Matthew Loxton

Healthcare improvement and strategic foresight analyst, professional trainer in qualitative research methods. Organizational behavior researcher. Board member at Blue Faery Liver Cancer. #Writer of stuff - #AmWriting

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2026-03-26 17:32:13 UTC

UK: the only way to bring down energy prices is renewable energy
Germany: Major wind power expansion
US: Pay wind contractor a billion dollars NOT to install more wind energy

2026-03-26 17:25:48 UTC

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@nprofile…9ney
Right
At the moment, the solar setup charges everything that needs to be charged, which is a start.
I intend to add more panels up to 1600W and mount them on the pergola - which means not touching the house roof and incurring insurance penalties, while shading the pergola. So score there.
I will gradually migrate more appliances to the solar, and each time thumb my nose at the fossil fuel industry
@nprofile…t2ea

2026-03-25 16:25:03 UTC

I have reached the end of the first phase of shifting load to solar power.
All the household rechargeable devices - phones, tablets, headphones, and the big cordless tool batteries for snow blower, leaf blower, drills, drivers, etc, are now 100% replenished using the 500W solar panel
Next step is rigging the furnace blower to run from the solar "generator", making witing changes, and adding 800W of permanent solar panels

2026-03-22 03:54:35 UTC

My Dude: "All the most dangerous jobs are done by MEN"
Me: Except for childbirth, right?
My Dude: ...
Me: Right?

2026-02-27 19:08:05 UTC

A while back, Microsoft, complying with a demand by the US government, locked the account of a worker at the International Criminal Court, because, reasons.
Said worker in Europe, was suddenly unable to access his account, read emails, etc.
Nice
But several EU countries looked at that and said "WTF ... the US gov can just decide to lock someone in the EU out of their own account?!"
... and as a result, Germany and other countries are rapidly getting off all Microsoft and other US software

2026-02-26 14:55:48 UTC

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@nprofile…nmr0
ALL of that.
Yes, excellent points and well delivered.
One sidebar to this - men are THOROUGHLY and systematically indoctrinated to believe that they are expected to rank women and select on the basis of those beauty standards, AND they largely assimilate and incorporate those standards into how they see the world. A LOT of money goes into teaching men and women to behave this way

2026-02-25 14:04:34 UTC

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@nprofile…wn0a
Astonishing

2026-02-22 14:29:47 UTC

A lot of big US corporations are now staring down a path they picked by bending the knee, and starting to realize that it may diverge from the EU, APAC, and MERCOSUR, and they may lose 70% or more of their markets

2026-02-06 04:24:07 UTC

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@nprofile…cy5p
Not just taught, but actually rewarded for doing so and punished for not.
A silent man is assumed to be stupid or cowardly, and insufficiently ambitious, while a loud and intrusive man, especially one that could appear confident, even when out of their depth, would be rewarded and promoted.

2025-11-07 21:43:40 UTC

Upwork: you match this job!
Me: apply
Upwork: you need your ID to be verified first
Me: <verifies>
Upwork: You are verified! You match this job!
Me: apply
Upwork: sorry, we charged you 35 points for verifying, so you don't have enough points to apply to this job!
Upwork: hey, you match this same job!

2025-09-03 22:45:29 UTC

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@nprofile…9ag4
I was watching for something like this.
I guess the next milestone is if that bloc starts collecting federal taxes and passing them on minus the costs of any cancelled federal programs

2025-08-07 15:17:35 UTC

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@nprofile…l4s8
I only deal with oncology groups and focus, but it strikes me that some OB/GYN physicians run informal groups for people to talk about those kinds of experiences and act as support for each other.
It may be worth asking one's provider if they know of anything like that.
@nprofile…009v

2025-07-31 16:25:33 UTC

Assume you are writing a fictional story in which a nurse stabs the hospital administrator with a pair of surgical scissors
She should hold them
A: Fingers through the rings
B: Fingers around the rings
C: Transverse grip
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2025-07-15 14:48:05 UTC

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@nprofile…a0z2
Hey Christina, you are amazing and brave.
Please may you also make a habit of contacting someone before and after these sojourns, so there is someone to raise the alarm if you go missing for a while. Just a text or phone call can work
@nprofile…myfn

2025-07-15 02:48:03 UTC

Always something hiding in cells
https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-new-structure-discovered-hiding-inside-human-cells

2025-07-05 16:49:38 UTC

Trying to find an alternative to Amazon KDP, and it's demoralizing and exhausting.
Like, do I do Kobo for ebooks and IngramSpark for paperback?
Ugh
#writingcommunity
#writinglife

2025-06-20 01:44:40 UTC

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@nprofile…6vl3
The damage is going to be immense

2025-06-13 19:34:24 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers June 13: Self-promotion day: show us what you're proud of. Let's boost away.
Actually, I am quite proud of this paper and the research we did
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.04.25320693v1

2025-06-09 22:29:53 UTC

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@nprofile…args
Was RFK involved, because I could see that

2025-06-08 20:24:59 UTC

@nprofile…vdm6 am I confusing you with someone else, or did you once tell me you lived with aphantasia?

2025-05-21 19:14:31 UTC

Big hedge fund disinvests from Tesla, and shifts that money to ... Philip Morris
That's right, they saw a tobacco company as a better bet than Tesla

2025-05-21 13:25:26 UTC

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@nprofile…j3jt
It is a "what the market will bear" philosophy. The more you want or need something, the higher the price climbs.
What hinders it is "costly punishment". - Boycotts, shaming, and disruption
What stops it is a shift in business philosophy and social norms. In other words, Americans need to grow up and become adults
@nprofile…sf9v

2025-04-18 16:53:31 UTC

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@nprofile…pdav
Huh?

2025-04-17 23:44:00 UTC

I guess we now have the FDA that the people voted for
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli-bacteria-lettuce-outbreak-rcna200236

2025-04-08 13:37:08 UTC

Playing chicken with China is a game of assumption - including that they won't just nationalize all your factories, imprison all your staff, and ban all your products. If I were Tesla, I would be getting nervous about that nice shiny giga-factory in Lingang Industrial Zone

2025-04-07 13:29:13 UTC

No NYT, you can't "treat measles with Vitamin A", and posing that as a question is just the kind of fuckery for which you are now known.

2025-04-01 13:14:42 UTC

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@nprofile…wjfe
This is stupid on stilts.
Many of those standards were designed to trim male applicants, and were not a proxy for actual on-the-job performance.
They don't measure actual performance, and using them to artificially exclude women just reduces recruitment and does nothing to improve readiness

2025-03-31 18:27:53 UTC

I love these headlines and journo-speak that ponder that "the cost of tariffs MAY be borne by consumers"
Like My Dude, in what fekking world would the average retailer swallow that cost and NOT just pass it on to the consumer

2025-03-29 04:23:09 UTC

Utah takes the lead in deliberate self harm to an entire state
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/utah-1st-state-ban-fluoride-drinking-water/story?id=120262546

2025-03-28 20:59:55 UTC

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@nprofile…vdm6
Oh thanks for posting that. I have been waiting to see how this played out

2025-03-28 15:22:07 UTC

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@nprofile…d7q7
Actually fascinating.
I am trying to picture how it happens that an asymptomatic person becomes a donor.
I guess with a long incubation period, this really is a thing.

2025-03-27 16:27:13 UTC

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@nprofile…d7q7
Found an alternative source: https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/michigan-resident-dies-rabies-organ-transplant-toledo-ohio/
This is really strange

2025-03-24 20:04:11 UTC

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@nprofile…wjfe
1. Inadvertent to the point of reckless
2. Held on unapproved private platform (Signal)
3. Not held in a secure location like a SCIF
4. Just sloppy and slapdash discussion with an absurd tone, like wtf 💪 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 . What adult uses EMOJIS in an official di9scussion about bombing someone?
5. SET TO AUTODELETE in total contravention of records act

