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Dylan Beattie @dylanbeatt.ie · 28/09/2026

I'm playing a gig. An actual Serious Gig with Proper Musicians and no comedy songs about JavaScript. You should come. It'll be awesome. Hope & Anchor in Islington, Friday October 2nd, doors 19:30, music starts 20:30. Tickets £8 in advance / £10 on the door. www.eventbrite.com/e/angel-stor...

ANGEL STORM: ALL STAR LIVE ROCK COVER BAND

Demon, Rory Gallagher, Billy Idol, Peter Frampton, Rush, Cream, Genesis, Soundgarden, Aerosmith, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, Scorpions... and many more.

(The typography on "Peter Frampton" is particularly exquisite.)

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MQ Summit @mqsummit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AI needs message queues more than you think. Lovisa Johansson is speaking at MQ Summit: "The Return of the Message". Don't wait. Talk: mqsummit.com/talks/the-return-of-th… Register: mqsummit.com/#register

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Irina Dominte(Scurtu) @irina.codes · 23/09/2026

Service A charged the card. Service B reserved stock. Service C emailed the customer. Then Service D fails. There is no undo button here. You only go forward: refund, release, apologize. Sagas make that explicit: one compensating transaction per step. #distributedsystems

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MQ Summit @mqsummit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Building better schemas with JSON? @clemens.vasters.com (Microsoft) is speaking at MQ Summit on the IETF standardization effort for JSON Structure, core specs, and tooling. Don't wait! Register: mqsummit.com/#register Lab: mqsummit.com/talks/introducing-json…

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MQ Summit @mqsummit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@clemens.vasters.com, Matt Leming & Stefan Moser speak at MQ Summit on "Powering Asynchronous AI Agent Communication with MCP over AMQP". Talk: mqsummit.com/talks/powering-asynchr… Register: mqsummit.com/#register

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 18/09/2026

DYK? NewAthena and LISA will each be remarkable on their own, but together, they'll achieve further breakthroughs on topics such as: 🕳️ 🕳️ merging black holes 📏 the cosmic distance scale 〰️ the speed of gravity & more Discover more here 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭

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NewAthena factsheet

Overview of the NewAthena mission.

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MQ Summit @mqsummit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Speakers: @adipolak.bsky.social, @krital.bsky.social, Michael Davis, Stefan Moser, Vignesh Selvam, Ali Alemi, Chris Leonard, Christopher Coco, @clemens.vasters.com, @ansd.xyz, Guy Hagemans, Hari Rangarajan...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Kevlin Henney @kevlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Where I am in November: Speaking at code.talks in Hamburg codetalks.com Giving the closing keynote at Øredev in Malmö oredev.org Running a 3-day workshop at SDD Deep Dive in London sddconf.com Workshop plus talk at Software Architecture Gathering in Berlin software-architecture-gathering.com

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code.talks 2026 – The Conference for Developer Teams and CTOs

Break your silos and get in the loop about whats happening outside your domain. Join 3,500+ developers and CTOs in Hamburg on November 4 & 5, 2026. 100+ curated sessions, top speakers and our special ...

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Irina Dominte(Scurtu) @irina.codes · 04/09/2026

The outbox pattern gets you halfway to reliable messaging. It guarantees the message reaches the broker atomically with the DB write. No more "saved but not published" states. Duplicate delivery, crashed consumers, ordering: your problem. That's the inbox pattern's job. #softwarearchitecture

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Kevlin Henney @kevlin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm giving the closing keynote at Øredev in Malmö in November: What We Leave Behind This will be a talk on legacy (as in software), legacy (as a gift we receive from the past) and legacy (as a gift we give to the future) oredev.org

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MQ Summit @mqsummit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One week left to get your MQ Summit ticket 25% cheaper! 2 days on the tech behind reliable distributed systems: RabbitMQ, Kafka, NATS & more. Haarlem & Online. 21-22 Oct. Early bird pricing ends 8 Sept, 23:59 CEST. After that, prices go up. Grab yours: mqsummit.com/#register

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Steef-Jan Wiggers @steefjan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Three files replace an agent loop on Azure Functions. .agent.md, agents.config.yaml, mcp.json — the runtime handles registration, wiring, and the loop. New post: how it works and when to use it over Foundry Agent Service. sjwiggers.com/2026/08/13/a...

