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Pav Matt
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Part-time HR person, photographer, explorer, & creator of art & crafty things. Full-time EndoWarrior. Lives on a curious island at the edge of the world known as lutruwita/Tasmania.

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The numbers I’m really interested in today are the voter turnout stats. The weather is really cold and windy, and I get the sense a lot of people didn’t want to go back to the polls so soon. So I won’t be surprised if a lot of people don’t bother. #TasPol #Tasmania
July 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Ah tax time. The glorious time of year when you wake up to an email letting you know your myGov account has been locked because someone has been attempting to log in with the wrong password. Full marks to myGov on their email alert wording and the security actions recommended after unlocking it
July 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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If these two suburbs are genuinely at risk of flooding from a higher than usual tide I would hope it would warrant more than a text alert given both are over 340m above sea level.
A map showing the areas of Tasmania a weather alert applies to. It is zoomed in on the Hobart suburbs of Ridgeway and Mount Nelson.
June 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Me: So the internet tells me you can fix this really minor thing I have by yourself and there’s no need for medical intervention.
My body: Sure I’ll get right on that after I deal with *gestures frantically* all this.

#ChronicIlllness #Spoonie #Endometriosis
June 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Me: Today I'm going to...
My body: Nope.
Me: But I have all these things scheduled...
My body: Still nope.

#ChronicIllness #EndoWarrior
June 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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It appears I’m at the Endo Gremlin on a rampage part of my cycle. Zero stars, do not recommend.

#Endometriosis
June 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Planning and plotting my next project.
#Photograph #Crafting #Beading
A close up photograph of light blue and green beads sitting on a grey felt beading tray on a wooden table. The bead pattern is green, blue, green, small blue, blue, green, blue.
June 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Drawing and colouring. Colouring and drawing.

#AmDrawing #Art
A square drawing split into seven sections, three rectangles and four squares, with black frames dividing them. Spanning the sections are a large circle and ten smaller circles of varying sizes and an oval. These are filled with a petal-like pattern in shades of pink and purple. Around them are smaller circles filled with shades of light blue. The background of the sections is metallic blue.
May 16, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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My new hobby is making complaints about our mail being taken to the local post office instead of being delivered to our mailbox (which has a substantial secure parcel section). I need to draft a template I can copy and paste to save time.
April 30, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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The spiders have been busy this year. Everything around the outside of the house seems to appeal to them, including my mirrored mobile.

#Photograph #BlackAndWhitePhotography
#AbstractPhotography
A black and white close-up photo of a spider’s web encasing beads on a mobile. The web forms a cone shape around the beads, starting at the width of a diamond shaped mirror at the top and funnelling down around a round bead, a smaller round bead, a larger heart-shaped bead, a small round bead, and the top of a bead most of which is not visible in the image. There appears to be a dandelion clock or similar seed trapped in the web.
March 20, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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So many years of growth before it came crashing down across our garden.

#Photograph #Nature
A photograph of three rounds of wood in front of a stone wall, viewed from the front. The wood is a mix of different shades of brown, orange, and pink. You can see the whole face of the top one and the top edges of the faces of the bottom two. The many growth rings of the tree are clearly visible, spaced fairly evenly, suggesting steady growth year after year.
March 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Today’s listening in honour of St Patrick’s Day.
A screenshot from a podcast player showing the logo of the After Dark podcast. Below that is the following text: “17 Mar 2024, Ep 50, 46 min left St Patrick: Pirates, Snakes and Goatees After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal” Below that is a play button with the word “resume” under which it reads “subscriber edition”
March 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Some days. In fact most, if not all, days…
I think all the text pins are all from Jubly Umph.
Posted via Pinksky.
#photograph #BlackAndWhitePhotography
A black and white photo of 4 enamel pins on a floral patterned background. They’re spaced in sort of a zigzag pattern down the picture. The pin on the top left is a white oval with a floral border around the bottom half under text that reads “CAUTION FRAGILE”. The second pin down is on the right and is a bit bigger and rounder than the first one. It’s also a white oval with a floral border around the bottom half under text that reads “DONE IS BETTER THAN PERFECT”. The third pin down is on the left and is in the shape of a sword. It has a flower to the left of the hand guard and has a write ribbon wrapped around it. The text on the ribbon reads “FIGHTING INVISIBLE BATTLES”. The fourth, and final pin is on the bottom right and is in the shape of a rainbow.
March 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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I love this. #Hobart #Photograph
Black and white photo of the footpath in front of a row of shops. In the bottom right is a chalkboard that reads “Most people think that T-Rexes can’t clap because they have short arms, but really it’s because they are dead…”
March 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Me: I’ll put on the washing as a prompt to take a break from this task when the cycle finishes.
Washing machine beeps signalling it’s done.
Me: One second…
Four hours pass.
Me: Oops
March 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Ah chronic pain, mildly annoying one day, a nausea-inducing hellscape the next.
February 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Ah the joy of being so exhausted by the process of changing the bed linens that you need a nap. I guess at least the sheets are all fresh and lovely. #ChronicIllness #EndoWarrior
February 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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New shoes! And they came in the cutest packaging.
A photo of pair of mary jane style shoes patterned like a red bandanna. It’s taken from above and cropped just before the heel so you see about three quarters of the shoes. A photo of a cardboard shoe box designed to look like a carton of chocolate milk. It has a pale blue and cream diamond pattern and a brown label in the centre which reads “chocolalicas”. It also has a small label below that which reads “The Originals” and one at the top of the carton that reads “Hot Chocolate Design”.
February 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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My brain is never as pedantic as when a hockey commentator describes 0-0 as a “scoreless” game. Actually sir, I think you’ll find that while it may be a goalless game, there is most definitely a score.
February 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Baking is hard when your sense of taste is malfunctioning. So my husband got to be my taste tester this morning.
January 31, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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I still think that having chronic illness(es) should give me an exemption from all other illnesses. Is there someone I can talk to about that?
January 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Me: This is my schedule for the week ahead.
My Endo Gremlin: MUAHAHAHA
January 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I would like the weather gods to stop with the late afternoon summer storms now. This is Hobart not the sub-tropics. I did not sign up for this ridiculousness.
January 15, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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The view this morning.
A landscape photograph, in colour. The view is from high up. It has trees in the foreground. The mid ground has rolling tree-covered hills, and the coastline. Above that is the sea, then the sky filled with clouds. The air is a bit hazy making it hard to see where the sea ends and the sky begins. The bits of sky visible through the clouds are bright, bright blue at the top of the picture, fading down to a pale grey blue at the horizon. It’s taken early in the morning when the sun is still low enough to be behind some of the trees. The sunlight is coming from low on the left making some of the trees appear in silhouette, and to cast dark shadows across the foreground.
January 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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The atmospheric pressure changes associated with the series of thunderstorms that have passed over our house this afternoon have made my body a special kind of hellscape. I feel like I’m being tortured from the inside by the endo gremlins. Zero stars, do not recommend. #endometriosis #EndoWarrior
January 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM