Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Let's hope 🙏 www.smh.com.au/technology/t... #Meta #instagram #socialmedia #Zuckerbergsmh.com.auThe walls are closing in on Mark ZuckerbergJuries in two US states this week found Meta liable for harming children. With 2000 more cases pending, Zuckerberg’s nightmare is just starting. 041
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 02/02/202640 years ago today, 2 February, 1986, I landed in China for the first time. It changed my life 💃✍️🀄️ (though I never did learn how to skate 🙃) #china🇨🇳 #ContemporaryArt #ThePhoenixYears 030
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Throw your arms around me! Yes! But wish it had cracked the top ten #Hottest100 #HuntersandCollectors 100
Reposted by Madeleine O'DeaChina Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 01/07/2025Global Voices – Hundreds of women writers arrested as China extends crackdown on ‘Boys’ Love’ fantasies globalvoices.org/2025/06/25/h...globalvoices.orgHundreds of women writers arrested as China extends crackdown on ‘Boys’ Love’ fantasiesBL is a subversive genre for women to explore their sexuality beyond gender stereotypes, as its relationships eschew expressions of dominance and reproductive function. 12210
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 25/06/2025How 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 150
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 07/06/2025The 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 🀄️newyorker.comThe Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at HarvardAmid escalating threats from the Trump Administration, a student assesses whom he can turn to. 021
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Foggy morning on Blackwattle Bay, Glebe Point, Sydney. #Sydney #fog 010
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 22/05/2025@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 121
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 21/05/20253 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. 100
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 05/04/2025www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... Interesting 🗳️ #auspol #DadVotesmh.com.auThe ‘dad vote’ crucial to Labor’s polling reboundSupport for left wing parties among young men is little different to young women, defying a trope that they have become starkly more conservative. 010
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Interesting 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 000
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 15/03/2025A travesty of justice and a profound embarrassment to the United States 021
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 01/03/2025What’s on Google’s mind today @searchliaison.bsky.social #why? #Google 030
Reposted by Madeleine O'DeaGarry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Zelensky 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. 283158704258
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Always 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 🀄️ 050
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Good morning Skysters! Have a great week 🌞 #Sydney #GlebePoint #BlackwattleBay 030
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Required viewing 👇 #Auspol #Election25 #NuclearPower #Dutton #PeterDutton 000
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 07/02/2025The last weekend of Magritte at the Art Gallery of NSW. Why did I wait so long? #artsky #Magritte #ArtGalleryofNSW #Sydney 110
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 06/02/2025youtube.com/watch?v=JBqV... Required viewing #NuclearPower #auspol #Election2025youtube.com 110
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Good morning 🌞 #Sydney #GlebePoint #BlackwattleBay #Summer 010
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Marina 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 020
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I 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 140
Reposted by Madeleine O'DeaAmy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Just 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. 38969508
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 28/01/2025www.smh.com.au/business/the... Yep ☹️ #auspol #AustralianElectionsmh.com.auThis could be the year voters get their priorities wrongA protest vote on the cost of living will achieve little. The best election outcome would be a minority government dependent on the support of those who get the urgency of climate action. 033
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 28/01/2025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! 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🀄️ 021
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 24/01/2025www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 👏👏 #January6 #History #USAtheguardian.comFormer ‘Maga Granny’ refuses to accept Trump’s pardon for actions on January 6Pamela Hemphill insists on taking responsibility for role she played in trying to overturn the 2020 election results 010
Reposted by Madeleine O'DeaSally McManus @sallymcmanus.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Today 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 28621308
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Contemplating my 2025 bookstack 😃📚 #booksky #HanKang #MurakamiHaruki #Kawabata #HilaryMantel #SiangLu #WillSelf #MaryRenault #Cities #GhostCities #WeimarRepublic #Rome #AlexandertheGreat #Greece #Gwangju #Japan #China 280
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 09/01/2025David Bowie: 8/1/47 - 10/1/2016. 💜 9 years today. Unbelievable #DavidBowie 130
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Here for more hat panic (& Chinese hat codes in general) 😃 🀄️ 010
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Hugh Joseph Linus O'Dea, 3 January 1962 - 28 September 2003. Miss you every single day 💜 040
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 31/12/2024This 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.socialapp.bsky.czMark Butler MP (@markbutlermp.bsky.social)Minister for Health and Aged Care. Authorised M. Butler Pt Adelaide 132
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Bird 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 072
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 24/12/2024So 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...mp.weixin.qq.com 243
Reposted by Madeleine O'DeaJohn Brennan @johnbrennan1.bsky.social · 07/12/2024I 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.bu-ming-bai.livejournal.comNotre Dame Paris fire - 15 April 2019On the evening of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire, I noticed a news flash on my phone at 7.35 pm. Our apartment is on the north bank of the Seine less than 10 minutes walk from the Cathedral, so we deci... 141
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 07/12/20245 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/...msnbc.comParis Police: Notre Dame main structure has been savedBoth towers of Notre Dame “are safe,” French secretary to the interior minister says. 140
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 04/12/2024The President of #SouthKorea took a tad less time than the #CommonwealthBank to read the room 🤣 www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...abc.net.auCommonwealth Bank pauses plans to charge customers $3 fee to withdraw cashAustralia's biggest bank has paused its plans to charge customers a $3 fee to withdraw their own money at bank branches around the country, a day after it was announced. 120
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Yes! #lawreform #drugs #ChrisMinns #NSWPremier 👇 www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...smh.com.auAnother drug summit? This time, premier, don’t tick boxes – save livesAfter Bob Carr’s push in 1999, NSW was regarded as a world leader in drug law and policy. Sadly, it is a mantle we lost long ago. 120
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 03/12/2024And how quickly a well organised democratic parliament can stop them …. 010
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 03/12/2024What 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 121
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Cao 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 🀄️ 2114
Reposted by Madeleine O'DeaAndy Adams @flakphoto.news · 28/11/2024I 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! 14030685