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Bard spotting on Bluesky 11 February 2025 
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Her Royal Majesty, Kristin I (@hrm-kristin-i.bsky.social):
Hey I'm curious
How many of you see dork as a viable term of endearment?
Does anyone see it as purely negative word?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
My parents and grandparents saw it as a purely … adult novelty … term
Her Royal Majesty, Kristin I (@hrm-kristin-i.bsky.social):
Lmao no way!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Yep. That was the word for an artificial phallus back in the 1930's-1950's
Her Royal Majesty, Kristin I (@hrm-kristin-i.bsky.social):
Ha!! I knew it had some anatomical meanings but i thought it was a whale's peepee
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Her Royal Majesty, Kristin I (@hrm-kristin-i.bsky.social):
I am not a paleontologist, because i was told it was impractical, but if i were I'd be one of the contrarians who hold that dromaeosaurs and troodontids were secondarily flightless birds.
Liliana (@liliana.transsexual.gay):
Possibly. I think it's hard to draw a line in evolution about whether something is still what it came from or if it's more like what it's becoming. But I can see it
Her Royal Majesty, Kristin I (@hrm-kristin-i.bsky.social):
Honestly it does seem that dromaeosaurs did descend from flight or gliding capable theropods in the Jurassic but yeah where the line between avian and non-avian theropods actually is is very fuzzy
Liliana (@liliana.transsexual.gay):
I know they're pretty sure that microraptor could glide because they found a fossil that had impressions of flight feathers, and I'd be surprised if it was the only one
Her Royal Majesty, Kristin I (@hrm-kristin-i.bsky.social):
Yeah! And it was not the only one!
And again in the most basic sense, anyone today would see a microraptor glide around and call it a bird
Liliana (@liliana.transsexual.gay):
Totally. The only thing that seems unbirdlike to me is the lack of a beak, but I don't know if that's a necessary defining feature of birds or not
Her Royal Majesty, Kristin I (@hrm-kristin-i.bsky.social):
Lots of unambiguous late Cretaceous birds had teeth!
Liliana (@liliana.transsexual.gay):
And I remember that modern birds still have the genes for teeth, they just aren't switched on anymore
Sage 🏳️⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social):
WE NEED TO TURN BACK ON THE TOOTH GENE FOR BORDS THIS IS IMPORTANT
Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
sage no. please you can have the louisville cardinal that is enough tooth birds for anyone
Sage 🏳️⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social):
hear me out tho what if birds could smile
MayaScientist (@madscientist212.bsky.social):
Between this and the dorse I am starting to think you are trying to create a plague of cursed animals to unleash on us all.
If so, do they take requests? I can think of a few people that could use a visit from a dorse or a... smiling magpie? The last one sounds so innocent.
Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
don't mention the forse for the love of all things good and holy not the dorse
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Reeehheeeeheeeeheeee Raggy ruhroh
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Goodnight, BlueSky. It is time for me to dream.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Something I almost never mentioned before: During Trump 1.0, he NUKED THE WEBSITE OF THE US ARMY'S INSTITUTE OF HERALDRY and it was down the entire four years, and even now it's just a bare skeleton, with most of it completely empty.
Like this! tioh.army.mil/Catalog/Hera...
Kimberly Hanson (@thewildhare.bsky.social):
This is heartbreaking, among so many other heartbreaking things. ☹️
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I mean, heartbreaking for me, who was writing a whole … it probably would have been a book … about US Government Heraldry and Heraldic Protocol
About how we took a whole exclusive aristocratic system and turned it into a uniquely republican, participatory civic function
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Now Trump sells golf markers with the seal of the office of POTUS and gets away with it
Kimberly Hanson (@thewildhare.bsky.social):
Good grief. It is the loss of history that bothers me - without documentation. And also I am sure your book would have been fascinating. And finally, he sucks - WTAF is wrong with people? 🤦🏼♀️
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liv (@livfreeorcry.gay):
gosh, you look so cute down there. almost edible.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
en garde!
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p o t z {er} - 🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@potzer.xyz):
good morning
i'm unemployed, i think i'm getting sick, and my horniness is at a constant simmer
spending money i don't have on a frick machine is obviously the right move, yeah?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
🫂
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Something I almost never mentioned before: During Trump 1.0, he NUKED THE WEBSITE OF THE US ARMY'S INSTITUTE OF HERALDRY and it was down the entire four years, and even now it's just a bare skeleton, with most of it completely empty.
Like this! tioh.army.mil/Catalog/Hera...
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Did you know there are actual insignia for the Office of the President of the United States? There are! But the office whose job it is to communicate those designs authoritatively to the world, doesn't!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And this!
Labelled the Seal of the Department of Justice, it's the Seal of the Executive Office of Immigration Review!
tioh.army.mil/Catalog/Hera...
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Also, the 250'th Anniversary of the United States isn't until the year 2037.
2026 is the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
We didn't even have the Confederation until 1781, so that'd be 2031.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The United States of America as a nation didn't exist until 1787. It's EVEN ON THE COINS
Chirag Jay Patel (@jayaisdg.bsky.social):
These MAGA MFERS don't know how to read a calendar or math, they are as dumb as LLMS
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I live in a suburb of Dallas, in one of the extremely few neighbourhoods in Texas whose electricity doesn't go out when the statewide grid goes down, solely because of a Catch-22: My distribution segment is also KRLD-AM's, & it is the Emergency Alert Primary Entry Point for N. TX
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
HOWEVER
We ALWAYS KNOW that the grid has gone down, because our TV, landline internet, & landline phones go out.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
A few decades ago, when I and friends were Home Shopping, the real estate agent unironically had us tour a home in one of the northern suburbs which had been apparently assembled by meth-addicted gnomes, from pallet wood; it was a not-to-code death trap, yet was ON THE MARKET
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The house we settled on leasing, despite being professionally inspected, turned out to have a master suite ceiling fan which used the neutral as a hot - Or maybe it was the bare copper ground as a hot? In a two-switch setup.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Then there was West, Texas, where an empty school was levelled because a shed a dozen metres from it was used to store ammonium nitrate, and no one ever enforced safety regs, nor forced that company to carry insurance, so the taxpayers ate the bill
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
An entire class action lawsuit had to be brought to force the private company that owns and operates the natural gas lines, to repair and upgrade the lines, and that all happened AFTER my neighbours across the alley had to move out one winter because an interim repair attempt destroyed their lines
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
My suburb has one (1) store with a liquor license. One. It was grandfathered in after the city annexed the unincorporated County of Dallas land it was built on.
There is a beer & BBQ place downtown. They are subject to raids by Texas' dedicated, armed TABC police, to ensure no one is dancing
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
A major Beer / Wine / Liquor retailer, Spec's, was nearly fined into bankruptcy by TABC because of a single paperwork SNAFU over a misdelivered case of beer.
M I L L I O N S of $ of fines. License nearly suspended.
Only shaming by journ*lists stopped that process
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
TABC can yank a license if an outlet sells a bottle of wine on a Sunday morning, a relic of pre-1980's Blue Laws that forbade "luxury" items being sold on Sundays, and there's no way to challenge this under the law, because it's not a law, it's a licensing condition
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
THIS IS HOW IT WAS BEFORE TRUMP 2
If the US Balkanises, it will be soooo much worse
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I live in a suburb of Dallas, in one of the extremely few neighbourhoods in Texas whose electricity doesn't go out when the statewide grid goes down, solely because of a Catch-22: My distribution segment is also KRLD-AM's, & it is the Emergency Alert Primary Entry Point for N. TX
Regime Accountant, CPA (@regimecpa.bsky.social):
I was living in East Dallas next to the rail yard when that happened and suspect I kept my power thanks to being next to the rail yard.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I honestly do not give a fig that the US Government decided to rename a body of water (2/5ths of which is US EEZ territory, 200 nm from the coast).
I don't care that Google went along with that.
I care that the renaming process violates the Rule of Law.
