This morning at #BlackWattleBay #Sydney 🌞

Throw your arms around me! Yes! But wish it had cracked the top ten #Hottest100 #HuntersandCollectors

Global Voices – Hundreds of women writers arrested as China extends crackdown on ‘Boys’ Love’ fantasies globalvoices.org/2025/06/25/h...

How it started, how it's going 😃 Have read one (!) book from my original stack, and a whole bunch that weren't on it at all, including #Middlemarch (just as brilliant as I'd always been promised 💜📚) #bookstack #booksky #reading #amreading #amwriting

The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... Fascinating insights in the latest from Peter Hessler in @newyorker.com 🀄️

Foggy morning on Blackwattle Bay, Glebe Point, Sydney. #Sydney #fog

@christietime.bsky.social Loved your India episode! Really fun and enlightening to see Christie through a different lens. Look forward to your next outing @christietime.bsky.social

3 China correspondents, over 3 decades, with 3 views of the Chinese artist, Aniwar Mamat. Image 1, the late, path-finding, Yvonne Preston, illustrating her piece for "The Age" on the opening of the pioneering Red Gate Gallery with work by Aniwar.

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... Interesting 🗳️ #auspol #DadVote

Good morning Skysters 🌞

Interesting new angle on #Gaugin by #SuePrideaux in @theGuardian.com ‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light #BookSky

A travesty of justice and a profound embarrassment to the United States

What’s on Google’s mind today @searchliaison.bsky.social #why? #Google

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Always nice to see your book in the wild, but especially in such interesting company (at Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney) 😃📚 #ThePhoenixYears #ContemporaryArt #China #ArtGalleryofNSW #BookSky 🀄️

Good morning Skysters! Have a great week 🌞 #Sydney #GlebePoint #BlackwattleBay

Save #USAid

Required viewing 👇 #Auspol #Election25 #NuclearPower #Dutton #PeterDutton

The last weekend of Magritte at the Art Gallery of NSW. Why did I wait so long? #artsky #Magritte #ArtGalleryofNSW #Sydney

youtube.com/watch?v=JBqV... Required viewing #NuclearPower #auspol #Election2025

Good morning 🌞 #Sydney #GlebePoint #BlackwattleBay #Summer

Marina Hyde @theGuardian.com aces it 👏👏 #DeepSeek #AI #TechBros #MarinaHyde #China 🀄️ Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress

I met Marianne Faithfull in 1996, when I produced an interview she did for ABC TV. We’d been given strict instructions by her “people” on no account to get personal, and in particular to NEVER MENTION MICK JAGGER. She was touring Australia with a new show based on her interpretation of Kurt Weill

This 👇 #auspol

Just re-upping this again because the Temu Trumps in the LNP insist on bringing every culture war here: the Morrison govt spent $20.8bn on consultants in its final year - the equivalent of 54,000 FT public servants. The private sector benefits with govt cuts. No one else.

www.smh.com.au/business/the... Yep ☹️ #auspol #AustralianElection

新年快乐🎉 Happy New Year everyone! May the “little dragon” be kinder to us than its big brother was in the past year 😎 A Very Happy Year of the Snake to you all! 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🀄️

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 👏👏 #January6 #History #USA

Today the Coalition made clear if elected they would sack public sector workers, cut their pay & return to funnelling our money to the big consultants. We lose jobs, pay, expertise, services & money spent in local communities. Good for consultants profits, bad for the country

Contemplating my 2025 bookstack 😃📚 #booksky #HanKang #MurakamiHaruki #Kawabata #HilaryMantel #SiangLu #WillSelf #MaryRenault #Cities #GhostCities #WeimarRepublic #Rome #AlexandertheGreat #Greece #Gwangju #Japan #China

David Bowie: 8/1/47 - 10/1/2016. 💜 9 years today. Unbelievable #DavidBowie

Here for more hat panic (& Chinese hat codes in general) 😃 🀄️

Hugh Joseph Linus O'Dea, 3 January 1962 - 28 September 2003. Miss you every single day 💜

What Jason said ⬇️

This piece by @ellenbarry.bsky.social on #schizophrenia is moving & thought-provoking. Can early intervention bend the curve of the disease? & even if so, can you “live with schizophrenia” without good long term support? Questions as relevant in Australia as in the US @markbutlermp.bsky.social

Bird flies out of a ruined fresco in the House of the Golden Bracelet in Pompei. Brought to Canberra by the National Museum of Australia. In awe 💜 #NationalMuseumofAustralia #Pompei #Canberra #Frescoes #art

So sad to hear that the brilliant Liu Yuan has left us. From Cui Jian’s band to the CD & East Shore Jazz bars, Liu was at the heart of Beijing’s music scene, he played his way onto the soundtrack of so many of our lives. Gone too fast, too soon. 💔🀄️ mp.weixin.qq.com/s/sFnaBhC7eS...

I was living just 500 meters from #NotreDame on the night of the fire. At the first news alert, I ran into the street and saw the spire blazing, just moments before it fell. My LiveJournal account of the rest of that long, frightening night is at bu-ming-bai.livejournal.com/9356.html.

5 years ago I stood on the banks of the Seine & watched as the firefighters of Paris battled to save #NotreDame On that night I spoke to #BrianWilliams at #MSNBC Listening now brings that night back so clearly & I am in awe that today the cathedral will open once again www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/...

The President of #SouthKorea took a tad less time than the #CommonwealthBank to read the room 🤣 www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Yes! #lawreform #drugs #ChrisMinns #NSWPremier 👇 www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

And how quickly a well organised democratic parliament can stop them ….

What a parliament can do #SouthKorea (listen up #US #Congress ) South Korean president says he will lift martial law after parliamentary vote Live updates: South Korean president says he will lift martial law after parliamentary vote

Leura evening #Leura #BlueMountains 😃

Cao Fei’s solo show “My City is Yours” (欢迎登陆) opens this weekend at Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. Brilliant, surreal, funny, disturbing, sad. Seriously, if you anywhere near Sydney between now and April 13 don’t miss it. #CaoFei #ArtGalleryofNSW #Sydney #China #art 🀄️

Sydney in the Summer😂 ☔️ #Sydney

@y2kermit.bsky.social - take a look

I plan to curate a list of #photo people — Not a starter pack, a list. This way, you can pin the list to your feed and follow #photographers in a custom feed on Bluesky. It should be a nice way to find new people when you log on. Drop me a line if you want me to add you. Please RT. Thank you!

👇 #China #censorship #bigtech #microsoft #Google 🀄️

Looking forward to this one !#CarolJerrems #NationalPortraitGallery #Canberra #Photography #Art www.portrait.gov.au/exhibitions/...