David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Her, watching me drop a fourth scotch bonnet into the pan: “It’s time like this I think you’re an alien trying to pass as human.” 001
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Tonight’s edition of Big Questions With the Five-Year-Old: Do snakes have butts, and if so, where are they? 010
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Just saw Na Hong-jin’s Hope. Honest review? Act 1: Wow wow wow top 10 monster movie setup OMG these sets; Act 2: Okay, I’ll roll with it; Act 3: WHAT HOW WHY WHO WAAAAAAT. (That said, I’m glad this brand of banana-pants exists, and I’ll take it over Hollywood’s focus-grouped crap every time.) 000
Reposted by David Sleightdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16/07/2026imagine having to do this forensic investigation on an algae infested paint peeling smelly reflecting pool merely because the president of the united states is a fuckin habitual liar 1858799
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Took a quick walk. Came back with a nose full of 2023. And 2022. And 2021. And… stuntbox.com/blog/nyc-wil...stuntbox.comSmoke CityFor the third time in as many years, the fallout from far-flung wildfires reached New York City. 000
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The five-year-old, while drawing: “Yellow oranges invented lamination in 1990. Then they died out in 1997. You can repeat after me for the song.” (Yes, there was a song.) 000
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Whoever at Adobe patched the “too many symlinks” Lightroom bug in the iOS/iPadOS 27 developer betas has my grateful thanks. (Seriously, that was fast!) 000
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 11/06/2026You go into fatherhood hoping it will feel like a George Harrison song. But it’s actually a polka band falling down the stairs mid-Tom Waits cover. 010
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Launched the macOS 27 beta and immediately breathed a happy sigh of relief to see edge-to-edge sidebars are back. 110
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 10/06/2026“The worms talk. They talk quietly. We can’t hear them.” These preschoolers have achieved a level of zen I’ve spent decades chasing.🐛🤫 000
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 05/06/2026It finally happened: Spotted a civilian (i.e., not a ProPublica staffer) on the street wearing one of the ProPublica t-shirts I designed years ago. (I know because I chased them down to ask how they got it… then thanked them for donating.) 000
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Thanks to the little guy’s upcoming pre-K graduation, my next public breakdown into a bawling wreck has been conveniently calendared for me. 000
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 04/06/2026OH: “Grown-ups aren’t supposed to be naked in public, except under special circumstances, like a parade at Coney Island.” 000
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 27/05/2026You want to scream into the void but you can’t scream and there is no void. 000
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Would love to give someone on the Google iOS design team a gentle nudge about optical alignment. This new Drive icon is making my eye twitch. (A triangle at a given height reads smaller than a square, and its visual center isn't its mathematical center. Gotta use your eye.) 020
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Went to the park and finished @davidenrich.bsky.social’s Murder the Truth. An excellent, well reported account of the years-long conservative legal campaign to dismantle NY Times v. Sullivan, and why it matters for journalism. Highly recommend. 0133
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Fred Trump couldn’t love his sons and now it’s everyone’s problem. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comWhy Does Donald Trump Refuse to Defend America?The president has long articulated a moral equivalence between the country’s interests and those of dictatorships. 021
Reposted by David SleightAlt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 20/05/2026We'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.org18F: 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. 012837
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Imagine living on a timeline so stupid that the thing that’s cleaner, more efficient, cheaper to run and objectively better for the planet gets dragged out for a witch trial by people who think progress is suspicious elitist sorcery. Oh right—we’re already there. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...nytimes.comBipartisan Bill Would Impose New Annual Fee on Electric Vehicles 000
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 09/05/2026“So there are these things called ‘laws’…” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comWhite House lawyers prep staff for dealing with a Democratic CongressThe private briefings on best practices for handling congressional oversight come as polls indicate Democrats have a strong edge ahead of the November midterms. 020
Reposted by David SleightRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that. 629216016064
Reposted by David SleightThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2026Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ theonion.com/supreme-court-overturn… 115138154223
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The accuracy of MLB’s captions is highly questionable, but their entertainment value is off the charts. 010
