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Jean Slater

@bluebilliejeans.bsky.social
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Researching violent extremist movements & threat actors. M/NVE, SAVF, PMVE, networked behavior, memes, movement evolutions, and deep lore.

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Jean Slater @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you're working on far right extremism, Nazi-Satanism, M/NVE or PMVE, you should read @transform6789.bsky.social's outstanding new piece "A Short History of Nazi-Satanism." I was honored to be named in the acknowledgements so I'm a little biased but it really is an important piece for the field.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SCOOP A Pentagon influencer called liberal women a "pestilence" who will end western civilization. He's also: • Praised dictators like Franco and Pinochet • Said people without kids should not be allowed vote • Called immigrants "semihuman savages" www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
wired.com
A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Once again, annual subscriptions to my newsletter are on SALE! I'm fundraising so I can cover something out of town and related to Border Patrol and ICE, though I can't say what at the moment (bc of other journalists taking my story, not because the agents are doing something secret).
turtlediaries.net
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Went undercover in MAGA for a year, now I write about the right. Click to read The Turtle Diaries, by Amanda Moore, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New by @rachelgilmore.bsky.social with comment from me Shopify Powers a Racist Group’s Online Store. It’s Not the First Time thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
thetyee.ca
Shopify Powers a Racist Group’s Online Store. It’s Not the First Time | The Tyee
The $250 billion Canadian company has repeatedly found itself in controversy over its support of ‘free speech.’
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Jean Slater @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Children—as young as 9–are lured from public spaces like Roblox, Instagram, TikTok to nonpublic spaces like group chats & DMs on Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp. They’re groomed to trust the predator & manipulated into sharing personal info. Often they’re tricked into sharing intimate images 3/11
ctvnews.ca
Police warn of online network targeting children as young as 8 for radicalization, sextortion and self-harm
The RCMP has issued an alert about an emergent threat from violent online groups targeting children and teens.
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Jean Slater @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Why not share your posts publicly? Why not share kids’ faces, names, pets, ages, schools, & no visible addresses in photos? Bc there are international networks of predators online leveraging this info to extort children. We’re ~6 yrs into the modern iteration of this network 2/11
gnet-research.org
764: The Intersection of Terrorism, Violent Extremism, and Child Sexual Exploitation - GNET
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Jean Slater @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Don’t publicly post children’s photos & info online. You can share back to school images—set them to friends only. Make your keepsake images w/ grade, height, age, teacher, pet etc But keep those for your scrapbooks & close family. This thread is about why NOT to share the info publicly 1/11
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Fey (they/them) @varric-fan69.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Tell them it doesn’t matter how they met the psn or any rules they broke in the process. What matters is getting help, much more than fearing punishment.
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
a very important thread - with links - just in time for back-to-school. this unrolled thread is very useful to post on Facebook or Instagram where many parents aren’t aware of the dangers of posting their kiddos’ on social media.
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A BlueSky thread by Jean Slater on Skyview
Don’t publicly post children’s photos & info online. You can share back to school images—set them to friends only. Make your keepsake images w/ grade, height, age, teacher, pet etc But keep those for ...
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Jean Slater @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Don’t publicly post children’s photos & info online. You can share back to school images—set them to friends only. Make your keepsake images w/ grade, height, age, teacher, pet etc But keep those for your scrapbooks & close family. This thread is about why NOT to share the info publicly 1/11
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Based on our real-world work and research it's i.e. pretty evident that M/NVE (which has been much discussed lately) is a distinct phenomenon, with their own aesthetics *and* ideology. See i.e. revontulet.co/insights/53q...
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What M/NVE Is - And What It Isn't — Revontulet
A network of youth, scattered across the globe, communicates through encrypted chat rooms. The price of entry into the inner circles of these communities is to commit a violent or criminal act and to ...
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
On a more serious note, the debates over these categories quickly become nonsensical and abstract for those who actually have to deal with it and can't just argue about it in academic journals.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
There's been a lot of discussion of "Dalad bar extremism" and the newly coined "fast food extremism" in the academic circles lately...to be helpful I'm now introducing "fishmonger extremism" because there famously is no such thing as a fish and the fishmonger also sells shrimp, crab and octopus...
