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Giorgia Meschini

@giorgiameschini.bsky.social

Independent baroqueologist. Author in the making. Architecture, historical fiction, landscape design, historic gardens, urban reforestation, and Oxford comma. Formerly: creative communication for opera. — https://giorgiameschini.substack.com/

245 Followers  |  152 Following  |  267 Posts  |  Joined: 29.10.2023  |  1.958

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I'm Wotan/Wälse/Wolfe, I cause problems Walhalla hath no fury like a Fricka scorned!

Life is what happens while you’d rather be listening to opera instead.
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#dieWalküre #Wagner

02.11.2025 18:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beige to beige A world without color is a world without sound, a world to keep the rabble down (*)

A world without color is a world without sound, a world to keep the rabble down
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#asNOTseenonHGTV

20.10.2025 21:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hope I live to see the day when the word “obsessed” stops being used instead of “I like [something]”.
Honestly, people using that expression sound like psychopaths to me.

12.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Never ending story Turn around, look at what you see (*)

Fancy a Mother-loved pressure cooker?
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08.10.2025 09:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Una nuova branca della disciplina giuridica: Diritto Internazionale Financertopùnto.

02.10.2025 20:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Even cookies have had enough of the current situation…

29.09.2025 12:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Prologue to history I’m talking rubbish to cover up the cracks (*)

"I'm talking rubbish to cover up the cracks": asnotseenonhgtv.substack.com/p/prologue-t...
#asNOTseenonHGTV

27.09.2025 20:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cose da buttare: l'orribile animazione della sigla di apertura. #balene

22.09.2025 12:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Starting afresh... ...with my new (?) flatmate!

Hope to see you there (please don’t leave me alone with Mum, PLEASE!!! 😱).
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#asNOTseenonHGTV

18.09.2025 19:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I filed this publication under “design” and “humo(u)r” because I couldn’t find the “scànzete, Joanna Gaines!” and “Golden Girls” categories.
asnotseenonhgtv.substack.com/about
#asNOTseenonHGTV

18.09.2025 19:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Se ne stanno andando tutti… 😢
#StefanoBenni

09.09.2025 10:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🤦🏻‍♀️

06.09.2025 20:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
My beautiful sister, Carola, who passed away from melanoma in 2017. She's smiling, and is wearing a silver/grey dress. She was a lovely and cheerful person, and is dearly missed by all people who knew her.

My beautiful sister, Carola, who passed away from melanoma in 2017. She's smiling, and is wearing a silver/grey dress. She was a lovely and cheerful person, and is dearly missed by all people who knew her.

My sister would’ve turned 45 tomorrow, but she will be 37 forever instead because #melanoma is evil.
Please protect your skin from UV rays, even if you’re dark skinned and/or tan easily, and remember to get your moles mapped and regularly checked.
Carola… I miss you so much, sorellina. 💕

06.09.2025 19:28 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Pricing - beehiiv — The newsletter platform built for growth Pricing that's simple, predictable, and built to scale.

...up to 1000 subscribers the minute you switch paid subscriptions on. If nobody becomes a paid subscriber, that would just mean I'm paying them so that I can write. What's the point of that?
www.beehiiv.com/pricing?srsl...

02.08.2025 06:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I know. Yet it's the only platform who would allow me to raise a paywall without asking me for money in advance — all other platforms ask for a fee in advance, meaning that if nobody or just a few people subscribe, I would be paying to write. For instance, beehiiv asks for at least $43 per month...

02.08.2025 06:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Just one last thing... Ok, Substack, this doesn't look good, and I am fed up.

Just one last thing...
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31.07.2025 21:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Donc… j'en ai assez de Duolingo. Je commence à lire des choses plus intéressantes, je peux le faire! 📚💕

29.07.2025 13:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Torno or ora da Parigi, dove hanno reso balneabili alcuni tratti della Senna...
Pacatamente, serenamente, la mia risposta è: MANCO SOTTO LA MINACCIA DELLE ARMI.

25.07.2025 13:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Down and sick in Paris and Dieppe How I felt sort of adopted by every single French person I met despite not being fluent in their language (but I can pronounce "croissant" correctly, so there's that)

I feel the urge to debunk the ages old stereotype of the bitchy Parisians.
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#France #Paris

25.07.2025 13:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Monsieur + le Régent + le Pieux.
Mes ducs d'Orléans préférés.
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#acasadiMonsieur #domainenationaldesaintcloud #philippedorléans #louisdorléans #monsieur #frèreuniqueduroi #lerégent #lepieux #saintcloud #muséehistorique

16.07.2025 16:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So, you want to be a glamourous writer in Rome? Café is a café is a café is a café.

Café is a café is a café is a café.
giorgiameschini.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...

09.07.2025 21:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cette newsletter, pourquoi a-t-elle un titre si bébête ? 👵 + 🔥 = 😱

Pendant la canicule, j'explique le titre de ma p'tite newsletter en français…
magrandmereestflambee.substack.com/p/cette-news...

01.07.2025 21:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Offline Sunday An experiment — perhaps the beginning of a weekly routine?

An experiment — perhaps the beginning of a weekly routine? — and maybe also a novel/movie pitch (paging @manmademoon.bsky.social...), who knows... 🤔
giorgiameschini.substack.com/p/offline-su...

21.06.2025 11:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Le jeu de la déconnexion Un dimanche sans internet... que pourrait-il bien se passer de mal ?

Un dimanche sans internet... que pourrait-il bien se passer de mal ? 😅
magrandmereestflambee.substack.com/p/le-jeu-de-...
#parishorsligne

20.06.2025 21:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mentre il mondo cade a pezzi Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

There's a misconception about la dolce vita: it often gets confused with “il dolce far niente” (“the sweetness of doing nothing”), and I blame Eat, Pray, Love for that.
giorgiameschini.substack.com/p/mentre-il-...
#LifeinItaly

19.06.2025 18:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you are Active Duty, Reserve, or National Guard in the US military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline.

There is support for you and you do not have to follow illegal orders. 1-877-447-4487

09.06.2025 22:00 — 👍 549    🔁 199    💬 11    📌 23
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Road to Saint-Cloud — episode #4 What architecture school (and Franz Ferdinand) taught me about writing a tale: build it up if nothing’s there.

Either that, or people just don’t like what I write.

🤷🏻‍♀️
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01.06.2025 12:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It seems that people took a dislike to David Tennant wearing a 17th century full wig while holding a copy of the Italian edition of Nikolaus Pevsner’s “An outline of European architecture”, because subscriptions to my newsletter have plummeted since I published this picture.

01.06.2025 12:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Road to Saint-Cloud — episode #4 What architecture school (and Franz Ferdinand) taught me about writing a tale: build it up if nothing’s there.

What #architecture school (and #FranzFerdinand) taught me about #writing a tale: build it up if nothing’s there.
giorgiameschini.substack.com/p/road-to-sa...

31.05.2025 16:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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