Dylan Houlihan (he/him)
@houlio77.bsky.social
Husband, father, community planner, pained Leafs fan, music lover.
What a f'n twat.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
What a f'n twat.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
Overall Biden was a great president but his two major mistakes that are having disastrous consequences for the world was not arming Ukraine to the teeth to be aggressive against Russia and not prosecuting Trump to the fullest extent possible.
Ukraine already tried giving up land for Russia’s word to stop attacking, with the Minsk Agreements of 2014-15. Russia violated them with a full scale invasion in 2022.
Why would Ukraine think land for peace would work this time, especially when a Putin-sympathetic US won’t do security guarantees?
Why would Ukraine think land for peace would work this time, especially when a Putin-sympathetic US won’t do security guarantees?
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that if Ukraine takes the right steps, its GDP could surpass Russia’s within 10 years.
"They are literally fighting over a 30-50 km strip in Donetsk, roughly 20% of the region still under Ukrainian control and now a central issue in negotiations."
"They are literally fighting over a 30-50 km strip in Donetsk, roughly 20% of the region still under Ukrainian control and now a central issue in negotiations."
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Overall Biden was a great president but his two major mistakes that are having disastrous consequences for the world was not arming Ukraine to the teeth to be aggressive against Russia and not prosecuting Trump to the fullest extent possible.
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I think this is my best essay on this topic (maybe my best essay). I'd like you to read it, if you haven't.
It also means (@lollardfish.bsky.social has ably written about this) that you as a parent are forced to concentrate on and narrate your child's difficulties just to get them what they need, which is damaging to your child and your relationship with them.
I Shouldn’t Have to Dehumanize My Son to Get Him Support
Instead of focusing on the challenges facing disabled people, we should emphasize goals.
www.thenation.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I think this is my best essay on this topic (maybe my best essay). I'd like you to read it, if you haven't.
My poll question would be 'Should @castanetkamloops.net stop wasting digital ink on dumb divisive ideas from a fringe party that didn't exist when its MLAs were elected?'.
Should B.C. have a statutory holiday honouring the 'Freedom Convoy' protestors?
Should B.C. have a statutory holiday honouring the 'Freedom Convoy' protestors? - Poll
A Kelowna-area MLA wants a new statutory holiday to honour the 2022 Freedom Convoy that took over downtown Ottawa.
www.castanetkamloops.net
December 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
My poll question would be 'Should @castanetkamloops.net stop wasting digital ink on dumb divisive ideas from a fringe party that didn't exist when its MLAs were elected?'.
I'm watching the Vegas-Chicago NHL game and Carter Hart is playing and I'm thinking some messed up journalist is going to nominate him for the Bill Masterton trophy awarded for perseverance in the face of adversity. That's how pathetic the hockey community is.
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I'm watching the Vegas-Chicago NHL game and Carter Hart is playing and I'm thinking some messed up journalist is going to nominate him for the Bill Masterton trophy awarded for perseverance in the face of adversity. That's how pathetic the hockey community is.
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“I just have concerns about fairness in sport”… okay and so let’s close every sport academy, ban travel sports below the age of 13, and ban paid coaches for youth sports if we’re all so concerned about “fairness”
“I just have concerns about fairness in sport” - no, you don’t. There’s nothing fair about elite sports. You’re just looking for post hoc justification because we give you the ick
December 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“I just have concerns about fairness in sport”… okay and so let’s close every sport academy, ban travel sports below the age of 13, and ban paid coaches for youth sports if we’re all so concerned about “fairness”
What is wild to me is that a lot of people are talking about the second strike as being illegal when the first strike is also illegal.
Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?"
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
What is wild to me is that a lot of people are talking about the second strike as being illegal when the first strike is also illegal.
The whole anti-DEI thing is predicated on making sure that awful people with mediocre talent can still get a better than equal chance to be wealthy, often at the expense of trans people. Riley Gaines was an unremarkable swimming talent that leveraged anti-trans rhetoric to become wealthy
How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?
Here's what this is actually about, dumbass
December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The whole anti-DEI thing is predicated on making sure that awful people with mediocre talent can still get a better than equal chance to be wealthy, often at the expense of trans people. Riley Gaines was an unremarkable swimming talent that leveraged anti-trans rhetoric to become wealthy
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He's going to kill so many people and we're powerless to stop it. One of the most vile humans currently wandering around this watery rock.
December 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
He's going to kill so many people and we're powerless to stop it. One of the most vile humans currently wandering around this watery rock.
