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Matt
@just-matt-aus.bsky.social
AFL Fantasy 250th overall 2022, Sports Fan, Fremantle Dockers, Phoenix Suns, Tennessee Titans Fan, SportCard Collector (NBA/NFL), Dad of 2, Hospital Health Professional, COVID-aware/cautious.
So #photographers … I’ve thrown a tantrum at Adobe due to their 60+% price hike.

Do I want DxO or Capture One?
May 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Reposted by Matt
A new study shows that air cleaners can reduce up to 98,1 % of viral load in the air of a #COVID patient's room with confirmed positive airborne viral RNA.
Rooms with HEPA ventilation had zero virus detected.
👏 #CleantheAir in hospitals and schools!👏
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
These subscription price increases that #Software vendors like @Adobe / @creativecloud are a joke. A 68% increase⁉️ You’re kidding, right? #Subscription cancelled … goodbye @Lightroom … hello @captureone 👌🏻 Let your Credit Card do the talking #Photographers .
May 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Reposted by Matt
COVID-19 deaths in aged care are now double what they were at the peak of pandemic.

🔹During the height of the pandemic, 18 Feb 2020 to 19 May 2022 - 2,415 COVID deaths

🔹Between 27 May 2022 to 16 Jan 2025, that number surged to 4,778 deaths

hellocare.com.au/covid-19-dea...
Covid-19 deaths in aged care are now double what they were at the peak of pandemic - Hellocare
With nearly 5,000 Covid-19 deaths in aged care since mid-2022, critics argue that poor vaccination rates and systemic failures are leaving aged care residents dangerously exposed.
hellocare.com.au
February 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
BREAKING: @mcuban.bsky.social had purchased a family-sized curry & left it in the @dallasmavs fridge. When he decided to go home, it was gone. He called each player into his office. #Doncic arrived. In Cuban’s office, he farted. The location of the curry was no longer a mystery #NBATrade
a basketball player wearing a dallas 77 jersey stands on the court
ALT: a basketball player wearing a dallas 77 jersey stands on the court
media.tenor.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
1/2: #COVIDisNOTover : So I’m 46-year-old, health professional with well-controlled asthma on an ICS/LABA preventer year-round. I only ever use a SABA/reliever before sport; other times, I never need it. Day 5 of acute #COVID (2nd known episode - both acquired by 8 yr-old boy bringing it home) … 1/2
January 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Any of our #AFLFantasy / #Supercoach sources (or is that sauces) had preseason eyes on @HawthornFC this preseason?

Curious to see what has been observed from Josh Weddle, and potential opening round role / best-22-prospects?
January 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Stunning image!
No matter how dull conditions, there are always photographic opportunities! A long exposure brings out streaking clouds, against the turquoise waters of beautiful Moraine lake in the Canadian Rockies.

#bluesky #photography #landscapephotography #scape
#nature #landscape #naturephotography #travel
January 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Thanks @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social … +8 to the case numbers: myself, wifey & 2 #children & our friends that we inadvertently shared it with before Mstr. 8y.o., became symptomatic.

😡 to #Albo & the #AustralianLaborParty for not having any #ventilation standards in #daycare & #school facilities.
WA weekly COVID update: 13 Jan to 19 Jan 2025

🔸COVID positivity rate: 6.1% est. (-2.1%)

🔹PCR cases: 252 (-11.2%)
🔹Hospitalised: Average of 98 per day (-16.9%)
🔹ICU: 7-day average increased to 6 (+100.0%)

Source: www.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/Corp...
January 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Wow 😡 It’s like the 1930’s all over again …
January 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Or vocal against the mistreatment of these minorities …
January 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Out of ten, give an idea of how much more *active* you will be in collecting when the exclusive #NFL / #NBA licensing moves to #Fanatics?

#sportscards #cardshow #panini #basketballcards #footballcards #rookiecards #whodoyoucollect #thehobby #gradedcards #psa #collectibles #NBAcards #NFLcards
January 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Credit to the original poster on “X”. Love it. 😂😂😂

For non-Australian’s, “Albo” is our current Prime Minister for the Australian Labor Party seeking re-election in early-2025. A VERY ineffectual leader IMHO.

#Auspol2025 #Election2025
January 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Speaks volumes … #FkElonMusk

“… why is the #NFL not only not pushing to get on Bluesky, but instructing teams to stay off of it?
It could be … a desire to have a … partnership agreement first. However, it’s possible it could be a subtle attempt to appease Musk …”
awfulannouncing.com/nfl/new-engl...
New England Patriots VP of content says NFL told team to shut down Bluesky account
The New England Patriots' VP of content says the NFL told the team to take down their Bluesky account as it's not an "approved platform."
awfulannouncing.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
So massively disappointed not to see #DerrickHenry & #LamarJackson in the #NFL #SuperBowl after an epic #Ravens season where both pieces together #MVP calibre seasons. The NFL is a game of seconds; two early LJ turnovers, a Henry-missed catch, and two Mark Andrew-blunders, cost them their chance.
January 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
How many folks are aware of this? #COVID
Study finds acute Covid associated with a 50% ⬆️ in car crashes, vaccination was not protective

"The odds ratio of car crashes associated with COVID-19 was comparable to driving under the influence of alcohol at legal limits or driving with a seizure disorder"
January 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
#NBA trade week, please hurry up and come (then go) so we can see who the serious contenders, pretenders and tankers will be. Cooper Flagg tank-a-thon, here we come!!!
January 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#COVID has just worked its way through our COVID-careful-family which on vacation (booked with our employer 18 months ago) with me testing positive this morning. It started from our 8 year old attending a “daycare” the week prior while we worked. We have HEPA filters. Wife & I had JN.1 boosters 1/x
January 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
#Australia, are we going to be #PROactive or #REactive in our response to #H5N1 #Influenza⁉️ Our track record with #COVID wasn’t great. Our esteemed Albanese Labor government has its diagnostic testing, waste-water-testing, quarantine, contact-tracing systems planned? www.cdc.gov/han/2025/han...
Health Alert Network (HAN) - 00520 | Accelerated Subtyping of Influenza A in Hospitalized PatientsMinusSASstats
www.cdc.gov
January 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Reposted by Matt
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health has secured an option for 11 million vaccines in the event of a global bird flu pandemic. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/ny...
Fugleinfluensa: Norge har sikret seg vaksineavtale
FHI trapper opp beredskapen mot fugleinfluensa, og har sikret opsjon på 11 millioner vaksiner hvis det blir en pandemi. Onsdag ble landets kommuneleger oppdatert om risikovurderingen.
www.vg.no
January 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Patient walks into the clinic I work at for assistance managing their longstanding asthma (incl. spirometry) sniveling & coughing.

Me: “Are you unwell today?”

Pt: “Nah, just “a bit under the weather” for two days with a cough, sore throat, and drippy nose - just some “sunstroke” from … 1/2 …
Could you have COVID? Symptoms to watch for in 2025 include sore throat and fatigue.

Source: fortune.com/well/article...
January 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Wifey & I just watched the 2023 #movie “One Life”.

BRILLIANT (true) storyline of the evacuation of 600+ Czech children (refugees) prior the German invasion in #WW2.

Amazing acting by Sir Anthony Hopkins at age 87!!!

Whilst the scriptwriters could have done better IMO, absolutely worth a watch! ✅
January 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
4 patients on a 30-bed #Hospital ward I work on with #Alcohol induced Liver #Disease. All gravely ill. All 50+ years old. I don’t remember it being this bad … where is society going so wrong? #MentalHealth, social isolation, severe childhood #trauma, lack of education about the its toxicity? #Health
January 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Serious question: were these types of occurrences happening regularly pre-2020, yet we’re more aware of it because we’re “sensitised” due to the #COVID experience? Or are these occurrences truely a new “thing”?
January 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM