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Brandee

@bcontroversial.bsky.social
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Working towards a better world, one kindness at a time. Probably going to get political. Definitely going to post pics of my dog.

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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 21h
Carney has never taken the U.S. threat seriously: "share of fed. contract dollars heading south went from one-fifth in the 16 months before Carney took office to nearly a third under his watch.... IBM & Microsoft charged Ottawa more than $1 billion each for software license fees & IT..." #CDNpoli
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
thanks to everyone's support we finally reached $3.5M CAD!!! now to reach $4M CAD... we are keeping several hospitals connected and dozens of students studying for exams, among others! project is currently $12K in the red #ConnectingGaza bit.ly/eSimsRUs
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Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not that long ago (2018), governments and industry actually went through the motions of engaging arm's length academic experts and civil society to advise on tech issues. Remember the Facebook Oversight Board? Or, in Canada, Waterfront Toronto's Digital Strategy Advisory Panel?
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stephen Harper has, as we've long awaited, weighed in against Alberta separatism. But man oh man, do I have to strongly quibble with him claiming sentiment was zero when he was PM. Here's a 2014 poll putting belief in separation at 23%, which is where it sits now. nationalpost.com/opinion/step...
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🎃HalloDeeny🎃 they/them @geraldinepiche.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trigger warning SA the "promising young men" who never faced consequences, justice or charges are now in charge of the world. Judges, deans, officers, politicians are to blame but so is everyone who turned a blind eye, who didnt believe victims, who blamed victims.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us.
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If we're going to talk about truth and reconciliation we should talk about Canada fighting First Nations in court. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/liberal...
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Liberals are playing legal hardball with First Nations over drinking water - Investigative Journalism Bureau
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is playing legal hardball with First Nations fighting for clean drinking water — and First Nations are fighting back. Interviews and hundreds of pages o...
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Huge news! Charges against Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, founders of the Drug User Liberation Front, have been stayed. Judge found parts of Canada's drug laws are unconstitutional and that the compassion club reduced the harms associated with the toxic drug crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 29/09/2026
"It's not data, it's people" - Chief Sheldon Sunshine
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Grave of boy who vanished at residential school found decades later, First Nation looks for others like him | CBC News
The family of 11-year-old Johnny Kiyawasew, who never came home from St. Francis Xavier residential school, spent decades searching for answers. Now, Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation and the University of Al...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Residential school denialism is "part of a willful strategy to create chaos and confusion about the truth so as to block the path to healing, justice, and reconciliation." Read an excerpt from TRUTH BEFORE RECONCILIATION, out now from @umanitobapress.bsky.social.
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Residential school denialism and the backlash against reconciliation
To mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation—and following a gathering of white nationalists near Kamloops, where members of Second Sons Canada displayed a banner invoking residential school ...
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Brett Bergie 🏳️‍⚧️ @brettbergie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When we allow governments to erroneously and irresponsibly strip Charter protected rights away from vulnerable communities [we allow] politicians to use lies and stigma […] to impose their ideology and power on those different from them.” Full statements here: www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...
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Transgender Advocates Call for Inquiry into Alta., Sask. Laws
Trans and gender-diverse advocates from Alberta and Saskatchewan hold a news conference on Parliament Hill to call for a House of Commons inquiry into the suspension of Charter rights for transgender ...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Brandee @bcontroversial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I want to say to the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people: we hear you, you were right,” he (Ed Miliband) will say. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘You were right’: Ed Miliband tells critics Labour was wrong on Gaza
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/09/2026
The lie that privatization will reduce wait times is already being exposed, but that won’t stop political leaders from continuing to try to destroy our public healthcare system.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Vaccines work" isn't a political statement. "Immigrants do not increase crime" isn't a political statement. "Climate change is real" isn't a political statement. "Genocide is bad" isn't a political statement. Stop neutralizing the power of facts by framing them as "politics." Reality matters.
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
so I've been at the hospital & I left with a prescription for antibiotics & at the pharmacy they said it's 47.50$ dispensing fees etc & I said WTF & they said You're not covered and I said Pharmacare is healthcare could someone help me out with this please etransfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Can Siri fall in love with you? Can your phone's autocomplete wish it were dead? Can your Magic 8 Ball feel ennui? Can Clippy have an orgasm?
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI companies: We’ve invented an unreliable guessing machine which sometimes doesn’t follow instructions. If you give it access to important systems it could kill us all. Also AI companies: Deploy this technology everywhere and replace your employees with it, otherwise China wins. IPO next month.
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is hugely problematic. A Liberal MP says he was removed by PM Carney’s office from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs bc he supported an bill that sought to close loopholes that allow Canada to send weapons to Israel: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Liberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls | CBC News
Charlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me...
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🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A defining characteristic of speech rights, as compared with say the right to worship or due process, is they very often intersect and compete with the speech rights of others. When an outlet focuses on one side of this equation, and not the other, it’s usually because they’ve chosen a side.
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Officially, Canada has no solitary confinement. But we found it uses confinement that mirrors solitary as defined under international rules on the most vulnerable prisoners - and it's using it more. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/hidden-...
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Hidden solitary: Canada's growing use of prison isolation - Investigative Journalism Bureau
New data obtained by the IJB shows a dramatic rise in the use of observation and dry cells—a form of hidden solitary confinement in Canadian prisons that disproportionately impacts Indigenous inmates.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 26/09/2026
“Authoritarianism has always been part of our government. … We’ve just been very good as Americans at not seeing it.” In a Q&A with Prism, Indigenous journalist @rebeccanagle.bsky.social explains why the history of Indigenous dispossession is essential to understanding the U.S. democracy today.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 24/09/2026
This is SUCH a cool read on universal design, the interactions of architecture and disability culture, and community.
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How the Architecture of Sound Is Transforming Cities
Acoustic cues don't just make spaces more accessible — they also create opportunities for exploration and delight.
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News You Want @newsyouwant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tired of *waiting* for the News You Want? We've got you covered! Tune in to EP 1 of NYW with anchor Julio Hatatas & reporter Barbra Bottomsnackle as they cover news of President DJT's recent hospitalization. newsyouwant.ca?p=569
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President Down?
The president was rushed to hospital on Wednesday following what the White House is describing as a minor fall.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do they realize how ridiculous they sound when they say that anyone asking for accommodations & masks are taking away their 'freedoms' when its people still taking Covid precautions & those who are disabled or chronically ill who've been unable to safely access public spaces for 6+ yrs?
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Sasha Fury @sashafury.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026
If Mark Carney was serious about “Building Canada Strong,” he would create a generous UBI. This is what people need.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is all right-wing politics is now, a guy who's killed tens of thousands of children complaining about podcasters
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Where will you vote on Alberta’s referendum questions? The answer may surprise you - since your polling stations may be quite different than usual. Be sure you know where to go, whether you’ll be at an advance poll, or casting your ballots on Oct. 19. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Where To Vote - Elections Alberta
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...
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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
so here's where things are - I need a change of clothes (no free clothes in DTES [bedbug saturation]): 50$ - groceries: $? - toiletries & first aid & towel: 80$? - order replacement glasses: 70$ I could sleep inside tonight if you could help out, share, etc etransfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jordan’s King Abdullah II: This Israeli government's appetite is now a regional threat. And today, Syria is the warning.
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
$12K in the red currently! #ConnectingGaza
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Another essential read from @althiaraj.bsky.social. "The government frames this law as part of its “Canada Strong” plan — and frankly, some parts are good — but toxic with good is still bad." #GiftLink 🎁 #CdnPoli #SnakesInSuits www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
It’s legislation that Conservatives can only dream Canadians would have allowed them to table. But Liberals who spent years saying their assessments wouldn’t result in lawsuits, and that science-based decision making that considered impacts on nature, climate, Indigenous Peoples, was required — now stand by watching it dismantled by one of their own.

