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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 · 12h

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 · 16h

Your… your what limousine

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 18h

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

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

This should not be normal!

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

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

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

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 · 1d

The Christmas fish, Halloween's most famous mascot.

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

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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

Whenever I see a touring performer here, they always have extremely nice things to say about Vancouver. Like not just "I love being here in City X" but usually deeply personal anecdotes and comments on how moved they are by the nature here and stuff.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 2d

For every €1 paid out, they got €1.46 back. UBI works, again. If the BC or Canadian governments want to save some money, here's a good place to start! You'd think the Conservatives would be all over it!

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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

Heads up if you're travelling through Kits, W 4th Ave, East of MacDonald, has some sort of collision that has left a dozen or more buses just stranded at the side of the road. Take a Broadway bus or the 2 if you have to go through this area.

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

Ah yes, Matthew Good and his band I Mother Earth.

Screenshot of a Facebook ad from Live Nation British Columbia. The image is of an astronaut floating in space above earth and the headline text reads "Matthew Good and his band I Mother Earth" followed by some dates and cities.

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 3d

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report

Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Deloitte will provide a partial refund to the federal government over a $440,000 report that contained several errors, after admitting it used generative artificial intelligence to help produce it. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) confirmed Deloitte would repay the final instalment under its contract, which will be made public after the transaction is finalised. It comes as one Labor senator accused the consultancy firm of having a “human intelligence problem”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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

War when ass.

Photo of a street sign with a pictogram of a person on a bike about to run over a person walking. Sideways exclamation marks are shooting out of their mouth and a wifi symbol emanates from the bell on their bike. The sign formerly read "bell or yell, warn when passing" but some letters have been whited out so it now says the main text of this post.

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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 4d

Have said it before and will say it again: if we have made the decision to massively subsidize the electric car industry, it is ludicrous that we aren't doing the same for e-bikes. We should be doing unconditional grant programs (ie you do not need to give up a car and it's not income tested).

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 5d

"Over half of the e-cargo bike mileage ridden during trials substituted for car use."

doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

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

People who walk slowly in the fast lane should be forced to spend an hour walking behind a turtle.

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

Argentina already tried this and it… didn't go so well.

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

(the episode has a very unfortunate title)

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

One of Jane Goodall's last interviews was with The Journal podcast, which you can find here in case you want an opportunity to hear her voice one last time: pca.st/episode/a724...

Is Jane Goodall Fighting a Losing Battle?

pca.st

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

Having to switch to the mobile web version of Instagram to see who liked my post because the app won't tell me is maybe the most 2025 internet thing there is.

Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 5d

Oh. I was indoors at the time and just assumed because *gestures at the sky*