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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 · 1m

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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.

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

I can't believe it's not wine and beer.

A wine glass that contains a cocktail that looks like wine and a tiny beer glass that contains a cocktail that looks like beer

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

I knew you were going to say this.

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

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A normal sized hand (mine) holding a big tomato (also mine but in a different way to the hand)

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

So Polish sparkling wine is actually quite nice, would recommend.

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

Thanks I hate it whilst laughing respectfully.

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

@kjmci.me @jonnelledge.bsky.social @cesigno.bsky.social

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

Hello friends/well wishers/not actually enemies of me and/or @johnb78.bsky.social we will be in London next Friday 17th doing drinks in Shoreditch. DM one or other or both of us for pub name. 🥂 🍻

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

Shopkeeper pressed the cursed dynamic currency conversion button for me on a purchase and is now my eternal enemy, along with DCC itself which should be illegal because it has no benefit for anyone except to cost more for no reason.

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

In a café for a coffee because it is 9 am and some other non Poles got beers which they then didn't finish, I assume because it's 9 am and they realised they didn't actually want 9 am beer.

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 3d

the most selfless, and therefore noblest, type of immortality for future generations is being the anonymous hand in a PDF scan of a book holding it open

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 3d

More of a comment than a question. More of a cormorant than a quetzal. More of a commandment than a quest item. More of a commendation than a quitting. More of a commandant than a queen's guard. More of an ornament than a knick knack. More of a common than a concession. More of a pound man than a qu

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

To be clear I'm quite fit I just get acrophobia from narrow, outdoor staircases that directly overlook the water you could fall into if you slip on said narrow staircase.

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

I climbed up this. It costs 20 zł and you feel like you might die. Bargain.

The big green crane from underneath it showing girders and the like

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 4d

I get too hot really easily, except for my feet, so I like sheets that are tucked in to keep my feet warm and then to have less on my upper body to avoid getting too hot. Which is the exact opposite of a duvet.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 4d

Check out this impossible event I saw! Can someone tell Nassim Nicholas Taleb please?

A white swan and some large but still grey cygnets on the water in Gdansk.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 4d

One of my least favourite things about Europe is how they do not believe in top sheets and you just have to be either too hot or too cold either under or not under the duvet with no in between. What does this continent have against layers!

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 4d

Fun detail from yesterday's Emirates flight from Dubai to Warsaw - within 2 minutes of the seatbelt sign being switched off, there was a sudden non-recorded announcement "passengers are reminded that it is not permitted to drink your own alcohol on board this aircraft"

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