GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Latest polls indicate a rejection of the far right’s initiative. I take great pleasure in the millions that EMS Chemie has thrown down the drain with their stupid ad campaign 1376
Reposted by GenevaGirlFrank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"She stood behind the seal of the White House wearing her little cross around her neck and became the glossy public mouth of an administration marinating in brutality, corruption, retribution, greed, deceit, autocracy, and spiritual putrefaction..." jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/goodbye-yo...jojofromjerz.substack.comGoodbye, You Poisonous Fucking FraudKaroline Leavitt Is Leaving, but There Isn’t Enough Febreze on Earth for This Rebrand. 56684532194
Reposted by GenevaGirl🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"A recommender that’s a mediocre predictor of what you’d love in a rich, diverse world becomes an excellent predictor of what you’ll click in the impoverished one it creates." laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur...laurenleek.substack.comTemperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the SameWhat 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it. 052
Reposted by GenevaGirlMr Market Miscalculates 🇪🇺🇺🇦🏴☠️ @mrmarketmis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Imagine paying Hedge Fund Karen 2&20 to invest in undiscovered gems like $V, $MA, $MSFT, $ICE, $META,$SPGI, $UBER, $NFLX and $AMZN, and still being -3.5% YTD... 5204
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I know it’s nothing new, but I continue to be amazed by the ability of late stage capitalism to create new reasons to spend money through an appeal to feelings of inadequacy www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/tablescalp...vittlesmagazine.comTablescalpingTimi Sotire on the new hosting and tablescaping influencers, for whom food is often an afterthought. Illustration by Jess Nash. 061
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Fresh off its fortunately unsuccessful initiative to cap the Swiss population at 10m, regret to inform you that the Swiss far-right is back with another one. Whereas the anti-immigration measure was framed as being pro-sustainability, this one is all about neutrality! pro-peace! anti-war! 🚨🚨🚨 250
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 31/07/2026People need to get a grip. Leopold Aschenbrenner didn’t “crash” the stock market. The S&P 500 is barely off all-time highs. (But yes, some over-leveraged traders got taken out, that’s the way it usually works.) 1292
Reposted by GenevaGirlBrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026this is a great chart from Bespoke (@peark.es 👍), because it illustrates how far we are from a true all-encompassing speculative frenzy as we saw with the Dotcom bubble. having been around back then, I remember the ultimate Neuer Markt debacle cc: @michellev.bsky.social @dsquareddigest.bsky.social 2478
Reposted by GenevaGirlDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 31/07/2026tbh this guy has come back from FTX and come back from being fired from OpenAI, I would not care to bet against him 171
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 31/07/2026good nuanced thread on Leopold A. tldr it’s not what you think 2130
Reposted by GenevaGirlAisling McNamara @aisling7468.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Ehm... They're a much loved member of the diaspora who NEVER invaded us. 251
Reposted by GenevaGirlzatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Argentina going...static.klipy.comCall An Ambulance But Not For Me MemeALT: Call An Ambulance But Not For Me Meme 1407
Reposted by GenevaGirlConstantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Caravaggio transplanted into the 2010s would get cancelled for a series of cryptic late night tweets about how he didn't mean to "kill the guy" and then fleeing to Russia where he converted to Orthodoxy and painted icon portraits of Putin as both Constantine and Helen. 0163
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 06/07/2026the Icelandic horse would like to remind everyone that it is not a pony 1100
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Long before Brexit, and when I lived in the UK, I remember telling someone that I was going to Paris for the weekend, and she responded, “So you’re off to Europe then...” And I’ve never forgotten, because it was such a strange thing to say 3131
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I miss those vintage World Cups, where key matches would overlap London/NYC trading hours, and liquidity would become nonexistent esp. in certain EM bonds. The outrage and complaints from disinterested US traders was brilliant 1294
Reposted by GenevaGirlHattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 06/07/2026As in 1066 England will prevail against the Norwegians before tragically losing to the French a couple of weeks later. 442011482
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Geneva, the kind of place where I’ve spotted more Argentine football jerseys this afternoon, than comparable Swiss kit yesterday. (Follow me for more WC commentary, blah blah…) 070
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 21/06/2026The OG musk fanboys were those environmentally conscious urban liberals that bought a Tesla back in the 2010s. Feels like a lifetime ago 1141
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Podcasts about 90’s pop culture/ britpop hosted by aging UK music journalists are the new grainy black and white WWII documentaries our dads and grandads used to obsess over. Same vibe. 136510
