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Clint W
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aka @clintwits on the old birdsite...

Positivity/Equality/Justice. Geek, sports tragic, sci fi nerd, theatre/musical junkie. Eclectic allsort. Occasional voice on the radio (Sports/General) Ex Perth Now Melbourne/Narrm
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waking up to the Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Davos re: Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
January 20, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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Trump posts an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States
January 20, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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Rob Hirst has had a massive impact on Australian culture. He was the engine driving one of the greatest live bands of all time. RIP, dear Rob. You are irreplaceable, one of a kind, and myself, my family, and all the rest of this great country will miss you so much.
January 20, 2026 at 7:05 AM
This is the craziest MF of a thread I have ever read.... anywhere... ever...
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Well :-(

#FuckCancer
Breaking: Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst dies aged 70
Rob Hirst was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2023.
www.abc.net.au
January 20, 2026 at 6:27 AM
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We don't hate Jews or Judaism, Greg.

We hate genocide. We hate apartheid. We hate ethnic cleansing. We hate racism. We hate war. We hate terrorism. We hate settler-colonialism. We hate all these things that Israel was and is guilty of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

We want Israel to stop.
January 20, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
January 19, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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Norwegian PM Støre says Trump repeatedly raises—complains about, pleads for, and demands—the Nobel Peace Prize every time they meet. Støre gives same answer each time: decision is made independently by Norwegian Nobel Committee, with no role for Norwegian gov—a concept Trump appears unable to grasp.
January 18, 2026 at 9:35 PM
The positive thing is that through all the stress of watching Trump destroy the US and the world and decend it all into WWIII is that at least I have the pleasant distracting joy of watching my football side to take my mind of it...

Oh, wait, Spurs.... 😭 #COYS #THFC
January 18, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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Well it was nice knowing you all.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the integration of Elon Musk's xAI platform, Grok, into military networks as part of a new "AI acceleration strategy" during a visit to SpaceX.
January 13, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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105k in mere days for a fucking murderer while many people who are in desperate need of help to live are unable to get their basic needs met: might make one lose all hope
NEW: It appears billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10k to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good.

Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.
January 11, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Oh Ash 🙁

I mean yay Spurs goal, but 🙁 #COYS #THFC
January 11, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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ooft

*a ban on X has been mooted b/c of the proliferation of child sexual abuse & other sexual material generated by grok in response to requests by users
January 11, 2026 at 11:49 AM
This is just so weird to watch..... Ash not in white 😕 #COYS #THFC
January 11, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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Apols for Xposting, but this one is important (via ABC news website) #VicFires
January 11, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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January 11, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Ok just have to say it as I keep seeing the ad during the cricket (and am sure others have also commented) but much as I endorse the stand up to hate message hard to take it seriously when the ad includes Kyle, Eddie and the like...
January 7, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Why would you waste a drs review on a dodgy call against a night watchman? #ashes #theashes
January 5, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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greetings from hell
January 4, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Okay had to chuckle when they had the shot of/among the Richie's and the guy walking back with his tray of beers was looking around confused trying to spot his Richie's among all the others 🤣 #ashes #theashes
January 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Another great Spurs win :-) and that assist from Spence was just brilliant

Downside is potential heartbreak for Jess :-(

#COYS
December 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Great overtake Oscar! Lets go! #F1
December 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced
Here's the reality this example illustrates:

It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM