Jenny Valentish
@jennyvalentish.bsky.social
Journalist + author of The Introvert’s Guide to Leaving the House // I really only make an effort on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jennyvalentish_public
I’m launching The Introvert’s Guide to Leaving the House in Sydney next Thursday 29th. I hope I can lure out some sociophobes
May 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I’m launching The Introvert’s Guide to Leaving the House in Sydney next Thursday 29th. I hope I can lure out some sociophobes
So much goddamn tasty tea in this book (or should I say THAT book) about Facebook. The micro stuff - about awful people in an office - is as entertaining as the macro.
April 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
So much goddamn tasty tea in this book (or should I say THAT book) about Facebook. The micro stuff - about awful people in an office - is as entertaining as the macro.
Introversion diagnostic questions. Should people be allowed to talk to you when you’re eating?
March 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Introversion diagnostic questions. Should people be allowed to talk to you when you’re eating?
Victoria’s endless summer still going strong in Castlemaine
March 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Victoria’s endless summer still going strong in Castlemaine
The Introvert’s Guide to Leaving the House is available to pre-order. If you want to pull on a flak jacket every time you leave the house, if you stab lemon slices with straws, if you take lunch at your desk, if you consider yourself “more of an animal person”, this book’s for you jennyvalentish.com
March 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The Introvert’s Guide to Leaving the House is available to pre-order. If you want to pull on a flak jacket every time you leave the house, if you stab lemon slices with straws, if you take lunch at your desk, if you consider yourself “more of an animal person”, this book’s for you jennyvalentish.com
Here’s the missing piece
February 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Here’s the missing piece
I don’t wanna get puritanical in my old age - and, I mean, young me would have been very grateful - but this is a typical UK train refreshment trolley.
February 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I don’t wanna get puritanical in my old age - and, I mean, young me would have been very grateful - but this is a typical UK train refreshment trolley.
Chortling that in its coverage of The Telepathy Tapes, Newsweek (exhibit A) mistook The Times’ scathing no-star review (exhibit B) as being five stars
January 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Chortling that in its coverage of The Telepathy Tapes, Newsweek (exhibit A) mistook The Times’ scathing no-star review (exhibit B) as being five stars
New Year’s book pile, reading all at once, obviously. And audiobooks, each barely started… attention span of a gnat.
January 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
New Year’s book pile, reading all at once, obviously. And audiobooks, each barely started… attention span of a gnat.
Today’s iiNet update: limit reached. With apologies to kitchen door.
December 23, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Today’s iiNet update: limit reached. With apologies to kitchen door.
Day 21 of being on hold with iiNet and Maroon 5. The volume automatically ratchets up towards every chorus. What’s the most offensive hold music YOU’VE heard?
December 21, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Day 21 of being on hold with iiNet and Maroon 5. The volume automatically ratchets up towards every chorus. What’s the most offensive hold music YOU’VE heard?
Substack’s account recovery questions are odd. You have to pick three, but I don’t feel confident I’d give the right answers to all three of them next time I’m asked. Often I don’t even know the answer. What was my first smartphone? What’s my least favourite colour?
December 18, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Substack’s account recovery questions are odd. You have to pick three, but I don’t feel confident I’d give the right answers to all three of them next time I’m asked. Often I don’t even know the answer. What was my first smartphone? What’s my least favourite colour?
Spam reaching new frontiers
December 17, 2024 at 5:17 AM
Spam reaching new frontiers
When Queensland humidity meets Jetstar aircon
December 16, 2024 at 10:38 AM
When Queensland humidity meets Jetstar aircon
The shoplifters’ gallery in Sexyworld, Nerang. This is nothing - ram raiders even took out a wall and then did a trolley dash.
December 14, 2024 at 1:51 AM
The shoplifters’ gallery in Sexyworld, Nerang. This is nothing - ram raiders even took out a wall and then did a trolley dash.
Genius slow news day exercise from the Daily Mail. 1) Find a film that got 26% on Rotten Tomatoes. 2) Write a story based on a few tweets of people saying it’s the greatest film ever made. 3) Sit back and wait.
December 8, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Genius slow news day exercise from the Daily Mail. 1) Find a film that got 26% on Rotten Tomatoes. 2) Write a story based on a few tweets of people saying it’s the greatest film ever made. 3) Sit back and wait.
Here’s the first ish of Tank Girl magazine from 1995. It was short-lived, maybe 8 issues, and I was a regular contributor. Quite enjoyed Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin’s “thanks” list, too. This mag started the year that Deadline comic ceased to be, which is where Tank Girl used to live. #comics
December 3, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Here’s the first ish of Tank Girl magazine from 1995. It was short-lived, maybe 8 issues, and I was a regular contributor. Quite enjoyed Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin’s “thanks” list, too. This mag started the year that Deadline comic ceased to be, which is where Tank Girl used to live. #comics
Frank built me floating bookshelves. We’re making “piling” a thing for 2025.
December 3, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Frank built me floating bookshelves. We’re making “piling” a thing for 2025.
If somebody got me this for Christmas I’d resent them for the rest of my life.
November 30, 2024 at 12:48 AM
If somebody got me this for Christmas I’d resent them for the rest of my life.
It’s okay, I ate earlier.
November 24, 2024 at 6:35 AM
It’s okay, I ate earlier.
My man makes a sexy fence
November 21, 2024 at 9:31 PM
My man makes a sexy fence
Name a show you’re positive no one remembers but you
November 20, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Name a show you’re positive no one remembers but you