Michelle

I will never be a minivan mom.

[Michelle @Miiotto]

I’ve been saying this for years lol. Wearables are alarmist

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

You check your Apple Watch in the morning. Sleep score: 62. You decide it's going to be a foggy day. And then it is.

A 2014 Colorado College study suggests the score itself causes the fog.

164 people walked into a lab. Researchers hooked them up to fake EEG equipment and told them the readout would show their REM percentage from the night before. Then they fabricated a number. Half the room was told 28.7%. Half was told 16.2%. The machine wasn't measuring anything.

Participants took four cognitive tests. The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test, where you add numbers spoken at increasing speed and hold your last sum in working memory while computing the next. And the Controlled Oral Word Association Task, where you generate as many words as you can starting with a single letter under time pressure. Both are gold-standard measures of attention and executive function used in clinical neurology.

The 28.7% group outperformed the 16.2% group on both. Significantly. How rested participants actually felt that morning predicted nothing.

The mechanism is mindset priming an executive resource. When you believe you slept well, you allocate cognitive effort more aggressively. You don't conserve. You don't pre-disengage. Belief about the resource changes how you spend it.

Two control conditions ruled out demand characteristics. Participants weren't trying harder because they thought they should. Real measurable cognitive performance shifted with the number on the readout.

The Apple Watch sleep score. The Oura ring readiness number. The morning ritual of checking either one is taxing the resource you're about to need.

The performance gap from a fabricated REM percentage was larger than the gap from how rested participants actually felt. The number was louder than the night.

[mia @httpsosweet]

not to sound like a potted plant but sunlight and fresh air really makes a difference

[Detroit Free Press @freep]

Forest Bakery in Oak Park takes No. 6 on the 2025 Detroit Free Press/Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers @ChevyDetroit Top 10 New Restaurants & Dining Experiences list for its stellar pastries and savory offerings. https://t.co/IHt1BufGjY

[Michelle @Miiotto]

@BondeTroy Estate sales, look up your area at https://t.co/8NaGKoJb6P they usually have them every Saturday! You can see most stuff online before, go to nice area of town, everything is 50% off after 4pm, and you can negotiate

[ian karmel @IanKarmel]

We have, for too long, shackled the bakery to the morning. Night bakeries. Fresh croissants at 11pm. It is possible.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

“If We Were a Movie” by Hannah Montana has been certified Platinum in the US.

[Ben Boven @benboven1]

30 years ago, 4 Non Blondes asked us a question we still can't answer.

[the black blair waldorf @perfectly_kyla]

audiobooks are FREE thru Libby and Hoopla with a LIBRARY CARD

[Michelle @Miiotto]

@connar___ Mine rarely gets zipped lol

[Michelle @Miiotto]

I need people to know i did the NYT mini in 28 seconds today 🤓

[Iris 💫 @Jest_Iris]

a murder on the dance floor would explain the panic! at the disco

[𝐫. @aemisias]

Margot Robbie’s Barbie looks and the dolls they’re inspired by — a thread ✴︎

[Michelle @Miiotto]

@faytrain I did this with a pop tart, 20 mins instead of 20 seconds. It turned into a black pile of ash and we had to get a new microwave lol

[Emily Faye @mlefaye]

The soda machine at amc was completely out of Diet Coke on Barbie opening night women are so powerful

[Michelle @Miiotto]

@sana Detroit doop

[onionweigher 🧅⚖️ @onionweigher]

30 years later and still one of the hardest fits of all time

[Michelle @Miiotto]

I’m sorry to the food influencers out there but I’m never going to eat a bowl of kidney beans for dinner

[Michelle @Miiotto]

Do you think you’ve ever flown in the same plane on different trips?

[Michelle @Miiotto]

@connar___ I’ve done this at the SeaTac airport too 😅

[Michelle @Miiotto]

@thiccatnite7 It was not what i expected, but it did have my yelling at my TV haha