This might be the most Nelson story ever. Like you could take the name of the town out of the story and ask people where it would take place and most people who know anything about Nelson would say Nelson. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This might be the most Nelson story ever. Like you could take the name of the town out of the story and ask people where it would take place and most people who know anything about Nelson would say Nelson. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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we have to get out of this framing that the hard right has a point about immigration numbers, but they're saying it in a mean & racist way
even if they weren't racist at all (& they very much are), what they are calling for is still national suicide
even if they weren't racist at all (& they very much are), what they are calling for is still national suicide
November 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
we have to get out of this framing that the hard right has a point about immigration numbers, but they're saying it in a mean & racist way
even if they weren't racist at all (& they very much are), what they are calling for is still national suicide
even if they weren't racist at all (& they very much are), what they are calling for is still national suicide
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i think we have to get off the defensive on immigration
it's not just necessary, it's good! - & the easier it is, the greater its benefits
it's not just necessary, it's good! - & the easier it is, the greater its benefits
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
i think we have to get off the defensive on immigration
it's not just necessary, it's good! - & the easier it is, the greater its benefits
it's not just necessary, it's good! - & the easier it is, the greater its benefits
I live in the McDonald Park neighbourhood. We haven't had a new sidewalk in 20 years so the least Council could do is invest some money to slow cars down so it's a bit safer for me to walk to the park with my kid. For the $20M we are spending on KCA parking, we could build a lot of sidewalks
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I live in the McDonald Park neighbourhood. We haven't had a new sidewalk in 20 years so the least Council could do is invest some money to slow cars down so it's a bit safer for me to walk to the park with my kid. For the $20M we are spending on KCA parking, we could build a lot of sidewalks
What a bunch of drivel...
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
What a bunch of drivel...
The stupid thing about what Carney did is that it will never satisfy Alberta - their political leadership is insatiable so why give in to their whining? Also, from a pure political perspective, it will not gain the Liberals a single seat in Alberta but will definitely lose them several seats in BC.
November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The stupid thing about what Carney did is that it will never satisfy Alberta - their political leadership is insatiable so why give in to their whining? Also, from a pure political perspective, it will not gain the Liberals a single seat in Alberta but will definitely lose them several seats in BC.
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I'm not interested in "I told you so."
A lot of people voted Liberal because they were terrified of Poilievre and his gang. I get that.
But Carney's who we got, he's being a weak leader, pushing policies that are harming the vast majority of us and it's time to just admit he sucks and push back.
A lot of people voted Liberal because they were terrified of Poilievre and his gang. I get that.
But Carney's who we got, he's being a weak leader, pushing policies that are harming the vast majority of us and it's time to just admit he sucks and push back.
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
rime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government is scrapping plans for a major national climate policy and immediately suspending another in Alberta alone, as part of a wide-ranging accord that softens
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I'm not interested in "I told you so."
A lot of people voted Liberal because they were terrified of Poilievre and his gang. I get that.
But Carney's who we got, he's being a weak leader, pushing policies that are harming the vast majority of us and it's time to just admit he sucks and push back.
A lot of people voted Liberal because they were terrified of Poilievre and his gang. I get that.
But Carney's who we got, he's being a weak leader, pushing policies that are harming the vast majority of us and it's time to just admit he sucks and push back.
Lots of space for the NDP and Green Party to become nationally relevant again with the direction the Liberals are going.
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Lots of space for the NDP and Green Party to become nationally relevant again with the direction the Liberals are going.
I usually defend my urban planner brethren and feel that a lot of criticisms directed to planners are really misdirected but listening to this old planner from the Vancouver rail against density and realize that in some instances, I am wrong to defend them
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I usually defend my urban planner brethren and feel that a lot of criticisms directed to planners are really misdirected but listening to this old planner from the Vancouver rail against density and realize that in some instances, I am wrong to defend them
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I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites
Like so much with the mayor, there is often a tiny piece of rationality (e.g. Council should be questioning rising costs and whether it makes sense to pay $20M for parking) surrounded by incomprehensible irrationality (e.g. we should move the arts centre to beside the water treatment plant).
#Kamloops - On eve of construction, Kamloops mayor wants to move location of $211M arts centre www.castanet.net/news/Kamloop...
On eve of construction, Kamloops mayor wants to move location of $211M arts centre - Kamloops News
Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson says he wants to halt construction on the downtown performing arts centre in order to consider a new location — even with a groundbreaking ceremony planned for later…
www.castanet.net
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Like so much with the mayor, there is often a tiny piece of rationality (e.g. Council should be questioning rising costs and whether it makes sense to pay $20M for parking) surrounded by incomprehensible irrationality (e.g. we should move the arts centre to beside the water treatment plant).
Denmark has its own version of the 60s Scoop complete with (misguided) science to cover for their blatant racism. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Denmark has its own version of the 60s Scoop complete with (misguided) science to cover for their blatant racism. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Yeah, this is bad but is nothing compared to the enormous corruption Trump is engaged in.
Fugees rapper Pras Michel sentenced to 14 years in prison over illegal donations to Obama campaign (Entertainment)
Fugees rapper Pras Michel sentenced to 14 years in prison over illegal donations to Obama campaign - Entertainment News
Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel of the Fugees was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign.
www.castanetkamloops.net
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Yeah, this is bad but is nothing compared to the enormous corruption Trump is engaged in.
I see One BC is doing some real productive work here...idiots.
November 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I see One BC is doing some real productive work here...idiots.