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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 · 7h

Probably JoJo, seeing the HSBC logo on the aerobridge, asked if her entourage know what it was, and said she thought it was something to do with Canada. She has now gone to a transfer flight so my comedy/infuriation time has come to an end.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 10h

Pepper lady saw my moisturiser and said she has the same one so I guess we're best friends now.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 11h

So I used a sachet. The lady next to me, who had pepper on her food, asked where I found the pepper, and I said I brought my own. So did she. Arguably not actually incredible scenes but I'm going to make the claim anyway.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 11h

The other day I took too many sachets of pepper and kept them because I thought they might be useful for a flight if they didn't give me enough pepper. The utterly mediocre lounge at WAW did not have ANY pepper.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 11h

Lmao, they didn't seem to realise they had fast track security.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 12h

Probably JoJo herself has fucked off but her endless entourage and their infinite suitcases are still being time wasters. They logically should have been to a lot of airports if they are in fact a tour, but they seem like they have never even heard of an airport. How is this taking SO LONG.

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 12h

I reluctantly have to accept in this context that she *is* one of the better-known clowns

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 12h

She has the most unnervingly white teeth regardless of who she is or isn't.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 12h

Regardless of who she actually is she is deeply irritating because she's checking in approximately one million suitcases and the line isn't moving. The woman in front of me just called her "Imelda Marcos" which is if anything too charitable.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 12h

I am possibly in the check-in queue behind JoJo Siwa but it could just be a blonde woman in a JoJo Siwa shirt who happens to be travelling at the same time as a lot of other people in JoJo Siwa shirts. I'd take a photo to get someone who knows what she looks like to verify except that's insane.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 12h

I am disappointed in you all for not even telling me this was in poor taste.

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

Neon!

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

Chopin intensifies.

A grand piano on a small platform in a museum. It was Chopin's

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

Quentin Tarantino presents: the Van Gogh Immersive Experience, sponsored by John Paul Getty III.

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

Saw this today.

Stańczyk, a painting of a sad jester in a red costume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sta%C5%84czyk_(painting)

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

Embracing Polish culture with this traditional dinner.

A picture of a small coffee table that looks like a cafeteria tray with two glasses of soda water, two shots of vodka and a small plate with a small number of pickled cucumbers.

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

Bought another big tomato, this time green, and it's one of the most delicious tomatoes I have eaten.

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

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

Being in Poland means everything is pictures of Chopin and they play Chopin everywhere and I just keep thinking of this comic. (See also: going to Hungary for the Liszt equivalent.)

Hark a Vagrant's Chopin and Liszt comic http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=302

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

Copernicus!

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

I found the problem with AI: they trained all the image generation on this cartoon.

Cartoon of Chopin where he has far too many fingers

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 3d

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

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

It's cool that the EU invented plastic drink bottles that are annoying to open AND impossible to close again. This will definitely help the environment.

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 7d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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

Reminder that this is the upcoming Friday (17 October) so if you don't hate me and are in London you should come. 🥂 🍻

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 9d

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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