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The Azure Functions Serverless Agents Runtime Explained - Cloud Perspectives

The Azure Functions serverless agents runtime lets you build event-triggered agents as function apps. When to use it over Foundry Agent Service.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 13/08/2026

Here's a very early preview of AstroSharp for @astro.build What works: - Use Astro for C# static sites! - Everything that runs at build time - Razor support - npm install and just go! What doesn't: - The wasm / client rendering support is jank and not there yet github.com/davidwhitney...

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GitHub - davidwhitney/AstroSharp: A C# and Razor plugin for Astro.dev

A C# and Razor plugin for Astro.dev. Contribute to davidwhitney/AstroSharp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Steef-Jan Wiggers @steefjan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

You don't have to choose among four Azure integration services. You answer two questions: messaging or orchestration, and then what does failure cost? Answer those, and the service picks itself. sjwiggers.com/2026/07/16/a...

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Azure Messaging and Orchestration for Integration Architects - Cloud Perspectives

Explore the intricacies of azure messaging and orchestration to make informed decisions about your integration layer services.

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Nebraska.Code @nebraskacode.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

🚨 Nebraska.Code() is ONE WEEK AWAY! 🔴 Artificial Intelligence 🔴 Career Development 🔴 Cloud Development 🔴 Data Analytics 🔴 DevOps 🔴 Emerging Technology 🔴 Front-End Development 🔴 Microsoft Technology 🔴 Open-Source 🔴 Software Craftsmanship 🔴 And More! 🎟️ nebraskacode.amegala.com #TechConference

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Gerald Versluis @jfversluis.dev · 09/07/2026

Not every improvement needs to be a feature. Some of the best engineering work is making the next change smaller, safer, and less surprising.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 29/05/2026

Hubble has captured a galaxy, Messier 88, on a perilous journey to the centre of the Virgo galaxy cluster! Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪

A large spiral galaxy. It is seen tilted at an angle, so that it is foreshortened and appears very wide. Its tightly-wound, blue spiral arms swirl out from its glowing centre, spreading apart at the tips. They are followed by strands and clumps of dark red dust, and spotted with pink dots where stars are forming in clouds of gas. The galaxy is surrounded by a slight glow and lies on a dark background. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker and the MAUVE-HST Team

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Luckygirliegirl @luckygirliegirl.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

West Coast, this is a rare opportunity to catch a workshop with my friend, @dylanbeatt.ie. He’s gone viral several times. He’s inspired millions of people. If you’re a tech speaker and you haven’t bought a ticket yet, what are you even doing with your life? #SpeakerLife #TechCommunity #Technology

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Dylan Beattie @dylanbeatt.ie · 28/05/2026

I'm running my presenter workshop on Zoom next month, on a West Coast / AU / NZ friendly (well, friendlier) schedule. It is AWESOME, and you should TOTALLY JOIN IT and LEARN HOW TO DO KICK-ASS PRESENTATIONS. £50 off tickets with the code BSKY50: www.eventbrite.com/e/1987043570810/?discount=BSKY50

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From Keyboard To Keynote: Crafting Great Technical Talks

A live online workshop led by Dylan Beattie, all about how to create, rehearse, and deliver great technical presentations.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 27/05/2026

Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? Scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy, but new Webb results reveal a black hole that formed before its galaxy 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Spa… 🔭 🧪

Image showing hundreds of bright objects of different size, colour, and shape on the black background of space. Three objects in the centre are called out with small white boxes. These are labeled QSO1A, QSO1B, and QSO1C. At the centre of each box is a tiny, circular red dot. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, L. Furtak (Ben-Gurion University), R. Maiolino (Cambridge), F. D'Eugenio (Cambridge), I. Juodžbalis (Cambridge), H. Übler (MPE), C. Marconcini (University of Florence). Image processing: A. Pagan

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Nebraska.Code @nebraskacode.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Eldert Grootenboer presents 'A comprehensive guide to the Azure messaging services' this July at Nebraska.Code(). nebraskacode.amegala.com #Azure #AzureMessagingServices #AzureServiceBus #EventHubs #EventGrid #Cloud #Microsoft #MicrosoftTechnologies #Nebraska #SoftwareDevelopment #TechConference

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Ian Cooper @icooper.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

If you want to attend my Practical Messaging Workshop (ndcoslo.com/workshops/pr... ) at NDC Oslo (SEP 14-15) then the Early Bird Registration closes on Friday, MAY 22. ndcoslo.com/tickets?mc_c...