And Google went along with THAT
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I also don't think that protesting this particular leaf of the poisonous tree is particularly fruitful
There's a whole poisonous tree
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Get to the root
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Juni! 🥰 (@literallyjustadog.online):
okay so i was just gonna block and move on
but something about the capitalization of every word in this message seems weird
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Throwing him on the boundary violator list b/c of the narratives here
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
That's Good
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
That's Bad
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
That's Good
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Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com):
I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
Jadey Character (@lampjaded.bsky.social):
I was so suspicious of her participating in that project, but that email dump - THE CONTENTS OF WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN FRONT PAGE NEWS - showed us all what we had but suspected around the edges.
I didn't know that was her!
Ah...
...shit. 😥
Will any of those ghouls shed a darned tear?
(@icecreamsprinkles.bsky.social):
Where can one find the email dump? I take it she wanted to get it to spread.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Start here - www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
That's super bad
Mara Jade1 (@marajade1.bsky.social):
They're literally laughing in our faces!
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Just to put forward an argument from linguistics which has merit:
a "pronoun" is any noun which is used in place of another noun,
therefore all titles are also pronouns,
therefore US Fed. Gov. Policies Via Ex. Order, currently,
prohibit Donald J Trump from referring to Donald J Trump as "President"
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Donald J Trump is the officeholder of the Presidency of the United States, but may not be referred to as "President", "POTUS", "Mister President", "Sir", or any other pro-noun.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
That's Bad
Cinderella Mechanicus (@hroethgar.bsky.social):
Look if the Vatican can put dead popes on trial the United States can exhume commission members for inquiry
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Emmy Cumslutress (@emma.meangirls.online):
being bullied by the girlies in the group chat for believing that my best friend telling me he loves me after kissing me was meant platonically
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
putting my chin in my hand
Emma, I need you to reach back into the earliest hayseed memories you have and practice belting out "DON'T HAND ME NO LINES AND KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF"
Emmy Cumslutress (@emma.meangirls.online):
i don't know what song that is lolol
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
giggles
You have to suss him out. If he likes it, he should put a ring on it, mmmm?
Emmy Cumslutress (@emma.meangirls.online):
omgosh
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
That's Good
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
That's Bad
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
That's Bad
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"Initiating Rottweiler Chiropractic Adjustment Routine"
"BUT I'M A HUM—" crack
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clockwork banana ⚙️🍌 (@clockworkbanana.fun):
either it's my weather knee's actin' up, or i hurt it somehow. grumble.
i'm too young to have a weather knee, dammit. must have slept on it wrong or something.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I got mine at age 28
clockwork banana ⚙️🍌 (@clockworkbanana.fun):
i damaged my knee around that age, too. tripped while carrying my ex on my shoulders.
rather than fall (or throw her), I dropped to my knee and absorbed both hers and my weight as impact.
it's never been the same since. heh.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
GNAGH
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com):
fortunately for us, methamphetamine is famously easy to kick and has no troubling long-term detrimental effects on mental health, otherwise, the head of the government taking down rails the size of a coffee table would cause some concern
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
If only he had ever, once, just once, listened to Henry Rolllins.
I saw Rollins in spoken word tour back in … 2003?
His advice on meth was "Sure, if you want to die because your heart can't stop beating, seems like a bad way to go, to me".
Quality Control (@johnpauljonesd.bsky.social):
I could hear his voice right there. Rollins is the real deal all day long every day
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
That's Good
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
For $0.49 + $0.04 tax, at the thrift store I picked up a big collection of tarot-card-esque stickers, possibly 30 altogether with a magnetic tarot card bookmark
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"O Seigneur, faites que nos ennemis paraissent tout à fait ridicules!"
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Darning (everyone) Through Faint(ing) (misap)Praise(-al of the zeitgeist)
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
For $0.49 + $0.04 tax, at the thrift store I picked up a big collection of tarot-card-esque stickers, possibly 30 altogether with a magnetic tarot card bookmark
toasty wartooth⠀⠀⠀⠀ (@toasty.cx):
HUGE W 💪💪💪
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
youtube.com/shorts/KrayT...
