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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta

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As a child drl's mother told him he could be anything when he grew up so they promised to grow up to be somebody. In the end, everyone should have been more specific. drl.fyi || soundcloud.com/it-was-drl

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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🎶🎶 In The Moon Light🎶🎶 --drl didn't do it
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fun Fact: Cuties run in packs
A racially ambiguous, middle aged, bespectacled man with a trimmed but somehow unkept salt and pepper & pepper beard and permanently bemused expression. The man’s hair -tightly coiled springs bursting forth in all directions- is pulled back behind his ears to reveal stretched ears that one could put a pinky through (but one would NOT with out permission). 

Upon the mans’s shoulder is a pup, staring with rapt attention at the man’s hand. As if the pup -an absolute specimen, black from a distance but deep chestnut in the right light- were being tricked into taking an adorable photo with a piece of food.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
H.A.T.E. It was with this old left hand that old brother cain struck the blow that laid his brother low L.O.V.E The right hand friends, the hand of love.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i know creative feedback isn't part of an audio engineer's job and I am NOT here to start shit with the union, but at least don't fall asleep while I'm showing off my works in pupgress
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
may we all find someone who looks at us the way Paul Wall looks at his wife to call that loving would cheapen the word. That is a look of devotion. That is a look of worship. That is a look of bliss.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If I were to offer to pay in some combination of the Big Three B's† & / or (access to, but NOT ownership of) the Lil P†† would anyone in NYC be down to help me do some manual labor††† for justice††††? † Beers, Blunts, & BBQ †† My lil pup ††† Dig a hole †††† IE: to spite my co-op board?
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
someone mentioned MUDs in a discord and I fell down a rabbit hole that resulted in finding quite possibly the most "how does this not have a [citation needed]" paragraph in wikipedian history.
Starting from the 1990s, the Gorean subculture has become attractive to a number of male teenagers through role-playing in chat rooms. The teenage role-playing Goreans who concealed many of their personal aspects such as age or lack of experience, thanks to anonymity, managed to appeal to a considerable number of married and middle-aged women as kajirae in role-playing contexts. Such notoriety caused by this profile and related practices in the virtual Gorean community succeeded in creating disdain among both feminists and the BDSM community. Nevertheless, scholars have discussed the way that Gorean subculture groups on media such as Second Life and Internet Relay Chat have influenced the development of online role-playing and even the MMORPG genre
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Open Your Eyes - WIP (Work In Pupgress)
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🎵🎵drl didn't do it - (g)oldie ft dija🎵🎵
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
can we agree that even in some distant future, Gay Space Communist Utopia with "Ethical Solar Powered AI That is Some How Not Evil So I Can Do This Bit" you would be an absolute herb to use it to make your silly jokes for you when you can simply do -a truly half ass version of- it yourself?
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
> There are two types of mornings (mournings?) on this earth I can surmise. I wake early on the first to help provide the second kind. -Jamie Meline Video largely unrelated
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
FYI there is an entire YT archive† of fan readings of novelizations of 70s-90s movies EG The Terminator, BTTF, Scanners, and Over the Top Sometimes you can hear bird song in the background or the narrator will pause to say how badass something is and it's just so good! †Audiobooksforthedamned666
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is a very much a WIP Final Mixing, Arranging, FX, etc…TBD. That said, Is there: A) too much stank B) insufficient stank C) An appropriate amount of stank
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
lo-fi beats for dija to snooze to
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
the notion “I have to live long enough to ensure my parents don’t get to write my eulogy” just struck me and I’m not sure how I feel about having that as a top contender next to “I can’t die yet, I have a dog” among my reasons to live.
A pup snoozing deeply. Because of the focal length of the pic her snoot appears almost comically boopable. She has a tiny lil underbite with grey hairs on her chin even tho she’s just a baby.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I have had a joke stuck in my head for a week. Today I finally went to make it a reality and the post I wanted reskeet is Quote Skeet Protected. Most vexxing. Anyway. Please imagine an empty speech bubble in this image and a skeet below it which reads simply "SSSSCHISMMMMMMMMM"
An image of Superintendent Chalmers from the Simpsons -a yellow man with four fingers and an ill fitting suit- bursting through a set of double doors angrily.

There is not a speech bubble under him, but for the purposes of this joke pls pretend that there is.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There are moments where I am concerned that I have become a shadow of myself. There are other moments where I am certain. But not concerned.
A painting of a vaguely occult symbol (sigil?) that I saw in a dream once that consists of two sets of sergeants chevrons overlaid upon each other with one of each set missing a “rocker” and one set inverted. 

