Genuinely thought this bin was levitating

Man, @dansinker.com and @akilahhughes.com nailed this landing. They managed to be both optimistic and realistic. Damn it was good. Now go plant those trees!

dan sinker@dansinker.com · 2w ago

Rebel Spirit season two wraps today with a look back across all the conversations @akilahhughes.com had these ten episodes, a moving call for a new reconstruction, and a supercut of calling Confederates losers. rebelspiritpodcast.com/episodes/epi...

My son, just now: “Well, at least the US went the farthest of any team that calls it ‘soccer.’”

It’s fine to root for USA tonight but please be classy and don’t make jokes about Belgians using cruel and untrue stereotypes. Belgians are NOT deathly afraid of giraffes. They DON’T all have Brian Eno tattoos. They don’t ALL breathe fire. And they don’t wear pants made of CLOVER.

True! #BookSky

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

Well yeah, if Watergate happened again it would have gone off without a hitch because no one would have known about it until a year later when Woodward and Bernstein's book came out.

Just amazing to see a politician say Hey I'm going to do these things and then just go and do them.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · last mo.

Some NYC news: Mamdani just won his rent freeze--one of his biggest campaign promises!

100% this.

M.R. Robinson@mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

This right here. 👇👇👇

Steven Rich@datab.ae · 2mo ago

we don’t talk enough about how finding a therapist is hard, finding a good therapist is harder and finding a good therapist *for you* is exponentially more difficult than that. pile on the issue of insurance and the system really stands in the way across the board.

All of the moments when I’ve seen Trump at his angriest are when he’s being questioned by a woman

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads

Never forget the liars who told you and told you that Democratic Socialism would never work. The people that brought you Trump’s pedocracy did everything they could to stop Mamdani.

Productivity doesn't matter if you're working on the wrong thing.

As ICE ramps up their bullshit for the summer, a reminder that me and a whole bunch of other folks will get whistles out to you, for free, in quantities of 100 to thousands, to distribute in your communities. Just send a request here linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

have you tried simply turning it off and then never turning it back on again

It’s amazing how many books have found me when I needed them. And as many have found me before I knew too.

dan sinker@dansinker.com · 2mo ago

I wrote about The Westing Game, book bans, and not lying to kids as part of my "Foundational Texts" essay series. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

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Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · 2mo ago

In 2020, I’d have said that we need to create safeguards to constrain a lawless president. In 2026, I think we need to restructure our country so that the country won’t choose to elect a lawless president.

Oh no, I missed this, the book was about… The—  Sir, arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...

Imagine being a Russian troll assigned to Bluesky: “Comrade, today you will destabilize Western democracy by arguing with poets, policy nerds, and a raccoon avatar with tenure.”

Ok but what if *this* is the good timeline

We've been doing a little tidying up at 18f.org—a good opportunity to remind folks that the 18F guides and blog are archived on the site for anyone to use. After all, they belong to you!

18F: We’re dedicated to the American public. And we’re not done yet.

For over 11 years, non-partisan civil servants at 18F proudly served the American people to make government technology work better.

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@dansinker.com just making sure you saw this… for daydream material.

@glastomichelle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Buttercups at dawn. Taken this morning in Glastonbury.

This gave me chills. Watch.

if you see reasonable critics of any politician getting dogpiled on any social media site, you should look at that apparent zealotry and unanimity with skepticism

we're hiring a Lead Product Designer at Bluesky. we've built the foundation — now we need someone to lead our design team and bring a fresh vision for how this app should look and feel. crazy fun & rare opportunity for the right leader! jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

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when you need books more than you need a view

I appreciate that their new map makes a little swastika centered on Nashville

VoteHub@votehub.com · 3mo ago

BREAKING — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed the new 9-0 congressional map into law. 🔴 +1 GOP 🔵 -1 DEM

@jjbbllkk.bsky.social heya! Just finished up your Push From Scratch video. Just published a chord “instrument” for Push 3 (don’t really know what to call it yet) called Asterism. Free on Gumroad while I test it out and get some feedback. Would love your feedback. tswicegood.gumroad.com/l/asterism

Asterism

Asterism is a Max for Live MIDI effect that transforms the Ableton Push 3 pad grid into a dedicated chord generation instrument. The bottom half of the 8×8 grid becomes three interactive zones — scale...

tswicegood.gumroad.com

Has a *single* media outlet warned its audience not to trust content posted by the President on his social media accounts about the events last night, because he posts AI-generated slop and intentional misinformation? Any of them?