Neal Jennings ☮️
@nealjennings.bsky.social
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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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.
I've always been one of those people who gets a bunch of different credit cards for the rewards and benefits, but the more financial institutions I have dealt with, the more I want to just, like, opt out of banking and credit cards altogether. They're all awful, and they hate their customers.
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I've always been one of those people who gets a bunch of different credit cards for the rewards and benefits, but the more financial institutions I have dealt with, the more I want to just, like, opt out of banking and credit cards altogether. They're all awful, and they hate their customers.
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The best part about banking in 2025 is that I can't reach my bank via phone or online methods, but at least I also can't reach them in person.
November 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The best part about banking in 2025 is that I can't reach my bank via phone or online methods, but at least I also can't reach them in person.
Is it just me or is Google playing fast and loose with the definition of "security update"?
![Screenshot of the update screen of a Google Pixel phone. Text reads: "10:18
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Installing security update...
Optimizing your device, this may take a while
Your Pixel is getting even better...
Discover the latest enhancements and new features with this Pixel update, designed to make your device
more helpful.
Learn more on our Community page
What's new?
Instantly customize your Pixel with seasonal Wicked: For Good theme packs. One tap changes your wallpaper, icons, GIFs and sounds. [1]
Bring more joy to the chat. Edit and reimagine any photo using Remix in Google Messages. [2]
Pixel VIPs prioritizes notifications from your most important contacts and adds a new crisis badge. [3]
Your Pixel now summarizes your message notifications, so you can see what's important right away. [4]
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November 15, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Is it just me or is Google playing fast and loose with the definition of "security update"?
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
Does the Canada Line run these weird YVR-Bridgeport trains just so they can get away with saying the airport has frequent (lol) service, even though literally nobody is going to fucking Bridgeport?
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Does the Canada Line run these weird YVR-Bridgeport trains just so they can get away with saying the airport has frequent (lol) service, even though literally nobody is going to fucking Bridgeport?
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Your semi-regular reminder that the Olympic Village Elementary School site was selected in 2007, promised by the (checks notes) BCNDP to be fast tracked in 2020, and current expectation is for construction to begin in 2027.
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A new 605-seat elementary school is coming to #NewWestminster!
This state-of-the-art, three-storey school includes:
🧸 4 kindergarten classrooms
📘 21 elementary classrooms
🌱 Green building design cutting emissions by 93%
Construction is expected to begin in fall 2026. 🏗️
news.gov.bc.ca/33019
This state-of-the-art, three-storey school includes:
🧸 4 kindergarten classrooms
📘 21 elementary classrooms
🌱 Green building design cutting emissions by 93%
Construction is expected to begin in fall 2026. 🏗️
news.gov.bc.ca/33019
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Your semi-regular reminder that the Olympic Village Elementary School site was selected in 2007, promised by the (checks notes) BCNDP to be fast tracked in 2020, and current expectation is for construction to begin in 2027.
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[André 3000 voice]
Sorry Mrs Jackson, ooh, you have no name
Never got to have a given name
Memorialized never in time.
Sorry Mrs Jackson, ooh, you have no name
Never got to have a given name
Memorialized never in time.
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
[André 3000 voice]
Sorry Mrs Jackson, ooh, you have no name
Never got to have a given name
Memorialized never in time.
Sorry Mrs Jackson, ooh, you have no name
Never got to have a given name
Memorialized never in time.
I'm visiting Hamilton for the first time in awhile. I lived here, for a couple of years, about two decades ago. It's weird to see how it's changed and how it hasn't. How so many places are still the same and how so many have no traces of what was there before.
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I'm visiting Hamilton for the first time in awhile. I lived here, for a couple of years, about two decades ago. It's weird to see how it's changed and how it hasn't. How so many places are still the same and how so many have no traces of what was there before.
I'm visiting my mother and she's watching all the usual cable TV shows. Literally all of them are crime and/or cop shows. Has anyone studied the impact these shows have on the public misconceptions about crime rates?
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I'm visiting my mother and she's watching all the usual cable TV shows. Literally all of them are crime and/or cop shows. Has anyone studied the impact these shows have on the public misconceptions about crime rates?
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ummm
I missed that line in Flanders Fields
I missed that line in Flanders Fields
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
ummm
I missed that line in Flanders Fields
I missed that line in Flanders Fields
Toronto reminding me of why I don't live here anymore. ❄️🥶
November 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Toronto reminding me of why I don't live here anymore. ❄️🥶
Help what is the origin of the orange font on purple background meme?
