Jo Barkworth

Jo Barkworth

@bubbletheviking.bsky.social

We're burning our home, and losing our sense of decency, fairness, equality and caring for our fellow humans and earth's natural gifts. Peace not war. Hoping the BlueSky community thinking helps us all survive #UBI 💚🌿🌈🐻‍❄️🪼🪸🐬🐢

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Ben Eltham
@beneltham.bsky.social

If pollution laws meant anything (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha) then both Canberra and the WA government would immediately move to shut down Chevron’s Gorgon plant

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social

Climate disaster keeps disastering: Satellite monitoring has detected massive plumes of methane pouring from Chevron's Gorgon LNG plant in Western Australia. (This is the one connected to the world’s biggest carbon capture and storage project WHIICH IS ALSO FAILING) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

abc.net.auUN sends warning as satellite detects greenhouse gas plumes over Gorgon plantSatellite monitoring has detected huge plumes of methane above one of Australia's largest gas complexes, triggering a United Nations alert and enquiries by state authorities.

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Senator David Shoebridge
@davidshoebridge.bsky.social

Our country stands at a critical crossroads. Change must occur - but what kind of change? And crucially, for who? I'm presenting our alternative vision for this country at the National Press Club this Wednesday, 12:30pm AEDT. Tune in live on ABC TV & iView.

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Twang 🍉
@twangmaker.bsky.social

Labor Party guy Joel Fitzgibbon was once Australia's Minister of Defence. Now he works for lobbying firm CMAX. He lobbies for military and oil companies: • Navantia (navy ships) • Electro Optic (space/military) • Raytheon (weapons) • Stryker (weapons) • SYPAQ (drones) • Emperor (Oil & Gas) #auspol

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Menestune
@menestune.bsky.social

Vote to kick the bastards out Vote to give more women clout Vote because they're all corrupt Vote before your heart erupts Kick them to their sullied curb OMG, that'd be superb We'll celebrate their big downfall And after that we'll jail them all #vote #midterms #nokings #bluewave #voteblue

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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫
@amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social

Finland has ordered Google to stop clearcutting forests for huge data centers. They’ve already cleared thousands of acres. If they continue the most they will face is fines (do you think Google cares about fines?). Are you still using Google and helping to fund the destruction of the planet?

Jo Barkworth
@bubbletheviking.bsky.social

Let's pause this rush for data centres NOW @albomp.bsky.social until proper, risk-assessed laws are in place. Noone has yet explained what benefits there are for Australia, and how they outweigh the existential risks. You fobbed off an email I sent to you. www.theguardian.com/technology/c...

theguardian.comLabor and the Coalition are poised to take a reckless gamble on AI. Haven’t they realised community support has collapsed? | Edward Santow and Sarah SacherAustralian workers expect the government to act to protect them from AI harms. There is a clear reform solution at hand

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Bluesky Safety
@safety.bsky.app

The 2026 US midterm elections are on November 3. Today we’re sharing how we’re protecting the electoral process on Bluesky: what our rules cover, how we’re preparing, and how you can help. 🧵

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Josiah Mortimer
@josiahmortimer.bsky.social

Who Funds You have now done a post following up this reporting - giving CCR their lowest grade for transparency whofundsyou.org/october-26-r...

whofundsyou.orgOctober 26 Ranking updateDriven partly by recent press interest, we have been able to conclude more think tank audits in recent weeks. All grade D and E rated think tanks have been assessed, in accordance with our "risk based...
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social

🔴 Mysterious Right-Wing Think Tank Demanding Charity ‘Transparency’ Won’t Say Who Runs or Funds It EXCLUSIVE: A group with no legal status and using fake names for the authors of its first published report, has won widespread media coverage, despite refusing to say who is behind it

bylinetimes.comMysterious Right-Wing Think Tank Demanding Charity 'Transparency' Won’t Say Who Runs or Funds ItEXCLUSIVE: A group with no legal status and using fake names for the authors of its first published report, has won widespread media coverage, despite refusing to say who is behind it
Jo Barkworth
@bubbletheviking.bsky.social

Just to solidify doom thoughts..... But, like our short-sighted Governments, we'll all go back to our everyday minutia 😬

Pearls and Irritations@johnmenadue.com

Human extinction is no longer being treated only as a remote theoretical risk. A new Lancet commission identifies nuclear war and malicious AI as threats capable of ending humanity this century, Julian Cribb writes. #GlobalHealth #AI #NuclearWeapons

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy
@meckeringboy.bsky.social

Whatever you do, do not mention climate change, fossil fuels heating the planet, rising sea levels, stronger more damaging storms, wildfires, thousands dying in heatwaves, the rising cost of insurances, cost of living increases … And they’re still opening new toxic coal, oil and gas projects?

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Amtrak cars were pelted by waves, beach parking lots were torn up, and coastal homes teetered as sand washed away beneath them — but Southern California avoided a large-scale disaster over the weekend from Tropical Storm Rachel. https://wapo.st/47PzjGv

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Climate Defiance
@climatedefiance.bsky.social

Each of the people we disrupted this Climate Week runs on the assumption that the rooms they walk into are safe. They walk into their panels, their galas, their cocktail hours, thinking the worst thing that can happen to them is a limp canapé.

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Penny Allman-Payne
@pennyallmanpayne.com

What does the inequality crisis look like? This 👇 98% of public schools are underfunded – that’s 2.6 million kids without the resources they need for the education they deserve. Yet the richest private schools are charging massive fees while banking billions of public dollars.

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Greg Jericho
@grogsgamut.bsky.social

I am yet to be persuaded that Albanese did this protest for any other reason than to be photographed doing it

Crikey@crikey.com.au

Opinion | The University of Sydney is cracking down on students’ intellectual freedom. Anthony Albanese, the once proud student protester, is encouraging it. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/07/a...

crikey.com.auDear Albo of 1983, what do you make of yourself now?The University of Sydney is cracking down on students' intellectual freedom. Anthony Albanese, the once proud student protester, is encouraging it.

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Jewish Council of Australia
@jewishcouncilau.bsky.social

MEDIA RELEASE: 3 years on from Oct 7 and Australia’s legal & moral obligation remains: act now to end the genocide & pursue justice for Palestine. Peace and safety will never be achieved without Palestinian rights to self-determination, equality, freedom. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/10/thre...

jewishcouncil.com.auThree years since October 7: Australian Government must step up in face of ongoing genocide and impunity for IsraelMEDIA RELEASE 7 October 2026 This week marks three years since Israel began its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza following […]