Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Actually it's fine that the exposure data is randomly out by €50 million that's FINE there is NOTHING WRONG.

Once again my boss is "on leave" but green on Teams. 😑

If anyone wants to give me 475,000 USD there was a nice Damien Hirst at the gallery I went to today. You could always just give me 475,000 USD, it would always be a good idea.

If I keep going to work I'll have enough money to buy the things I keep buying to make myself feel better about how I hate my job so actually it's very sustainable.

Especially as they had a kinda tenuous grasp of what a martini should be.

You knew I was going to quit as soon as I finished my MA and that the department was insane and wouldn't hire anyone for over 6 months though, so it doesn't really count. That said I hope you aren't also cursed!

The deal with the devil goes awry and they accidentally resurrect Robert.

Cheers to these fellas. Even if I had my five rowdiest friends with me, I don't think we could put down more than like 128,000 beers total in one night

The one manager I've ever had who really believed in me is dead so maybe I'm actually cursed to have miserable jobs and anyone who tries to stop that will be struck down.

I prefer double quotes aesthetically (have seen a few awkward ones with single quotes and apostrophes) but they don't mean anything different. How bizarre.

B.C. man sentenced to jail a 4th time for repeat fishing violations Scott Steer sentenced to 45 days in jail and ordered to forfeit his crab fishing gear and vessel Justin McElroy · CBC News · Posted: Sep 07, 2016 9:30 PM MDT | Last Updated: September 7, 2016

Province makes move to seize house, accounts of B.C. man with multiple illegal fishing charges Since 2008, the DFO has opened 15 separate files on Scott Steer CBC News · Posted: Jul 30, 2021 3:17 PM MDT | Last Updated: July 30, 2021

Fisherman handed lifetime ban following midnight poaching of hundreds of crabs in Vancouver harbour It's the first lifetime fishing ban in the Pacific region in over a decade Joel Ballard · CBC News · Posted: Dec 20, 2021 2:43 PM MST | Last Updated: December 21, 2021

'Unbound by laws': B.C. court gives man 6 years for illegal sea cucumber fishing Scott Steer also fined $1.1M after long history of fishing violations in B.C. The Canadian Press · Posted: Jul 29, 2025 1:57 PM MDT | Last Updated: July 29

The saga of this man's unflinching commitment to marine poaching is something to behold.

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The Marc Almond cover of Jacky is good but someone should do a synth pop remix of the original Jacques Brel version.

A song by Tom Cardy playing with in my car with an algorithmically-chosen photo of Tim Curry. If you do wanna listen to Business Man by Tom Cardy, grab the animated one on YouTube by Some Eejit, it's GREAT

swing and a miss, car artist photo database

I managed to send a depressed enough sounding email that the recipient asked if I wanted job recommendations. 🫠

If it's peak hour and everything is crowded you really shouldn't be surprised when someone wants the seat you've given your bag.

This does not sound at all true so applying logic to it is unlikely to work.

Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?” Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.” Snowy is very excited about the drink he has found.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Having been to restaurants while (I very much assume wannabe) "influencers" were there... Literally none of them ever seem to actually appreciate the food and they're very annoying to sit near. Restaurant critic is an actual job for a reason.

"This meeting could have been an email."

Okay but I sent an email longer than three lines and you demanded a meeting to explain it.

Trying to think of places near work to have lunch with a Muslim person and realising I just go to a series of Italian sandwich shops and order things with some variety of ham.

I think every city should have a "???" bus line that just takes you wherever the driver wants to go

When someone else is walking through the cold, desolate field at 11 pm like what are YOU doing here??

“why do you want to work here” want is a strong word

The wise man cuts through the generation illusion to determine that people who consume video content - the 'colossal loser' demographic - exist in all cohorts

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

An interior of the sign museum in Amman: a jumble of hand painted signs mostly in Arabic

The exterior of the Museo de La electricidad in Lima - a low rise building painted yelllw with green shutters

The paper museum entrance, covered in creepers on a sunny street

A friend of mine leads a peripatetic life and sends me photos of museums I might like from around the world. A sign museum in Amman, an electricity museum in Lima, and a paper museum in North Macedonia: I doubt I’ll ever get to any of them but I love these snippets from other places

As an urban person I think wind turbines look cool af and fields are incredibly boring. I'm not British though.

Tram it all!

A view I have held since I went to USyd is that they should ban parking on King St so the buses don't get stuck in traffic. A view I've held since the George St tram is they should replace the buses with a tram and pedestrianise the whole strip.