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@neilforreal.bsky.social

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Tennis, cycling, music, history, Toronto. 🎾🎸🚴‍♂️ Pickleball gives you warts. (I'm kidding.) Nazis get punched. (I'm not kidding.) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚤, sit down next to me. "If you're after gettin' the honey, then you don't go killin' all the bees." ~Joe Strummer

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · Feb 28

Long after history has buried sniveling cowards like Donald Trump and JD Vance, we will honour the strength, character, and fighting spirit of President Volodymyr Zelensky, the true Leader of the Free World. Long live Ukraine. #SlavaUkraini 💙💛🇺🇦

President Volodymyr Zelensky, leader of Ukraine.

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 8h

Trump is sending troops and secret police after his own people. Not only does he not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, he deserves to be in shackles at The Hague.

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 9h

The Trump administration is a sorry collection of creeps and losers. Ingrassia will fit right in and his boss will congratulate him on his initiative.

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 9h

Watch for Reichstag Fire 2.0, coming soon from the crew who are playing all the Nazi hits.

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 9h

I had no skin in the Phillies - Dodgers game but I feel badly for the Phillies pitcher Kerkering. Bobbled the comebacker to the mound and then panicked, maybe forgetting there were two out. Had all kinds of time to throw out the runner at 1st but tried to throw home. Oy.

Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 10h

Let's go live to Brad Bradford's campaign HQ for a response ...

a store front with a sm logo on the top

Alt: Used car lot wavy air mascot.

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 11h

I gotta be honest, I didn't really consider all the connotations and permutations, my basic point was "fuck that guy, fuck his whole corrupt administration, and fuck anyone who helped saddle the world with a dementia-addled rapist as U.S. president." So ... yeah. 🤷‍♂️

Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 13h

Kick his old rapey ass.

By the way, he shared a wonderful secret with his best friend Jeffrey Epstein -- maybe we can poke around in that cesspool.

Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 13h

That's why you're the meme kween!

a woman with a crown on her head is wearing black makeup

Alt: Rhianna crowns herself.

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 13h

Not 77B? On the TTC?

Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 13h

There are very few things in life that are truly your own. Your own personal expression should be one of them. Hair, tattoos, clothes -- you do you.

Now, where did I hang my taffeta ...

Madelaine Kahn and Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein.

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 14h

David Simon for humanity ...

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 14h

Those who know Russia best oppose it the most.

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 14h

The person who unleashed these lawless goons on America thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 15h

I booked a photo session tonight bc I have very few pictures of my family together, but while I’m smiling & holding my children, I know I will hear this mother’s screams.

I don’t want my tax dollars supporting ICE agents dragging parents away from car line. And most moms in the US agree with me.

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 14h

Sure did, bitches!

Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 14h

Not only will she win, she should file charges against the entire corrupt Trump cabal and then sue for millions.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 14h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 14h

Yes! And honestly, kudos on the photograph -- it's like looking in the mirror. 🙃🤗😄

a black and white photo of two people dancing on a street .

Alt: A black and white video of two people suddenly breaking into playful kung fu moves on a street.

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 17h

The era of Big Carbon is ending and even Alberta Premier Danielle Smith probably knows it. Her proposal for yet another pipeline funded by Canadians is a cynical ploy to enable her to wrap herself in the "Alberta as victim" myth. In other words, she thinks Albertans are stupid. #abpoli #cdnpoli

NPR @npr.org · 22h

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 17h

Like all of us, she probably has a headache listening to Trump and RFK's never-ending river of shit.

Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 17h

Trump is both agent and vector. We need a vaccine. Or an exorcism.

Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 17h

Everything Trump touches dies. Proven ad infinitum. #ETTD

Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 18h

"We'd like to share an important message with you. We'd like to leave this literature, The Guardtower, and perhaps come back and discuss the Kingdom of Don ...."

Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 18h

I am horrified!!!
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And yet I can't look away ...
😝😬🙃🤗

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 20h

Gah! Why do you keep doing this to me?!?!? 😱😝😂

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 20h

An incredible story of life and renewal in Toronto's restored wetlands. Just needed humans to stop being lousy tenants. Can't help but think of ...