Maz Jovanovich
@mazjovanovich.bsky.social
Aussie military aviatrix, test pilot, lapsed physicist, occasional writer. Come for the aeroplanes, stay for the snark.
The toddler has started saying “cuggle” when he wants a cuddle and a bit of me secretly hopes he never learns how to say it properly.
November 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The toddler has started saying “cuggle” when he wants a cuddle and a bit of me secretly hopes he never learns how to say it properly.
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.
I found it unexpectedly today while in search of another image and it stopped me in my tracks.
October 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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.
I found it unexpectedly today while in search of another image and it stopped me in my tracks.
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.
October 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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.
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.
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.
September 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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.
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.
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.
September 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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.
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:
That doesn’t mean switching off or being uninformed.
It means this:
September 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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:
That doesn’t mean switching off or being uninformed.
It means this:
Napping with a toddler is basically having your heart refilled with rainbows but occasionally a rainbow pokes you in the eye.
September 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Napping with a toddler is basically having your heart refilled with rainbows but occasionally a rainbow pokes you in the eye.
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.
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.
August 31, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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.
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.
Today it toddler parenting: screaming because I won’t let him open the oven door and *get into the oven* 🤷🏻♀️
August 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Today it toddler parenting: screaming because I won’t let him open the oven door and *get into the oven* 🤷🏻♀️
I am learning a phenomenal amount this year, but my biggest takeaway is about the value of time.
The most important commodity - and too often luxury - is time to think.
The most important commodity - and too often luxury - is time to think.
August 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I am learning a phenomenal amount this year, but my biggest takeaway is about the value of time.
The most important commodity - and too often luxury - is time to think.
The most important commodity - and too often luxury - is time to think.
I logged on to Twitter to look for something specific and boy oh boy that place is 100 times worse than it was when I quit it last November. Just hideous.
July 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I logged on to Twitter to look for something specific and boy oh boy that place is 100 times worse than it was when I quit it last November. Just hideous.
I think we’re already seeing this. People who can’t construct a sentence or answer a basic question without ChatGPT are already sticking out like a sore thumb.
I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
July 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I think we’re already seeing this. People who can’t construct a sentence or answer a basic question without ChatGPT are already sticking out like a sore thumb.
The whole US beef thing is funny. Last time we lived in the US, I literally stopped eating meat and went full on vego until we got back to Australia. This will be the Starbucks fiasco all over again.
July 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The whole US beef thing is funny. Last time we lived in the US, I literally stopped eating meat and went full on vego until we got back to Australia. This will be the Starbucks fiasco all over again.
On knowledge bias in aviation:
As the Air India crash preliminary report hit the headlines last week and the commentary focused on fuel cutoff switches, I fielded a bunch of worried questions from folks not in the aviation biz.
🧵
As the Air India crash preliminary report hit the headlines last week and the commentary focused on fuel cutoff switches, I fielded a bunch of worried questions from folks not in the aviation biz.
🧵
July 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
On knowledge bias in aviation:
As the Air India crash preliminary report hit the headlines last week and the commentary focused on fuel cutoff switches, I fielded a bunch of worried questions from folks not in the aviation biz.
🧵
As the Air India crash preliminary report hit the headlines last week and the commentary focused on fuel cutoff switches, I fielded a bunch of worried questions from folks not in the aviation biz.
🧵
The exquisite joy-sadness of dropping off your sweet one year old at daycare to see him confidently toddle off towards his friends without a backwards glance.
July 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The exquisite joy-sadness of dropping off your sweet one year old at daycare to see him confidently toddle off towards his friends without a backwards glance.
Things are objectively crummy right now. Here’s a smol pilot wearing a smol pilot hat in a smol plane. Take care of yourselves folks.
June 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Things are objectively crummy right now. Here’s a smol pilot wearing a smol pilot hat in a smol plane. Take care of yourselves folks.
Sharp early analysis of the US intervention in Iran from @warinthefuture.bsky.social, injecting needed nuance and context into the commentariat.
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America Bombs Iran
A quick assessment of how America's offensive operations against Iran changes the character of the war in the Middle East.
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June 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Sharp early analysis of the US intervention in Iran from @warinthefuture.bsky.social, injecting needed nuance and context into the commentariat.
mickryan.substack.com/p/america-bo...
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As a long time appreciator of the m-dash who doesn’t use LLMs - because they make writing worse, not better - the current discourse about m-dashes being a giveaway for ChatGPT posts is absolutely hilarious.
June 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
As a long time appreciator of the m-dash who doesn’t use LLMs - because they make writing worse, not better - the current discourse about m-dashes being a giveaway for ChatGPT posts is absolutely hilarious.
I have a bad feeling that the Air India crash may be the result of flaps coming up instead of gear after take-off and I really hope I’m wrong.
June 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I have a bad feeling that the Air India crash may be the result of flaps coming up instead of gear after take-off and I really hope I’m wrong.
Democracy is fragile, and we must work tirelessly to protect it.
Civilisation is fragile too. The country I was born in, albeit not a democracy, went from hosting the Olympics to self-immolating in an orgy of ethno-nationalist violence inside a decade. I think about that often.
Civilisation is fragile too. The country I was born in, albeit not a democracy, went from hosting the Olympics to self-immolating in an orgy of ethno-nationalist violence inside a decade. I think about that often.
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 9, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Democracy is fragile, and we must work tirelessly to protect it.
Civilisation is fragile too. The country I was born in, albeit not a democracy, went from hosting the Olympics to self-immolating in an orgy of ethno-nationalist violence inside a decade. I think about that often.
Civilisation is fragile too. The country I was born in, albeit not a democracy, went from hosting the Olympics to self-immolating in an orgy of ethno-nationalist violence inside a decade. I think about that often.
My little sister introduced the toddler to truffle manchego and now his two favourite foods are truffle manchego and raspberries. RIP our bank balance.
June 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
My little sister introduced the toddler to truffle manchego and now his two favourite foods are truffle manchego and raspberries. RIP our bank balance.
Turns out watching Saturday cartoons with my little love on a cold windy winter morning is the perfect antidote to <gestures wildly at everything>
June 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Turns out watching Saturday cartoons with my little love on a cold windy winter morning is the perfect antidote to <gestures wildly at everything>
One of my fave D-Day facts is that the deception operation which kept hundreds of thousands of German troops away from Normandy put Patton in charge of a fake army planning a fake attack against Pas-de-Calais. The Germans were so impressed by Patton they were convinced he’d lead the real invasion.
June 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
One of my fave D-Day facts is that the deception operation which kept hundreds of thousands of German troops away from Normandy put Patton in charge of a fake army planning a fake attack against Pas-de-Calais. The Germans were so impressed by Patton they were convinced he’d lead the real invasion.
81 years ago today. The original anti-fascist movement. Lest we forget.
June 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
81 years ago today. The original anti-fascist movement. Lest we forget.
Between this and the fact they can’t read cursive, if Gen Z ever take over the world, at least it will be really easy to get it back.
I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time
June 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Between this and the fact they can’t read cursive, if Gen Z ever take over the world, at least it will be really easy to get it back.