Ollie Wards

@TikTok ANZ 🕺🏻, formerly @triplej 📻 , Unravel: Snowball podcast 📲🎧, random trivia enthusiast ❓

[Ollie Wards @OllieWards]

@SpencerGuard When you have to argue the technicalities of genocide, that's probably also not good though right?

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@TheNoisyTrunk I wasn't actually, I couldn't have been more literal - but ok.
Ha ha and yeah - in your wedding analogy, I would think the muttering uncle is more interesting.

Who's the 'we' in this account exactly btw?

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

This wildly misleading tweet, and the mostly hateful replies, is like entering an alternate version of reality.

If anybody is interested in the truth behind this claim, and what that Swedish poll actually asked, I'll go through it.

Probably banging my head against a wall. 😂

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@Mr_Fireside That's the point, every historical figure has foibles and historiographical perspectives. I'm just saying there's valid perspective in people seeing him as a symbol for colonization which had undeniable negative impacts on millions. That's if you're being 'unpolitical' about it

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@Mr_Fireside Not everything is 'left or right' though, I'm just suggesting clear eyed historical perspective - without politics, as you suggested

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@Mr_Fireside But moreover in a big picture it's an understandable argument he was advancing science and exploration, while also being understandable he's a symbol for broader effects of colonisation

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@Mr_Fireside Eg on his 3rd voyage:
'Edgar described how one Tongan prisoner who received 72 lashes and then was dealt “a strange punishment” by

"scoring both his Arms with a common Knife by one of our Seamen Longitudinally and transversly [sic], into the Bone"'.

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@australian If your mate's house gets robbed, only a dickhead would say "well at least it wasn't burnt down"

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@markr68 @CaldronPool No he's referring to stolen wages, ie generations of labour of Indigenous people that wasn't paid

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@pedestriandaily Is that really 'breaking silence'? That line appears in about 30% of Pedestrian headlines 🤦‍♂️

[Ollie Wards @OllieWards]

If your company can't have enough meetings in 3 days in office... Your company has too many meetings.

https://t.co/mpMi4x9c7C

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@jasonwhitlock You should be asking about how you ended up with these 2 candidates out of 340m Americans

[Ollie Wards @OllieWards]

A beautiful way to frame up the amazing legacy of #triplej and its special place in the Australian music industry

[Liz Giuffre @LizGiuffre]

https://t.co/8CNlm5sK91

[Ollie Wards @OllieWards]

@danilic A modern gramophone has been installed

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@TheAthletic Did anyone else read this like the Metallica lyric?
"Rover, wanderer....nomad, vagabond..."

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@mattokine Still, worth it. Like popcorn at a movie

[Ollie Wards @OllieWards]

Nice work @nathanjolly

[Ollie Wards @OllieWards]

This is a decent chronicle of key moments in @triplej's history and, by extension, Kingsmill's.
The cultural impact of both is made clear, as are the challenges facing triple j. imho losing RK makes those even harder to overcome

[Mumbrella News @Mumbrellanews]

The Weekend Mumbo: Will triple j rue the day it dethroned the King?
https://t.co/y1VZ9GZrgE