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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 13h

ModRetro is owned by Lucky Palmer, an openly fascist techbro with over $22billion in contracts with the US military primarily via his other company, Anduril Industries do not support ModRetro, and shame on any games journalist who glazes either the company or any of its products

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Uniflame @uniflame.bsky.social · 15h

Vaquita fridge magnets!

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charliesdragon.bsky.social @charliesdragon.bsky.social · 15h

A common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) and a spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) are getting ready to show all the appreciation for their smallest cousin during #SaveTheVaquita week. For more info and the stream schedule, check vaquita.mx What are they using for make-up? Squid ink, maybe?

A drawing of a common dolphin and a spinner dolphin. The common dolphin is holding a make-up brush while the spinner dolphin says "You're making it look like I have two black eyes," referring to the dark patch around their eye. The common dolphin replies "That's just what Vaquita looks like and we're all getting dressed up for their celebration."

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Kasey Snow @kaseysnow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The event schedule for "Save the Vaquita Week" on Twitch is live!!! Check it out & save the dates: savethevaquitas.carrd.co We have artists, science communicators, gamers, & more using their platform to spread the word! Big thanks to everyone who has joined so far! #SaveTheVaquita

Save the Vaquita Week 2027 event calendar for Twitch!

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Kasey Snow @kaseysnow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Calling all artists, streamers, and citizens of the internet! #SavetheVaquita Week is Oct 11-17th, and you can help! With fewer than 20 left, these little porpoises are almost gone and hardly anyone knows about them. Let's change that by flooding the web with vaquita content! Share and read on! +

Save the Vaquita Week October 11-17th 2026
With fewer than 20 estimated remaining, the vaquita is the most endangered marine
mammal on the planet. Found only in Mexico's Gulf of California, this little porpoise
is a relative of whales & dolphins and is the smallest of the cetaceans.

Vaquita are accidentally caught in illegal gillnets set for the totoaba fish, and they
sadly drown as bycatch. Fishermen seek out the totoaba for it's swim bladder
which is valued at many thousands of dollars in illegal markets.

Without intervention, the vaquita will soon be gone.

But you can help!

For one week, the goal is to flood the internet
with vaquita content. Use #SaveTheVaquita to
share art, videos, streams, and more on any
platform. If we all do a little, it adds up to a lot!

Image of Vaquita and calf in lower right by CassWArt

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Emma LeRae @emmalerae.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

No War But Class War!!!! Prints and stickers are available in my store, including versions without the text. www.emmalerae.com/store.html

Artwork depicting 3 Ceratosaurus dinosaurs teaming up to take down a larger Ceratosaurus. The artwork is made of blues, pinks, and oranges. Below the artwork it reads "No War But Class War".

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Emma LeRae @emmalerae.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Crush Your Oppressors More angry art and then back to my serene piece. You can now order prints, stickers, and apparel at the usual haunts. Prints and Stickers: www.emmalerae.com/store.html Apparel: emmalerae.threadless.com

A color illustration in blues, purples, and literal splashes of red of a Argentinosaurus crushing a Mapusaurus while two others watch in horror. Beneath are the words “Crush Your Oppresssors”.

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thebooksnail.bsky.social @thebooksnail.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I made a deck builder, Vaquita Vanguard, for #SaveTheVaquita day (Oct 10th). The cards showcase some conservation activities that are done to help save the vaquita. Browser game playable on PC or mobile. gx.games/games/3yn0hv...

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I haven't posted anything for a while, so here's some new #paleoart for #FossilFriday: Cetiosaurus in a Middle Jurassic landscape. I've had to compose and execute this in just two days, so hopefully it looks OK! (All data for the plant recons comes from @palaeojules.bsky.social.) #dinosaur #sciart

A long-necked dinosaur walks along a shallow river surrounded by various Jurassic trees, ferns and shrubs. A small predatory dinosaur watches from the nearest riverbank.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here's a freshly-found Gastonia osteoderm (with a visually helpful plastic Gastonia model) for #FossilFriday out here at Lorrie's Site in eastern Utah. This is the world's largest and most prolific ankylosaur bonebed, with all the specimens we're excavating going to @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social

Photo of ankylosaur armor plate and plastic Gastonia in my hand, with the quarry in the background

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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Coming up is also #SaveTheVaquita Week! There are many ways to get involved this year to spread awareness! Join in and create something for the event and post it to social media during Save the Vaquita Week! This card can help get you started!

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Ana Voltz 🏳️‍⚧️ @anavoltzart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Weird thing: I saw a croc on my run today!!! Definitely surprising to see one so far north? (I had to do a double take) But it was just hanging out at edge of the pond… Poor guy seems lonely

A picture of a croc on the shore of a pond (the croc is a shoe)

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.com · 22/09/2026

Looking at home decor this season and mildly entertained by the post apocalyptic color palettes Would you like your cozy throw pillows in fascist ash, depresso espresso, or a nice Werner Herzog beige?

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Attention Philadelphia! We need your help saving the Academy of Natural Sciences! The Save the Academy Coalition needs volunteers to help hand out organizing flyers in front of the museum this weekend, Sept 25-27. Please sign up here if you can take a shift! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Help Save the Academy: Volunteer to talk with visitors and hand out flyers at the Academy.

Sign up for a shift outside the Academy of Natural Sciences during its last open days: Fridays to Sundays, Sept 18 to 20 and 25 to 27, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Volunteers will be on the ground outside the Ac...

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Eris ⌬ @eriskii.net · 18/09/2026

"Pope gifted green orb" "Trump threatens EU over Canada" "Chipotle partners with Palantir" What the fuck is going on anymore they're just making this shit up now

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Kasey Snow @kaseysnow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Working on this piece some more tonight! Let's paint some sauropods in dramatic lighting! twitch.tv/kaseysnowart #paleoart #SciArt

rough painting sketch of Sauropods gathering around a river in a dense forest

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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Save the Vaquita Week" Twitch Schedule is live!!! Check it out & save the dates: savethevaquitas.carrd.co Not a streamer? No problem! There are many ways to get involved this year! Join in and create something for the event! This card can help get you started! #SaveTheVaquita #Conservation

A post designed to encourage people to join in on Save The Vaquita Week!

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charliesdragon.bsky.social @charliesdragon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Twitch.tv, a site for playing games and animal conservation! We can't let the vaquita -- the panda of the sea, the little cow -- go extinct. #savethevaquita #twitch #conservation #wildlife #livestream #whales #porpoises #cetacean youtu.be/e_DWQnpBG_8?...

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Save the Vaquita Week 2026: Oct 11-17!🐬Let's Save the Vaquita Porpoise!

YouTube video by Kasey Snow

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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Homology

Digital drawing. A burst of hands/forelimbs of a variety of terrestrial vertebrates emerges from the fin of a mostly unseen fishapod in the bottom left corner. The forelimbs gradually point more towards the upper left corner as you move up through the bunch.

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Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In observation of their extinction, 90 years ago today: the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia's very own thylacine (Photo by thylacine-dreams on tumblr)

A somewhat ratty-looking thylacine taxidermy mount with a white support belt around its body and inaccurate fangs

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Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

There are over 20,000 specimens in the Academy's vertebrate paleontology collection, 450+ of which are type specimens — the first dinosaurs described from the United States, the dire wolf holotype, ichthyosaurs potentially collected by Mary Anning herself(!), and much, much more....

Ten of the very first dinosaur teeth from America (four tyrannosaur teeth, one hadrosaur tooth, and an assortment of random Ornithischia), pictured atop Joseph Leidy's original 1856 description naming Palaeoscincus, Trachodon, Troodon, and Deinodon)

The holotype left maxilla of the dire wolf, collected from Indiana and described by Joseph Leidy

The skeleton of Ichthyosaurus somersetensis, which arrived at the Academy in the 1840s (possibly a specimen collected by Mary Anning - the paper trail is inconclusive) and finally recognized as a unique species in 2017

The cervical vertebrae of the long-necked Elasmosaurus, which was originally and infamously described back-to-front with its head on the end of its tail by Edward Drinker Cope, a blunder that arguably helped kickstart the Bone Wars. A placard is propped up on the bones depicting the old and new interpretation of the skeleton, with the helpful caption "Everyone makes mistakes."

