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Neal Jennings ☮️

@nealjennings.bsky.social

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Proud queer, based in Vancouver, BC (unceded Coast Salish territory). My politics are best described as eco-left. I will definitely also be posting about pop culture and urbanism, and will certainly be engaging in general nihilism. They/them, please.

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Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · Nov 8

Welcome to new followers! Please buckle up, because my posts are complete chaos and I like it that way. There is no theme, no continuity, I'm just out here brain dumping all over the timeline.

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 13h

Look, this isn't wrong. But how will Raoul ever pay his gambling debts if Christine doesn't get the lead role?

Ben Schrager, but he’s spooky now @benschrager.bsky.social · 14h

New reading of The Phantom of the Opera: Carlotta is simply asking for safe working conditions, and Christine is essentially a scab

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 15h

*I. Wow, I don't even know how I typoed that one.

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 15h

Like there's a whole side rant about that, and I just don't buy "it's easy, you're just not trying hard enough." I'm glad you succeeded at art school or whatever, but I am confident that I would not, and lots of other people would not either. II accept that, but don't, like, blame me for it please.

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Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 15h

OK I finally got around to reading the Oatmeal AI piece and while I generally agree with their vibes on AI, I hate the notion that everyone is capable of being a skillful artist if only they practiced enough.

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Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 17h

Is there such a place?

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 17h

It's been like twenty minutes and my heart is still racing and I am so angry I just want to light literally everything on fire right now. How do we fix this road culture, since our govts are obviously not doing it? I can scream at strangers who treat my life as disposable, but I'm only one person.

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Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 17h

I'm mostly mad I didn't think to snap a photo to report him to his company, but also I fucking hate it here. This time and place where these assholes think they're entitled to our lives.

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Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 17h

A truck driver just sped at me while I was crossing a laneway at a marked intersection (the pedestrian path was even paved like a sidewalk), & blared his horn. When I reminded him that the speed limit is 20 & that he doesn't have the right of way, he retorted "you need to learn to walk" & sped away.

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 22h

The more I hear of it, the more excited I am for the upcoming Demi Lovato album. Kiss is a killer track.

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Props to Communauto who will charge me less for a vehicle, including all the gas I need, than any of the major rental car companies will charge me (pre-gas) for the same trip.

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Someone on here once tried to convince me that electric cars were doomed to fail because no one rents electric cars and, like, I think the rental car companies have at least a little bit to do with that.

Screenshot of the Hertz rental car booking site. For the same five-day booking, an EV is priced at CA$3,056, whereas the petrol vehicles are at most CA$451.

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Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 1d

oops *swerving, but you probably figured that out!

Perhaps if you bike *really fast* you can avoid the drops!

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Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 1d

So if I see someone serving wildly down the bike path in the rain I'll know it's you?

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Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 2d

The Pink Floyd / Dark Side of the Moon show at the planetarium is exactly what you'd expect. Bring your edibles!

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 2d

Your… your what limousine

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 2d

That, and, CATSA kept flagging my bag for secondary screening every time I went through security with it!

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, the original ones were not great for that. When I got my balance switched over to the keychain (and yes of course I kept the mini train as a souvenir), they told me the more recent versions are more sturdy, but I haven't made an effort to get in on the release.

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Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 2d

I did know that! I replaced my mini train with one of those awhile ago because the normal keychain ones are less prone to falling apart.

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Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 3d

This should not be normal!

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 3d

Whoever wrote the headline for this story really buried the lede.

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 3d

NBD, someone just built a dam on a lake in BC without anyone noticing and now it's threatening to overflow and flood a bunch of properties. Totally normal thing to happen. cheknews.ca/potential-da...

Potential dam failure 'imminent,' triggers evacuation alert for 14 B.C. properties

About 14 homes have been put on evacuation alert in the British Columbia Interior due to the possible "imminent" failure of a nearby dam.

cheknews.ca

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Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 3d

The Christmas fish, Halloween's most famous mascot.

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 3d

For now, until the board gets its shit together. I was hopeful for the new location - the old one is too small and I really don't like that there are basically no permanent exhibitions.

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 3d

There's something very Vancouver about our future art gallery being turned back into a parking lot.

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Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 4d

On the one hand, it's lovely to be the envy of the rest of the country. On the other hand, it reminds me over and over that this appeal is a large part of why this place is so damned expensive. Everyone wants to be here.

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