Kevin de Haan
@kevin.dehaan.ca
Software Engineer, YIMBY.
Trans rights are human rights.
Gone where APEGA can't reach me
kevin@dehaan.ca
Trans rights are human rights.
Gone where APEGA can't reach me
kevin@dehaan.ca
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Kevin de Haan
@kevin.dehaan.ca
· Nov 26
Getting polarized against good ideas because someone was mean to you is a personal failing, but so is negatively polarizing people against your own politics for no reason
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Whenever they open a new Link station or line you just gotta big-up all the politicians & tell them what a heroic accomplishment they achieved, etc. in hopes that they keep chasing that high of actually being liked & useful
December 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Whenever they open a new Link station or line you just gotta big-up all the politicians & tell them what a heroic accomplishment they achieved, etc. in hopes that they keep chasing that high of actually being liked & useful
@bobco85.bsky.social have a great ride!
December 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
@bobco85.bsky.social have a great ride!
A "permanent reduction in property values" if you get a light rail connection in your neighborhood? These people deserve everything they don't get lmao
December 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A "permanent reduction in property values" if you get a light rail connection in your neighborhood? These people deserve everything they don't get lmao
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"X shouldn't be political." OK but it is. Now what?
October 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
"X shouldn't be political." OK but it is. Now what?
The typical immigration skeptic wants the process to be twice as hard as they think it is, which would result in it being 10x simpler than what actually exists
October 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The typical immigration skeptic wants the process to be twice as hard as they think it is, which would result in it being 10x simpler than what actually exists
Crackpot theory: Trump is fine with using Tylenol as a scapegoat because a double digit percentage of his peers are functioning alcoholics who can't use it anyway
September 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Crackpot theory: Trump is fine with using Tylenol as a scapegoat because a double digit percentage of his peers are functioning alcoholics who can't use it anyway
The two definitions of technology as "the application of knowledge to solve problems" and "a thing that gives someone the means to increase their power" are non-intuitively only different in their phrasing. They're functionally the same thing!
tangentially the guy who put forward the best "technology inherently concentrates power" thesis died in a federal prison, possibly disgracing the argument so thoroughly that it became verboten to say in public indefinitely
August 14, 2025 at 6:51 AM
The two definitions of technology as "the application of knowledge to solve problems" and "a thing that gives someone the means to increase their power" are non-intuitively only different in their phrasing. They're functionally the same thing!
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From an evolutionary standpoint, humans are endurance predators, we stalk our prey until it can’t run any longer. This makes apartment hunting one of the easiest kinds of hunting we do in our lives; very few apartments can run very far
July 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
From an evolutionary standpoint, humans are endurance predators, we stalk our prey until it can’t run any longer. This makes apartment hunting one of the easiest kinds of hunting we do in our lives; very few apartments can run very far
This Ruling Endangers The Constitution And Will Lead To Abuses In The Future
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No It Won't
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No It Won't
Woah. Fierce cut-down of the junior justice by the next-most-junior justice.
Barrett giving Jackson the back of her hand:
Barrett giving Jackson the back of her hand:
June 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This Ruling Endangers The Constitution And Will Lead To Abuses In The Future
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No It Won't
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No It Won't
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The thru-line of Nimbyism, no matter how much they wax poetically about construction driven displacement or misguided theories of rental price discovery or bad ideas of development economics, is that buildings are bad and you personally should screw off to Edmonton if you might need to live in one
June 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The thru-line of Nimbyism, no matter how much they wax poetically about construction driven displacement or misguided theories of rental price discovery or bad ideas of development economics, is that buildings are bad and you personally should screw off to Edmonton if you might need to live in one
l m a o
Harrell, answering the question about Pike Place Market, says he doesn't care about taking credit for things, then asks how come no other mayor got the overlook walk done.
June 5, 2025 at 6:24 AM
l m a o
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this is my actual belief. i believe in virtue ethics for consequentialist reasons.
"as a Utilitarian Consequentialist, I believe in Virtue Ethics because every time some group of people abandoned 'Virtue' the outcomes were really awful" is a funny take but also, like, true
May 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
this is my actual belief. i believe in virtue ethics for consequentialist reasons.
