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Audrey Gray

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Writing about our climate, courage, and protection. www.audreygray.nyc

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Oli Franklin-Wallis @olifranklinwallis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was once on a call with four magazine lawyers to decide if we could call convicted rapists “rapists” in a story, so it boggles the mind how many people will have had to sign off using the word “sham” this many times
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 28/09/2026
At first, when a 29-year-old Chantz Rivera posted about his walk across the United States, comments clowned him, calling him a "mad man." Four months later, he's tantalizingly close to San Francisco, and everyone's rooting for him.
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He's Walking from the Bronx to San Francisco, and He's Almost There
Chantz Rivera expects to see the Golden Gate Bridge by the end of October.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Apt walls turned this wild color and I RAN to the roof. (NYC 7:05 pm, pre-storm)
New York City light just before Nor’easter
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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🧵 (1/3) For the past few months, I’ve been working on a big story about climate attribution research. This is the science that purports to link specific oil companies to extreme weather events. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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An Existential Threat to the Oil Industry
Can the energy giants be held responsible for extreme weather?
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m here to tell you, John of John, it hooked me so fast and then did a Shonda and I can’t say any more about plot. On a sentence level, on the tenderness meter, on landscape writing that works without a single cliche. That’s my Booker vote.
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David Hajdu @dhajdu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
nodepression.org/rainy-day-pa... She was brilliant and, to the end, misunderstood and understimated.
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Rainy Day Parade: The Sad/Happy Story of Jill Sobule
Editor's Note: David Hajdu has been awarded one of two No Depression Reporting Fellowships to write four in-depth features on a topic deeply impacting roots music today. His begins today with a multi-...
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Jason Dove Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’ve been waiting for @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social to direct her fearsome intelligence and wisdom to the question of AI… and I was not disappointed
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tenderest thing. <3 www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
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There’s No Place Like Group Chats
My old friends and I have ended up scattered across different states, in different time zones, but we’ve made our own neighborhood inside the black and blue bubbles of our phones.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Brenda Hillman can melt you…I’m so glad she’s been nominated for National Book Award (poetry). Example: “The Carbon Atoms of Saved Things” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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“The Carbon Atoms of Saved Things”
“The carbon atom has six electrons / that move faster than bodies move / from one form to another.”
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I always had an instinctual ick about Annie Dillard's hits, but learning in her obit that she'd taken one of her grad student's stories (THE sexy, bloody one) and adopted it as her opening passage in Tinker Creek (which won '75 Pulitzer for Nonfiction)...whoa. In better news, Eudora had the ick too!
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 12/09/2026
A ’wildlife first responder’ is developing a tool for coexistence. buff.ly/pJhIpX8
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How Bozeman is preventing human-wildlife conflicts before they start - High Country News
Noah Starling, a wildlife technician for Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, is helping the city ofBozeman anticipate and prevent conflicts between people and wildlife.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Salt Lake Tribune is a 150+ year-old newspaper that went the nonprofit route several years ago. It now brings in $13MM in revenue vs $12MM in expenses. Enough to support a robust news operation. This is the way for metro news orgs. www.cjr.org/first_person...
That move has been a success. Last year, the Tribune brought in about thirteen million dollars in revenue, a million dollars more than it incurred in expenses.
Its revenue came from several streams: contributions from big foundations and individual donors, advertising in its online and twice-weekly print editions, and subscription fees, though the paywall would be removed shortly after Ileft Utah, in May. Similarweb's ranking system regularly puts the Tribune's traffic among the nation's top two or three nonprofit news organizations, alongside such stalwarts as ProPublica and the Texas Tribune. It's also ambitious, acquiring one newspaper in southeast Utah and starting another in the southwest corner of the state. Recently, management signed its first contract with the new newsroom union, guaranteeing a sixty-thousand-dollar salary floor, at least three weeks of vacation, and generous work-from-home provisions.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Kenny said, ‘Part of our assumption about old places is that they stay the same, but that’s not the case at all. . . . They’re all a Ship of Theseus, in some state of being rebuilt.’” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Jonathan Swift Wrote His Own Epitaph. Was It a Joke?
