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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This sounds like something I might enjoy... KILL. BURY. PRINT. is a great title too.

Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Man. Sad remarks from a director of SCOOB! HOLIDAY HAUNT, the third completed movie WB cancelled for a tax break on a post about Pam Abdy and Michael De Luca's ouster, saying they were responsible along with Zaslav for shelving the movie and Abdy only called him after the news leaked on Twitter.

Hey let's not pour salt on the wounds, it's tough all over.

mkurinsky: absolutely not. i have struggled both financially and with my mental health since they cancelled my movie. They will leave with lucrative exit packages. I was let go from WB told that there was no longer a place for me there after 7 years. No exit package. They deserve a little salt.

mkurinsky: she, Michael Deluca and David Zaslav were the ones directly responsible for the decision to shelve Batgirl and SCOOB Holiday Haunt. They WERE Warners pictures at that point and that was one of their very first decisions in their new positions after Discovery bought WB. And I wasn't told to my face. I found out on TWITTER first. Then by phone call. All I said was "it hurts, doesn't it" .... Because it does.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

C+ day but an A for used Region B finds at the BMV Yonge & Eg.

2 Blu-Ray covers, one reading KILL LIST in big red letters, the other reading TIMECRIMES forwards and backwards in neon pink, flanked by two figures.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bought comics! THE BIG SHAKEDOWN @blumjordan.bsky.social @hackintimseeley.bsky.social @scottkoblish.bsky.social/HELLRAISER Tini Howard @jennacha.bsky.social/PRIMA APPARATA Olivia Dufault, Rebekah Isaacs/THE PATRON Christian Ward, John J. Pearson/DOG TAG @manruss.bsky.social @pauljholden.bsky.social

5 single issues of periodical comics displayed on a table.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS comic sounded like fun, though I set it aside for a bit after hitting several quick, fatal endings. But the book, by @ryannorth.ca & @chrisfenoglio.bsky.social, asks a bit more of you than simple page-flipping to get to what's really going on. Cool!

Book cover for STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS - WARP YOUR OWN WAY, featuring four illustrated characters in their Starfleet uniforms seemingly freefalling, panicked, against a background of pathways and a few un-contextualized images.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The dystopian Love Island-ish reality show of Aisling Rawle's THE COMPOUND only has to modestly push the actualities of such shows to unsettle deeply. The book is narrated plainly by Lily, a contestant of beauty & few practical skills but determination for the rewards out of reach in her real life.

Book cover of THE COMPOUND by Aisling Rawle, a painting with a blonde woman in a pool, her back to us, looking past the edge to the surrounding vegetation and the desert beyond, and a man, also with his back to us, on a pool float.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I was really delighted by COYOTE VS. ACME and glad to see Eric Bauza get single-card billing in the credits. I went to look up which of the animated character voices he performed in the movie, and the answer is...most of them.

Internet Movie Database page:

Eric Bauza
Coyote vs. Acme
(10 roles)

Bugs Bunny
Charlie Dog
Daffy Duck
Dr. Lorre
Elmer Fudd
Foghorn Leghorn
Gossamer
Porky Pig
Road Runner
Tweety

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I highly recommend hitting up THE RIVALS OF AMZIAH KING at a theatre while you still can. It basically splits right in half narratively and while I have some thoughts to offer about the second half, it remains a very compelling film and I'd love to have more people to talk to about it! 🐝🐝🐝

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A pal found a new review of my 10-y.o. microbudget feature debut, & while I mostly see in it these days my inexperience, it has a special place in my heart & everyone who worked on it is a gem, so it's nice to see someone consider it so fully, warts & all. www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/comedy/e...

The Weirdest Film You’ll Watch All Week

End of Days, Inc. centers on four disgruntled employees working for Godfrey Global Inventory: Jason (Mark O’Brien), Janet (Carolyne Maraghi), Mort (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee), and Misty (Janet Porter). When they’re all told they’ll be terminated, effective immediately, by their twin bosses Mr. Godfrey (Paulino Nunes) and Esther (Anna Ferguson); they’re devastated, but also relieved

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I quite enjoyed THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's new film about a samurai whose increasingly shaky rule over his castle is tested by a series of mysterious deaths that is also in essence 4 episodes of a mystery procedural where the prisoner in his basement helps him solve the crimes.

Movie poster for THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER, a black watercolour painting of 2 Samurai-era Japanese men, one standing, the other sitting cross-legged, against a cream background.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Who knows if anything about the movie tested well, but what he was talking about was seeing how the sex/nudity was playing in the test screenings and the feedback cards they get back with the audience comments. Here's the interview link so you can read the full context: variety.com/2026/film/fe...

There was so much nudity in this movie that we shot on the streets. I felt we needed to show the world that way. As we started to show it to audiences, we felt it takes you out of the movie. You’re engaged in the characters and what’s going on, and then you pan over and there’s two naked people having sex, and you watch the audience … it’s a physical thing. They turn to who they’re with and … the benefits do not nearly outweigh the negatives of it. So we just kept editing it out until we got a balance, and those comments went away.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I'm not sure why I've seen a handful of posts today about Arnold Schwarzenegger in comedies, but I thought it would be a good excuse to post this short related sketch from John Leguizamo's sketch show HOUSE OF BUGGIN' (which also starred Luis Guzman).

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I also enjoyed one of my newly-acquired non-Criterion Blu-Rays yesterday, William Friedkin's SORCEROR, which was as harrowing as promised, which I double-billed with the well-liked Hallmark Christmas movie CRASHING THROUGH THE SNOW co-starring my pal Kristian Bruun, about co-parenting after divorce!

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Not to be overlooked (and apparently not addressed):

One woman questioned the mission and said she found it difficult to be proud of her sailor when she believed the military was “killing innocent civilians” and her sailor expressed guilt about what he was doing. Her comment was met with applause from the audience.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

What's a better promotional item than cold, hard legal* currency? This Lincoln penny is extremely cool, a tie-in to IF DESTRUCTION BE OUR LOT, @ashcanpress.com & Mark Elijah Rosenberg and @andymacdonald.bsky.social's existential sci-fi about a Lincoln robot roaming the world. *definitely not

Comic book cover of IF DESTRUCTION BE OUR LOT #3 by Riley Rossmo, a close-up image of a partially deconstructed Abraham Lincoln robot head.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I was at SDCC for a day and aside from forcing people to look at preview images from the comic I wrote, I bought one fun thing, the @mattkindt.bsky.social & @brihurtt.bsky.social FORT PSYCHO comic-in-a-can with army men inside; a silver army man got me a MIND MGMT @jesselonergan.bsky.social variant.

Photo of a large can with a soup-style label reading FORT PSYCHO COMIC IN A A CAN, 4 pink plastic army men figures, a small comic book cover with an image of sardines (FORT PSYCHO "Sardines") and a MIND MGMT NEW & IMPROVED comic book cover with an illustration of a man and a grid of squares with individual items in them.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One of these I watched in 70mm and my hint is that it wasn't the Hallmark movie.

Four movie posters: EN EL CAMINO, THE ODYSSEY, I'LL BE SEEING YOU, THE INVITE

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Here are a couple of textless preview pages from our comic "H.A.N.D.S." in the TERRORBYTES HALLOWEEN ANNUAL, written by me, drawn by Agustin Calcagno, coloured by Pedro Estouco, and lettered by Marina Leon! The announcement from Mad Cave about the one-shot: madcavestudios.com/news/mad-cav...

Multi-panel comic page with illustrations of a Black Dominican woman going through a security detector and robots holding damaged items.

Multi-panel comic page with illustrations of a Black Dominican woman and other warehouse workers watching a robot doing a demonstration at the front of a room.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

TERRORBYTES HALLOWEEN ANNUAL is a @madcavestudios.com comic book one-shot with 3 horror tales from 3 teams, including "H.A.N.D.S." written by me, art by Agustin Calcagno, colours by Pedro Estouco, lettering by Marina Leon, edited by Francesco Crivelli. The book's cover is by @davechisholmcomics.com!

Comic book cover for TERRORBYTES HALLOWEEN ANNUAL featuring an illustration by Dave Chisholm of a robot hand grabbing the face of a white man with his hand up, sporting short, unkempt hair, against a bright yellow-to-orange background.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A lurid slice of modern pulp, with depictions and descriptions of violent acts both the characters and the reader may find hard to shake, A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE is L.A. noir written by @jordanharper.bsky.social with arresting prose and procedural momentum.

