ODT columnist, Pākehā, suicide prevention advocate, ME/CFS, Rhodes scholar, artist, pianist. She/Her. Currently trying to be a writer in Edinburgh.
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Jean Balchin retweeted
Agree or disagree, you can tell he’s put a lot of time and thought into this statement, and I think we owe it to him to listen.
Jean Balchin retweeted
It’s not as easy as it looks ordering Chinese and saying bosh , both require years of training. Please dedicate yourself as I have done and you too shall be chosen to go to Wimbledon. You can do it just believe. Wimblebosh.
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Jean Balchin retweeted
Men like @jimmyfallon are why we live in a deep rape culture. Rape is not a deal breaker for them. Disgusting. Fuck Jimmy Fallon.
Jean Balchin retweeted
Oh look who is at it again with the absolutely indefensible shit takes on things that absolutely destroy people other than him. Are you in a race w/ yourself to the bottom? Signed, a scientist who has had long Covid 3+ years.
Jean Balchin retweeted
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
Jean Balchin retweeted
yorkshire doing astral projection
ALT painting of a yorkshire sleeping and projecting astrally
Jean Balchin retweeted
speaking as glibly as Beavis & Butthead. does T***p even grasp the profound significance of what he has set in motion in the Middle East? this person whose most essential self is riding in a golf cart fatly, cheating at the profoundly insignificant game of leisure golf when he assumes no one is looking.
Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack.
"The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."
Jean Balchin retweeted
Dirty Business review – if this doesn’t incite righteous anger over our filthy water then nothing will - @guardian
Couldn’t have said it better ourselves. 📺 🙌
The first episode of @Channel4’s Dirty Business is a hard-hitting, must-watch that will leave you feeling sick with anger.
This isn’t just drama. It’s the reality facing our waterways.
Haven’t watched it yet? Catch up now on More4.
#DirtyBusiness #EndSewagePollution #RescueBritainsRivers
theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
Jean Balchin retweeted
Hope this series does for water what the Post Office drama did for Horizon victims.
The scandal of privatised water is even bigger because it affects everyone.
The common theme is clear: powerful corporate entities are exploiting us all.
Time to bring water back into public ownership.
Jean Balchin retweeted
amazing to think we likely won't see another simultaneous lent, chinese new year, ramadan and disgraced member of the british royal family being arrested in our lifetime
Jean Balchin retweeted
Feels like this is the BBC sending a signal to artists and creatives all across the country that (for the time being) they have our back in the battle against AI slop. Fantastic stuff.
The opening titles to the BBC's coverage of the #WinterOlympics isn't computer or hand drawn - it's actually a stop motion animation using models and real flames
#BBColympics #MilanCortina2026
