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Fierce Dinosaur

@fiercedinosaur.bsky.social
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Environmental activist, inner city latté-sipper, Friend of Malabar Headland, nature lover, neoliberal economics/politics hater.

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Fierce Dinosaur @fiercedinosaur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
First Dog on the Moon: Is Anthony Albanese destined to be the most disappointing prime minister ever? #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Is Anthony Albanese destined to be the most disappointing prime minister ever? | First Dog on the Moon
How could this happen?
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Jonlincbrown @jonlincbrown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The best definition of right-wing Labour, Tory, and Reform Party members: To be left-wing, you have to read and think a lot. To be right-wing, all you have to do is be proud of your own ignorance...
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Reuters Breakingviews @breakingviews.reuters.com · 05/10/2026
A roadmap for Andy Burnham to reverse Brexit - tinyurl.com/4xu3ms9d
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A roadmap for Andy Burnham to reverse Brexit
Britain’s ​prime minister says the ⁠country could ​rejoin the European Union. ​To do so, he will first have ​to decide ​if he wants to take ‌that ⁠step, then win an election, and then persuade ​the ​2...
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Piers @pierscooper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s hard not to suspect the Burnham govt cooked the whole incident up to neatly overturn Starmer’s approval of the use of the base… US removes all bombers from RAF Fairford base www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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US removes all bombers from RAF Fairford back to home stations
A statement says all bombers deployed to RAF Fairford have been "re-deployed to their home stations" in the US.
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jeffamoore.bsky.social @jeffamoore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The super-rich are profiting from the cost-of-living crisis. While our energy bills rose by 50%, the super-rich who make their money from energy have seen their wealth grow by 20%. Demand that the UK government taxes extreme wealth with @waronwant.bsky.social: secure.waronwant.org/page/201460/...
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Stop the Super-Rich Profiting from the Cost-of-Living Crisis
Tax extreme wealth now
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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Absolute bonkers! Badenoch is a joke
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Tadzio Mueller @tadziomueller.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Climate adaptation will soon go the way of mitigation: "The UK government quietly scrapped plans to prepare the countryside in England for wildfires, despite new data showing fire crews do not have the proper protective gear to tackle them." We'll realise it's too expensive & painful. & move on.
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Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires
FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵
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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Compare @angelaeagle1.bsky.social's statements to those of Reeves and Starmer, who repeatedly deployed the Cauldron Principle, casting the living world as nothing but an obstacle, and a slimy, scuttling, creepy one at that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot
The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
George is quite right on this. I discovered via FOI requests that just 5% of all woodland creation grants go to support natural regeneration of trees, and 95% to tree planting. I’ll continue to push DEFRA to fix this. www.theguardian.com/environment/... bsky.app/profile/geor...
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Government ‘failing to support natural regeneration of trees in England’
Campaigners say targets for woodland creation are unlikely to be met because 95% of grants are for planting
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Emma Howard @emmahoward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After a poultry plant shut down in July's heatwave, the UK's meat industry trade body called for processing sites to have "continuous access to water, irrespective of wider pressures on local supplies". When those sites use more water than Brighton, that matters. www.grilled.media/data-meat-in...
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Data: Meat plants use more water than the population of Brighton
As meat processors demand priority access to water during drought, exclusive data reveals the industry's water use
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided
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Fierce Dinosaur @fiercedinosaur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad sight. To be eaten by the wealthy. Why do we have to kill every living thing? This is #ecocide.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please watch this crucial discussion about the scale of Earth's energy imbalance. The numbers are shocking. Thanks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tCR...
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12 Hiroshima Bombs Every Second
YouTube video by Facing Future
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
To those who somehow don't seem to understand: Which part of authorising weapons sales to a state committing genocide, banning the protest movement trying to stop these sales, using the RAF to provide surveillance flights for Israel and providing major diplomatic and media support is NOT complicity?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide
Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Ed, do the right thing, do it this week: lift the ban on Palestine Action, agree with UN Enquiry, the ICJ, the many lawyers all over the world: Israel is guilty of genocide. Stop all arms sales, use all diplomatic & economic powers to show that we're no longer complicit in this horrific genocide"👇
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to tax gas? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to build public housing? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to end AUKUS? Greens are happy to be constructive about things that materially benefit the public. We are not a rubber stamp.
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Morabeets 🍉 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🌏♀️ @morabeets.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Even Rocko is on board.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 30/09/2026
Humanists UK mourns Dame Esther Rantzen (1940–2026) Esther was a great champion of human dignity. She approached her final years with the same fearless determination that defined her career of advocacy, using her own experience to shine a light on the suffering caused by our outdated laws.
Esther Rantzen smiling wearing a blue-and-red feathered fascinator and red coat, with headline text noting her years (1940–2026).
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UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How should a national commission on electoral reform be designed? On Tuesday, the Prime Minister announced a national commission on electoral reform. @alanrenwick.bsky.social argues that such a body should have three key features, and emphasises the care that should be taken. Read it 👇️
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How should a national commission on electoral reform be designed?
On Tuesday, the Prime Minister announced a national commission on electoral reform. In this article originally published in the Conversation UK, Alan Renwick explains that such a body should secure public involvement, not aim for a particular result and listen to the experts. He also emphasises that any change to the electoral system should be carried out with the greatest possible care.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reading the details of the US execution story from last night and it is absolute barbarism. Like reading a history of the medieval period.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From Politico. That motion is absolute fucking poison and by failing to stand up to it, the Greens have allowed that poison to seep into the party.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Fierce Dinosaur @fiercedinosaur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
First Dog on the Moon: Foxes are native animals?! Quolls are an invasive species? When did that happen? Many Australians are uninformed about our adorable native creatures. How could this be? I’ve been banging on about them for years! #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Foxes are native animals?! Quolls are an invasive species? When did that happen? | First Dog on the Moon
Many Australians are uninformed about our adorable native creatures. How could this be? I’ve been banging on about them for years!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Imagine four of the most frighteningly irresponsible people in America deciding how AI will be put to use in the most frighteningly irresponsible way. Well, no need to imagine it — because it's happening now. Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/autowar
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
how fucking nutso is it that Donny considers the revenue that our government takes in to be 'profits' for his personal use? and it's insane that the press just goes along with it. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I explain just how insane it all is. link is here: bit.ly/4AC7UFc
And it’s just fucking weird that Donny considers money taken in via taxes and tariffs to be profits. they’re not — they’re revenues.