2025-03-19 20:24:07 UTC

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Take this knob for instance.
Still blaming everyone else, still pointing fingers, still placing himself in the center, and not even a hint that he realizes he fucked up - That his choice led to a WORSE outcome. Still imagining himself in possession of some higher moral position that is so sacrosanct that he couldn't just vote to get a better outcome.
Don't be this guy
Vote to improve things, not to make statements about how pure you are and which costs other people dearly.
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2025-03-19 20:16:24 UTC

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Lotta reply guys sailing in to deliver what to their feeble minds feels like an absolutely devastating insult before blocking me.
Yah, my dudes, you learned nothing.
You still prioritize your own pompous selves above the actual real-world outcomes, which are now incandescently worse for way more people. Not only did you not help people over there, but actually made things far worse, and also made things exponentially worse for millions of other people
But you showed how morally pure you were

2025-03-19 17:56:21 UTC

Hey you folks who just couldn't vote blue because of Gaza, have you learned your lesson now, or are you going to fall for disinformation and active measures tricks again next time?
I want to tell you that every time the ceasefire is violated, more places get bombed, or more news comes out about removing the people and creating a "Riviera", I think of you guys. I think of how this didn't need to happen and how, but for you, things could have been better

2025-03-13 14:01:45 UTC

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@nprofile…r5mx
Blind, deaf, or have permanent brain damage, or die from a different disease for which they no longer had immunity

2025-03-07 21:49:25 UTC

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@nprofile…f0x4
Also, that the period of pain will take several decades, and may not actually work.
So yeah, sure, we can replace many goods locally and eventually have those industries here, but it will take a very long time and not all industries will ever make that transition

2025-03-07 17:26:32 UTC

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@nprofile…gd2c
I think I was unclear.
I will edit my post

2025-03-07 15:21:59 UTC

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@nprofile…gd2c
Sounds like a very performative waste of time and effort.
It is also likely to backfire massively because once you set the precedent and process for an "official language" it opens the door to more - Canada has two official languages, ZA has 11. There is no reason why we won't shortly have Spanish as a second official language, and a solid argument for a ton of indigenous languages.
@nprofile…s62g

2025-02-28 13:52:16 UTC

It would be such a shame if "swasticar" product reviews started showing up all over the place.
https://futurism.com/tesla-stocks-elon-musk-swasticar

2025-02-25 17:03:43 UTC

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@nprofile…hujc citing one writer for whom this has not been a problem in no way discounts that it has been for others. This is the "but my Grandad smoked a pack a day and never got cancer" argument.
By "lost money" I mean that they saw income from a title drop because people could get a pirated copy for free. I mean that people who would have bought it got a pirated copy instead.
For a moment, just consider that the average novel takes two years of work. Big risk
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2025-02-25 16:35:58 UTC

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@nprofile…hujc
Not really a good example. Here the platform is still allowing the user to download the title.
Look, I understand the reader's issue here and that DRM is a lot more like a rental than a purchase. But ebooks without some sort of DRM has proven to be unworkable for writers. If anyone can just copy and distribute my work, then I have no royalty stream to support writing.
This isn't a theoretical concern - many writers have lost a lot of income to pirating
@nprofile…r98r

2025-02-25 14:50:12 UTC

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@nprofile…f0x4
Misinformation and disinformation to be sure, but a huge chunk of the root cause lies with voter laziness and stupidity. People shrugged off voting because ... reasons ... or didn't vote for a black woman because ... racism, or voted third party because ... stupidity, or voted TFG because they are just plain stupid racist people.
The gullibility is deliberate, and the acceptance of disinformation and believing lies is done willingly

2025-02-21 13:23:58 UTC

Alzheimer's may be from infection?
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-cause-of-alzheimers-might-be-coming-from-inside-your-mouth

2025-02-15 15:38:13 UTC

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@nprofile…hujc
Right, but that history takes us back to casette tapes and the pirating that screwed musicians. DRM was the answer to musicians losing so much money that some gave up on recording at all.
For every one person who buys the CD and rips a digital copy for their own use, there is also someone who sells or distributes pirated copies.
@nprofile…r98r

2025-02-15 06:40:42 UTC

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@nprofile…hujc
Yeah, I understand that concern.
I haven't seen any solutions that don't fall too far to one side or the other.
I have no issue with someone wanting a transportable copy that survives platform changes. I have an issue when people either want to be able to pirate the work, or demand that writers use some edge platform with no market or no protection of copyright
@nprofile…r98r

2025-02-14 15:22:05 UTC

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@nprofile…r98r
I have so far never met an anti-DRM person that wasn't just saying that they want to be free to steal my books and not pay me.

2025-02-11 13:32:17 UTC

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2025/02/without-federal-funding-michigan-youth-stem-program-suddenly-shuts-down.html

2025-01-24 14:18:53 UTC

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@nprofile…r5mx
That is very sad, and speaks to how badly society is doing at the socialization of boys, and how much we are allowing right-wing influencers to radicalize and inflame them.

2024-09-07 18:39:14 UTC

The biggest group of MAGA people (white, male, 65-74) are very worried about foreigners, gays, and trans people.
What they SHOULD be worried about are cancer, heart disease, respiratory disease, COVID, and diabetes
https://cdn.masto.host/medmastodoncom/media_attachments/files/113/097/710/980/883/038/original/7d5547951c50faf7.jpg

2024-04-02 18:06:29 UTC

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@npub1hyk…3p33
Classic BOFH trick :)

2023-11-27 15:08:49 UTC

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@npub1sat…8vnx
Oh, voice AI is eventually going to take all the prizes.
@npub12sx…r4z3

2023-11-27 15:00:01 UTC

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@npub12sx…r4z3
True, it is not the same way - but I can tell you that in my writing group, one of the regulars reads my pieces out loud for me because my voice doesn't work well anymore - and he brings my writing to life in a way that I can't do just reading them. A good voice reader is casting an interpretation over the piece, but often better than one's own brain could have done.
@npub1sat…8vnx

2023-09-05 00:23:59 UTC

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@npub189n…satx
The thing that strikes me is the compliance. Like at what point does the school go "wait a minute..."?

2023-09-04 23:45:40 UTC

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@npub1gmx…atcq
I'm guessing the numbers for HCC are going to be grim.
We were already seeing it climbing due to obesity and the NAFLD -> NASH -> HCC pathway, but adding COVID infection and drop in HBV vaccine uptake, i fear the numbers are going to be ugly

2023-09-03 20:30:26 UTC

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@npub14k2…ed68
I usually run a quick binomial app and then comment on the odds of that makeup coming about by chance.

2023-09-03 20:28:09 UTC

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@npub189n…satx
Even at the ripe old age of about 8, when I saw a statue of him, it occurred to me that he must have been a giant dickhead

2023-09-03 20:20:12 UTC

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@npub189n…satx
Yeah, mine totally were. Also, one of them achieved fame for killing elephants.

2023-08-25 14:14:44 UTC

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
At some level, this is a curiosity that future historians, sociologists, and anthropologists will marvel at.
Mostly, they are likely to think this generation the dumbest and most ridiculous in the entire history of the species.
We make the Flapper generation look like wise and conscientious models of adulthood

2023-08-16 17:22:11 UTC

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@npub10lc…7wpc
You can also put retired teapots in the garden and plant something in them

2023-08-04 19:18:26 UTC

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@npub189n…satx
Yah, exactly.
I also note that this kind of language almost inevitably leads to some of the less self-regulated among political followers to take it as a suggestion to do something like that

2023-07-20 20:38:51 UTC

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
Is that essentially pure water?

2023-07-20 16:52:43 UTC

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@npub10cm…36ex
It is the kind of person who just keeps pushing a line of reasoning until someone stops them or they get distracted by cancer or dementia.
@npub189n…satx

2023-07-19 16:48:28 UTC

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@npub189n…satx
I hope she and the other students affected in this way are able to find alternative colleges that will credit their prior work, but chances are slim that it would even then not be enormously disruptive.
This is a very profound and foundational betrayal by the college of those students

2023-07-19 15:55:11 UTC

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@npub16mz…uzxf
Right, but what would you wear that with?

2023-07-18 15:37:34 UTC

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@npub1lnm…624t Been down this path before with Mueller. This time I will wait until I see it happen