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Maria, Comrade Ghost

@oberonsghost.bsky.social
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Scribbles away in a garret overlooking the Illawarra Railway. Edits ESIA reports. Spends much time on trains. Pines for the Round Pond. Lives in interesting* times. Looks on in horror as the world turns to custard. Walk with me.

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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 51m
Entrained. Sort of. That thing, where there’s a train on the platform, and the indicator board says “Cronulla”, so everyone gets on the train. The doors shut, the train goes the WRONG way.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Indeed, boys, NO-ONE likes a dry sausage! #MKR
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also, in what universe is gochuchang like tomato sauce? #MKR
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Refreshing* to see the Colesworths dividing up sponsorship (advertising) duty between #MKR and Masterchef.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jayne and Shayne? oh dear. #MKR
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some days just need doughnuts. The hot ones, dredged in cinnamon sugar.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reading in the Sunday rags that the immigration debate race to the bottom is depriving urban executives of European au pairs.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wish me luck. Today's the chemotherapy half-way point. And I want my hair back. From EVERYWHERE. #CytotoxicGhost
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Will this attract criminal and civil charges against OpenAI? It should. Maybe hitting them in the hip pocket and sending directors to gaol will make them be more careful. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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OpenAI agent breached Medicare, Albanese reveals
An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare this year, in a breach that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has labelled “unacceptable”.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s today! #Equinox youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe (1978) - YouTube
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Entrained, slightly annoyed that the guard is announcing “Hurstville” as “hurst vile”. You must be a resident to be able to do that!
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today I received an actual cheque in the mail.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sitrep: Vertigo, today, is not an Alfred Hitchcock film.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today, in great moments in the use of information technology, which silly little Ghost forgot that the MacBook's screen is NOT a touch screen? #TapTapTAP
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Someone is playing “we are the world” on the Sydney Uni carillon. #WTF
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Abandon hope, all ye who enter.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today I’m thinking of a rude and terrible joke, which has the punchline “blanched hazelnuts”.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Everything, everywhere hurts.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Saturday night in #ApartmentLyf, a gathering in a flat up the hallway, all you can hear are very loud voices, sounding off in disagreement, followed by strangled-cat-karaoki, followed by rhythmic clapping. Someone (not me) has already banged at their door begging them to keep it down.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Today in random weirdness: answer to 23-down the SMH Quick was “Greer” as in “Germaine“ and later in the afternoon, news that Gloria Steinem has left the mortal realm.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The evening air is smelling like Spring.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Cookertoos, Chookers, and an eerily Hansoneque pelican take to the Parliament House lawns to protest bird-flu vaccines. www.instagram.com/reel/DcCWcNe...
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Channel Nein on Instagram: "Canberra was thrown into chaos this morning as thousands of birds rallied against the mandatory bird-flu vaccine. #satire #birdflu #australia #auspol #covid"
28K likes, 870 comments - channelneinaus on August 14, 2026: "Canberra was thrown into chaos this morning as thousands of birds rallied against the mandatory bird-flu vaccine. #satire #birdflu #austra...
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Why, oh why is technology so needy?
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
That thing, where you have to tell the chronically un-self-aware that people are so damn unreasonable these days, and they’ve delayed you to the point of needing to wait a half-hour because they’ve made you miss the bus. #grrrrr
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Embussed, on a crowded bus full of high school kids with ridiculously big backpacks. I was THAT cranky middle aged woman reminding them to put their bags on their laps so others can sit down. Why, oh, why can’t parents travel-train their children?
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Can someone kindly check in on Cher?
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I read somewhere that the look for Tim Curry’s FrankNFurter was inspired by Queen Elizabeth. And I was a bit dubious until I saw Olivia Coleman’s QE2 iN the Crown and thought she was channeling FrankNFurter.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tonight’s trip to #MidsomerMurders has been preempted by an encore screening of #NineToFive. #RIPDolly
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly was too good for us. #RIP
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
After all the excitement* of this month, I thought I’d missed this flowering cherry set the first blooms of Spring, but this year it’s running late.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Finally sitting on my own couch after an unplanned 12 days in the horsepital. Unfortunately, I’ve left a half a head of hair behind, but I have some spectacular bruised from the venepuncturists. #ChemoSucks
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’m not making poor taste jokes about Zeus and Leda.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
To add to this week’s hilarity, the procedure to insert a drain over my left butt-cheek was postponed 8 minutes because there was no working biro to complete the paperwork. #DontAsk
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
OH at hospital dinner time: Dinner-trolley staff: we can get you a vegetable soup, but it’s not very nice.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Advocating for yourself means not being bullied into having a cannula inserted into the crook of your elbow.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Am beyond angry that my elderly aunt was unable to see her best friend before she passed because some arsehole bought Covid into an old folks home.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
That slightly scary feeling when you’re out and about, the world fades out of focus and you realise you’ve forgotten to ingest enough calories. #FaintingGhost
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I have bonded with the nurses over a shared love of laksa. #CytotoxicGhost
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I have been issued with a cup of tea and a TimTam. The coffee machine is on the blink. But they have found a vein. #CytotoxicGhost
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The oncology nurses have sent out a search party for a suitable vein. #CytotoxicGhost
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The best part about today is that by bedtime I will have given myself my last post-op clexane shot. And the little pricks sting like billy-o.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It is not rude to tell someone to move their bag to free up a seat on a crowded bus.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
PSA: the cafe on the top floor of the Broadway Shopping Centre is gone. They’ve even tiled over the plumbing outlets. 😢
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
That thing where you wake up remembering dreaming you were hang-gliding back to Sydney from New Zealand, strapped to the office hunk from 20 years ago. I’ve never been to NZ.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Entrained. Across the vestibule area seating 65+ grandma mutters disapprovingly to her companion about “in her day there were no lifts at train stations, we managed prams and three kids without them, so should today’s mums”. 🤦‍♀️
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Sitrep: basking in the afternoon sun like the seal that I am. 🌞
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Today in Ghost-Is-Getting-Too-Old-And-Cranky-For-Marketing-Campaigns I asked the girl selling me a beanie why exactly she needed my name, email, and phone number to complete a small sale.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
New Hair.
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I am entrained with Flacco! #Squee
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Maria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Related: Trivia is at a pub in The Shire, where Uggs are standard uniform.
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