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Charles Mire 🇨🇦

@charlesmire.bsky.social
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Outdoors enthusiast, scientist, math nut, beer & wine nerd, 3D printing expert, recovering entrepreneur

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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 21h
In case you're wondering where that seat sits
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 2h
So this month the Toronto Sun published a piece about the Allison Inquiry that called vaccines "a crime against humanity at worst" and demanded arrests, and the National Post published a piece deeming Avi Lewis not just an enemy but a danger to Jewish people, with a thinly coded appeal to violence.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1h
🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 12h
"Everything about this referendum on separation and the other nine questions on the ballot – among other things they attempt to scapegoat immigrants for many of the province’s problems – is contemptible. It’s a phony, illegitimate exercise Ms. Smith has lent credibility to in order to save her job."
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Opinion: The ugly reckoning coming for Danielle Smith
The referendum, including the nine non-secession questions, is contemptible
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 21h
The idea that we are all supposed to stop calling AI “artificial intelligence” after these companies branded it as such for years and suddenly start calling it “SI” and “super intelligence” is cult-like levels of delusion
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h
* FRANCE'S MACRON: IF THE BRITISH PM WANTS BRITAIN TO RETURN TO THE EU THAT WOULD BE EXCELLENT NEWS AND A GOOD DECISION @reuters.com
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 4h
I get that the placebo effect plays a big role in sports. Still (cuz I'm old & grumpy) seeing all those BS nasal strips grates❗ Systematic review & meta-analysis: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 👉 "...no improvement in VO2max., HR and RPE outcomes in healthy individuals during exercise."
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Does the external nasal dilator strip help in sports activity? A systematic review and meta-analysis - European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
Background Numerous studies have shown that the external nasal dilator (END) increases the cross sectional area of the nasal valve, thereby reducing nasal resistance, transnasal inspiratory pressure, ...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 4h
Google has relented and is now willing to pay publishers whose content shows up in AI overviews. The pilot program has 100 publishers which hopefully expands significantly. We need the value exchange between websites and search engines to remain so we still have an open web.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Trump says people in communities where data centers are built will be paid a "dividend" (just like his $5,000 "Trump dividend"!)
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21h
It’s difficult to overstate how dangerous such a declaration would be for American democracy. It would mean a president is attempting to sidestep the Constitution, which empowers states to run elections, in order to prevent his party from losing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Could Trump take over voting by declaring a ‘national emergency’?
Advocates agree such an attempt would be blatantly unconstitutional but still worry that such an emergency order could suppress voting nonetheless.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Trump starts twitching in anger when a reporter tries to ask him about ICE
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 5h
Once you've got more money than you could ever spend, what's the point of earning another dollar? From my conversation with @RobinsonErhardt.bsky.social
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is not something you say if you actually like education or children
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 5h
End of the world The Globe and Mail by @deAdder Substack: deadder.substack.com/p/end-of-the...
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End of the world
Globe and Mail
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 21h
Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
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Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
VEVEY, SWITZERLAND - Nestlé executives gathered from around the world to announce their grave concern regarding the impact that artificial intelligence’s water consumption will have on their own abili...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 12h
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22h
🚨BREAKING: The Republican National Committee (RNC) is piloting a training program for Wisconsin election observers to identify discrepancies with voting machines, as the GOP piles additional scrutiny on voting processes in the swing state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP trained Wisconsin election observers to target voting machines in pivotal swing state
The new RNC program appears to mark an escalation from typical poll watching activities.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h
“Morally binding” “Police yourselves” lol ok
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 5h
Of course they're proud capitalists. They help keep a system based on maintaining inequality & bowing to the wealthy in operation www.reuters.com/business/med...
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We are capitalists: US Democrats push back against communist label ahead of midterms
Democrats in competitive midterm races are increasingly declaring themselves proud capitalists, worried that Republican accusations of socialism and communism could sway critical swing voters this Nov...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 22h
Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 22h
Lol. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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MAGA Media Is Trying to Spin Senator's Brutal Gaffe Into a Win
MAGA media is covering Eric Schmitt's gaffe during a hearing with Jack Smith as a win, claiming he caught the former special counsel in a lie.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 8h
France faces historic purchasing power crisis: Since 2024, families have lost €1,200/year on average
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France faces historic purchasing power crisis: Since 2024, families have lost €1,200/year on average
Real wages have been falling since 2019 – a rare phenomenon – but, for a long time, social transfers and income from assets made up for it. In 2025 and 2026, that is no longer the case. As a result, average purchasing power fell over two consecutive years, something that only happened twice since 1960.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A prominent election denier whom the Trump administration hired to pursue investigations into election-related conspiracy theories has resigned several months after he failed to find evidence that the 2020 presidential race was stolen. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election denier Kurt Olsen leaves DOJ after failing to find evidence of stolen election
A prominent election denier whom the Trump administration hired to pursue investigations into election-related conspiracy theories has resigned several months after he failed to find evidence that the...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2026
That'll definitely work in quieting the story.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social · 15h
It was AFTER Confederation, took 10 years of stop-and-start planning first, and the 1881-1885 construction phase went HALFWAY across Canada—just Ontario to B.C.—without labour standards or consideration of Indigenous people. This mythologizing of the CPR is in itself a mark of unseriousness.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 15h
Albertans deserve a different vision of the province and country's energy future than the one-sided one their government is trying to feed them. Instead, we get this:
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 6h
The US-owned National Post is urging Canadian Jews to take matters into their own hands to punish Avi Lewis for speaking up against the genocide in Gaza. They reference the Bible to bury alive and consume by fire. This is extremist hate. It needs to get called out. nationalpost.com/opinion/yoni...
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Yoni Goldstein: Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis
His Yom Kippur message was indefensible
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 10h
World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 15h
Ontario refuses to live up to their federal agreement on child care and demands a lot more money for what is ultimately their responsibility. The federal government is letting them get away with it. Cooperative federalism! *jazz hands*
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Affordable child-care program extended in Ontario, but not to $10 a day
VAUGHAN - Ontario and the federal government have agreed to extend the national affordable child-care program in the province for another four years, but it comes with no promises of
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 11h
I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 15h
Oh, look— @cdnpress.bsky.social has an immigration story. Let's go through the checklist: ✅ Quotes Carney's "take back control" without pointing out this is Nigel Farage's language ✅ Ignores the culpability of provinces who demanded more immigration and then did fuck all to accommodate them
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PM looks at when to boost immigration as government gets system 'under control'
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says that with Canada's immigration system back under control, the question now is when to begin a "controlled increase" of the country's population.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 14h
Incidentally, nobody is going to pay for this pipeline other than Ontario. Nobody wants to turn Line 5 into a stranded asset.
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Doug Ford says Ontario taxpayers will invest in proposed pipeline from Alberta to Sarnia
A Liberal MPP on Tuesday compared the project to the Ontario premier's proposal for a tunnel under Highway 401.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 14h
The National Post is using language that seems wildly irresponsible and dangerous here Citing ancient “Jewish law,” it labels Avi Lewis as a “rodef” The ultranationalist extremist who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin rationalized his killing on the same basis: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...
None of this applies, however, when a Jewish person presents a clear and present danger to the Jewish community. When that happens, Jewish thought is much more forceful: you must prevent the perpetrator from
causing harm.

Jewish law developed two character sketches to describe such scenarios. The first is known as a "mosar" — a Jewish person who informs to oppressive
authorities, potentially leading to the imprisonment, torture or death of community members. The second, called a "rodef," refers to a Jew who is actively pursuing another with the intent to harm or kill them. In both scenarios, the law is clear that a Jew is duty-bound to step in. Protecting the community and its members is the most important thing.It was around then that Yigal Amir, an earnest law student, made up his mind to kill the prime minister. Later he would insist he was not swayed by extremist rabbis; he had reached his own decision that Rabin - through his willingness to cede territory and to allow the creation of a Palestinian Authority, with its own armed police force - was a rodef and therefore a legitimate target. He got a weapon easily enough. With his brother, Amir was working on the creation of an anti-Palestinian militia. Nor was access difficult; on at least three occasions before the rally, Amir attended public events where Rabin was present. He was waiting for the right moment: he didn't want to shoot and miss.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Eric Schmitt is what happens when a state becomes so red that you don’t need to be a talented politician to become a US Senator. And to be fair, there are examples of this in blue states too. Iron sharpens iron.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 15h
Oh fuck off. It was not a "neutral takedown." This is just pandering to Danielle Smith's Big Lie, and is inventing whole cloth a history of federalism that never existed, and which provinces don't actually want. Stop pretending that this is actually helping combat separatism. It's really not.
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Government overreach the true motivation behind Alberta separatism, not Canada itself, Poilievre says
In an Edmonton speech, the Conservative leader set aside Liberal attacks in favour of a more neutral takedown of Ottawa's relentless excesses
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18h
Speaker Mike Johnson is warning of a “nightmare scenario” if Republicans lose the House: Democrats could investigate Trump, his family, his Cabinet, GOP donors and powerful business figures.
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MAGA Speaker Johnson Calls Trump Family Investigations a ‘Nightmare’ Ahead of Midterms
With control of Congress at stake in November, Johnson warned that Democratic committees would investigate Trump, his family, cabinet officials and major donors—and claimed that accountability would t...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h
FT has independently corroborated Kimberly Guilfoyle’s statement that the US was behind the collapse of the Romanian government of PM Bolojan over its refusal to buy US gas at above market prices: "We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here too." www.ft.com/content/7af7...
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Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece causes stir in Romania
Kimberly Guilfoyle told embassy dinner in Athens ‘we can do that to any country’, in reference to Romanian government’s fall
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18h
Buying fast food for my family, it’s over $50, which feels like a lot. Not unreasonable from the restaurant, but like going out to dinner, not grabbing something cheap. So I looked up fast food prices, and they’ve risen faster than inflation. Add that to the why people say stuff’s expensive list.
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Chart of the Day: Fast Food Inflation
Today’s Chart of the Day shows the inflation of fast-food prices over the last of 10 years vs. actual inflation of everything else.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18h
NEW: The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge brought by the Democratic National Committee that could determine if state judges can extend polling hours after election-day disruptions threaten voting access. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court agrees to hear case on expanded voting hours during Election Day disruptions
The DNC is asking the justices to clarify whether Wisconsin courts can extend voting hours when election-day problems threaten voters’ constitutional right to vote.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 16h
Wait, he signed an executive order to literally “replace the term “Artificial Intelligence” (“AI”) with “Super Intelligence” (“SI”)” ?? www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
Fact Sheet: President
Donald J. Trump Inaugurates The Era of Super Intelligence
The White House
September 29, 2026

USHERING IN SUPER INTELLIGENCE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to replace the term "Artificial Intelligence" ("Al") with "Super Intelligence" ("SI") in the executive branch to recognize the continuously advancing technological frontier and the limitless promise it offers the American people.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Trump thinks that because he's changed the name of AI, now all concerns expressed about it previously are a hoax. The illogic is breathtaking. (Note that in this clip he's also lying about economic growth.)
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 21h
It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"
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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 21h
A coalition of Ontario health-care workers gathered in downtown Toronto on Tuesday to denounce the provincial government’s plan to remove bike lanes on three major roadways across the city. #ToPoli #OnPoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Ontario health-care coalition denounces province's plan to remove bike lanes across Toronto | CBC News
A coalition of Ontario health-care workers gathered in downtown Toronto on Tuesday to denounce the provincial government’s plan to remove bike lanes on three major roadways across the city.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20h
It's official: Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from Bryon Noem.
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Kristi Noem files for divorce from Bryon Noem
The announcement of the separation comes six months after a bombshell tabloid photo leak of her husband, Bryon Noem.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A good reminder from Ed that not everyone will be able to afford a personal agent — even as the Internet is re-wired around them. @edmundlee.bsky.social #Muse
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2026
The thing is, Schmitt is very, very dumb. He may not be Tuberville dumb, but he's up there. Going all the way back to his time as Missouri AG, he is simply not a smart person.
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RE: Bike lanes save lives and promote health. Removing bike lanes will lead to injury and death. #signed by 600 healthcare workers and counting via #doctorsforsafecycling h/t @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @ffsafestreets.bsky.social @cycletoronto.bsky.social @safestreetsto.bsky.social #BikeTO
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Tuesday allowed a pro-voting challenge to Louisiana’s proof-of-citizenship voter registration law to move forward, including claims that the law discriminates against voters based on national origin. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Judge greenlights challenge to Louisiana anti-voting law, citing discrimination claims
The judge found that the pro-voting plaintiffs had plausibly alleged that officials in Lafayette Parish discriminated against some registration applicants based on national origin.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 21h
Easy mistake
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