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Andy Prentice

@andyprentice.bsky.social
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retired accountant - green campaigner. Born 317.73 ppm Also a fascist oligarch in my spare time

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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 11h
UK retreats on climate reporting rules for listed companies, in the latest sign of how the global push to improve transparency on environmental issues has been losing momentum. www.ft.com/content/81a5... via @FT #ClimateEmergency #AndyBurnham #Labour #ActOnClimate #ClimateActionNow
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UK retreats on climate reporting rules for listed companies
Decision by Financial Conduct Authority comes as regulators globally walk back on transparency on environmental issues
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 30/09/2026
A fairer voting system can't wait until after the next general election. We need electoral reform now.
WE NEED FAIR VOTING BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTION
 
ELLIE CHOWNS
MP FOR NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE
 
"The PM cannot acknowledge the unfairness of a system capable of handing power to a government with a minority of the vote share, and then say the answer is to let that happen exactly once more before he fixes it.
 
Burnham must act with urgency to immediately jumpstart the National Commission, guarantee timely progress, and ensure its recommendations are delivered in time for a fairer voting system to be in place at the next general election."

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales, c/o PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL
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Corey Boyle @coreyboyle.bsky.social · 14h
The final part of my series on making #Edinburgh a cycling city: a 10 point manifesto in four parts. The Alternative. The Carrot & the Stick. The Mechanism. #CarFreeDay @spokes.org.uk @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social @cyclingscotland.bsky.social @wwctrustscot.bsky.social #ActiveTravel #Cycling
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How we could turn Edinburgh into a real cycling city
Award-winning sustainable travel engineer Corey Boyle lays out a manifesto for the future of the active transport
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 17h
The NEET rate basically hasn't changed for the whole of this century (except post-GFC and post Covid). It's been the same with tougher welfare sanctions and weaker. More apprenticeships and fewer. Higher employer national insurance and lower. I draw two conclusions from this....
Neet rate 2001-26
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 17h
Revealed: factory farm pollution is costing the UK £130m a year - www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026... time to make them pay these negative externalities
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Revealed: factory farm pollution is costing the UK £130m a year
Ammonia from farms drives lung conditions, heart disease and chronic illness – and we have been able to put a figure on the cost
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 13h
BBC News is repeating Benjamin Netanyahu's account of the FlyDubai disaster. With no more evidence than Netanyahu has for this new election campaign theme.
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 16h
The vast majority of European countries use forms of Proportional Representation, and have done so for many decades. Not one of them has a significant grassroots campaign for switching to First Past the Post.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 9h
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 9h
OPINION: "As a sociologist of law and punishment, I’ve explored how rural places have long built and expanded prisons to tap into federal funds during times of economic precarity," Ella Siegrist writes. buff.ly/KLIHsk2
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Opinion | Immigration Enforcement Is Supplying an Economic Market for Prisoners
Ella Siegrist writes about how several states are using immigration enforcement and detention as a revenue stream.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 11h
PSA: People who fly on holiday often eat fish. #NTHE
Carbon emissions from bottom trawling are similar to those of global aviation
Bottom trawling the oceans
Global aviation
Between
600m and 1,500m
tonnes
918m tonnes
CO2 average annual emissions
Guardian graphic. Source: Nature
CO2 emissions in 2019
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Zak Bond @zakbond.bsky.social · 17h
On the same day diesel hit £2 a litre for the first time, we took 50+ cargo bikes onto the streets of London for the seventh Cargo Bike Cruise. While diesel vans are getting more expensive to run, cargo bikes are becoming a practical and cheaper option for more and more businesses.
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 16h
1/ I’m not a fan of zealous language policing, but when the Telegraph, Spectator, Express etc. claim that the “Orwellian” Green Party is “banning” words like “father” & “mother”, I do object to this flagrant abuse of words like “ban” & “Orwellian”.
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 14h
"Military chaplaincy served to normalise & legitimise the actions of the regime, to create & utilise a form of 'manly' Christianity which could serve the war effort; chaplains were carefully selected, 'ideologically sound' men." Pete Hegseth seems to see this as an instruction manual.
Book cover: Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany. By Doris L. Bergen.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 18h
"'We're rapidly running out of time': 7 of Earth's 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns" 'Our planet has had its annual health check, and the prognosis is pretty grim ...' www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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'We're rapidly running out of time': 7 of Earth's 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns
Our planet has had its annual health check, and the prognosis is pretty grim. Despite breached planetary boundaries, however, scientists argue that Earth can still have a safe and sustainable future.
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 17h
Emmanuel Macron, French president, and Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister, both say the UK would be welcomed back into the EU 👍
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18h
“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart" Europe's glaciers are accelerating even faster on the road to oblivion www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution
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Ben McKennaaaargh @benmckenna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Agent Xao, your mission is to find out exactly how they've managed to sell everything in the country and still end up with bugger all money at the end of it."
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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 20h
But wind farm blades go to landfill! they used to, now they can be recycled, as are solar panels. We need nuclear!!!!! we don't, its expensive, and also has a waste problem, 200,000 barrels and decades later, still leaking. www.sciencealert.com/150000-tons-...
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150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped in The Atlantic. Decades Later, It's Visibly Oozing.
The second half of the 20th century was something of a golden age for nuclear technology.
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Ann Buckley @annbuckley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Timing purely coincidental no doubt
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here’s what we really need to focus a lot more discussion on — you don’t need to hate cars in order to want people to have the CHOICE to walk, bike and take public transit in your city. Better cities provide more choices, and work better for EVERYONE. Bad cities offer only dependency. #CarDependency
Picture of a street with public transit (trams), people riding bikes in a bike lane, and people strolling while holding hands on a wide sidewalk, in central Melbourne. #MultiModal
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21h
South West Water pleaded guilty to sewage dumping, fined £8m, a decade after the events. Yet govt introduced more deregulation. England's water industry controlled by organisations with criminal convictions. None has licence revoked. No exec prosecuted. Customers fleeced.
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South West Water fined almost £8m for sewage spills
South West Water previously entered guilty pleas to pollution offences spanning six years.
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Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social · 20h
Where did punctuation come from? Today on @BBCRadio4 'Word of Mouth'. Scholar Florence Hazrat grapples with commas, semi-colons and the rest: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Where Did Punctuation Come From?
Michael Rosen discovers punctuation through the ages with writer Florence Hazrat.
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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Slowly the studies come in that extreme precipitation increases faster than previously modeled #climate #earth