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Michele Prado @micheleprado.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Today I'm incredibly happy because our Analytical Glossary of Violent Subcultures and Digital Languages, developed by the Center for the Prevention of Extreme Violence (NUPVE) of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rio Grande do Sul (MPRS), has been selected as one of the Top 10 finalists +
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Jean Slater @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If you’re working on MNVE, PMVE, TCC, or youth subcultures that lead to real world violence, Munira Mustaffa’s new piece on the 2023 Siam Paragon attack is a must read.
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Oh, they filed 1.1 million reports to NCMEC in 2025 that they marked as Generative AI without telling NCMEC that those reports were for known CSAM they'd detected in their AI training data, a fact that only came to light because some reporters did some digging. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
Amazon Found ‘High Volume’ Of Child Sex Abuse Material in AI Training Data
The tech giant reported hundreds of thousands of cases of suspected child sexual abuse material, but won’t say where it came from
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
NCMEC's full 2025 CyberTipline report is out. 1.5MM reports "with a GAI [generative AI] nexus," but removing Amazon's useless 1.1MM reports, >182K reports of possession or (attempted) generation of GAI CSAM. That's the number to report: 182K, not 1.5 million. www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/c...
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CyberTipline Data
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Jean Slater @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
An excellent resource below for journalists covering M/NVE. It’ll help you avoid amplification & disinformation put out by community participants in the wake of attacks & arrests. Standing invitation to journos to contact me w/ questions. If I dont know the answer, I’ll help find someone who does.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
In February, a man drove cross-country with a cache of weapons to a major Nevada-area power plant. His apparent attack failed, and he killed himself. He had literature popular with neo-Nazis, and his target had circulated in guides in the movement. Latest at SPLC: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
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Neo-Nazi activists continue to inspire attacks on electrical infrastructure
Recent incident follows more than a decade of attempted or successful attacks on critical infrastructure appearing to involve right-wing extremism.
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
any editors want an article on the new wave of maoist/trotskyist/etc groups that millennials and zoomers have formed?
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SPLC Union @splcunion.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Below is a statement from the unionized workers of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
SPLC Union Logo:

Yesterday, the Department of Justice leveled outrageous allegations at the Southern Poverty Law Center. In so doing, they maligned the integrity of the SPLC workers who have labored tirelessly for decades to expose the dangerous cruelty of extremists and hate groups in the United States. SPLC Union Logo: 

This work is punishing. It takes a toll on our health and on our safety. But we persist because we believe in our mission to advance justice for all, and we believe that investigating, naming, and alerting the American people to the activities of those who seek to harm our neighbors is a moral imperative and an essential public service.Today our colleagues are facing abuse and harassment from the far-right figures emboldened by this attack. But we will not be deterred, we will not be intimidated, and we will continue to name racism, sexism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and all hate for the blight that it is.
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Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
NEW: John Mays, an Alabama criminal defense lawyer, represented Rocky Myers, a Black man charged with murdering a white woman. Investigators for a legal team seeking to overturn Myers' conviction discovered Mays was actively involved with United Klans of America. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
rawstory.com
A Black man was sentenced to death for killing a white woman. His lawyer was in the Klan
Lawyers for a Black man serving life in prison in Alabama are seeking to overturn his conviction for the murder of a white woman, citing evidence his state-provided attorney was active in the Ku Klux ...
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“At least 97 youths - the youngest just 11 - are being monitored after coming under the influence of content glorifying mass violence and white supremacists spread largely on messaging app Telegram”
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Jean Slater @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Another good piece on white supremacist extremism influencing youth attackers in Southeast Asia, with quotes from expert @munira.bsky.social
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White supremacist content grips teens plotting attacks in Southeast Asia
When police detained an Indonesian teenager accused of bombing his high-school campus in Jakarta in November, he had a life-size toy rifle inscribed with "welcome to hell" and the names of white supre...