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we have to study this new/old and malicious meme that the crimes of someone related to you also accrue to you, by virtue of... what? blood quantum?
it's a deeply fascist idea, if you think about it for half a second
it's a deeply fascist idea, if you think about it for half a second
“And no one talks about it”
The fuck am I supposed to talk about? What do you want me to do with this information and how often am I supposed to bring it up in conversation?
The fuck am I supposed to talk about? What do you want me to do with this information and how often am I supposed to bring it up in conversation?
May 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
we have to study this new/old and malicious meme that the crimes of someone related to you also accrue to you, by virtue of... what? blood quantum?
it's a deeply fascist idea, if you think about it for half a second
it's a deeply fascist idea, if you think about it for half a second
My ideal lifestyle given unlimited resources and no selfless regard for the wellbeing of other people involves exactly zero personal servants or human "assistants". The thought of someone's sole job being to cater to me is actively repulsive. Any human-provided services *should* be at scale.
May 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
My ideal lifestyle given unlimited resources and no selfless regard for the wellbeing of other people involves exactly zero personal servants or human "assistants". The thought of someone's sole job being to cater to me is actively repulsive. Any human-provided services *should* be at scale.
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An aesthetic review rule that just says you're required to use a paint color (define broad families) that is used in less than 30% of existing buildings would immediately improve the look of new development substantially at ~0 extra cost to the developer
May 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
An aesthetic review rule that just says you're required to use a paint color (define broad families) that is used in less than 30% of existing buildings would immediately improve the look of new development substantially at ~0 extra cost to the developer
This is also what Danielle Smith is trying to do to public healthcare in Alberta, making it as bad as possible to push privatization
Trump will say this proves government is inefficient and doesn't work, which will become the justification for selling them off and privatizing them. Same playbook they ran on public schools with defunding -> charterization -> voucherization
May 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This is also what Danielle Smith is trying to do to public healthcare in Alberta, making it as bad as possible to push privatization
YESSS PUT US IN EUROVISION 🇪🇺🇨🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦
It would be extremely funny if Canada eventually joined the EU
I had a productive call with Ursula von der Leyen this morning. We’re ready to build on our free trade relationship, bolster economic security, and work side-by-side on shared defence and security challenges.
When Canada and the European Union build together, our futures are stronger.
When Canada and the European Union build together, our futures are stronger.
May 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
YESSS PUT US IN EUROVISION 🇪🇺🇨🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦
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My whole life has been, “democrats are better at equity/environmental/climate stuff, and republicans are better at the economy” but there’s honestly never been anything republicans are good at, certainly not the economy
April 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
My whole life has been, “democrats are better at equity/environmental/climate stuff, and republicans are better at the economy” but there’s honestly never been anything republicans are good at, certainly not the economy
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I like this idea in theory but I think it's impractical to disenfranchise homeowners at scale
April 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I like this idea in theory but I think it's impractical to disenfranchise homeowners at scale
The ultimate root of trade deficit obsession is that conservatives have convinced themselves that everything in existence is zero sum and that somebody else has to suffer for them to prosper. "Trade deficit" is their buzzword to rationalize this perspective against """globalism"""
can someone explain to me the obsession with the trade deficit?
April 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The ultimate root of trade deficit obsession is that conservatives have convinced themselves that everything in existence is zero sum and that somebody else has to suffer for them to prosper. "Trade deficit" is their buzzword to rationalize this perspective against """globalism"""
My crank plan to save the Dems: primary so many of them at once that the party is effectively resurrected anew, a clean break from the past. They can call it the New Democratic Party and change the logo to orange,
DC Democrats do not understand how badly they're jeopardizing their own jobs. If they keep this up, politicians who haven't caught a credible primary challenger in years are about to get walloped in the '26 cycle.
Democratic lawmakers are expected to communicate their opposition to Donald Trump during the president’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday night by color-coordinating.
March 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
My crank plan to save the Dems: primary so many of them at once that the party is effectively resurrected anew, a clean break from the past. They can call it the New Democratic Party and change the logo to orange,