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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 1d

Someone had a hair cut today and is feeling a bit fresh post trim 😂

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 1d

Live on Times Radio now reviewing tomorrow’s papers 🗞️

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 1d

I introduced my 9 year old brother and sister to School of Rock and suddenly they’re more interested in the guitars I bought them for Christmas

I love the impact a good movie can have on kids!

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

Paula Barker, MP for Liverpool Wavertree member of the Labour Friends of Palestine group, told me she was "cautiously optimistic" about the ceasefire

Latest w/ @tomscotson.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Labour MPs Are Relieved And Cautiously Optimistic After Gaza Ceasefire

Labour MPs say they are cautiously optimistic about the Gaza ceasefire but want the government to play a leading role in making sure it leads to la...

www.politicshome.com

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

שבת שלום ☮️

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 2d

I just keep thinking how very Big Bang Theory this is 😂

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history:

The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

6/6 With the right support we can excel in our given fields, or we can crash and burn if our needs are ignored and we are demonised and portrayed as a drain on society

I say this because the narrative around work and mental health in the media sphere is so broken, it really is

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

5/6 I realised with the right support and adjustments I can do my job, and do it well

However, if I’d not got the qualifications I did or I’d be forced into an unsuitable job I dread to think how unwell I’d be

Disabled people aren’t just economic units pay tax, we’re people with so much potential

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

4/6 … to get better, then went to Cambridge

The idea of working after that experience terrified me, because my first attempt at a job had gone so badly - I felt like a failure

Then I became a journalist and (with certain adjustments) realised it’s a job I can do (and do well, I think)

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

3/6 The constant socialisation, crowds, noise, lights - all of it just sent me into a meltdown

I tried to drop out of sixth form but they thankfully said they’d let me teach myself my final year and stay enrolled

I went on to get A*A*A in my A2 levels self-taught (somehow) took a year out…

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

2/6 I hadn’t been well and was antidepressants - and I didn’t know I had ASD and autism at the time

But my EMA had been cut and I needed extra income

Within 3 months, after driving to Morrisons to cry in the car before work for weeks prior, I had a nervous breakdown - I was worse than before

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

1/6 There’s so much talk about getting disabled people with mental health conditions or neurodiversity into work, but not enough about making sure jobs that are suitable for them and don’t make them more unwell

Take me, for example

At 18 I tried to work in Morrisons on the checkouts

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

+/ I am a prime example of somebody with quite significant mental health/neurodiversity issues who can work with certain adjustments, the right medication and medical support

And I’m sick to the back teeth of seeing people mock others like me because they don’t have a voice or are easy targets

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

+/ Would you know that by looking at me? No

I went to Cambridge, appear on tv on radio, I’m an actor and appear on stage

But the day to day stuff sometimes is absolutely paralysing and I’m not ashamed to admit it - I’m ashamed that colleagues in the media think it’s ok to mock people like me

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

2/2 I once got so overwhelmed on a train that a family member had to chase the train and coach me to get off the train because I was paralysed with fear and kept missing my stops

Having a car is freedom for me, taking them away for people with neurodiversity of anxiety benefits no one

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

1/2 I don’t know why the right of British commentariat thinks it’s funny to attack motability for mental health or neurodiversity

I have autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression and quite bad social anxiety

Public transport is often overwhelming for me, my car is a lifeline

I can afford one, many can’t

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

Just realised how much Zak Polanski and Martin Lewis sound like each other

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

This photo came up on my memories on my phone from 2021, genuinely feels like a different era

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 3d

There were also way too many creative liberties taken I think with the storyline, as so much of it is fiction

BUT I’m not sure if it was done deliberately as a meta commentary on how Gein’s story has been exploited in the media as the show itself points out (Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, TCSM etc)

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 3d

Just finished Monster: The Ed Gein Story and my main takeaway (aside from being deeply disturbed by how happy it is to show what I view as deeply excessive gore and perversion) is that Charlie Hunnam deserves ALL the Emmys

Truly the performance of a lifetime - take a bow, son

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 3d

Come to the cinema to see a horror film and we’re the only ones in the whole theatre

Needless to say, it’s extremely creepy and is going to make this film even scarier

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

Homeless people 'deeply failed' as deaths in UK reach record high www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazenes increasingly deadly.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for all the wonderful birthday messages - had a busy but fun day - and don’t look a day over 25 (I got ID’d for Prosecco yesterday, I swear!) 💕✨🥳

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

Displacing an entire demographic based on their religious or ethnic group (and based on sweeping generalisations about their ancestry) is bad, actually - regardless of whether or not you like them, or where their ancestors may have been born!

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

Keep seeing the LBC video of a young person saying Jews in Israel need to be “sent back”

How about we all hold a collective and consistent and sane moral line that we don’t want anyone ethnically cleansed from Israel or Palestine, actually? Because ethnic cleansing is very much not good

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