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Maz Jovanovich

@mazjovanovich.bsky.social

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Aussie military aviatrix, test pilot, lapsed physicist, occasional writer. Come for the aeroplanes, stay for the snark.

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 6d

And our adversaries will rejoice.

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 6d

Aussie Aussie Aussie! 🤣

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 6d

I love 3 different things about this.

Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 6d

That’s awesome.

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 6d

For my fellow geriatric millennials. A well spent Friday night after a loooong work week. The first album I ever bought with my own money. Still as good as ever.

TV with Nirvana’s “Unplugged in NY” playing, surrounded by bookshelves and kids toys.

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 20d

Watching it from across the Pacific is… disquieting.

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 20d

Yes! This is the perfect way to think about it!

Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 20d

Love it! It suits you so well!

Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 20d

As I lay there with him all soft and sleepy in my arms, I suddenly saw myself as a very old woman lying on a bed at the end of my life.

And I knew with full certainty that this would be the moment I will want to come back to over and over.

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 20d

Yesterday I had one of those moments of cosmic clarity, the kind that lets you see through space and time.

I left work after 7 pm (for the second time this week), so by the time I got home all I could do was bathe the cranky, tired toddler and put him to bed.

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 28d

Hard relate…

Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 28d

It is really hard, and sometimes impossible. I’m really just talking about doing whatever you need to do to protect your mind and soul.

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 28d

I know everything is awful right now. But today my sweet little toddler said “hand” in his sweet little voice as he held out his sweet little hand to take mine and just for a second all was ok with the world.

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 28d

Easier said than done, I know. But it’s worth the effort.

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 28d

“you should make sure your psychological centre of gravity is in your real and immediate world – the world of your family and friends and neighborhood, your work and your creative projects, as opposed to the world of presidencies and governments, social forces and global emergencies.”

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 28d

Today is a really good day to consciously avoid what Oliver Burkeman calls “living in the news.”

That doesn’t mean switching off or being uninformed.

It means this:

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · Sep 7

Napping with a toddler is basically having your heart refilled with rainbows but occasionally a rainbow pokes you in the eye.

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · Aug 31

Oh I know they don’t. Which makes it even worse.

Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · Aug 31

Looks like a first-rate crew 💪

Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · Aug 31

He’s giant and rambunctious and has a wicked sense of humour. I feel blessed every day 🥰

Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · Aug 31

If someone from the “I grew here, you flew here” crowd marching today would like to explain to me how immigrants don’t contribute to Australia, I’m all ears.

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · Aug 31

My parents are both doctors, trained in Europe but practicing in Australia for decades, still working full time in their late 60s.

My sisters are both doctors, trained and practicing in Australia.

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · Aug 31

I take anti-immigration protests personally.

My family left the Balkans in January 1995 with nothing but suitcases. I was 12 and didn’t speak English.

I have been wearing the Australian flag on my shoulder since I was 18. Next January that will be 25 years of military service to this great land.

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · Aug 16

I swear my life resembles a number of disturbing German fairytales…

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · Aug 16

Today it toddler parenting: screaming because I won’t let him open the oven door and *get into the oven* 🤷🏻‍♀️

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