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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 12/10/2026

In 2023 I bought 18 TB drives for $289. Currently $849. www.amazon.com/TOSHIBA-MG09AC...

Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 30/09/2026

Hey Apple News why do you do this crap? I blocked the channel so I don't want to see any of their crap. Not constant reminders of their crap.

Screenshot from Apple News showing the headline from a news article and a “You blocked this channel” notice.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 28/09/2026

Ugh, Cowboy Junkies updated the album art on The Trinity Session. Not a fan. I wish Apple wouldn't replace album art (this goes for books too, hate it when a book gets a cover with images from the "Now a Movie!") (Original on top, new on bottom)

Original and new album art for the Cowboy Junkies The Trinty Session

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 24/09/2026

Pete Hegseth: War on Iran loser Pete Hegseth: War on Drugs loser

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 11/09/2026

lol "split into several smaller projections" is underselling this. The US 1983 set has 108 projections. Not only is the earth not flat, it's not a very good sphere either. But I can't wait the conspiracy theories that come out if the US resumes it's adoption of international feet from survey feet

Map of the continental US showing the 108 zones using different projection systems to account for the shape of the earth.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 10/09/2026

RT with your home river. A twofer: the Kaw river and the Missouri River. In 1993 I was on levy watch on the Kaw and saw the river just inches below the tops of the levees. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_F...

Photo of the Kaw river meeting the Missouri river with Kansas City skyline in the background.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 01/09/2026

If you see this post a vampire

a little pile of ashes that used to be a vampire

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 30/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 23/07/2026

USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

Screenshots of two reports. The first, from The Washington Post, reports that the US now has more measles cases than any year since 1991. The second from Dr. Lucky Tan that the CDC reports the US is having the largest cyclosporiasis outbreak ever.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 20/07/2026

Joining other prestigious right-wing statues such as:

Ugly statue of US Confederate generation Nathan Bedford Forrest

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 24/06/2026

Now I want to start one of the Wikipedia lists page to lists the articles with titles beginning with "Affair of the".

Search on Wikipedia for "Affair of the" listing Affair of the Cards, Affair of the Diamond Necklace, Affair of the Poisons, Affair of the Dancing Lamas, Affair of the Spanish Mariages, Affair of the Sausages, Affair of the Placards, Affair of the Heart, An Affair of the Follies, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 22/06/2026

Unless you're one of the inside people, never buy an IPO until it is at least a month old. LOL.

Stock chart showing the last 5 days of Space X stock price. It has declined 26.27% in those 5 days.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 10/06/2026

Shout out to the Netherlands team that arrived in Kansas City this week. We prepared a little something for you. When it says "Hail 2-3 inches" it doesn't mean the depth, it means the size of individual pieces. And 2-3 inches is 5-8 cm. a 120 mph tornado is 193 km/h

Screenshot of a severe thunderstorm predition with peak intensities of tornado winds: 120-145 mph, Hail: 2-3.5 in, Wind: 65-80 mph

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 09/06/2026

Whelp, time to file my annual "Hey Apple learn to parse ISO 8601 times correctly!" bug. Been filing it for years (originally on Twitter), maybe they'll fix it this time. If your ISO8601 DateTime has a T separator it ignores the time and treats it as 0.

Shortcut that gets current time, formats it to ISO 8601, then converts back to date time. 2 dates are returned one for noon, one for midnight.

Showing using Apple’s Adjust Time to create the ISO 8601 string

Replace the T in the string with a space and it works.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 29/05/2026

BREAKING: The Rock-afire Explosion have also withdrawn from the Freedom 250 Celebration

Picture of the animatronic Rock-afire Explosion from their Showbiz Pizza days, before the drugs.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 11/03/2026

Oh look we're back to eternal Orange alerts again

The Homeland Security Threat Advisory System:
Red - Severe
Orange - High
Yellow - Elevated
Blue - Guarded
Green - Low

It was discontinued because DHS was scared to lower it below Orange.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 10/03/2026

I think I may have a problem

My desk at work showing 4 different trackball mice. 2 portable Elecom, one large Elecom and one ProtoArc with a purple ball.

