Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 21hWe used to throw a lively Christmas party back before Covid. I think I spent about $500 on the last one, as well as a ton of time. Now I’m worried about affording some new shoes before the rain comes, because my current pair literally has holes in the soles 010
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 21hThe parties I’ve been to in recent years are generally hosted by childless couples, or by two parent families with full time kids at good ages for helping prepare the home and food—and very significant family income (notably doctors) 110
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 21hThe kids are mostly grown now, and they’re only here, irregularly, half the time. Years ago we could devote a week to party prep together; that’s less practical now. They’re good about contributing, but they also have many other priorities and obligations (work, school, homework etc) 100
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 22hI loved having guests in bygone years, but I’m a single dad with no money. Proper hosting takes pretty significant resources. (Covid put a stop to our parties for a long time too of course, shifting our home further into “cluttered full time working studio” mode) 170
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 22hI haven’t seen it, so I can’t judge, but the basic plot of the story is she’s the most targeted victim of unhinged bullying to ever be targeted. I was a target myself in the 80s, and it wasn’t random. Targets were a) vulnerable kids, who b) stick out. Beauty and social skills were protective 020
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Whatever it is, someone else will have to tell me about it. I won’t be watching 000
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It would be very funny if 45 minutes of every episode were devoted to locked off, zero dialogue scenes of the kids doing homework in the library though 100
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026What’s the show supposed to do to distinguish itself? A catchier theme song? An upgrade from Alan Rickman? More money for sets and VFX than Hollywood blockbusters? “Longer” doesn’t seem like the draw they hope for. The movies benefited from streamlining stuff from the increasingly indulgent books 110
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It’s been a “why bother?” head scratcher since it was announced. The movies already exist, they’re not old, and they’re already probably the best things you can make with this material. The whole thing would seem pointless to me even without the horrible rich bigot 120
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Before food standards were legislated and enforced, competition strongly favored food adulteration and other nasty, unsafe, or fraudulent practices, even for companies that might prefer to do better. If you didn’t cheat, you’d get undercut by all the cheaters 020
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026When industries are held to high regulatory standards, customers can have reasonable confidence, and the costs of compliance are shared more or less equally by the various competitors. Regulations are very often a net win for industry 160
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Social media is probably bad for us olds, and it’s *definitely* bad for our parents marinating in right wing “AI” slop reels on Facebook. But the young people I know aren’t broadcasting. They’re browsing YouTube and using group chats to socialize and arrange real life get togethers with friends 030
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I have high quality standards for my work, and the money often can’t cover the amount of work I want to put in. Retaining rights for potential future re-uses makes it more reasonable / economical for me to invest extra effort, and the initial client gets better work for the same money. Win-win! 010
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Good thread, applicable to lots of illustration projects too. I almost never do work for hire. On my current project, I negotiated contract changes to retain ownership over commissioned images. The client bought expansive use rights, so their needs are covered; flexibility sweetened the deal for me 120
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026One of my nicest date nights in the past year was a little light Christmas shopping last winter 110
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026At least with flying, one doesn’t need a lot of doses or run much risk of developing any dependency 010
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Whatever’s going to work best for you; I don’t mean to recommend one medication in particular. The level of distress you’re experiencing is probably at least somewhat manageable with the right doctor’s help 110
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It’s not a pleasant drug for me, and I still find the experience difficult—but it’s enough to get through it every few years or so. I would have missed out on some amazing opportunities without it. It has the bonus effect of impairing memory formation, so the previous flight seems shorter and easier 000
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I finally went and got a prescription for Ativan almost 20 years ago when my Australian family offered to fly me, my then-spouse, and our toddler down to Adelaide, and I realized I couldn’t do it. I get fresh meds whenever I do fly, and I’m not shy about pre-loading or topping up during turbulence 210
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My sympathies, and solidarity. I have similar difficulty with flying. When I do fly (very rarely) I rely heavily on prescription medication as well as plenty of lead time 110