Now, one can believe that it takes too long to get projects done in this country and reform is needed, and still conclude that what the prime minister proposes is a radical departure from what Canadians expect.
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Brandee @bcontroversial.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Incredible photos 📸 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Winners of bird photographer of the year 2026 – in pictures
Photographers from all over the world entered more than 24,000 images into the world’s largest bird photography competition, with an image of a northern gannet bursting through the ocean’s surface tak...
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Q: Is [the PM] using his current popularity to get in things Canadians would find otherwise unpalatable...? Blanchet: Does the direct translation of 'instrumentalization' exist? Using a situation in order to achieve something which has nothing to do with the situation. #CdnPoli
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The whole merit conversation has to be thrown in the garbage. People get to where they are because they conform, not due to merit. There are many people who have the merit to hold positions or spaces of affluence. The determining factor is “fit” which is actually compliance
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
hi things are quite terrible and I'm asking for your help if anyone can spare 25$ please etransfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nearly a quarter of a million people experience living on the street in Canada each year but we have all the money in the world to house computers
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
every announcement is deregulation surveillance privatisation deals with fascists asset sales oligarch parties service cuts more ai shit rising military budget drill baby drill fuck the climate so I think we know the sum and the destination takes little imagination
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 19/09/2026
Carney government promises upcoming "Operation Strike Destroyer" legislation won't discourage future strikes
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Carney government promises upcoming "Operation Strike Destroyer" legislation won't discourage future strikes
OTTAWA — After multiple labour sources warned that the Federal government would likely be issuing binding mediation legislation as early as next week, Mark Carney personally assured Canadians that eve...
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 18/09/2026
NEW: For @macleans.bsky.social, I wrote about how Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is fusing corporate and state power to help build what I call the New Authoritarianism. macleans.ca/politics/dan...
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Danielle Smith Is Putting Alberta Up for Sale - Macleans.ca
The corporate lobbyist-turned-premier is letting the private sector run the government
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The court filing dug up by @kint.bsky.social is the most They Admit It i have ever seen in my life www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 17/09/2026
This relies on two big assumptions: a) that the US will just go back to "normal" after 2028, which is far from a guarantee, and b) that Canadians will ever be able to trust the US again, which is absolutely unjustified. The rupture is permanent; the question is how much of it could be healed.

Carney’s willingness to align with von der Leyen reflects the degree to which Trump has alienated traditional allies. But time is a great healer. In this case, Canada and the U.S. are due for a reset in just over two years. A new president will take office in January 2029, and the disastrous results of tit-for-tat tariffs, if they continue, will be even more apparent on both sides of the border. By then, though, Canadians could find themselves firmly in the grip of Brussels bureaucrats.
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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At best, the Elections Alberta is an underfunded, over-employed shambles. At worst, it was responding to government pressure to ensure a desired outcome. If the latter, it’s a 5-alarm fire. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Former Elections Alberta staff raise ‘mismanagement’ concerns about 'Water Not Coal' petition verification | CBC News
Five former Elections Alberta employees are raising “mismanagement” concerns about how Corb Lund's citizen initiative petition was validated, alleging procedures changed and that there was a lack of t...
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