Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
@diffractiongrating.bsky.social
I am Iridescent on Twitter but some random took that here.
François Mitterrand retire bitch.
Paper straw enthusiast. (they/them) 🏳️🌈
François Mitterrand retire bitch.
Paper straw enthusiast. (they/them) 🏳️🌈
Pinned
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.
Ah it's 5:15 so suddenly everyone has vanished from the office.
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Ah it's 5:15 so suddenly everyone has vanished from the office.
Office win: I found the secret extra mugs. They're in the cupboard you can only access if you're over like 5'9 that you probably can't even see if you're short.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Office win: I found the secret extra mugs. They're in the cupboard you can only access if you're over like 5'9 that you probably can't even see if you're short.
My favourite thing about Tableau is how when I move a window between monitors with different resolutions it will become either enormous or miniscule and I will have to switch it between the screens an arbitrary number of times until it stops looking like shit.
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
My favourite thing about Tableau is how when I move a window between monitors with different resolutions it will become either enormous or miniscule and I will have to switch it between the screens an arbitrary number of times until it stops looking like shit.
Did they deliberately fuck the reception in my office to stop us slacking off on our personal phones or am I going conspiratorially insane because I'm bored because I can't slack off on my personal phone?
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Did they deliberately fuck the reception in my office to stop us slacking off on our personal phones or am I going conspiratorially insane because I'm bored because I can't slack off on my personal phone?
Didn't notice the small black umbrella in my black bag so now I'm carrying an umbrella around for no reason because it's not going to rain for days.
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Didn't notice the small black umbrella in my black bag so now I'm carrying an umbrella around for no reason because it's not going to rain for days.
Time to read this!
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Time to read this!
Was lazy about doing the washing so now I have to suffer the weird bad sheets because all the others are in the wash. Talk about the consequences of my own actions!
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Was lazy about doing the washing so now I have to suffer the weird bad sheets because all the others are in the wash. Talk about the consequences of my own actions!
Although it happens every week I am once again not emotionally or mentally prepared for Work Tomorrow.
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Although it happens every week I am once again not emotionally or mentally prepared for Work Tomorrow.
Wearing a jacket that has press studs on the lapels and I assume they are to hold the lapels down but they also work to hold a shoulder bag in place so you don't have to deal with the strap.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Wearing a jacket that has press studs on the lapels and I assume they are to hold the lapels down but they also work to hold a shoulder bag in place so you don't have to deal with the strap.
Disappointed but also relieved this didn't happen the time I took this train last month.
Passengers on a high-speed train between Poland's two largest cities were taken by surprise when a sheep wearing a nappy began wandering through the carriages.
Sheep in nappy spotted on Polish high-speed train
notesfrompoland.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Disappointed but also relieved this didn't happen the time I took this train last month.
The incredible slowness of the Canberra train is upsetting.
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The incredible slowness of the Canberra train is upsetting.
They are playing Oasis at Central because of the Oasis concert.
November 7, 2025 at 6:19 AM
They are playing Oasis at Central because of the Oasis concert.
I see my old boss works at Yale now.
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I see my old boss works at Yale now.
Just had a meeting where the main suggestion was "what if we made things more complicated and increased operational risk". What if we did the opposite of that!!
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Just had a meeting where the main suggestion was "what if we made things more complicated and increased operational risk". What if we did the opposite of that!!
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The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
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I'll take a break from doomscrolling online and read my book I say, picking up The Balkans 1804-2012 and turning to the chapter covering 1941-45. Oh.
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I'll take a break from doomscrolling online and read my book I say, picking up The Balkans 1804-2012 and turning to the chapter covering 1941-45. Oh.
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sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively
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I get the point but this is actually really obvious because of the tone/style (and in some cases content) of the headlines and they only put two in each category. Also why is it formatted like the Mean Girls Burn Book?
A neat little quiz game: Is a headline homophobia from the 80s-90s or transphobia from the 2010s-2020s? Because it's all the same bullshit, repackaged for the hate du jour
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
Have I Got Phobia For You
Bringing attention to the often harmful practices of our mainstream media. Thankfully the days of vile hostility against gay people are now more or less over, but, reading today’s newspapers, there’s ...
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I get the point but this is actually really obvious because of the tone/style (and in some cases content) of the headlines and they only put two in each category. Also why is it formatted like the Mean Girls Burn Book?
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Dick Shotman
United States, Census, 1950
United States, Census, 1950
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Dick Shotman
United States, Census, 1950
United States, Census, 1950
This morning I misread the company platitudes printed on John's work lanyard as saying "Be Employed" which would be an incredibly grim thing to have to wear around your neck all day.
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This morning I misread the company platitudes printed on John's work lanyard as saying "Be Employed" which would be an incredibly grim thing to have to wear around your neck all day.
Having the new Lily Allen album in your head while having sex with someone you actually like is quite weird, I would not recommend having the new Lily Allen album in your head while having sex with someone you actually like. Or even if you didn't like them, really.
November 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Having the new Lily Allen album in your head while having sex with someone you actually like is quite weird, I would not recommend having the new Lily Allen album in your head while having sex with someone you actually like. Or even if you didn't like them, really.
For anyone wondering about where the fuck I work: honestly it should be abolished but somehow it isn't and we're just sloshing about in interminable mediocrity and every day I work there I get more stupid and more jaded.
I guess I have to respect the grift of my boss for turning up at 10, going to lunch for over an hour, leaving at 4, and then finally logging back on at 5:30 to ask me questions already answered by the emails he hadn't read that were sent in the hour and a half he was offline. I will kill him.
November 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
For anyone wondering about where the fuck I work: honestly it should be abolished but somehow it isn't and we're just sloshing about in interminable mediocrity and every day I work there I get more stupid and more jaded.
I guess I have to respect the grift of my boss for turning up at 10, going to lunch for over an hour, leaving at 4, and then finally logging back on at 5:30 to ask me questions already answered by the emails he hadn't read that were sent in the hour and a half he was offline. I will kill him.
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
I guess I have to respect the grift of my boss for turning up at 10, going to lunch for over an hour, leaving at 4, and then finally logging back on at 5:30 to ask me questions already answered by the emails he hadn't read that were sent in the hour and a half he was offline. I will kill him.