David Sleight
stuntbox@mastodon.social
<p>Design director-type, publishing geek, itinerant newsroom denizen. Priors: ProPublica, BusinessWeek, Pearson Ed, consultant.</p>
Posts
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Post #2674311
“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?” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/us/politics/trump-obamas-video-apes-truth-social.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVA.d5D1.kB6kubKA491F
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Post #2674310
[screaming externally] https://wapo.st/4auA1dj
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Post #2674309
Budgeting by vibes. https://wapo.st/4cIMEnI
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Post #2674308
TIL 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. 🔨😲
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Post #2674307
New life goal: Experience fewer than three genres of corporate on-hold music in a single day.
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Post #2674306
“We don’t mean no harm but we truly mean all the disrespect.” Top 10. Favorite. Lyric.
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Post #2674305
Faced 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. https://wapo.st/4bruqFi
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Post #2674304
Insurance rep on phone: “To be honest with you…” Me: “What were you before?!”
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Post #2674303
Reminder: 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.
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Post #2674302
I’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.
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Post #2674301
Literally Taco Tuesday.
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Post #2674300
Pretty sure I missed the Sunday school session about papal crime fighting. Must’ve been after the one about the CompStat on the Mount sermon.
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Post #2674299
Meanwhile, in today’s installment of Yes This Is Fascism…
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Post #2674298
RE: https://bots.robots.rodeo/@scream/116484233125382740 A-yep.
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Post #2674297
The accuracy of MLB’s captions is highly questionable, but their entertainment value is off the charts.
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Post #2674296
“So there are these things called ‘laws’…” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/04/white-house-briefs-staff-midterm-losses/
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Post #1468861
The church down the street understands the assignment.
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Post #83494
“We keep trying to ‘fix’ the news, but we’re up against an equally deep societal crisis in education and other civic institutions that shape how people understand the world and our work.” Yours truly, writing for this year’s batch of Nieman Lab predictions for journalism. Read the full piece here: https://stuntbox.com/blog/niemanlab-predictions-2026/