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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mmmmm, baked bean pie that’s round at the top but a wedge at the bottom…

An AI slop image of a deeply disturbing pie that appears to be stuffed with pale baked beans. The edge of the crust goes all the way around at the top like it’s a tiny round pie, but at the bottom there’s a point like it’s a wedge. Anyway, the whole thing sucks and Sam Altman belongs in prison.

David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

In 2003, we launched Teen Titans with the tagline “Truth. Justice. Pizza.” Some high-up folks at DC told us it wouldn’t work. That superhero stories had to be serious. That there was no room for humor or fun. 23 years later, note the tagline. Excited to watch.

A poster for the upcoming SUPERGIRL movie with Milly Alcock as Supergirl with messy hair, sunglasses, and bomber jacket over her costume. In the lower right, there is the tagline: “Truth. Justice. Whatever.”

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

@lebassett.bsky.social Might want to give folks a heads up about this impersonator account. I’ve blocked and reported.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The Big Tech philosophy of “move fast and break things” is really dark when your realize the things they’re talking about breaking are laws.

Adam Kotsko’s amazing 2023 tweet — a poll asking people:

What's your favorite tech innovation?
Illegal cab company - 16%
Illegal hotel chain - 17%
Fake money for criminals - 32%
Plagiarism machine - 35%

(Adam is on Bluesky btw and you should follow him.)

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Repost with the Russian agent who spies on your posts

Sean Connery in a furry Russian navy hat in the opening scene of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

If you want to reply, click the “Reply” arrow toward the bottom right. You’ll have much nicer interactions with people because you won’t seem like you’re trying to start a fight.

Screengrab of the tabs at the bottom of every Bluesky post, clearly showing the “Reply” icon: a right-pointing arrow that has been part of UIs since the dawn of the internet jesus why am I having to teach Steffen this basic stuff???

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Ken Paxton is one of the most corrupt people in politics. Texans should be sending him to prison — not the Senate.

All along, Mr. Paxton kept getting richer. When he first won public office, he listed his assets as less than $200,000. Two decades later, on an annual state salary of about $150,000, he reported a net worth approaching $8 million with residential properties in Oklahoma, Florida, Utah and Hawaii. Mr.
Paxton has been secretive about the source of his wealth, creating a blind trust and then failing for years to disclose to regulators the assets in that trust as required by state ethics rules.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It’s never gonna stop being funny/sad how absolutely *terrified* conservative men are of just like… cities.

A photo of a billboard in Los Angeles for terrified baby Spencer Pratt. Over a background of AI slop showing the city on fire and an oh-so-scared blonde woman in yoga wear running for her life with a stroller, we see the banner “SICK OF THE CHAOS? READY TO FEEL SAFE?” And under that: “VOTE FOR PRATT FOR LA MAYOR.” Spencer Pratt does not live in Los Angeles and had never held a real job. What are we even doing? Like, I mean, I’d *maybe* vote for Lo Bosworth. But fucking Spencer????

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

CEOs would pay almost anything to not have to pay their employees.

Jack
@jackscarab.bsky.social

"What trillion-dollar problem is Al trying to solve?"

Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Thanks, Laurel! That one was a joy to co-write and produce. I was sad to kill off Hersh because the actor who played him, Boris McGiver, is just one of the nicest people in the whole world. But everybody’s number comes up sometime…

A BTS photo of me and Boris McGiver on set for POI 323 “Deus Ex Machina.” We’re both smiling. I’ll in a blue henley with a beard. Boris is in a suit with a bloody (fake) bullet hole in his white shirt.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Thank you! It was enormous fun to write and shoot. Amy is so amazingly talented and just the nicest person in the world.

A BTS photo of me and Amy Acker on set shooting POI 317 “/“. I’m absurdly bundled up in a brown Canada Goose jacket and Amy is smiling and gorgeous.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Amanda Segel and I had so much fun writing that episode together. Here’s my POV of the big stunt from that episode, with NSFW color commentary from our wonderful 1st AD, Peter Soldo.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

2. Boker was so strong that he was DESTROYING the squeaky toys. Our Props Dept had extras, but they were not prepared for how quickly and completely Boker was tearing them up. So they were off camera frantically stitching them back together.

A before and after photo of what my wonderful friend Boker was doing to the bone-shaped squeaky toys in just one 45 second take. On a blue cart, we see one intact toy on the left and a mangled pile of fluff on the right.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.” - Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

A photo taken from a camera on the solar panel of the Artemis II Integrity spacecraft, showing the crescent moon in the foreground and in the distance a tiny sliver of the crescent Earth

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

“Cool it with the shrimp, pal…”

A screengrab of a Tweet thread.

@WhitmerThomas:

When I was 5 the chef at Benihana kept tossing shrimp in my mouth and I threw up on the table and it cooked my throw up

@seanoconnor:

Did the chef at least turn it into a heart?

@WhitmerThomas
No they took me and my dad into a room away from every one and gave me ice cream while probably apologizing to my dad who I distinctly remember saying to the chef "cool it with the shrimp pal"

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

There is no such thing as unskilled labor.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Dan, Tyler… Tyler, Dan… I think you two will get along.

A screengrab of Tyler’s post:

Tyler, from the Int.. @tyler... • 2m

What if we all, everywhere, just agreed to have no things happening anywhere, for like a month. Just for people to remember what it's like.

A screengrab of Dan’s repost of his earlier post:

Dan Hon @danhon.com • 47s asking again
Dan Hon@danhon.com • 9d
For just a few days, could everything just not

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This is our cat Varmint. (Don’t tell him. He doesn’t know.)

