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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

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I am Iridescent on Twitter but some random took that here. François Mitterrand retire bitch. (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · Jan 31

Another day volunteering at the UCL museum. Everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck Jeremy Bentham's corpse. Buddy, they won't even let me fuck it.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 14h

And I say this having actually enjoyed Sunset Boulevard. I just didn't think it was a good idea.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 14h

Really can't disagree with this.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 14h

Salty.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 15h

I actually know most of the songs from the movie because it was really popular when I was in primary school... BUT I don't want to pay $150 to watch a musical version of a silly movie I liked when I was 7 because that's insane.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 15h

Went to the salt mine. The guide said we could lick the walls which was almost certainly a joke but I did lick the walls.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 15h

Why!! I do not understand why they did this!! But a lot of their decisions are baffling.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 15h

Yes it is. That doesn't explain why there are so many in a pile in a gazebo but it is in Poland.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 1d

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 1d

What's going on here.

A gazebo thing with a window full of a large stack of soft toy geese

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 1d

I like this depiction of angels as rainbow lorikeets.

Cathedral fresco of angels with rainbow wings

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 1d

Saw this today.

Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine (photo from Wikipedia not a poorly lit photo taken in an art gallery by me)

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 2d

I think we just got given a discount at a café for being nice to the barista in direct contrast to the large group of very obnoxious Italians immediately ahead of us.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 2d

Old people should be banned from phone until they learn to act in a socially acceptable way in public. A decade ago they would have been shushing teens, now they are addicted to phone and horribly annoying.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 2d

The EU should go all the way do a protected designation of origin and say it can only be a burger if it's from Hamburg if they're going to do this.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. They are on many a menu. One of the cocktails, early on before we realised we were overdosing on handmade cordial, was loosely gimlet like.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 3d

The Gdansk trams announces their stops, including singing "Opera Bałtycka" to the tune of the Toreador Song.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 3d

I always forget that my version of cocktails (what if you put three olives in a glass of gin) is not what the people who create most cocktail menus think and then I end up with something with sugar and I feel disgusted with myself and life in general.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 3d

I would probably feel less ill if I'd had that total volume of drinks of just spirits without the sugar even though I would be much more drunk.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 3d

As much as these drinks were cute, I actually really would have preferred wine or even beer. A cocktail degustation pairing is a terrible idea. I have drunk a litre of fancy cordial and tinctures etc and I'm not even drunk from the spirits therein.