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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lundi matin. View from the coffeecup. 6h56 blue. #イマソラ

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change. E. B. White, Charlotte's Web

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Marguerite Duras on nighttime reading: “The darkness around you adds greatly to the absolute passion that develops between you and the book.”

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Last night while teen at volleyball, I sat on the lake listening to Wendell Berry's book The Peace of Wild Things & knitted while watching swallows/bats. Exquisite - maybe cliché - quiet moment, with modern touches: my phone flashlight to see my hands, earbuds for the sound. Strange world.

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bookstore visit yesterday to buy a gift card for someone. I don't know how these got in my bag.

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sundays are for reading

Photograph Monochrome

stone seat under curve of branches

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nautical twilight toward civil dawn over the village. Dimanche matin. 音もなく

Black silhouette of a roofline, blue twilight sky

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The first charting of synaesthetic visualisations, plate 4 from Francis Galton's Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development (1883). More on the site: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s…

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mary Oliver's poem "The Sun" makes me think of the ladies at church when I was young: benign seeming, white-haired, always smiling and saying encouraging, positive statements until out of the blue they would lacerate you with a sharp, almost cruel observation.

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The hilarious teens in my life signed us all up for "duck yoga" yesterday. On a farm, outside the city. Humans on yoga mats. Surrounded by ducks. It was fun and funny, but my other thought is that people are craving nature and this is how duck yoga exists. Or that city people are a bit naive.

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Last evening forest&field run after a day of too many people: swallows in acrobatics, a young cow with extremely furry ears that ran alongside me for the length of a pasture, silence but for insects alongside the river. Fast feet in the (6th?) heatwave evening.

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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

American poet, novelist and environmentalist Wendell Berry has passed away. “Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Outlines and spheres of light for tonight's lake run entry for the catalogue of twilights (Raphy Buttet's A fleur d'eau sculpture)

A square of metal frames a statue of a boat and fisherman

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After Octavian @afteroctavian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Slipping in under the wire, I wanted to record my best reads for #WITMonth. I read a total of 12 books that qualified but a surprising number were subpar and I can't recommend them. There are a few I can recommend whole-heartedly, though, and I've added their covers below.

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Outlines and spheres of light for tonight's lake run entry for the catalogue of twilights (Raphy Buttet's A fleur d'eau sculpture)

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Lake is being slightly ocean-y tonight. High waves, whirling birds.

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This from a year ago. The books are still stacked on that chair. Different books, but still...

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Counted 23 cormorants on an 8k run: flying, diving, drying their wings and four in their (my favorite) umbrella state. Two patrolled a pier beside a few unhappy anglers.

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This morning's details on my way to a lake run: Café, small street. Five men. No one speaking French. Reading tabloids. A huge Bernese mountain dog pads in from an alley, jumps onto the lap of one man. It's like they're hugging. Only one other man seems to notice.

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lots of work this morning but I could just stare at the rain.

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Anne Carson, Plainwater

On Rain

It was blacker than olives the night I left. As I ran past the palaces, oddly joyful, it began to rain. What a notion it is, after all-these small shapes! I would get lost counting them. Who first thought of it? How did he describe it to the others? Out on the sea it is raining too.
It beats on no one.

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I use Ecosia on phone/computer because it does not give an AI summary. Other suggestions welcome.

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It seems insane to me that we are allowing a handful of companies so much power. AI summaries on searches should be banned. Interesting study results about the recent Swiss referendum: https:/www.swissinfo.ch/eng/digital-democracy/how-googles-ai-generated-overviews-shape-swiss-democracy/91949683

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Rain. Steady rain for the last few hours. Lovely lovely actual rain. Rain out the window from the Friday-morning sharpened pencils. Watching the rain with my coffee.

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Post-insomnia morning. New knowledge of random subjects (the Churchills! the life extension movement! Gothc architecture!) after a night of reading. But I keep picking up the jar of honey for a drink instead of my coffee cup.

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Gershwin Impact @ensis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Bonjour Bluesky ! Est-ce qu'il y aurait des traducteur-ice-s JP-FR dans le coin (je sais que oui, sortez de vos planques 👀), et est-ce qu'il serait possible d'avoir vos grilles tarifaires ? Ce serait pour traduire une interview et peut-être un article de blog.

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Drove across a very dry France, followed the owls

Photo showing the countryside with brown fields, a strip of green and a line of high tension transformers that look like an owl.

Photo showing the countryside with brown fields, a strip of green and a high tension transformer that looks like an owl.

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"Ceci n'est pas une éclipse" for today's entry for the catalogue of wingtips

Black and white photo of sunrise on a beach, the silhouette of a seagull in flight appears in front of the sun

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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is exactly how we experienced the eclipse of 1999 in Penzance. Gazing out over the bay from the farm where we were staying. The rush of that shadow of darkness, returning us for a few moments to night, was unforgettable

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

how can it be so late all at once somewhere the Perseids are falling toward us already at a speed that would burn us alive if we could believe it but in the stillness after the rain ends nothing is to be heard but the drops falling - W S Merwin, Nocturne II, #Perseids

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For obvious reasons: "The second before the sun went out we saw a wall of dark shadow come speeding at us. We no sooner saw it than it was upon us, like thunder. It roared up the valley. It slammed our hill and knocked us out. It was the monstrous swift shadow cone of the moon."

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

1777: Fog, dark, dark & spitting.

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Good morning from the sunrise at the softest of sea edges and the tiny clicks of seagulls finding shellfish for their breakfast

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

On a road trip through flat, scorched earth. The fields are dry and yellow. The woods surrounding the fields are barely green. Saw five thinnish hawks yesterday on a six-hour drive, only two falcons on highway fence posts. Everything waiting for the air to cool down.

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Bindweed has a dramatic heatwave swan song

Color close-up photo of the underside of a bindweed leaf, its veins bright red

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 08/08/2026

Adieux au Soleil Farewell to the Sun Pierre Dubreuil, 1903.

semi circle image of a person on a beach bidding farewell to the sun

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Morning grafitti on the city park bench: Je t'aime encore stupido

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Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Today's heatwave blue from the middle of the lake. Les dents du midi, jour 4 ou 5 de la canicule, depuis le lac.

View of blue mountains from an expanse of darker blue water. A few clouds hover above the mountains.

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Brawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Postcard from a hazy, jewelled, dream like summer of Delhi.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Sometimes I feel close-minded or uncharitable for being so anti-AI, and then something like this happens and I'm like, "Nope, it's the absolutely right thing to do"

Series of Bluesky posts that point to the duplicity of an account "run" by so-called agentic AI

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