Varmint, who is CLEARLY a dog (an orange and white chihuahua pommeranian mix to be specific) perched on a sofa cushion and staring blankly at camera — just like a motherfucking cat.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

First thing Varmint did was chomp on it. But he’s a very special little guy.

A photo of Varmint, our chihuahau/pomeranian/hellhound mix who will fucking bite you if you give him a chance.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I have used this recipe with all types of dried beans, and it always turns out great. For extra kick add fresh jalepeño and/or a tablespoon or two of hot sauce.

Cuban-Style Black Beans
Double, triple, or quadruple the recipe and freeze for feeding crowds down the road. These beans are great with Ropa Vieja or as a basic side for dinner (think rice and beans!), as well as an eggy breakfast.

By Rick Martinez | October 13, 2017

MAKES ABOUT 2 QUARTS

Ingredients
1 pound dried black beans, picked through, rinsed
1 bay leaf
1 medium onion, finely chopped, divided
1 green bell pepper, seeds and ribs removed, finely chopped, divided
8 garlic cloves, finely grated, divided
5 teaspoons Diamond Crystal or 1 tablespoon Morton kosher salt, plus more
1 teaspoon dried Mexican or Italian oregano, divided
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Freshly ground black pepper
Cilantro leaves with tender stems (for serving; optional)

Preparation
Bring beans, bay leaf, 1/4 cup chopped onion, 1/4 cup chopped bell pepper, 1 Tbsp. grated garlic, 5 tsp. Diamond Crystal or 1 Tbsp. Morton salt, 1/2 tsp. oregano, and 5 quarts water to a boil in a large pot.

Reduce heat to medium and cook, stirring occasionally and adding more hot water if needed to cover, until beans are tender and covered by about 1/4" liquid, 2 1/2-3 hours. Discard bay leaf.

Meanwhile, heat oil in a medium skillet over medium-low. Add remaining onion, bell pepper, garlic, and oregano; season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onions are very soft and beginning to brown, 15-20 minutes.

Stir into cooked beans. Top with cilantro, if using.

Do Ahead: Beans can be made 3 months ahead. Transfer to an airtight container and freeze.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike.

A photo of Sam Eagle who has blue feathers and a thick black brow because he is so SERIOUS about being PATRIOTIC.

And yes, pedants, I know he’s a Muppet not a real bird. But did YOU know you can go stand in the corner and think about why you’re like this to strangers on the internet?

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Happy Birthday, Mr. Vonnegut. Happy Armistice Day, everyone.

Vonnegut’s text from the end of the preface to Breakfast of Champions:

“So this book is a sidewalk strewn with junk, trash which I throw over my shoulders as I travel in time back to November eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two.

I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day.

When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden…”

“…silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things.

What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance.

And all music is.”

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I may have had a few… a few small beers.

A photo of Kate Bond as Bob Ferguson (complete with a waterproof mascara beard) and me as Sensei from ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER which is an absolutely amazing film. More than a month after first seeing it, I still think about it all the time. If you haven’t seen it yet, you should fix that immediately.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

After his condemnation and censure, McCarthy continued to perform his senatorial duties for another two and a half years. His career as a major public figure, however, had been ruined. His colleagues in the Senate avoided him; his speeches on the Senate floor were delivered to a near-empty chamber or received with intentional and conspicuous displays of inattention.

The press that had once recorded his every public statement now ignored him, and outside speaking engagements dwindled almost to nothing. Eisenhower, finally freed of McCarthy's political intimidation, quipped to his Cabinet that McCarthyism was now
"McCarthywasm".

McCarthy died in the Bethesda Naval Hospital on May 2, 1957, at the age of 48. His death certificate listed the cause of death as "Hepatitis, acute, cause
unknown"; previously doctors had not reported him to be in critical condition. It was hinted in the press that he died of alcoholism (cirrhosis of the liver), an estimation that is now accepted by modern biographers. Thomas C.
Reeves argues that he effectively died by suicide.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I love you all but as I’ve said before: social media is a Fisher-Price Steering Wheel. Sure, the wheel turns and the horn works. But it’s not hooked up to anything.

A photo of a Fisher-Price Steering Wheel, a colorful children’s toy that lets babies pretend they’re driving a real car — which is exactly what we’re doing if we fall into the trap of thinking that posting on social media is ever going to create any kind of real or lasting change. Of course, it’s helped spread messaging and organized movements — everything from the Arab Spring to MeToo to the resurgence of white supremacist movements. But if you want real change, that takes real action in the real world. We can’t post our way out of this.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

To help you remember, go into Settings > Accessibility and tap the switch to require it.

Accessibility
Alt text
Require alt text before posting

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It’s not hard to use alt-text. It’s a great place to add extra info or hide extra jokes. Check your score.

Bluesky Alt Text Rating
How consistently do you use alt text?
slack2thefuture.bsky.so

1109 posts analyzed
30 contain images
24 are replies
30 posts have alt text
Score: 100.00%

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

$Voyager 1’s Pale Blue Dot photo, about which the great astronomer Carl Sagan wrote: “From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds… The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”$

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

And just think of all the cool stuff it’ll be able to do once they add the guns! #MonsterMonsterKillitKillit

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Also worth noting: They’re killing the media industry *first*. Techbros have been very clear that their goal is to put as many people out of work as possible. This is nothing more or less than an attack by the 1% upon the rest of us that, if left unchecked, will crash the global economy.

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