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Meanwhile, in today’s installment of Yes This Is Fascism… 000
Reposted by David SleightCandyce 🌊🦋💙☕️🩵 Want New Blue Connections? FOLLOW ME 😊 @candycemv1.bsky.social · 27/04/2026🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ 149112632114
Reposted by David Sleightprim @primordial.bsky.social · 27/04/2026They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street. 5747901286
Reposted by David SleightJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/04/2026We have an unhealthy unspoken media agreement in this country that you can’t point out that someone harbors objectively insane, delusional beliefs that should disqualify them from being anywhere near a position of power if said beliefs are colorably linkable to a mainstream religious worldview. 9603158
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 21/04/2026The church down the street understands the assignment. 020
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Pretty sure I missed the Sunday school session about papal crime fighting. Must’ve been after the one about the CompStat on the Mount sermon. 010
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I’m sure future generations will take great comfort in knowing how much time and effort we devoted to telling people which bathroom to use while the planet slowly burned. 020
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Reminder: Congress retains the constitutional authority to stop this careening executive branch dumpster fire any time it wants, pending the highly unlikely growth of a spine. 000
Reposted by David Sleightevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 25/03/2026No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...npr.orgYour data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrantData brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data. 5328941121
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 26/03/2026The man pleaded guilty—twice. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...nytimes.comJustice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million 000
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Insurance rep on phone: “To be honest with you…” Me: “What were you before?!” 000
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Faced with the entire universe of aesthetic options, this administration manages to consistently find the single tackiest option and slam into it like a heat-seeking missile of bad taste. wapo.st/4bruqFiwapo.stAppointee wants to replace White House columns with the ones Trump prefersThe head of a federal arts commission is proposing the more ornate Corinthian style for the nearly 200-year-old columns at the building’s front entrance 021
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 09/03/2026“We don’t mean no harm but we truly mean all the disrespect.” Top 10. Favorite. Lyric. 010
Reposted by David SleightErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 06/03/2026In case you want to see more than a screenshot of the cover: publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...committees.parliament.ukCommunications and Digital Committee - Publications - Committees - UK ParliamentPublications for Communications and Digital Committee 273
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 04/03/2026New life goal: Experience fewer than three genres of corporate on-hold music in a single day. 020
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 03/03/2026TIL there’s an emergency room in Brooklyn that’s now named after Home Depot. That’s one way to corner both sides of the nail gun market. 🔨😲 021
Reposted by David SleightAvery Edison @averyedison.com · 27/02/2026Woke 2? That’s cute. I’m already on Woke 5. We skipped doing a Woke 4 because of conclusions reached during Woke 3. I was there, for all of it. Awake. Increasingly awake. Frighteningly awake. Always awake. I never sleep. I can’t. There’s no time. Woke 6 is coming. 97512
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Budgeting by vibes. wapo.st/4cIMEnIwapo.stTrump aides struggle with how to spend $500 billion more on militarySome senior officials resisted the decision to approve the major military spending increase, people familiar with the matter said. 001
Reposted by David SleightAugust J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 24/02/2026They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk 0154832702
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 11/02/2026[screaming externally] wapo.st/4auA1djwapo.stFDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccineThe decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals. 121
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 07/02/2026“I only watched part of it. Someone else clicked the button. It wasn’t my idea but if it was it’s okay. The buck stops… honestly, I have no idea where it stops, maybe the snack drawer?” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...nytimes.com‘I Didn’t Make a Mistake’: Trump Declines to Apologize for Racist Video of Obamas 000
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 06/02/2026They don’t work for him, Karoline. They work for the people. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u... 110
David Sleight @stuntbox.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Bright flashing red light right here, folks. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...nytimes.comWhy Is the Trump Administration Demanding Minnesota’s Voter Rolls? 000