There is a shadow upon the painting of a person. Upon careful inspection the person’s hair is tightly coiled springs bursting in all directions.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
oh fuck I might have to actually have this made
a render of a man wearing a t-shirt with several lines of text with the following words on each line: Useless, Yellow, Lemon, Shaped, Rock
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Ok, so I definitely made the last one, but this one I genuinely have no idea if it was inspired by or the inspiration of the bit nor if I made it. I think I did?
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Again, not sure if this was part of a bit or a bit in and of itself. It's self? it self
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
More highlights from my twitter media archive. To be filed under "I vaguely recall making this for a bit, but not what the bit was"
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I want to see this drawn in the style of @asinglebear.bsky.social
A just being

The long flat black rock
is where many lost it all
for just being there

I am a bear.

Bears looks down a long road with a flat creature on it. A truck is coming from the distance.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Are we still doing that thing about cartoons you grew up with that no one else seems to remember? Because I swear to god Exosquad is Gargoyles levels of 90s-cartoon-made-for-children-but-with-super-intense-themes-and-stories GOAT status and every time I bring it up I'm met with blank stares.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I know I am too much of a Too Online Lefty because I saw "so I wore khaki pants..." and just assumed this was a jab at all the dorks who have gone the route of extreme norm core fashion so as to cosplay as that one Operator in Sicario. Having finished the sentence, I'm not sure which Guy is worse
Google search results for "sicario operator" showing an image carousel of just...the most dork ass loser looking white guy carrying an M4
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I found it! From that brief period where I was obsessed with flow charts I present the crushing reality of the passage of time. If Weezer wanted to remake the video for Buddy Holly in a show set in the past, That 70s Show would be too old, both in terms of when it was set and when it aired.
two graphical flow charts meant to appear as if they were drawn by hand. One is labeled "Happy Days" and the other is labeled "That 70s Show". For both there are lines depicting the gaps between when it was set and when it was aired. That 70s show's gap is larger in both terms of when it was aired and when it was set. 

NB that this chart labels "NOW" as 2019...which is it's own existential horror.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
OMFG still can't find what I'm looking for, but digging through my twitter archive is uncovering some wild shit. (TBC, I did not "fake" this)
A photo of myself, a mildly bearded, racially ambiguous man with stretched ears, a pink watch cap around which is a a green "identifier" box that was common iin the earlier days of "AI" image tagging. The box has taggged me as "mulatto"
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Found this first image while digging through my twitter archive looking for something (so ridiculously unrelated) and thought "huh, I wonder what the NFT guy who used to be a palantir guy is up to now" and well...the answer will not surprise you at all.
Linkedin profile for Alex Attallah, labeled at the time as "Co-founder of OpenSea". There is an arrow drawn on the image connecting his OpenSea experienece to his past Palantir experience. Screen shot of linked in experience (of the same person, tho this is only implied, nto shown in the image) with most recent role being "CEO, Co-Founder, OpenRouter, 'The First and Largest LLM aggregator'"
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I got to transform my Sephiroth (from the Final Fantasy Set) to One Winged Angel form & had the triggers from that not milled out the opp (via my Cute Animals Set enchantment), I'd have gotten to ult my Lilliana OR use Shoot The Sheriff (from the Cowboy Set) to kill Leonardo (from the TMNT Set)
What is described in the text of this skeet but in the form of a post game victory screen from the online game Magic: Arena
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I'm losing my mind. Morgan J Freeman, best known (broadly) as the producer of 16 and Pregnant, Teen Mom and Teen Mom 2 (& personally as the director of Hurricane Streets [1997] an R rated film my mom let me see because it was Morgan Freeman) is among the most prominent blue voices on Twitter?
bubbles showing the relative reach(? number of followers?) of various people on twitter, among which is Morgan J. Freeman, not to be confused with Morgan Freeman
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
If anybody needs me: no you don’t.
An experienced puppy laying betwixt legs donned in dad core athleisure running pants. Both the legs and the puppy are inside of a hammock, swaying ever so gently. The pup looks content, as does the unseen photographer
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Ugh, should have known bsky wouldn't appreciate an image that's several k pixels tall.
more text messages,but hopefully not blurry this time
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Holy buried memory unlock! I have all at once remembered that time I had a months long correspondence with a service sub -that to be clear I never actually met in person- who desperately wanted to clean my apt || see photos of my feet. I wonder what Bitch Maid is up to these days. Hope he's well.
A massive scrolling screenshot taken from Google Voice that shows incoming texts from a contact labeled as Bitch Maid. Every message is some variation of "Sir, can I be of service" or "Can I see your feet"
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I’m not suddenly stanning the Nordic model or anything but I can acknowledge that the world would be a better place if we had more silly lil synths and fewer Panoptico branded smart sunglasses. Also more puppies
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
After all, why not? Why shouldn't drl get lil a Swedish synth? As a ~~treat~ birthday present to himself.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Saw Gerrera wasn't "addicted" to huffing gas fumes & that people think he is/it explains his character is WILD Dude gave a whole speech about focusing pain & trauma into _immediate_ action & the general take away is "damn, homie was baaaaked" THIS IS THE MOST LUCID CHARACTER IN THE ENTIRE SERIES
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
It's my birthday. Say nice things about me. Or my dog, I guess.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
tearing my apt apart video of a guy explaining why a specific kind of PS5 HDMI port is difficult to fix ends I dash to find the remote before something I don't want to watch autoplays <see image for what autoplays> I abandon my search for the remote It is 3AM & I need to find a CF card adaptor
Dan Olsen (@foldablehuman) wearing both an outfit and a general affect that evokes a Very Specific Kind Of Guy who is hard to describe but can be identified when he calls himself an "Ape". He is standing in a field, or the appearance of a field and is speaking to neither the camera nor an interlocutor