This is a fundamental mistake that all these shit-gibbons who insist that ‘government should be run like a business’ make. Governments are not businesses. The revenues that a government takes in are — in any sane country — used to provide for the public well-being of its people. They’re not profits, for some tinpot fucksnoot like Donny to hoard for his own personal use.

And what’s all this nonsense about ‘Democrats don’t have any income’? There aren’t two treasuries, one for each major political party. There isn’t Republican money and Democratic money. It’s just money money.

Not only is it fucking insane that Donny believes this, it’s insane that every worthless scribbler of the corporate-controlled press just sits there and nods their head and goes, ‘well, I guess if Donny says so.’

None of this shit is normal. Is it really too much to ask of our media to stop treating it as if it were?
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TheCatMan @bigbrohem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This moron clearly has no idea how "numbers" actually work. Perfect response from Tiedrich today.
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look, you idiots — Preznit Fuckwit isn’t giving you five thousand dollars, okay?
grow a brain, why don’t you
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
here's today's post: "Are you smarter than the White House’s new AI chatbot? Let’s find out." — Also: Jack Smith is definitely smarter than every Republican. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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Are you smarter than the White House’s new AI chatbot? Let’s find out.
Also: Jack Smith is definitely smarter than every Republican
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
in today's post, I actually attempt to converse with the White House's new AI chatbot, and dumbfuckery ensues. also, Eric Schmitt beclowns himself, and Jack Smith rules. thank you for your attention to this matter. link is here: bit.ly/4xSpp1q
What do you mean, you won’t respond to personal insults? That’s pretty fucking ironic, given whose White House this is coming from.

You mean, if I were to ask you — oh, let’s say, ‘what is that fucked-up tangle of bullshit on top of Donny’s big, dumb pumpkin head,’ you wouldn’t answer it?
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
here's Thursday's post: "Let’s all look on in horror as a racist game show host does a racism" also: Ken Paxton does a sad, and Piss-Drunk Pete does a transphobia. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
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Let’s all look on in horror as a racist game show host does a racism
also: Ken Paxton does a sad, and Piss-Drunk Pete does a transphobia.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
at a Hispanic Heritage celebration yesterday, Preznit Fuckwit didn't just do a racism. he made up a brand new racism, on the spot — one that didn't even make sense. and that, my friends, is quite the talent. thank you for your attention to today's post. link is here: bit.ly/4hjAHqE
Donny is like stupid and racist had a baby, and then repeatedly dropped it on its head.

