2026"should you bring an iced coffee to an interview" is just grist for the screaming machine. every day it requires new screams. 612810
dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/09/2026Brains are dumb. I spent literally weeks, maybe even months, beating myself up about writing about how social sucks. “Nobody wants to read this” “It’s self indulgent bullshit” etc etc etc. Finally just put the thing out, and like 10,000 people have enthusiastically read it in like 24 hours. 4991
Reposted by dan sinkerIsaac Hepworth @isaa.ch · 25/09/2026in the future we will all be hacked by openai for fifteen minutes 0253
dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/09/2026yep def www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.comGuardiola says he would leave Manchester City if club hierarchy lied to himManchester City’s manager has always backed his bosses publicly but says he would leave immediately if he ever felt they had misled him 010
Reposted by dan sinkerLe Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedlemonde.frAmnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedIn a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States. 384198166341
Reposted by dan sinkerAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit... 1493895546
Reposted by dan sinkerkottke.org @kottke.org · 25/09/2026What If We Just Stopped? “We’re in the Looney Tunes stage of the end of social, where we’ve glided well past the edge of the cliff and it’s slowing dawning on us that the only way left is down. Fast.” [dansinker.com]dansinker.comWhat If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.comIt wasn't so much a choice at first. I spent much of the summer on the road, which meant that getting online was nearly always a struggle, and so when I didn't have to, I stayed off. And when I did get on—I was working my remote job doing book research—doing work was the focus. I didn't fall prey to 1406
Reposted by dan sinker🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121635148
Reposted by dan sinkerClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 271467746
Reposted by dan sinkerMaureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 24/09/2026My friend Dan makes a great point. These systems don't work for us anymore--we work for them. Posting is formulaic and the algorithms break the flow. 0514
Reposted by dan sinkerJon Nelson @byjonnelson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Social was best when it was like a flea market, a place full of surprising finds with familiar regulars you catch up with. At some point it became a Walmart, with pay to play placements and optimized to extract money and time. It is now a chore, not a place I am drawn to. 1202
Reposted by dan sinkerAlberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 24/09/2026"There has to be a better way of connecting and sharing and existing together, a way that isn't locked into the exploitative doom loops and psychic death of what we currently have. A way that's built around humans again, not around algorithms. A way that values connection instead of confrontation." 0136
dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/09/2026I wrote about the unraveling of social media and offer a proposal: maybe we just... stop? dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...dansinker.com What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com 46613
Reposted by dan sinkerAaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I tend to think of the Internet as having intentional and non-intentional spaces. A good, well moderated forum or subreddit can be intentional. But the vast majority of social sites are non-intentional and arguably worse than vegging out in front of the TV. 16112
Reposted by dan sinkerDanny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Because logging in after a while away, it was painfully clear just how broken it all was. All the things that made social media so vital a decade or two ago have fallen apart, replaced by algorithms, engagement hacks, and endless, bottomless, screaming." 0153
Reposted by dan sinkersara the ninth 💀🗡️ @sarafen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Lately, I've been thinking a lot about how if we want things to be better we gotta have people willing to try new shapes of interaction. The last decade of "social media" has landed us off a cliff, and Dan really nails the feeling here. I am tired. I am SO tired, and I think I need to blog again. 1317
Reposted by dan sinkerBlack Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026A winning message 6478
dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/09/2026Yes in fact he's one of the only people actually named in it (in the followup book) 130
dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/09/2026George Dale, the anti-Klan editor of a paper in Muncie Indiana. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...dansinker.com I'm Writing a Book! | dansinker.com 1212
dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/09/2026He even bailed Edward out in 1919 when he was caught sleeping with Elizabeth Tyler. 141
Reposted by dan sinkerAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is good. I have mixed feelings about social media, but I like a piece of handmade writing from Dan Sinker, whom I have followed as platforms came and went 2525
Reposted by dan sinkerMike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 24/09/2026“We yell because we're all trapped in a machine that was built, in part, to keep us yelling.” 1193
Reposted by dan sinkerBrian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026At least once a month I drop a "What if we just stopped sharing our stories to social media and spent that time doing more reporting" in our weekly editorial meeting and at first everyone thought I was crazy and now, well, they still think I'm crazy but they have to really think about it first 0424
dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/09/2026Social sucks now. What if we just stopped? dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...dansinker.com What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com 921543
Reposted by dan sinkerGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“The abuse that immigration agents inflict on people everywhere from Evanston streets to Alabama construction sites underscores that Kavanaugh’s racial profiling apologia in Vasquez Perdomo was always based on a fantasy. People of color have no choice but to live in the real world.” 010036