There is a closed caption "Like, the thing is. people don't appreciate this is like, we're in a war"
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
13 years later and I am still mad about this
Screen cap of a tweet reading: "Fuck you, Jello & your "New 4-pack" like I should be glad you don't sell 6 packs anymore. No one has ever been excited about less jello"
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
You mustn’t be afraid to dream small
A sidewalk chalkboard stand (in a messy living room in front of a fireplace and more silly putty than seems practical) upon which is written “living your dream is E-Z if u  dream of owning a chalkboard “
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
💡💡 Can't screw up the eyes, nose, nor mouth if you don't draw the eyes, nose, nor mouth! 💡💡
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
learning to make stuff is neat even if eyes are really hard to draw. Also noses. Also mouths. Also ears. Also hair. Also shadows. Also form.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Despite having never participated in a podcast nor recording any form of content; I truly believe I could be the Joe Rogan of the Left given a chance. Granted if I achieved this status I’d basically be @darth with slightly more overt ACAB takes & considerably worse photo editing skills.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
#NewProfileHeader
The text “drl?” Written in a graffit like font in what appears to be digital chalk in various coulours upon a green and black background. Following the text is a crown and a blob of paint dripping down the canvas.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
my baby luminous, yo. luminous as fuck.
Dusk. Lower Manhattan's skyline in the background, above which a full moon shines brightly in a near cloudless sky. In the foreground sits a puppy upon a boulder, pensive but not taciturn, staring into the middle distance. Her head occludes a lamp light which gives her a gentle glow beyond that which her personality typically exudes.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I generally find it distasteful to bring your opinion of someone’s work into the conversation if that someone is being brought to light as an Awful Person BUT Everyone finding out Andy Weir is dumb as fuck is a great time to share my spoiler free Project Hail Mary Goodreads review
good reads review: I'm not going to rate by stars because bottom line I thought this book was Fine™. Fun even. But the whole time I was listening to it I couldn't stop thinking "this is what everyone was on about??". It's not _bad_ but it felt like a series of sci fi tropes thrown together; a book where the events happening are far more interesting than any of the characters or their reactions. 

In a way it felt like a book designed to make you feel smart. The protagonist works his way through problems by knowing things like what countries still use imperial units or how to write scripts in Excel and you think "Hey, I know that!" and it's a great way to build a sense of empathy. 

The problem is it never goes much further than that. It's this super compelling scenario as narrated by a guy who has read a LOT of wikipedia articles and would love to tell you about them at a party. And the thing is, I'm EXACTLY that guy so I'm not hating, but I also don't think I'd make an interesting protagonist. Maybe the everyman angle is more interesting to some, but it just lacked depth to me. 

It's funny because in parallel I read To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers which covers a lot of the same ground as this book thematically, but as told by people with more to say about their feelings than their thoughts. And it does it while still exploring really interesting scientific ideas. 

Anyway, my biggest Actual Complaint is if you're going to have a story about The Guy Who Lives (Forever War, Old Man's War, Etc) they either have to be special or they have to be lucky but they can't be both. (That's the most I'll say without getting spoilery). But that aside, if you like the Bobiverse books you'll probably love these.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Perspective is hard, y’all
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
First attempt at drawing a Lil Guy™️ Hands are hard, yall. Funky as fuck bass lines are surprisingly easy tho.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
in defiance of all hope of Actual Productivity I have decided to try to learn Procreate. Pray for me. Pray for all of us. 🎶drl didn’t do it🎶
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
If you see this post your black and white art but hopefully something you can easily add alt text to because frankly I’m not sure I did a great job here.
A vaguely occult looking symbol/sigil. At first glance it appears to be a series of squares and rectangles, but upon inspection there are two sets of chevron, one inverted and overlapping the other. Each set contains two complete chevrons -the upper and bottom- with a third incomplete chevron in between.
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drl -Good Alt Txt'r, Bad IRL Txt'r™- dCsta @drl.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I searched “celebrity” in my camera roll and the latest result is from 2018. The runner up is a picture of Bob Newhart. How are so many of you saving so many pictures??? Anyway…um…here it is.
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