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Practical Messaging | NDC Oslo 2026

In this tutorial, we will look at distributed systems, and how we integrate them. We will understand why we would prefer to integrate via messaging, the fundamentals and key concepts of messaging and…

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Stir Trek @stirtrek.com · 18/05/2026

We have uploaded all* of the recorded sessions from Stir Trek 2026 to our YouTube channel! 🎉💥 www.youtube.com/stirtrek

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Stir Trek

A one day tech conference held in May each year in Columbus, Ohio. More info at stirtrek.com.

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 16/05/2026

My session, The Dark Side of Microservices, recorded two weeks ago at @stirtrek.com , is now up on YouTube! #microservices #softwarearchitecture youtu.be/ABdH1OcqQIM?...

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The Dark Side of Microservices - Stir Trek 2026

YouTube video by Stir Trek

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Richard Campbell @richcampbell.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Use What Works! @DylanBeatt.ie talks on .NET Rocks at www.dotnetrocks.com/details/2002 about the Use What Works movement, encouraging developers to use well-maintained open-source projects available today!

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.NET Rocks!

.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.

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Azure Service Bus @azureservicebus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

#Azure Service Bus Premium now offers a 99.99% SLA in every Availability Zone region. Premium customers running in AZ regions automatically get the higher SLA, no reconfiguration needed. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/messagi...

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Azure Service Bus Premium now offers 99.99% SLA in all Availability Zone regions | Microsoft Community Hub

Today we are excited to announce an update to the Azure Service Bus Service Level Agreement. Starting May 1, 2026, all Premium namespaces deployed in regions...

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Azure Service Bus @azureservicebus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Confidential computing for #Azure Service Bus is now generally available. Messages are processed inside hardware-based trusted execution environments, protecting your data in use alongside existing encryption at rest and in transit. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/messagi...

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Announcing general availability of confidential computing for Azure Service Bus Premium | Microsoft Community Hub

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of confidential computing for Azure Service Bus Premium. With this capability, your Service...

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 20/03/2026

Yeah, sure, AI has made great strides and can be made to do some really cool things. But at what cost? No, I mean literally. How much is it really going to cost? ardalis.com/ai-benefits-... #AI

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AI Benefits - But at What Cost?

In 2026 we can all agree that AI and agentic development are certainly exciting topics which many see yielding great productivity gains. But as the investor-subsidized pricing of these services gives ...

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Particular Software @particular.net · 13/05/2026

Event-driven systems aren’t hard - until you need to change them. @lailabougria is up next in Room 8 talking about practical techniques to evolve safely, maintain compatibility, and ship changes without downtime. #TechoramaBE

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Particular Software @particular.net · 13/05/2026

We are excited about this session from Clemens Vasters at #TechoramaBE. Learn from the lead architect of Azure Messaging himself on how Azure Service Bus is built and powers everthing from your airport check-in to unlocking your car with a mobile app

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Mike Hartington @mhartington.io · 13/05/2026

Welp it's official, I'm on the hunt for my next role. I learned a lot in the past 8 months, and I'm ready to get back out there for my next role. If you're looking for someone for devrel/devrel-adjacent roles, I got over a decade of experience in developer relations and ready help your team!

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Steef-Jan Wiggers @steefjan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The junior developer pipeline is narrowing from the bottom up. Entry-level roles are down, CS enrolments are falling, and senior engineers are drowning in AI output review instead of mentoring. New post with the data and a possible path forward. sjwiggers.com/2026/05/08/a... #ai #softwaredevelopment

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Junior Developer Pipeline AI Crisis: The Narrowing Pyramid - Cloud Perspectives

The junior developer pipeline AI is eroding from the bottom. Here's what the data says about the hiring crisis and what the industry needs to do next.

