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Dr Kim Stewart

@drkimscrolls.bsky.social
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Social worker, community radio trainer, anti-fascism, academic UniSQ. Living on stolen Yagera land, Tulmur. Love frogs & cats. Accessibility projects I'm involved in with peeps with disability. crisponairblog.wordpress.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13h
"A series of deadly heat waves from May to August overwhelmed Germany’s healthcare and emergency response systems and led to an estimated 16,000 heat-related deaths during the summer, the most heat mortalities ever recorded in the highly developed country."
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Mass Heat Wave Deaths in Europe Show Climate Extremes Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts - Inside Climate News
As preparedness lags, many regions around the world could be overwhelmed by rising temperatures, climate experts warn.
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Dr Kim Stewart @drkimscrolls.bsky.social · 15h
Spending some of childhood in #Queensland during the Joh era, a lot of books were banned as filth by Rona Joyner's Society To Outlaw Pornography. The list includes classics, but also feminist books. #BannedBooksWeek is a US librarians initiative close to my heart 💜 www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/rona-jo...
Massive list of classic novels banned during the Joh era where prudes, religious bigots, misogynists, and racists controlled what people were allowed to read.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Excerpts from the tremendous public service & public resource that is the HANSON DOSSIER - the "complete public accountability record of Pauline Hanson. Drawn from court judgments, parliamentary records, AEC data, and verified journalism" Share it & keep it handy‼️ 👉 thehansonrecord.com
Excerpt from the HANSON DOSSIER

Senator Hanson had a tendency to make racist, discriminatory, hateful, derogatory and Islamophobic statements, particularly in relation to persons of colour, migrants to Australia and Muslims. She was found to be an argumentative witness who would say anything which came to mind if she felt it would suit her at the time. - Justice Angus Stewart, Federal Court of Australia - Faruqi v Hanson, November 2024. 
This is a formal judicial finding made after hearing Hanson testify under oath. It is not a political opinion. It is the considered judgment of an Australian Federal Court judge.Excerpt from a section titled The Verdict in the HANSON DOSSIER

Pauline Hanson has spent 30 years telling Australians she is one of them. A battler. A plain-speaker. A politician who cuts through the rubbish and fights for ordinary people against a self-serving political class and the wealthy elites who have rigged the system. That story does not match what she has actually done.

She has been found guilty of racial discrimination by the Federal Court of Australia. She has been suspended from the Senate and censured 55 votes to 5. Her senior staff were caught on hidden camera trying to sell Australia's gun laws to American lobbyists for up to $20 million. She personally cast doubt on the Port Arthur massacre on hidden camera. She has accepted a $2 million plane from Australia's richest billionaire and undisclosed jet flights from that same billionaire. She billed taxpayers to attend that billionaire's fundraising events on a luxury cruise ship. She placed her daughter in a $150,000 taxpayer-funded job and banned the journalist who asked about it from all future access. She attended just 12 per cent of Senate estimates hearings over her career while being paid a full senator's salary. She promoted vaccine misinformation linking vaccines to autism and cancer. She published a book claiming Aboriginal women ate their babies to "demonstrate savagery" and used it to raise funds for her party.Excerpt from a section titled The Verdict in the HANSON DOSSIER cont'd

While doing all of that, she has voted against wage increases for workers, against childcare funding for families, against housing affordability policies, against public school funding, against renewable energy, against renters' rights, against COVID vaccine urgency as Australians were dying in aged care, and against nearly every social safety net mechanism that would actually help the working-class Australians she claims to represent.

She changed her party's constitution in 2017 to give herself lifetime leadership and the sole right to choose her own successor, making One Nation constitutionally indistinguishable from a personal fiefdom. Seven senators have quit or been expelled from the party since 2016. The party founded on anti-establishment populism is now bankrolled by a mining billionaire worth tens of billions of dollars, flying on her private jet and attending her fundraisers on a luxury cruise ship.

The people who pay the price for Pauline Hanson's political career are the ordinary Australians she claims to represent. The record is public. The choice is yours.Excerpt from the HANSON DOSSIER

Table comparing the policy position of One Nation, Labor, Coalition and the Greens on 13 policies relating to: Climate Science, Gun Laws, Worker Pay Rises, ABC and SBS, Renewable Energy, Housing Affordability, Childcare, Public School Funding, Abortion Rights, UN Membership, Multiculturalism, Trans Healthcare, and Press Freedom

[On every single one, One Nation has a regressive, frequently far-right radical stance]
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Government promised no access changes to the NDIS before 1 January 2028. They've already started, per the tribunal. And the big 50% social and community participation cuts are now in force. Families tell me they will have to give up care of children. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Exclusive: NDIS changes secretly brought forward
An Administrative Review Tribunal decision reveals that the government is already implementing NDIS access restrictions it promised would not take effect for more than a year.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 02/10/2026
Tight-knit officer relationships are silencing victims of sexual violence by police, inquiry hears
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Inquiry hears 'blue code of silence' stops DV victims reporting police
Victim-survivors of police officers are concerned they will not be believed or treated seriously because of the "interconnected relationships" that police have with each other, a Tasmanian inquiry hears.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Westpac Palantir
Thanks for signing!You've just joined thousands of people telling Westpac to ditch Palantir. Westpac is betting its customers never find out about this deal,…
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Adani Mining's total income for 2024-25 from its Queensland Carmichael coalmine was $1,315,844,890. It's taxable income was zero. Since opening in 2021 its tax payable has been zero. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Billions of dollars, none of it taxed: ATO reveals the tech giants paying zero income tax
Database names big companies – including Microsoft subsidiary and Netflix – that pay little corporate tax but notes there could be legitimate reasons
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 01/10/2026
Students receive $7.55 million settlement from University of Newcastle for unaccredited engineering degree
abc.net.au
$7.55 million settlement awarded to students whose degrees were unaccredited
The University of Newcastle has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit for $7.55 million after 163 students alleged it had engaged in misleading conduct after their engineering degree was found to be unaccredited.
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Dr Kim Stewart @drkimscrolls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Starbucks your coffee is on the wrong side of history #Genocide #FreePalestine
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Dr Kim Stewart @drkimscrolls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Disability human rights at risk in US courts. "the federal government has made a determination that [disabled people] don't have a right to live in freedom, that they can be locked up against their will" #Disability www.npr.org/2026/10/01/n...
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Trump administration reverses stance on integration of people with disabilities
Disability rights advocates are angered by the latest reversal but are rallying behind proposed legislation and working with states to strengthen protections for community integration.
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Dr Kim Stewart @drkimscrolls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Love that picture!
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A quick Q&A profile with my friend Sasha - who has done a great job with others in Lane Cove to stop one the of many planned data centres #auspol > womensagenda.com.au/latest/sasha...
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Sasha Titchkosky on how a Sydney community fought a $1.2 billion data centre development and won
Sasha Titchkosky shares how a local community stopped a data centre and why the fight against future projects continues.
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 30/09/2026
​​"I will be frank with the prime minister," says Maina Talia. "It is about the survival of my people. We can be very diplomatic and be problematic at the same time." trib.al/hhLssU9
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Tuvalu criticises its ‘good neighbour’
In a scathing interview, Tuvalu’s climate minister criticises Australia’s inaction on phasing out fossil fuels, and the ‘unacceptable’ absence of global leaders at the Pacific talks.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Raising the rate of JobSeeker would save lives" Charmaine Crowe from ACOSS for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
thepoint.com.au
Raising the rate of JobSeeker would save lives
For decades, successive governments have kept unemployment payments in Australia below all accepted measures of adequacy - JobSeeker now sits at just 41% of the minimum wage, and Youth Allowance is ev...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Dr Kim Stewart @drkimscrolls.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Agreed. A great unintended outcome.
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Dr Kim Stewart @drkimscrolls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Petrol so expensive in #Tulmur #Ipswich they want payment in advance. I blame #Trump and his illegal, immoral war in Iran. #EndAukus #AusPol
Petrol sign between 223.9 and 277.3 per litre $au
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Dr Kim Stewart @drkimscrolls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good news from people power. #DataCentres #AI www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Controversial Sydney data centre project pulled amid community anger
A controversial proposed data centre has been withdrawn by its developer after it became a flashpoint amid growing opposition to the AI infrastructure development across the country.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m devastated this morning. We have just had two of our @asrc1 social enterprise catering vans stolen. Roller door smashed. Food stolen. Safe destroyed. Staff distressed. TWO VANS LICENSE PLATES - mini vans with ASRC Catering on them Renault is 1UO2YV Peugeot is 2DW4TB
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Australia has become fluent in women’s survival strategies, but has very little to say about the men." Andrew Brown on failure of domestic violence responses by authorities/govt #auspol michaelwest.com.au/domestic-vio...
michaelwest.com.au
Domestic violence crisis needs more than words and flowers - Michael West
So far this year, 52 women and 21 children have died from domestic violence in Australia, an epidemic that cannot be stopped by words alone.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lies, more lies, then some lies from this man. Thankfully much of the world (with the shameful exception of Australia) is finally moving to sanction Israeli settlements and parts of the machinery of dispossession and genocide.
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Dr Kim Stewart @drkimscrolls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Birthday David Attenborough #100 #Pumpkins 💯🎁
Portrait of David Attenborough made from pumpkins. Brings back your faith in humanity.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Concern? How about arrest the f*cker?? Cripes. If you or I hacked Medicare, the AFP would bash down our doors. AI does it? Oopsies! I am concerned! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman
Prime minister says he told chief executive he was disappointed it had taken company ‘way too long’ to inform government of breach
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Dr Kim Stewart @drkimscrolls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@albomp.bsky.social clearly didn't read the room at the UN. #AusPol
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Jess Harwood Art @jessharwoodart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today’s comic in @australia.theguardian.com - in celebration and defence of Multicultural Australia! I wouldn’t be here without it, and I love it 😻 (but don’t hear that many people cheering it on recently).
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#OTD in 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant all adult women the right to vote in national parliamentary elections. The first election held after this milestone was in November 1893--an incredible 82% of registered female voters voted. #WomensSuffrage
This image shows a bronze bas-relief detail from the Kate Sheppard National Memorial located on Oxford Terrace in Christchurch, New Zealand. A tribute to New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, depicting prominent campaigners. From left to right, the main figures featured in the sculpture are Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia, Amey Daldy, Kate Sheppard (center next to a wheelbarrow of suffrage petitions), Ada Wells, Harriet Morison, and Helen Nicol. The monument honors the landmark 1893 Electoral Act, signed on 19 September 1893, which made New Zealand the first self-governing country in the world where women won the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Greg Moriarty bells the cat. AUKUS is not about defending Australia it’s designed to contain, constrain and attack our most important trading partner, China. AUKUS sacrifices sovereignty to US warmongering and entangles us in a war that can’t be won. Labor. has lost the plot!
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research theconversation.com/more-than-2-...
theconversation.com
More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research
Genetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% in the 70 years after the British invaded.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
For the first time we are building cross-party agreement that the Federal Government can’t just allow the states and territories to keep brutalising, jailing and harming children. We have a national youth justice crisis and it demands a national response.
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Croakey Health Media @croakeynews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
World Health Organization urged to declare climate change a Public Health Emergency of International Concern www.croakey.org/world-health...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/09/2026
Your local anti-AI organizer is probably not a CCP plant.
motherjones.com
Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard
Your local anti-AI organizer is probably not a CCP plant.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 18/09/2026
Being Heumann already a big win for disability representation on screen
abc.net.au
Being Heumann already a big win for disability representation on screen
Did you know there was an American disability rights movement that can be traced back to the 1970s? A new movie coming out in November will tell the story about the woman at the centre of it. 
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NPR @npr.org · 17/09/2026
In a new book, psychologist Marisa Franco explains why it's good to feel good about yourself — and shares a helpful memory technique that we've turned into a printable worksheet. n.pr/4AnjW5q
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Why reshaping memories may hold the key to raising self-esteem
In a new book, psychologist Marisa Franco explains why it's good to feel good about yourself — and shares a helpful memory technique that we've turned into a printable worksheet.
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Dr Stefanie Affeldt @drstaff13.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
»More than two million Indigenous people probably lived in #Australia at the time of the British #invasion in 1788 [...] The new figure also implies that over 90% of the Indigenous population died in the 70 years after the invasion.« #FirstNations #TerraNullius | buff.ly/OY8XHwO
theconversation.com
More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research
Genetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% in the 70 years after the British invaded.
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Dr Kim Stewart @drkimscrolls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Poverty is a preventable cause of death in #Australia says Greg Jericho. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Greg Jericho's graph demonstrates the difference a breadline social wage can make to death rates. In 2020 when Jobseeker was doubled, there were about 100 less deaths per 100k people on welfare in Australia despite the pandemic.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 16/09/2026
[Press Release] Greenpeace’s latest analysis finds NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company by market capitalisation, has been using greenwashing tricks to misleadingly mask its staggering emissions impacts.
 www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
greenpeace.org
NVIDIA’s greenwashing tactics and hidden emissions revealed in new research - Greenpeace International
NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company by market capitalisation, has been using greenwashing tricks to misleadingly mask its staggering emissions impacts, finds a new analysis.
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Dr Kim Stewart @drkimscrolls.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hope it goes well.
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Dr Kim Stewart @drkimscrolls.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tyrants and authoritarians do get punished eventually.
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While the government has promised to use its COP presidency to elevate Pacific priorities, Minister Talia challenged Australia’s climate credibility since it continues to support fossil fuel projects. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/new/260916-a...
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Last month, Queensland’s government passed new laws that gut our rights and our ability to protect Wangan and Jagalingou Country from the unfettered ambitions of extractive industries” writes Adrian Burragubba and Murrawah Johnson. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
OK then. Fuck off.
Screenshot from The Australian

“OpenAI’s ultimatum to PM: dilute creatives’ rights or we won’t discuss renewables”
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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Three petitions to sign - it won't take long. knittingnannas.org/2026/09/14/c...
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Clickathon
Three quick and easy but important actions to do anywhere any time.
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Dr Kim Stewart @drkimscrolls.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
US private prison provider took over and cut 150 staff, neglecting safety and the needs of detainees. More human rights neglect from government #AusPol
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Dr Kim Stewart @drkimscrolls.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A Singapore company wants to build this monstrosity on the Western Downs. #NoDataCentre #ClimateChange
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Dr Kim Stewart @drkimscrolls.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Surely this known liar and criminal who only cares about himself, having an opinion on Ireland is not news. #Ireland appear to hate him.
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Zionist Federation of Australia’s CEO Alon Cassuto walked away from two years of persecution of Mary Kostakidis. He called it a win - of course. Mary is free of this now but the entire farce should be held up as an example of how justice in Australia fails us incredibly badly.
michaelwest.com.au
Mary Kostakidis stared down the Zionist lobby, and courage won - Michael West
The Zionist Federation of Australia expected fear, expense and exhaustion to silence Mary Kostakidis. She stood her ground
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Market Forces @marketforces.org.au · 11/09/2026
Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher told the National Press Club this week the #Beetaloo Basin is thought to hold “at least 500 trillion cubic feet of gas.” Fracking companies and the NT Government wants it to be fracked and burned for 200+ years 🤯 This would be a disaster.
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