David Sleight
@stuntbox.bsky.social
Design director-type, publishing geek, itinerant newsroom denizen. Priors: ProPublica, BusinessWeek, Pearson Ed, consultant.
With all the horrors that happened this weekend, ending it by losing Rob Reiner to a possible homicide feels like a gratuitously unnecessary punch in the junk.
December 15, 2025 at 5:29 AM
With all the horrors that happened this weekend, ending it by losing Rob Reiner to a possible homicide feels like a gratuitously unnecessary punch in the junk.
Reposted by David Sleight
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
Reposted by David Sleight
Tired: the invisible hand of the free market
Wired: the visibly bruised hand of Trump
Wired: the visibly bruised hand of Trump
This is just how we do mergers now.
"Paramount executives also plan to argue their deal will have a much shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration."
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...
"Paramount executives also plan to argue their deal will have a much shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration."
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD after Netflix wins bidding war
Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.
www.cnbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Tired: the invisible hand of the free market
Wired: the visibly bruised hand of Trump
Wired: the visibly bruised hand of Trump
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
December 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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And YOU get hepatitis, and YOU get hepatitis, and YOU…
(Kidding, but not. People are going to die because of this. Great job, brainworm boy.)
(Kidding, but not. People are going to die because of this. Great job, brainworm boy.)
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
And YOU get hepatitis, and YOU get hepatitis, and YOU…
(Kidding, but not. People are going to die because of this. Great job, brainworm boy.)
(Kidding, but not. People are going to die because of this. Great job, brainworm boy.)
This, this, a thousand times this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
This, this, a thousand times this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
It’s been more than 25 years, and Ani DiFranco’s “Hello Birmingham” still destroys me every time it pops up on shuffle.
December 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
It’s been more than 25 years, and Ani DiFranco’s “Hello Birmingham” still destroys me every time it pops up on shuffle.
There is a hidden pocket dimension where time collapses, space folds in on itself, and logic coils into spirals of insanity. This where OnTrac deliveries go.
(Assuming they make it that far.)
(Assuming they make it that far.)
December 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
There is a hidden pocket dimension where time collapses, space folds in on itself, and logic coils into spirals of insanity. This where OnTrac deliveries go.
(Assuming they make it that far.)
(Assuming they make it that far.)
“Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is not the response of a patriot who must answer to the public about the security of the United States and its people in uniform.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is not the response of a patriot who must answer to the public about the security of the United States and its people in uniform.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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I don’t mean that no one can gossip or ever laugh or find distractions because we are facing incipient fascism.
But these two are political reporters! That requires taking some things seriously.
But these two are political reporters! That requires taking some things seriously.
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I don’t mean that no one can gossip or ever laugh or find distractions because we are facing incipient fascism.
But these two are political reporters! That requires taking some things seriously.
But these two are political reporters! That requires taking some things seriously.
Reposted by David Sleight
Many people have said this now but Nuzzi & Lizza act like it’s all a stupid, kinky game about attention & monetization but the stakes here involve lives & liberty.
Excuse me for being priggish while masked paramilitary agents snatch people off the streets & Trump steals with both fists.
Excuse me for being priggish while masked paramilitary agents snatch people off the streets & Trump steals with both fists.
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Many people have said this now but Nuzzi & Lizza act like it’s all a stupid, kinky game about attention & monetization but the stakes here involve lives & liberty.
Excuse me for being priggish while masked paramilitary agents snatch people off the streets & Trump steals with both fists.
Excuse me for being priggish while masked paramilitary agents snatch people off the streets & Trump steals with both fists.
Nick Offerman’s casting in Death by Lightning is a master stroke. (The rest of the cast ain’t too shabby, either.)
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Nick Offerman’s casting in Death by Lightning is a master stroke. (The rest of the cast ain’t too shabby, either.)
The four-year-old, giddily fleeing bedtime at top speed: “I’M A RUNNING PIECE OF FRENCH TOAST CARVED OUT OF WET MARBLE!!!”
