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Margaret Barbalet

@margaretbarbalet.bsky.social
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Writer, grandmother, former diplomat

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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why the surprise?
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The 1924 sketchbook of Sonia Delaunay, Ukrainian-born French artist & textile/fashion designer #womensart
Open sketch book with writing and paintings of zig zag designs
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Now mines may have to work out how to reduce emissions from their export customers,” said the CEO of the Minerals Council. So sad that these companies might have to have some corporate responsibility thrust upon the poor dears 😢 🎻
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Boo. Tales of grit & glamour with a fancy colour section, to bring joy & fortification to emotionally exfoliating times. Order now for October 27. kazcooke.com.au
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Out now: Splinter Journal vol 5, with @roffwrites.bsky.social, Linda Atkins and many other luminaries! splinterjournal.com
splinterjournal.com
Splinter Journal
Splinter is a literary journal that is sharp and hard to ignore.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt
Print featuring a flock of birds in silhouette flying over a hedgerow in a purple sky
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Russia does not want peace. Let’s finally transfer Russia’s frozen assets to Ukraine. Give Belgium whatever it wants
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Transfer Russia’s frozen assets to Ukraine!
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Slava Ukraini!
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good!
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bodnant, a very heaven!
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Dr. Lesley Barron, MD, MPhil, FRACS @drlesleybarron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My goodness this is so perfectly put. Priced out of time to get to know your neighbours and community.
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Therapist; “There is a tiger in you” The tiger in me:
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🐝 Just $420 left to reach 50% of our fundraiser! Help us reach the halfway mark for 3 control stations for SOF anti-Shahed drone operators. These systems will help expand STING interceptor operations and protect Kharkiv from daily Russian Shahed attacks. 🐈🤝🐝 ⬇️⬇️Support the campaign ⬇️⬇️
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No pasaran!
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good!
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Six miles away...heat from your neighbourhood data centre.
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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The blatant and open corruption is incredible - as is the silence from all those who were trusted to keep democracy safe
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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One for the masked thugs chanting "Christ is King" at Dover.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you think closing an RNLI station is done by people with "legitimate concerns" you really need to give your head a wobble. It's an unforgivable act of thuggery.
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Have to lie down after looking closely at this:
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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Always civilians, Russia is a war criminal.
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Awful.
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Mike Funnell @mikefunnell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’m wishing everybody a bright beautiful morning from sunny Sydney..
A Rainbow Lorikeet feeding on a yellow Grevillea flower.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Ossoff: "The draft-dodging commander in chief builds a monument to himself while plunging us deeper into a war he doesn't know how to end or win"
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Gail Brodholt, London Calling, 2023 UK printmaker #WomensArt #Monday #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print featuring a covered grand railway station with commuters in silhouette on a platform betweem two trains, all bathed in early yellow light
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Traitors one minute, lazy mothers the next. Inside the vicious, petty world of Pauline Hanson.
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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And the economy doesn’t need more people jetting off to spend their holiday money abroad. Remember: Most flights from Heathrow are leisure trips and most are made by a very few people and most of those are British travelling abroad. This is the essence of a project for “the few”
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There's a name for animals that babysit babies that aren't theirs. Scientists call it alloparental care, and it's everywhere from meerkats to elephants.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One Nation policy position position
Barnaby Joyce saying to Pauline Hanson:
So, if I’m asked, what exactly is our policy on letting people dip into their super funds?
Pauline Hanson:
The same as all our other policies. Ramble on incomprehensibly then claim the media is out to get you and act all hurt. Our supporters love that shit
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Unbelievable!
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Early spring; before El Nino grows teeth.
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A misunderstanding? What?
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Putin's regime is fascist to its core. Russia is led by fascists
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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
—or over a bank, or up a pillar, or even in an archway, or in that most graceful fashion of sending the long strands up into an old tree there to soar and dangle, loose and untrammelled. #gardening
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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Remember when Farage and the Brexit crowd got all upset about the 'butchered' flag for the 2024 Olympics? Yet look at what they had at their conference last week: a butchered Union flag. Effing hypocrites
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
British fascists are attacking and doxxing the incredible volunteers of the RNLI. Donate now.
rnli.org
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hurrah!
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Why indeed?
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Marilyn C @lyrebird1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My article in the Point thepoint.com.au/opinions
thepoint.com.au
Opinions | The Point
The Point, helping readers make sense of the issues shaping their lives today.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
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Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Australian pioneering modernist photographer Olive Cotton, Tea Cup Ballet, c.1935 #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a group of six angular cups and saucers with long shadows
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MARION @marion-writers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There's less than 3 weeks until Stories with Spice. Meet the woman behind the workshop, Anne Freeman! Anne writes contemporary fiction about women who are stuck in life and the extraordinary ways they shake themselves loose. events.humanitix.com/anne-freeman...
A photo of Anne Freeman wearing a white shirt. She has short brown hair and is smiling at the camera.
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Love, love love! As the Beatles say...
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What a lovely mess!
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Gotta love the pro-Russian claim that Russia will take Odesa. With what? Russia hasn’t advanced in that direction since losing Kherson in 2022. Russia will never get Odesa
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John Lakey @lakey10.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Another on the theme...
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Tonight I can hear the Mopoke after months of silence. It makes you pause and listen. What joy!
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Predictable from the get go.
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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Crazy
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