The book cover for A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE by Jordan Harper, with a dripping black ink-drawing of a palm tree on a bright red and orange background.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The perspective in Mary H.K. Choi's POOL HOUSE shifts between aimless Stevie and her actress mom Moon, as well as Moon's now-grown TV son Adam, a further complication in an already fraught mother-daughter dynamic after the death of a man they were all close to. A discomfiting, deftly-written read.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Also, justice for PLAYERS, a pretty terrific original Paramount+ production from the creators of AMERICAN VANDAL that was taken off the streamer after all of 8 months.

Poster for the TV show PLAYERS. Photo of a lineup of 6 young men, 5 wearing black t-shirts reading Fugitive, one wearing a suit, standing on the keys of a giant keyboard lit up from underneath. Tagline: A season with the bad boys of gaming

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I remember watching an episode of the show NO ACTIVITY, which had an impressive cast. It was a cops/criminals show, except only scenes in enclosed spaces where nothing's going on. I just looked it up and it's no longer on its streamer, yet ran for FOUR seasons, and the final season is animated?!

Poster for the show NO ACTIVITY. Animated image of two uniformed men, a Black police officer and a White FBI agent, leaning on either sides of the hood of a police car, with a sunny, mountainous illustrated background featuring a row of people apparently wearing masks and holding what look like tiki torches. The tagline reads: It's a cult comedy

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I feel like my garage sale choices were very Father's Day-appropriate.

5 Blu-Rays stacked haphazardly on top of each other, including CLOUD ATLAS: Faces of a Black woman with wavy hair and a White man with writing tattooed on his face; THE FRENCH CONNECTION: A frowning middle-aged White man cop in black; SORCERER: Half of a close-up of a White man's face, flames where the other half would be; ZODIAC: Resembles a hand-addressed white envelope; THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A guild I'm a member of, the Directors Guild of Canada, has released a Manifesto on the Value of Human Creativity. I'm something of an anti-GenAI hardliner, & this document assumes more of an inevitability than I like, but on balance I think it makes a strong statement. files.dgc.ca/assets/natio...

Red box with text: DGC/GCR (Directors Guild of Canada) at the top, and then the title Manifesto on the Value of Human Creativity.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A cup and saucer from the Titanic episode of NEWSRADIO.

White cup and saucer with gold trim on a white table, both reading WNYC 585 AM.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

By the way, so you can sound in-the-know, here are the styles each of the main FURIOUS fighters are experts in: Xie Miao (Chinese) - kung fu Joe Taslim (Indonesian)- judo Yayan Ruhian (Indonesian) - silat Joey Iwanaga (Japanese-American) - karate Brian Le (Vietnamese-American) - YouTube (his words)

Five Asian men in fighting stances on the second floor of a police station purportedly somewhere in Southeast Asia.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I've seen THE FURIOUS twice in full theatres and it's an absolute blast with a crowd. A relentlessly, creatively violent martial arts movie for the ages starring a pan-Asian cast of fighter-actors bringing their own styles to the party. The dialogue...well, we're not here to watch these guys TALK.

Two cards, one reading THE FURIOUS in red letters on an aquamarine background, the other with a photo of an Indonesian man aiming a bow and arrow.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Me and my late-in-life-acne were out and about.

Asian woman, head tilted down, wearing a green baseball cap reading Human Intelligence that covers her eyes, and a blue t-shirt with a drawing by Jaime Hernandez of a smiling, winking man, arms akimbo, wearing a red t-shirt reading FUCK AI.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Marjane Satrapi's passing is such sad news. PERSEPOLIS is obviously a masterwork of comics, but I also have a soft spot for THE VOICES, an odd horror-comedy she directed starring Ryan Reynolds as an unassuming, mentally ill warehouse worker who hallucinates his pets telling him to do things.

Movie poster for THE VOICES with a photo of a white man in a bright pink jumpsuit, holding a saw with blood on it, a dog and a cat lined up behind him.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Okay, I know we've run this bit into the ground, but... Sol, the French-Canadian clown with unsettling makeup whose videos we used to have to watch in French class is the latest performer to drop out of the National Mall concert lineup.

White man with brown clown makeup on his face, wearing a brown brimless hat, a pale but busy shirt, and a coat with patches along the sleeves, a surprised expression on his face.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It's still very funny to me that the buttoned-down office where I worked many years ago bought me this Takashi Miike DVD box set because we used to be able to request our own Christmas present.

DVD box set with a cover reading THE TAKASHI MIIKE OMNIBUS with a black-and-white, heavily processed photo close-up of the face of a Japanese man.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Post a meme made by you I do not remember why I made a Neil Degrassi Tyson meme, but let's assume I had a good reason.

Photo of a diverse group of smiling teenagers grouped together, a classroom in the background, with scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson, a Black man with a moustache wearing a suit, Photoshopped in with them.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Honestly, finding out from friends which Muppet they think you most closely resemble is asking for trouble. (The response was unanimous, by the way.)

Photo of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, a puppet with olive green felt skin, no eyes, big glasses, big nose, small mouth, wearing a lab coat over a vest, shirt, and tie.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Honestly, I think you have to back it up to 2006. Stunning enough to be the unknown lead of a director's bazillion-dollar self-funded epic that has risen from the ashes (THE FALL)? Indeed.

A young white man wearing a sleeveless black shirt with golden adornments and a high collar, and a black hat with a brim, a bloody hand up, holding up two fingers and thumb.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

AMERICAN FANTASY follows a middle-aged woman on a 4-day solo trip on a nostalgic boy-band cruise, and @emmastraub.bsky.social deftly blends the fun, the drama, and the elemental awkwardness of this very specific milieu through the perspectives of its sympathetically-drawn characters.

Book cover for AMERICAN FANTASY by Emma Straub, with a pink, white, and blue colour scheme, an illustration of a cruise ship in the centre, buoyed by what looks like a mass of clouds taking up the bottom half of the cover.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Been tough to keep my spirits up this birthday, but I did enjoy seeing this photo of Judith Light, Dan Stevens, and CCH Pounder looking cool as hell on the AMC step-and-repeat for THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

In KING OF ASHES, @blacktopkid.bsky.social wastes little time plunging his protagonist, a self-assured money manager with a taste for S&M (as well as nerdier interests) into a nightmare entangling his entire family & their crematorium business when his brother runs afoul of a terrifying local gang.

Book cover for KING OF ASHES by S.A. Cosby, featuring an image of a raging fire superimposed on train tracks.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I've gotta get a lucite display case for all my NEWSRADIO prop drinkware.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I received some very unexpected gifts from the inimitable @toughsugarcookie.bsky.social, incl. this china from the Titanic episode of NEWSRADIO, a show that means a lot to us both, she as a longtime crew member, me as a kid who watched it on a mini TV hidden under my desk dreaming of working in TV.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I was really quite impressed by EXIT 8, an adaptation of a video game cheekily billed as a "walking simulator" that embraces the point-and-click repetitiveness of traversing the same stretch of hallway over and over again and manages to build tension and an unsettling tone over a feature's length.

A bald Japanese man with a mustache and a close-shaven neck beard, wearing a white button-down shirt smiling front-and-centre in a largely blindingly white-tiled subway station hallway, a sign reading Exit 8 above his head.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

. @faitherinhicks.bsky.social's charming, moving middle-grade graphic novel THE INBETWEENS is about teen twin sisters attending an animation summer camp, finding joy in art while learning more difficult lessons about authority figures that disappoint & life's paths not always being what you expect.

Book cover for The InBetweens by Faith Erin Hicks, with an illustration of two white eighth-grade girls, one with very short black hair holding up some papers in her hands, one with chin-length red hair drawing on a sheet of paper, surrounded by sheets of paper from which a cute creature in different poses is jumping off the pages, as well as other pieces of crumpled-up paper and pencils.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

UNIVERSALITY by Natasha Brown was an impulse borrow... Apparently, I am not immune to the allure of gold. It opens with a longread about a gold-bar-involved crime that pushes societal hot buttons, then jumps into the perspectives of figures involved, a satire on the crafting of public narratives.

Book cover for Universality by Natasha Brown, the title in capital letters across a giant gold bar across a black cover, the author's name also in gold.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Apparently my idea of a comfort watch is Bob Hoskins yelling, and worse, at people.

Blu-Ray case of THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY with the face of an intense balding British man on the cover against a backdrop with part of the British flag, and a Blu-Ray disc for MONA LISA in a clear plastic case, with the faces of two older intense white men and a Black woman.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

In a way, the actual THE NIGHT SHIFT TV show NBC had was ahead of its time! (Sorry, any excuse to post this publicity still.)

Cast photo of the TV show THE NIGHT SHIFT, in which one of the doctors appears to have just pulled up on a motorcycle in the middle of the hospital and everyone else is reacting to it, sort of.

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