Ellen Hrebeniuk

@ellenhrebeniuk

TAFE Librarian and CPSU NSW Delegate, CPSU (SPSF) NSW Branch Councillor and CPSU (SPSF) Federal Councillor. Professional Interests: reference, information architecture, and general nerdery.

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Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Jun 29

Actually yes. From my FB Memories today. I still miss Antonio (Vivaldi).

Close-up of snoozing guinea pig, red Abyssinian type, named after Antonio Vivaldi.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Mar 1

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Feb 28

I don't understand why someone would even try to identify plants with ChatGPT. Especially something they think is an Australian native plant. The plant identifier apps are made elsewhere and are terrible for 🇦🇺 plants -- a generalist AI is going to be worse.

Photo of jacaranda underplanted with small yellow flowers.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Feb 27

I have never got through it and tend to call it Blithering Heights. In other news, I am wearing my 'Society of Obstinate Headstrong Girls' t-shirt today. Husband and I chortled our way through the BBC P&P last week. Barbara Leigh-Hunt having far too much fun.

Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Jan 29

After the 'gesture' husband and I had a disagreement: I didn't want another Tesla to replace our Model X when it dies, even if the Y is the best EV out there. But now...

Tesla has discontinued the Model X. Does that mean we have 10 years of parts left?
Tesla stopped selling the Model X in Australia in 2022, so I guess the 10 year timer starts from then.
Apparently Musk is getting into robotics.
It also means the resale values will crater. I guess we’re keeping it until it dies.Yeah. Tesla becoming less and less a car company.
Fine by me.
I guess that resolves any future domestic arguments about what the next car will be.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Nov 29

Pretty? It's beautiful!

Detail, floor mosaic, Dunedin Railway Station, showing a 4-4-0 locomotive.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Oct 8

Evening!

Small pink flowers of Dendrobium kingianum in a hanging basket.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Oct 5

Chook days are also good. Parmi, Charcoal and Tikka.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Jul 25

I'm on another ballot!

The Members' Coalition voting ticket for the NSW Branch SPSF election with me at the top of the list.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Jul 16

Never heard of the Gen Z stare and I live with two of them and work with plenty more. Is it any different to staring in Gen X?

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Jul 10

David Pellowe comments: what a bizarre take. It's stunning how desperately, indefatigably Christians try to impugn his actions. This administration is like brought busting rain on a desert, with new life bursting forth everywhere.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Jun 9

Definitely deliberate. She'll have a nice bruise from that. But check out the headlines from our media (My Google search results on her name, 9/6/25 at 14:37 AEST). One of these things is not like the others.

NewsCorpse headline is "Projectile strikes Aussie journo in LA chaos" while all the others say she was shot with a rubber bullet.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Apr 25

As the kids said in 2018...

Placard: We'll be less activist if you'll be less shit.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Apr 20

But here is my table in Australia, with its leg of lamb. I do not ice my Easter cake. I do not have a kistka, so no real pysanky, but we did decorate our eggs as we were able.

Ukrainian Easter cake, Easter eggs (dyed and chocolate), roast leg of lamb and dishes of vegetables.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Apr 3

It's scary to read that "experts" haven't worked out yet that FVES is almost certainly compromised and AUKUS in vegetative state. David Crowe, SMH:

In an audience of 100 or more at the National Press Club, nobody countered with a Panglossian view of a brighter decade. The consensus was that Australia must prepare for a world nobody should want. Former defence secretary and ASIO chief Dennis Richardson admitted the contradictions at play: America was less reliable, he said, but Australia needed AUKUS to work. Rachel Noble, the former director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate, made a key contribution about the need to share intelligence with the US under the Five Eyes agreement – something we should not want to give up.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Nov 23

Poll: Given the choice between *childbirth* and *laying my eggs in the stashed unconscious body of my mortal enemy so my offspring can feast on his remains* -- which would you choose?

Orange spider wasp (Cryptocheilus bicolor) dragging a paralysed huntsman spider, Sydney, Australia.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Nov 18

Redressing the balance. I miss Antonio.

The late Antonio Vivaldi (my guinea pig) asleep in the sun.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Nov 16

I miss our Cathy.. She was mostly Modern Game. I caught her 'periscope up' in the pineapple sage here.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Nov 10

Shell Cove, Balgowlah, yesterday.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Nov 10

They absolutely should be. I took this photo almost a year ago at a Sydney rally for Gaza.

Ellen Hrebeniuk@ellenhrebeniuk· Jun 16

Unfortunate juxtaposition of posts by @kentparkskeet.bsky.social and @snarkyplatypus.com: