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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

doors on! and there goes the day! 😂 apologies for the broken lens on the camera still need a latch and key kind of setup but we haven't figured out exactly what we want #PoolPond #Greenhouse #DIY #Gardening #Home #EV

two halves of the door with the top swung open. The bottom door has a small shelf on top

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

back door hung! Will get another 2x6 to fill that gap. And we will stain it along with the rest of the wood. It is made of fir, (except the little inside trim on the plastic is yellow cedar) still need to decide on what the door latch/opener will be. #PoolPond #Greenhouse #DIY #Gardening #Home #EV

looking at the back of the greenhouse, they see a door closed with the gap on the opening side. Above is clear blue sky.

looking for the inside of greenhouse, the door is closed again the plastic obscures it's outside

looking at the door from the outside, the 2/2 are connected and swung out

now that 2/2 are disconnected and one the bottom is swung in a little bit and the top is out More

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Time to take some of the #PoolPond and #Greenhouse waste to the dump! This custom canvas cover for our trailer is on the best car related things I've ever bought next to the trailer itself. It was essential on our cross-country trip and it has been so […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

A picture from the front corner of the trailer showing the cover, partly pulled back to reveal pieces of cedar and other wood and waste inside the trailer. It is beside a blue sided house.

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

mission accomplished Here is our recipe for Sangria (actually "Summer Wine" in Spain... it's what they give the tourists. Real Sangria has no pop or sugar) ingredients (1 large juice jug) - [ ] oranges (2-cleaned unpeeled) - [ ] lemon (1) - [ ] 4tsp […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

two jugs full of red snagria and many floating slices of oranges and lemons

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

making sangria for one last time this year. Maybe making a new Thanksgiving tradition. But these oranges seem freakishly large. #Sangria #Mixology PS, the actual oranges came from South Africa. There are no American oranges in the local grocery store […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

two large pumpkins are seen in a shopping cart alongside a few bottles of Fanta and some oranges and lemons

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Trump turns to Putin and Russia for diesel, before the midterms, during a war, where the USA is — apparently — on the Ukrainian side. Russian stocks spike. Sanctions? what Sanctions? Allies? What Allies? Oh, and also on the same day that the USA […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

The fascist uttered:

Donald J. Trump « *
@realDonaldTrump
I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with
President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that
Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel
to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons
during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately
thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel
Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time,
3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel. Between our TOTAL CONTROL of
the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian
Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will
be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower
prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers,
and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. This is a very big and
important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood,
that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon! Thank you for your
attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Oct 09, 2026 at 11:46 AM

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

BCNDP continuing to trail behind the BC Conservatives across all of the polls done so far in October. The picture is not quite so bleak when looking at the progression of polls from the same companies. It’s a little more of a mixed bag. But the 48% for […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

Screenshot of the polls on Friday October 9

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Not sure how but we did something right raising our two kids… kid 1 voted as soon as she could a few years ago now and has continued… and kid 2 just voted for the first time today and was excited to do it. Yay. Parent Fist Bump 👊 #democracy #bcpoli #BCelection2026 #bcmuni

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

New polls that were completed up to Oct 2nd have the #BCNDP still trailing the #BCCP. But we’re moving into the meat of the election now, the initial shock is wearing off, and the issues are crystallizing. It was revealed yesterday thatlConservatives […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

The latest polls show 3 straight results with clear BCCP leads by Angus, Mainstreet, and Isos. Innovative Strategies is the last poll, taken September 27, showing an NDP lead. The largest gap between BCCP and NDP is +8 from Mainstreet.

A screenshot of the picture from the article with the title:

Rob Shaw: Conservatives should level with voters on ICBC plans

Leader Lorne Doerkson sent a letter pledging legislation to replace B.C!'s no-fault insurance model without making it public

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Since I’ve been watching the polls for the BC election… it seems relevant to see how the polls did predicting the election in Québec last night. The answer, ok. As an average across four different poll companies, they got the three top parties almost […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Hey! There is a script to remove Apple Intelligence models and turn off Siri in macOS 27. I just tried this on my laptop running MacOS 26 (I can’t update to 27 as per work policy) just to see how it would work on a system running 26 with Apple […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

The President of the United States joked about letting a foreign country “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego. Crickets…. From the voters of America. Suffice to say if Prime Minister Carney ever said this about Vancouver or St. John’s, the government […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

A picture of the front page of the LA Times website with Trump gesturing at a rally and the headline:

"Trump suggests letting Iran 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego
at campaign rally"

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Wow! The CAQ wiped off the map in Québec as the Parti Québécois wins a minority with less than 30% of the popular vote. Strong Liberal Opposition, large Conservative caucus (largest in 100 years?!), and significant Québec Solidaire seats as well […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

Screenshot from the CBC showing the results in seats.

Screenshot with a table of results including %

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

all cleaned up. a little left in the second boiler. final tally. 16 jars canned. +1 to put in the fridge tomorrow. A good night. Good night! 😴 🍇 #home #gardening #fruit #diy #canning

a conical spout pointed upwards in the large boiler pan

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Actually managed to get about 95% of the grapes into the steamer. I call that success! 3 more jars to go for canning then plus two that we will store fresh in the fridge. Things got a little messy there a couple times, but we’re all ok! 😂 I could do […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

The two big blue bins beside each other, the nearest has grapes covering most of the bottom, but is mostly liquid. The other has a large lump of mash

Kids and jars waiting in a bowl and sink

Another jar sits on the now stained chair lol

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

We are up to 13 jars. I underestimated the amount of juice we would get actually! So we’re going to finish here with some grapes left over but that’s ok. We have more than enough to last us a year and still give a couple away too Next year we will […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Had a bit of an overflow so got some fresh juice to test with. Cooled it off, and yup. It’ll do. Family approves too. #home #gardening #fruit #diy #canning

A small glass sits on a counter beside the sink. It has a small a,punt of purple juice in

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Grape swap time! Dumped out all the leavings from the top boiler into a 2nd blue bin. I always hate that there is rich purple juice still there! 😂 But if I squeezed it all out the night would never end and I would never have enough jars! Best to keep […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

The emptied top of the boiler with only some juice and a few skins still in the pot.

The second bin for the leavings is in front of the first bin which still has a fair amount of grapes in. There is a large lump of spent grapes surrounded by deep purple liquid, like grape blood.

Another jar sits on the box on the chair below the stove with the tall boiler and the counter with a large red bowl full of apples.

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

6 jars done. Almost out of wide mouth jars, switching to small mouth soon. First though, it will be time after jar 7 to empty the grape hopper completely and put in a full batch and refill the boiler with water too. #home #gardening #fruit #diy #canning

Six jars of deep purple grape juice sit cooling on a rack on the corner of a large wooden table

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Seemed appropriate to sample some of last year’s vintage while I waited. It’s hot in here! This is not Guinness. 😆 #home #gardening #fruit #diy #canning

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

First refill of the boiler for both water and grapes. Just adding to what has boiled down on top. Gives it a little bit more flavour from the skins and stems? I’ll empty the leavings on the next go. #home #gardening #fruit #diy #canning

The boiler sits with top open and a fresh mound of grapes inside.

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Last #backyardProject post of the weekend. The master builder came over and cut up our last piece of plastic. To use in the doors. He’s working on the doors in his shop. I moved a huge pile of wood and conbined it with the new scraps and also put a […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

A picture of the end of the filter pond where the large pile of wood has moved to reveal the last of the original liner extending over the yard near a blue tarp and pile of rocks.

After the liner and cloth is cut away to reveal the dirt

The chairs arranged in a circle on the gravel near the shed.

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

cleaning stuff up around the yard. Just realized I can leave the hose here for filling up the pool pond. Sort of just integrate it into the overflow it'll get covered by grass and stuff eventually anyway. The one in the front yard for the pandemic pod […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

starting Sunday off by cleaning the stream in the #pandemicpond. as it has naturalized one of the things that is both a blessing and a curse is moss! #mosstodon its great but it grows fast this time of year. So i am transplanting to help naturalize the […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

a lump of moss on the side of the pandemic pond stream

moss amongst the flat rocks at the tol of the screen

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

grapes picked! not a whole lot on the bottom vines as those are just new the past year since we trimmed everything way back when we redid the fence last fall. Bin is not quite full. Will be plenty for a dozen or more jars of juice! #poolpond #greenhouse #apple #gardening #bloomscroll #diy #harvest

a step ladder stands between the deck and fence beside a grape vine

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

the deck is cleared! A fair amount on the ground but 🤷‍♂️ what can ya do :) The bin is about half full! Not quite as many as last year I think, but that was expected as we trimmed the vine and encouraged it to lengthen over the whole deck this year. A […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

looking out across the deck the leaves are clear of grapes

the mound of grapes grows to fill half the blue bin slowly

two brqnches with a few leaves are at the second to last wood

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

do you do the hard part of a job first, or last. I am a first, kind of guy. So the big ladder is out to get the tall part of the arbour and over the stairs. The nice thing about the arbour is it is sort of split up into quadrants. Makes it feel like […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

looking up at a section of great barber the edge and first two rows of squares are clear of grapes under the leaves

looking down from the ladder in between the legs, there is a large rectangular blue bin slowly filling purple grapes

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

remember our little arbutus tree? It is not little! It is probably 12ft tall now and I am managing it so it can have a long trunk up beside the fence and then leaf and branch out above it! It is such a beast but so beautiful. I love arbutus trees!! […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

A small plum tree stands beside a blue chair and a hydrangea

how tall skinny Arbutus tree stands beside a wire fence on the edge of the yard. There's a large pile of rocks.

