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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦
@danielloxton.bsky.social
Author, illustrator, and researcher of misinformation and fringe claims. Former Editor (2002–2021) of Junior Skeptic, and author of Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be and other science books for kids and adults. https://www.danielloxton.com
Settling in with podcasts for some more evening drawing. This one's off to a decent start I think
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I have no memory of taking this portrait of the World’s Most Unimpressed Kitten back in 2014, but I recently discovered I did!
October 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I thought this paleoart #illustration gig was mostly gonna be dinosaurs, but turns out to involve a tremendous abundance of rocks #WIP 🐡
October 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I never read the Left Behind novels, so my most memorable association is this passage from @radosh.bsky.social’s book Rapture Ready:
September 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Implementing a solution… it involves frankly more glue stick than I anticipated
September 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Or more accurately, pterosaur drawing. This is tonight's barely started #WIP
September 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
When you’re just a silly little guy but also your face is a “jaws of life” machine 🐡
September 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Screenshot just because I don’t feel like reproducing trump’s disturbing letter, but this is an additional level of weird:
September 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Consulting with Artistic Daughter, we decided this Reactive Borb pose would be a bit hard for younger viewers to “read” as a coloring book style illustration? #WIP
September 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I forgot the dewclaw on this WIP commission (I went back and added it in afterward) 🐡
August 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Work in progress, coloring book-style illustration commission for a puzzle project. (My girlfriend has dubbed him “Freddie the Tank”) 🐡
August 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
July 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Post a warning:
June 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The modern “conservative” ethos is actually very ancient. Here it is spelled out in Plato, as an interlocutor named Meno answers Socrates’ request, “tell me what you say that virtue is”. That’s easy, says Meno: a man should help his friends and harm his enemies
May 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Googling some stuff myself just now
May 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I love this time of year in Victoria! #yyj
April 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Which is which?
March 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Second rescued old "sheep and memory" post!

"Experience may never fade completely, but it fades quickly—and a lot."

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March 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The first of a couple of old sheep camp / nature of memory posts I've been meaning to recover from the purge, as a lot of my other rescued articles link back to them:

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March 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
My local liquor store in #yyj Victoria, BC showing the escalating boycott on American booze:
March 14, 2025 at 5:08 AM
My little account just tipped over to more Bluesky followers than I’ve ever had on any platform, and now I am mighty!
February 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Local liquor store tonight in Victoria, British Columbia. Good to see it! #yyj
February 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Note that the 1998 wedge document uses “materialist” to mean the same vaguely defined threat dubbed “wokeness” today:
January 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“Advertise your account with a Simpsons image.”
January 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Like here’s a little overflow stack of books I read when writing about *just* the sub-subcategory of *pet psychics*—which is its own thriving *industry*! Pet psychics make money; people believe them. Does any critical reporting or scholarship track any of that on a continuous basis? (I don’t!)
December 15, 2024 at 3:01 AM