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Nebraska.Code @nebraskacode.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Let your solutions evolve. 🧬 Genetic algorithms: ✔️ Learn from outcomes ✔️ Improve over time ✔️ Solve complex problems Barry Stahl presents a powerful approach to optimization at Nebraska.Code() nebraskacode.amegala.com #AI #GeneticAlgorithms

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Nebraska.Code @nebraskacode.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Arthur Doler presents 'Boredom-Driven Development: The Dark Bargain at the Heart of Software' at Nebraska.Code() this July. nebraskacode.amegala.com #Boredom #TechCareer #TechNovelty #SoftwareDevelopment #Aviture #Nebraska #TechnologyConference #NetworkingOpportunities #DeveloperCommunity

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 07/05/2026

Young star cluster NGC 346 shines in Hubble visible light data (red, green, and blue) and Chandra X-rays (pinkish purple). The large, pink X-ray cloud in the upper right represents the high-energy environment of stars roughly 1 to 3 million years old: bit.ly/4shXmWk

NGC 346, a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Here, tiny specks in golden orange, neon blue, and white, are scattered across a dark blue sky. Long streaks of hazy cloud coalesce on the left side of the image. A large, bright, neon pink X-ray cloud hangs in the upper right.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 06/05/2026

XRISM revealed an unexpected difference between the powerful winds launching from a disc around a neutron star and those from material circling supermassive black holes 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 4/4 🔭 🧪

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XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed an unexpected difference between the powerful winds launching from a disc around a neutron star and those from material circling superma...

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Richard Campbell @richcampbell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Live from the Tavern Hall in Bellevue at the Party with Palermo for the MVP Summit - it's episode 2000 of .NET Rocks! Lots of stories from listeners and party attendees about their experiences with .NET and how the show has been a part of their story. Listen at www.dotnetrocks.com/details/2000

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.NET Rocks!

.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 28/04/2026

NGC 2566 shows off its warm interstellar dust, clouds and filaments of gas, and many stars. This #NASAWebb observation for a program dedicated to understanding the link between stars, gas, and dust in star-forming galaxies. Credit: ESA, NASA, CSA, A. Leroy.

An oval-shaped spiral galaxy. Its bright white core is a compact pale spot that glows brightly, filling the galaxy with bluish light. Two faint strands of orange dust swirl out from the core to the far edges of the galaxy. They each join up with an arm of thick, cloudy, orange dust with brighter orange patches, that spiral around the central core. The background of space, clearest at the corners, is black.

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Guy Royse @guy.dev · 28/04/2026

CORE is an informal community for anyone enthusiastic or curious about radio—whether you're new to radio and want to learn or you've been tinkering for years and want to share. This month we have Radio Signal Analysis Using SDRs and OpenWebRX+ with Scott McCrory. Details are are core.radio.

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CORE: Central Ohio Radio Enthusiasts

Central Ohio Radio Enthusiasts—CORE—is an informal community for anyone enthusiastic or curious about radio. Ham radio operators, GMRS users, Meshtastic fans, SDR nerds, makers, and beginners all welc...

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Eldert Grootenboer @eldert.net · 30/04/2026

Heading off for @stirtrek.com, come join me tomorrow for my session on Engineering for Reliability and Stability in the #Azure Messaging Services.

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Dylan Beattie @dylanbeatt.ie · 15/04/2026

"That's quite expensive. We'll just build our own." "Your library doesn't do what we need. Fix it now. For free." "Why do you want budget to pay for free software?" "You said this was free! How dare you charge money for the latest version!" Sound familiar? Help us fix it: usewhatworks.org

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Use What Works - Choose proven solutions over building from scratch

A manifesto for choosing proven solutions over bespoke frameworks. #UseWhatWorks

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Stir Trek @stirtrek.com · 14/04/2026

🎙️ @eldert.net is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Engineering for Reliability and Stability in the Azure Messaging Services" 📅 1 May 2026 03:00 PM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Eldert at Stir Trek this year!

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