Not pictured is my left-handed Elecom trackball.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 25/02/2026

31,677 Petabytes/Sec. Damn straight I've got the best internet connection around.

Screenshot from the Windows Server Resource Monitor showing a network transfer speed of 35,666,116,548,263,166,000 B/sec

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 19/02/2026

Ah, I missed that Byte cover artist passed last week. My dad was a Byte subscriber when I was a kid and I loved all the covers. His Viking ship with floppy disk sail was my favorite. www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/i... arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Cover of the May 1981 issue of Byte magazine I’ve. It depicts a Viking ship with a floppy disk (the 5 1/4” style, not 3 1/2”) for a sail.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 18/02/2026

Something wonky with the categories UI. I turned off sports, tried turning off Gaming and it wouldn't let me. Dragged it a bit to see if that would do it and ended up with 2 gaming, no sports.

Screenshot of Kagi News Categories. It shows 2 Gaming categories and no sports category.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 17/02/2026

VXUS is a vanguard ETF composed of non-US equities. I've invested in it for a number of years just to diversify from just US stocks. This is the first year I can remember VXUS outperforming the S&P 500, and it did it by a lot.

Chart comparing the Vanguard VXUS ETF and the Vanguard VOO S&P 500 ETF. VXUS increased in value 29.99% in the last 12 months, VOO only by 11.69%

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 07/02/2026

This is what I see for that emoji, and I agree! Looks like only a few platforms have the umbrella. emojipedia.org/tropical-dri...

Screenshot of Apple’s Tropical Drink emoji. It includes a lime wedge, cherry and a straw, but no umbrella.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 04/02/2026

Hey, I’m sure the train ride Hitler took was just as important even though it’s #2 on the list.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 13/01/2026

Ars Technica said his final message had that. arstechnica.com/culture/2026...

Screenshot of Ars Technica article saying:

He also noted that many of his friends had encouraged him to “find Jesus before I go.” Despite not being a believer, Adams noted that the “risk-reward calculation for doing so looks attractive” and so he included a statement claiming to “accept Jesus Christ as my lord and savior.”

“The part about me not being a believer should be quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven,” he added.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 06/01/2026

Can’t even listen to it any more but I still have the vinyl somewhere. At one time I had the entire thing memorized (plus many of his other albums) and still will drop one liners from it as jokes without realizing it.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 25/12/2025

Here’s an Apple Music version: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... There were 6 songs it couldn’t identify:

6 songs couldn’t be found in Apple Music:
Cherry Tree - Hares On The Mountain
Blue Christmas (In a Fab Four Style) - The Fab Four
Joy to the World (In a Fab Four Style) - The Fab Four
Gee Whiz its Christmas - Holiday Players
The Man With The Bag - Kay Starr
Drinking Up Christmas - Dwarves

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 24/12/2025

Time to watch one of my favorite Christmas movies “The Thin Man”

Movie poster for the 1934 film “The Thin Man”. It shows Myrna Loy in the arms of William Powell as they gaze at each other lovingly.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 19/12/2025

Testing my emergency storm preparedness.

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 18/12/2025

15 minutes after leaving the blood donation place shy a couple of units of red blood cells I get this. Normally I have to wait 16 weeks after a double red donation, but if 15 minutes is the new norm…

Screenshot of a transcript of a voice mail from Kansas City Community Blood Center asking me to donate.

“Hello, this is Matt with Community Blood center. Not more than ever, your community needs you to come back in and donate. We need your help right away. Please call or text us at 877-468-6844 or visit us at
www.savealifenow.org to schedule your local life-saving donation. Again, that number is 877-468-6844. Thank you for helping save lives in your community. To opt out of future messages like this will he removed from all callina nleace call”

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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 13/12/2025

I don’t care what ISO or Unicode standard you’re using, that ain’t right.

Apple Books pre-order showing an expected delivery date of 11/3/42

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