Michelle Bailat-Jones
@mbailatj.bsky.social
novelist/translator/reader, here for the sharpened pencils, books & writing talk, for all things language and foliage, for all the shiny things & shadows. (Eng, Fr, 日本語, Ital) Rep'd by Simon Trewin.
www.michellebailatjones.com
www.michellebailatjones.com
Train outrunning a storm on the lake, a puddle of sun somewhere on the French side, birds restless in the wind along the lakeshore
December 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Train outrunning a storm on the lake, a puddle of sun somewhere on the French side, birds restless in the wind along the lakeshore
Reposted by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Our job as Team Human is not to succumb to the zero-sum mentality of the wealthy.
They’re the ones who have given up on prosperity.
They are living the nightmare.
rushkoff.substack.com/p/the-intent...
They’re the ones who have given up on prosperity.
They are living the nightmare.
rushkoff.substack.com/p/the-intent...
The Intentional Collapse
The elite are committed to the end of the world, but we don't have to be.
rushkoff.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Our job as Team Human is not to succumb to the zero-sum mentality of the wealthy.
They’re the ones who have given up on prosperity.
They are living the nightmare.
rushkoff.substack.com/p/the-intent...
They’re the ones who have given up on prosperity.
They are living the nightmare.
rushkoff.substack.com/p/the-intent...
Dawn walks in the very quiet
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Dawn walks in the very quiet
Spot the swan in this 1953 untitled Laure Pigeon? And her face is always somewhere, too
December 4, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Spot the swan in this 1953 untitled Laure Pigeon? And her face is always somewhere, too
Reposted by Michelle Bailat-Jones
I'd like to hear a lot less podcast chats with CEOs & celebrities, & a lot more with nurses, social workers, carehome staff, teachers & counsellors. The skills most of us need to work on are communication, empathy, compassion, dealing with difficult emotions, listening & keeping a sense of humour.
December 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I'd like to hear a lot less podcast chats with CEOs & celebrities, & a lot more with nurses, social workers, carehome staff, teachers & counsellors. The skills most of us need to work on are communication, empathy, compassion, dealing with difficult emotions, listening & keeping a sense of humour.
Reposted by Michelle Bailat-Jones
CB editions December newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/12/cbe-...
CBe newsletter December 2025
Christmas. Presents. Books are even easier to wrap than bottles. See the home page of the website and bear in mind the Season Tickets: 6 b...
sonofabook.blogspot.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
CB editions December newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/12/cbe-...
Train morning, cataloging graffitti on drystone vineyard walls, spotted a basketball hoop fixed into the center of a highway arch, the lake like an ocean out the compartment window.
December 2, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Train morning, cataloging graffitti on drystone vineyard walls, spotted a basketball hoop fixed into the center of a highway arch, the lake like an ocean out the compartment window.
7am view from the coffee cup: nautical twilight and quite spindley, -1° but the rain has stopped
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
7am view from the coffee cup: nautical twilight and quite spindley, -1° but the rain has stopped
On a train, finished my book but will wake my snoozing dog to get the other one in my bag. It's dark outside so window gazing offers me only my own face or the family on the other side of the train.
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
On a train, finished my book but will wake my snoozing dog to get the other one in my bag. It's dark outside so window gazing offers me only my own face or the family on the other side of the train.
Walked across the city, collected details, eavesdropped, watched all the busy and not-so-busy people. Saw outdoor sculptures, fallen leaves, the last of this year's flowers.
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Walked across the city, collected details, eavesdropped, watched all the busy and not-so-busy people. Saw outdoor sculptures, fallen leaves, the last of this year's flowers.
Window gazing, last night's long walk around a city
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Window gazing, last night's long walk around a city
Intrepid train buddy (or sleepy, as is usually the case)
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Intrepid train buddy (or sleepy, as is usually the case)
View from the train tonight is very billowed clouds and stark fields. Lone trees with many spindles, backlit by the sun.
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
View from the train tonight is very billowed clouds and stark fields. Lone trees with many spindles, backlit by the sun.
Today's company on the fainting couch
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Today's company on the fainting couch
The joy of listening to the Swiss teens in the car: "J'ai dead mon test de maths"; "Elle est en flirt avec ce mec"; "oh em jhay". (For my language loving heart, it's hilarious...trying to work out how 'dead' has made its way to French in this way)
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The joy of listening to the Swiss teens in the car: "J'ai dead mon test de maths"; "Elle est en flirt avec ce mec"; "oh em jhay". (For my language loving heart, it's hilarious...trying to work out how 'dead' has made its way to French in this way)
Quite/quiet wintery ce matin
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Quite/quiet wintery ce matin
First snow almost every in Switzerland today ❄️💙
November 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
First snow almost every in Switzerland today ❄️💙
More texture....
new entry for the catalogue of tiny pleasing things
new entry for the catalogue of tiny pleasing things
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
More texture....
new entry for the catalogue of tiny pleasing things
new entry for the catalogue of tiny pleasing things
Bookish goodness on my walk to a bakery yesterday
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Bookish goodness on my walk to a bakery yesterday
Wisteria, coffee cup, silence, book
November 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Wisteria, coffee cup, silence, book
Train views: looked in vain for chimney fox on the way down to the lake, but 1 black cat spotted on a children's playset, surveying its backyard kingdom from the top of the slide
October 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Train views: looked in vain for chimney fox on the way down to the lake, but 1 black cat spotted on a children's playset, surveying its backyard kingdom from the top of the slide
The autumn Friday morning quiets are about to start, Orangina is practicing
August 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
The autumn Friday morning quiets are about to start, Orangina is practicing
Reposted by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Just wondering why I would want a technology whose "grandest promises" include destroying the need for human creativity and creating a new class of enslaved people trapped inside data centers controlled by oligarchs
August 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Just wondering why I would want a technology whose "grandest promises" include destroying the need for human creativity and creating a new class of enslaved people trapped inside data centers controlled by oligarchs
Reposted by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
August 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life