November 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The four-year-old, giddily fleeing bedtime at top speed: “I’M A RUNNING PIECE OF FRENCH TOAST CARVED OUT OF WET MARBLE!!!”
‘“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, “the law is an ass—an idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience—by experience.”’ wapo.st/49eKElv
Supreme Court extends pause on order requiring full SNAP payments
The Trump administration has twice gone to the Supreme Court in recent days, seeking to prevent other judges from forcing it to fully fund SNAP benefits for November.
wapo.st
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
‘“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, “the law is an ass—an idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience—by experience.”’ wapo.st/49eKElv
What Chait said. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
What Chait said. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
How is it that Slothrust’s “What a Wonderful World” cover is still just sitting there, untouched by any arthouse horror trailer soundtracks? I mean, c’mon. 100% begging for it.
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
How is it that Slothrust’s “What a Wonderful World” cover is still just sitting there, untouched by any arthouse horror trailer soundtracks? I mean, c’mon. 100% begging for it.
The Tesla ownership moral index:
5+ year old Model 3: Potential earnest idealist
1–2 year old model Y/S: Selective amnesiac
Cybertruck: Born jerk, confirmed jerk
5+ year old Model 3: Potential earnest idealist
1–2 year old model Y/S: Selective amnesiac
Cybertruck: Born jerk, confirmed jerk
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The Tesla ownership moral index:
5+ year old Model 3: Potential earnest idealist
1–2 year old model Y/S: Selective amnesiac
Cybertruck: Born jerk, confirmed jerk
5+ year old Model 3: Potential earnest idealist
1–2 year old model Y/S: Selective amnesiac
Cybertruck: Born jerk, confirmed jerk
Straight-up thuggery. There is no reason to conduct enforcement this way other than to terrorize. wapo.st/3WCekBE
Armed ICE officers chase teacher into preschool in Chicago
The arrest appears to be one of the first in which immigration officers entered school grounds as part of an enforcement operation during Trump’s second administration.
wapo.st
November 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Straight-up thuggery. There is no reason to conduct enforcement this way other than to terrorize. wapo.st/3WCekBE
OMG COLOR LABELS HAVE FINALLY LANDED IN NÜ LIGHTROOM YAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSS
November 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
OMG COLOR LABELS HAVE FINALLY LANDED IN NÜ LIGHTROOM YAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSS
We all knew Zoom was the Mark of the Beast, this just confirms it.
October 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We all knew Zoom was the Mark of the Beast, this just confirms it.
When the four-year-old discovers memoji on mama’s phone (audio on).
October 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
When the four-year-old discovers memoji on mama’s phone (audio on).
Current Eye Twitch: I put these apps together on my home screen yesterday, and right after Adobe dropped an update that tweaks Lightroom’s typeface… but just Lightroom. Early release of wider overhaul coming at Max next week?
October 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Current Eye Twitch: I put these apps together on my home screen yesterday, and right after Adobe dropped an update that tweaks Lightroom’s typeface… but just Lightroom. Early release of wider overhaul coming at Max next week?
Was sitting in the waiting room of a medical office earlier today when I heard one staffer tell another to ask ChatGPT about an insurance billing issue. 😬
October 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Was sitting in the waiting room of a medical office earlier today when I heard one staffer tell another to ask ChatGPT about an insurance billing issue. 😬
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I’m old enough to remember when the idea of the government reaching out to social media companies to ask for moderation was a gigantic scandal
October 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I’m old enough to remember when the idea of the government reaching out to social media companies to ask for moderation was a gigantic scandal
Finally watched James Gunn’s Superman last night. All I could think watching the chirpy twenty-something LuthorCorp staffers was: “So, basically, Palantir campus hires.”
September 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Finally watched James Gunn’s Superman last night. All I could think watching the chirpy twenty-something LuthorCorp staffers was: “So, basically, Palantir campus hires.”