Michelle C
@genxbegetsgenz.bsky.social
(she/her) Queens born; crocheter by hobby; Oaklander by accident, caretaker for a 100 yr old house; former business analyst; anti-billionaire, pro-Luddite
Laugh daily. It helps.
Laugh daily. It helps.
Posting this to my timeline to remember to call my state electeds. I know California set up a Western alliance but it would be good to actually hear them regularly refute the vaccine crap coming out from the FDA this week
"One shouldn’t only look at the risk side [of vaccines]. One has to also look at the benefits side." — A former high-level #FDA vaccine regulator talks about Vinay Prasad's recent missive to staff. Phil Krause likes some of what he read, but thinks there are problems. www.science.org/content/arti...
What an FDA veteran thinks a controversial vaccine email gets right—and wrong
Phil Krause applauds call by top agency official Vinay Prasad for better data, but says his approach is “destructive”
www.science.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Posting this to my timeline to remember to call my state electeds. I know California set up a Western alliance but it would be good to actually hear them regularly refute the vaccine crap coming out from the FDA this week
That was a little strong #earthquake
December 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
That was a little strong #earthquake
Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Shit
Fuuuuuucccckkkkk
In Ireland airspace! Russia is at war with Europe
In Ireland airspace! Russia is at war with Europe
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Shit
First off yes!
The Dems don't seem to understand the insidiousness of AI and what world these tech bros are trying to create.
People do though. We must keep yelling "to what end?" when we're force fed AI like two packs of cigarettes jammed in our mouths and lit with a flamethrower.
The Dems don't seem to understand the insidiousness of AI and what world these tech bros are trying to create.
People do though. We must keep yelling "to what end?" when we're force fed AI like two packs of cigarettes jammed in our mouths and lit with a flamethrower.
December 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
First off yes!
The Dems don't seem to understand the insidiousness of AI and what world these tech bros are trying to create.
People do though. We must keep yelling "to what end?" when we're force fed AI like two packs of cigarettes jammed in our mouths and lit with a flamethrower.
The Dems don't seem to understand the insidiousness of AI and what world these tech bros are trying to create.
People do though. We must keep yelling "to what end?" when we're force fed AI like two packs of cigarettes jammed in our mouths and lit with a flamethrower.
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This is so good. Bless Halle Berry for this. She’s right. Fuck Gavin. He’s not going to be president.
"...Newsom has vetoed our menopause bill, not one but two years in a row. But that's OK, because he's not going to be governor forever. And with the way he's overlooked women, half the population, by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be our next president either."
youtu.be/603NmGNkfqY
youtu.be/603NmGNkfqY
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This is so good. Bless Halle Berry for this. She’s right. Fuck Gavin. He’s not going to be president.
Jars!
December 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Jars!
I heard this afternoon that the dog had to be put down bc of its injuries.
My argument is this: as humans, if we take a life - any life - we need to absorb that into our soul and own it. We are marked by it. A robot on wheels can't do that.
We cannot have a social contract with a machine.
My argument is this: as humans, if we take a life - any life - we need to absorb that into our soul and own it. We are marked by it. A robot on wheels can't do that.
We cannot have a social contract with a machine.
Weeks after one of its robotaxis struck and killed a beloved Mission District bodega cat, Waymo has confirmed that one of its cars also struck an unleashed dog. buff.ly/0NmhF7R
Waymo Strikes Small Dog In Western Addition, Dog's Condition Not Known
Weeks after one of its robotaxis struck and killed a beloved Mission District bodega cat, Waymo has confirmed that one of its cars also struck an unleashed dog.
buff.ly
December 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I heard this afternoon that the dog had to be put down bc of its injuries.
My argument is this: as humans, if we take a life - any life - we need to absorb that into our soul and own it. We are marked by it. A robot on wheels can't do that.
We cannot have a social contract with a machine.
My argument is this: as humans, if we take a life - any life - we need to absorb that into our soul and own it. We are marked by it. A robot on wheels can't do that.
We cannot have a social contract with a machine.
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Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their datasets - this bill would force them. If you're pro AI regulation (esp if you're in Bay Area), please show up and offer your support for this bill! If you can't make it, help spread the word!
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their datasets - this bill would force them. If you're pro AI regulation (esp if you're in Bay Area), please show up and offer your support for this bill! If you can't make it, help spread the word!