A ladder stands on the deck underneath an arbour with grapevines and lots of grapes visible in the gaps of the arbour

looking down on the pond and the large hazelnut tree

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Picking time! 🍎 🍇 I have been so focused on the #poolpond and #greenhouse the past three months that I haven't posted about the fruit trees in a long time! We also haven't had time to pick our apples from our amazing and very happy Blushing Delight […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

A large bowl of red and green apples sits on a wood table. It is surrounded by apples on the table.

A small apple tree grows in the corner side of Blue house and window and stairs

another small apple tree, which is a little more spread out gross front of the driveway. The leaves look a little smaller and damaged. The sky is gray and cloudy.

flowers at the end of new leaves on the tree with the blue house in the background

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Addendum: Just noticed that both BC Conservative candidates are sharing the same Financial Agent. In fact, upon closer inspection, Albert Chen is Financial agent for 7 ridings on Vancouver Island! Very very interesting. This could be an indication that […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

Chen appears on three consecutive ridings in this screenshot.

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Just went and took a peek at the current provincial candidate list at Elections BC. The deadline for candidates to have their papers in is today at 1PM. (elections.bc.ca/2026-provincial-ele…) Currently only 2 candidates here […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

A screenshot from the list shows 4 rows of text date with 5 columns of text in alternating white and grey rows. At the top row is Mid Island pacific rim with two candidates, their info and financial agents, then Nanaimo Gabriola with two more.

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Another #BCElection2026 poll out yesterday. This time from innovative Research. 338 has also updated their table to include both CentreBC and OneBC polling numbers which is good. They appear to be taking anywhere from 6 to 10% of the overall interest […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

A screenshot of the list of polls. Available at the link.

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

i was about to plug in my laptop as I do every morning at work and I my brain momentarily glitched and thought I had taken an old laptop with a SCSI connector!? 😂 😂 its a paperclip magnetized/stuck on the side from my bag. 🧲 I would not have had this […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fascinating, and encouraging, polling from Alberta with 19 days to go before the Referendum. It’s hard to get a 98% result in any poll. Nice to see Albertans not aligned with the UCP are very very aligned with Canada. It could very well have been 100% […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

Screenshot of the first horizontal bar graph shows all answers with between 60-70% red ‘remain’, except the top “UCP voters” row which is 40% remain.

text:Top 10 Alberta groups most likely to vote Option 2
• Hold separation referendum
Remain
Not sure
UCP voters
Lives in midsize cities
Unemployed
Very/somewhat religious
College educated or some university
Males
Has children
High school educated or less
Age 45 to 64
Lives outside Edmonton & Calgary
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Janet Brown Opinion Research survey of 1,200 Albertans, Sept. 8-21
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A second screenshot showing those least likely to vote for Option 2 (to hold a separation referendum)

All are between 77 and 90% except the NDP voters group, which is 98% remain!

text:Top 10 Alberta groups least likely to vote Option 2
MHold separation referendum
Remain |
Not sure
NDP voters
Current student
Post-graduate degree holders
University degree holders
Public sector employee
Not very/not religious
65+
Lived in Alberta 35+ years
Lived in Alberta 0-15 years
Retired
98
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Janet Brown Opinion Research survey of 1,200 Albertans, Sept 8-21
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Two new polls out over the past couple days. Since one of them is Léger, I’ve enlarged the screenshot to be able to see the last Léger poll, which was way back at the start of June. I’m not sure any kind of trend can really be taken from these. Both […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

A screenshot of a table of polls and results in orange, blue, green and yellow for NDP, CP, Green, and OneBC

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Writing this as people set off from Maht Mahs gymnasium, where the Alberni Indian Residential School was on the Tseshaht reserve in #portalberni for the annual walk from the reserve into town. Yesterday I felt like I would want to speak about how the […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Since we’re in a provincial election in BC, I guess we have to look to the polls. The campaign is so short… final voting day is less than a month away, and advance voting starts in just 18 days! The Angus Reid poll that came out last week — which […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

A screenshot of the list of polls from 338

A screenshot showing the results of the latest Augus Reid poll.

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