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I honestly believe that ~95% of user reports are garbage specifically due to concerted efforts to drown moderation using sockpuppets and automated reporting.
User reports are a mandatory cost center, and so DDOSing the first tier report handlers is an open target, industrywide
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There's a lot of ways to mitigate garbage user reports, too, but if a mere 1 in 1000 garbage user reports gets wrongly actioned, it makes sense in their action economy to keep pouring on false reports
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It costs them "nothing" in direct costs - sockpuppets and automated user reports are solved games. It costs UCHISPs a tonne. Closing that economic cost gap is the name of the game
Jonathan Eyler-Werve (@jonathan.eylerwerve.com):
I worked on this a bit in 2016, got interesting reactions.
Awareness that moderation efficiency is the scaling factor (ads value divided by mod cost) for social media was not widespread then. Pink collar stuff, not the real work (I disagreed).
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deputy ambassador mark rippetoe's novella, the trip to dallas (@swolecialism.bsky.social):
Yamashita's Gold! This is either some real deep and regionally-specific crankery or this guy has so lost it he's confused the plot of a neal stephenson novel with reality
post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social):
I was gonna say, isn't this about the point in Cryptonomicon I stopped paying attention to the plot
Buttadeus (@thewanderingjew.bsky.social):
I want to know more about the banking system of rural China based around a central golden buddha filled with gemstones.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
That must be why the Communist Revolution killed all the Buddhist monks and nuns and then kept their gem-filled Buddha statues sitting around, to be their banks, right
Buttadeus (@thewanderingjew.bsky.social):
it all adds up
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Sinéad Rhiannon (fae/faer/it) (@sineadthefae.bsky.social):
[toin-ah vaj-oin-ah]
✨️C*m Sorceress Ayla🐈⬛️✨️ (@needstobebred.live):
teena vajeena
Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
tie-na vajiena
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Tenna VaJenna
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
200,000 doing the /first-tier/ reviews
2,000 doing second-tier spot checks
200 management
20 board members reviewing policy from reports
2 spokespersons / visible stakeholders
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There's also the additional legal liability of "Ah, so you had employees who had the ability and the opportunity to vet onboarders, but here we have someone who onboarded to pirate copyrighted works, and this one represents a scheduled Foreign Terrorist Org, and …"
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R.U. Sirius (@rusirius.bsky.social):
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
For all the grief Cory Doctorow gets for coining a term, seems like it is a real and identifiable phenomenon
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Lilah Sturges (@lilahsturges.com):
I feel like we should all be celebrating the fact that scientists used AI to discover the shape of every protein known to biology in a matter of months, because THAT is a future with promise, and instead we have to focus on how the worst people in the world are using AI to suck us all dry.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I'm a little disappointed in that, because "we used a probabalistic tool to brute force all the protein folding knowledge into a fuzzy Rainbow Table and then used that to bridge a knowledge gap to get results - but still don't know exactly what's in that Rainbow Table -"
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It feels a lot like the "We have a hydrogen bomb but don't understand quantum mechanics yet" from 75 years ago
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Feena van (@feenavan2099.bsky.social):
I was playing Yakuza like a dragon when all of a sudden, an npc said this, and im like , " hmmmm
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
All the way from Tennessee, I can hear her momma scream —
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I just don't know what else there is for me to say.
From "Trump is a bully and tyrant because he tried to harass a Scottish farmer into selling 23 acres to build a golf course" in 2010 to "Everything the GOP is trying to do with Project 2025 is Nazism with the serial numbers filed off", and —?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The curse of Cassandra
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
One of the terms which gets a paper flagged / removed / memory holed at the NSF by Trump EO, now, is
"hate speech"
They have to suppress all research and evidence of their hateful politics
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Granny panties and a dress. Granny panties and a dress.
6 foot 4 and a mugshot. 6 foot 4 and a mugshot.
Child abuse and no job. Child abuse and no job.
Living in mama's sunroom. Living in mama's sunroom.
Giant pale hands and lipstick. Giant pale hands and lipstick.
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