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Help what is the origin of the orange font on purple background meme?
Is Nathan Phillips Square ever not under construction?
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Is Nathan Phillips Square ever not under construction?
Shake Shack makes excellent (veggie) burgers and their shakes are to die for, but why do they have the most boring freezer aisle fries?
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Shake Shack makes excellent (veggie) burgers and their shakes are to die for, but why do they have the most boring freezer aisle fries?
My flight boarded completely and fully on time, and they closed the boarding door only a few minutes late. And then we sat there. We eventually pushed back like ten minutes late, and have now spent the last 15 minutes in the middle of the tarmac, presumably in the way of everyone else, just waiting.
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
My flight boarded completely and fully on time, and they closed the boarding door only a few minutes late. And then we sat there. We eventually pushed back like ten minutes late, and have now spent the last 15 minutes in the middle of the tarmac, presumably in the way of everyone else, just waiting.
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Canadian reality TV star threatens to go full Karen on most powerful elected official in NYC
Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Canadian reality TV star threatens to go full Karen on most powerful elected official in NYC
I didn't want to be weird to the staff by taking a photo but Lee's Donuts has a seasonal doughnut called "Poppy" whose description is simply "Lest We Forget" and it has a red poppy style icing pattern.
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I didn't want to be weird to the staff by taking a photo but Lee's Donuts has a seasonal doughnut called "Poppy" whose description is simply "Lest We Forget" and it has a red poppy style icing pattern.
Look I'm all for Canada joining the Eurovision Song Contest but we really have to stop using the budget as a throne speech.
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Look I'm all for Canada joining the Eurovision Song Contest but we really have to stop using the budget as a throne speech.
Apple TV is down and I'm mad about it.
November 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Apple TV is down and I'm mad about it.
Me: *types several pages of English text with the language formatting to English (Canada)*
Microsoft Word: Are these a bunch of misspelled French words?
Microsoft Word: Are these a bunch of misspelled French words?
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Me: *types several pages of English text with the language formatting to English (Canada)*
Microsoft Word: Are these a bunch of misspelled French words?
Microsoft Word: Are these a bunch of misspelled French words?
Is…is the latest Miley Cyrus single just a Maybelline ad?
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Is…is the latest Miley Cyrus single just a Maybelline ad?
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2023: ABC refunds millions of dollars of Empty Homes Tax to developers
2025: ABC refuses to use EHT money for its intended purpose, putting 81 affordable homes for women and children at risk
What an astonishing decision by Ken Sim and ABC.
2025: ABC refuses to use EHT money for its intended purpose, putting 81 affordable homes for women and children at risk
What an astonishing decision by Ken Sim and ABC.
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
2023: ABC refunds millions of dollars of Empty Homes Tax to developers
2025: ABC refuses to use EHT money for its intended purpose, putting 81 affordable homes for women and children at risk
What an astonishing decision by Ken Sim and ABC.
2025: ABC refuses to use EHT money for its intended purpose, putting 81 affordable homes for women and children at risk
What an astonishing decision by Ken Sim and ABC.
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And to assist with this, funding for Build Canada Homes inexplicably got reduced from previous commitments. Unsure how they expect to both catalyze new building technology and dramatically ramp up affordable housing with what amounts to pocket change.
Federal budget: "The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation estimates that to restore affordability to 2019 levels, homebuilding must nearly double from its current pace of around 280,000 homes per year to between 430,000 and 480,000 homes per year over the next decade."
[cries in 2019]
[cries in 2019]
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
And to assist with this, funding for Build Canada Homes inexplicably got reduced from previous commitments. Unsure how they expect to both catalyze new building technology and dramatically ramp up affordable housing with what amounts to pocket change.
Federal budget: "The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation estimates that to restore affordability to 2019 levels, homebuilding must nearly double from its current pace of around 280,000 homes per year to between 430,000 and 480,000 homes per year over the next decade."
[cries in 2019]
[cries in 2019]
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Federal budget: "The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation estimates that to restore affordability to 2019 levels, homebuilding must nearly double from its current pace of around 280,000 homes per year to between 430,000 and 480,000 homes per year over the next decade."
[cries in 2019]
[cries in 2019]
I just heard the phrase "in the early 2020s" and this was the very instant that I realised we are already in the late 2020s.
November 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I just heard the phrase "in the early 2020s" and this was the very instant that I realised we are already in the late 2020s.