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WF Thomas @wfthomas.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
🔗 Jumping Off Platform: How “The Com” Uses Mainstream Platforms to Funnel Users Elsewhere: graphika.com/reports/jump... As I continue my job hunt, I want to highlight some of my previous work I'm proud of. During my time with @graphika.com I led the research and authoring of this report.
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Jumping Off Platform
Examining How The Com and Related Networks Spread Content on Mainstream Social Media Platforms and Direct Users to Off-Platform Spaces
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Jean Slater @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Earlier this week @pbaskar.bsky.social quoted me in this excellent piece about how extremists around the world use platforms like Roblox & Minecraft to recruit children. Please read & share—especially with parents of young children. Gift link! ⤵️
nytimes.com
How Hate Groups and Terrorists Use Gaming Platforms to Recruit Young Children
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👻 hampton. 👻 @hampton.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Wrote a lil thing about that weird ICE post with a weirder song attached. Many thanks to all the people who helped move this along. This blog post is the tip of the iceberg, but hopefully helps to provide a really brief overview of why ICE/DHS posting a fashy song is worrying.
dead-air.ghost.io
ICE the Mannerbund: Music, Authoritarianism, Hate
Trump’s federal agencies love putting catchy songs alongside their content on social media. While they usually post pop songs, phonk edits, or whatever viral sound is hitting on TikTok six months prio...
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Linus Svensson @its-linus.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
In November, around 20 cars were burnt down in a small Swedish town. SVT can now reveal that a cell within the extremist Com network is responsible. We have reviewed extensive chat material, verified videos of the fire being set, and identified its Swedish leader. www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...
svt.se
Svenskledd 764-cell bakom flera bilbränder i Ängelholm
I november förra året inträffade tre bilbränder i Ängelholm, som alla misstänks vara anlagda. SVT kan nu berätta att en cell inom den extremistiska 764-miljön ligger bakom två av bränderna. I gruppen ...
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Jean Slater @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
An excellent piece about memetic violence and the SMAN 72 attack in Jakarta last month by @munira.bsky.social
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
A 17-year-old accused of bombing a Jakarta school mosque left nearly 100 injured, carrying a rifle covered in neo-Nazi slogans. TikTok posts tied to him point to online communities that celebrate extremist violence, highlighting how these digital subcultures are shaping real-world attacks.
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Alleged Jakarta Bomber Leaves Behind Digital Trail Worshiping Past Racist Attackers
A 17-year-old student accused of bombing a Jakarta school mosque on November 7, injuring nearly 100 people, left behind a digital trail glorifying white supremacist killers and neo-Nazi symbols. His r...
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old. Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money bc...he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest.
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Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say
Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.
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Femma @femma.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
so Grokipedia is really bad, in case anybody was wondering, but I'm going to just kind of quickly write a short thread about why. I'm going to focus on the article of neo-fascist William Luther Pierce, because I just published my MA thesis on him a few months ago. Which Grokipedia cites.
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Jean Slater @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
An excellent piece on a recent school attack in Malaysia
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Daniel Robson @dancollen.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
New from me for @maargentino.com's blog: A fringe sect of Jewish nationalists are adopting neo-Nazism into their interpretations of Jewish & Israeli nationalism, despite incoherant & contradictictory beliefs. One end result is a small but extremely cursed ecosystem of Jewish accelerationist memes.
