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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9h

I sometimes get the impression that the insider assumption is or maybe only was that all the primary historical work has been done and now we'll just critique or deepen or refine it rather than that there are huge gaps.

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 10h

Still one of history’s most relatable quotes :)

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13h

Moth mural is happening now!! So excited to see this project come to life oh. my. GOD.

a cercropia moth has been painted in, the luna moth not yet, on a park building in a city park

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10h

Sometimes academic training seems like training in what to see but also what not to see/notice/address, in that a lot of important histories are not being produced from within the academy.

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 11h

My writing has turned out to involve a lot of historical sleuthing, but I’ve always tried to underline that “I’m not a real historian”—that is, untrained. I’ve emphasized that I’m merely “approaching from a historical perspective” or “surprised to find myself a sort of de facto historian”

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday I almost bolted downstairs to answer my phone I thought I heard ringing… then remembered I haven’t had a landline for years, and also my phone was already in my hand

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 30/09/2026

I didn’t really understand my Dad’s version of happiness & success when I was younger. You grow up in a world defined by MORE, ambitions & career paths & ownership & status & wealth. You’re told working minimarts & renting = failure. I came to realize he was the most successful person I knew.

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m a lot less successful than I used to be, and a lot happier. Life isn’t rehearsal, or prep for something bigger—it’s the actual show

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can’t even ride a horse, but I spent a decade in my youth herding sheep on foot in the wilderness of northern BC. It was very hard, lonely, dirty, uncomfortable, often dangerous work. We hired men and women roughly equally. We wound up with a majority of very tough women, many gay—by attrition

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He’s a gross bigot, and a complete fool. US service members deserve far, far better

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My personal (Canadian) feeling is that the US is too militarized, culturally, practically, and economically. “The most powerful military on Earth” was never super comfortable for anyone else & much less if the US starts going rogue. But wow is this crazed administration ever damaging the institution

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m not qualified to judge this explainer, but I found it clarifying and helpful. (It’s very long; I also skimmed some bits near the end)

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s worth noting as well that pop artists like Warhol and Lichtenstein were working in a time before Rogers v Koons. Always remember, “fair use” is a legal defense one may attempt to argue—not a guaranteed right! If a court says no, then it’s not fair use

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Rogers v. Koons - Wikipedia

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tough thing about responding to this kind of hate display is they’re partly publicity stunt flash mobs to generate attention for their twisted cause. Heads they win, tails we lose. Ultimately we need to get to a place where racists and fascists are reluctant to risk public displays and disruptions

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Residential school denialism is very stupid. Even without the abuse, neglect, and dangerous conditions (documented and reported at the time!) infectious disease and accidents etc took a lot of lives, even among white school children in dramatically better and safer institutions

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t know how anything supposedly works anymore, but this looks, to me, a lot like the coyote standing on thin air over a canyon holding an anvil

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thought the word “Haribo” in the grocery store the other day and immediately bought my teenager some random surprise gummy bears, and now I am realizing we have gummy bears

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When I was writing Birds of Prey at first, I wasn't allowed to mention a need to go to the bathroom. Now everyone's hanging dong everywhere and Jughead eats people. Times change.

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Many years ago as an art student I found myself in a (friendly enough) email exchange with Archie’s legal rep over some pop art paintings I was making. (I reached out to them.) At that time they were *very* concerned with maintaining the squeaky clean image of their IP. They got way bolder later on

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A-100 gecs @pinstripebungle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

soundcloud.com/qanonanonymo... I went on QAA recently to talk about what's going on structurally in the State Department with migrant panic rhetoric, the Office of Remigration, and long-term efforts to reshape the organization forever.

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Great Replacement Theory at the State Department feat. Josef Burton (E390)

The “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory claims that powerful elites are deliberately replacing white populations through immigration. Under the second Trump administration, people who speak its lang

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Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pleasure talking to @itvnews.bsky.social this evening about the Prime Minister's announcement of a new Centre for Information Defence and the threat of foreign propaganda, as well as an example of me being duped by an AI fake. Nobody is immune!

