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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 · 4d
It was a great night - squadron hangar bash to farewell the P3!
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 4d
Making history is beautiful and messy. I’m here for all of it.
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 4d
But when I saw it today, all I could see were its beauty and importance. The setting, the amazing people pinning on those rank slides, the wonderful people I know are just out of shot cheering. And yes, the lampshade, because it proves how far we’ve come and what women can do.
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 4d
I look like a lampshade in the maternity uniform and I used to hate this photo because of that.

This is not how I had imagined this important milestone would look.
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 4d
This is me, at the end of my squadron command, 6 months pregnant and being promoted to Group Captain - the first female pilot in RAAF history to make that rank - by one of my mentors and my husband, in front of my beloved squadron and our magnificent aircraft, the P3 Orion.
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 4d
They say a picture tells a thousand words - and this one definitely does.

I found it unexpectedly today while in search of another image and it stopped me in my tracks.
Smiling pregnant woman in military uniform being promoted by another woman and a man, who are both putting new rank slides onto her shirt, in front of an aircraft.
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 4d
Sounds perfect - enjoy!
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 11d
And our adversaries will rejoice.
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 11d
Aussie Aussie Aussie! 🤣
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 11d
I love 3 different things about this.
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 11d
That’s awesome.
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 11d
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 · 25d
Watching it from across the Pacific is… disquieting.
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 25d
Yes! This is the perfect way to think about it!
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 25d
Love it! It suits you so well!
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 25d
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 · 25d
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 · Sep 11
Hard relate…
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · Sep 11
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 · Sep 11
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 · Sep 11
Easier said than done, I know. But it’s worth the effort.
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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · Sep 11
“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 · Sep 11
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.
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