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
Is it me or is it weird security protocol that the ranking senator on the intelligence committee walks around with an Oura ring on his index finger?
Warner was on Jen Psaki. He's not usually a bejeweled fellow so I noticed.
Warner was on Jen Psaki. He's not usually a bejeweled fellow so I noticed.
December 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Is it me or is it weird security protocol that the ranking senator on the intelligence committee walks around with an Oura ring on his index finger?
Warner was on Jen Psaki. He's not usually a bejeweled fellow so I noticed.
Warner was on Jen Psaki. He's not usually a bejeweled fellow so I noticed.
Just wow!
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 3, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Just wow!
Campaign donation $$ to the first person who screams at Jefferies: "THE RULES DON'T WORK THAT WAY. ON PURPOSE! WE NEED NEW RULES"
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Campaign donation $$ to the first person who screams at Jefferies: "THE RULES DON'T WORK THAT WAY. ON PURPOSE! WE NEED NEW RULES"
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spanish flu was 1918........ the great wall street crash was 1929........... very cool stuff, history, very cool and not stressful
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
spanish flu was 1918........ the great wall street crash was 1929........... very cool stuff, history, very cool and not stressful
During last night's bout of insomnia, this floated thru my brain. I'd forgotten this since his announcement...
I continue to be broadly unimpressed with the slate of options. I would think California could do better but then I remember that the CA Dem party exists and realize we won't. Blerg...
I continue to be broadly unimpressed with the slate of options. I would think California could do better but then I remember that the CA Dem party exists and realize we won't. Blerg...
Just a reminder that @ericswalwell.bsky.social smeared Mamdani during the campaign by saying “I don’t associate myself with what [Mamdani] has said about the Jewish people.” Mamdani said he’d protect Jews in NYC from antisemitic attacks. Swalwell doesn’t associate himself with fighting antisemitism?
I just called Gillbrand Jeffries Goldman & Swalwell and told them that by misrepresenting or ignoring Mamdani's actual words & policies, they're making me feel less safe in my own city. I said instead of their scaremongering, I want Mamdani and Lander's vision of us all coming together in NYC.
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
During last night's bout of insomnia, this floated thru my brain. I'd forgotten this since his announcement...
I continue to be broadly unimpressed with the slate of options. I would think California could do better but then I remember that the CA Dem party exists and realize we won't. Blerg...
I continue to be broadly unimpressed with the slate of options. I would think California could do better but then I remember that the CA Dem party exists and realize we won't. Blerg...
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Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
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somebody on here suggested awhile back that a pretty compelling 2028 Democrat campaign promise would be "on day one I will deploy a WPA-scale army of forensic accountants across every square inch of the federal government" and I think about that every day
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
somebody on here suggested awhile back that a pretty compelling 2028 Democrat campaign promise would be "on day one I will deploy a WPA-scale army of forensic accountants across every square inch of the federal government" and I think about that every day
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.
Queens men meet — Queens Daily Eagle
The first man from Queens to be elected president and the first Queens resident to be elected mayor of New York City met for the first time in the Oval Office on Friday.
queenseagle.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.
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We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
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Not only has he never looked at Don Jr. or Eric like this, he’s never been so happy to bask in JD Vance’s presence either.
He looks giddy. JOYFUL even.
Is Zohran a witch
He looks giddy. JOYFUL even.
Is Zohran a witch
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Not only has he never looked at Don Jr. or Eric like this, he’s never been so happy to bask in JD Vance’s presence either.
He looks giddy. JOYFUL even.
Is Zohran a witch
He looks giddy. JOYFUL even.
Is Zohran a witch
Absolutely right - no bailout!
Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Absolutely right - no bailout!
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HE WILL KEEP TEACHING COLLEGE A JOB THAT INVOLVES PROXIMITY TO YOUNG WOMEN
Sex pest : i am retiring from public life
public : good fuck off
sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions
public : did we stutter
public : good fuck off
sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions
public : did we stutter
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 AM
HE WILL KEEP TEACHING COLLEGE A JOB THAT INVOLVES PROXIMITY TO YOUNG WOMEN
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everything makes so much more sense now
MacKenzie Scott was a student of Toni Morrison's: "“MacKenzie was one of the best students I’ve ever had in my creative-writing classes . . . really one of the best,” Morrison shared."
afrotech.com/toni-morriso...
afrotech.com/toni-morriso...
November 18, 2025 at 3:58 AM
everything makes so much more sense now