This abject imbecile should not be president. It’s a waste of his singular ability to be incoherent as fuck. He should be the host of a game show called Donny Says Shit.

I’m talking about a show where Donny blurts out whatever dumbfuckery pops into his head, and contestants compete to come up with the most logical explanation
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These companies claim not to know what their agents are doing, in which case they should never have released them. After the Medicare breach, Australians deserve a full audit of every government system's exposure to AI agents, starting with those holding our most personal data.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The PM is in the US mugging for selfies with the guy who stripped regulation from some of the world's most dangerous AI companies, while a US company linked to the Trump administration hacked arguably Australia's most sensitive database in a serious attack on our sovereignty.
OpenAI hacked Medicare portal, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says
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Topic:Cyber Security

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Anthony Albanese stands in front of flags during a press conference. 
Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent hacked a Medicare statistics reporting service portal.

In short: 
The prime minister has had a "frank" discussion with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman after an AI agent breached an Australian government website. 

The company did not notify Services Australia of the incident until three months after the fact, via email.
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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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Fierce Dinosaur @fiercedinosaur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh, FFS! #auspol
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is why fuel prices are pushing $3 a litre. Because Trump has no idea how to end the war he (and Netanyahu) started with Iran. That’s the war that Labor, the Coalition and One Nation all cheered on in February. It’s the war the Greens opposed. The only party that did.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used his recent United Nations address to make a pitch for a seat at the Security Council. He highlighted how the world was spinning into conflict, but refused to name the one nation that has been most responsible for this. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/09...
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Australia shouldn’t get a seat at the UN security council
Australia is campaigning for a Security Council seat on a promise to defend international law. Yet Albanese condemned Russia by name while saying nothing comparable about US actions – even after Trump...
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Read the article here👇https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/28/australian-personal-data-third-countries-united-states-donald-trump/
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still so little information from the Albanese Government over what data they are planning to hand over to Trump. Every level of this Government is just addicted to secrecy. This agreement will cover our information, surely the public should know about negotiations.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 29/09/2026
Australia wants a UN Security Council seat and says it will defend international law. But Albanese condemned Russia while remaining silent on US actions, even after Trump threatened to “annihilate” Iran, David Shoebridge writes. #auspol #UNGA
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Australia shouldn’t get a seat at the UN security council
Australia is campaigning for a Security Council seat on a promise to defend international law. Yet Albanese condemned Russia by name while saying nothing comparable about US actions – even after Trump threatened from the same UN stage to “annihilate” Iran.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Joint statement from Senator David Shoebridge and Senator Steph Hodgins-May
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For everyone looking to us: we are ready to fight the billionaires, the big polluters, and everyone trying to divide us while hoarding wealth and power. We are not here to manage a broken system. We are here to replace it. Join us ➡️
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Fierce Dinosaur @fiercedinosaur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
CONGRATULATIONS! I am so pleased!
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Under Labor we have seen wages flat line, the rise of the far right and record war profits from fossil fuels going untaxed. We think these are ‘somewhat concerning’.
Albanese says new Greens leader's remarks 'somewhat concerning'
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Politico @politico.com · 30/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Bernie Sanders is cracking open his war chest. The Vermont senator is putting hundreds of thousands of dollars toward key campaigns and has raised $2.8 million for his preferred candidates this cycle.
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Sanders ramps up his midterm play with cash boost for candidates
Sanders is putting hundreds of thousands of dollars toward key campaigns and has raised $2.8 million for his preferred candidates this cycle.
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Politico @politico.com · 30/09/2026
A group led by JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon has linked up nearly 50 of the country’s leading CEOs to explore ways to gird the U.S. economy against threats from AI models and rogue actors.
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New group chaired by Dimon urges private sector collaboration on AI threats
Consider it corporate America’s response to increasingly broad-based concerns about the technology's unchecked development.
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Essence of RBG 🦋 @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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