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Franck

@franckchester.bsky.social

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Food loving French Cestrian Nerd, Like: - Chester UK - see Feed & Starter Pack - Software Architecture - politics & pokémongo - books & photography **I do not necessarily follow back** - don't take it personally, I just prefer a tightly curated feed

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · Nov 9

Slowly rebuilding my favourite bit of my twitter profile here, to make me feel more at home.
These are pictures I took and like having pinned to my profile.

Sun rising behind Chester's Foregate and its famous clock

Very early sunrise over Chester's Foregate, quite far away, with a bench and a bollard in the foreground, throwing shadows

Sun setting over Chester's canal with a squat gas storage tower cast over a rwd horizon

Chester's Curzon Park North avenue in the Autumn, with road in perspective running to the centre of the picture, surrounded by large colourful trees

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

As if they keep writing all these headlines - and our membership numbers and polling just keeps shooting up. 🚀

Now at 110,000. Over 55% increase in just one month!

Lower bills. Fund NHS. Tax the super rich.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

Greens who want to save the world by destroying britain

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Uncle Joe @sydseter.com · 14h

In September, Norway have more refugees from USA than from Somalia.

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 1d

doesn't liking the post mean you get notified feom replies to it? do you need to unlike the post, while liking the feed?

Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 1d

haaa, the feed itself, not the individual post... gotcha!

you'd have thought my adding the feeds to my favourites would equate to liking it, but I guess that's just the "friends zone"

Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 1d

having liked this once could it please disappear from my feed?!?

Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 1d

not taking a dump in the woods?

Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 1d

why the pink smurf??

Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 1d

sweet baby J, I last remember her from French TV in the 80s! Good on her!

Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 1d

Nana Mouskouri is still alive?!?!

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 1d

Tomatoes aren't native to Europe either, are they?

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 1d

I've only learned recently that Moussaka is also not a recipe but a method of cooking. Bulgarian Moussaka is almost nothing like the more famous Greek version

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 1d

yes

Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 2d

... and the insights into the reality of it, at the same time efficiently coordinated and shambolically woke ("you're invading my space!", "there are no hands on the clock because they are not needed"), all of it combine for a much smarter movie than it first appears to be. 2/2

Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 2d

Just watched it, not what I expected, but so much better for it. The casual use of 2025 America's polive state as a background, the notion of modern day American revolutionaries (which begs the question - why hasn't an armed revolutionary rebellion risen yet in the USA!?).. 1/2

Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 2d

Not at all what I was expecting but thoroughly enjoyed it!

Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 2d

Will be watching One Battle After Another at the Picture House later today.
A more sociable / less sociopathic Frenchman would ask friends to join him but I much prefer going on my own as there's always the risk they'd enjoy the movie differently than me and ruin the aftermath with their comments.

Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 2d

Adding Bread and Butter, in Rufus Court, to my TODO list - that's a nice menu

A photograph of a menu

October

PICKY BITS:

PICKLED EGG £1.5 V

SCOTCH EGG OF THE MONTH £7.50

BEAR BAKERY CRUSTY BREAD & BUTTER £3.5V

PORK SCRATCHINGS E3.5

HASH BROWNS & BROWN SAUCE £5 V

MAINS:

AUTUMINAL CRISPY SQUASH SALAD -£8.5 VE

BAKED CRISPY SQUASH, POTATO SALAD, PICKLES, RED ONION, MAYONAISE & MAPLE GLAZED WALNUTS, DILL.

SCOTCH EGG OF THE MONTH £7.5 V

ASK STAFF

HOUSE BLT SANDWICH £8

DAVID JOINSON'S SMOKED BACON, A FRIED EGG, MUSTARD, KETCHUP, LETTUCE & TOMATO. SERVED WITH A BAG OF CRISPS.

WELSH RAREBIT-E10 V

THE NICEST CHEESE ON TOAST THAT YOU WILL EVER TASTE.

MATURE CHEDDAR CHEESE WITH A STOUT, RAREBIT SAUCE,

HOME-MADE PIE £16 (PLEASE ALLOW 10 MINS)

PULLED PORK & BLUE CHEESE PIE, ONTOP OF CREAMY MASH TOPPED WITH GRAVY GRAVY

PAN SEARED SEABASS £13.5

BUTTER SEARED SEABASS, CREAMY LEEK & CABBAGE FRIED NEW POTATOES, LEMON & DILL

HAMHOCK & MUSTARD BROTH 114

SEASONAL VEG & HAM-HOCK BROTH, HONEY, MUSTARD, SERVED WITH BREAD & BUTTER

SOUP £6.5

KITCHEN'S DAILY SOUP & CRUSTY BREAD VE

(ASK FOR MORE INFO)

IF YOU HAVE ANY ALLERGIES PLEASE LET A MEMBER OF STAFF KNOW.

Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 2d

She's running for President !?!?

Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 2d

Strange travel log that one. 2 decent establishments but Brook St to lower Bridge St requires crossing the entire city while ignoring some of its best bits.
Next time I'd suggest you go the opposite way, through Grosvenor park.
Or, as you reach Frodsham st, take a right towards the Cathedral?

Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 2d

we know them to be bullies, and are desperate for politicians who are not willing to be bullied. @zackpolanski.bsky.social and his team are so far doing very well sticking to their argument and not getting distracted by the bullies' ad-homimen and what aboutery, which is all they know.

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 2d

no, he's apparently hard-left

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South Dakota Department of Propaganda @southdakota.bsky.social · 3d

A simple four panel comic with a round character. Top caption reads Before you leave the house, check you have. Panel 1 shows keys with a banana keychain, labeled Keys. Panel 2 shows a green wallet, labeled Wallet. Panel 3 shows a blue phone, labeled Phone. Panel 4 shows the character holding a colorful tangled scribble, labeled The vague sense that you have forgotten something. A playful take on the keys wallet phone routine.

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 2d

flaggstång by Ikea - easily stored displays of racism.

Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 2d

I've always thought I'd be happy either way. Wasn't desperate for fatherhood (unlike some) or dead against it (unlike others).
Landed myself 2 great kids, but it's terrifying how little control you have over it, it wouldn't take much to have to care for little shits and nowt to justify the hassle.

Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 2d

ChatGPT -> ChatCDB ?