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 20/06/2026we have so many useless referendums (immigration, minarets, ending fractional reserve banking…), when do we get something useful to deal with the crippling impact of heatwaves? 390
Reposted by GenevaGirlPaul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 20/06/2026SpongeBob got hooked on crack and it all went wrong 1293
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 20/06/2026giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comAlternative for Germany revives Nazi-era attacks on BauhausModernist art institution fears AfD ‘patriotic culture’ push nearly 100 years after closing under Hitler 020
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The referendums from a few years ago to go back on the gold standard and abolish fractional reserve banking have been pretty stupid too. Same people backing those initiatives. 1120
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 14/06/2026of course, the first car to be set on fire at the anti-G7 manif’ is a tesla. hearts and minds 1182
Reposted by GenevaGirlPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026the real political correctness is that you can’t go on the news and say that this is hick shit 18182441233
Reposted by GenevaGirlzatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 14/06/2026the intensity (and my god, the frequency) of these food trench warfare bouts is extremely using when you consider that availability of everything everywhere has never been greater 71163
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 14/06/2026why yes, I am judging anyone from Appenzell Rhodes, Glaris and Uri 2101
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 13/06/2026we’re going to get three different tech stacks: US, China and Europe with big implications for the supply chain: not just GPUs, but HBM, lasers, and all kinds of components 271
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Stupid referendum on capping the Swiss population at 10m being held on Sunday June 14 too, same day as the big manif’. Vance better stfu 040
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Event contracts (bets on war, terrorism or assassinations) « would likely be barred as not in the public interest. » *Likely* is doing a lot of work here. www.reuters.com/world/cftc-p...reuters.comUS agency proposes new rules to govern prediction markets, WSJ reportsThe U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission will propose new rules on how it will govern prediction markets, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. 031
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Never known to overreact, the Geneva authorities are preparing for the city to become a warzone during the upcoming G7 meeting in Evian (!). Retail shops boarded up, gov offices fortified, and remote working for one week. Oh, and Blixa Bargeld is coming to town 1140
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 05/06/2026speaking of the crypto eyeball scam, whatever happened to Worldcoin, or World as it was rebranded? Or bored apes, blockchain games, dao’s, or any of the other nonsense? 3191
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 22/05/2026One of my favorite Geneva sub-cultures are the 80-year old socialists. Scruffy and a bit odd, but incredibly well-read and travelled. Easily spotted at any public lecture, cinéma Grütli, etc, chatty, telling stories to anyone who shows interest 0120
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Musk takes care of his private company investors, but none more so than the Twitter/ xAI investors. Nevermind that investors in SpaceX got diluted. It’s just petty to bring that up. 050
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 13/05/2026As Anthropic prepares a new funding round that could see valuation top $1 trillion, the company updated a notice on its site yesterday, bluntly warning against investment in unauthorized SPVs claiming to offer indirect exposure. support.claude.com/en/articles/...support.claude.comUnauthorized Anthropic stock sales and investment scams | Claude Help Center 161
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I’m bored of unfunny jokes about Jensen Huang’s black leather jacket. Nothing you may say is witty or original. 150
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 13/05/2026the only thing more tiresome than US financial journalist hot takes predicting the imminent demise of the euro are the performative pseudo-edgy takes defending Liz Truss 2191
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 12/05/2026One of the less appreciated risks to the global AI/ semiconductor/ datacenter trade is policy risk via taxation or some other redistributive measure. Risk from commodification, tech obsolescence or slowdown in capex spending are all kind of understood. But risk from policy measures is underestimated 270
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Spent so many years in Scandinavia where the vibe is cool and reserved that it’s always a culture shock when my loud expressive Argentine relatives come for a visit 0110
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I mean, wouldn’t be caught dead wearing Palantir merch, but maybe the pivot to apparel should be encouraged if it means less evil surveillance 120
GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · 28/04/2026In the grand scheme of terrible things enabled by Palantir, this may not be the most significant, but appropriation of the French chore coat is truly diabolical 1110