Giorgia Meschini

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?
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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...

Just one last thing... Ok, Substack, this doesn't look good, and I am fed up.

Just one last thing...
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Donc… j'en ai assez de Duolingo. Je commence à lire des choses plus intéressantes, je peux le faire! 📚💕

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.

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

Monsieur + le Régent + le Pieux.
Mes ducs d'Orléans préférés.
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#acasadiMonsieur #domainenationaldesaintcloud #philippedorléans #louisdorléans #monsieur #frèreuniqueduroi #lerégent #lepieux #saintcloud #muséehistorique

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.
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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…
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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... 🤔
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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 ? 😅
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#parishorsligne

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.
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#LifeinItaly

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

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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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.

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.
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Harvard Relinquishes Photographs of Enslaved People in Historic Settlement Tamara Lanier, who sued the school in 2019 over daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors held in its museum, called the outcome “a turning point in American history.”

Ending a six-year battle that stirred ethical and legal debates about the ownership of photographs taken under duress, Harvard University has surrendered its claim to 15 daguerreotypes at the center of a lawsuit brought by Tamara Lanier, a descendant of enslaved individuals.

@manmademoon.bsky.social buon compleanno, happy birthday, Duncan!

Maintenant je me rends ridicule même en français... ...mais je m'en fiche.

Oh-la-là (and other random French expressions): je viens de publier ma première newsletter en français ! 😱😱😱
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Never been so happy for AUSTRIA.

Nah, it's totally a fix.

Love this from Pedro Pascal at Cannes:

"Fear is the way that they win, so keep telling the stories and expressing yourself and fighting. F*ck the people that try to make you scared and fight back. Don’t let them win"

Totally a fix.

Insieeeemeeee, united united Europe — but with effin’ Is/rael getting to the #Eurovision final pretending they're not committing genocide.

I've escaped Threads.

‘We’ve accidentally included a reporter in a group chat about bombing Yemen’

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Without a doubt, one of the wildest stories ever. A little over a week ago, the national-security adviser inadvertently added @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social to a group chat with the VP and others to plan an attack on the Houthis.

You have to read this now:

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David Tennant as the Doctor, but wearing a full-bottomed 17th century-stye curly wig, and holding a copy of the Italian edition of Nikolaus Pevsner's European Architecture book. Top right quarter of the image shows the phrase "allons-y, Monsieur!".

Very slowly assembling episode 4 of Road to Saint-Cloud, you can find the first three episodes here: giorgiameschini.substack.com/s/road-to-sa... — but as a preview, here’s my favourite image illustrating the fourth instalment…

«There are a couple of loose ends I'd like to tie up... nothing important you understand.» (yes, that's a quote from Columbo, season 1, episode 3, “Dead weight”)

«There are a couple of loose ends I'd like to tie up... nothing important you understand.»
(yes, that's a quote from Columbo, season 1, episode 3, “Dead weight”)
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#newsletter #justonemorething

Le fabuleux destin de Romolus et Rémus Look, mum! Another rant about people romanticising life in Italy!

Just out of my own fingertips: puntarelle.substack.com/p/le-fabuleu...
In all honesty, I think this is a lost battle: people just want to be fed lies about life in Rome, and in Italy, in general. And, what's even worse, they are willing to pay for those lies.