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Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This #FossilFriday it only seems appropriate to spotlight the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences, oldest natural history museum in the Americas and currently in budgetary peril. 🧵 Thread to follow, with links to support the museum. First: Thomas Jefferson's fossil collection...

Mastodon teeth collected from Big Bone Lick, Kentucky by Lewis and Clark for President Jefferson. Photo: Justin Tweet

A massive partial skull of Bison latifrons, originally exhibited in the Peale Museum of Philadelphia and later catalogued in the collections of the American Philosophical Society

Jefferson's personal Megalodon tooth (yes, really), sent to him from South Carolina. The president's name is written across the left margin of the tooth

An illustration of the phalanges and claws of the giant ground sloth Megalonyx, originally described and named by Jefferson himself

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charliesdragon.bsky.social @charliesdragon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Utah is one of the worst places for data centres (especially AI/LLM data centres) in terms of already being warm and not having an excess of water. It would affect both people and nature. Don't do it.

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Sam, Polite Menace 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈 @wanderolah.northsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Man must dispose of an ugly ring he inherited from his Uncle.

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Jeffrey Winfield 💙 🌈 🫂 🫘 🏳️‍🌈 @maverickhammed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🚨 Norway’s King Harald V dies at 89 and his son becomes king. Europe’s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, who went into exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his homeland, has died. He was the greatest King since his father Olav. R.I.P. King Harald. #HaraldV

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Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Did you know that we had nicknamed a special 🦕in honor of Dolly Parton? "Dolly" is the first dino with a respiratory infection. And "Dolly" is also a new genus. Teaser image: I often use pieces of art as human scale bars, but I could think of nothing more fitting than Dolly with "Dolly."

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charliesdragon.bsky.social @charliesdragon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It would help if Metazooa's phylogenies were correct. 😒 🐔 Animal #1119 🐇 I figured it out in 11 guesses! 🟧🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 5.8 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Metazooa

Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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Emma LeRae @emmalerae.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dinosaurs Survived! Series 4 is here with 5 new dinosaurs and 6 new birds. www.emmalerae.com/store.html Bearded Vulture with Monolophosaurus Western Meadowlark and Anzu Budgies and a Cockatiel with Astralovenator Pallas's Sandgrouse with Guanlong Goldcrest with Archaeopteryx #paleoart #sciart

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Here's a piece of Paleozoic fossil coral for this week's #FossilFriday ...found in the Early Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation How's that possible? It's been 'reworked' — having already been fossilized ~300 million years ago, it had eroded out, tumbled smooth, and been reburied in the Cretaceous

Ethan's hand holding a piece of Paleozoic (Carboniferous?) coral, dark in color and smooth except for the pronounced dimples characteristic of coral polyps.

Found by crewmate Ethan Cowgill, July 2026

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Unkindness Art, Richmond.

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Kasey Snow @kaseysnow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#SaveTheVaquita week is Oct 11-17th this year! There are fewer than 20 vaquita left and very few people know about them--we want to change that! Savethevaquitas.carrd.co Last year over 30 streamers came together to raise over $14,000 and tons of awareness! Applications close Monday, August 24th!

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Kasey Snow @kaseysnow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'll be at Colorado Springs Comic Con Aug 21-23 at Table 1113 in the "Ice Arena!" I've got lots of new prints, cards, stickers (including the NoAI one), & original sculptures! I'll also have a life-sized vaquita with me to promote Save the Vaquita Week! #cscc2026 #ColoradoSpringsComicCon

Photo of convention artist alley setup of Kasey Snow with text "this is what my table will look like (more or less)" in red

Floor plan map of the Broadmore World Arena Ice Hall at Colorado Springs Comic Con. Drawing of arrows from entrance leading to table 1113 in the center where Kasey Snow will be.

"NoAI" in handcarved appearance surrounded by animals, nature, and symbols of human creativity

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Ana Voltz 🏳️‍⚧️ @anavoltzart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Don't make the utahraptors angry with you...

A digital painting of a utahraptor standing and looking menacing. Flames create an orange glow in front of the raptor. He looks pretty badass, honestly

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Margaret Hamilton, a pioneer of software engineering who led NASA's in-flight software team for the Apollo mission, was born #OTD in 1936. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Image: NASA

A black and white photo of Margaret Hamilton standing next to a stack of printouts, the code that she and her team wrote for the Apollo Lunar Module. She is wearing a short, striped dress and sandals. Hamilton has long hair past her shoulders and wears glasses. She is looking at the stack of code, which is taller than her, smiling and steadying it with her hands.

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charliesdragon.bsky.social @charliesdragon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Third day in a row I get it in three guesses. 🐮 Animal #1110 🐂 I figured it out in 3 guesses! 🟨🟩🟩 🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 5.8 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Metazooa

Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 12/08/2026

Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...

Training for Generative AI

Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization (such as real-time sponsorship campaign assistance), viewer discovery (such as recommendations), and community safety (such as AutoMod). Learn more

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Publisher is This Earth Press, not what I said below. Sadler's Dinosaur Frontier is an extremely impressive book; I still have yet to submit a full review of this 2025 book. #dinosaurs #books

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Pantrywoman @pantrywoman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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Kasey Snow @kaseysnow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sign ups are live now until August 24th for Save the Vaquita Week 2026! If you are a Twitch streamer who wants to be involved, sign up here: savethevaquitas.carrd.co I'm chatting about it live today from 5PM-7PM MT (UTC -6) on Twitch.tv/KaseySnowArt if you wanna know more! #SaveTheVaquita #Vaquita

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Join KaseySnowArt on Twitch in saving the Vaquita porpoise

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Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.com · 01/08/2026

Went to the GastroPark in CT and didn’t realize how appropriately I had dressed for it

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Happy #FossilFriday! Here's just a handful of the jackets we've pulled out of our bonebed over the past couple weeks. Unnamed (new!) iguanodont dinosaur Earliest Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, ~142 mya BLM federal public land Grand County, Utah, USA

Selfie photo of me with about a dozen small plaster field jackets containing the bones of a new iguanodont dinosaur

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/07/2026

1. Amnesty International has withstood threats from death squads and dictators. But it could not stand up to JK Rowling and the anti-trans movement she finances. It has apologized for calling those groups "anti-rights" after legal threats. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Amnesty International UK Caves To JK Rowling, Issues Apology For Calling Anti-Trans Groups "Anti-Rights"

The organization has stood up to dictators and death squads, but Rowling and the UK's anti-speech laws were apparently too much.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've been digging dinosaurs since 2011 and not had a bad flip yet 💪🏽

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

How do you tune rubber chickens 😭 IG: @ vinheteiro

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

'we can now use the sludge machine to generate the rest of fragmented specimens' no you can't???

Part of an article in Florida Trend: "Other AI projects are in progress at the Florida Museum. One tries to quantify levels of coloration within a specimen to learn more about prey-predator dynamics. Another leverages generative AI to help fill gaps in incomplete fossil records, reconstructing fragmented artifacts within a level of certainty. In the future, Porto says he'd love to see what data he could scrape from the museum's collection of 16,000-plus 3D scans of vertebrate skeletons." not how fossils work

"Another leverages generative AI to help fill gaps in incomplete fossil records, reconstructing fragmented artifacts within a level of certainty."

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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“What a beautiful universe, hon" says a telescope as gazes upon an aurora borealis. “It really is”, responds the telescope's partner, who it turns out is not a telescope, but a microscope. Hands full of algae, she wades waist deep in a disgusting swamp, amazed by the heavenly microscopic life all around them.

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 21/07/2026

That scene got so much funnier to me after watching @paleontologizing.bsky.social and finding out how little a dinosaur dig costs. He's crowdfunded them via Twitch. I'd bet just one of those land rovers in the park alone cost more than funding Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler's dig for three years.

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Joshua Lively, PhD @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

TBH, I don’t give a damn if another T. rex is getting auctioned. How about every fossil site we’ve ever worked in Grand Staircase NO LONGER being within the monument?!? Let’s talk about protecting fossils on PUBLIC land.

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