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026That makes you richer than billionaires in the ways that matter most 110
Reposted by Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 09/10/2026Shortly after learning about social media posts the BC NDP flagged as racist, BC Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson fired Joachim Agou, the party's candidate in Victoria-Beacon Hill. Andrew MacLeod reports. #BCPoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...thetyee.ca‘No Excuse’: Doerkson Fires Conservative Candidate | The TyeeBigoted social media posts, some celebrating Trump, Musk and other right wing leaders, prompted the action. 45617
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I’m pretty comfortable with the thought Canada should just ban X altogether 191
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It’s an honor really just to compete at this level of play 110
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It’s all up to the judges now, they’re conferring intensely 110
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In fairness, that’s a tough act to follow! This was the coolest guy they had on the TV in those days :) 110
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026youtu.be/xIaXl7SqkBw?...youtu.beMagnum, P.I. - Opening ThemeYouTube video by Madman Films 120
Reposted by Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Race “science” is, sadly, alive and well. @socialistdogmom.bsky.social and her work on her Weird Little Guys podcast are more relevant than ever. 2446
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It’s profoundly sad. Reading bedtime stories to my children was a peak life experience, like falling in love—absolutely top tier “what I’ll remember on my deathbed” stuff 030
Reposted by Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Every desert river rat knows that tamarisk is sucks up our most precious resource. But what if the science we've been basing that on is wrong? An eye-opening piece on one of the Southwest's most reviled trees, and how saving our rivers is a lot more complex than simply getting rid of tamarisk:biographic.comThe Trouble with Tamarisk | bioGraphicTwenty-five years ago, land managers unleashed a beetle to control an invasive tree sucking rivers dry. But water levels haven’t risen—and the real villains are still causing trouble. 0143
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Just off the top of my head, this feels like sort of a Walking Dead situation? In open water the ship of the line’s got huge advantages, but surrounded / tangled in wreckage etc they’re in big trouble 090
Reposted by Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Three government sponsors pulled their logos from Europe's premier disinformation conference in Vilnius this week. Ramsha Jahangir and Giovana Fleck report on what drove the withdrawals and the transatlantic politics behind them.techpolicy.pressDisinformation Conference in Europe Caught Up in Transatlantic PoliticsEurope’s top disinformation conference faces government withdrawals and pressure over its debate on foreign interference, free speech and the US. 04322
Reposted by Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wellness influencers are losing their only strength to AI. 0187
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Also the guy who put *mermaids* hoaxes on Discovery and Animal Planet 🙄 0305
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The NYC budget may not be Mamdani’s personal fortune, but you can tell it’s a hoot for the guy to fix potholes and increase arts grants and whatnot 000
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If I had billions of dollars, I don’t know if I could resist the temptation to waste some of it on moonshot life extension nonsense, but that’s about the only thing about actual billionaires I can relate to? Just think how much fun you could have making things better for people instead of worse! 140
Reposted by Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I wrote for free about how the army of highly-placed cranks and loyalists Trump martialed for the 2020 election seems pretty quiet so far. If you're full of dread that Trump is one tweet away from martial law, I hope you read this and exhale. www.patreon.com/MikeRothschi...patreon.comThe Cranks are Cranking | Mike RothschildWith a month until the 2026 midterms, the conspiracy theorist industrial complex is working overtime to seed confusion and lay the groundwor 33910
Reposted by Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading. 753562901
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I phrased that badly, and shouldn’t have. I was just interested by the suggestion that any correlation at all could possibly exist 000
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026That wasn’t my intention. I apologize, and will delete the post 100
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The big take home from that research was that there was no hint that the MMR *caused* autism 000
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I listen to music I’ve heard a million times when writing; podcasts are a no go for writing because they use the same bunch of bandwidth in my brain. Similarly, I long ago learned it’s a bad idea to think about visual art while driving 060
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I listen to podcasts when I’m illustrating and the absolute last thing I want is any visual input that isn’t the picture I’m working on. I watch YouTube videos in my free time, and podcast episode length videos are too long for casual viewing 0200
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The article says, “The virus in question has been said to be the deadly but treatable pneumonic plague,” but that is a bacterium, not a virus 081
Reposted by Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Skull of a titan 5497100