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NellyChook

@nellychook.bsky.social
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Nerdy (books, food, gardening, politics, science, knitting) recent retiree. I lean left and live in Melbourne, Australia with a cat and a couple of cricket tragics. Nellychook in honour of my late father. IRL name Ana O'Donoghue.💛🖤

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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I'm sorry, you are comparing your corrupt, sleaze bag president who can't read and take in the information required to make appropriate decisions to a dance that had no place in the Olympics? That's why this presidency has become a terrifying joke in the rest of the world.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Snap!
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I agree. It's got to be about the money. Very depressing if that's the case.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
So why are we paying out billions to increase production capacity in the US?
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Never forget Sir Prince Philip. Abbott's a joke.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The disrespect distresses me. Who are these people? Complete a'holes
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
We're with Amber too.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
As a household that has invested in extra solar and a battery, I was dismayed to read this morning of the proposal to substantially raise the fixed charge. This can only go hand in hand with better feed in tariffs to the grid. We are saving state governments from having to invest in power plants.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Strong North Korea vibes
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The frogs at CERES were really loud today. They sounded very happy!
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I love that smug feeling. Our old diesel VW feels very dirty now.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Full electric if you have off street parking. Test drive them both and you'll be sold. A hybrid is a clunky compromise. We love our MG4.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I thought that was Barnaby Joyce.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Your country may be pretty but our bird life is amazing!
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Go Lucy!
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I'm not sure they'd swap them. I haven't tried.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
If you're anywhere near Ceres in Brunswick, they sell an alternative for cheaper. Only problem is how to get the deposit back on the sodastream bottles. Colesworth don't.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Me too!
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I noticed that, too. It wasn't even on the top news this morning. The chair of the School of Chemistry at Uni of Melbourne is named after him. His daughter is Naomi Robson. Some newsworthy stuff there! (He lectured me in Chemistry back in the 80s..not so newsworthy)
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Dr Robson was my Chemistry lecturer at Melbourne Uni back in the 80s. The chair of the School of Chemistry is named in his honour.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I reckon they'd be the decent ones. We should accept all political refugees!
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
It's cosy out the back of Dejour jeans right now!
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Hooray, no more crappy American remakes of great movies and TV shows.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Amazing speech. Thanks from this gringo
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This is the complete opposite to Jesus's number 1 teaching.."Love one another as I have loved you". How is he not the Antichrist?
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Blackberry nip
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
To my great shame, I was drinking vodka and passionfruit UDLs in 1980. I think vodka and orange was available too.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
For 2 weeks from now and then Melbourne being Melbourne, it'll be back to sticky pudding pudding weather 2 days after that.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
You could definitely put one between Melbourne and Sydney. That's nearly 11 million people. We've just got to forget about it going via Canberra.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
If your library has the Kanopy streaming service, the recent French 3 Musketeer films are on that.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
That's the point. Very good negotiating tactic...give away something of little value.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I actually think they've played Trump well. They've given him a "win" when there's no way it makes any sense for Australia to buy American beef. I can't see too much getting shipped here.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Specialist fees are out of control
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I was recently asked as a nearly 60 year old how I had heard of one of the major hospitals in Melbourne.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Yep, we keep ours between 50% and 80%. When it drops below 50%, we plug it in, at home, no fancy chargers. Petrol stations are much harder to install and refuel. It's a non argument. EVs are fantastic city cars. Australian's don't seem to appreciate that probably 95% of trips are city trips.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
chng.it/T2KnSbrq6r
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Sign the Petition
Stop McDonald's from Opening in Northcote
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Warp
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I bombed out, that photo captures my mood. 👌
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Me too, on my Android phone
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Great article
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
What this article is basically saying is that because we want to hand a big asset to one son, we need to maintain a huge inheritance for the other kids at Australian taxpayers expense. Sorry no, that's not what Super was intended for.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
A quibble for the @theguardian.com Why "Labor" and not "the Government"
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Yes, I upgraded from my old steam punk one because we've moved to induction too.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Can vouch for its brilliance. 1 month old and I'm still in love.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
FFS, if Trump was really a true world leader, he would've hung around the other real world leaders in the G7 and tried to get consensus on a solution. My personal view is that being "snubbed" by Trump is not necessarily a bad thing.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I'm starting to think that you should not be eligible to run for the Senate if you are or have ever been a member of a political party!
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Makes sense
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Apologies, I'm commenting from the Northern suburbs. I got very cross with my Bayside living,rusted on Labor brother who was claiming we didn't need SRL, and that was my argument to him. Good bus connections are critical too!
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I stand corrected. It should!! What a huge difference it will make to Monash/Deakin students who won't have to rush out to buy a car.
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NellyChook @nellychook.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Connecting Southland, Monash University, Chadstone and Box Hill. No one lives there or goes there, pffft. Sydney centric nonsense. Those are inner suburbs for the demographic centre of Melbourne.
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