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Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Something interesting that I'm seeing lately is the new generation in these circles is using "The Fire Rises" as a way to talk in code about the actual real living people who were involved in AWD Sort of like the use of "in Minecraft" but much more direct
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Sorry no one is allowed to protest unless everyone in the crowd reads my syllabus first
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Jean Slater @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
New, vital work from @maargentino.com for those dealing w/ NVE. For ppl wanting the definition, I pulled a few quotes. I really want to stress this part: “Ideology is not absent w/in the nihilistic violent extremist milieu. However, it typically functions as a secondary or even tertiary factor”
The first thing that needs to be done is clarify what we are talking about in terms of threats, in particular what is meant by the term Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE) and what it represents. It is important to highlight that NVE does not equal "the Com Network" or "764" that is a misuse of the term. Nor is it a replacement for "salad bar extremism."Nihilistic Violent Extremists are those on the fringe actively encouraging, promoting, glorifying, or engaging in serious acts of violence for the sake of violence and chaos in and of itself, the consequences of which have no clear end state.At the core of the NVE threat environment is a deep-seated misanthropy: a hatred of humanity, human nature, and behaviour that fuels a desire not just to disrupt, but to destroy. This is coupled with the glorification of extreme and sadistic violence, where acts of brutality are not only celebrated but encouraged as a means of achieving chaos. The objective is not revolution or reform, but collapse without reconstruction; it is a tearing down of societal structures with no vision for what should follow.Ideology is not absent within the nihilistic violent extremist milieu.
However, it typically functions as a secondary or even tertiary factor, with its role largely limited to providing superficial justification for behaviours primarily motivated by grievance and the pursuit of status within NVE ecosystems. Extremist rhetoric is often adopted after individuals have already entered these spaces, rather than serving as the initial driver of involvement. In this context, ideology operates more as a post hoc rationalization (employed to legitimize efforts to gain recognition or to frame personal grievances as justified) than as a foundational motivator.
This dynamic underscores why counter-ideological interventions alone are insufficient as prevention strategies: ideology is not the core problem but rather a convenient narrative backdrop against which members articulate and validate their primary motivations.
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Michael Senters the Sigillite:ABD (Uma 7th Next Week) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Thanks to @mjgault.bsky.social for letting me come on the Angry Planet pod and talk about the memes and stuff online culture in general. It was a great conversation and I got to talk about Gamergate too, which I always love to do. Go give it a listen if you’d like!
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Did a podcast about Nick Fuentes and his idiot groupies.
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Michael Senters the Sigillite:ABD (Uma 7th Next Week) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I wrote for @msnbc.com about what the engravings on the shell casings of Kirk’s shooter represent and where the references originated. Given what we know so far, they suggest a young man who had his brain fried by the irony poisoned, anti-social nature of certain aspects of online culture. /1
msnbc.com
Opinion | What the shell casings in the assassination of Charlie Kirk do – and don't – tell us
There have been a string of shootings in the past year where the performance of online culture played a key role.
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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
icymi, yours truly has some quotes in here
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Indebted to Alex for his expertise as well as the work of many other researchers who are combing through the most soul crushing spaces on the internet to help understand this darkness. Especially this exceptional piece by @hereticmasked.bsky.social and @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social
maargentino.com
Examining the Soyjak Attacker Video Fandom (Part I)
Analysis of SAVF, a hybrid threat network connected to Terrorgram Collective and com; tied to planned attacks & school shootings on 4 continents.
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Jean Slater @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
An excellent piece by @cwarzel.bsky.social about the Minneapolis attacker & the murder fandoms & NVE networks that act as a feedback reinforcement loop developing future atackers. Really important reading for everyone trying to make sense of where we’re at today & w/ gift link.
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Jean Slater @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This is an important piece about the Annunciation Church attacker’s writings. If you’re a practitioner who needs to make sense of the attack, or other NVE attacks, I strongly recommend reading this piece. I think it’s some of Marc-André’s best work.
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Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com · 29/08/2025
with the transcription now done, it is time to read the writings and the footprint of this attacker. T here is a lot to cover and I will have something on this incident next week. The case is more complex than what we can see on the surface, there are traps they want you to fall for.
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Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com · 08/08/2025
New blog post with @theondrakguy.bsky.social, @bluebilliejeans.bsky.social, @petersmith.bsky.social , & @hereticmasked.bsky.social on Spawnism a growing nihilistic violent extremist movement, using similar tactics techniques and procedures to target & harm minors www.maargentino.com/spawnism-car...
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Spawnism Carving Pixels into Flesh: Cult Coding Children Into Self-Harm and Online Child Sexual Exploitation
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