A college professor spent seven years decoding the inscription on the grave of the writer Jonathan Swift. He thinks he’s finally cracked it.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Also I'd be glad if ANY book is hyped for once." -text from Marlon James on THE review by Dwight Garner(sent to NY Mag "Book Gossip" editor)
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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New York City Supports Push to Reopen Columbia Pathway to the Public (Gift Article)
Community members and students sued the school last year to reopen the gates, which were closed during protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“We were a little surprised that this document did not exist already,” Ortiz said. www.whro.org/environment/...
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Virginia’s first Climate Assessment highlights how conditions are changing across the state
The report draws from years of scientific studies and data to capture the current state of climate change.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Language writes us, but we, too, have the power to change the world by changing our words.” @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social in intro to her new book, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea 🌊
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria’s living room on 73rd St. (Shot by William Abranowicz.) 🙌
A photograph of Gloria Steinem’s living room on 73rd St.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Revisiting...https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/03/01/tolkiens-watercolors/
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Tolkien’s Watercolors by The Paris Review
March 1, 2019 – One paintbrush to rule them all.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
longhand, in pencil, defying any New York scene, righteous kindness www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Microbial ecologists have a saying, Boetius told me: 'Everything is everywhere.'" Ugh, this is condition change, not migration. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Our Warming Planet Is a Petri Dish for New and Deadly Microbes
“Flesh-eating” bacteria are spreading. Infectious fungi are emerging. Microbiomes may never be the same. Are we ready?
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A 1981 internal memo written by the director of one of Exxon’s science labs said it was “distinctly possible” that cumulative carbon emissions could eventually ‘produce effects which will indeed be catastrophic (at least for a substantial fraction of the earth’s population).’”
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Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 270
Entire villages swept away after glacial collapse triggers flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A champion of veteran-tree care has passed. www.ancienttreeforum.org.uk/news-blog/ne...
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A Personal Tribute to Neville Fay | Ancient Tree Forum
By Ted Green - Founder President of the ATF The tree care world lost a key figure, and I lost a great friend and ancient tree ally, when Neville Fay died on 17 August 2026 after a short illness. Neville Fay (Credit: ATF) Keith Alexander and I met Nev in March 1994. By then, there
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I’m writing Section 2, but! Might be too beautiful for the desk: “dinner plate dahlia”
close up of an outrageous dahlia blossom overpowering a writer
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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Zohran #ReleaseTheMosesCut
Zohran Mamdani looking at the camera, holding The Power Broker, and saying "but Robert Moses is another video entirely"
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"simultaneous troubles" indeed www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/c...
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The World’s Breadbaskets Are Getting Pounded by War, Weather and Trade Spats
Bad harvests and attacks on trade passages threaten to drive food prices higher.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Italian plant pathologists casually throwing down some of the best writing in scientific research: "For romantics, beauty is not closed in perfection: beautiful is any subject where it is possible to read the free flow of nature and history." historictreecare.com/wp-content/u...
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Steep drop in China's CO2 emissions in July: -power generation from coal&gas -3.5% -coal mine output -10% in July, -3% year-to-date -cement output -12% in July, -9% YTD -crude steel output -4%, -3% -oil refining -16%, -7%
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/08/2026
The author of “The English Patient” had been experimenting across forms for decades before the publication of his Booker Prize-winning novel, teaching writers who had crossed borders to arrive in the West to spell out their own liberation. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2-BjwQ
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The Glorious Disorder of Michael Ondaatje’s Early Work
Michael Ondaatje had been experimenting across forms for decades before the publication of “The English Patient,” teaching writers who had crossed borders to arrive in the West to spell out their own liberation.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“Miracles never bother a realist.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/o...
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Opinion | I Let My Students Watch Me Struggle With a Masterpiece. It Changed Everything.
Teachers need to model the passion they want to see.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hundreds evacuated as Belgium battles its largest wildfire ever. Around 30 km² of the High Fens has burned, forcing hundreds to evacuate. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
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Hundreds evacuated as Belgium battles largest wildfire in history
The fire broke out as Belgium experienced another intense heatwave this week, with temperatures hitting nearly 37 C (98.6 F) in several areas on Friday
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Congrats to new 60 Minutes correspondent Karoline Leavitt
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
They’re two minutes away now from the maximum in Edinburgh. www.bbc.com/news/live/c4...
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Solar eclipse live: Millions in UK and Europe watch once-in-a-generation event
Most of the UK will be able to watch as more than 90% of the Sun gets blocked by the Moon at its peak, while a rare total eclipse reaches totality in Iceland.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“We kind of knew it was coming, but always thought it was a problem our children would probably have to deal with,” he said. “It’s happened much, much faster.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... „Europe’s farmers move to the night shift to beat the heat“
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Europe’s farmers move to the night shift to beat the heat
Floodlights, headlamps, cooling sheds and later feeding times for animals are helping the sector cope with extreme weather
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Nelson: "the pleasures of having written — having thought, having researched, having tried...—have a range of effects..from frustration to joy." Dodge: "Often being in practice means I’ve started something and it’s not good yet...It's not what I need it to be." fhspost.com/9071/feature...
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Living as an Artist and Writer in a STEM-Driven Society: A Conversation with Maggie Nelson and Harry Dodge
When I sat down with Maggie Nelson and Harry Dodge, the question on my mind was: “what does it look like to live a creative life in a world dominated by business and science, technology, engineering, ...
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hines wrote one of best biographies of all time, “Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture.” It leaves you with critical understanding, compassion for mental illness, and wonder…and it’s loaded with photos (the way I like ‘em!). Great recognizes great. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/b...
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Thomas S. Hines, Who Helped Put L.A. Architecture on the Map, Dies at 89
A historian at U.C.L.A., he showed how Los Angeles’s architects and planners made the city a global center for modernist design in the 20th century.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
8.8 Might FA and try turnips!
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
NYT stating this like it’s normal when it’s absolutely berserk.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet
New images and footage of the Sun show "whirlpools" of activity that it has not been possible to see before.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I've been thinking about this attorney all day, defending soldiers from the government they serve, even after losing 26 of the last 27 cases. There's no quit in Priya Rashid. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
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Inside the Secretive Boards Deciding Trans Troops’ Fate
The Pentagon is relying on closed-door hearings to kick out transgender service members. An Army Reserve lawyer is one of the few who have seen how they really work.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Calling out “the nihilist consensus” … first they denied, then they said it’s real and too late
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Story of the golden quote on the wall at Dante West (fav spot in Village)...right as they were set to launch, COVID hit. Limbo. They painted the last line of Dante's Inferno, in faith, while they waited to open: E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle And then we emerged and saw the stars again.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"The world exceeds us." 🎯 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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T.J. Clark · Night Visitors: What I saw in the cave
The world exceeds us. It comes to us out of darkness. The cave is the universe, the nightly presence of that unknown...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I know much is being made of Wilson's elaborate takedown, but buried deep in these 4K words is a gorgeous compliment given in a very Wilson way. She commends Nolan for his use of the the bow and its singular tone: "a beautiful sonic image of the archer as musician" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I wrote about the art of audiobook narration and how the answer is either/or but never AI. lithub.com/author-or-ac...
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Author or Actor: Who Should Narrate Audiobooks?
Who’s the better narrator for an audiobook: the author of the book or a professional voice actor? Trick question. The answer is both, and/or, it depends. Let’s leave nonfiction out of this discussi…
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 28/07/2026
Fires in France have now burned over 91,000 acres, by far the most of any year since the satellite record started in 2006. Current area burned is about 34x larger than this date in a typical (median) year:
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 27/07/2026
Live: Macron to hold crisis cabinet meeting on France's devastating wildfires
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Live: Macron to hold crisis cabinet meeting on France's devastating wildfires
French President Emmanuel Macron will hold a crisis cabinet meeting Monday on the wildfires spreading across southern France. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will visit fire-hit areas in Valencia in the east of Spain, where firefighters are battling a new blaze that has forced thousands to flee their homes. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.
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Audrey Gray @audreygray.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"I taught a course last semester on nature writing in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. My students and I were deeply moved, bewildered, and I think fundamentally changed by Empedocles’ 'On Nature.' It is wildly imaginative." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/b...
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Valeria Luiselli’s Favorite Obscure Book Is 37 Volumes Long
Pliny’s “Natural History” is meant for “skimming and skipping,” she says. Her own new (one-volume) road-trip novel is “Beginning Middle End.”
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