"Growing evidence suggests that extreme precipitation increases over most regions globally as the climate warms. However, it remains poorly understood how the fraction of annual precipitation from extreme events changes due to warming-induced alteration of both annual and extreme precipitation patterns. Understanding such changes is crucial for water resources and agricultural planning and management. Here, we propose the Extreme Precipitation Dependency Index (EPDI), a robust metric to quantify the relative contribution of extreme precipitation to annual totals under a warming climate. Using both climate model projections and observational data sets, we find that EPDI increases considerably beyond the UN's mitigation targets, with many global land regions experiencing a 15%–20% rise at 4°C warming. Hotspots include the African Sahel, Southeast Asia, Northern Australia, and the Amazon. Observations reveal that many regions are already experiencing increases in extreme precipitation contributions at rates exceeding model projections. We further explore the implications of these trends on rain-fed agriculture, reservoir operations, and ecosystem health. Our analysis indicates that 54%–96% of global rain-fed croplands may be adversely affected, alongside significant risks to boreal forests."
This paragraph is on overall precipitation increases and by what it is constrained:

"Increased Dependency on Extreme Precipitation in a Warmer Climate"; https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025WR042627
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 20h
Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How much to #Unlearn in hubris-driven claims of human exceptionalism www.sciencealert.com/primate-comm...
sciencealert.com
Primate Communication May Follow Grammar Patterns Once Thought Uniquely Human
Human languages are complex and versatile.
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All this, 😒:
Human sees a crow and says, "Ahh! A bad Omen".
Crow says, "Oh yeah, dude! We're the ones who fucked the planet and put a continent of garbage in the ocean."..."Prick!"..."You know what? YOU'RE the bad omen." https://bsky.app/profile/eastcoastitnotes.bsky.social
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 23h
Do you have a farm? Or a nuclear power station? Or a human body? Glaciers disappearing will change all the calculations on water supply in many parts of the world. #R4Today
bbc.co.uk
Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss
Scientists say such rapid melting is no longer surprising given the pace of climate change.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22h
9 years after Grenfell fire killed 72 people, Police pass files to the Crown Prosecution Service for possible charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies. How many will be prosecuted? Years of litigation will follow. Justice delayed is justice denied.
bbc.co.uk
Met Police submits Grenfell Tower fire investigation files to CPS
The force is seeking charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies over the 2017 tower block fire.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brexit revisited. New, unscheduled, post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on why Burnham's conference speech was a significant development in the Brexit saga, the questions and concerns it raises, and why it might come to be seen as a historic moment: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/brex...
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 20h
Commentary: Nepal is not a passive bystander to a remote emergency; it is its barometer, and the instruments are flashing red.
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Nepal’s PM says when the house is burning, we act
Nepal is not a passive bystander to a remote emergency; it is its barometer, and the instruments are flashing red.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well, we're still at just over 20 months of Trump's second term, and the www.trumpactiontracker.info has reached over 4,000 documented actions :-/
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#Solar and #wind outpacing nuclear globally. Report highlights #nuclear’s slow growth, lengthy construction timelines and limited small modular reactor deployment, contrasting with rapid #renewables and battery expansion. www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/wnis...
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As well as making climate targets unreachable, and creating drought ... "AI data centres are a scam. A real estate bubble, pyramid selling style, for large language model AI hyper scaling by unnecessary giant data centre" via Finola ONeill www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Nick Clegg could make £30m windfall from datacentre startup Nscale flotation
The former UK deputy prime minister is a board member of the UK-based company and owns 917,000 shares