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Awful people doing awful things, but it’s always grimly fascinating to see how the sausage gets made

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The world is ruled by concentric circles of increasingly elite cocktail parties full of terrible rich people, and I hate it

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Right here in BC, guys. It isn’t just the US and Europe. Canada has a far right, white nationalist, and Nazi extremism problem

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My only thought about this Texas song is never heard of is that I’ve probably never heard of *most* things millions of people like. That’s just how many people and things there are in the world now

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Whether this is good or bad totally depends on what we mean by “AI,” and it seems like a problem that the whole world is oriented around not knowing

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was a pretty sharp kid, but had the good fortune to grow up around other kids as smart or smarter than me—mostly girls—who would also tell me when I was full of shit (which was often)

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Everyone’s already dunked on the stupidity of this, but I’ll mention anyway that I’ve never once made a claim on my car insurance nor home insurance policies, nor on any travel insurance policy. Still have to have them and pay for them though!

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The president and his friends are making money hand over fist though, so I guess it all evens out?

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The original headline for this was "Helping Sturgeon Get Laid" before we realized fish don't really have "sex" or at least not that kind of "sex" enjoy! thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

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Endangered Sturgeon Need Help Making Babies | The Tyee

The Nechako River’s population verges on extinction. An on-land breeding program is coming to the rescue.

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This thread is about America’s minority of committed reactionaries, but Canadians have often felt low key unease about the American style of patriotism in general. The vibes have always felt a bit off

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Seeing replies here and elsewhere saying the sea turtles in California are a bad sign, and it is and it isn’t. Yes, it’s a sign that climate change is affecting species and ecosystems (bad). But it’s also a sign that species are shifting their ranges to track areas of climatic suitability (good).

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The optimistic take, but I think this is basically right. The authoritarian speedrun has largely fizzled out at this point. I mean, they’re still doing terrible stuff, but things look increasingly precarious for them, rather than consolidated

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

👇This is essential reading for all. Especially the bit about newspaper archives being wiped and journalists being replaced by AI. Globally we are blindly walking into a dark age. Luckily for us @sarahkendzior.bsky.social is alerting us all. Also providing us the best advise - get a library card. 1/

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My strategy with my kids has always been to talk to them and maintain high trust in their good judgement (ramping up autonomy with age). What’s the alternative? You want them to hopefully accept some guidance, and volunteer some information when they need help. Otherwise they’ll just go around you!

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Speaking on condition of anonymity, the sources said the former soldier expressed a wide range of conspiracies related to the pandemic, including blaming Jewish people for its spread.” Fucking hell. We need to deal with the spread of far-right extremism.

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Belleville synagogue shooting a ‘hate-motivated attack,’ police say | Globalnews.ca

In an update Thursday afternoon, Belleville police said the act was “deliberate” and targeted the Jewish community “during one of the holiest observances of the year.”

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This anecdote--not the episode, which goes in a totally different direction--is hilarious& cute. But more importantly, it poignantly illustrates SO many things that I work on. 1) How endlessly creative kids will be in route around child restrictions, and how ineffective parental controls are. 1/

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s weird that anything from the US CDC seems automatically suspect now, but the Trump era sucks, and the second year of Covid was a bottoming out period for everyone. (Also, another graph shows girls doing considerably worse than boys)

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

God, now I’m reminded of Jordan Peterson’s idiotic claim that “Nazis; white supremacists. These simply do not exist in Canada.” FFS, Ernst Zundel was based in Canada for 42 years! We were an international hub for Holocaust denial!

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just tackled this as a search game for half an hour, but after a lot of rav4 parts diagrams I’m still stumped!

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a good reminder. It’s also quite difficult! Even the linked story uses phrases like “wrote a message to remind itself” and “deceitful behavior” that seem to imply awareness or intent. It’s just tricky to talk about. Like, mimicry in insects deceives, but does the individual intend deception?

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