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Energy prices are going up AGAIN – this time by an average of £276. But we don’t have to accept a future of permanently rising bills. This government can stop prices spiraling – here’s how 🧵
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
shame on #bbc for this bad journalism, and for the cowardice
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!
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Andy Prentice @andyprentice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
keeping healthy in old age - a win win - saves public finances and better quality of life.
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Britons are not ageing healthily – we need to learn from countries that have made it a priority | Devi Sridhar
Although we’re living longer, the data on healthy life expectancy in the UK isn’t good. Andy Burnham must reverse this trend to protect the NHS and social care, says public health academic Prof Devi S...
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Jack @jackanory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've done both. Tree planting and natural regeneration in about 2 acres. It's taken 10 years but the result is wondrous. I wish we did a lot more of this in the uk. Rip up the horrific golf courses and rewild them
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So let’s see practical steps to rejoin asap. As global insecurity grows, anything less simply won’t do
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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ah so much for the "cleanest" LNG in the world. FWIW I looked at these claims 5 years ago, yet Canadian and BC officials routinely touted hydro-powered LNG facilities as a reason not to worry about climate impacts Shell will instead use gas turbines www.desmog.com/2021/08/13/l...
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LNG Projects Make Claims of 'Net-Zero' to Ease Way for Expansion
Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order...
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyway, it's not really true that Brexit has done more harm than good. It hasn't done any good at all.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
theguardian.com
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Microbiomes - how little we have understood of how even our own bodies work, the complex interplay of holobiont elements, environment and genetics. "Genetics influenced how strongly microbiome maturation was related to disease risk" www.news-medical.net/news/2026092...
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Stalled gut microbiome development triples risk for type 1 diabetes in children
Type 1 diabetes affects more than 9 million people worldwide, including 1.8 million children and adolescents.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Encouraging words from the PM on social housing but STILL no new funding for councils to buy existing homes at scale. Fixing the devastation of Right to Buy cannot be achieved just through sluggish building. Time for Buy the Supply. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
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Fund Councils to Buy the Supply of Council Homes
We urgently need to replenish our decimated council housing stock, and part of the answer is real funding for councils to Buy the Supply. Over 169,000 children are homeless and living in overcrowded ...
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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📰 The RMT’s general secretary, Eddie Dempsey, said Roscos were “sucking much-needed money out of the railways and into offshore bank accounts”, adding: “This should be the start of a process of winding up the rolling stock racket once and for all.” rmtunion.org/4hBXa0Z
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Avanti West Coast to be renationalised in March as ministers float public ownership of new trains
Andy Burnham hails nationalisation of much-criticised service between London, Birmingham and Glasgow
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There wasn't a social care crisis when local authorities provided the service free of charge. Then Thatcher privatised it and private equity bosses started charging £8000 a month.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a profound statement about how political power & 'mandates' are framed in UK politics. Mandates are not legal documents. They are made by political will & forces. And for too long Labour has allowed itself to be constrained by right-wing opinion. HT @jemgilbert.bsky.social
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/09/2026
What if we just ate them instead?
nytimes.com
Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.
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